Matsyagandha Lake

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Matsyagandha Lake is a 1.5 km (1 mi) by 200 m (660 ft) artificial lake in the Sattar Kataiya block of Saharsa district of Northern Bihar region in India. The lake was conceptualized in 1996, by the then Saharsa Collector, Tej Narayan Lal Das, as a development of wasteland used to cremate bodies. As a result of neglect, the lake shrunk between 2006 and 2017, almost disappearing by 2018. In June 2020 the lake was planned to be renovated at the cost of ₹ 7.47 Crore (USD 1.02 M), by the Jal-Jeevan-Hariyali mission under the Government of Bihar, to be carried out by the State Department of Minor Water Resources Archived 2023-05-15 at the Wayback Machine, and includes increasing the depth by 2 metres (6 ft 7 in), expanding the size of the lake to 33 ha (82 acres), and capacity to 6,000 m3 (210, 000 cu ft).

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