[1][2] It is flanked by Southern Avenue to the north, Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Road to the west, Dhakuria to the east and the Kolkata Suburban Railway tracks to the south.

In the early 1920s, the Calcutta Improvement Trust (CIT), a body responsible for developmental work in the Kolkata metropolitan area, acquired about 192 acres (0.78 km2) of marshy jungles.

Their intention was to develop the area for residential use – improving the roads, raising and levelling some of the adjacent land and building lakes and parks.

The excavation of the lake was led by CIT's first chairman Cecil Henry Bompass, Kolkata Municipal Corporation's chief-engineer M.R.

[4] The area around this excavated lake was later developed to build recreational complexes, which included children's parks, gardens and auditoria.

[5] In the winter, one can spot some migratory birds around the lake,[6] though the numbers are dwindling because of the rise in pollution level.

[7] Like a majority of artificial lakes in the country, Rabindra Sarovar is suffering from environmental degradation.

Water pollution is on the rise, owing to an increase in tourist flow and habitation around the lake.

The most common fungi of Rabindra Sarobar include dead man's fingure, wine glass, bracket fungus, ink cap, split gill, puffball and many more.