{"id":241649,"date":"2023-05-10T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=241649"},"modified":"2023-05-10T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T05:54:10","slug":"upsc-interview-2022-transcript-287-lt-gen-raj-shukla-board-anthropology-optional-delhi-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-287-lt-gen-raj-shukla-board-anthropology-optional-delhi-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #287 : Lt. Gen Raj Shukla Board, Anthropology Optional, Delhi Home State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 18\/04\/23; forenoon<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Lt. Gen Raj Shukla sir<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Anthropology<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Delhi<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> B.Tech (ECE)&#8217;21<br \/>\n<strong>DAF keywords:<\/strong> Best out of waste, digital literacy, Delhi (home state), Rajasthan (alwar), covid related work<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Board had 4 male members including chairman sir and one female member<br \/>\n&#8211; Shukla sir&#8217;s questions were not straight-forward; he asked very long questions after telling a background story; and he dived a little deeper on the same topic<br \/>\n&#8211; overall board was cordial; mostly members gave time to complete answers barring a few cases; most members asked counter questions almost on every answer; scope for driving your own interview<\/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. Meaning of name<br \/>\n2. Why did in India govt. had to launch swachcha bharat mission; what was the need for govt to intervene, why can&#8217;t we keep our society clean ourselves (long question, Crux was this)<br \/>\n3. Story about sir&#8217;s visit to Japan and Singapore, in Japan people not only clean their own front yards but also neighbours&#8217;; in Singapore very high fine; in India we keep inside of our houses clean but keep outside unclean, why so?<br \/>\n4. Are we as a civilisation not wired to keep our surroundings clean? Who is at fault?<br \/>\n5. Even in posh areas like lutyens Delhi, you can find garbage piling on roads, reason?<br \/>\n6. (in one of the answers, mentioned indore) Why indore so clean? What have they done differently?<br \/>\n7. Status of swachcha bharat in India? Is it a success?<br \/>\n&#8211; there might be a few more but on same topic<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Did you sit for placements in college? (said no); so why not?<br \/>\nCross question regarding interview experience for placement would have only helped you ~ gave answer (seemed satisfied)<br \/>\n2. Talked about a position of responsibility (daf) I had in college; what skills it developed in you?<br \/>\n3. (one skill I mentioned &#8211; creative and innovative solutions) What creative solutions you built?<br \/>\n4. More cross questions on same, but factual in nature (asked numbers), like how much people it impacted etc ( I guess meant for seeing if person really did some work or just bluffing)<br \/>\n5. Indira Gandhi canal has benefitted people, but what is its strategic and security related importance?<br \/>\n6. Rajasthan has high unemployment rate, as DM of district how will reduce unemployment rate of your district (mentioned one point about soft loans)<br \/>\n7. Since you mentioned soft loans, you must have heard about MUDRA, but it is accumulating large NPAs, how to solve this problem?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Talked about hobby best out of waste; general what is it, what do you make?<br \/>\n2. What work you did in covid? How did it help? Again factual numbers, how many people part of it etc? Is it still continuing?<br \/>\n3. Water sharing issue in South India between which 2 states (I said karnataka and Tamil Nadu)<br \/>\n4. What can be done to solve the issue? As DC of district affected by this issue what will you do<br \/>\n(gave general points like need to build consensus b\/w states such that interests of both are met etc; Centre can intervene at later stage to solve issue in larger public interest)<br \/>\n5. Counter that all this has already been done; issue is from 19th century, how can we solve this (had to say sorry, will read more)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Why took anthro despite engineering bg?<br \/>\n2. What are the branches of anthro?<br \/>\n3. How did humans evolve, from where origin of modern day man? How did we become what we are today?<br \/>\n4. Why neanderthals vanished from earth?<br \/>\n5. Tourist place near alwar (I said sariska; seemed like he wanted to hear something else; but ab bol diya toh let&#8217;s ask on this only)<br \/>\n6. Why tiger population in sariska not what it should be? What issues are there?<br \/>\n7. Why were tigers recently in news ( ~ tiger census)<br \/>\n8. What was unique about this census (I gave some point about increase in tiger numbers; sir himself said unique is it is happening at 50 years of project tiger launch)<br \/>\n9. What is the exact number of tigers in India as per new report?<br \/>\n10. Why project tiger successful? Why it increased tiger number in India when in other countries tiger number is declining<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. About indira gandhi shehri rozgaar yojana of Rajasthan, what are its provisions, its pros and cons, should same be replicated in other states?<br \/>\n2. Exact number of people employed through the above scheme in Rajasthan till date?<br \/>\n3. What is more imp basic literacy or digital literacy?<br \/>\n4. How will you improve basic literacy of your district?<br \/>\n5. Initiatives that govt can take in field of digital India apart from what it is already taking (mentioned 1 point about more work needed to be done to bridge language barrier; translation of content on sites in regional languages)<br \/>\n6. How can translation be done in local languages of various things in digital domain? (mentioned AI)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairman<\/strong> sir said thank you, you may go now<br \/>\nMight be missing a few questions; during the course of interview chairman sir stood up from his seat multiple times, seemed busy or pre-occupied<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mocks utility &#8211;<\/strong> in mocks there were little counter ques or questions on keywords mentioned in previous answer; but in real interview, most of the questions originated from previous answer; there were also prolonged discussions on single topics<br \/>\nThough, since mostly interview was daf based, few questions got repeated; helps in building confidence and keep a smile despite all the stress<\/p>\n<p>All the best to everyone else!!<\/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: 18\/04\/23; forenoon Board: Lt. Gen Raj Shukla sir Optional: Anthropology Home State: Delhi Background: B.Tech (ECE)&#8217;21 DAF keywords: Best out of waste, digital literacy, Delhi (home state), Rajasthan (alwar), covid related work &#8211; Board had 4 male members including chairman sir and one female member &#8211; Shukla sir&#8217;s questions were not straight-forward;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-287-lt-gen-raj-shukla-board-anthropology-optional-delhi-home-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #287 : Lt. 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