Which one of the following is incorrectly matched about festivals/exhibitions/expos held in Uttarakhand in 2025?
- (a)C.I.I. Uttarakhand Industrial Summit and Expo – Haridwar
- (b)Tehri Lake Festival – Tehri
- (c)International Yoga Festival – Rishikesh
- (d)Indo-Himalayan Expo – Dehradun
Correct — D, Indo-Himalayan Expo – Dehradun.
This is the pairing the Commission's key rejects: the expo's 2025 edition was not held at Dehradun, so the town printed against it is the wrong one.
The other three pairings survive. Work an item like this by testing each pair against what you can place, and let the one you can positively falsify carry the answer — you do not need to know every host town to find the mismatch.
- (a)C.I.I. Uttarakhand Industrial Summit and Expo – Haridwar — This pairing holds. The C.I.I. Uttarakhand Industrial Summit and Expo was organised on 29–30 January 2025 at SIIDCUL, Haridwar, on the theme Connect–Network–Partner–Supply–Procure.
Haridwar's SIIDCUL estate is a major manufacturing cluster of the state, which is why an industry-facing summit and expo sits there. Option (a) is the right answer to where the 2025 C.I.I. industrial summit and expo met, not to the mismatch the stem wants.
- (b)Tehri Lake Festival – Tehri — This pairing holds. The festival is named for and staged on the Tehri reservoir, at Koti Colony in New Tehri, Tehri Garhwal district, with water sports, adventure events and hill culture on the shore.
The lake itself exists because the Tehri Dam impounds the Bhagirathi there, and old Tehri town lies beneath that water.
So option (b) answers where the Tehri Lake Festival takes place. The 'Tehri' printed in the option is the district and town name; the venue inside it is Koti Colony in New Tehri.
- (c)International Yoga Festival – Rishikesh — This pairing holds. The International Yoga Festival is held at Rishikesh, and the 37th edition, at the Parmarth Niketan Ashram on the bank of the Ganga, concluded on 20 March 2025.
Rishikesh's standing as a yoga centre is the whole basis of the pairing, and the festival has long been held at that ashram. Option (c) is the right answer to which Uttarakhand town hosts the International Yoga Festival, so it is not the mismatch.
The item is an event-to-venue match. Four gatherings held in Uttarakhand during 2025 are each tied to a town, and the pairing whose town is wrong is the one to mark.
What decides it is the town an event actually met in, not the kind of event it is. An expo, an industrial summit and a yoga festival each read as though they belong somewhere in particular, but that impression is not evidence of the venue.
This sits in the Uttarakhand-specific current affairs of the state services syllabus, and this item turns on the host town rather than on what the event was about.
The trap is built from plausibility. Dehradun houses the state secretariat, so attaching a state-level expo to it reads as safe. Only recall of the actual venue separates the pairing that fails from the three that hold.
- Option (d) prints Dehradun as the host town of the Indo-Himalayan Expo; that is the pairing the Commission's key marks as incorrect.
- The C.I.I. Uttarakhand Industrial Summit and Expo was held on 29–30 January 2025 at SIIDCUL, Haridwar, themed Connect–Network–Partner–Supply–Procure.
- The 37th International Yoga Festival, at the Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, concluded on 20 March 2025.
- The Tehri Lake Festival is staged at Koti Colony, New Tehri, beside the reservoir formed by the Tehri Dam on the Bhagirathi.
- Haridwar and Dehradun are separate districts of Uttarakhand, and the state secretariat is at Dehradun.
Three pairings survive; the fourth is the keyed answer, because the town printed against that expo is not where it met.
- Matching the event to the state rather than the town. The stem has already placed every option inside Uttarakhand, so only the city can decide the item.
- Assuming a state-level expo belongs to Dehradun because the secretariat is there. The seat of government is not a default venue.
- Trying to name every host town before answering. A match-the-pairs item only needs ONE pairing you can positively falsify.
- Answering the reverse question. The stem asks for the pairing that fails, so identifying a pairing that holds and marking it loses the mark.
The device is a match-the-following compressed into four printed pairs, with the instruction to find the one that does not hold. The same facts turn round easily — naming the town and asking for the event, or asking in which month or year an edition ran.
A second form gives the event and asks for the organiser, the theme, or the ashram or industrial estate that hosts it. That is why the venue is worth storing alongside the name rather than on its own.
UPPSC_2025_PRE_GSI_Q972025Same skill — recalling where a 2025 gathering took place. That item works at state level, asking which state or states hosted the Pushkar Kumbh Mela of May 2025; this UKPSC item has already fixed the state and asks for the town inside Uttarakhand, so the recall it demands is finer-grained.
RPSC_2024_PRE_Prelims2024_Q542024Also an Uttarakhand-hosted 2025 event, the 38th National Games. What differs is the device and the level: that item is statement verification about the host state and the number of disciplines, while this one is a venue match at city level within the state.
UKPSC_2023_MAINS_UKPCSMainsPolity2023_Q222023Shared ground is Uttarakhand's festivals. That mains question asks why Harela and Bhitauli are celebrated and wants their cultural and agricultural significance in prose; this prelims item wants one administrative fact about a 2025 event — the town that hosted it.
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In a match-the-following item, three pairings can be confirmed and one cannot be placed at all. What follows?
- (a)The unplaceable pairing must be the incorrect one
- (b)The item cannot be answered without knowing every pairing
- (c)The three confirmed pairings settle the answer only if the stem asks which is correct
- (d)Nothing follows; each pairing must be verified independently
Answerc — what the confirmed pairings settle depends on the question asked. If the stem asks which pairing is INCORRECT, confirming three does identify the fourth by elimination; if it asks which is correct, an unplaceable pairing proves nothing.(a) is wrong because being unplaceable is a fact about your knowledge, not about the pairing; (b) overstates, since elimination is exactly what these items reward; (d) denies elimination altogether.
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The International Yoga Festival is held each year at which ashram?
- (a)Shantikunj, Haridwar
- (b)Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh
- (c)Prem Nagar Ashram, Haridwar
- (d)Kainchi Dham, Nainital
Answerb — Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh. The 37th edition concluded there on 20 March 2025, on the bank of the Ganga.Shantikunj at Haridwar is the headquarters of the Gayatri Pariwar. Prem Nagar Ashram is also at Haridwar, in Jwalapur. Kainchi Dham near Nainital is the Neem Karoli Baba ashram in Kumaon.
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The Tehri Lake Festival is held beside the reservoir created by the Tehri Dam, which is built on the river
- (a)Alaknanda
- (b)Bhagirathi
- (c)Mandakini
- (d)Yamuna
Answerb — Bhagirathi. The Tehri Dam impounds the Bhagirathi just below its meeting with the Bhilangana, and the lake behind it is the festival's setting at Koti Colony, New Tehri.The Alaknanda joins the Bhagirathi further downstream, at Devprayag, to form the Ganga. The Mandakini meets the Alaknanda at Rudraprayag. The Yamuna rises at Yamunotri in western Uttarakhand and is not the river dammed at Tehri.
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The C.I.I. Uttarakhand Industrial Summit and Expo 2025 was organised in which city?
- (a)Rudrapur
- (b)Kashipur
- (c)Haridwar
- (d)Dehradun
Answerc — Haridwar. The summit met on 29–30 January 2025 in the SIIDCUL industrial area at Haridwar, on the theme Connect–Network–Partner–Supply–Procure.Rudrapur and Kashipur are industrial towns of Udham Singh Nagar district in the Kumaon terai, and Dehradun is the administrative seat of the state. The 2025 edition of this summit was held at Haridwar, not at any of the three.