[UPSC Interview 2025] – Transcript #20: Sujata Chaturvedi Board, Electrical Engineering Optional, Haryana Home State, Cricket, Chess Hobbies

Date of Interview: 09/12/2025 (A/N)
Board: Sujata Chaturvedi Ma’am
Optional: Electrical Engineering
Home State: Haryana
Hobby: Cricket, Chess
DAF Keywords: Haryana, DAV, IIT Bombay, Renewable Energy, Engineering Services, Ministry of Power, Non-fiction books, NSS, Cricket, Chess

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Chairman

1) Meaning of my name (since it’s pretty unique, I’m often asked this question)
2) Asked if I had given interview earlier and if I got selected
3) What is IoT? And AIoT?
4) Why did software companies see such a tremendous rise in India in the late 20th century?
5) Why are Indians being targeted in the US?

Members

1) What is the luminous intensity of this room?
2) Unit of luminosity?
3) Gave a list of monuments and asked me to arrange them chronologically
4) How much carbon emissions do we have?
5) Renewable energy targets?
6) Rajasthan’s installed capacity of RE (even though I’m not from RJ)
7) Green Hydrogen Mission – targets, status and issues
8) Recent non-fiction books that you have read?
9) How do you choose which book to read?
10) How would you inculcate the habit of reading in the younger generation as the DM of your district?
11) Digital Public Infrastructure – current status?
12) Which finance commission do we have at present? Constitutional status, role, functions?
13) Which taxes are there on petroleum? How is it shared? Then in this context, I was asked about a certain bill that was recently passed by the Parliament? (I confirmed if sir is referring to Health Security se National Security Bill, and then explained its details)

There were a few more questions but this is all I can recall for now.