India, July 15 -- A 4-acre extinct water body in Roza Yakubpur, which had become an informal dumping site, has undergone an ecological revival.

It was once a choked pond buried under layers of garbage and plastic in Greater Noida West. But now it's a thriving green space teeming with biodiversity.

The project, spearheaded under a corporate social responsibility initiative by Noida Power Company Ltd (NPCL) in partnership with Greater Noida authority, and NGO SAFE, has been rejuvenated into a water body with an island designed to draw aquatic life, along with a biodiversity park planted with over 1,500 native trees.

The site remained in neglect for years, forcing locals to keep on urging the concerned authorities to revive it.

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