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{{Infobox dam
|name = Indrapuri Barrage
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|dam_crosses = [[Son River]]
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|location =[[Rohtas District]], [[Bihar]], [[India]]
|dam_length = {{convert|1407|m}}
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|construction_began =
|opening = 1968
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'''Indrapuri Barrage''' (also known as the Sone Barrage) is across the [[Son River]] in [[Rohtas district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[Bihar]].
[[File:Indrapuri Dam,Dehri-on-sone.jpg|Indrapuri Dam|thumb|right]]
[[File:Indrapuri dam front.jpg|Front view|thumb|right]]

==The Barrage==
The Sone Barrage at Indrapuri is {{convert|1,407| m}} long and is the fourth longest barrage in the world. It was constructed by [[Hindustan Construction Company]] (HCC), the company which constructed the 2,253 m long [[Farakka Barrage]], the longest in the world.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/20091019-hcc-powering-india-741020-2009-10-08 |title = HCC Powering India | publisher = India Today, 9 October 2009|access-date = 2011-06-25 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.hccindia.com/hcc_admin/data_content/invester_pdf/Annual_Report_2009-101.pdf|title = Annual Report 2009-10|work = l|publisher = HCC|access-date = 2011-06-25|archive-date = 27 September 2011|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110927012935/http://www.hccindia.com/hcc_admin/data_content/invester_pdf/Annual_Report_2009-101.pdf|url-status = dead}}</ref> Construction of the barrage was taken up in the 1960s and it was commissioned in 1968.<ref name=icar>{{cite web| url = http://oibsv2.iwmi.org/guidelines/India-Bihar_Upadhyaya.pdf |title = Performance Evaluation of Patna Main Canal | publisher = ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region|access-date = 2011-06-25 }}</ref>

==The Canal System==
In 1873–74, one of the oldest irrigation systems in the country was developed with an [[anicut]] across the Son at [[Dehri]]. Water from the Son fed canal systems on both sides of the river and irrigated large areas. A barrage was constructed 8 km upstream of the anicut. Two link canals connected the new reservoir to the old irrigation system and also extended it.<ref name=icar/>

[[John Wardle Houlton|Sir John Houlton]], the veteran British administrator, described (in 1949) the Son canal system as follows, "This is easily the largest canal system in Bihar; there are 209 miles of main canals, 149 of branch canals and 1,235 of distributaries… The canals are of enormous benefit to cultivation. They have converted a large area of infertile land into a richly productive area."<ref name=houlton>Houlton, Sir John, Bihar, the Heart of India, pp. 47-48, Orient Longmans, 1949.</ref>

==Future plans==
There is a proposal for the construction of a dam across the Son, between Kadwan in Garhwa district of Jharkhand and Matiwan in Rohtas district of Bihar.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.bshpcltd.com/Indrapuri.HTM | title = Indrapuri Reservoir Project | access-date = 2011-06-25 | archive-date = 2 October 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111002151744/http://www.bshpcltd.com/Indrapuri.HTM | url-status = dead }}</ref>

As per the [[River Linking|National River Linking Project]] of the National Water Development Agency, there is a proposal for linking the Ganges with the Son, through the 149.10 km Chunar-Sone Barrage Link Canal. The canal will start from the right side of the Ganges near [[Chunar]] tehsil of Mirzapur district in UP and would link to the Indrapuri barrage. There would be three lifts at three places on the route. The lifts would be of 38.8 m, 16.10 m and 4.4 m.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://wrd.bih.nic.in/interlink_rivers.html|title = Interlinking of Rivers|work = Chunar-Sone Barrage Link Canal|access-date = 2011-06-25|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110721163434/http://wrd.bih.nic.in/interlink_rivers.html|archive-date = 21 July 2011|df = dmy-all}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Commons category|Indrapuri Barrage}}
{{Son basin}}
{{Rivers in Bihar}}
{{Patna Division topics}}

[[Category:Tourist attractions in Rohtas district]]
[[Category:Dams in Bihar]]
[[Category:Dams completed in 1968]]
[[Category:Dams on the Son River]]
[[Category:1968 establishments in Bihar]]
[[Category:Canals in Bihar]]
[[Category:20th-century architecture in India]]

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