The Jawahar Sagar Dam is the third dam in the Chambal Valley series of projects on the Chambal River, located 29 km upstream of the city of Kota and 26 km downstream of the Rana Pratap Sagar Dam.
It is a solid gravity dam, 45 meters high and 393 meters long, which generates 60 MW of power with an installed capacity of 3 units of 33 MW. Its construction was completed in 1972. The total catchment area of the dam is 27,195 km2, of which only 1,496 km2 are in Rajasthan.
The free catchment area under the Rana Pratap Sagar Dam is 2,331 km2. [Need for better source] The dam is located after Gandhi Sagar Dam and Rana Pratap Sagar Dam, but before Kota Barrage.