The Canal Solar Power Project is a project launched in Gujarat, India, to use the 19,000-kilometre-long network of Narmada canals across the state for setting up solar panels to generate electricity.

Features of Narmada Main Canal:

Full supply level (F.S.L.) at H.R. 91.44 m (300 ft)

Length up to Gujarat - Rajasthan border 458.318 Km

Base width in head reaches 73.10 m

Full supply depth (F.S.D.) in head reaches 7.60 m

Design discharge capacity

In head reach 1133 cusecs
(40,000 cusecs)

At Gujarat Rajasthan border 74.55 cusecs
(2,600 cusecs)

Benefits of Project

Irrigation

Drinking Water

Power

Flood

Wild Life

Additional Production

Other Benefits

Marginal farmers (< 1 ha.) 28.0 %

Small farmers (1 to 2 ha.) 24.4%

Scheduled Tribe 8.7%

Scheduled Caste 9.1%

Contact details

SARDAR SAROVAR NARMADA NIGAM LTD.
Block No. 12, New Sachivalaya,
Gandhinagar - 382 010
Gujarat, India.
Fax:- +91 79 23223056