{"id":238272,"date":"2023-04-19T18:28:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T12:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=238272"},"modified":"2023-04-19T05:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T23:34:46","slug":"upsc-interview-2022-transcript-265-smita-nagraj-board-rajasthan-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-265-smita-nagraj-board-rajasthan-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #265 : Smita Nagraj Board, Rajasthan Home state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 29\/03\/2023<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Smita Nagraj Madam<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Rajasthan<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> none asked<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> Civil engineering from IIT<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> none asked<\/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>0. what are you doing nowadays?<br \/>\n1. how will you reconcile the demand for reservations by numerous groups (urge to prove oneself backward) with the celebration of indias growth story?<br \/>\n2. why these groups are mobilised around some particular identities- is it easy mobilisation or something else?<br \/>\n3. how can we overcome these identities?<br \/>\n4. after you got selected and then your community invites you for a function , will you attend\/<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. how will you use civil engineering (graduation subject) in civil services say diplomacy ?<br \/>\n2. how is state of Rajasthan contributing to help india address climate change challenges?<br \/>\n3. negatives of large solar plants and how can those be overcome?<br \/>\n4. isn&#8217;t solarisation of canals costly?<br \/>\n5. intermittency of solar power, how to address? &#8211; hybrid plants and converting solar to potential energy of water.<br \/>\n6. are these steps being implemented anywhere in the country?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. milieu viaduct?<br \/>\n2. why do we no longer build cantilever bridges and mostly go for suspension bridges?<br \/>\n3. why civil engineers have not been able to make new innovative techniques like 3d printing a movement in the construction sector?<br \/>\n4. work done by BRO in north east region?<br \/>\n5. steps to double farmers income?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. causes of joshimath case from civil engineering point of view and how to address?<br \/>\n2. if we will not build large highways, then how will we be able to match the chinese infrastructure on the border?<br \/>\n3. we see china has build infrastructure at such large scale with considerable pace, why we are not able to do so&#8211; is it due to lack of civil engineers , or our incompetency or geographical difficulties on our side in himalayas.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. how to overcome chinese challenge?<br \/>\n2. what is aukus and its members?<br \/>\nlast: people from jodhpur area are so polite and humble, what is the reason for that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>experience in interview:<\/strong> board was cordial, chairwomen and two of the members were very attentive and engaging. overall was a good attempt, could have been better.<br \/>\nsuggested mocks: Chahal; samkalp.<br \/>\nGood luck to the remaining candidates for upcoming PT<\/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: 29\/03\/2023 Board: Smita Nagraj Madam Home State: Rajasthan Optional: none asked Background: Civil engineering from IIT Hobbies: none asked To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2022, visit this page Chairman 0. what are you doing nowadays? 1. how will you reconcile the demand for reservations by numerous groups (urge to prove oneself&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-265-smita-nagraj-board-rajasthan-home-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #265 : Smita Nagraj Board, Rajasthan 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":[11255,11254,2780,11269],"class_list":["post-238272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-11255","tag-interview_transcript2022","tag-rajasthan","tag-smita_nagraj2022","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":20,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703662906},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238272","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=238272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}