page_title: Fateh Sagar Lake
section_title: Fauna
hierarchical_section_title: Fateh Sagar Lake / Fauna
caption_attribution_description: Lac Fateh Sagar, Udaipur English: Fateh Sagar Lake, Udaipur, India
context_page_description: Fateh Sagar Lake is situated in the city of Udaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is an artificial lake named after Maharana Fateh Singh of Udaipur and Mewar, constructed north-west of Udaipur, to the north of Lake Pichola in the 1680s.
  It is one of the four lakes of the Udaipur city; the other three being: the Lake Pichola, Udai Sagar Lake, 13 kilometres to the east of Udaipur, and Dhebar Lake or Jaisamand Lake, 52 km south east of Udaipur.
  Within the confines of the Fatah Sagar Lake, there are three small islands; the largest of these is the Nehru Park, which is a popular tourist attraction, the second island houses a public park with an impressive water-jet fountain, and the third island is the address for the Udaipur Solar Observatory. The Nehru park is accessible by inboard motor boats. The blue waters of the lake and the backdrop of the green mountains has given the soubriquet of ‘the second Kashmir’ to Udaipur.
  Udaipur Lake Conservation Society's reports indicate that the lake supports and sustains ground water recharge, drinking water, agricultural use, industrial use, ecological water availability and provides employment to 60% population of Udaipur.
context_section_description: The fauna recorded in the lake are the Zooplankton, Benthos and Fish. The economically important fishes reported are:
  C. punctatus, C. reba, Catla catla, L. calbasu, Channa marulius, Cirrhina mrigala, L. gonius, Labeo rohita, Tor khudree, and Wallago attu.
caption: A panoramic view of Fateh Sagar Lake
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