{"id":31327,"date":"2025-03-19T11:24:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T05:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31327"},"modified":"2025-04-16T11:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:34:15","slug":"ana-sagar-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ana-sagar-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Ana Sagar Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0Ana Sagar Lake Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Supreme Court recently directed the state govt to remove replica structures from the \u2018Seven Wonders&#8217; park in the wetland area of Ana Sagar lake in six months.<\/p>\n<h2>About Ana Sagar Lake<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>artificial lake<\/strong> situated in <strong>Ajmer, Rajasthan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>built by raising a dam across the Luni<\/strong> or Lavanavari River.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The lake was <strong>built by Arnoraja Chauhan,<\/strong> the <strong>grandfather of Prithviraj Chauhan, in 1135<\/strong> &#8211; 1150 AD and was named after him.<\/li>\n<li>It is spread over 13 km.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The lake also comprises Baradari or <strong>pavilions <\/strong>that were <strong>built by Shah Jahan<\/strong> in 1637 AD.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Daulat Bagh Gardens,<\/strong> located <strong>on the banks<\/strong> of the lake, was <strong>built by Jehangir.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There is an <strong>island in the center <\/strong>of the lake which is accessible by boat.<\/li>\n<li>A circuit house is there on a hill near the lake that used to be the British Residency.<\/li>\n<li>The lake <strong>gets dry every summer.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ana Sagar Lake FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Is Ana Sagar Lake an artificial lake?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Yes, Anasagar Lake is an artificial lake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Who built Ana Sagar Lake?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Anasagar Lake was built by Anaji (Arnoraj) Chauhan, the grandfather of Prithviraj Chauhan, in 1135-1150 AD.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. How long is Ana Sagar Lake?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. 13 kilometres<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/jaipur\/sc-gives-6-mthsto-remove-sevenwonders-replicasnear-ana-sagar\/articleshow\/119130097.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ana Sagar Lake is a historic artificial lake in Ajmer, Rajasthan, built in the 12th century, offering scenic views and a peaceful retreat for visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}