Report: Damodar Valley Corporation and Hirakud projects were the last two of the large dams constructed with the primary aim of controlling floods, claims the draft report prepared by the World Commission on Dams (WCD), set up by the World Bank. The agency was set up with the primary aim of reviewing demand for fund from the World Bank for the constrution of different dams. Contradicting the belief that dams have helped in irrigation, in generation of electricity and in controlling floods, the report says a gap of 8.8 million hectors exists between irrigation potential created and utilised till 1997 in the whole country.