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Date of Interview: 16 Jan, morning, first one
Board: Suman Sharma Ma’am
Home State: Karnataka
Background: civil engineering
Hobby: Chess
DAF keywords: green concrete, chess, sugarcane, belagavi, Karnataka, civil engineering
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Chairman
- India is performing well in chess nowadays. Can you tell me about significant events in the last one year?
- Who are all qualified for the Candidates tournament?
- Awards recently: R Vaishali and G B Ramesh. What is his nickname?
- WEF? It’s role?
- Environment vs development?
- Doing nothing is better than doing something.
Member 1
- Issues of Bengaluru?
- Traffic issues? Flooding issues?
- How do you solve these as a commissioner as they are already built-up areas?
- Is GST anti-federal because states have lost their power?
- What role does the GST Council play?
Member 2
- Sugarcane growing regions in your state?
- By-products of sugarcane?
- Geographical divisions of the district?
- We will give Belagavi to Maharashtra. What is your opinion?
- Difference between the eastern coast and the western coast?
- He was explaining a lot rather than directly asking questions.
Member 3
- Largest forest in the world?
- Which are the countries to have this forest?
- Climate change: why it is a concern?
- Again debate on forests vs industries.
- Why you build tunnels and roads in fragile areas?
- Measures to ensure environmental conservation?
- Is the government doing well?
Member 4
- Inequality is growing in your district. How do you solve the issue as a commissioner?
- What are the schemes undertaken to reduce inequality?
Board: cordial, but felt uneasy sometimes. ‘Green’ in my DAF opened many dimensions.
Time: 20-25 minutes
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