sentences:  The Lower Bhavani Project was the first major irrigation project initiated in India after independence in 1948.It was completed by 1955 and opened for use in 1956.The dam was constructed at a cost of 210 million.Now the dam is situated in the place where a village called Palayur existed till the year 1946.Then the people in Palayur were shifted to villages like Rajan nagar, Gandhinagar, kasthuri nagar pudhupeerkadavu,kothamangalam created by government in Sathyamangalam forest near bannari.The government then started to build the dam.It is one of the oldest earthen dams in India.It was build during the period of chief minister K.Kamaraj.But it was built by British government in the year 1946.The dam is long by high.