 Government of Maharashtra has classified the stretches of the Upper Bhima River for the purpose of various uses as, A-I for drinking water without conventional treatment but after disinfection, A-II Drinking water after conventional treatment followed by disinfection, A-III for fish and wildlife propagation and A-IV for agriculture, industrial cooling and process.The dam and the reservoir are approachable from Pune city, which is away.The dam is about upstream of the bridge across the Bhima River on the Pune-Sholapur Road.