{"id":186578,"date":"2022-05-27T16:16:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T10:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=186578"},"modified":"2022-05-27T10:37:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T05:07:51","slug":"upsc-interview-2021-transcript-229-smita-nagraj-board-psir-optional-chess-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-229-smita-nagraj-board-psir-optional-chess-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #229 : Smita Nagraj Board, PSIR Optional, Chess Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong>\u00a0 9 May<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Smita Nagraj Ma&#8217;am<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> PSIR<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> B.tech (Industrial)<br \/>\n<strong>Work Ex:<\/strong> Part time at Agro based Startup, Internship at Food Park<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> Chess<\/p>\n<p>Time:\u00a0 40 min approx, last one to go<\/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>Utility of Mock &#8211;\u00a0 I believe it helps a lot. Even if we don&#8217;t realise, our performance improves.Entered with mask only ( kept throughout the interview) , wished the members.<br \/>\nAre u in Army? Said no madam.<br \/>\nThen why are you are standing in attention position, relax and sit down?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You passed out in 2019 , yet u worked for 3 yrs without remuneration during college ( in a Start up ) &#8211; tell us something about it.<\/li>\n<li>Your role in the Start up?<\/li>\n<li>Explain business model?<\/li>\n<li>What is it doing presently?<\/li>\n<li>More follow up questions on it.<\/li>\n<li>What are you\u00a0 doing at present?<\/li>\n<li>Where were you more free &#8211; startup or family business?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You play Chess, what are your learning or positives of playing chess?<\/li>\n<li>Any negative effect of playing chess?<\/li>\n<li>How has covid affected your startup?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How will you use Supply Chain knowledge to address the disruptions of SC we have seen after Covid?<\/li>\n<li>What is Gati Shakti?<\/li>\n<li>How will it help us?<\/li>\n<li>What changes you would suggest in it?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Food wastage is major problem &#8211; What to do to address it?<\/li>\n<li>Vehical Scrappage &#8211; years and km dual condition what is it?<\/li>\n<li>Is it justified, what&#8217;s your opinion?<\/li>\n<li>Why not followed for Armed forces vehicals?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Food parks have not succeeded, why reasons?<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t u think &#8211; raw material availablity, labour etc are also the reasons?<\/li>\n<li>Why rouble is not falling despite sanctions<\/li>\n<li>CPEC &#8211; India&#8217;s stance,<\/li>\n<li>What Infra projects are there in it<\/li>\n<li>Status and why it is not successful?<\/li>\n<li>Do u know any hydroelectric projects of CPEC?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You talked about debt trap diplomacy. If India has that amount of money as China, should we too do it?<\/li>\n<li>But we are giving loan to countries even now. What&#8217;s the difference.<\/li>\n<li>I said something like India&#8217;s aim while giving debt is primarily development of other nations , eg our neighborhood&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Madam laughed a little and said our neighbors would want to disagree with you on that.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Thank you your\u00a0 interview is over<\/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:\u00a0 9 May Board: Smita Nagraj Ma&#8217;am Optional: PSIR Background: B.tech (Industrial) Work Ex: Part time at Agro based Startup, Internship at Food Park Hobbies: Chess Time:\u00a0 40 min approx, last one to go To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2021,\u00a0visit this page Utility of Mock &#8211;\u00a0 I believe it helps a lot.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-229-smita-nagraj-board-psir-optional-chess-hobby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #229 : Smita Nagraj Board, PSIR Optional, Chess 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":[8094,1716,8809,1679,10698],"class_list":["post-186578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-8094","tag-chess","tag-interview_transcript2021","tag-psir","tag-smita_nagraj2021","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186578","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=186578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}