Ghaggar river

July 20, 2023

Ghaggar river has affected six districts of Haryana (Panchkula, Ambala, Kaithal, Fatehabad and Sirsa), four of Punjab (Mohali, Patiala, Sangrur and Mansa) and two (Hanumangarh and Sriganganagar) of Rajasthan with floods, this monsoon season.
The Ghaggar and many of its tributaries originate in the Shivalik foothills of Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh.
Among these tributaries, the Kaushalya, Tangri, Markanda, Beghna and Sukhna rivers are the ones that merge into the Ghaggar.
The encroachement of the catchment area has converted these perennial rivers into seasonal rivers.
These are considered dead rivers but in this monsoon season they reclaimed their floodplains and caused heavy losses.
The Ghaggar-Hakra River is an intermittent river in India and Pakistan that flows only during the monsoon season.
The river is known as Ghaggar in India, before the Ottu barrage, and as the Hakra in Pakistan, downstream of the barrage.
It eventually dries up in the Great Indian (Thar) Desert.