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Date of Interview: 18/08/2021
Board: TCA Anant Sir
Optional: Geography
Background: Civil Engineering
Home State: Bihar
Job profile: L&T and Deputy Collector (UT)
Chairman: ( Remove your face shield and be relaxed)
- So you have been to Bihar, Telangana and Delhi, any other place you have visited ( I told about my current training which is undergoing in Maharajganj)
- Two unique positives and negatives of Maharajganj.
- How will you turn the negatives into positives?
- Challenges you faced during your current tenure of training. How did you overcome?
Member 1
- Government denied to disclose certain information demanded by SC to be disclosed, your take on that.
- Threat of Pegasus vis-a-vis national security.
- Do you know about Saharsa district ? What problems will you take at first if you are made DM of Saharsa? ( I answered Education and health )
- What about flood? How flood impacts education ?
- You are a Civil Engineer what solutions will you suggest ( I gave structural and non structural solutions, stressed more on watershed management approach)
Member 2
- You are a Civil Engineer and is talking about watershed management , you engineers only built dams like Tehri, how will you justify ?
- How Nepal can be convinced to solve the problem of flood in Bihar ( I mentioned in one of the solution the problem also lies in the upper riparian region like Nepal)
- How is the economic trade between Bihar and Nepal, current status.
- What is the unique name given to Bihar – Nepal relationship ( Roti – Beti)
- Explain this unique relationship .
- Current status of Indo – Nepal relationship, who is the culprit?
- How will you explain the attitude of SC during Covid 2nd Wave ( Judicial restraint / judicial activism )
Member 3
- Justify your stance with an example, how was it judicial restraint?
- What is PNJ? Mention two major derivatives of PNJ.
- Justice Hurried is……fill & Justice Delayed is ….. fill; now explain these two principles with examples from india.
- You mentioned about undertrials, who are responsible and what is the current percentage of undertrials.
- You mentioned about legal aids, so how as an SDM , you will ensure legal aids to those vulnerables and poor.
- Has Judiciary and bureaucrats failed in providing free legal aids?
- Why civil suites are delayed? ( Mentioned of legal ethics for advocates and transfer of judges), what is the average disposal time of civil suites in India?
Member 4 ( You can remove mask too)
- Is virtual court meaningful, how to make it more accessible to poor.
- What is eCourt system ?
- What is the safety factor?
- Safety factor in Tehri Dam vs Bhakra Nangal Dam.
- Being selected in IFoS and For UP SDM, would you like to join DANIPS? ( I opted for that too )
- You talked about smaller dams earlier what is the criteria in MW to decide a smaller or larger dam?
- I’m still not convinced that even after being a Civil Engineer, you are opposing larger dams. ( I answered that Sir recently I have studied more Geography and I’m convinced by the arguments of geography over Civil Engineering… Everyone laughed)
- Ok one last question… Any example of large projects which are showing unsustainability. ( Answered about Three Gorges dam and slowing down of Earth’s rotational speed and Koyana dam RIS)
Chairman
Ok, your interview is over.
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