{"id":235755,"date":"2023-04-04T22:13:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T16:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=235755"},"modified":"2023-04-04T05:50:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T00:20:54","slug":"upsc-interview-2022-transcript-206-smita-nagraj-board-geography-optional-uttar-pradesh-home-state-singing-guitar-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-206-smita-nagraj-board-geography-optional-uttar-pradesh-home-state-singing-guitar-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #206 : Smita Nagraj Board, Geography Optional, Uttar Pradesh Home State, Singing, Guitar Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 15 March 2023, Afternoon, 5th to go<br \/>\n<strong>Duration:<\/strong> Approx. 25<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Smita Nagraj ma\u2019am<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Varanasi\/ Uttar Pradesh<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Geography<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> B.Tech in Mechanical engineering IIT BHU Varanasi<br \/>\n<strong>Hobby (in DAF):<\/strong> Singing, Guitar, Hindi poetry<br \/>\n1st Interview ,5th attempt<br \/>\nNayab tehsildar, Lucknow, UP<\/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>1. Don\u2019t you think that your current job role is a misfit according to your overall profile?<br \/>\n2. What are the main things you are supposed to do?<br \/>\n3. Name one thing for which administration is important and one for which it is useless.<br \/>\n4. What is the land revenue amount collected in UP?<br \/>\n5. Should it be waived off?<br \/>\n6. But you said that recovery is important. Ma\u2019am I was talking about the Recovery certificate.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Working in administration. Why seek a higher post?<br \/>\n2. Talked about statues in Lucknow and should they be removed?<br \/>\n3. What about the animal sculptures?<br \/>\n4. Why only elephants?<br \/>\n5. Battle of Plassey<br \/>\n6. Battle of Buxar<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Importance of BHU<br \/>\n2. Importance of Varanasi<br \/>\n3. What changes will you bring in Administration with your work-ex?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. You mentioned Ganga vilas. Why do we need it?<br \/>\n2. Aren\u2019t we late in using waterways<br \/>\n3. Why didn\u2019t we do it earlier?<br \/>\n4. Don\u2019t we need to attract domestic tourists?<br \/>\n5. Is it going to be viable?<br \/>\n6. What is Bpharma and biotech ranking?<br \/>\n7. Reason for Covid-19 breakout<br \/>\n8. Speculation aside what do you feel?<br \/>\n9. If R&amp;D then medicine also needed. But China didn\u2019t have it.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Patwaris are never available. Do we need them?<br \/>\n2. But e-governance use kar ke u can verify?<br \/>\n3. Do people come to you with complaints against patwari<br \/>\n4. What do you do to solve this?<br \/>\n5. So do you think Patwaris are good??<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you feel higher officials are mean to you because you are a Nayab Tehsildar?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Experience:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Great experience. Board was cordial. A lot of smiling faces around.<\/p>\n<p>Mock interview utility: Good for structuring the answers and getting used to the interview conditions.<\/p>\n<p>I gave mocks in Samkalp, KSG and Next IAS.<br \/>\nAll were good. One to one with Khan Sir was amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Fingers crossed<\/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: 15 March 2023, Afternoon, 5th to go Duration: Approx. 25 Board: Smita Nagraj ma\u2019am Home State: Varanasi\/ Uttar Pradesh Optional: Geography Background: B.Tech in Mechanical engineering IIT BHU Varanasi Hobby (in DAF): Singing, Guitar, Hindi poetry 1st Interview ,5th attempt Nayab tehsildar, Lucknow, UP To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2022, visit&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-206-smita-nagraj-board-geography-optional-uttar-pradesh-home-state-singing-guitar-hobby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #206 : Smita Nagraj Board, Geography Optional, Uttar Pradesh Home State, Singing, Guitar 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":[11255,80,9976,11254,7973,11269,2183],"class_list":["post-235755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-11255","tag-geography","tag-guitar","tag-interview_transcript2022","tag-singing","tag-smita_nagraj2022","tag-uttar-pradesh","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":4,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698239865},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235755","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=235755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}