What collectively are Beas, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, and the Sutlej?
Partition of India membership of the United Nations and was accepted by the General Assembly on 30 September 1947. The Dominion of India continued to have the existing seat as India had been a founding member of the United Nations since 1945. The Punjab—the region of the five rivers east of Indus: Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej—consists of interfluvial "doabs", or tracts of land lying between two confluent rivers. These are the "Sind-Sagar" doab (between Indus and Jhelum), the "Jech" doab (Jhelum/Chenab), the "Rechna" doab (Chenab/Ravi), the "Bari" doab (Ravi/Beas), and the "Bist" doab (Beas/Sutlej) (see map on the right). In early
Ravi River the World Bank. The treaty, under Article 5.1, envisages the sharing of waters of the rivers Raavi, Beas, Sutlej, Jhelum and Chenab which join the Indus River on its left bank (eastern side) in Pakistan. According to this treaty, Raavi, Beas and Sutlej, which constitute the eastern rivers, are allocated for exclusive use by India before they enter Pakistan. However, a transition period of 10 years was permitted in which India was bound to supply water to Pakistan from these rivers until Pakistan was able to build the canal system for utilisation of waters of Jhelum, Chenab and the Indus