Bhakra Nangal dam on LeT target list

New Delhi, July 16 (IBNS) The Intelligence Bureau (IB) has warned that one of India's biggest dam- Bhakra Nangal dam- near the border between Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, is on the target list of terror outfits Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jamat-ud-Dawah (JuD).

According to reports, the IB has sounded an alert that LeT and JuD are training their members for an attack on Bhakra Nangal dam.

Pertinently, in Feb 2010, JuD commander Abdur Rehman Makki had threatened bloodshed over water-sharing between India and Pakistan.

"Heed this India- the Pakistan of jihadis... the Pakistan of Kashmiris vow.. if you steal our water... Rivers of blood will flow," Makki had said at a rally in Pakistan.

The Bhakra Nangal dam, located at a gorge near the (now submerged) upstream Bhakra village in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh, is Asia´s second highest at 225.55 m (740 ft) high next to the 261m Tehri Dam also in India.

The length of the dam (measured from the road above it) is 518.25 m; it is 9.1 m broad.

Its reservoir, known as the "Gobind Sagar", stores up to 9340 million cu m of water, enough to drain the whole of Chandigarh, parts of Haryana, Punjab and Delhi.

The 90 km long reservoir created by the Bhakra Dam is spread over an area of 168.35 km.

In terms of storage of water, it withholds the second largest reservoir in India, the first being Indira Sagar dam in Madhya Pradesh with capacity of 12.22 billion cu m.