[UPSC Interview 2025] – Transcript #123: Sheel Vardhan Singh Board, Rajasthan Home State,

Date of Interview: 15/01/2026 (FN)
Board: Sheel Vardhan Singh sir
Home State: Rajasthan
Key DAF Details: Box breathing, Stoicism, Entrepreneurship development cell (EDC), Civil Engineering, Wastewater treatment project, Rajasthan, IITD

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Chairman

1 How is Box breathing performed?
2 Relation with Pranayam and its repackaging
3 Asked 5 Stoic philosophers name ? What exactly is Stoicism?
4 Asked to comprehend a quote – “The owl of Minerva first begins its flight at the onset of dusk”

Member 1

1 RTI and its origin relation with Rajasthan
2 Amendments to the RTI
3 Asked that does geographically small countries like Nepal and Bangladesh more vulnerable to crisis/upheavals?
4 Cause of upheaval similar or different in the Nepal or Bangladesh

Member 2

1 Indigo flight issue and whether it was failure of regulator or the company
2 Asked the two regulators involved in it
3 Data warehousing, Data mining
4 Challenges of digital governance in Viksit Bharat?

Member 3

1 Asked questions related to Wastewater treatment project and its future scope
2 What was my role and the scope of work at EDC?
3 Famous startups from the IITD and what is status?
4 Are there any Deep tech startups?

Member 4

1 Why civil services and not entrepreneurship?
2 How China is able to make tunnels in Tibet and we face issue of collapse
3 Issue of potholes on the road?
4 Fixed pavement v/s Flexible pavement – cost, long term cost comparison – advancement of technology in it?