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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Uttarakhand. India’s first liquid mirror telescope has been commissioned atop Devasthal, a hill in Uttarakhand. The telescope, which is the largest in Asia, will help survey the sky and make it possible to observe several galaxies and other astronomical objects.

Detailed explanation-2: -The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT), which is the largest in Asia, has been set up at the Devasthal Observatory. The observatory is housed in the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital in Uttarakhand.

Detailed explanation-3: -The 4-meter International Liquid Mirror Telescope (left) sits in the Western Himalayas at Devasthal Observatory alongside 3.6-meter (center) and 1.3 meter (right) telescopes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Such telescopes have been built before, but the 4-meter-wide International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is the first large one to be purpose-built for astronomy, at the kind of high-altitude site observers prize-the 2450-meter Devasthal Observatory in the Himalayas.

Detailed explanation-5: -The International Liquid-Mirror Telescope (ILMT) has been set up at the Devasthal Observatory campus owned by Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital in Uttarakhand.