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Interview Date: 27 Feb 2020
Board: Sathiyavathy Ma’am
Background: IIT-KGP Dual Degree Mech Engg.
Optional: Mechanical Engineering
Home State: Uttar Pradesh
Employee: ONGC
Hobbies: Blogging, Evening Running
Chairman
- Is it your pic?
- Readout aloud my DAF
- Learnings taken out of Germany, Japan, Hong Kong experiences (from DAF)
- Bullet train feasibility in India
- Difference of bullet train with Train18
Member 1
- Hong Kong vs China issue
- How to improve IAS working from your Japan experience
- Reasons of high divorces, suicides in Japan and how to address
- Where do we mf bullet trains in Japan?
- Who was somebody famous by the same name( i.e. Kobe above answered)?
Member 2
- Olympic marathon runner in news(UK based), his coach’s name(coz I knew the runner -_- ) and issue
- Why evening running?
- What is Samsung Bot air and AI skin(had coauthored a robotics research paper)
Member 3
- Difference between IC engines and turbine
- About Aircraft jet engines. Why no IC engines in aircraft?
- Diesel-Electric locomotives and diesel locomotives
Member 4
- What is balanced development?
- What are MDGs and SDGs?
- India’s achievement of SDGs
- SDG monitoring authority, criteria
- Questions on NITI Aayog
- What are 5Ps?
P.S. Interview was super smooth. Felt like a breeze. Still clocked 30-35 mins.
Might be missing some ques and might have mixed ques btw members.
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