The correct answer is In the districts of Ganganagar & Hanumangarh.
Key Points
- 'Ghagghar ka Maidan' is situated in the districts of Ganganagar and Hanumangarh.
- 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, ending in the Thar desert.
- In pre-Harappan times the Hakra was a tributary of the Sutlej.
- It is still connected to this paleochannel of the Sutlej, and possibly the Yamuna, which ended in the Nara River, presently a delta channel of the Indus River joining the sea via Sir Creek.
Additional Information
- The Ghaggar is an intermittent river in India, flowing during the monsoon rains.
- It originates in the village of Dagshai in the Shivalik Hills of Himachal Pradesh at an elevation of 1,927 meters (6,322 ft) above mean sea level and flows through Punjab and Haryana states into Rajasthan just southwest of Sirsa, Haryana, and by the side of Talwara Lake in Rajasthan.
- Dammed at Ottu barrage near Sirsa, Ghaggar feeds two irrigation canals that extend into Rajasthan.
- The main tributaries of the Ghaggar are the Kaushalya river, Markanda, Sarsuti, Tangri and Chautang.
- The Kaushalya river is a tributary of Ghaggar river on the left side of Ghaggar-Hakra,
- It flows in the Panchkula district of Haryana state of India and confluences with Ghaggar river near Pinjore just downstream of Kaushalya Dam.