The Sardar Sarovar project, the world's largest dam, was inaugurated on September 17, 2017.
The Sardar Sarovar Dam is a concrete gravity dam built on the Narmada River in Navagam, near the town of Kevadiya in Gujarat, India. The dam was built to supply water and power to four Indian states: Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru laid the project's foundation stone on April 5, 1961.
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