{"id":287503,"date":"2024-03-22T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=287503"},"modified":"2024-03-22T14:37:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T09:07:49","slug":"upsc-interview-2023-transcript-149-lt-gen-raj-shukla-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2023-transcript-149-lt-gen-raj-shukla-board\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2023] \u2013 Transcript #149: Lt. Gen Raj Shukla\u00a0Board, Geography Optional, Rajasthan Home State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview: <\/strong>19 Feb 2024<strong><br \/>\nBoard:<\/strong> Lt. Gen Raj Shukla<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Geography<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Rajasthan<br \/>\n<strong>Medium:<\/strong> English<br \/>\n<strong>Slot-<\/strong> Morning (2nd to Go)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daf keywords &#8211;<\/strong>Rajasthan, Dausa, IIT, Civil Engineering, Water Conservation, Chennai, Sri City, Quality Control, Painting. Etc.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2023,\u00a0<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<ol>\n<li>You are from Dausa (Home district),\u00a0 ohh Rajesh Pilot shab&#8217;s\u00a0 area. Is Sachin pilot also popular\u00a0 like his father in your district?<\/li>\n<li>Politicians who come from strong family background used to get success earlier, but not any more, your views?<\/li>\n<li>Who are other politicians that didn&#8217;t do well compared to their father?<\/li>\n<li>Long monologue on meritoracy\u00a0 demand increasing in India .. your opinion on this ..( Some cross questions on this can&#8217;t recall)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>You lived in Chennai and worked in Sri City ..what are the good things which can be brought from these places to North and East Indian States.<\/li>\n<li>Long monologue on population policy of China (bcuz I mentioned DTT in my previous answer). In our country, we also have National Family Planning policy, are they effective?<\/li>\n<li>What according to you should be a better population policy for India?<\/li>\n<li>What value of TFR is desirable?<\/li>\n<li>What other states can learn from Rajasthan?<\/li>\n<li>If you are asked to bring industrialization\u00a0 in Rajasthan and Haryana, how will you do that?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Did you work on ground for water conservation?<\/li>\n<li>Why did you start this hobby?<\/li>\n<li>As a DM if you want to do water conservation work in a rural village, how would you do that??<\/li>\n<li>Do you know Rajendra Singh, tell me about his work?<\/li>\n<li>You are a civil engineer also, tell me the technique behind his water conservation efforts?<\/li>\n<li>There is lot of garbage on railway line, how would you solve the problem?<\/li>\n<li>Tell me about Namami Gange Project?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Shall we go for state funding of elections?<\/li>\n<li>Tell me some mechanism, how can we implement state funding of election?<\/li>\n<li>What is interim budget?<\/li>\n<li>This Budget was comprehensive, but still we call it interim budget, why?<\/li>\n<li>Difference between Fiscal and revenue deficit?<\/li>\n<li>Since you were a quality engineer..I&#8217;ll give you one statement you have to explain its meaning to me, &#8220;QUALITY DOESN&#8217;T COME WITH EXTRA COST&#8221;?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Long monologue on ongoing infrastructure development in India. From where we will get energy for these project? Can we go for more greener alternatives?<\/li>\n<li>Problems in Nuclear energy growth?<\/li>\n<li>Challenges in solar energy growth?<\/li>\n<li>Import dependency on China for Solar modules,\u00a0 we can make them here. Why we are importing from China?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Chairperson:<\/strong> Thank You, your interview is over. Best of Luck!!<\/p>\n<p>I said thank you to all the members before leaving.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall &#8211;<\/strong> Good experience, they were giving me enough time to speak and did not interrupt when I gave long answers in 1 or 2 ocassion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mock utility:<\/strong> Good for developing confidence and frame more structured\/ balanced opinion.<\/p>\n<p>But One-on- One discussion and lot of mock practice with friends helped me a lot.<\/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 2024:\u00a0<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: 19 Feb 2024 Board: Lt. Gen Raj Shukla Optional: Geography Home State: Rajasthan Medium: English Slot- Morning (2nd to Go) Daf keywords &#8211;Rajasthan, Dausa, IIT, Civil Engineering, Water Conservation, Chennai, Sri City, Quality Control, Painting. Etc. To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2023,\u00a0visit this page Chairman You are from Dausa (Home district),\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2023-transcript-149-lt-gen-raj-shukla-board\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2023] \u2013 Transcript #149: Lt. Gen Raj Shukla\u00a0Board, Geography Optional, 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":[1],"tags":[11775,80,11910,7976,11913,2780],"class_list":["post-287503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-11775","tag-geography","tag-interview_transcript2023","tag-painting","tag-raj_shukla2023","tag-rajasthan","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287503","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=287503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}