The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation but it also provides for water supply and aquaculture.

The 99 m (325 ft) tall dam is rock-fill embankment-type with watertight core that withholds a reservoir with a capacity of 2,750,000,000 m3 (2,229,461 acre⋅ft).

Including land acquisition, the cost of the dam with power plant was about $US 663 million.

The installed capacity of the power plant might be expanded to 1,400 MW in the future.

[1][2][3][4][5][6] The construction of the dam resulted in displacement of nearly 60,000 people.