{"id":330791,"date":"2025-03-25T20:30:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=330791"},"modified":"2025-03-25T17:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T11:57:30","slug":"upsc-interview-2024-transcript-3-sanjay-verma-board-psir-optional-maharashtra-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-3-sanjay-verma-board-psir-optional-maharashtra-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #3: Sanjay Verma Board, PSIR Optional, Maharashtra Home State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 17\/03\/2025<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 4:33 to5:03 PM [ last to go ]<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Shri Sanjay Verma Sir<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> PSIR<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Maharashtra<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> Mechanical Engineer<br \/>\n<strong>Key Points from DAF:<\/strong> Ahmednagar, Photography, Painting, working with State GST Department<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2024, <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. Look around you and tell me what different types of art forms you can see in this room?<br \/>\n2. Are these paintings painted using acrylic or oil paint? Is there any difference between acrylic and oil paint?<br \/>\n3. Developed economies and the development of art: Is there any connection between these?<br \/>\n4. Tell me about the Renaissance? What was the role of art in it? Did it motivate people, or was it only an expression by the people?<br \/>\n5. Which are the most iconic paintings you have seen in India?<br \/>\n6. What type of painting is used in the Ajanta paintings?<br \/>\n7. Tell me about some contemporary Indian painters?<br \/>\nShared a story on how angry paintings can change the mode of society\u2014about how there can be multiple perspectives on painting.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. You completed your degree in 2016? You got your first job in 2022. So what were you doing for six years?<br \/>\n2. What was your elective subject in engineering?<br \/>\n3. Tell me about your final-year engineering project.<br \/>\n4. You are working at a good level; why do you want to switch to the Central service?<br \/>\n5. What is the NRC? What are its benefits?<br \/>\n6. Is it good to deport people living illegally in India?<br \/>\n7. The U.S. is deporting our citizens, and we are protesting this.\u00a0 On the other hand, we are also saying that we should deport Rohingyas. Why is there this double standard?<br \/>\nAnd two or three questions around deportation.<br \/>\n8. Isn&#8217;t it legal to deport unauthorized immigrants?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1.\u00a0 So you are working in GST. Tell me something about IGST.<br \/>\n2. Is there any issue of IGST settlement in GST?<br \/>\n3. As an assistant commissioner in GST, tell me, is GST a good thing? If so, tell me three advantages of GST.<br \/>\n4. Recently, there was a case of self-deportation. Do you know about it?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Why don&#8217;t states keep the IGST portion themselves rather than transferring it to the center?<br \/>\n2. The GST rate on medical-related items and many other essential items is high. Don&#8217;t you think it should be lower?\u00a0 And that other essential items should be in a lower tax bracket?<br \/>\n3. Have there been any reforms in this field?<br \/>\n4. Tell me something about Saint Dnyaneshwar.<br \/>\n5. What is the importance of Ahmednagar?<br \/>\n6. Aren&#8217;t there any military stations there as well?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Is there a case study of Ahmednagar relating to administrative reform? What was it about?<br \/>\n2. Does Ahmednagar have municipal corporations?<br \/>\n3. If given the opportunity to be a municipal commissioner of Ahmednagar, what would you focus on?<br \/>\n4. What would you do about tax collection?<br \/>\n5. Since you are working in the government sector, is there corruption?<br \/>\n6. Have you seen any corruption in your department?\u00a0 And in what areas does it take place?<br \/>\n7. As an independent officer, what steps have you taken under your jurisdiction to prevent corruption?<br \/>\n8. What reforms would you suggest for the system to eliminate corruption?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall Experience &#8211;<\/strong> The panel was very cordial, gentle, and the chairperson intervenes if any member tries to be overly critical.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mocks &#8211;<\/strong> Vajirao and Reddy, Only IAS, Next IAS, Chahal IAS Academy, Chanakya Mandal Pariwar, Sankalp IAS<br \/>\nOne-on-one with IPS Mahesh Bhagwat sir, Shri S S Jawahar Sir (Retd IAS)<br \/>\nPT mentorship &#8211; Shri. Avinash Gokhale Sir (Pune)<\/p>\n<p>My best wishes to all candidates!<\/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 2025: <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: 17\/03\/2025 Time: 4:33 to5:03 PM [ last to go ] Board: Shri Sanjay Verma Sir Optional: PSIR Home State: Maharashtra Background: Mechanical Engineer Key Points from DAF: Ahmednagar, Photography, Painting, working with State GST Department To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2024, visit this page Chairman 1. Look around you and tell&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-3-sanjay-verma-board-psir-optional-maharashtra-home-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #3: Sanjay Verma Board, PSIR Optional, Maharashtra Home State<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12062,12063,2043,1679,12065],"class_list":["post-330791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-12062","tag-interview_transcript2024","tag-maharashtra","tag-psir","tag-sanjay_verma2024","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330791","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=330791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}