Balimela Reservoir
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The Balimela Reservoir is located in Malkangiri
Malkangiri
Malkangiri is a town and a notified area committee in Malkangiri district in the Indian state of Orissa. It is the headquarters of the Malkangiri district. Malkangiri is the new home of the Bangladeshi refugees, who were rehabilitated since 1965 under the Dandakaranya project...

 district, Orissa
Orissa
Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...

, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It is upstream river Sileru

Water to the Balimela Power Station is taken from Balimela Reservoir through a 4 km long Pressure Tunnel.

External links

  • http://www.ohpcltd.com/balimela/
  • http://www.orissa.net/links/DistrictInfo/Malkanagir.asp - I get a server error on this link and cannot access the webpage.
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