[UPSC Interview 2024] – Transcript #10: lt.Gen Raj Shukla Board, Geography Optional, Gujarat Home State,

Date of Interview: 5 March
Board: lt.Gen Raj Shukla sir
Optional: Geography
Home State: Gujarat
Background: Computer Engineering
Last one to go in forenoon session.
DAF keywords: Gujarat, Surat, Diamond, Geography, Computer Engineering, Blood donation, AI

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Chairman

1. Where are you from? I said Gujarat
(Long monologue on Gujarat’s entrepreneurship culture)
2. ⁠what is special about Gujarat
3. ⁠why there is entrepreneurial spirit in gujarat? – I said risk taking ability
4. ⁠compare risk taking ability of Gujarati’s and Marwadi’s
5. ⁠compare with Parsis and sikhs
6. ⁠Are Parsis ethical in business?

Member 1

1. how Gujarat is having entrepreneurship in their culture
2. ⁠does community has a role in it or the government has a role in it
3. ⁠how to cultivate entrepreneurship in people
4. ⁠why Usa has more startups then gujarat

Member 2 

1. What were you doing since 5 years
2. ⁠I think you dont have risk taking ability or entrepreneurship skills bcz u r preparing since 5 years
3. ⁠difference between lab grown and real diamonds
4. ⁠future of diamond industry in surat. ⁠
5. ⁠you took Sanskrit in 10 standard , do you know anything right now? ⁠

Member 3

1. how geography is influencing IR
2. ⁠how will you use your computer engineering in governance
3. ⁠what government is doing in resolving day to day problems through technology
4. ⁠how E governance is governing people and what are the new changes
5. ⁠various frauds are happening because of AI and other technology, how to resolve it
6. ⁠how to stop fraduent calls and unsolicited msgs and way forward

Member 4

1. What is crypto currency
2. ⁠what government is doing in it
3. ⁠what are trends in it
4. ⁠why people are investing in it
5. ⁠what are pros and cons

Interview lasted 30-35 mins and was more on opinion based rather than DAF based.
Mocks taken: Samkalp, Vajiram, NextIas, Vajirao, Onlyias, Quantel