Youth Festival · University
Gujarat University’s Department of Youth Welfare inter-collegiate youth festival across three real zones (Ellisbridge North, Ellisbridge South, Ahmedabad City), with 29 events spanning Music, Dance, Literary, Theatre, Fine Arts and short film.
Sets up an inter-collegiate zonal youth festival in the style of a Gujarat university’s published programme – 29 events across music, dance, literary, theatre and fine arts plus documentary and short film, run in three city zones – so a college or university coordinator starts from a real programme instead of a blank page.
A zonal youth festival is an inter-collegiate arts competition in which colleges are grouped into geographic zones, each zone runs its own festival, and the best entrants go forward to an inter-zonal final. This template reproduces the programme published for the Gujarat University zonal youth festival: 29 events in the families of music, dance, literary events, theatre, fine arts and film. Music runs from classical vocal and classical instrumental solos (percussion and non-percussion are separate events) through light vocal, western vocal and western instrumental solos to Indian and Western group songs and a folk orchestra. Dance has a team folk and tribal item and an individual Indian classical item. The literary and theatre events are Quiz, Elocution, Debate, One Act Play, Skits, Mime and Mimicry.
The fine-arts block is the broadest: On The Spot Painting, Collage, Poster Making, Clay Modeling, Cartooning, Rangoli, Spot Photography, Installation and Mehandi, with Youth Festival Documentary and Short Film closing the list. Twenty of the 29 events are individual entries and nine are team entries (the two group songs, folk orchestra, folk and tribal dance, quiz, debate, one act play, skits and mime). Every event is open to both genders and is marked out of 100.
The three groups in the template are the three zones rather than age bands: Ellisbridge N, Ellisbridge S and Ahmedabad City. Each zone carries the full list of events, so a coordinator can register colleges against their own zone and compare results zone by zone before the inter-zonal final. Eligibility is by enrolment, not by age: entrants are full-time students on a degree, postgraduate degree or diploma course, so each zone uses a representative 17 to 25 age range rather than published age categories.
The published programme does not give performing time limits, group sizes or a marking scheme, so the template leaves time limits unset instead of inventing them and ships the standard First, Second and Third places with rank points of 5, 3 and 1 for an individual event and 10, 5 and 3 for a team event. These add up into a college-wise points table across the festival. Judging criteria are not installed for these events; the panel for each event should agree its own criteria before marking begins.
Where this event comes from
Zonal youth festivals are a long-standing format of Indian university youth welfare programmes, in which a university divides its affiliated colleges into zones and runs a zonal round feeding a final. This template follows one university’s published event list rather than a generic format.
Where this event is run
Gujarat, India, where the university’s youth welfare department runs the festival across three city zones, with roughly 3,200 students competing at zonal level and about 750 advancing to the inter-zonal round. The same zonal structure and event list suit any university, college cluster or student union that wants to run a collegiate festival in zones with a final on top, including the fine-arts and film events that many youth festivals now add alongside music, dance and theatre.
- Gujarat, India (zonal and inter-zonal rounds)
- Universities and student groups elsewhere that run zonal collegiate festivals
Key facts
- 29 events in six families: music, dance, literary, theatre, fine arts, and documentary and short film
- Three zone groups – Ellisbridge N, Ellisbridge S and Ahmedabad City – each carrying the full event list
- 20 individual events and 9 team events; every event is open to both genders
- Every event is marked out of 100; time limits are not published, so none are set
- Eligibility is enrolment on a degree, postgraduate degree or diploma course, shown as a representative 17 to 25 range
- Rank points: 5, 3 and 1 for individual events; 10, 5 and 3 for team events
- Age groups
- 3
- Competition items
- 29
- Competitions
- 87
- 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.
Ellisbridge N
Candidates aged 17 to 25 compete in this group
Ellisbridge S
Candidates aged 17 to 25 compete in this group
Ahmedabad City
Candidates aged 17 to 25 compete in this group
Competition items
The events themselves — each with the category it belongs to and how judges score it.
Classical Vocal Solo (Hindustani or Karnataki)
Classical Instrumental Solo (Percussion)
Classical Instrumental Solo (Non-Percussion)
Light Vocal (Indian)
Western Vocal Solo
Group Song (Indian)
Group Song (Western)
Folk Orchestra
Western Instrumental Solo
Folk/Tribal Dance
Classical Dance (Indian)
Quiz
Elocution
Debate
One Act Play
Skits
Mime
Mimicry
On The Spot Painting
Collage
Poster Making
Clay Modeling
Cartooning
Rangoli
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellisbridge N | |||||
| Music | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Classical Vocal Solo (Hindustani or Karnataki) | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Classical Instrumental Solo (Percussion) | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Classical Instrumental Solo (Non-Percussion) | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Light Vocal (Indian) | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Western Vocal Solo | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Group Song (Indian) | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Group Song (Western) | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Folk Orchestra | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Western Instrumental Solo | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Dance | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Folk/Tribal Dance | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Classical Dance (Indian) | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Literary | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Quiz | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Elocution | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Debate | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Action | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| One Act Play | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Skits | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Mime | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Mimicry | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Art | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| On The Spot Painting | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Collage | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Poster Making | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Clay Modeling | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Cartooning | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Rangoli | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Spot Photography | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Installation | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Mehandi | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Multimedia | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Youth Festival Documentary | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Short Film | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Ellisbridge S | |||||
| Music | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Classical Vocal Solo (Hindustani or Karnataki) | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Classical Instrumental Solo (Percussion) | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Classical Instrumental Solo (Non-Percussion) | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Light Vocal (Indian) | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Western Vocal Solo | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Group Song (Indian) | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Group Song (Western) | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Folk Orchestra | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Western Instrumental Solo | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Dance | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Folk/Tribal Dance | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Classical Dance (Indian) | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Literary | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Quiz | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Elocution | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Debate | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Action | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| One Act Play | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Skits | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Mime | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Mimicry | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Art | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| On The Spot Painting | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Collage | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Poster Making | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Clay Modeling | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Cartooning | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Rangoli | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Spot Photography | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Installation | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Mehandi | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Multimedia | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Youth Festival Documentary | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Short Film | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Ahmedabad City | |||||
| Music | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Classical Vocal Solo (Hindustani or Karnataki) | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Classical Instrumental Solo (Percussion) | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Classical Instrumental Solo (Non-Percussion) | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Light Vocal (Indian) | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Western Vocal Solo | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Group Song (Indian) | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Group Song (Western) | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Folk Orchestra | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Western Instrumental Solo | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Dance | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Folk/Tribal Dance | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Classical Dance (Indian) | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Literary | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Quiz | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Elocution | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Debate | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Action | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| One Act Play | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Skits | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Mime | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Mimicry | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Art | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| On The Spot Painting | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Collage | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Poster Making | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Clay Modeling | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Cartooning | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Rangoli | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Spot Photography | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Installation | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Mehandi | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Multimedia | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Youth Festival Documentary | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
| Short Film | Individual | — | — | 100 | — |
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 | 5 |
| Third | Team | 3 |
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.
Do I need technical knowledge to set this up?
No. Installing a template does the setup work for you; you only need to review the details (dates, unit or house names) and open registration.
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