Then the water vanished
rampant illegal quarrying and mining in the surrounding Aravallis choked the aquifers that fed it, and the lake sat empty from around 2009 for well over a decade. A major revival project — pumping treated water into the lakebed and clearing invasive weed — refilled it by 2025, restoring water across its roughly 42-acre spread, and authorities have been adding musical fountains, a 3D water-screen laser show and boating, with a public reopening targeted for 2026. For visitors it means a rare sizeable water body against Aravalli scenery close to the city, loveliest in the golden light of late afternoon.