The power house of the project has been constructed at Chithirapuram in Pallivasal Gram Panchayat, Munnar, Idukki District.

The first unit was inaugurated in March 1940 by the Travancore Diwan C. P. Ramaswamy Iyer.

[1] In 1944, Ramaswamy Iyer constructed the R. A headworks dam on Muthirapuzha, a tributary of Periyar in Munnar to divert the water.

In the second phase, three turbines of 7.5 MW capacity, and the Kundala Dam and Mattupetti Dam for water storage were constructed, which took the installed capacity of the project to 37 MW.

The annual production capacity of the project is 284 million unit.