{"id":236569,"date":"2023-04-10T18:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T12:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=236569"},"modified":"2023-04-10T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T05:30:12","slug":"upsc-interview-2022-transcript-228-lieutenant-general-raj-shukla-board-punjabi-literature-optional-punjab-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-228-lieutenant-general-raj-shukla-board-punjabi-literature-optional-punjab-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #228 : Lieutenant General Raj Shukla Board, Punjabi literature Optional, Punjab Home State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 22.03.23 Afternoon Session<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Lieutenant General Raj Shukla Sir<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Amritsar, Punjab<br \/>\n<strong>Work experience:<\/strong> Union Bank of India (4.5 yrs)<br \/>\n<strong>Workplace:<\/strong> Surat<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Punjabi literature<br \/>\nTime: 31 minutes (attendant himself told me precisely that how long it went )<\/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>(He asks very long questions, so many questions in a single question sometimes you can&#8217;t get what exactly he&#8217;s trying to ask. Below written questions are shortened version of his monologues)<\/p>\n<p>1. What is your hometown<br \/>\n2. Amritpal&#8217;s issue what is the situation in Punjab.<br \/>\n3. Do Pakistan has a role<br \/>\n4. Pak is itself grappling in economic stress why will it fund disturbance in India.<br \/>\n5. Pakistan army is getting involved in internal politics of Pakistan how you see it.<br \/>\n6. Do you think Pakistan can get stability in near future when both govt and army don&#8217;t wanna change themselves.<br \/>\n7. Is Imran Khan a populist leader or inducted by army.<br \/>\n8. How you see future prospects of Imran Khan<br \/>\n(I said I don&#8217;t have this much idea about Pakistan&#8217;s internal politics , he said okay so let&#8217;s go farther \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n9. Taliban regime is getting stronger in Afghanistan, can they sustain?<br \/>\n10. Taliban has hard core philosophy they don&#8217;t wanna change, so how you see future of Afghanistan.<br \/>\n11. China has a role in Saudi Iran deal. Do you think it has diminished the role of USA or USA is over-ocuppied in other regions<br \/>\n12. Is this a one time event or China will interfere in other West Asian nations<br \/>\n13. How US oil imports from Saudi Arab will be impacted due to this deal. Will US move to other regions.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. 3 judges recently gave interview to media including chief justices. (I confirmed twice that this incident is recent or 2-3 years ago because I read about it back then not recently). He said recent one. Then he asked should judges answer such questions (I asked about questions) . Then he said leave it if you haven&#8217;t watched that interview<br \/>\n2. SVB bank crisis reasons<br \/>\n3. Impact on Indian Banks, difference between US and indian banking regulation.<br \/>\n4. So what should India do to prevent banking crisis<br \/>\n3. MDR (merchant discount rate)<br \/>\n4. MDR on UPI, why zero, isn&#8217;t this unfair with other platforms.<br \/>\n5. HDFC vs Union Bank share price why the difference.( I told about that UBI share price had also risen )<br \/>\n6. Why Union Bank share price rose.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Live court proceedings, your opinion<br \/>\n2. Privacy issue who will decide privacy in live proceedings<br \/>\n3. I gave an example of girl who got his name removed from a case available online. So he asked how as a lawyer I&#8217;ll be able to get that case. I said lawyers have their internal portal or reasearch libraries. Internet is not their principal source. He said we don&#8217;t have any research library. I said some internal portal must definitely be there. Then he agreed.<br \/>\n4. NPAs are due to target based banking. You people are pressurised for targets, Won&#8217;t you be completing targets till 31st march, Some people do run for targets what about them.<br \/>\n5. You have done graduation only and immediately joined bank after graduation. You haven&#8217;t done masters. You become IAS and some PCS or junior who is MBA, masters degree holder or has higher educational qualifications. Won&#8217;t you feel complex?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It was more of a normal conversation with her rather than question answers<\/p>\n<p>1. You studied Punjabi literature in Gurmukhi<br \/>\n2. Which places you&#8217;ll take me to as a tourist in Amritsar<br \/>\n3. Blogging on which topics , how many followers (Hobby)<br \/>\n4. You write poetry in which language (hobby)<br \/>\n5 . Surat vs Amritsar compare. Don&#8217;t you get issue with food as it&#8217;s totally different from Amritsar<br \/>\n6. You are doing so well in banking you can reach greater heights why Civil Services then<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. You were answering about share price, P\/E\u00a0 ratio of HDFC vs Union Bank is 20 and 6 respectively. What does it signify<br \/>\n2. You said USA will diversify it&#8217;s imports, do you know by next year it will become net exporter of Oil .<br \/>\n3. Impact of Social media on polity and governance.<br \/>\n(2-3 more questions he asked that i am not able to recall)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairman Sir :<\/strong> (Again many questions merged in each question)<\/p>\n<p>1. Why Bank nationalisation<br \/>\n2.\u00a0 Why nationalisation pre-liberalisation and privatisation after that .<br \/>\n3. Why private banks when ultimately govt has to bail them as in SVB case.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall experience:<\/strong> Shukla sir&#8217;s questions may seem hard by reading transcripts but in actual he gives so much intro of everything and asks open ended questions on which you can comment if you can&#8217;t answer<br \/>\nIt was 60% Daf based + 20% IR + 10% Judicial issues+ 10% miscellaneous for me. Cordial board no issues as such.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mocks experience:<\/strong> Didn&#8217;t attend any so no comments<\/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: 22.03.23 Afternoon Session Board: Lieutenant General Raj Shukla Sir Home State: Amritsar, Punjab Work experience: Union Bank of India (4.5 yrs) Workplace: Surat Optional: Punjabi literature Time: 31 minutes (attendant himself told me precisely that how long it went ) To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2022, visit this page Chairman (He&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-228-lieutenant-general-raj-shukla-board-punjabi-literature-optional-punjab-home-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #228 : Lieutenant General Raj Shukla Board, Punjabi literature Optional, Punjab Home State<\/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":[11255,11254,6633,9391,11258],"class_list":["post-236569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-11255","tag-interview_transcript2022","tag-punjab","tag-punjabi_literature","tag-gen-raj-shukla","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236569","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=236569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}