{"id":242025,"date":"2023-05-13T10:32:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T05:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=242025"},"modified":"2023-05-12T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T10:00:16","slug":"upsc-interview-2022-transcript-305-manoj-soni-board-economics-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-305-manoj-soni-board-economics-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #305 : Manoj Soni Board, Economics\u00a0Optional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 24\/4\/23<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Manoj Soni Sir<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Economics<br \/>\n<strong>Profile:<\/strong> IRS (C&amp;IT), ex-Data Scientist, IIT Delhi<br \/>\n<strong>DAF Keywords:<\/strong> Documentary movies<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 35 mins<\/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. You have worked in private sector before joining the government, what 1 or 2 learnings you want to bring to government sector?<br \/>\n2. Do you think hierarchy is too strict in government and should it be changed?<br \/>\n3. How are different countries regulating data?<br \/>\n4. Monologue about AI, in your view is the impact of AI?<br \/>\n5. What are some threats by AI towards national security?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Which Indian documentary movie won Oscar recently?<br \/>\n2. Will AI lead to reduction in jobs?<br \/>\n3. What is prompt engineering?<br \/>\n4. How AI will help robots to improve efficiency?<br \/>\n5. What is the status of 3d printing technology in India?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. What are the reasons for high number of farmer suicides?<br \/>\n2. What percentage of rural area covered by institutional credit?<br \/>\n3. Any provision or legislation to regulate moneylenders in villages that charge exorbitant interest rates?<br \/>\n4. Do you agree with the statement &#8211; \u201cMoneylenders are dangerous necessity\u201d?<br \/>\n5. What is law of diminishing returns in economics?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. You have taken a large paycut by coming to government sector, don\u2019t you think it is not such a wise decision financially?<br \/>\n2. Why tax base low in India?<br \/>\n3. How to increase tax base and reduce evasion of taxes?<br \/>\n4. Shall we integrate both the services IRS IT and IRS C&amp;IT for more seamless taxation system?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Differentiate between profit and profiteering?<br \/>\n2. Tell exact definition of profiteering in GST law?<br \/>\n3. Tax department has introduced faceless system. Explain what is it with positives and negatives.<br \/>\n4. What provision of law would you apply if a business is levying additional tax than prescribed?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairman<\/strong><br \/>\nThank you. Your interview is over<\/p>\n<p><strong>Experience &#8211;<\/strong> Quite serious but engaging interview. Too many questions from a single theme (Data, taxation). Board gave proper time to express. They do listen intently and a lot of questions are follow up to keywords or examples that one gives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suggestion &#8211;<\/strong> Please give mocks or talk to friends to improve articulation. Confidence is really the key!<\/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: 24\/4\/23 Board: Manoj Soni Sir Optional: Economics Profile: IRS (C&amp;IT), ex-Data Scientist, IIT Delhi DAF Keywords: Documentary movies Time: 35 mins To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2022, visit this page Chairman 1. You have worked in private sector before joining the government, what 1 or 2 learnings you want to bring&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-305-manoj-soni-board-economics-optional\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #305 : Manoj Soni Board, Economics\u00a0Optional<\/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":[11255,7966,11254,11312],"class_list":["post-242025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-11255","tag-economics","tag-interview_transcript2022","tag-manoj_soni2022","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242025","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=242025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}