[UPSC Interview 2022] – Transcript #249 : R.N.Choubey Board, Medical Science Optional, teaching hobby

Date of Interview: 28/03/2023; Afternoon-last one to go.
Board: R.N.Choubey sir
Optional: Medical Science
College-BDS; MDS
Profession (if any): Assistant Professor
Hobbies: Watching documentaries, teaching
Your experience in interview-Satisfied; cordial
Utility of mocks or O2O (if any)-helps in gaining confidence.

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Chairman

1. Tell us about your academic background and profession.
2. Do you enjoy your job?
3. How many patients do you do daily?
4. What does finance commission do?
5. Why do we need to redistribute funds?
6. Then why dont we just give more taxation powers to states?

Member 1

1. What did you do between 2012 and 2015?
2. You must have heard about demographic dividend; such a huge young population – is it a liability or an asset?
3. Where is the labour cost less ? India or china? Why?
4. Should we follow Chinese model of economic development ?
5. They completed tibet railway line before time ? Can we do it? Here it takes decades to complete projects. Give examples.
6. Chinese goods are cheaper than indian goods; why?

Member 2

1. Since you’re a dentist; can you tell me what are the evolutionary factors that has led you speech ability in humans and not in animals? Taking the case of chimpanzees.
2. (“Conservative” word in Job profile) what does conservative mean in politics?
3. Is Indian polity conservative?
4. And economy?
5. It is said that India has a liberal constitution but conservative society; what do you understand by that?
6. Does it lead to conflicts?
7. Can you give any example.
8. New education policy – What are the regulatory bodies in higher education?
9. Should we have one single regulatory body? Why?

Member 3

1. Long monologue on young actors dying in Mumbai of heart attacks.
2. Why is it happening?
3. Is it because of COVID?
4. Why ED has become so active?
5. What changes have been made in its powers?
6. What is money laundering?
7. What is round tripping ?
8. How is it done?

Member 4

1. Why Indian youth not opting for entrepreneurship?
2. Why they are running behind jobs.
3. Long confusing monologue on entrepreneurship – chairman told him to clarify. Nobody understood. Chairman said what is the question.
4. How western countries became economically and technological advanced without cheap labor? (Gist of the question)

Chairman – we’re done; would you like us to ask something else?
I said – about my hobbies – watching documentaries.
Chairman said ok tell us – i gave a monologue; no questions asked.

Thank you; we enjoyed talking to you.