[UPSC Interview 2024] – Transcript #1: Suman Sharma Board

Date of Interview: 21 March.
Board: Hon Suman Sharma
DAF: entries irrelevant.
Duration: around 30 minutes.

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Chairman

1. You are from ** place? (No)
2. You have done your graduation from ** university? (No. I’m the master of my fate, I’m the king of my DAF, corrected her while I could)
3. You just graduated and it was your first attempt? Congratulations.
4. So there have been new changes in the criminal laws, tell me about it. What about handcuffing, community service?
5. What are petty offences?
6. Where was community service provided earlier?
7. Not in the law, where else was it provided?
8. What is sahyog portal?
9. Monologue on tesla and x, whether govt is leveraging notices against X to sweeten the deal with tesla?
10. Do your swot analysis.

Member 1

11. What’s skepticim?
12. What’s its use in law and governance?
13. What is social engineering?
14. What are the means of social engineering?
15. Honey trapping used to be since time immemorial, so what’s new?
16. Is social engineering ethical?
17. What’s euthanasia?
18. Is it legal in india?
19. Do you support active euthanasia?
20. But should the consent of judges be taken, it becomes very cumbersome?
21. Should we allow caregivers to take decision unilaterally?
22. What will happen to society, if  we allow this?
23. At the ground level, why would a doctor do this?

Member 2

24. What is jal shakti mission?
25. What is jal jeevan mission?
26. When is its deadline?
27. Power demand is growing, and the summer is coming, what will you do tell me?
28. Don’t tell me long term measures, but tell what will you do for the coming May?
29. Which countries do we import power from?

Member 3

30. “Lawyers are the biggest hinderance in justice system” defend it.
31. Can parliament do something about it?
32. Talked about ethics in corporate sector.
33. Are there any laws to ensure this?
34. What’s esg’s backing?
35. Where are the rebellions happening in india these days?
36. What’s Manipur situation?
37. Why do you think rebellions happen?
38. So use your framework to analyse Manipur situation.

Member 4

(serious, non cordial and hard of hearing lady)
39. How to develop northeast?
40. We share a generation gap, I’ll say “today’s era is filled with information but not knowledge”, disagree with it?
41. It’s been 75 years since independence, how can we remove inequalities?

Few more questions, but can’t recall them now, dehydration and hypoglycemia got better of me xd.

Mocks: Vision, samkalp, pw, next.