It was a single purpose project meant only for irrigation, but downstream electrical generation and drinking water considerations enter into its management.

In the downstream of the dam, lower reservoir with 5 tmcft storage capacity can be located to utilize nearly 60 meters water head.

Also substantial secondary hydro power can be generated using the flood water flows at no extra cost during the monsoon season.

[3] In 2005, there was a collapse of one of the gates in the dam and up to a lakh cusecs of water was being released before emergency actions were effective.

[10] This type of protests in earlier years, such as the one in April 2005 where large numbers of police prevented the farmer's from releasing the water.