[UPSC Interview 2025] – Transcript #68: Sheel Vardhan Board, Mathematics Optional, Uttar Pradesh Home State

Date of Interview: 19/12/25(afternoon 2nd to go)
Board: Sheel Vardhan Sir
Optional: Mathematics
Home State: Uttar Pradesh
Daf keywords: Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, Maths optional, Anime (nothing else asked)
Time: 27min almost wholly on daf

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Chairman

1- You’re from Lucknow why is it called city of Nazakat & Nafasat
2- what does Nazakat & Nafasat mean?
3- What is Language,dialect,script
4- Lang with >1 scripts(didn’t know told me Sanskrit, Name some dialects
5-Have You watched dragon ball?
Have you read manga? How is it read?(said left to right like Urdu)
6- any other lang read left to right?

Member 1

1- Name some regulatory bodies in India
2- FSSAI what does it do? When act brought in? What changes broughtby it?
3-Where in Lucknow do you see food stalls?
4- Why poor hygiene in those stalls?
What can be done to improve that?

Member 2

1- Should UP be bifurcated?
2- why mafia culture?
3- What has UP done to improve it’s situation of late?

Member 3

1- What is use of maths in IT sector?
2- How to prevent criminalisation of politics and reasons for the same? What will you do as DM?
3-What is awadh region? Why awadh biryani famous? Which other biryani?
4- What are the major issues being discussed in India ?

Member 4

1- Should southern states be allocated more resources ? (Said you thinking like North Indian think like southerner)
2- Should Capital be shifted from Delhi to some southern state?

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Cordial No grilling