: Thursday, 24 July 2025 8:36 pm
Vinod Sharma
Tonk. Due to continuous arrival of water due to good rains in the catchment area of Bisalpur dam, the filling capacity of the dam on Thursday, after reaching 315.50 RL meters, was drained by 6000 cusecs of water at 4.56 pm to open 1 meter of Bisalpur dam at 4.56 pm. Deoli-Uniyara MLA Rajendra Gurjar, District Chief Saroj Bansal, Superintendent of Police Rajesh Meena, Deputy District Head Adesh Kanwar, District President Chandraveer Singh Chauhan, Deoli Pradhan Banwari Lal Jat, Naresh Bansal, Devendra Singh, Tarun Tikkiwal, Shakar Chaudhary, Raghuveer Singh, were present on the occasion. After duly offering prayers, everyone started drainage of water by opening the gate in a computerized manner under the Skada system.
On this occasion, the District Collector said that Bisalpur dam is a lifeline for the people of Jaipur, Ajmer and Tonk districts in terms of drinking water. Due to good arrival of water in small, large and medium dams of the district including Bisalpur, people will get plenty of water for drinking water and irrigation. Good crop will be produced in the area. District Collector Kalpana Aggarwal has appealed to the common man not to go to the flow area of the river. Superintendent Engineer Prahlad Rai Khoiwal of Bisalpur Dam said that about 6000 thousand cusecs of water is being drained by opening one meter on gate number 10 of Bisalpur dam. This withdrawal is being done according to the arrival of water in the dam. After this, it will be decided to close the drainage or gate on the basis of water arrival from time to time.
Azad waves from Dame filled the river and filled with joy and gaiety
After the construction of Bisalpur Dame, on July 24, there was a ‘record’ for complete waterlogging of Dame. After 2004, this record of Bisalpur Dame has been to be filled in the month of August. But on July 24, this myth was also broken. Overall, the gates of the Dame opened and the waves, who were hilling in the walls of the Dame for a year, came out so much that the people who witnessed the occasion got involved after seeing this scene. Got to capture this historic moment in his camera, mobile phone. Earlier, the project officials completed all necessary preparations. On Thursday evening, local MLA Rajendra Gurjar, District Collector Kalpana Aggarwal, Superintending Engineer of Bisalpur Project reached the Dame and duly worshiped in the control room of Dame. However, the Minister of Water Resources was also supposed to come to this program. But they did not arrive. Later, the guests opened the gate number 10 about one meter through the Scoda system here and drained the 6010 cusecs of water in the Banas River. As soon as the free waves from the Dame filled the river, they were filled with joy and gaiety. A large number of crowds started gathering on the dame from morning to see this scene. Meanwhile, people were involved in capturing the waves of Banas in their phone. The police administration also had to struggle to control the crowd. People kept sitting on the side of Bisalpur. During this period, Subdivision Officer Ruby Ansar, DSP Ramsingh, Police Station Incharge Daulat Ram Gurjar and Executive Engineer Manish Bansal of the project were present. Similarly, BJP District President Chandraveer Singh Chauhan, BJP leader Naresh Bansal, Pradhan Deoli Banwari, BJP District Vice President Rajendra Singh Ranaut, Tarun Tikkiwal etc. were present.
Here are the figures and a dame
On July 2, the catchment area in Bisalpur Dame also recorded the highest gauge of 8 meters on Triveni due to heavy rains. In the morning, the water level of Dame was 312.64 meters, which reached 313.42 meters on 3 July due to firelight. Then came down in Triveni. According to statistics, the water level of Dame reached 314 meters on July 14 and 315 meters on July 20. However, Triveni’s gauge swing between 3.20 and 3.40 meters. But the heavy rains in Ajmer district caused the dye river to rise. This water came in the Banas river. As a result, the water level of Dame went over 315.25 by the evening on 21 July. There was complete waterlogging till Thursday evening.
About 2 meters of water came in the last 19 days
From July 2 to July 22, in the last 19 days, there was a record of about 2 meters of water in Bisalpur Dame. The special thing is that Gambhiri Dame, Matrukundia Dame of Chittor district could not support the Banas river this time to fill the Dame. This time, water spills from Govata, Jaitpura, Kothari dams of Mandalgarh and came to Banas. This time too, Manali remained trusted, Bedch did not move relatively, this time more water came from the dye, which took the dam to the last stop. Khari did not meet this time too.
Overflow overflow in these years
Bisalpur Dame was first overflowed in 2004, followed by the year 2006, then in 2014, for the fourth time in 2016, for the fifth time in the year 2019, for the sixth time in the year 2022, for the seventh time in the year 2024, the eighth time in 2024 has been completed for the eighth July 2025. In this way, in the last 21 years, the Dame is full 8th time. But this is the first time in July
This time also the tenants will get water for irrigation
With the filling of Bisalpur, a smile has started floating on the lips of tenants of Tonk district. This simply means that this time in the main canals of Dame and Bai, water will also be released for irrigation by December. Due to which there will be wheat, mustard bumper yield in the district. Let us know that Bisalpur Dame is the lifeline of districts including Tonk, Jaipur, Ajmer, Beawar. Those who are water supply from the dam have been advised to stay away from the filler area.
Dame was filled after 8 years
Bisalpur Dame was full for the second time in the year 2006. But after this the full filler had to wait for a long period. After this, after 8 years, in the year 2014, for the third time, the Bisalpur dam received full waterlogging. It was black time. The same year 2024 and this time 25 in 25 consecutive dame is completing the full filler.
Gates open for eighth time in 22 years
The largest Bisalpur dam in Ajmer division is 38.708 TMC (315.50 RL meters). After the construction of this dam, the water was first stopped in 2004 and was filled with full for the first time. After that, 2006, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024 Now on 24 July 2025, after 315.50 RL meter, it filled it to 4.55 pm. Now for the eighth time its gates will be open for a day or two.
How much water of dam reserved for whom
XEN Manish Bansal of Bisalpur Dam Project said that 8 TMC water for irrigation in Tonk district, 16.2 TMC water for drinking water is reserved. Apart from this, 8.15 TMC evaporation and other expenses have been considered.
Drinking water is consumed up to one thousand MLD
For drinking water in Tonk, Ajmer, Jaipur and other districts, about nine and a half to one thousand MLD water goes from this dam daily. Due to this, drinking water is being provided to more than one crore population of about two thousand cities, villages of the three districts.
Geographical location of the dam
The Bisalpur dam has 18 gates which are 15 x 14 meters size. The length of the dam is 576 meters and the height above the sea level is 322.50 meters. 68 villages have been submerged in the total water logging of the dam. In this, 25 villages are fully and 43 villages fall into the submergence area. The waterlogging area of the dam is 25 km with a total of 21 thousand 30 hectares of land.
Irrigation from dam canals occur in 82 thousand hectares
Along with the construction of Bisalpur dam, the construction of its canal system was also completed in 2004. There are two main canals of the dam for irrigation in Tonk district. The total length of the right canal is 51 km and the length of the left is 18.65 km. With which 81 thousand 800 hectares of land in the district is irrigated. From the right main canal, irrigation work is done on 69 thousand 393 hectares and 12 thousand 407 hectares of land. So far, water has been released from the dam for irrigation from 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011 to 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024. Now this year too, the dam has been full.
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