[UPSC Interview 2022] – Transcript #280 : M Sathiyavathy Board, Geography Optional, Himachal Pradesh Home State, Football, Wordle, Chess Hobby

Date of Interview: 03rd April 2023 Forenoon session, last one to go.
Board: M Sathiyavathy ma’am
Optional: Geography
Home state: Himachal Pradesh(District Kangra)
College: Electronics and communication engineering from NSIT, Delhi
Profession: State police services
Hobbies: Football, Wordle, Chess
Experience in interview:

Greeted all the members, Sathiyavathy ma’am read aloud the DAF.

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Chairman

1. What have you been doing since 2019?
2. How is your training going?
3. Since when have you been under training?
4. What is this Wordle?
5. What is Kangra famous for?
6. Has Himachal been a part of British India, what is its political history?
7. Does Himachal have any international border?
8. How far is it from where you live?
9.How is the communication connectivity in Himachal Pradesh?
10. What is 5G?
11. A new vision document for 6G is released, what difference would it make?
12. Should we be pursuing such technologies even when our society doesn’t even have the basic item required to access 5G(pointed her smartphone towards me).

Member 1

1. Your name is spelled differently than others with the same name. Why?
2. What is the major agricultural produce of Himachal Pradesh?
3. Does produce of Himachal Pradesh gets exported?
4. Are you aware of the logistics involved in the same?
5. What is the chain of logistics?
6. Do the farmers suffer in terms of income due to logistics lacunae?
7. What would you do as a DM to increase the income of farmers of your district?
8. Development vs Environment?
9. What tools would you use to tackle this dilemma?

Member 2

(can’t recall the exact sequence and some of his questions)

1. What is a wafer?
2. What is it made of?
3. What is NCLT? What disputes? Who goes to NCLT?
4. Choose one sector of Himachal and one policy which you would like to change and tell me why and how.
5. Name one thing that Himachal exports out of state.

Member 3

1. Would you consider yourself as an Introvert or an extrovert?
2. What is Vijay Diwas?
3. Many people from Himachal were in Kargil War, name 4 PVC winners from Kargil War.
4. Are you aware of RIC grouping?
5. Have you heard of BRICS?
6. In light of tensions between India-China and Russia-Ukraine war, how do you see the future of BRICS?

Member 4

Monologue on how China has developed its border by community development programmes.

1. What is the status of the same in India?
2. What about the same in Himachal?
3. Do you think we should pursue such policy too?
4. Have you visited these border areas? What is the terrain there?
5. What is the major source of Revenue of Himachal?
6. Views on prohibition?(continued from excise duty)
7. Prohibition favours women. Agree or not? How?
8. How are states like Gujarat and Bihar managing their fiscal health with prohibition?(I said they are debt ridden)
9. Debt of Himachal?
10. Internal and external debt of India?

Ma’am pointed towards the member to end the conversation.

Sathiyavathy ma’am said Thank you.