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Contributed by ForumIAS community members
Interview Date: 18/ Feb 2020
Background: IIT (Engineering)
Home State: Bihar
Chairman
- You are from IIT. Why waste public funds doing engineering when you have to prepare for IAS?
- So many IITs opening, don’t you think it will dilute the quality of education
- Views of bridge course for doctors
Member 1
- Source of Coronavirus, name of the city
- How did it get its name?
- Why Kerala is reporting so many cases
- How did Kerala prepare for it?
Member 2
- Tell me the difference between 2G, 3G, 4G
- What is a diode, what is a semiconductor ( grilled me on electronics )
- Why we use AC power
- Do we have 100% rural electrification, what is the issue with the electrification definition?
Member 3
- Why IAS?
- Which IAS officer inspired you ( based on my answer )
- Your priorities as DC of your district
- How will fight the situation of flood in your area?
- The reason behind floods, a settlement on embankments, etc
Member 4
- Why do people in Bihar go for Civil Services?
- Why Bihar remained backward
- Nalanda library, who built, destroyed
- Significance of falgu river, the curse of falgu, Ramayan reference
- Significance of Bodh Gaya, same banyan tree or a new one, place at which Ashoka fought with Odisha
Chairman
What quality do you think should a bureaucrat have?
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