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Date of Interview: 1st March 2023 , Afternoon Session
Board: RN Choubey
Optional: Anthropology
Home State: Uttarakhand
Hobby: Cooking
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Chairman
- What have you been doing nowadays?
- You didn’t take placements? Why?
- Ajayy Banga
- long monologue, don’t remember related to competition and brain drain
Member 1
- Ecofeminism
- Chipko movement
- Why famous chefs are mostly male but cooking is generally associated with women. ( some follow up questions)
- Who is GB Pant ji , contributions to Indian Independence movement
- Situational based question:You’re a bureaucrat in MOWCD Will you fudge funds for their welfare
- Follow up questions related to integrity
Member 2
- Let’s continue with integrity
- What is integrity?
- Qualities of a good leader
- What kind of leader are you
(Gave 3 options) then some discussions took place - Sustainable development, Green energy , National Green Hydrogen Mission, questions related to Hydrogen,
- What is electrolysis, explain process of Hydrogen extraction
Member 3
- Why women in hills are very hardworking ?
- Outmigration in Uttarakhand
- Ghost villages , causes and revival solutions
- Himachal , NORTH East, Uttarakhand development comparison
- Boosting economy of hill people solutions
Member 4
- I’ll ask a factual question, gave 2 hints and said an artistic personality lives there ? You might have visited mussoorie a lot , tell me whom I am talking about I said Sir , Ruskin Bond
- He smiled and Said yes
- Who’s he ? Tell me about him
- which all books have you read ? (Ruskin Bond’s)
- Name them , narrate a story , I gave some gist for the same
- Balancing development and environment in Uttarakhand, give causes and solution
Chairperson: Okay thankyou, your interview is over
Utility of mocks : Confidence building, some questions got repeated
Overall experience was good
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