Vishnupuri Dam - Bridge in Nanded, Nanded-Waghala - Nanded, India

Pleasant experience of boating... You can swim below dam..

Good place and natural view and photo shoot gone wrong

Constructed on the river Godavari, this is one of the largest lift irrigation projects in Asia. The project is situated near Asarjan village, at about 8 k.m. from Nanded city. The project was completed in the year 1988. The back water covers 40 k.m. length of the river Godavari. Culturable Command Area of project is 23222 Hec. and Irrigable Command Area is 19514 Hec. Up till now irrigation Potential of 15856 Hec. is created. The command area of this project is distributed in Nanded, Kandhar & Loha taluka of Nanded district. Live storage of project is 80.79 Million cubic meters Out of which 43.95 Million cubic meters storage is reserved for drinking purpose for Nanded city and 10.26 Million cubic meters storage is reserved for Industrial purpose. The barrage has 18 vertical gates. The idea of this project was put forward and pursued by former Chief Minister of Maharashtra late Shri. Shankarrao Chavan. Hence in his remembrance the Govt. of Maharashtra has named the water reservoir as the Shankar Sagar Jalashaya. With the huge water reservoir, presence of Kaleshwar temple, Landscaping, the Ghat and the Ratneshwari hills in the surrounding the place has been attracting pilgrims and tourists. Every year on the day of Mahashivratri lacks of pilgrims assemble for the Yatra. This is one of largest lift irrigation project in Asia sub-continent located on Godavari river. This project is named as Dr. Shankarrao Chavan Vishnupuri Project.

People easily spend 1-2 hours here.nice place.not that much crowded.

It's a government water reservoir for lift Irrigation scheme, water from this storage is utilised for Irrigation water supply in post monsoon season depending upon the availability of stored water. Water from this point is lifted by a gient pumping system via three rising mains and then dropped in to canal at a higher level so that it flows by gravity afterwards. This water storage also serves for public and industrial water supply for Nanded-Waghala Municipal corporation, MIDC Nanded & MIDC Krusnur. Without this barriage life in Nanded City would have been hell. Thanks to the efforts of formar Central Minister Late Dr. Shankarrao Chavan for completing this project and serving the society.

Over all dam is very good. But maintanence is not proper as other dam..but over all love it

One of the best tourism and devotional place near to the Nanded city you can go there and take a darshan of Shri Kaleshwar Temple the temple of Mahadev and this place loved by so many visitors and also having great naturalistic dam which is built long years ago to provide water to Nanded and so many areas of district and one of the best place to visit...

Bit of a hike but refreshing.