The lake is frequented by several birds including kingfishers and egrets. Around 400 saplings were also planted in an adjacent plot away from the waterbody, but the BMC is not ready to take care of them citing that it does not come under its jurisdiction," added Ms Shetty.The activist told The Asian Age that some locals were fruit tree netting for sale dumping household garbage into the lake. "We have asked the BMC to assist us in cleaning up the area.. While citizens have regularly held clean up drives to create awareness about the wetland within the city, they have been left disappointed to find the same place littered with plastic bottles and garbage within the next week. Even college students frequenting the area litter at the site.Last year, residents had recovered around 25 huge bags of garbage, mostly with beer bottles from the area. They said that they cannot even intervene as it is a MHADA plot," said Ms Mili Shetty, a Charkop based activist who has been regularly conducting clean ups in and around the lake. Locals said that a jackal visited the site last year."It was a pleasant lake years ago, but the has deteriorated due to consistent negligence by both the BMC and MHADA.Mumbai: The Charkop lake, which was a flourishing bird site before, has been reduced to a virtual dumping site.The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) claims that the site is under the jurisdiction of the Maharahstra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) and the latter has yet not responded to the pleas of citizens and enquiries by the BMC.

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