[UPSC Interview 2022] – Transcript #205 : Preeti Sudan Board, Mathematics Optional, Andhra Pradesh Home State

Date of Interview: 14th march, forenoon
Board: Preeti Sudan Mam
Optional: Mathematics
College: IIT Kharagpur
Home State: Andhra Pradesh
Work experience: developer, SAP labs
Hobbies: (no questions asked)

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Chairman

Said We are here to have a conversation with you, be comfortable. If you cannot understand any questions please ask us to repeat. Then told me to remove my mask and went through my DAF
1. tell me something unique things about Nellore (my hometown)?
2. asked about the flipside of Nellore
3. Why did you leave your job?
4. Tell me about your experience at SAP?
5. How was your journey from Andhra pradesh to kharagpur?

Member 1

1. Gave a long monologue about the rising number of higher education institutions like IITs, IIMs, AIIMS, NLUs etc .
Isn’t it unnecessary to have so many such top institutions ?(essence  of the question)
2. Follow up – Aren’t these many institutions diluting the brand value of such institutions?
3. About RTI and impact on governance
4. Importance of ‘Process reengineering’ in digitisation of governance processes

Member 2

1. Asked if i would recommend an SAP product to the government as an officer? then few follow up questions
2. comparison with open source products and proprietary products
3. asked about issues with proprietary products and vendors?
4. what is IndiaStack?
5. are there any proprietary apps in Indiastack or all of them open source?

Member 3

1. Why Indian children are performing well in mathematics olympiads in the USA?
2. challenges faced as secretary sports and high school captain? (and some cross questioning)
3. Do we need to bring compulsory military training in our country? ( follow up from the aspect of discipline of previous qn)
4. Related to Naatu Naatu (was expecting this, lol!) , he was describing how lead actors spoke very good english (and accent too) at oscar event like they are from US but they are from India, that too from a regional film industry like Tollywood. How do you think it was possible?

Member 4

1. What is Contempt of court?
2. describe civil and criminal contempt
3. Is it possible for judiciary/ judges to commit contempt of court? (Not very sure about this, hence i do not know)
4. asked about Justice Karnan ( He was the first Indian High Court judge to be sent to prison for contempt while in office.)
Said I don’t know about him
5. What are PILs?
6. should they be taken up by judiciary, as we have crores of pending cases? (then some discussion on it)
7. what measures should be taken to control rising PILs?
8. isn’t poor administration a reason for rising PILs? what should be done?

Experience with mocks – have been asked very different questions in most of the mocks about DAF

O2O with Venkat mohan sir, mohan sir(IASbaba) were helpful.

Mocks – samkalp, chahal, la excellence and vajirao & Reddy are good