{"id":180805,"date":"2022-04-23T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=180805"},"modified":"2022-04-22T22:58:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:28:46","slug":"upsc-interview-2021-transcript-63-tca-anant-board-economics-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-63-tca-anant-board-economics-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #63 : TCA Anant Board, Economics Optional,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 12th April, Afternoon ( Last one &#8211; of whole lot of 23)<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> TCA Anant<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Economics<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> NIT Jamshedpur (EEE)<br \/>\n<strong>Employee:<\/strong> worked in Business Consulting firm (17 months)<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> Watching Mahabharat, Listening to old songs<\/p>\n<p>Experience in interview &#8211; Overall good, questions mostly on my DAF (hobbies mostly) and Economics<\/p>\n<p>Utility of mocks &#8211; It depends on person to person, I enjoyed taking mocks and took 6. It boosted confidence overall.<\/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><strong>Chairperson<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What did your firm do?<\/li>\n<li>What was your job profile and work ? and few counter questions for more clarity<\/li>\n<li>Favorite singer from old songs?<\/li>\n<li>Do you think in today&#8217;s songs, music dominates?<\/li>\n<li>Which Mahabharata do you like to watch ? &#8211; I said BR&#8217;s Chopra and then counter question why?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 1<\/strong> (most smiling person evert met )<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Have you heard about Kundan Lal Saigal ?<\/li>\n<li>In old movies, actor used to sing a lot with big piano. Why is this missing now ?<\/li>\n<li>Comparative analysis on Cricket and movies ?<\/li>\n<li>From Electrical and Electronics to Economics is a bold choice, why did you make it ?<\/li>\n<li>Pandemic hit us hard , what do you think we could have done better ? &#8211; i pointed Migrant suffering and how ONOR could have been upscaled quickly<\/li>\n<li>But that is marginal change ? &#8211; I pointed how our barbell strategy helped economy to achieve pre pandemic level quickly, so overall steps were taken by govt were good enough.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Broad learnings from Mahabharata ?<\/li>\n<li>Some factual ques -as which international author has written on Mahabharata ? &#8211; replied negatively<\/li>\n<li>How does RBI target inflation ?<\/li>\n<li>Problem of excess liquidity ?<\/li>\n<li>How RBI sucks excess liquidity ?<\/li>\n<li>Does RBI manage currency also ?<\/li>\n<li>Give me one component for boosting Indian economy ? &#8211; I said Consumption<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Pension is gone now, why do you want to join govt services ?<\/li>\n<li>Asked me about NPS (New Pension Scheme) and OPS in a very fudgy articulation, to which chairperson intervened and clearly articulated . &#8211; Honestly, the only question on which I had little knowledge, and thus couldn&#8217;t satisfy the person.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What happened earlier &#8211; Ramayana or Mahabharata ? and she tried to confuse me deliberately however I repeated the response<\/li>\n<li>Timeline of rise of Buddhism and Jainism ?<\/li>\n<li>Which common family connects Islam and Christianity ?<\/li>\n<li>What was Bhakti movement ? and asked me to elaborate on it<\/li>\n<li>What is the difference between Public and Merit goods ?<\/li>\n<li>Should we give Electricity free in Chattisgarh or New Delhi ? &#8211; I said, user fee should be levied and pointed out the issue of high tariff differential between consumers and industries<\/li>\n<li>She countered by asking why do we give it free in New Delhi ? &#8211; I said that we target vulnerable sections and the free limit is upto 200 units only and hardly any welloff family can sustain within it<\/li>\n<li>She came with a last blow &#8211; Electricity is in which list ? &#8211; I wasn&#8217;t totally sure and didn&#8217;t want to guess .<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Interview gets over<\/p>\n<p>So questions on DAF (Hobbies) and Economics<\/p>\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: 12th April, Afternoon ( Last one &#8211; of whole lot of 23) Board: TCA Anant Optional: Economics Background: NIT Jamshedpur (EEE) Employee: worked in Business Consulting firm (17 months) Hobbies: Watching Mahabharat, Listening to old songs Experience in interview &#8211; Overall good, questions mostly on my DAF (hobbies mostly) and Economics Utility&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-63-tca-anant-board-economics-optional\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #63 : TCA Anant Board, Economics Optional,<\/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":[8094,7966,8809,6146,10704],"class_list":["post-180805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-8094","tag-economics","tag-interview_transcript2021","tag-music","tag-tca_anant2021","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180805","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=180805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}