[UPSC Interview 2024] – Transcript #15: Sanjay Verma Sir Board, Blogging, Hackathon Hobbies

Date of Interview: 25/03/2025 (FN)
Board: Sanjay Verma Sir
Duration: Approx. 30 minutes
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Keywords from DAF: Judiciary, Blogging, Hindi, Hackathon

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Chairman

1. If you have to completely eliminate one of the organs of state (Exe./Legislature/Judiciary), which one will you do ? (Follow up questions on that)
2. What types of blogs do you write?
3. How many people read it ?
4. What is friendship for you ?
5. Do you have any friend who is exactly opposite of you ? (Based on my answer he asked if I live in an echo chamber)
6. Why boys have more friends than girls ?

Member 1

1. What are 7 steps followed in enquiry against judges ? (Didn’t know the answer)
2. Name some poets you read in Hindi (Based on 12th Class)
3. Read one Doha of Kabir Das or Rahim Das (I recited on by Kabir Das)
4. Name one modern poet
5. What is process of Aadhaar for children ?
6. What is Child’s Aadhaar called ?
7. What is Artha Ganga ?
8. Religious Significance of rivers
9. Rate of Renewable Energy transition in India
10. What all other sources of Energy are we looking at?
11. Is India’s 4th Pillar doing it’s work properly ? (Chairman intervened with his opinion about Aaj Tak, India Today, Lallantop)

Member 2

1. President Trump’s tariff policy vis a vis Canada-Mexico ( He was looking for some specific reason, I didn’t know)
2. Recent book titled “Anger Management” by a Ex Diplomat. (I didn’t know)
3. Why a diplomat would write such a book ?
4. Einstein said that the toughest thing to understand is Income Tax. What did he meant? What do you think of Income Tax ? (Went to the new IT Bill)
5. Recent criticism of 3 language formula. Is it being imposed ?
6. What is situation of 3 language formula in context of Northern states ?
7. What are the principles of natural justice ? (Follow up questions with hypothetical situations)

Member 3

1. What is ODOP of your district ?
2. What is next logical step in ODOP ?
3. As an administrator, what will you priorities, management or leadership ? (Choose just one)
4. What will be your approach for effective leadership ?
5. If you are made DM of your home district, what steps will you take ?
6. What is situation of education in your district ?
7. How will you remain informed about your district ? (He said SSP will be your only friend in district)
8. There was a recent exhibition in Lucknow, which product of your district was displayed there ? (This I thought was a bluff.)

Member 4

1. A scientist said that we will have to leave Earth in 100 years and find another planet. (I didn’t know, then he told me and asked my opinion)
2. If Elon Musk chooses you to travel to space, what kind of preparations will you do ? (Not as an astronaut but as a passenger)
3. What is ethical hacking ?
4. Is hacking an international library database ethical ?
5. How will you proceed to hack the EVM ?

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