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GNDU Zonal Youth Festival — A North Zone University Youth Festival, 25 Events from Raga to Installation

GNDU Zonal Youth Festival: Guru Nanak Dev University's North Zone Inter University Youth Festival: 25 items across Music, Dance, Literary Events, Theatre...

e By Luke Justin October 24, 2026 4 min read

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Guru Nanak Dev University’s North Zone Inter University Youth Festival: 25 items across Music, Dance, Literary Events, Theatre and Fine Arts, built from the university’s own official event guidelines and rules.

Sets up a university zonal youth festival in the style of a published North India rulebook – 25 events across music, dance, literary, theatre and fine art, with real time limits and team sizes – so a university or college coordinator starts from a working programme instead of a blank page.

A zonal youth festival is a university-run arts competition in which students from affiliated colleges compete for their institution across music, dance, literature, theatre and fine art, and the winners go forward to a wider inter-university round. This template follows the published event guidelines and item-by-item rules of one North Indian state university’s inter-university youth festival and carries all 25 events from that document: eight in music, two in dance, three in the literary family, four in theatre and eight in fine art.

Music runs from Classical Vocal Solo and the two classical instrumental solos (percussion and non-percussion are separate events, ten minutes each) through Light Vocal (Indian) and Western Vocal Solo, which must be sung in English, to Group Song (Indian), Group Song (Western) and Folk Orchestra. Dance has a Classical Dance (Indian) solo of up to 15 minutes and a Folk/Tribal Dance team item. The literary and theatre events are Quiz, Elocution, Debate, One Act Play, Skit, Mime and Mimicry, from five-minute speeches to a 30-minute play; the fine-art block (On the Spot Painting, Collage, Poster Making, Clay Modeling, Cartooning, Rangoli, Spot Photography and Installation) is set as 150-minute sittings.

Two details set this programme apart from other university templates. Group Song (Indian) asks each team for two songs, one patriotic and one folk, with film songs disallowed. Installation is a four-person team item whose finished piece is capped at a 5 x 5 x 5 foot footprint. The source also fixes language: Western Vocal Solo, Group Song (Western) and Quiz run in English, while Elocution, Debate and One Act Play may be presented in Hindi or English (a One Act Play may use any Indian regional language if a Hindi or English synopsis is submitted). Fifteen of the 25 events are individual entries and ten are team entries, all open to both genders and marked out of 100.

There is a single group, Students, set to a working 17 to 25 range; the published eligibility is enrolment as a university student, so treat the range as a working band, not the exact rule. The document gives no placing scale, so the template applies a default: First, Second and Third with 5, 3 and 1 points for an individual event and 10, 6 and 2 for a team event, which add up into a college-wise points table. Judging criteria for each event should be agreed by the panel before marking begins.

Where this event comes from

Zonal and inter-university youth festivals are a long-standing format of Indian higher education, in which universities grouped into a zone send their winning students to compete against one another in a standard list of cultural events. This template follows one university’s published rulebook for a single edition rather than a generic format.

Where this event is run

Punjab and the wider North Zone of India, where a university hosts or sends teams to the zonal youth festival for its affiliated colleges. The same event list, accompanist limits and time limits suit any university, college cluster or student union that wants a compact five-section festival with a clear mix of solo and team items.

Punjab and North India (university zonal youth festival)
Universities and student groups elsewhere that run collegiate festivals

Key facts

25 events in five families: 8 music, 2 dance, 3 literary, 4 theatre and 8 fine art
One group, Students, set to a working 17 to 25 range; every event open to both genders and marked out of 100
15 individual events and 10 team events
Time limits come from the source: 5 minutes for Elocution, Debate, Mime and Mimicry, 30 minutes for a One Act Play and 150 minutes for each fine-art event
Western Vocal Solo, Group Song (Western) and Quiz are set to English; Group Song (Indian) needs one patriotic and one folk song
Default rank points (not in the source): 5, 3, 1 for individual and 10, 6, 2 for team events

Age groups: 1
Competition items: 25
Competitions: 25
Grade bands: 0
Rank awards: 6

Age groups

Every candidate is placed into one of these groups by age, and competitions are run per group.

Students

17From

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25To

Candidates aged 17 to 25 compete in this group

Competitions by group

The full schedule matrix, sectioned by age group then category — which item runs for whom, and for how long.

Item	Type	Gender	Language	Max score	Time limit
Students
Music
Item	Type	Gender	Language	Max score	Time limit
Classical Vocal Solo	Individual	—	—	100	10 min
Classical Instrumental Solo (Percussion)	Individual	—	—	100	10 min
Classical Instrumental Solo (Non-Percussion)	Individual	—	—	100	10 min
Light Vocal (Indian)	Individual	—	—	100	6 min
Western Vocal Solo	Individual	—	English	100	6 min
Group Song (Indian)	Team	—	—	100	10 min
Group Song (Western)	Team	—	English	100	10 min
Folk Orchestra	Team	—	—	100	10 min
Dance
Item	Type	Gender	Language	Max score	Time limit
Folk/Tribal Dance	Team	—	—	100	10 min
Classical Dance
Item	Type	Gender	Language	Max score	Time limit
Classical Dance (Indian)	Individual	—	—	100	15 min
Literary
Item	Type	Gender	Language	Max score	Time limit
Quiz	Team	—	English	100	—
Elocution	Individual	—	—	100	5 min
Debate	Team	—	—	100	5 min
Action
Item	Type	Gender	Language	Max score	Time limit
One Act Play	Team	—	—	100	30 min
Skit	Team	—	—	100	10 min
Mime	Team	—	—	100	5 min
Mimicry	Individual	—	—	100	5 min
Art
Item	Type	Gender	Language	Max score	Time limit
On the Spot Painting	Individual	—	—	100	150 min
Collage	Individual	—	—	100	150 min
Poster Making	Individual	—	—	100	150 min
Clay Modeling	Individual	—	—	100	150 min
Cartooning	Individual	—	—	100	150 min
Rangoli	Individual	—	—	100	150 min
Spot Photography	Individual	—	—	100	150 min
Installation	Team	—	—	100	150 min

Grades and ranks

How scores turn into grade bands, and how many points each placing is worth.

Rank	For	Points
First	Individual	5
Second	Individual	3
Third	Individual	1
First	Team	10
Second	Team	6
Third	Team	2

Frequently asked questions

Can I change this template after installing it?

Yes — installing it creates a fully configured, live event, not a locked package. Every age group, competition item, rule and scoring setting can be edited afterwards to match exactly what your event actually needs.