[3] On 29 January 1970, Gandhi announced the transfer of a part of Fazilka tehsil and Abohar to Haryana.

The transfer to a neighbouring State of Punjab's cotton-producing belt of Abohar and Falzika was not accepted.

The River Sutlej runs through the district and moves over to the Pakistan side through the Indo-Pakistani border.

The Arora community of Punjabi Hindus constitute a sizeable population in the district.

With the migration of the non-Muslim population from Pakistan to India in 1947, they settled here in this region of Firozpur district.