Dul Hasti hydroelectric power project, includes the existing Dul Hasti Stage-I Hydroelectric Power Project with 390 MW capacity and the under-construction Dul Hasti Stage-II Hydroelectric Power Project with 260 MW capacity,पानी को लेकर गिड़गिड़ा रहा पाक, इधर भारत ने बना लिया खास प्लान; नए प्रोजेक्ट्स में स्टोरेज पर फोकस, MSN, 11 June 2025. in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir in India built and operated by NHPC. Stage-I has been generating over 2000 million units of electricity per year.
Stages
Dul Hasti Stage-I
Dul Hasti Stage-I was conceived in 1985 at the initial project cost of 1.6 billion rupees (about $50 million), which kept ring to 4.5 billion rupees and later successively to 8, 11, 16, and 24 billion rupees (nearly $750 million) due to numerous delays. Construction begun in 1985 and the project became operational on 7 April 2007 after the completion of construction.
The Dam is high and long, with run-of-the-river type power plant, equipped with low-level gated spillways which can be used to flush silt load.The Big Brother, Kashmir Life, 23 June 2012.Annual Report 2006–07, Ministry of Power, 2007, p. 7. Constructed on the Chenab River, in a rugged, mountainous section of the Himalayas, and several hundred kilometers from larger cities in the Jammu Division, it diverts water through a long headrace tunnel to the power station which discharges back into the Chenab. The project provides peaking power to the Northern Grid with beneficiary states being Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Delhi and Union Territory of Chandigarh.
Dul Hasti Stage-II
Dul Hasti Stage-II Hydroelectric Power Project is an extension of the existing Dulhasti Stage-1 plant. Similar to Stage I, it will be built on the Chenab river in the Kishtwar district in Jammu and Kashmir. It was approved by India's Ministry of Environment in December 2025, which allows for construction tenders to be issued as a next step.
See also
Chenab river dams and hydroelectric projects Ratle Hydroelectric Plant – under construction downstream
Notes
References
Bibliography
Further reading
Undue favours shown to French consortium in awarding Dulhasti Hydro-electric project, India Today, 31 March 1990. Escalating costs, militant attacks stall ambitious Rs 1,100 crore power project in Kashmir, India Today, 30 September 1994. Jaiprakash Ind Bags Civil Work Contract For Dulhasti, Business Standard, 2 January 1997. Work resumes at India’s delayed Dul Hasti project, NS Energy, 10 June 1998. Minister requests speeding up of Dulhasti project, Water Power & Dam Construction, 22 November 2005. M. M. Madan, Longitudinal Joints in Dams- Some Case Studies, MMM Hydropower blogspot, retrieved 7 June 2021.