{"id":224844,"date":"2023-02-03T16:05:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T10:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=224844"},"modified":"2023-02-03T16:05:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T10:35:11","slug":"upsc-interview-2022-transcript-11-rn-choubey-board-maharashtra-home-state-cooking-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-11-rn-choubey-board-maharashtra-home-state-cooking-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #11 : RN Choubey Board, Maharashtra Home State, Cooking Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 2nd Feb to be interviewed, Forenoon Session<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Shri Rajiv Nayan Choubey<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Maharashtra<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> IRS (IT), Hyderabad,<br \/>\n<strong>Hobby:<\/strong> Cooking,<\/p>\n<p>CSE, International Mathematical Olympiad, Google summer of code(GSC), Stray animal rescue and rehabilitation, chess<br \/>\n4th attempt, 3rd Interview(including this &#8212; every time, Chaubey Sir chaired them)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/#it2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>You can remove your mask if you are vaccinated and comfortable with it<br \/>\nThen, as always explained the procedure of personality test and told that it is just a conversation etc.<\/li>\n<li>I won\u2019t ask you to expand your name but quickly tell us about your academic and work background<\/li>\n<li>You are already having a laddu in your hand\u2026. what else do you need on the laddu?<\/li>\n<li>Why do you want to enter IAS?<\/li>\n<li>As you are from Nagpur, there is this economic think tank which says that instead of direct taxation, if we tax all the transactions that are taking place, it generates more revenue and we won\u2019t even be needing the direct taxation and in fact IT department\u2026\u2026(Monologue of 2 min, but this is the essence)\u2026.What is your take on it?<\/li>\n<li>Similar constraints are present in Direct Taxation slab too\u2026. What is the way forward?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>East Godavari district is called Rice bowl of Southern India\u2026. Have you seen cane cultivation there? (Rajahmundry is in my DAF)<\/li>\n<li>Bamboo cultivation significance<\/li>\n<li>Paper Industry problems and what can we do?<\/li>\n<li>Speciality of Nagpur\u2026. questions on orange cultivation and Nagpur climate\u2026.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>You\u2019re CS graduate\u2026Self driving cars\u2026can they be successful in India?<\/li>\n<li>Possible challenges for Self-Driving vehicle in India<\/li>\n<li>Why traffic sense is in disarray in India?<\/li>\n<li>GSC\u2026. why did you discontinue it?<\/li>\n<li>NP complete vs NP hard problems<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>What do you cook?<\/li>\n<li>Difference between normal and Dum biryani? Why is it so special?<\/li>\n<li>It is Biryani only if it is Mutton Biryani\u2026What do you say?<\/li>\n<li>Why Nationalistic tendencies are increasing all over the world?<\/li>\n<li>Only economic or there are other reasons as well?<\/li>\n<li>If we reduce tax rates more people will be eager to pay taxes, then why don\u2019t we do it?&#8230;..talked about Laffer curve and trade off between increased tax base but decreased tax revenue\u2026.didn\u2019t ask further questions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>View on taxing new sectors such as Agriculture\u2026.how can we do?<\/li>\n<li>What are the problems that would arrive?<\/li>\n<li>Monologue on Nepal and Bhutan\u2026.Difference in democratic structures in both the countries?<\/li>\n<li>Working principle of Mercury thermometer<\/li>\n<li>Interesting fact about Shannon\u2019s number<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>Chairman: <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Anything you need to share?<br \/>\nI told about the Stray animal part and some discussion about it<br \/>\n<strong>Experience:<\/strong> Surprisingly they asked me from DAF, as in previous 2 times, it was completely random\u2026duration is of 30-35 min\u2026..Went well and the flow was without or with little turbulence\u2026.<br \/>\nKeep in mind that having a DAF based and nice PT isn\u2019t synonymous with good marks and random questionnaire doesn\u2019t mean low marks\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Have a leap of faith upon yourself and enter the room with confidence without any thoughts\u2026..<br \/>\nAll the best everyone and fly high with wings of confidence!!!<\/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 2023: <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: 2nd Feb to be interviewed, Forenoon Session Board: Shri Rajiv Nayan Choubey Home State: Maharashtra Background: IRS (IT), Hyderabad, Hobby: Cooking, CSE, International Mathematical Olympiad, Google summer of code(GSC), Stray animal rescue and rehabilitation, chess 4th attempt, 3rd Interview(including this &#8212; every time, Chaubey Sir chaired them) To view all IAS Interview&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-11-rn-choubey-board-maharashtra-home-state-cooking-hobby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #11 : RN Choubey Board, Maharashtra Home State, Cooking 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":[11255,9353,11254,2043,11256],"class_list":["post-224844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-11255","tag-coocking","tag-interview_transcript2022","tag-maharashtra","tag-rn_choubey2022","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224844","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=224844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}