Shimla, Aug. 12 -- All major dams and barrages in Himachal Pradesh are operating within their permissible safety levels, with no breach of the maximum allowable limits, the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) said on Tuesday.

According to the daily dam status report issued at 9:00 am, the Pong Dam in the Beas basin recorded the highest inflow at 4,933 cubic metres per second (cumecs), with a spillway outflow of 1,078 cumecs and a machine discharge of 505 cumecs. Other high inflows were observed at Kol Dam (1,461 cumecs), Nathpa Dam (1,031 cumecs), and Larji Barrage (697 cumecs).

In the Satluj basin, the Karcham, Nathpa, and Kol dams reported substantial water inflows but remained well below their high flood levels (HFL). Similarl...