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Interview Date: 4th March 2020, Afternoon session
Board: BB VYAS sir
Optional: Geography
Home State: UTTAR PRADESH
BSc Physics (Hons) – BHU
Hobbies: Chess and meditation
Employee: SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANT in IMD
Chairman
- Maurya, what would be current temperature in Delhi as per u(job-related).
- what is today’s AQI of Delhi
- Which newspaper have u read today
- Three eye-catching news from front page
- Three throughout the newspaper- (I said coronavirus, turkey Syria problem related news and
- India’s semis with England in women’s t20).
- What is the importance of khadi when everybody including me and u has started wearing western dresses (pointing towards my suit)?
- Diff bw intensity and magnitude of earthquake
- How do we measure them
- In how many earthquake zones India is divided Delhi in which zone
- What is vipassana ( a technique of meditation)
- why everybody who teach meditation are so much obsessed with breathing ( he gave examples of baba ramdev and sri sri ravishankar)
Member 1
- Tell me three reasons why road accident happens in UP(I said lack of scientific design, rash driving and lack of awareness)
- Don’t u think corruption is granting license is one major problem..Then no followup question since u have also studied maths tell me what is magic number
- Why do we observe more cyclones in East coast of india than west coast
- major challenge of mirzapur (my home district)follow up questions were- challenge of carpet industry, which european country alleged use of child labour in this industry.
- Tell me some aasan to cure diabetes and back pain
Member 2
- viswanathan anand and Spain citizenship issue
- who came to india as cheif guest on26th january this year
- What was criticism surrounding this
- tell me current status of education in the country.
- What are the challenges in school and college education
- what is special about Caspian sea is it salt water or fresh water
Member 3
- Two challenges specific to UP – I said regional inequality and law and order issue
- Reasons for both Solutions Tell about some more challenges of Mirzapur
- What will be your focus when u become DM of Mirzapur.
- How will u promote tourism there?
- Where is pipari dam challenges of Brassware industry in Mirzapur why
Member 4
- Did it collapse in Mirzapur but still flourishing in Moradabad.
Chairman
- THANKU MAURYA JI, your interview is over.
- Total time Around 35-38 minutes
- I’ve missed some questions
- There were total six members…One lady member joined later ..She sat towards my immediate Right
- and kept telling hindi meaning of english words which were used by members ( my interview
- medium was hindi) but didn’t ask any question.
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