India, July 26 -- The National Green Tribunal has sought a response from the Union Government and others over the deteriorating ecological condition of Asia's largest oxbow lake in Bihar.

An oxbow lake is a curved, U-shaped waterbody formed when a wide bend of a river is cut off from the main stream.

The green body was hearing a matter where it had taken suo motu cognisance of a media report highlighting the deteriorating ecological condition of the Kanwar lake in Cheriya Bariyarpur, 20 km north of Bihar's Begusarai.

In a recent order, a bench of NGT Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava and expert member Afroz Ahmad noted that the waterbody, recognised as a Ramsar Site in 2020, is considered Asia's largest oxbow lake and has histori...