Dul Hasti Stage-I Dul Hasti Stage-I was conceived in 1985 at the initial project cost of 1.6 billion rupees (about $50 million), which kept ring to 4.5 billion rupees and later successively to 8, 11, 16, and 24 billion rupees (nearly $750 million) due to numerous delays. Construction begun in 1985 and the project became operational on 7 April 2007 after the completion of construction. The Dam is high and long, Constructed on the Chenab River, in a rugged, mountainous section of the Himalayas, and several hundred kilometers from larger cities in the
Jammu Division, it diverts water through a long headrace tunnel to the power station which discharges back into the Chenab. The project provides peaking power to the Northern Grid with beneficiary states being Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Delhi and Union Territory of Chandigarh.
Dul Hasti Stage-II Dul Hasti Stage-II Hydroelectric Power Project is an extension of the existing Dulhasti Stage-1 plant. Similar to Stage I, it will be built on the
Chenab river in the
Kishtwar district in Jammu and Kashmir. It was approved by India's Ministry of Environment in December 2025, which allows for construction tenders to be issued as a next step. ==See also==