Daily Current Affairs Article 14th January 2021: The UT administration is promoting far-flung and snowbound Zanskar as winter tourism destination. A 13-day Khelo India Zanskar Winter Sport & Youth festival 2021 to begin from 18th January.
Zanskar, Zahar (locally) or Zangskar is also known as Janskar or Jangskar.
It is a subdistrict or tehsil of the Kargil district, in the union territory of Ladakh. The administrative centre is Padum.
The Zanskar Range is a mountain range in the union territory of Ladakh that separates Zanskar from Ladakh. Geologically, the Zanskar Range is part of the Tethys Himalaya, an approximately 100-km-wide synclinorium formed by strongly folded and imbricated, weakly metamorphosed sedimentary series.