In which of the following States or Union Territories was ‘Sonzal-2022’, an…

Concept

A location-based current-affairs question is solved by identifying the event’s organising institution and venue, then mapping that venue to its State or Union Territory.

An official notice or release from the organising institution is stronger evidence than a similarly named event elsewhere.

Application

The University of Kashmir’s Department of Students Welfare described Sonzal-2022 as its annual university youth festival, held on the university campus in Srinagar. Srinagar is in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

Contrast

• Jammu and Kashmir contains Srinagar and the University of Kashmir, the institution that organised Sonzal-2022.

• Uttarakhand is a separate Himalayan state; the official University of Kashmir material does not place this festival there.

• Himachal Pradesh is also a separate Himalayan state; it is not the venue named by the organiser.

• ‘None of the above’ would apply only if the festival were outside every named region, which conflicts with the organiser’s Srinagar record.

Cross-check

The university’s curtain-raiser and closing release independently identify the event as the University of Kashmir’s annual youth festival in Srinagar, confirming the same jurisdiction.

Therefore, the festival was celebrated in Jammu and Kashmir.