Best Drama Award received

LAL PAEN received Best Drama, Best Director, Best Music, Best Actress and 2nd Best Actor Award from All India Multi Lingual Drama & Dance Festival 2011 at Rourkela, Odisha Organized by SPANDAN and SAIL.

Haldhar Nag Awarded to Subash for Achievements of Lal Paen

Koshli Poet Haldhar Nag Facilitate to Subash for LAL PAEN Achievements at Bargarh

Mr. Debu Bose give feedback about Lal Paen at Bolangir.

Mr. Debu Bose (Famous Theatre and Film Actor) discussing with Subash about the LAL PAEN drama at Bolangir.

Subodh Pattnaik at S.D.A.Mirror Theatre, Belpahar

Subodh Pattnaik with Subash and other SDA Mirror Theatre Artist discuss about LAL PAEN Script at Belpahar.

लाल पाएंन पार्लाखेमुन्दी में मंच्तास्त

पहलीबार नाटक लाल पाएंन (लाल पानी ) ओडिशा के गजपति जिल्ला के सदर पार्लाखेमुन्दी में २८ माय को मंचस्थ हुआ।

Baseline of Play Lal Paen (On Hirakud dam displacement)

Hirakud Dam

Hirakud Dam is built across the Mahanadi River, about 15 km from Sambalpur in the state of Orissa in India. Built in 1956, the dam is the world's largest earthen dam. [cite web
author=
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url=http://www.questia.com/library/encyclopedia/mahanadi.jsp
title=Mahanadi
publisher=The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright© 2004
accessdate=2008-02-05] Behind the dam extends a lake, 55 km long. Hirakud Dam is one of the longest dams in the world, about 16 mi (26 km) in length. It was the first major multipurpose river valley project started after India's independence.

Construction history

After the devastating floods of 1937, Sir M. Visveswararya proposed a detailed investigation for storage reservoirs in the Mahanadi basin to tackle the problem of floods in the Mahanadi delta. In 1945, under the chairmanship of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the then Member of Labour, it was decided to investigate the potential benefits of controlling the Mahanadi for multi-purpose use. The Central Waterways, Irrigation and Navigation Commission took up the work.

On 15 March 1946, Sir Howthrone Lewis, then the Governor of Orissa, laid the foundation stone of the Hirakud Dam. A project report was submitted to the government in June 1947. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru laid the first batch of concrete on 12 April 1948. The dam was completed in 1953 and was formally inaugurated by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on 13 January 1957. The total cost of the project was Rs. 100.02 crores (in 1957). Power generation along with agricultural irrigation started in 1956, achieving full potential in 1966.

Details

Total length of Dam :15,748 Feet or 4800 Meter

Concrete Dam :3,937 Feet or 1200 Meter

Earth Dam :11,811 Feet or 3600 Meter

Left Dyke :32,274 Feet or 9837 Meter

Right Dyke :35,299 Feet or 10759 Meter

Maximumm Height of Massonary Dam :200 Feet or 61 Meter

Maximum Height of Earth Dam :195 Feet or 59.5 Meter

Sluice Gates Total :64 Nos.

Sluice Gates (Left) :40 Nos.

Sluice Gates (Right) :24 Nos.

Crest Gates :34 Nos.

Crest Gates (Left) :21 Nos.

Crest Gates (Right) :13 Nos.

Crest Gate Size :15.54 Meter * 16.1 Meter

Top Dam Level :RL 195.680 Meter (RL 642Feet)

Full Reservoir Level :Rl 192.024 Meter (RL 630 Feet)

Dead Storage Level :Rl 179.830 Meter (Rl 590 Feet)

Seal of Sluice Gate :510 Feet RL

Gross Storage :5.83 Million Acre Feet

Live Storage :4.36 Million Acre Feet

Catchment Area : 83,400 Sq Kilometer

Total Power Capacity :275.5 Mw

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tructure

The Hirakud Dam is a composite structure of earth, concrete and masonry. Ten km north of Sambalpur, it is the longest major earthen dam in the world, measuring 24km including dykes, and stands across the river Mahanadi. The main dam has an overall length of 4.8 km spanning between two hills; the Lamdungri on the left and the Chandili Dunguri on the right. The dam is flanked by 21 km earthen dykes on both the left and right sides, closing the low saddles beyond the adjoining hills. The dam and dykes together measure 25.8 km. It also forms the biggest artificial lake in Asia, with a reservoir holding 743 km² at full capacity, with a shoreline of over 640 km..

