{"id":137547,"date":"2021-09-24T20:15:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T14:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=137547"},"modified":"2021-09-27T20:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T14:52:58","slug":"upsc-interview-2020-transcript-232-sujata-mehta-panel-board-history-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2020-transcript-232-sujata-mehta-panel-board-history-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2020] \u2013 Transcript #240 :\u00a0Sujata Mehta Board, History Optional, Cricket Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Date of Interview: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">14 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-09-2021<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Board:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sujata Mehta<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Optional:<\/b> <b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">History<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Background:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Graduation (polymer engineering)<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Hobby: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cricket\u00a0<\/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;\"> Asked about my opinion on whether Olympics should have been held during such pandemic or not. Recently after the games, Japan had seen lot of covid cases and also there was some opposition to games internally in japan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Whether big events like olympic or IPL are more about money, brands and sports remain secondary to such event ?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Gave a prologue about 2010 CWG games (the scam, bad press we got internationally)So, should we now bid for the Olympics or not?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Asked\u00a0 benefits of merger of banks\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Concept of bank rate<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Current situation about inflation and reasons<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What is one event from Indian freedom struggle I would like to delete<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What are the alternatives to single use plastic<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Asked about issues in PPP model<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Question about municipal bonds<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Positive steps in New Education Policy about Higher education<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I didn\u2019t get his question first time. Asked him to repeat. Question about whether doctors, medical practitioners be more careful while prescribing generic drugs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I said yes because there might be issues with respect to Quality Control of these drugs when compared to branded drugs. But then he said that all these companies are licensed then what\u2019s the issue? I said that there have been news reports highlighting issues about generic drugs. I couldn\u2019t read his exact expression after this ( I don\u2019t know whether I answered it correctly or not<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> . )<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Asked about how to promote diversity in government services?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> How is diversity ensured at your bank\/branch? I said that my manager is a lady and she is doing an excellent job. Then he said that how it shows diversity?\u00a0 I said that my branch has total 3 staff and out of that 1 is lady. He said Ok, Ok.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> She said that lets talk something from your graduation (graduated from a chemical engineering institute) . Asked about my understanding of the concept of energy security.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> How are we securing our energy sources from any vulnerabilities of war etc (referring to a a point in my previous answer)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> She initially asked about whether I know about case of Texas where there was blackout like situation since renewable couldn\u2019t supply energy. I said No.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> How are we reducing the irregularity of supply in renewable energy sources when it comes to India?<\/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;\">So, whether there is any area from which you want us to ask questions? I said that maybe my home state of Maharashtra. She asked about whether there should be separate state of Vidarbha.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall the interview was cordial. The only issue was the mask.It was going down whenever I was speaking.\u00a0 Sujata Madam is I think very particular about it. Even the door of interview room is open to keep ventilation. The lady member even asked me that whether I was wearing different mask while coming from home then who asked you to change that. I said security people at entrance. She then said that we need to take up the matter with authorities. So, I think this mask issue has happened with many candidates. I am hoping that they don\u2019t give me negative marks for this mask thing because the mask was just not staying in its place.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But all in all good experience.<\/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: 14 -09-2021 Board: Sujata Mehta Optional: \u00a0History Background:\u00a0Graduation (polymer engineering) Hobby: Cricket\u00a0 To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2020,\u00a0visit this page Chairman Asked about my opinion on whether Olympics should have been held during such pandemic or not. Recently after the games, Japan had seen lot of covid cases and also there&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2020-transcript-232-sujata-mehta-panel-board-history-optional\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2020] \u2013 Transcript #240 :\u00a0Sujata Mehta Board, History Optional, Cricket Hobby<\/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":[8784,7977,8810,1677,9249],"class_list":["post-137547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public","tag-8784","tag-history","tag-interview_transcript2020","tag-sports_hobby","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\/137547","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=137547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137547\/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=137547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}