[UPSC Interview 2020] – Transcript #184 :Ajit Marshal Bhonsle Board, PSIR Optional, Teaching Hobby

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.

1. What have you learnt from teaching children?
2. Challenges in teaching them took few specific challenges such as low attention span and asked me solutions to them.
3. Few case studies about teaching, and problems in rural areas. (because I’m staying in village).

Member 1

1. Discussed Afghan issues in detail from various angles. ( Many cross-questions).
2. How will you use your experiences such as mechanical Engg, rural background, teaching, etc in administration?
3. What are your strengths,
4. Okay, tell me do you have any weaknesses

Member 2

1. What’s the importance of empathy for a civil servant. ( Earlier I mentioned empathy while talking about my strengths)
2. Are you against the elite section? I feel you’re more inclined towards poor, are you biased?
3. ( I used “sab ka sath sab ka Vikas” in my answer, which was asked by chairman at the last)
4. Questions on the role of caste in politics.

Member 3

1. Questions on Kautilya, Machiavelli.
2. Success of UN as a multilateral body.
3. Present condition of automobile industry, and what is govt doing about it.
4. Pollution norms in india, vehicle scrappage policy

Member 4

1. Bhoodan movement
2. State legislation vs central legislation from federalism perspective
3. Who is your favourite Indian philosopher .(I said Mahatma Gandhi)
4. Asked about Ideas of Mahatma Gandhi, picked few concepts from that and then asked are they feasible today.
5. Concept of Antyodaya

Chairman

1. What do you understand by “Sabka sath,Sabka vikas,sabka vishwas,sabka prayas”?
2. What are your plans after the interview?
3. *There were more questions,which I’m not able to recall now.
4. *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 .
5. *Board was cordial, very good experience