Uttarakhand Irrigation Department, Government of Uttarakhand

ect Stage-I. But due to paucity of funds, the construction work could not be taken up immediately. The construction on the Project was started in 1956 and again had to be stopped in 1958, because Koch Darn was proposed to be constructed on river Yarnuna in the upstream of Tajewala Head Works by State of Punjab and it was feared that the Yamuna Valley Hydroelectric Project Stage-I she come under the submergence. However, the investigations and surveys conducted by the Engineers of Irrigation Department revealed that due to poor geological conditions, it was not feasible to construct the proposed Koch Dam Project. Later, in 1960, Yamuna Organisation was established and the work on Yamuna Valley Hydroelectric Project Stage-I was restarted in 1961 and completed successfully in just 5 years.