Purpose and Benefits

In the upper drainage basin of the Mahanadi River, centered on the Chattisgarh Plain, periodic droughts contrast with the situation in the lower delta region where floods may damage crops. The dam was constructed to help alleviate these problems by creating a reservoir and controlling river flow through the drainage system. [cite web|url=http://www.indianchild.com/rivers_in_india.htm|title=Rivers in India|publisher=|accessdate=2006-09-22 ] The dam regulates the flow of the Mahanadi River and produces hydroelectricity through several hydroelectric plants. [cite web|url=http://orissagov.nic.in/cmccuttack/mahanadi%20river.htm|title=Mahanadi River|publisher=|accessdate=2006-09-22 ]

The dam helps control floods in the Mahanadi delta and irrigates 7,500,000 hectares of land. Hydroelectricity is also generated. The Hirakud Dam regulates 83,400 km² (32,200 mi²) of Mahanadi's drainage. The reservoir has a storage capacity of 5.818 km³ with gross of 8.136 km³. [ [http://sambalpur.nic.in/hirakud%20dam.htm Hirakud Dam] ]

It drains an area of 133,090 km², more than twice the area of Sri Lanka. The amount of earth, concrete and masonry materials used to build the dam is sufficient to make a road 8 metres wide and pave it from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and from Amritsar to Dibrugarh in Assam. With successful irrigation provided by the dam, Sambalpur is called the rice bowl of Orissa. Here photography is strictly prohibited.

The project provides 1,556 km² of kharif and 1,084 km² of rabi irrigation in industries of Sambalpur, Bargarh, Bolangir, and Subarnpur. The water released by the power plant irrigates another 4360 km² of CCA in Mahanadi delta. The dam can generate up to 307.5 MW of electrical power through its two power plants at Burla, on the dam's right bank and Chiplima, 22 km downstream from the dam. In addition, the project provides flood protection to 9500 km² of delta area in district of Cuttack and Puri. Source: Dilip Kumar Padhi VU2DPI

Chiplima has gained prominence as the second hydroelectric project of the Hirakud Dam. A natural fall of 80 to 120 feet (25 to 40 m) in the river Mahanadi is used to generate electricity. The place is mostly inhabited by fisherman, whose deity Ghantlei is very popular in the neighbouring area. The State Livestock Breeding Farm and Agricultural Farm are located here.

People affected from the Dam Construction

Main Purpose of Hirakud dam was to check the massive flood that was effecting a large part of coastal Orissa.But construction of the dam greatly affected the native of western part of orissa.Nearly 1.5 lakh people got affected by the Hirakud project.Nearly 22,000 family were displaced under the Hirakud dam project, but are yet to be rehabilitated and receive their due compensation by the Orissa government.In the original estimate, an amount of Rs 12 crores was provided for payment of compensation to the affected people. After revision, the amount was reduced to Rs 9.5 crores and the total compensation paid to the people was, in reality, only Rs 3.32 crores. A large number of families were evacuated from their hearth and homes without compensation from 1956 onwards. [ [http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=136009 Hirakud dam: Displaced families seek rehabilitation ] ]

Scene of Lal Paen

We do theatre for awareness and experiment all the wings of theatre since1993. Now we are perform a play on Hirakud displacement movement
Hirakud dam is longest dam of Asia and it will be bun for our country, but till to day more than 50,000 displacement family not received compassion from the Government.

We are going to perform the play all over the Western Part of Orissa. Therefore please provide your financial assistance for “”Lal Paen”

Please Contact:
Subash Chandra Pradhn
Director,
S.D.A.Mirror Theatre
Gumadera, Belpahar, Jharsuguda, Orissa
Ph- +91 9937319353
e-mail: mirrortheatre@gmail.com