[UPSC Interview 2020] – Transcript #06 : Manoj Soni Board, Public Administration Optional, Maharashtra State

Board: Manoj Sony Sir
Qualification: BSc, MBA (Finance), CAIIB.
Optional: Public Administration
State: Maharashtra.
Work Experience: 5 year + experience and last assignment was Assistant Manager in Public Sector Bank. Now fully preparing for civil services.
Hobby: DIY, Quora and Teaching.

Chairman

1. Tell me about yourself in 40 seconds?
2. Why did you leave your public sector bank?
3. Wasn’t it possible to prepare with public sector bank job.
4. What did you learn from your two year stay in Tamilnadu while working in bank?
5. Civil Services is of lot of uncertainty. Do you have any plan B?
6. Being from humble background how did I contribute to your Society. Especially in Taluka or District?

Members

1. Why do you want to become IAS?
2. You are science graduate and you can use your science knowledge for administration?
3. You got two now national level prizes for optimizing banking operation? What was it about? (I just told topic and asked do he want me to explain in details. He asked me to explain). I explained my work.
4. What learning from of Shivaji Maharaj can be useful in present governance system?
5. Why higher cases of COVID in NAGPUR?
6. Do you know a writer who writes on Shivaji Maharaj? (I did not remember. I said I am not able to remember his name.)
7. What is Afghanistan issue? How do you see India’s role in it?
8. Why banks are making lot of NPA (told them in policy issue and operational issues format)
9. Should governments go for privatization of bank?
10. Why NPA is lower in Private bank and higher in Public sector bank.
11. How do you see banking after 10 years when privatization and merger is going on?
12. Why Videocon group has failed (it was continuous question to IBC reference in one of my answer)
13. Asked me to explain DIY (Hobby). What innovations I did in It. He asked can you explain them. ( I told one. He asked me one more )
14. He said will it be right to call them DIY? ( as per my understanding there are part of DIY. But sir, if other name available please suggest me. He smiled)
15. How we are performing in Disaster management and what we can learn for future? ( I mentioned DM in one of answer related to Diversity of work of IAS