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Date of Interview: 6th May, forenoon, first to go.
Board: Manoj Soni
Optional: History
Home State: Rajasthan
Profession: (if any) – Lok Sabha
Hobbies: Cooking, Watching Movies
Your experience in interview- Very cordial board. (more than 35 mins)
Utility of mocks (if any)- 6 Mocks. Getting acquainted with the environment and also some questions were repeated.
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Chairman
- Based in Delhi or Jaipur?
- Present Work?
- Most significant work or assignment you have done?
- What difficulties faced by differently abled people in the society?
- What govt have done for them? Are we treating them in good way? What have you done for their welfare in your life?
- Are you a leader, manager or administrator?
Member 2
- You like cooking? Have you seen Sharma ji ki Namkeen?
- How did you develop interest in cooking?
- Is cooking a hobby for you or a compulsion?
- How cooking can be used in administration?
- Have you heard about Piplantri village in Rajasthan? What special?
- If made SDM in Rajasthan what would be your focus of work?
Member 3
- Russia-Ukriane conflict, Impact on world?
- Lemon prices are increasing? Why? Does heat play a role in this?
- Govt mechanism to tackle price volatility in vegetables?
- How to supply when production is low in country?
- Oil prices increasing, impact on economy?
- Act governing Police in India? Why such a law was needed then?
- Is police administration good in our country? What reforms needed?
Member 4
- History should be rewritten? Your views?
- What is your view about the history that we study? Is it good? Do we need to revise it?
- Five insurgent groups in Northeast India?
- What is soft state?
Member 5
- Difference between administrator, manager and leader?
- Difference between leader and administrator?
- Who is more useful – leader or manager?
- How to develop the western part of Rajasthan?
- Renewable energy potential in Rajasthan?
- Power crisis – what govt has done to tackle it?
- He kept insisting on one particular step, which I could not answer, so I replied that this is what I am recalling right now.
- Republic vs Populist Govt? difference.
- Is Taliban a Republic?
Chairman
- You selected in CAPF? Why did you not join?
- Interview over. You can go.
- (Not remembering some questions)
- All the best to candidates.
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