[UPSC Interview 2025] – Transcript #89: Raj Shukla Board, Anthropology Optional, Mbbs Background

Date of Interview: 6th January, session forenoon
Board: Raj Shukla
Optional: Anthropology
Home State: Telangana
Background: Mbbs
Keywords- Mbbs, audit service, badminton, Vipassana meditation, anthropology, AI in healthcare, Hyderabad

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Chairman

Is Hyderabad going in the lines of Bengaluru, Mumbai in terms of development or it has its own path?
How is Hyderabad different from these cities?
What is genome valley ( my prev answer included genome valley)
Why isn’t Hyderabad attracting much investment?
How long will it take for a company to start business in Hyderabad?
And a follow up discussion on GST ( The GST regime is hampering investments in sir’s opinion)
And a monologue on GST

Member 1

Favourite player in badminton and why?
Differences between PV SINDHU and SAINA NEHWAL’s game
How has Vipassana meditation helped you?
Do you audit GST?
Challenges a you faced as a team lead?

Member 2

Doctor to audit to civil services- explain how these 3 phases happened to you in life

How do you achieve consensus building as a team lead?
Do women make good administrators?
AI in healthcare and applications
Best practices in India

Member 3

Have you ever thought of continuing as a doctor?
What is wrong in joining a family firm?
Doctor patient ratio in india vs prescribed ratio
If you join bureaucracy what is the one thing you would first work on?
What are reasons for existence of red tapism( my answer was red tapism)
Do you think civil servants in the country are still in the British mindset of civil services or are they behaving differently?

Member 4

healthcare state in tg and india?
Sex ratio in Telangana?
As a doctor what will you bring into civil services?

Overall conversational type of interview. Chairman sir was looking at his phone but was paying attention to every answer. Cordial board