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Tilaiya Dam
📍 Dam🏞️ Lake🌄 Viewpoint

Tilaiya Dam

Koderma, Jharkhand, India

4.3 (0)
Overview

The first dam of the Damodar Valley Corporation (1953) on the Barakar river, ringed by low forested hills and lookout points.

Why visit: Historic DVC dam with an amphitheatre of green hills around its lake.

Things to do
  • ›Lake viewpoints
  • ›Boating
  • ›Urwan tourist complex nearby
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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Mar

Entry fee

Free

Est. budget

₹200–600

Duration

2–3 hrs

Nearby attractions

Within
2.3 km
🏞️ Lake
4.0

Urwan Tourist Complex

Koderma, Jharkhand

A lakeside tourist complex on the shore of Tilaiya reservoir with boating jetties, gardens, cottages and children's play areas.

Oct–Mar2–4 hrsExplore
18.1 km
💎 Hidden Gem📍 Temple
4.1

Dhwajadhari Dham

Koderma, Jharkhand

A hilltop Shiva shrine reached by a stairway of 700-odd steps, its summit flag visible across the Koderma valley.

Oct–Mar; Shravan2–3 hrsExplore
21.3 km
📍 Hot Spring
4.1

Surajkund Hot Springs

Hazaribagh, Jharkhand

India's hottest natural springs (up to 88°C) at Belkapi near Barkattha, with separate bathing kunds and a winter Makar mela.

Nov–Feb (Makar Sankranti mela)2–3 hrsExplore