{"id":235751,"date":"2023-04-04T12:03:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T06:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=235751"},"modified":"2023-04-04T04:43:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T23:13:57","slug":"upsc-interview-2022-transcript-201-preeti-sudan-maam-board-psir-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-201-preeti-sudan-maam-board-psir-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #201 : Preeti Sudan Ma&#8217;am Board, PSIR Optional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">Date of Interview<\/strong>: 14 March, Morning (1st to go)<br \/>\n<strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">Board<\/strong>: Preeti Sudan Ma&#8217;am<br \/>\n<strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">Optional:<\/strong>\u00a0PSIR<br \/>\n<strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">College<\/strong>: NSIT, Delhi<br \/>\n<strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">Profession<\/strong>: Assitant Manager at Bharti Airtel (resigned)<br \/>\n<strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">Hobbies<\/strong>: Research publication at IISc Bangalore, Close up Magic tricks<\/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<h2><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Remove your mask and be comfortable. If you don&#8217;t hear or understand the question you can ask us to repeat that. (The room was quite big)<\/p>\n<p>1. So you have worked in Airtel, why did you leave the job?<br \/>\n2. Why Civil Services?<br \/>\n3. If you are a newly appointed SDM, what would be your first steps after taking charge of the district?<br \/>\n4. I see that you have a published research in IISc? Can you tell about the research paper in brief and what was your work?<br \/>\n5. Further discussion on the research.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. What is your opinion on the local self govt? How are they useful for India?<br \/>\n2. In reality, these local govt institutions are not working properly? Do you think that they have not been successful? What is your view?<br \/>\n3. What is your stand on UCC?<br \/>\n4. There has been religious harmony since ages in India, why then do we need to bring in UCC?<br \/>\n5. Would it not dissolve the diversity of India? What is the use of UCC then? (kept cross-questioning on UCC application, did not look satisfied)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. I see that you have magic as a hobby, how did you pick up this hobby?<br \/>\n2. How do you learn these tricks?<br \/>\n3. Since you have worked in Bharti Airtel and 5G has recently been launched, I want you to tell me about technologies similar to 5G which are under development? What are their uses?<br \/>\n4. Since you have PSIR, how do you think India can utilise its G20 presidency?<br \/>\n5. Brief discussion on G20 and India.<br \/>\n6. In brief, tell me any 3 takeaways from Russia-Ukraine war that can be useful for India?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Differentiate bw Strategic Autonomy and Non-alignment in the past? Is it the same?<br \/>\n2. Some cross-questioning on this.<br \/>\n3. To counter China, which countries should India side with? How should India proceed?<br \/>\n4. Can you name some countries with which India has alliances or collab to counter China?<br \/>\n3. Why do you think India is siding with Russia when it is clear that Russia is the aggressor?<br \/>\n4. What are the reasons that Russia has given for starting the war?<br \/>\n5. If you don&#8217;t think that India is with Russia, then why has it not voted against Russia in UN?<br \/>\n6. Do you think India is losing on an opportunity by not choosing sides in this war?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 5<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Long monologue about how Supreme Court has given landmark judgements which have made the society progressive.<br \/>\n2. One such judgement was the Vishakha judgement? Have you heard about it? What is it?<br \/>\n3. In Airtel, what kind of awareness was there regarding the sexual harassment at workplace?<br \/>\n4. What is the institutional setup regarding sexual harassment at workplaces? Can you tell me what is the outcome of Vishakha guidelines and what rules do the companies have to follow?<br \/>\n5. What is your opinion about Right to Information? Do you think that it has been a revolutionary step?<br \/>\n6. Suppose you file an RTI in my office, and I refuse to indulge details what appeal mechanism you have?<br \/>\n7. I said ma&#8217;am I&#8217;m not very sure about the mechanism, but she said what would you do as a normal person? Answer from that point of view.<br \/>\n8. What if PIO also does not help you and you have no recourse? What would you do then?<\/p>\n<p>Preeti Sudan Ma&#8217;am looked at everyone then smiled and said ok beta your interview is over, you can go.<\/p>\n<p><strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">Experience in interview<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Quite good, cordial board. Slight cross-questioning but great experience. Questions were largely from DAF (Job, optional, hobby) and few from general awareness.<\/p>\n<p><strong data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityBold\">Utility of mocks or O2O (if any) <\/strong>&#8211; Gave a lot of mocks (10-12). Helped in understanding the situation and framing my answers. Some questions did get repeated related to job, PSIR and hobbies.<br \/>\nBest mocks &#8211; Chahal (best one), Unacademy, Vajirao &amp; Reddy, ForumIAS.<br \/>\nOne to One with Khan Sir, Ravindran Sir, Ayush Sir, Vinay Sir all were very good.<\/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: 14 March, Morning (1st to go) Board: Preeti Sudan Ma&#8217;am Optional:\u00a0PSIR College: NSIT, Delhi Profession: Assitant Manager at Bharti Airtel (resigned) Hobbies: Research publication at IISc Bangalore, Close up Magic tricks To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2022, visit this page Chairman Remove your mask and be comfortable. 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