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The recently reported results have shown that even a very tiny but consistent change in the climatic conditions can lead to widespread destruction, which is evident through flash floods, draught and similar other situations. Since, these changes have large impact on the livelihood of the people living in these areas, a comprehensive information of the various parameters that determine the ecological balance of an environmental compartment such as land locked water bodies i.e. lakes is very important. This knowledge has the potential to delineate strategies for management of these lakes. In the backdrop of above information, this study was carried out to determine the seasonal variation of selected physico-chemical and plankton characteristics of lakes present in the Nagpur City of Maharashtra, India. During the course of this study, all the data was generated using standard methods and it (data) was analysed using PASW 18.0 software. The comparative assessment showed that there is significant (p<0.05) seasonal variation in physico-chemical as well as plankton density of surface water of Ambazari and Futala lakes of Nagpur. This information has potential value for designing action tasks that can contain the parameters such as turbidity, dissolved oxygen, total phosphorous, plankton abundance in these lakes.