{"id":31987,"date":"2025-04-13T11:34:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T06:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31987"},"modified":"2025-04-16T18:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:50:17","slug":"ramgarh-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ramgarh-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramgarh Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ramgarh Lake Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Work has started for revival of the historic Ramgarh lake near Jaipur, which was once a lifeline for water supply to the Rajasthan Capital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Ramgarh Lake<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is situated near the Jamwa Ramgarh subdivision of the <strong>Jaipur district <\/strong>in the Indian state <strong>Rajasthan<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>man-made <\/strong>water body created by forming an embankment on the forested hills.<\/li>\n<li>Erstwhile <strong>Jaipur ruler Sawai Ram Singh II had built<\/strong> the Ramgarh lake in 1876 to provide relief to the inhabitants of the region.<\/li>\n<li>It lies at a distance of 32 kilometres from Jaipur city and encompasses an area of about 15.5 sq.km.<\/li>\n<li>It measures 2 kilometres in width and 4 kilometres in length.<\/li>\n<li>Once, the lake <strong>served as the main source of water<\/strong> supply <strong>for the city of Jaipur.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In the present time<\/strong>, the four <strong>rivers<\/strong>, Roda, Banganga, Tala, and Madhoveni, <strong>which used to bring water to the lake, have gone dry<\/strong> due to the deforestation and mining activity carried out in the catchment area.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Ramgarh Lake has a <strong>historical record of hosting<\/strong> a<strong> rowing event during Asian Games of 1982.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jamwa Mata temple<\/strong> is situated at a downward course of Ramgarh Lake.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Polo Ground<\/strong> at Ramgarh, that sits in the <strong>middle of the Ramgarh Lake and the Aravalli Hills<\/strong>, is regarded as one of the best of its kind in the country.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>thick forest near Ramgarh Lake <\/strong>is the abode to many wildlife species such as Nilgai, Chital, and lions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The region was <strong>notified as a wildlife sanctuary <\/strong>in the year 1982 by the Government of India.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ramgarh Lake FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. In which state Ramgarh Lake is located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Rajasthan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Who built the Ramgarh Lake?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Sawai Ram Singh II<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which major sporting event was hosted at Ramgarh Lake?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Rowing event of Asian Games 1982<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/rajasthan\/ramgarh-dams-catchment-area-being-surveyed-for-removal-of-encroachments\/article68460732.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramgarh Lake is situated near the Jamwa Ramgarh subdivision of the Jaipur district in the Indian state Rajasthan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31987","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\/31987","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=31987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}