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Board: Ajit Marshal Bhonsle sir
Graduation: mechanical engineering.
Optional: PSIR
Hobby: teaching small children
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Chairman
Read DAF, asked how I’m feeling, told me to be comfortable.
- What have you learnt from teaching children?
- Challenges in teaching them took few specific challenges such as low attention span and asked me solutions to them.
- Few case studies about teaching, and problems in rural areas. (because I’m staying in village).
Member 1
- Discussed Afghan issues in detail from various angles. ( Many cross-questions).
- How will you use your experiences such as mechanical Engg, rural background, teaching, etc in administration?
- What are your strengths,
- Okay, tell me do you have any weaknesses
Member 2
- What’s the importance of empathy for a civil servant. ( Earlier I mentioned empathy while talking about my strengths)
- Are you against the elite section? I feel you’re more inclined towards poor, are you biased?
- ( I used “sab ka sath sab ka Vikas” in my answer, which was asked by chairman at the last)
- Questions on the role of caste in politics.
Member 3
- Questions on Kautilya, Machiavelli.
- Success of UN as a multilateral body.
- Present condition of automobile industry, and what is govt doing about it.
- Pollution norms in india, vehicle scrappage policy
Member 4
- Bhoodan movement
- State legislation vs central legislation from federalism perspective
- Who is your favourite Indian philosopher .(I said Mahatma Gandhi)
- Asked about Ideas of Mahatma Gandhi, picked few concepts from that and then asked are they feasible today.
- Concept of Antyodaya
Chairman
- What do you understand by “Sabka sath,Sabka vikas,sabka vishwas,sabka prayas”?
- What are your plans after the interview?
- *There were more questions,which I’m not able to recall now.
- *There were no questions on state, only few on current affairs. *Questions were mainly from my DAF, optional, and they picked many questions from my answers .
- *Board was cordial, very good experience
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(This transcript has been posted by a community member of ForumIAS)