(4) Rajasthan Explanation: The Sambhar Salt Lake, India's largest inland salt lake, sits 96 km south west of the city of Jaipur and 64 km north east of Ajmer along National Highway 8 in Rajasthan. It is India's largest saline lake and made Rajasthan the third largest salt producing state in India. It produces 196,000 tonnes of clean salt every year, which equals 8.7% of India's salt production. Salt is produced by evaporation process of brine and is mostly managed by Sambhar Salts Ltd.(SSL), a joint venture of the Hindustan Salts Ltd. and the state government. SSL owns 3% of the eastern lake. Sambhar has been designated as a Ramsar site (recognized wetland of international importance) because the wetland, is a key wintering area for tens of thousands of flamingos and other birds that migrate from northern Asia.