[UPSC Interview 2022] – Transcript #252 : Preeti Sudan mam Board, Jharkhand Home state

Date of Interview: 29th march , afternoon session, 2nd to go
Board: Preeti Sudan mam
Home State: Jharkhand
Daf – IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, Coal India Limited(resigned), Bokaro steel City (Jh)

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Chairman

1. why did u resign from Coal India?
2. Your experience at coal india?
3. Future of coal india in the times of renewable energy.?
4. What is the importance of bokaro?
5. How did the steel plant help during Covid?

Member 1

1. ( lady)- what is IPO?
2. Why is it brought?
3. Difference between competitive and cooperative federalism?
4. Evaluate the lateral entry in civil services?

Member 2

1. situation in Pakistan.
2. Pakistan should be more worried about india or afghanistan? Analyse
3. What is the life of a steel plant
4. Why coal is imported

Member 3

1. what are u presently doing?
2. How is ur experience with IPAC?
3. How do you interact with people on ground.
4. Give any 3 postives that u have found with ur interactions with people on ground
5. 3 things that coal india needs to do for better coal production
6. Compare michael jordan with kobe bryant.Who according to you is the better player.

Member 4

1. which subsidiary of cil u worked in?
2. Tell me the best mines of that subsidiary?
3. What are the issues between power sector and coal?
4. With ur experience of directly working on the ground which sector is most important?
5. Why education is more important than health?
6. What is one thing that you can suggest to the government to improve the condition of rural areas?

Few questions especially from m2, I am forgetting.

Overall decent experience but Preeti Sudan mam didnt show much interest after her own set of questions and she even went outside the room for around 5-7 mins.
Board was cordial but slight grilling was there.
Mocks – overall this was my second interview so in my opinion mocks actually do more harm than benefitting us.
They take away our natural flow and sometimes too many feedbacks in mocks go on to confuse us. Sometimes the board members in mocks try to enforce their own biases on us which again can be very problematic.
My suggestion is to go for 2-3 mocks but not to take feedbacks too seriously unless feedbacks are too obvious.
O-to-O with Khan sir and Sriram sir was good.