[UPSC Interview 2023] – Transcript #12 : Lt Gen Raj Shukla Board, Sociology Optional,

Board: Lt Gen Raj Shukla Sir
Optional: Sociology
Background: Bcom(h) – DU
MA: socio ( IGNOU )

Keyword in DAF – Yamuna , SLUM , Punjabi tappe, journaling, Hindi movie on social issues.

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Chairman

1. – what work you have done in slum area
2. – Hindi cinema evolution
3. -which actor depict the social reality
4. Long monologue on actor went abroad and amazed the world
5. -which movies on social issues?
6. – have you watched 12th fail?
7. – what to say about that ?
8. – don’t you think it also shows the lack of resources
9. – why so much about obsession about CSE in India
10. – monologue on Japan CS
11. – a line told by JRD TATA on Air India to Nehru about profiting it and Nehru bashed that don’t say anything about Profit? Your take on it?
12. – Should India  which is 5th largest adopt socialism or capitalism?

Members

1. – Domestic violance act 2005 pros and cons
2. Should it be gender neutral?
3. – Internal rate of return ?
4. – Yamuna not  cleaning up
5. -should India go for ‘health for all’ or insurance for all’
6. – but covid pandemic depicted the shattering of health sector .
7. – Tell in which company should investors be more profitable: one with no debt or one with little debt ; though both doing well
8. -principles of balance sheet
9. -G20 takeaways
10. – name of sociologist died yesterday
11. – what should we prefer zero deficit or some deficit by government?
12. – should revenue deficit be also there ?
13. – but revenue deficit also contains expenditure on health and education, how it is wrong ?
14. – what is internal trading?

Overall :

1. I felt  discussion was only on serious side.
2. Except for the chairperson it was Q/A
3. Almost no questions on current affairs
4. No question from home state, district, city, optional.
5. Dominated by graduation subject.

60% of interview was more of random.