{"id":186937,"date":"2022-05-29T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T06:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=186937"},"modified":"2022-05-29T12:01:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T06:31:59","slug":"upsc-interview-2021-transcript-238-smita-nagaraj-board-philosophy-optional-cooking-watching-f1-racing-hobbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-238-smita-nagaraj-board-philosophy-optional-cooking-watching-f1-racing-hobbies\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #238 : Smita Nagaraj Board, Philosophy Optional, Cooking, Watching F1 Racing Hobbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 02\/05\/2022 1:00 pm(Around 30 mins)<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Smita Nagaraj<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Philosophy<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> Btech(EC ) From AMU, Worked in BEL, Currently in Indian Railway through ESE-2014<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> Cooking, Watching F1 Racing, Aircraft Enthusiast<\/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> ( Around 8 min)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Serving railways for long, why CS? Loss of engineer to railway? Discussion on this for 2-3 min<\/li>\n<li>Need of Space exploration. Cross question 2-3 min<\/li>\n<li>Mars colonization, need, in the end every celestial body will be doomed, the why to colonize. Discussion on this. Name few islands still colonized by states.<\/li>\n<li>Whether we can colonize Mars? Answer in Yes or No only<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 1<\/strong> (Around 4 mins)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Why Formula 1 called as Formula 1?<\/li>\n<li>Current F1 champion?<\/li>\n<li>Defence warfare<\/li>\n<li>What are offensive warfares?<\/li>\n<li>Role of electronics in Aircraft. Discussion on electronics and avionics.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 2<\/strong> (Around 5-6 mins)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You have covered different unrelated fields in your life like BTech(ECE), Philosophy, defence, Railways, cooking, Aircraft, Formula 1. How and Why?<\/li>\n<li>Why no F1 race in Noida circuit? I explained the entire issue. Why government want to tax F1 more, what could be done . Discussion related to tax and negotiation for 2 mins<\/li>\n<li>What I do as aircraft enthusiast. Around 1 min<\/li>\n<li>Asked me commissioning year of F17and C17? Said no to this.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 3<\/strong> (2-3 min)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>He told that he will be asking from different domain and only 1 question.<\/li>\n<li>Tamil Nadu VC appointment issue(Current working in TamilNadu state)<\/li>\n<li>Discussion for 2-3 mins. He was satisfied.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 4<\/strong> (around 8-10 mins)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Started with Tamil nadu VC issue. Discussion for 2-3 min minutes. I explained with centre-state issue, NEET,CUET, Governor holding bill for presidential assent. I told everything very clearly but he was searching something else. He was not satisfied.<\/li>\n<li>Asked me about my published paper on 4G, its relevance in 5G era. Its impact factor(I told not remember the impact factor)<\/li>\n<li>Other journals with high impact factor. I told IEEE and IETE.<\/li>\n<li>He mentioned nature and science and asked impact factor. I asked for a guess. My guess was almost the exact impact factor.<\/li>\n<li>Why farmer status is very poor. Reasons and solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Another technical name for post harvest. Said no(Ans. Is secondary Agriculture)<\/li>\n<li>What is Apiculture? Asked him to make a guess. Bingo. What is Colony collapse disorder ?<\/li>\n<li>Except agriculture question, more or less everything is from DAF or engineering.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Chairman:<\/strong> No further question, your interview is over.<\/p>\n<p>Overall cordial board and interview was good. Chairperson and M4 was continuously responding , smiling and nodding. M1&amp;M2, no expression but continuously making eye contact. M3 was not at all interested.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/05\/2022 1:00 pm(Around 30 mins) Board: Smita Nagaraj Optional: Philosophy Background: Btech(EC ) From AMU, Worked in BEL, Currently in Indian Railway through ESE-2014 Hobbies: Cooking, Watching F1 Racing, Aircraft Enthusiast To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2021,\u00a0visit this page Chairperson ( Around 8 min) Serving railways for long, why CS? Loss&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-238-smita-nagaraj-board-philosophy-optional-cooking-watching-f1-racing-hobbies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #238 : Smita Nagaraj Board, Philosophy Optional, Cooking, Watching F1 Racing 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":[8094,7990,10764,8809,1702,10698],"class_list":["post-186937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-8094","tag-cooking","tag-f1-racing","tag-interview_transcript2021","tag-philosophy","tag-smita_nagraj2021","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":7,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703072973},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186937","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=186937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}