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PTU Zonal Youth Festival — A Zonal University Youth Festival, Item by Item

PTU Zonal Youth Festival: I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University's Department of Youth Affairs zonal/inter-zonal youth festival: 32 items across Music,...

e By Luke Justin October 24, 2026 4 min read

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Youth Festival · University

I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University’s Department of Youth Affairs zonal/inter-zonal youth festival: 32 items across Music, Dance, Literary, Theatre and Fine Arts, following AIU Inter-University rules, with real participant/accompanist counts, time limits and a three-tier scoring scale.

Sets up a Punjab state technical university’s zonal youth festival as a ready programme: 34 judged items across music, dance, literary, theatre and fine arts, with the real group sizes, time limits and a solo-versus-group points scale already loaded.

This template models a zonal youth festival run by the youth affairs department of a state technical university in Punjab, India. Colleges affiliated to the university send teams to a zone, and the winners go on to an inter-zonal round. The programme is built from the university’s own published rules and regulations document, which in turn follows the national inter-university youth festival framework, so the structure will look familiar to anyone who has taken a college team to an inter-university meet.

The catalogue holds 34 items in five families: music (classical instrumental, classical vocal, light vocal, folk song, group songs, western vocal, Vaar singing), dance (Bhangra, Giddha and three exhibition dance events), literary (elocution, debate, quiz, poem recitation and three creative writing strands), theatre (mimicry, skit, mime, one act play) and fine arts (on-the-spot painting, poster making, collage, cartooning, clay modelling, rangoli, photography and mehndi). The source lists 32 entries; Creative Writing is a single three-person entry covering poem, short story and essay, so the template splits it into three items to fit the platform’s one-item-one-score structure.

There is one age band, Students, running from 17 to 25 years, matching the eligibility rule for full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students. Most items are open to both genders competing together; Bhangra is a men’s team item and Giddha a women’s team item. Time limits follow the rules item by item: five minutes for elocution, poem recitation and mimicry, up to ten for most group performances, thirty for the one act play, two hours for each creative writing strand and two and a half hours for the on-the-spot art items. Every item is marked out of 100.

Ranks follow the document’s points scheme rather than a generic default: solo items earn 5, 3 and 1 points for first, second and third, and group items earn 10, 6 and 2. The source also gives the three flagship team items a higher scale, which is worth setting by hand after install if your zone applies it. As with any real-world template, check the installed programme against the current year’s circular before you open registration, because zones tweak items and limits from year to year.

Where this event comes from

Built from the university’s published rules and regulations for its zonal youth festival, which follow the national inter-university youth festival pattern.

Where this event is run

This is the zonal youth festival format of one Punjab state technical university, and it is the only template in the dataset that uses this exact programme. Many of its items, such as classical vocal, elocution, skit, mime and one act play, also appear in other Indian university youth festival templates in eTalenter, and Spot Photography and Mehandi appear in several of them. Zonal and inter-zonal university youth festivals of this kind are run across India.

India – Punjab (university zonal and inter-zonal youth festivals)

Key facts

34 competition items in one Students age band, 17 to 25 years
Five families: music, dance, literary, theatre and fine arts
Individual and team items: solo instrumental, vocal and literary entries sit alongside group songs, folk dances, skit, mime, debate, quiz and one act play
Language rules vary by item: western vocal is English only, folk song and Vaar singing are Punjabi, and speech and theatre items allow English, Punjabi, Hindi or Urdu
Time limits run from 5 minutes (elocution) to 30 minutes (one act play), with 120 minutes for each creative writing strand and 150 minutes for the on-the-spot art items
All items are marked out of 100; rank points are 5/3/1 for solo and 10/6/2 for group items

Age groups: 1
Competition items: 34
Competitions: 34
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

Competition items

The events themselves — each with the category it belongs to and how judges score it.

Show all 34 items

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 Instrumental (Percussion)	Individual	—	—	100	10 min
Classical Instrumental (Non-Percussion)	Individual	—	—	100	10 min
Classical Vocal (Solo)	Individual	—	—	100	10 min
Light Vocal Indian	Individual	—	—	100	6 min
Folk Song	Individual	—	Punjabi	100	6 min
Group Song Indian	Team	—	—	100	10 min
Group Shabad/Bhajan	Team	—	—	100	8 min
Western Vocal Solo	Individual	—	English	100	6 min
Western Group Song	Team	—	English	100	10 min
Vaar Singing	Team	—	Punjabi	100	7 min
Dance
Item	Type	Gender	Language	Max score	Time limit
Bhangra	Team	Male	—	100	10 min
Giddha	Team	Female	—	100	10 min
Classical Dance (Exhibition Event)	Individual	—	—	100	15 min
Indian Folk Dance (Exhibition Event)	Team	—	—	100	10 min
International Folk Dance (Exhibition Event)	Team	—	—	100	10 min
Literary
Item	Type	Gender	Language	Max score	Time limit
Elocution	Individual	—	—	100	5 min
Debate	Team	—	—	100	5 min
Quiz	Team	—	—	100	—
Poem Recitation	Individual	—	—	100	5 min
Literacy
Item	Type	Gender	Language	Max score	Time limit
Creative Writing - Poem Writing	Individual	—	—	100	120 min
Creative Writing - Short Story Writing	Individual	—	—	100	120 min
Creative Writing - Essay Writing	Individual	—	—	100	120 min
Action
Item	Type	Gender	Language	Max score	Time limit
Mimicry	Individual	—	—	100	5 min
Skit	Team	—	—	100	10 min
Mime	Team	—	—	100	5 min
One Act Play	Team	—	—	100	30 min
Art
Item	Type	Gender	Language	Max score	Time limit
On the Spot Painting	Individual	—	—	100	150 min
Poster Making	Individual	—	—	100	150 min
Collage	Individual	—	—	100	150 min
Cartooning	Individual	—	—	100	150 min
Clay Modeling	Individual	—	—	100	150 min
Rangoli	Individual	—	—	100	150 min
On the Spot Photography	Individual	—	—	100	150 min
Special
Item	Type	Gender	Language	Max score	Time limit
Mehndi	Individual	—	—	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.