{"id":185705,"date":"2022-05-24T12:40:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T07:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=185705"},"modified":"2022-05-24T12:40:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T07:10:27","slug":"upsc-interview-2021-transcript-207-manoj-soni-board-sociology-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-207-manoj-soni-board-sociology-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #207 : Manoj Soni Board, Sociology Optional,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 5\/5\/2022 Afternoon session (Last to go)<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Manoj Soni Sir<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Sociology<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> Mechanical engineering (No Single Question)<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> Working on local environmental and social issues, Shayari writing (Lot of questions on hobbies)<\/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- Board asked sometimes counter question (however Soni Sir observes very closely) Overall good experience<\/p>\n<p>Utility of mocks (if any)- Next IAS and Chanakya Mandal acted good for me<\/p>\n<p>(Not allowed to remove mask and hand gloves. He says shield is optional as per your convenience )<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Greeted me and asked u waiting for long so what you were doing<\/li>\n<li>Mentioned another Mechanical Engineering is there but didn&#8217;t asked single question<\/li>\n<li>Long monologue about crisis provide new opportunity and asked how world and India got new opportunity by covid 19 crisis<\/li>\n<li>5 trillion economy &#8211; Asked me write on paper with big letters and show everyone (then asked number of zero &#8211; Sambit Patra Style)<\/li>\n<li>Whether india can achieve 5 trillion?<\/li>\n<li>Current status?<\/li>\n<li>Then steps taken?<\/li>\n<li>Your favourite shayar?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 1\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What works you have done on local environmental and social issues?<\/li>\n<li>Modus operandi of work?<\/li>\n<li>Asked what I did in covid crisis at my village?<\/li>\n<li>Role of grampanchayat in that ?<\/li>\n<li>Devdasi system we discussed<\/li>\n<li>Then asked to recite my Shayari.. (Everyone were happy after listening)<\/li>\n<li>Where do I stay (Mostly in my village)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Again asked about environmental issues on which I work<\/li>\n<li>Asked about net forest?<\/li>\n<li>Carbon neutrality by 2070?what it mean?<\/li>\n<li>Steps taken by India in this regard?<\/li>\n<li>India&#8217;s steps as vaccine Maitri bad or good?<\/li>\n<li>How&#8217;s india&#8217;s relation with Sri Lanka?<\/li>\n<li>How world responses to Pokharan II Test?<\/li>\n<li>Sanctions on India for this?<\/li>\n<li>PM during this period?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Asked hindi shayar who was English department head?<\/li>\n<li>Black vs green water<\/li>\n<li>Difference between community and society?<\/li>\n<li>Durkheim theory regarding it?<\/li>\n<li>Then about suicide theory and it&#8217;s relation to above mentioned theory?<\/li>\n<li>Five Social evils u wanted to remove from society?<\/li>\n<li>(he added corruption to my list)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Started with vaccine Maitri asked vasudhaiva kutumbakam and from where we have taken this<\/li>\n<li>Asked full quotation (few other lines are there)<\/li>\n<li>Whether India followed it with the china?<\/li>\n<li>2)Monologue on Ahimsa parmo dharma<\/li>\n<li>Then asked whether we are following it or not?<\/li>\n<li>Then asked somebody with knife attacking? Will you still follow?<\/li>\n<li>4)Asked about\u00a0 there should be presidential democracy in India? My opinion?<\/li>\n<li>5)What is Vishwakarma? It&#8217;s Pouranic relation?<\/li>\n<li>(Few questions asked by every panel member lost at its place, so can&#8217;t memorise)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Chairman<\/strong> Greeted for better future and healthy life. Your interview is over.<\/p>\n<p>(Interview last around 28- 30 minutes.)<\/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: 5\/5\/2022 Afternoon session (Last to go) Board: Manoj Soni Sir Optional: Sociology Background: Mechanical engineering (No Single Question) Hobbies: Working on local environmental and social issues, Shayari writing (Lot of questions on hobbies) To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2021,\u00a0visit this page Your experience in interview- Board asked sometimes counter question (however&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-207-manoj-soni-board-sociology-optional\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #207 : Manoj Soni Board, Sociology 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":[8094,8809,10756,7978,1691],"class_list":["post-185705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-8094","tag-interview_transcript2021","tag-manoj_soni2021","tag-shayari","tag-sociology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185705","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=185705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}