{"id":127954,"date":"2021-08-23T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T01:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=127954"},"modified":"2021-08-23T14:19:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T08:49:06","slug":"upsc-interview-2020-transcript-20-tca-anant-board-geography-optional-bihar-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2020-transcript-20-tca-anant-board-geography-optional-bihar-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2020] \u2013 Transcript #20 : TCA Anant Board, Geography Optional, Bihar Home State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Date of Interview:<\/strong> 18\/08\/2021
\nBoard:<\/strong> TCA Anant Sir
\nOptional:<\/strong> Geography
\nBackground:<\/strong> Civil Engineering
\nHome State:<\/strong> Bihar
\nJob profile:<\/strong> L&T and Deputy Collector (UT)<\/p>\n

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Chairman:<\/strong> ( Remove your face shield and be relaxed)<\/p>\n

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  1. So you have been to Bihar, Telangana and Delhi, any other place you have visited ( I told about my current training which is undergoing in Maharajganj)<\/li>\n
  2. Two unique positives and negatives of Maharajganj.<\/li>\n
  3. How will you turn the negatives into positives?<\/li>\n
  4. Challenges you faced during your current tenure of training. How did you overcome?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Member 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Government denied to disclose certain information demanded by SC to be disclosed, your take on that.<\/li>\n
    2. Threat of Pegasus vis-a-vis national security.<\/li>\n
    3. Do you know about Saharsa district ? What problems will you take at first if you are made DM of Saharsa? ( I answered Education and health )<\/li>\n
    4. What about flood? How flood impacts education ?<\/li>\n
    5. You are a Civil Engineer what solutions will you suggest ( I gave structural and non structural solutions, stressed more on watershed management approach)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Member 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. You are a Civil Engineer and is talking about watershed management , you engineers only built dams like Tehri, how will you justify ?<\/li>\n
      2. How Nepal can be convinced to solve the problem of flood in Bihar ( I mentioned in one of the solution the problem also lies in the upper riparian region like Nepal)<\/li>\n
      3. How is the economic trade between Bihar and Nepal, current status.<\/li>\n
      4. What is the unique name given to Bihar – Nepal relationship ( Roti – Beti)<\/li>\n
      5. Explain this unique relationship .<\/li>\n
      6. Current status of Indo – Nepal relationship, who is the culprit?<\/li>\n
      7. How will you explain the attitude of SC during Covid 2nd Wave ( Judicial restraint \/ judicial activism )<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Member 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        1. Justify your stance with an example, how was it judicial restraint?<\/li>\n
        2. What is PNJ? Mention two major derivatives of PNJ.<\/li>\n
        3. Justice Hurried is……fill & Justice Delayed is ….. fill; now explain these two principles with examples from india.<\/li>\n
        4. You mentioned about undertrials, who are responsible and what is the current percentage of undertrials.<\/li>\n
        5. You mentioned about legal aids, so how as an SDM , you will ensure legal aids to those vulnerables and poor.<\/li>\n
        6. Has Judiciary and bureaucrats failed in providing free legal aids?<\/li>\n
        7. Why civil suites are delayed? ( Mentioned of legal ethics for advocates and transfer of judges), what is the average disposal time of civil suites in India?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Member 4<\/strong>\u00a0( You can remove mask too)<\/p>\n

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          1. Is virtual court meaningful, how to make it more accessible to poor.<\/li>\n
          2. What is eCourt system ?<\/li>\n
          3. What is the safety factor?<\/li>\n
          4. Safety factor in Tehri Dam vs Bhakra Nangal Dam.<\/li>\n
          5. Being selected in IFoS and For UP SDM, would you like to join DANIPS? ( I opted for that too )<\/li>\n
          6. You talked about smaller dams earlier what is the criteria in MW to decide a smaller or larger dam?<\/li>\n
          7. I’m still not convinced that even after being a Civil Engineer, you are opposing larger dams. ( I answered that Sir recently I have studied more Geography and I’m convinced by the arguments of geography over Civil Engineering… Everyone laughed)<\/li>\n
          8. Ok one last question… Any example of large projects which are showing unsustainability. ( Answered about Three Gorges dam and slowing down of Earth’s rotational speed and Koyana dam RIS)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Chairman<\/strong>
            \nOk, your interview is over.<\/p>\n

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