The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Saturday began a cleanup operation at Asarwa lake days after a large number of dead fish were found floating on the surface of the water body for the last several days.

Officials of the AMC’s central zone administration began the cleanup operation, removing loads of dead fish and algae layer on the lake, after local residents took up the matter with the municipal commissioner and the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB).

GPCB Regional Officer ( Ahmedabad City) Dr Sweta Patel said that their officials collected water samples from the lake on October 27 and sent them for testing.

While fish deaths have been reported in water bodies such as Sabarmati river and Kankaria lake in the city, no such incident has been reported in Asarwa lake in th

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