[UPSC Interview 2023] – Transcript #42: Lt. General. Raj Shukla Board, PSIR Optional, Tamilnadu Home State, Sports Hobby

Date of Interview: 11 January 2024
Board: Lieutenant General. Raj Shukla
Optional: PSIR
Home State: Tamilnadu
Hobby: Badminton
Job experience: Working as Postal Assistant selected through SSC CGL 2022.
Keywords: Aluminium Air Battery, Badminton, Soft Skills club, Reading Biographies, Reflective writing, Mechanical Engineering, .
2nd person to go.

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Chairman

1. Where did you graduate?
2. What are you doing now?
3. What is your role now?
4. Indian Post is run by tax payers money. Shouldn’t we privatize it?
5. Jio and Airtel is running in profits. Private can run in profits with the extensive networks. Indian Post should be privatized?
6. India Post should run e-commerce like Amazon and Flipkart. Don’t you think?
7. Post offices have extensive network across urban and rural. Then why was it failed to bring e-commerce across the country?
8. How does India Post function for Financial Inclusion?
9. How does it become the face of the government?

Member 1

1. Bank has Banking Correspondents. Post office does not have anything. Do they?
2. Personal income tax versus corporate tax – which one you will increase?
3. Corporate tax: why do you say?
4. European countries – high personal income tax: why?
5. Don’t you think it won’t apply in Indian context?
6. Corporate tax – keeping it low to attract FDI. So, better change it?
7. Is it wise to change corporate tax often as per market changing?

Member 2

1. Farmer and fisher men – so many intermediaries. As a DM, what will you do?
2. Mechanical Engineering: why manufacturing sector is performing not well?
3. What can be done to improve it?
4. Tell the necessity of Soft Skills in leadership.

Member 3

1. What is Postman app?
2. Can the postman open the accounts for the customers using documents and scanning it?
3. Can we see the balances of a person using schemes of Indian Post in the app?
4. What is IPPB? How does it function? Is it different from Post offices savings bank?
5. What kind of deposits in post office?
6. Number of post offices in India.
7. Who fixes interest rate in post office? Is it floating and fixed?
8. How does the schemes in Post Office is helping the people?
9. There is a place inside Tamilnadu. It is an estate. But it is managed by the Kerala government. Do you know this place?
10. You have to prepare for Management Report in a post office. What will you do?
11. No. For post master in a post office you have to prepare. What kind of criteria that should be included?

Member 4

1. You are a mechanical engineering. EV’s – how does it change traditional vehicles?
2. Tell the changes within the set-up of chassis.
3. You are not understanding my question.
4. What is Machine Learning?
5. What kind of machine learns itself?
6. Let me ask the last question. If you get into civil services, which one you want to work upon/change?

Chairman: Your interview is over.

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