Reservoir · Madhya Pradesh · India · CWC · CENTRAL region
Indira Sagar
Indira Sagar Dam
88.3% of live capacity
Gross capacity
431.6 TMC (12,221 MCM)
Live capacity
344.2 TMC (9,748 MCM)
Basin
Narmada
Primary use
multiple
Operator
NHPC
Coordinates
22.267°N, 76.458°E
Last updated
2026-10-22
Capacity in TMC
Indira Sagar has a gross capacity of 431.6 TMC (12,221 MCM), of which 344.2 TMC (9,748 MCM) is live storage; it is currently at 88.3% of live capacity, holding 303.7 TMC (8,600 MCM).
- Gross capacity
- 431.6 TMC (12,221 MCM)
- Live capacity
- 344.2 TMC (9,748 MCM)
- Current storage
- 303.7 TMC (8,600 MCM)
TMC is thousand million cubic feet, the unit used in Indian water reporting. 1 TMC = 28.3168 million cubic metres (MCM). Figures are converted from CWC, which publishes million cubic metres. The percentage is labelled live or gross only when the stored volume matches that capacity.
Current fill
88.3%vs 7 days ago
-2.0 pplosing
vs 1 year ago
-5.9 ppyear-over-year
7-day trend
↓falling
Drought context
Storage vs October average
94%of normal
88.3% full on 2026-10-22, against an average of 94.0% for October across 4 years of readings (-5.7 points).
Rain over the last three months · 11 October 2026
Moderately dry
In the three months to 11 October 2026 the area around Indira Sagar had well below normal rain, a shortfall seen about one year in six. Rainfall compared with the long-run record for the same season at this point (Copernicus Global Drought Observatory, SPI-3 index −1.06). Rain, not storage. India drought figures →
Weekly storage
Fill history — multi-year
About this reservoir
Data source
official
Storage data: CWC. CWC region: CENTRAL.
Catchment Weather
Past 30 days + 14-day forecast · Open-Meteo
Satellite imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics. Map: Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors. 22.267°N, 76.458°E · Open in Google Maps
About Indira Sagar Dam
As of October 22, 2026, Indira Sagar Dam is at 88.3% of useful capacity, holding 303.7 TMC (8,600 MCM) of 344.2 TMC (9,748 MCM). Of the gross 431.6 TMC (12,221 MCM), that is 70.4%. At this level the reservoir is high.
Over the most recent week on record the fill level has fallen by 2.0 percentage points, and it is 5.9 points below its level on the same date a year earlier.
Across the readings we hold for Indira Sagar Dam — 170 data points between June 8, 2023 and October 22, 2026 — the level has ranged from a low of 2.7% (March 27, 2026) to a high of 99.0% (November 2, 2023). On average the reservoir is fullest around November and at its lowest around June.
It is operated by NHPC primarily for multiple purposes. It lies within the Narmada basin at 22.267°N, 76.458°E.
Key facts
- Current fill level
- 88.3% of useful capacity
- Water stored
- 303.7 TMC (8,600 MCM)
- Total capacity
- 431.6 TMC (12,221 MCM)
- Usable capacity
- 344.2 TMC (9,748 MCM)
- 7-day change
- ▼ 2.0 pp
- Year-on-year
- ▼ 5.9 pp
- Primary use
- Multipurpose
- River basin
- Narmada
- Operator
- NHPC
- Coordinates
- 22.267°N, 76.458°E
- Last updated
- October 22, 2026
Recent readings
| Date | Fill level | Volume (hm³) |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Oct 2026 | 88.3% | 8,600 |
| 15 Oct 2026 | 90.3% | 8,798 |
| 8 Oct 2026 | 92.9% | 9,050 |
| 1 Oct 2026 | 94.2% | 9,179 |
| 24 Sep 2026 | 84.0% | 8,188 |
| 17 Sep 2026 | 84.6% | 8,243 |
| 10 Sep 2026 | 85.2% | 8,307 |
| 3 Sep 2026 | 75.9% | 7,399 |
| 27 Aug 2026 | 71.3% | 6,949 |
| 20 Aug 2026 | 51.2% | 4,990 |
| 13 Aug 2026 | 44.1% | 4,294 |
| 6 Aug 2026 | 31.5% | 3,073 |