[UPSC Interview 2022] – Transcript #266 : Smita Nagraj Board, Geography Optional, UTTAR PRADESH Home State

Date of Interview: 31st March, Forenoon (4th to go)
Board: Smita Nagraj Ma’am
Home State: UTTAR PRADESH
Optional: Geography
College: Digvijay Nath PG College, Gorakhpur
Profession: No
Hobbies: no ques asked
Experience: cordial board,… didn’t grill (unlike done in mocks)
Utility of mocks & O2O: Get familiar with the environment and speak in front of elders…a few ques were similar (in Vision faculty mocks) but not exactly the same…

NOTE:— The most anxious moments are those when You sit outside the board’s room…and wait when they call you in.

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Chairman

1. What have you been doing
2. Where do you live right now, in Delhi or in UP?
3. What is the NCR region & why has it been created?
4. A long monologue on administrative difficulties people are facing in NCR…and asked should we create a new state taking the NCR region? (Follow ups)
5. What is your opinion on Bifurcation or trifurcation of UP?
(Follow ups)
6. What is Referendum and plebiscite and what is the difference between them?

Member 1

1. Asked about an issue about which I wasn’t aware of…
2. Which are the countries where Khalistani uprisings are there?
3. Is it not our Diplomatic failure?
4.why riots are there in France nowadays (follow ups)
5. Who was Digvijay Nath
6. What is the philosophy given by Digvijay Nath?

Member 2

1. How UP impacts our relationship with Nepal
2. Are the borders of Nepal closed or what, and what is the political status of Nepal in present?
3. So Do we not close our borders
4. What is chicken’s neck?
5. What is your opinion on renaming places?
6. Is it not like we are eliminating or forgetting one aspect of the history by renaming places?
7. Whatever would be a populous demand, should the government follow that? (I’ve mentioned “populous demand” in two of my answers earlier)

Member 3

1. Why is the price of Gold increasing fast nowadays? (Follow ups)
2. Explain to me the system of Single Transferable voting
(A discussion on it)
3. Why is there a sharp increase in investment in Uttar Pradesh this year? (One follow up)

Member 4

(He is from Northeast and the accent was a little different so I felt difficulty in comprehending the words, so I asked twice then answered)
1. You are against the bifurcation of Uttar Pradesh, so can we say that the division of Uttarakhand was a mistake?
2. A monologue on unstable nature and disasters of Trans Himalayan region…and then asked…should we construct roads and other infra there and large dams there?

Then he turned towards the Chairperson…and the chairperson said to me “Thank you…Your interview is over..”

Chairperson Ma’am and M-3 have smiling faces…others faces were expressionless…

But the overall experience was very pleasant and the board was very keen to hear me…they heard carefully and didn’t interrupt even a single time in between the answers.