Matsyagandha Lake (मत्स्यगंधा) is a 1.50 km by 200 m artificial lake in the Sattar Kataiya block of Saharsa district of Northern Bihar region in India.[1]
The lake was conceptualized in 1996, by the then Saharsa Collector, Tej Narayan Lal Das, as a development of wasteland used to cremate bodies.
As a result of neglect, the lake shrunk between 2006 and 2017, almost disappearing by 2018. In June 2020 the lake was planned to be renovated at the cost of ₹ 7.47 Crore (USD 1.02 M),[2] by the Jal-Jeevan-Hariyali mission under the Government of Bihar, to be carried out by the State Department of Minor Water Resources, and includes increasing the depth by 2 meters, expanding the size of the lake to 81 acres, and capacity to 6000 m3.[1]