Death of fish in Sirpur Lake: Officials blame it on heat

INDORE: A day after death of fish in Sirpur Lake, Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) swung into action and got in touch with fisheries department to find out possible solution to the problem. Residents of the area blame the garbage spread over surface of lake water as one of the major reasons for death of fishes, while civic officials tried to downplay the matter as normal phenomena of summer.

Pradeep Sharma, a resident of the locality, said garbage dump can be seen all around the lake and garbage is even floating on surface of water. "In monsoon season last year, canal of lake was chocked because of garbage which had caused flooding in the locality," said Sharma adding that civic officials have been ignorant about cleaning lake and its surroundings. Sirpur Lake is one of the major attractions for migratory birds and IMC is spending good amount of money on its maintenance. City engineer and in-charge of Sirpur Lake, Vinod Saraf said they had sought information from fisheries department in the matter.

According to fisheries department, oxygen is sparse in water during summer season due to which fishes come close to land and die because of heat.