UPSC Interview 2024] – Transcript #84: Sanjay Verma Board, Sociology Optional, mapping, Audiobooks Hobby

Date of Interview: 17-03-2025
Afternoon session 3rd to go
Board: Sanjay Verma sir
Optional: Sociology
Background: Civil Engineering
DAF keywords: Voice over, multimedia editing, Civil Engineering, Sociology, Flood plain mapping, Audiobooks

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Chairman

1. What kind of voice over have you done?
2. Are you a reader or listener?
3. What application are you using to listen to audiobooks?
4. What is the subscription rate?
5. Who is the best elocutionist according to you.?
6. What is the most acute intersection present in the society?
7. Can AI replace voice artistry because currently so many songs and Youtube videos are being done using

Member 1

8. What are the river linkage prjects going on?
9. What do you think about such projects
10. What is India’s status in Rare earth minerals?
11. Should we diversify our imports of RER and where are we currently importing from
12. We are allowing too much water from Indus to Pakistan. Shouldn’t we stop that?
13. Chinese infrastructure and US infrastructure

Member 2

14. About flood plain mapping
15. We are downloading too much nowadays and leads to wastage of resources like print-outs. What alternatives do we have?
1. I said Cloud computing and SaaS
16. So doesn’t that cause Privacy issues?
17. Some discussion on Dpdp act
18. What steps are done while designing a earthquake resistant building and post construction techniques to monitor and retrofitting ?

Member 3

19. Issue of polygamy
20. Any laws to prevent it?
21. Triple talaq being criminalized- some discussion
22. Some discussion on UCC. How should it be implemented?
23. Which state implemented it recently?

Member 4

24. What was the reason for the recent railway stampede in Delhi?
25. How could such incidents be reduced?
26. If you are a person who manages a railway station what will be your immediate actions for such stampede
27. OTT is filled with harmful content nowadays. How would you stop such things ?
28. Education system is deteriorating as per NGO reports? What could have been the reasons. I said three reasons

Then chairman sir continued this discussion
29. Don’t you think assessments in education is also a factor… I said yes and explained how NEP could solve it.
30. Are you a risk taker or a risk averse person. Some discussion in this…

Board was cordial. They were listening very calmly…
Mocks: Onlyias, Chahal, Samkalp(relatable), Vision ias, Forum ias