Jawaharlal Nehru proudly called the dams as the

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Temples of modern India

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Our first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, proudly called the dams the temples of modern India. The reason behind this statement was that these multi-purpose projects would integrate the development of agriculture and the village economy with rapid industrialisation and growth of the urban economy. Dams serve multiple purposes other than irrigation, like electricity generation, flood control, recreation, fish breeding etc. Multi-purpose projects were launched after independence in India, seeing their integrated water resources management approach. It was believed that these multi-purpose projects would accelerate the pace of progress and development of India.

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