{"id":186173,"date":"2022-05-24T20:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T14:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=186173"},"modified":"2022-05-24T19:11:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T13:41:23","slug":"upsc-interview-2021-transcript-211-smita-nagraj-board-history-optional-reading-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-211-smita-nagraj-board-history-optional-reading-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #211 : Smita Nagraj Board, History Optional, Reading Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 02 May, afternoon<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Smita Nagraj<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> History<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> Shri Ram College of Commerce<br \/>\n<strong>Profession<\/strong> (if any)- IRPS<br \/>\n<strong>Hobby:<\/strong> Book Reading<\/p>\n<p>Utility of mocks (if any)- good for practice, idea of questions from Daf, minor fine tuning, Nothing More.<\/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>Asked where are you posted these days, how many person with you in training. (just to let me get comfortable)<\/li>\n<li>Named some reasons behind corruption. How will you solve these issues? (gave some points)<\/li>\n<li>Is this not going on?<\/li>\n<li>Which reason of corruption according to you is most important (said red tapism)<\/li>\n<li>What is red tapism?<\/li>\n<li>Have you faced corruption? (talked about my experience)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You belong to small town, how was your locality, rural or urban?<\/li>\n<li>Why Patiyali is famous? (town in my district, birthplace of Amir Khusrau)<\/li>\n<li>Despite being birthplace of Amir Khusrau, why it&#8217;s not developed?<\/li>\n<li>What are biofuels?<\/li>\n<li>India grows and export a lot of rice. What is the problem in that, with respect to climate change?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>India is growing economically, but is it not jobless growth?<\/li>\n<li>What is the railway university that&#8217;s coming in Vadodara?<\/li>\n<li>Lot of South Asian and South East Asian countries have better socioeconomic indicators than India? How do you see this?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Do you follow table tennis, what was the incident between Manika Batra and her coach during Tokyo Olympics?<\/li>\n<li>What is crony capitalism?<\/li>\n<li>Work from home culture? What is its future, is it good?<\/li>\n<li>What type of books you have read? (book reading my hobby)<\/li>\n<li>What books you have read on history?<\/li>\n<li>Why you opted for history, despite being commerce graduate?<\/li>\n<li>Who are subaltern historians? Have you ever read any book written by subaltern historians?<\/li>\n<li>Why IPL viewership is declining?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What is the govt target for tuberculosis?<\/li>\n<li>What are the problems in TB program?<\/li>\n<li>How will you solve these issues?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Chairperson<\/strong> &#8211; your interview is over<\/p>\n<p>It went for about 25 minutes. Plain and simple, few hiccups in between, rest fine. Nothing unusual except light went off once.<\/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: 02 May, afternoon Board: Smita Nagraj Optional: History Background: Shri Ram College of Commerce Profession (if any)- IRPS Hobby: Book Reading Utility of mocks (if any)- good for practice, idea of questions from Daf, minor fine tuning, Nothing More. To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2021,\u00a0visit this page Chairperson Asked where are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-211-smita-nagraj-board-history-optional-reading-hobby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #211 : Smita Nagraj Board, History Optional, Reading Hobby<\/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],"class_list":["post-186173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-8094","tag-history","tag-interview_transcript2021","tag-reading_books","tag-smita_nagraj2021","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698296971},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186173","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=186173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}