UPSC Interview 2024] – Transcript #79: Sheel Vardhan sir Board, Geography Optional, Uttar Pradesh Home State

Date of Interview: 07/04/2025
Board: Sheel Vardhan sir
Optional: Geography
Home State: Uttar Pradesh
Background: Mechanical Engineer
Daf- income tax, geography, uttar pradesh, mechanical engineer, old Hindi songs, critically acclaimed movies

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Chairman

You like listening to old Hindi songs on life which one ur fav because I like to listen to it too

I gave my answer he suggested one other song

You like watching critically acclaimed movies , have you watched lapata ladies
Your view on the character of police officer, some more discussion on it

Member 2

I see your daf great things you have done very good daf
You have made a short film what was it on and what was it shot on

Let us move to something different “deterrence” what do you think about it

What do you think it commonly used for

What do you think about nuclear deterrence
Is it only to provide deterrence from nuclear war or any war because we have fought Kargil war post having nuclear deterrence

Member 3

AI like ChatGPT etc how have you used it

How to then tackle use of ai by students

How to change our assessment because he can plagiarise things

Why so fear of deepseek
What one question would you ask deepseek that it would not give a satisfactory answer to ( I said if china is an autocracy)

Member 4

Where you are posted in income tax
What is your work profile
More discussion on ai, it can use so much of our data, what should we do- I said no overregulation as it is still a new emerging tech of so many beneficial use cases, focus upon awareness generation, training people on its mindful use

Member 5

U are an income tax inspector which tax is more rational, useful, better etc.
Min govt max governance what do u think
Cross questioning on my answer of tech integration to simplify and improve governance? Don’t you think using tech only increases no of cases which again have to be dealt by humans only, I said improve the quality of investigation as we can analyse thru tech those data which we would have missed

U are a geography student tell me the link between climate change and sea/oceans

Any positive impact- I said only negative comes to mind sir

Chairman- last question which place you would not like to be in from a physical geography pov

Thankyou

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