Pashulok Barrage

The Pashulok Barrage is a barrage located on the Ganges River just south of Rishikesh in Dehradun district, Uttarakhand, India.

Chilla Power Plant
In a run-of-the-river scheme, the main purpose of the barrage is to divert water into a canal on the east bank of the river which feeds water to the Chilla Power Plant downstream at 29.97611°N, 78.21972°W, 4 km upstream of Haridwar. The power station contains four 36 MW Kaplan turbine-generators for an installed capacity of 144 MW. The change in elevation between the plant's intake and tailrace affords is a hydraulic head of 32.5 m. The design discharge of the plant is 560 m3/s.