{"id":179873,"date":"2022-04-18T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T04:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=179873"},"modified":"2022-04-17T22:50:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T17:20:23","slug":"upsc-interview-2021-transcript-31-smita-nagraj-maam-board-history-optional-reading-travelling-hobbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-31-smita-nagraj-maam-board-history-optional-reading-travelling-hobbies\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #31 : Smita Nagraj Ma\u2019am Board, History Optional, reading, travelling Hobbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of interview:<\/strong> <span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">5\/04\/22 9:am forenoon session<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Board:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Smita Nagraj Ma\u2019am<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> History<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> civil engineering from DTU, MA in modern history from JNU<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> reading, travelling, numismatics<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2021,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/#int2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your experience in interview-<br \/>\nNo hi hello or questions on personal info,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8211; why do you think about freebies<\/li>\n<li>-Should they be discontinued, or modified in any manner<\/li>\n<li>-Farmers and electricity<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; do freebies encourage individuals to not work, remain dependent on govt<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8211; how can civil engineering (graduation subject) help in civil services.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; issues behind time and cost overruns<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; insisted on giving practical and on ground problems faced(follow up) rather than theoretical\/bookish issues in civil engineering<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; difference and similarities in crisis going on in Pakistan and Sri Lanka<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8211; how can we keep the bureaucracy motivated?<\/li>\n<li>(A number of follow up questions on similar lines)<\/li>\n<li>Issues about bureaucracy, I<\/li>\n<li>Why the image is bad ?etc<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Don&#8217;t remember specifically but questions related to application of civil engineering on problems in infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>Why India&#8217;s infra growth is shabby when compared to that of china.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Just asked about comparison between the response of indian and Canadian govt to protests in respective countries<\/li>\n<li>Reasons behind why Canada is considered liberal and India is considered authoritarian<\/li>\n<li>Were the measures used by Canada authoritarian or democratic ( follow up )<\/li>\n<li>Experience- no hi hello no chit chat no questions related to daf( apart from grad subj- civil Engineering)<\/li>\n<li>I felt the questions were really good, especially the ones related to infra and civil engineering. I wasn&#8217;t able to satisfy the demands with respect to practical issues, a point that was raised twice during the interview. Not unnecessary grilling if a person could answer these questions he\/she would definitely make a really good addition to services.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Mocks- focussed majorly on daf, and I felt the interview was of a whole another level- they knew what they knew what they were looking for.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 2022:\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: 5\/04\/22 9:am forenoon session Board:\u00a0Smita Nagraj Ma\u2019am Optional: History Background: civil engineering from DTU, MA in modern history from JNU Hobbies: reading, travelling, numismatics To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2021,\u00a0visit this page Your experience in interview- No hi hello or questions on personal info, Chairman &#8211; why do you think about&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-31-smita-nagraj-maam-board-history-optional-reading-travelling-hobbies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #31 : Smita Nagraj Ma\u2019am Board, History Optional, reading, travelling Hobbies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8094,7977,8809,1686,10698,7989],"class_list":["post-179873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-8094","tag-history","tag-interview_transcript2021","tag-reading_books","tag-smita_nagraj2021","tag-travelling","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179873","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}