[UPSC Interview 2021] – Transcript #5 : Smita Nagraj Board, Reading books Hobby

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Date of Interview: 5th April, afternoon session
Board: Smita Nagraj Maam
Background: IT
Hobbies: Reading books; Writer’s head


Chairman

  1. Tell me something innovative that can happen with IT in the next 25-30 years.
  2. Can blockchain be used safely for elections?
  3. Why EVM issue is raised? Have we properly addressed It? What will you do to address it?
  4. Why VVPATs aren’t used and checked in every district?

Member 1

  1. Role as writer’s head.
  2. On what issues you wrote the play?
  3. Talk about a recently read book.
  4. What is appeasement in the context of WW2?
  5. Similarities b/w WW2 & Russia-Ukraine war.
  6. Why is the US not intervening?

Member 2

  1. Solutions for stubble burning
  2. How can MSP be helpful?

Member 3

  1. Recent Birbhum incident from anthropological and economic angles.
  2. What will you do as IAS, IPS, and IFS for cryptocurrency?

Member 4

  1. Difference between 4th and 5th Industrial Revolution.
  2. What is IoT? How it can be used in civil services?


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