[UPSC Interview 2025] – Transcript #60: Sujata Chaturvedi Board, Geography Optional, Uttar Pradesh  Home State, chess Hobby

Date of Interview: 16/12/2025 forenoon 2nd to go.
Board: Sujata Chaturvedi
Optional: Geography
Home State: Uttar Pradesh
Hobby: chess, science fiction
Daf key word- Geography (BA, MA ,UGC , optional), homeopathy, up, Moradabad, chess, science fiction

• To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025, visit this page

Chairman

Are you all right? Sit comfortably
1- why did you choose geography subject?
2- what is human geography?
3- What is planning in geography?
4- Do we really plan accordingly?(She was emphasising that we don’t plan our cities)
5-civic sense what is it? What are the things that make you unhappy in public?
6- why do people litter?(I said one is littering)
7- How will you bring behavioural change?
(I gave one case study of my district itself so one more question followed over does rewarding really works)
8- What is the role of education in this?

Member 1

1- What are the alternative medicinal system in india?
2- How homeopathic system works, key principle and idea ?
3- How it is different from allopathic?
4- What is autoimmune disease?
5- if you have to dismiss one of your employees what would you consider about him?
6- What is natural justice, and some more questions followed on those principles itself.

Member 2

1- What is Indus Water Treaty? What is it’s current status?
2- She asked me to tell in details , wanted all geographical aspects. So I kept on speaking on this. Some questions followed like what infrastructure we are developing, geographical limitations etc.

Member 3

1- What are the opportunity available to the students who have done there pg in geography?
2- Why didn’t you choose any of these since 2022?
3- What are the recent discoveries In our solar system or beyond that can change the way of our understanding universe?( This was asked because when chairman Mam asked me about why I choose geography so at one place I used this term interest in solar system in childhood)

Member 4

1- What is remote sensing?
2- As your second preference is IPS what policing will you do if you are appointed in Goa, Punjab and Chhattisgarh?
3- what is maoism?( It was asked when I started telling about chattisgarh)

Chairman Mam- Your interview is over Manish , now you can go.
My experience – maximum interview was around geography but in a different way, they were more interested in asking follow up questions rather than specific geography question and in each question they were requiring to bring geographical dimensions, like that ips case study, indus water treaty.
No question from hobby, district etc.

One more thing that I noticed whenever I was giving any suggestions or solutions they were making altogether Saying this is very normal, oh  this is on books not in reality.. wanted me to prove my point.
Overall I was satisfied because there was no factual question so conversation went well.