{"id":137480,"date":"2021-09-24T19:55:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T14:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=137480"},"modified":"2021-09-27T18:07:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T12:37:44","slug":"upsc-interview-2020-transcript-236-sujata-mehta-board-sociology-optional-bihar-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2020-transcript-236-sujata-mehta-board-sociology-optional-bihar-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2020] \u2013 Transcript #236 : Sujata Mehta Board, Sociology Optional, Bihar Home State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Date of Interview:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">16 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-09-2021<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Board:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Sujata Mehta<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Optional:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 sociology<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Background:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Btech in ECE<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Home State:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bihar<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2020,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/#note3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Chairman<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Introduce yourself with emphasis on education and work experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Did you sit for Campus placement?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Have you done internship?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Didn&#8217;t you want to use your internship knowledge rather than going for upsc?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mental health volunteer &#8211; asked details about what I do, where I do, how I do, what type of cases come, etc?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Is mental health an issue in India as well?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> India is a family oriented society so do we seek comfort in family or outside? Why outside? <\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0One two more questions and then passed on to member 1 who was also a lady member.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Member 1<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Spoke for 1-2 mins which summarised to tell me the issues and steps taken wrt cyber security and women security.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Interrupted after I spoke about cyber security and started asking follow ups &#8211; State sponsored cyber security attacks.. What should India do about it?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Should we be offensive also or just defensive?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Challenges wrt women security?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Are the steps taken by companies for dealing with sexual harassment sufficient?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Member 2<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Are men also vulnerable to sexual harassment?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What should we do about it?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Asked a very long question about low rates of first trimester checkup and it&#8217;s probable linkage with sex determination test, developed countries fix the checkup responsibility on care giver. Should India also make a similar law? What else should we do?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Member 3\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Brexit &#8211; is UK regretting the move now?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> IBC &#8211; it&#8217;s positives and negatives.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 3 decades of National Mental health programme &#8211; what&#8217;s it&#8217;s status?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Member 4 <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(a little comforting person)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Is an individual shaped by the society?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Why was there a semiconductor shortage in the automobile industry in recent times?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Why is India not manufacturing it&#8217;s own chips?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What is digital India and share some steps taken by the govt for the same?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Chairman<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you want us to ask you anything else?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u00a0 asked that if they have time, may I share one poem?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She denied <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I said thank you. There is nothing else I want to be asked.. She said okay then, thank you.\u00a0 And I left.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I feel I messed up at the end a little bit. But other than that, it was nice. It was formal but members gave ample time to speak and express yourself. I also said I don&#8217;t know much about a few questions like Brexit, mental health programme.. But they said tell us what you know and I even asked to repeat one question and asked for clarification in one question. They humbly assisted me at all places.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>For full Interview Preparation Guide:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click Here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Current Affairs For UPSC Exam 2021:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/current-affairs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>(This transcript has been posted by a community member of ForumIAS)<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Interview:16 -09-2021 Board: \u00a0Sujata Mehta Optional:\u00a0 sociology Background: Btech in ECE Home State: Bihar To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2020,\u00a0visit this page Chairman Introduce yourself with emphasis on education and work experience.\u00a0 Did you sit for Campus placement?\u00a0 Have you done internship?\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t you want to use your internship knowledge rather than&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2020-transcript-236-sujata-mehta-board-sociology-optional-bihar-home-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2020] \u2013 Transcript #236 : Sujata Mehta Board, Sociology Optional, Bihar Home State<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":124913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8784,2970,8810,1691,9249],"class_list":["post-137480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public","tag-8784","tag-bihar","tag-interview_transcript2020","tag-sociology","tag-sujata_mehta2020","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Sujata-Mehta.png?fit=600%2C500&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}