Despite the cold December, foreign birds are not coming on Shekha Jheel. While these days there were plenty of foreign birds on the lake and some birds also breed, but due to lack of water in the lake, the birds have not come here this year.

In the last week of October, the foreign birds started coming here, but this time due to the halting of the upper Ganga Canal and the lack of rain, only 10% water is left in the lake.

Due to the water scarcity that has been going on for twenty days, only 2% of the visitor birds are seen on the lake. At the same time, environmentalists are blaming the administration and public representatives for the plight of the lake.

It is alleged that after the declaration of the bird sanctuary, the construction of 2 tubewells, administrative buildings, toilets and boundary walls was proposed with a budget of 3 crores and 4 lakhs.

In which administrative buildings were built, while the tube-well required for the lake is still pending. If tube wells had been arranged, there would have been no scarcity of water in the lake and birds would have stayed.

Nature guide Mohammad Ishaq told that the lake was dried in December 2003, 17 years ago.

Till then the then DFO Anupam Gupta had constructed footpaths due to which the water in the lake was reduced, but this time due to lack of water in the canal and less rain, the water of the lake is decreasing day by day.

Ranjan Rana, an Environmentalist said that after the formation of the Bird Century, tourists from all over the world are eager to come here, but the present government, their public representatives and administrative officials are negligent about the plight of Shekha Jheel. If this time the birds will not come here, then this year the emptiness will affect for the next several years.

Mohammad Ishaq, nature guide Shekha Jheel said that this time the birds came on time and till twenty days ago thousands of birds of more than 35 species were present, but due to lack of water in the canal, only two percent birds are remaining today.

Arvind Kumar, Regional Forest Officer, Aligarh Range told that the working contractor did not even start boring here due to a lack of payment. Discussions are going on at the departmental level with the officials of Ganga Canal, water is expected in the canal soon.