[UPSC Interview 2024] – Transcript #29: Lt Gen Raj Shukla sir Board, mechanical engineering, Horse riding Hobby

Date of Interview: 24-03-2025
Board: Lt Gen Raj Shukla sir
Background: mechanical engineering
Hobby: Horse riding
DAF: sainik school , mechanical engineering, NCC, NDA-NA, Mountaineering, horse riding , j Krishnamurthy&Sadhguru, reading biographies.

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Chairman

1) where are you from ?
2) Are you working currently?
3) when did you pass out ?
4) what have you been doing since ?
Sir don’t seem to approve of the fact that one is only preparing for upsc without doing productive work ( rightly so) .

Member 1

1) you have mountaineering in your DAF . How did you develop interest and what did you learn ?

Member 2

– all smile and very cordial .

1) you have lot of sports in your DAF, Mam read DAF.
2) what is the oldest sport ?
3) most popular sport in the world ?
4) why football has not been as famous as cricket in India .
5) India with 1.4 billion people didn’t even win one gold in last olympics.how do you explain that ?
6) If given power , what changes would you like to bring ?
7)Have you heard of groak ? What is it ?
8) have you heard of GIGO?
9) so you pursued ARMY , SPORTS and now CIVIL-SERVICES . you seems to be a jumper .

Member 3

male member – listening intently all through the interview. And smile dancing at the corner of lips .

1) How important is women empowerment for India ?
2) If you are made a DM, how would you address patriarchy?
3) you are little abstract here( sociology theory ) . Could you give me more concrete answer?
( Schemes ) .
4) what is your take on free bus service and ladki bahin scheme ?
5) they say it is empowering, but you say fiscally not prudent ? ( Small discussion ) .

Member 4

very energetic and enthusiastic.

1) tell me 10 things you would teach young mountaineers on their first day ?
2)what couse did you do and where ?
3) You are from Andhra Pradesh . What is the economic profile of your state ?
4) You have not mentioned shipbuilding in vizag ? What share does it constitute? (No idea ) .
5) given such high dependency on agriculture – how is your state planning on growth ? ( Technology)
6) what are the current challenges and breakthrough in quantum computing.
7) where are we as a nation ? Did we make any progress?
9) so , we are still in discussion stage?
10) what would happen when quantum tech gets integrated with AI .

Gave over to chairman sir

1) will quantum computing challenge AI?
2) No – it will replace AI immediately.
3) how long will India take to catch up with China and USA ( 10-20 years )
4) No , if we start now , then it will take 10-20 years . we are yet to start.
5) young engineers like you should be bold and question government.
The future is yours . Ask where is our deepseek , quantum tech ?
6) tell me something about deepseek .
7)why did we not develop one ?
8) what’s stopping private sector participation ? ( Me :Regulations)
Ha yes .

Chairman: your interview is over . You can leave .

Opinion: Interview started on a sticky wicket but seems to improve as it progressed (In debt of M2 Lady member) . One needs to hold their nerve in stressful situations and not make any judgements .

Thankyou. All the very best to everyone .

Mocks: vajiram, unacademy, Tathasthu helpful .

O2O- venkat mohan sir , Ravindran sir , Mahesh Bhagat sir interaction are of good help .