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The Clean Trains (1925) - On Feb 3, 1925, India's first electric train left Bombay's Victoria

Terminus for Kurla station. With that, India became the 3rd country in Asia and only the 24th
in the world to introduce railway electrification.

The Dam That Tamed The Kaveri (1932) - The Kaveri river runs through southern Karnataka

and Tamil Nadu. The river was always a blessing, keeping Mysore fertile, but, like every other

river, it used to flood in the monsoons and run dry in the summer. All that changed when a
dam was built across the river and the Krishna Raja Sagara (KRS) reservoir created. The

reservoir still provides most of the drinking water for Bangalore city.

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