[UPSC Interview 2022] – Transcript #256 : Smita Nagaraj Board, Chemistry Optional, Rajasthan Home State, farming Hobby

Date of Interview: 31st March 2023, Forenoon,2nd to go
Board: Honorable Smita ma’am
Optional: Chemistry
Home State: Rajasthan
Key words from daf: IITB, Mechanical engineering,
Hobby: farming

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Chairman

1. You are from a princely state ,so tell us about privy purse.
And what were the legal and ethical issues with abolishing it.
2. Election commission of india, recent panel for its selection. What are the benefits of it.and following questions like about reaching on consensus, is that so easy and how can we reach on it.
3. Governor ,why do we have this office .
Why tussle and controversy related to it.
Can we think about the same mechanism like panel for appointing the governor.

Member 1

1. What are the perpetual machines.
2. What major developments do you see in the mechanical field in the coming time.
3. Name of the person who got Nobel prize both in chemistry and physics.
4. India and South America ,why do we have low trade with it. And relation with Brazil ,and role of BRICS in it.

Member 2

1. What kind of crops do you cultivate in your region.
2. Kind of irrigation, about its sustainability, state government subsidy related to it.what would you do as an administrator for promoting micro irrigation.

Member 3

1. Mode of transport like normal train vs Bullet train.
2. Benefits of having bullet train, why not to other routes like Delhi -Kolkata and Delhi-Mumbai.
3. Bullet train vs. availability of basic train at mass level..
4. Genesis of Russia Ukraine war ,and who is responsible for it and discussion on it.

Member 4

1. What is the national government.
And why not have it during normal time ( as I said during emergency and war time),national interest, unanimity vs. checks and balances.
2. State in north eastern India who formed this type of government
3. Judicial intervention why , and Is it good .
4. Solution for issues like land fragmentation , why not cooperative farming is so successful.

Ch: Your interview is over.
Utility of mocks: for confidence building and to have possible questions related to daf…