Date of Interview: 09/12/2025
Board: Bidyut Behari Swain
Optional: Economics
Key DAF Details: Gargi College, JNU, Economics Optional, Hand Lettering, Visually Impaired Cricket
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Chairman
What is Hand Lettering?
Where did you learn it?
Do you still do it?
Member 1
What do you understand about balanced growth in the economy?
How will you ensure balanced growth as a DM?
What do you think about the elderly population of society?
How will you include them?
What about the paperwork and procedural hurdles as they might be illiterate or some of them can not even see at that age?
What sections of society will you consider vulnerable?
What will you do for them as a DM?
What is more important for Administration empathy or efficiency?
How will you balance both?
What do you think of idealism, should administration be ideal or pragmatic?
All theories are idealistic so how can they be used for pragmatic administration?
What is the importance of Russia for India?
What agreements have taken place recently?
How will our economy benefit from it and particularly which sectors?
What about connectivity?
Are the tariffs placed by US on India justified?
What were the reasons for putting these tariffs?
Are tariffs for buying Russian oil justified?
Member 2
What are critical minerals?
What steps has the government taken for critical minerals?
What are climate bonds?
What are social bonds?
Is interest paid on such bonds?
Have you heard of the ministry of co-operation?
Which institute has been developed for cooperation?
What do you know about the GIFT city?
Why has it been created?
Why do international corporations set up their offices there?
Member 3
You have economics optional but you have not studied it at college.
(I told that I have)
What are the benefits of conflict resolution? (No context)
What is the status of Climate finance?
What do you know about Gunnar Myrdal?
Where can we see this model being illustrated in India? (myrdal’s Backwash and spread effect)
What is the fundamental difference in the approaches of Adam Smith and Amartya Sen?
What is the entitlements based approach of Amartya sen?
What do you understand by Trickle down?
Do you think it works?
Member 4
Who was Gargi?
What did you learn from her?
What is the USP of JNU?
What were your lessons from organising a cricket tournament for visually impaired women ?
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