[UPSC Interview 2020] – Transcript #20 : TCA Anant Board, Geography Optional, Bihar Home State

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)

1. 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)
2. Two unique positives and negatives of Maharajganj.
3. How will you turn the negatives into positives?
4. Challenges you faced during your current tenure of training. How did you overcome?

Member 1

1. Government denied to disclose certain information demanded by SC to be disclosed, your take on that.
2. Threat of Pegasus vis-a-vis national security.
3. 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 )
4. What about flood? How flood impacts education ?
5. 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

1. You are a Civil Engineer and is talking about watershed management , you engineers only built dams like Tehri, how will you justify ?
2. 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)
3. How is the economic trade between Bihar and Nepal, current status.
4. What is the unique name given to Bihar – Nepal relationship ( Roti – Beti)
5. Explain this unique relationship .
6. Current status of Indo – Nepal relationship, who is the culprit?
7. How will you explain the attitude of SC during Covid 2nd Wave ( Judicial restraint / judicial activism )

Member 3

1. Justify your stance with an example, how was it judicial restraint?
2. What is PNJ? Mention two major derivatives of PNJ.
3. Justice Hurried is……fill & Justice Delayed is ….. fill; now explain these two principles with examples from india.
4. You mentioned about undertrials, who are responsible and what is the current percentage of undertrials.
5. You mentioned about legal aids, so how as an SDM , you will ensure legal aids to those vulnerables and poor.
6. Has Judiciary and bureaucrats failed in providing free legal aids?
7. 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)

1. Is virtual court meaningful, how to make it more accessible to poor.
2. What is eCourt system ?
3. What is the safety factor?
4. Safety factor in Tehri Dam vs Bhakra Nangal Dam.
5. Being selected in IFoS and For UP SDM, would you like to join DANIPS? ( I opted for that too )
6. You talked about smaller dams earlier what is the criteria in MW to decide a smaller or larger dam?
7. 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)
8. 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.