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Chandola Lake is located near Dani Limda Road, Ahmedabad, Gujarat state, India and covers an area of 1200 hectares. It is a water reservoir, embanked and circular in form. It is also home for cormorants, and spoonbill birds. During the evening time, many people visit this place and take a leisure stroll.
The historic Salt March around nine in the morning, after covering a distance of seven miles from the Sabarmati Ashram and a few minutes after the trucks and the taxis carrying radio and print journalists had disappeared down the road, had reached the Chandola Lake. Mahatma Gandhi had stopped under a large pipal tree next to the lake, no bigger than a small pond in the middle of a vast expanse of mud during March, 1930.The Seeker A Novel by Sudhir Kakkar - Page 194
The Kharicut Canal Scheme which is one of the oldest irrigation schemes of Gujarat was constructed with the main purpose of providing irrigation to 1,200 acres of rice land near Chandola lake in Ahmedabad.Gujarat State Gazetteers: Ahmadabad District Gazetteer - Page 268
On 29 April 2025, a mega demolition was carried out by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation at Chandola Lake. In which a large amount of government land was vacated by removing many illegal encroachments. A large number of police personnel were also present at the time of this demolition. It was also reported that illegal Bangladeshis had established a colony here.
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