Question

The correct order of rivers of Punjab - Haryana plains from North to South is ____
A. Beas→ Satluj→ Ghaggar
B. Ghaggar→ Beas→ Satluj
C. Satluj→ Beas→ Ghaggar
D. Satluj→ Ghaggar→ Beas

Answer 1

Hint: The place where the river begins known as the river source. The river source is also called the headwaters. Rivers often get water from small streams that meet. A tributary that begins farthest from the edge of the river is the source, or if the source of a river is a glacier, it is known as glacial headwaters.

Complete answer: Beas River is a river in North India. It is 470 km in length. The Beas River originates near the Rohtang Pass, Himachal Pradesh, at an altitude of 4,062 m, at the southern end of the Pir Panjal range; close to the source of the Ravi. It then crosses the Dhaola Dhar range and it takes a south-west direction and meets the Satluj River at Harike in Punjab.
The Satluj is the longest out of the rivers flowing through the substantial Punjab region of northern India and Pakistan. The origin of the river is at Lake Rakshastal in Tibet; near Mount Kailash.
The Ghaggar River originates in the Siwalik Mountains in northwestern Himachal Pradesh and runs about 400 km southwest of Haryana. The Ghaggar-Hakra River is a recurrent river that flows only during the monsoon season. The river is known as Ghaggar before the Ottu barrage and as Hakra after downstream of the barrage.

Hence the correct answer is Option (A) Beas→ Satluj→ Ghaggar .

Note: The origin of the word Punjab is Punj (Five) + Aab (Water) that is land of five rivers. These five rivers that flow in Punjab are Sutlej, Beas, Ravi, Chenab, and Jhelum. Only Sutlej, Ravi and Beas rivers flow in Punjab as of today.