Which of the following is NOT correctly matched ?
- (a)Khatima incident – 1 September 1994
- (b)Muzaffarnagar incident – 2 October 1994
- (c)Mussoorie incident – 3 September 1994
- (d)Black Day – 1 September 1994
Correct — C, Mussoorie incident – 3 September 1994.
The Mussoorie firing of the statehood agitation took place on 2 September 1994, the day after Khatima. Marchers came out at Mussoorie precisely to protest the previous day's police action at Khatima, and police fired on that march.
Moving it to 3 September breaks the pair, which is why Mussoorie incident – 3 September 1994 is the odd one out.
The idea to carry away: the Khatima and Mussoorie firings fell on consecutive days, 1 and 2 September 1994, while the Muzaffarnagar night came a month afterwards.
- (a)Khatima incident – 1 September 1994 — This pair holds. Police opened fire on statehood activists at Khatima on 1 September 1994, and seven activists were killed.
It is the right answer to the earliest of the three firing dates this question names — the shooting that the Mussoorie march of the next day was protesting against.
- (b)Muzaffarnagar incident – 2 October 1994 — This pair holds. Activists travelling to a rally in Delhi were stopped at Rampur Tiraha near Muzaffarnagar on the night of 1–2 October 1994, and at least six activists died in police firing (accounts give six or seven).
It is the right answer to the Rampur Tiraha episode, the one incident of the three that happened outside the territory that became Uttarakhand, in Muzaffarnagar district of western Uttar Pradesh.
- (d)Black Day – 1 September 1994 — This pair holds. 1 September 1994 — the day of the Khatima firing — is remembered as the Black Day (काला दिवस) of the Uttarakhand agitation, which is why the same date appears twice in this question.
It is the right answer to the Black Day of the Uttarakhand movement, which falls on the same date this question gives to the Khatima firing.
The decisive year of the Uttarakhand statehood movement was 1994, and the movement is remembered through a short list of dated police firings on agitators.
Three incidents anchor that chronology: Khatima and Mussoorie in the opening days of September, and Rampur Tiraha near Muzaffarnagar at the start of October.
These dates sit at the hinge between agitation and statehood. The firings pushed a regional demand into national attention, and the separate state was carved out of Uttar Pradesh on 9 November 2000.
A pairing item of this kind is settled by holding each date on its own, rather than by recognising the incident names.
- Police fired on statehood activists at Khatima on 1 September 1994; seven activists were killed.
- The Mussoorie firing followed on 2 September 1994, during a march protesting the previous day's police action at Khatima.
- Activists heading to a Delhi rally were stopped at Rampur Tiraha near Muzaffarnagar on the night of 1–2 October 1994; at least six activists died there in police firing.
- Rampur Tiraha lies in Muzaffarnagar district of western Uttar Pradesh, outside the territory that became Uttarakhand.
- The state was created on 9 November 2000, first named Uttaranchal and renamed Uttarakhand in 2007.
The Mussoorie row is where the question's date slips by a day; the other pairs sit on their dates.
- Khatima and Mussoorie are one day apart, so a memory filed as 'early September' cannot separate them; the mark turns on fixing 2 September to Mussoorie.
- The Muzaffarnagar episode straddles a night, 1–2 October, so both dates appear in accounts — the paper's 2 October pairing is not the flaw here.
- Muzaffarnagar and Rampur Tiraha name the same incident; treating them as two events invents a fourth date that does not belong to the chronology.
- A 'NOT correctly matched' stem inverts the task, and reading it as 'which is correct' converts a solved question into a lost mark.
This chronology is checkable three ways: as a pair-match of incident against date, as a single date standing alone, or as an ordering of the three incidents. Fix each date separately and all three are safe.
A date nudged by a day (Khatima to Mussoorie) or by a month (September to October) is enough to break a pair, so read each option down to the day.
The place names carry a separate check of their own: which district, and which state, a named site lies in.
UPPSC_2025_PRE_GSI_Q622025The same device: pairs set out as day against date, with the stem asking which are NOT correctly matched, so each pair is tested on its own. What differs is the material and the format — international observances such as the ozone and environment days, wrapped in a numbered-statement code where more than one pair may be wrong, against four self-contained event–date pairs from a single state's agitation here.
UPSC_2001_GS1_Q522001Also a day-against-date match, but framed positively and solved through codes: fix one pair you are sure of and drop the codes that disagree. Here there are no codes, so certainty on a single date decides nothing unless that date is the flawed one. Its content is international observance days rather than a dated regional chronology.
ESE_GS_2021_Q502021Shares the negative stem — find the one option that is not correct — and again the flaw sits in a checkable detail rather than in the broad description. What differs is the structure: that item describes one subject, the Atal Tunnel, four ways, while this one offers four separate event–date pairs.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The police firing on statehood activists at Khatima took place on
- (a)1 September 1994
- (b)2 September 1994
- (c)2 October 1994
- (d)9 November 1994
Answera — the Khatima firing, in which seven activists were killed, took place on 1 September 1994.(b) 2 September 1994 belongs to the Mussoorie firing, held as a protest against Khatima. (c) 2 October 1994 is the Rampur Tiraha night near Muzaffarnagar. (d) 9 November is Uttarakhand's foundation day, but in 2000, not 1994.
- practice — not a real PYQ
During the Uttarakhand agitation, activists travelling to a rally in Delhi were stopped at Rampur Tiraha, which lies near
- (a)Khatima
- (b)Muzaffarnagar
- (c)Mussoorie
- (d)Roorkee
Answerb — Rampur Tiraha lies near Muzaffarnagar in western Uttar Pradesh, and the episode of the night of 1–2 October 1994 is named after both.(a) Khatima names the firing of 1 September 1994. (c) Mussoorie names the firing of 2 September 1994, in the hills of Dehradun district. (d) Roorkee is a town of Haridwar district; the October episode is placed at Rampur Tiraha.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Arrange the following incidents of the Uttarakhand statehood agitation in chronological order
- (a)Khatima firing → Mussoorie firing → Rampur Tiraha incident
- (b)Mussoorie firing → Khatima firing → Rampur Tiraha incident
- (c)Rampur Tiraha incident → Khatima firing → Mussoorie firing
- (d)Khatima firing → Rampur Tiraha incident → Mussoorie firing
Answera — Khatima on 1 September 1994, Mussoorie on 2 September 1994, then Rampur Tiraha on the night of 1–2 October 1994.(b) reverses the opening pair, though the Mussoorie march was a response to the Khatima firing. (c) moves the October night to the front. (d) pushes Mussoorie a month past its date.