through hills overlooking the reservoir is picturesque. Postal stamp The Indian Postal Service issued a set of four stamps for the Five-Year Plan series on 26 January 1955, that included one stamp of one anna value depicting Tilaiya Dam. Shortly after opening the Tilaiya dam, pictured on the one-anna stamp, Nehru commented in a letter to the chief ministers that "the sight of those works filled me, as it did others who were present, with a sense of great achievement." References Dams in Jharkhand Koderma district 1953 establishments in Bihar Dams completed in 1953 20th-century architecture in India