[UPSC Interview 2024] – Transcript #31: Suman Sharma Board, IIT Delhi, production and industrial engineering

Date of Interview: 20th March 2025, Forenoon
Board: Suman Sharma
Background: IIT Delhi
DAF keyword (ones which were asked) – Zomato, IITD, production and industrial engineering
Chairman – read my DAF highlights mentioned above, last line you worked in Zomato (interesting was she wanted to say)

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Chairman

1. Green tshirt controversy of zomato and what it talk about society
2. ⁠recent zomato restaurant controversy
3. ⁠grocer stores, how will they survive in times of zomato and Blinkit
4. ⁠2 areas each which will benefit and get harmed in India by trump tariffs ( few counters here )

Member 1

1. you studies production engineering tell problems of manufacturing and solutions thereof
2. ⁠finance commission, issues ( I talked about north south )
3. ⁠said any idea of disaster management and finance commission ( I said I can’t recall)

Member 2

1. Studied at iit and worked, how will u use that as ias
2. ⁠India’s foreign policy wrt to china and USA separately
3. ⁠why china doing way better than India how can we improve it

Member 3

( full random questions )
1. Kalinga war ( no link to DAF, maybe Kalinga university controversy that time) its impact on society
2. ⁠he asked where Kalinga war happened ( I was like I don’t know the exact place he said it’s Odisha, I said sir though u are asking some specific place)
3. ⁠why air craft carrier called king in the pin (he helped me out there and I managed to answer that)

Member 4

1. Impact of president rule in Manipur & some discussion over it
Mam said thank you (name) your interview is over

Mocks: Nextias, vajiram, Samkalp, vajirao ( won’t recommend this one), Chahal

One on one – Fareez sir, Puneet Yadav sir (somp), Ravindran sir (vajiram), Dharmadhikari sir (Chanakya mandal)

Some questions were repeated from mocks and current affair classes with somp did helped ….