[UPSC Interview 2022] – Transcript #65 : M Sathiyavathy Board, Public Administration Optional, Portrait Drawing Hobby

Date of Interview: 08/02/2023, Forenoon session, 4th to go
Board: M Sathiyavathy
Optional: Public Administration
Background: NITRR, Chemical Engg.
Hobby: Portrait Drawing
Keywords- Certified nutrition and fitness consultant,
Your experience in interview- It was a pleasing board, esp. conversation with

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Chairman

1. Utility of mocks or O2O (if any)- To gain confidence and reduce fear of speaking in front of eminent/experienced people.
2. enters the room, with pleasing and welcoming smile of board members esp the chairperson. Wished them and was asked to sit and remove mask.*
3. Sathyavathi Ma’am: Reads out the DAF loudly to everyone. (esp Highlights the fact that he is a Certified nutrition and fitness consultant.)
4. What have you been doing since graduation. (Mam’s patent question)
5. You are a Certified nutrition and fitness consultant, so how do you go about it? What is your approach?
6. Suppose I come to you for consultation; considering my age what would be your approach?
7. What is this Keto Diet? Why is it popular? Do you recommend it?
8. What Is intermittent fasting? Is it the right way of dieting? Is it a good practice?
9. There is trend of food fortification, what is it?
10. Don’t you think one size fits all approach regarding food fortification is causing harm to general health of public in long term? Is it the right approach? What do you suggest?

Member 1

1. You have mentioned that you like watching nutrition and fitness related videos. So you just like watching them or you yourself practice them?
2. What is your workout schedule like? How is the splits? What are the use of cables in the gym?
3. Since you told that you do strength training, how much weights can you lift?
4. Does it include cable exercises as well?
5. What is your BMI ?
6. Ok, so since you are a chemical engineer, can you tell me about the water that is being supplied, what are the quality parameters that is ensured?
7. Have you heard about the recent water pollution issues?(and certain technical details like bod, cod levels, trace metal levels etc)

Member 2

1. Have you heard about the Malnutrition issue in India?
2. Why do you think that present status is bad in India?
3. Suppose you a DM of an area, and there was a report published recently that because of low nutrition level of girls at the school level and its continuation till upper age, when they marry and bear child, there arises a lot of complications? So what would be your approach to handle this problem?
4. What steps would you follow?
5. Suppose you are a DM and going for a field visit, and suddenly you find that a child has fallen in a borewell and there’s no one around. What would you do?
6. Whom would you contact (agencies)?

Member 3

1. So your optional is Public Administration. What do you think is the most relevant theory or model of administration that is suited to India and why?
2. Why was Max Weber’s Bureaucratic model adopted? What does it offer vis a vis other models?
3. So in 2013 a separate paper of Ethics and Integrity was introduced, what was the reason behind it?
4. Is it a good idea to test ethics and morality through a written exam?
5. What purpose does it serve?

Member 4

1. Before coming to this room for the personality test, were you nervous?
2. What do you do to remove nervousness and feeling of anxiety?
3. How does breathing help in this? And Do you recommend it?
4. Ok so coming to the introduction of ethics paper in UPSC, don’t you think that anybody can write answers for the questions asked? Are the candidates,
5. who are writing the paper, really ethical?
6. Don’t you think people can write something and practice something else?
7. How does it ensure that people and good ethics and morality are getting in the system? And is it so?
8. Ok so you must be knowing about GPS System. In no time it is able to provide
9. you exact information about locality. How does it happen?
10. Ok your interview is over, thankyou* (with smiles from sathyavathi mam)
11. stood up smiling and said thankyou to everyone in the room and left*