[UPSC Interview 2022] – Transcript #206 : Smita Nagraj Board, Geography Optional, Uttar Pradesh Home State, Singing, Guitar Hobby

Date of Interview: 15 March 2023, Afternoon, 5th to go
Duration: Approx. 25
Board: Smita Nagraj ma’am
Home State: Varanasi/ Uttar Pradesh
Optional: Geography
Background: B.Tech in Mechanical engineering IIT BHU Varanasi
Hobby (in DAF): Singing, Guitar, Hindi poetry
1st Interview ,5th attempt
Nayab tehsildar, Lucknow, UP

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Chairman

1. Don’t you think that your current job role is a misfit according to your overall profile?
2. What are the main things you are supposed to do?
3. Name one thing for which administration is important and one for which it is useless.
4. What is the land revenue amount collected in UP?
5. Should it be waived off?
6. But you said that recovery is important. Ma’am I was talking about the Recovery certificate.

Member 1

1. Working in administration. Why seek a higher post?
2. Talked about statues in Lucknow and should they be removed?
3. What about the animal sculptures?
4. Why only elephants?
5. Battle of Plassey
6. Battle of Buxar

Member 2

1. Importance of BHU
2. Importance of Varanasi
3. What changes will you bring in Administration with your work-ex?

Member 3

1. You mentioned Ganga vilas. Why do we need it?
2. Aren’t we late in using waterways
3. Why didn’t we do it earlier?
4. Don’t we need to attract domestic tourists?
5. Is it going to be viable?
6. What is Bpharma and biotech ranking?
7. Reason for Covid-19 breakout
8. Speculation aside what do you feel?
9. If R&D then medicine also needed. But China didn’t have it.

Member 4

1. Patwaris are never available. Do we need them?
2. But e-governance use kar ke u can verify?
3. Do people come to you with complaints against patwari
4. What do you do to solve this?
5. So do you think Patwaris are good??

Chairman

Do you feel higher officials are mean to you because you are a Nayab Tehsildar?

Experience:

Great experience. Board was cordial. A lot of smiling faces around.

Mock interview utility: Good for structuring the answers and getting used to the interview conditions.

I gave mocks in Samkalp, KSG and Next IAS.
All were good. One to one with Khan Sir was amazing.

Fingers crossed