Anaikuttam Dam is a dam situated in Tamil Nadu in

Virudhunagar Virudhunagar is a city and the administrative headquarter of the Virudhunagar district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located southwest of the state capital Chennai and south of Madurai. Virudhunagar emerged as an important trade ...

district. The dam is built on the

Arjuna River Arjuna is a river flowing in the Virudhunagar district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. it is a sacred river which formed during the period of the Pandavas. Arjuna one of the five Pandavas along this river to worship lord Shiva. There is a l ...

. Anaikuttam Dam finished the construction in the year 1989. It is an earthen irrigation dam with a length of 2940 meters and height of 9.5 meters. The dam provides drinking water to the Virudhunagar district. According to a news article published in 2020, the dam had the capacity to give 2 million litres of water to Virudhunagar every day. In 2015, an investigation was launched against the Public Work Department (PWD) officials for not maintaining the dam which was making all the water of the dam going to waste.

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Virudhunagar district Dams in Tamil Nadu {{Virudhunagar-geo-stub