[UPSC Interview 2023] – Transcript #164: Bidyut Behari Swain Board, Indian Corporate Law Service, Teaching Hobby

Date of Interview: 29.02.2024
Board: Bidyut Behari Swain

DAF points – IIT Kanpur, Post Graduate Diploma in Liberal Studies, Electrical Engineering, Teaching (hobby), Indian Corporate Law Service

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Chairman

1. Where are you posted currently?
2. How many offices does your service have?
3. What work do you do in your office? ( I had mentioned among other things, I also handle complaints)
4. What kind of complaints do you receive? ( I had mentioned a range of issues and at the end I had mentioned a real state related case which I handled recently)
5. What did you do in the case?

Member 1

1. When was your service established?
2. Where do you train? What is the intake of your service?
3. You had mentioned real estate companies. What is the difference between what your office does and what RERA does?
4. There are lakhs of companies. What does MCA do so that there are no frauds?
5. Does MCA use AI also?
6. What is plant load factor?

Member 2

1. Can plant load factor be more than 100 percent?
2. What are current transformers ?
3. What are isolator, circuit breakers?
4. What are the types of circuit breakers and which type is used for high voltage application?
5. You have mentioned teaching as one of your hobbies. How do you pursue teaching now a days?
6. Why did you form Electrical Engineering Association? How come there was no association before?

Member 3

1. Why did you join this liberal arts program?
2. How did this program help you with everything you are doing in your current service?
3. How do you assess the performance of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code?
4. Why are there so many court cases in IBC?
5. How would you use everything you have learned in ICLS after you get into IAS or IPS?
6. Have you heard anything about climate change?

Member 4

1. What do you understand by liberal arts?
2. What all did you study in this liberal arts?
3. Among all these subjects you have mentioned, which one was your favourite?

( I had mentioned the course of Shakespeare)

4. There are a lot of controversies around the fact that Shakespeare has not written most of the novels which are ascribed to him. What do you have to say about that?
5. How did finding interest in literature help you?
6. Do you think pursuing renewable energy is worth it?
7. Don’t you think they are too intermittent? What are we doing about it?
8. Switching on and off thermal power plants, don’t you think that would entail a lot of cost, energy and inefficiency?
9. There is hardly any innovation happening in battery tech.
10. Basically, we have started pursuing renewable energy without first innovating in these fields
11. If you do so many things as IAS, then how would you make meaningful policy in any field. You will be doing too many fields without mastering anything.
12. Don’t you think we are teaching too many things to your children in our schools but they are not able learn how to write and read.

SOMP and Puneet sir were really helpful during the course of mains preparation and even after that during the interview preparation. He kept up my tempo specially when I was finding it hard to prepare along with my office. Apart from SOMP, Samkalp, Next IAs were also helpful.