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Tungabhadra dam................. The Tungabhadra Dam is constructed across the Tungabhadra River, a tributary of theKrishna River. The dam is near the town ofHospet in Karnataka.

It is a multipurpose dam serving irrigation, electricity generation, flood control, etc. This is a joint project of erstwhileHyderabad state and erstwhile Madras Presidency when the construction was started; later it became a joint project of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh after its completion in 1953. The main architect of the dam was Dr Thirumala Iyengar, an engineer from Madras.

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