{"id":330877,"date":"2025-03-26T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=330877"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:57:20","slug":"upsc-interview-2024-transcript-10-lt-gen-raj-shukla-board-geography-optional-gujarat-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-10-lt-gen-raj-shukla-board-geography-optional-gujarat-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #10: lt.Gen Raj Shukla Board, Geography Optional, Gujarat Home State,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 5 March<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong>\u00a0lt.Gen Raj Shukla sir<br \/>\n<strong>Optional: <\/strong>Geography<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Gujarat<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> Computer Engineering<br \/>\nLast one to go in forenoon session.<br \/>\n<strong>DAF keywords:<\/strong> Gujarat, Surat, Diamond, Geography, Computer Engineering, Blood donation, AI<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/#it2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Where are you from? I said Gujarat<br \/>\n(Long monologue on Gujarat\u2019s entrepreneurship culture)<br \/>\n2. \u2060what is special about Gujarat<br \/>\n3. \u2060why there is entrepreneurial spirit in gujarat? &#8211; I said risk taking ability<br \/>\n4. \u2060compare risk taking ability of Gujarati\u2019s and Marwadi\u2019s<br \/>\n5. \u2060compare with Parsis and sikhs<br \/>\n6. \u2060Are Parsis ethical in business?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. how Gujarat is having entrepreneurship in their culture<br \/>\n2. \u2060does community has a role in it or the government has a role in it<br \/>\n3. \u2060how to cultivate entrepreneurship in people<br \/>\n4. \u2060why Usa has more startups then gujarat<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. What were you doing since 5 years<br \/>\n2. \u2060I think you dont have risk taking ability or entrepreneurship skills bcz u r preparing since 5 years<br \/>\n3. \u2060difference between lab grown and real diamonds<br \/>\n4. \u2060future of diamond industry in surat. \u2060<br \/>\n5. \u2060you took Sanskrit in 10 standard , do you know anything right now? \u2060<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. how geography is influencing IR<br \/>\n2. \u2060how will you use your computer engineering in governance<br \/>\n3. \u2060what government is doing in resolving day to day problems through technology<br \/>\n4. \u2060how E governance is governing people and what are the new changes<br \/>\n5. \u2060various frauds are happening because of AI and other technology, how to resolve it<br \/>\n6. \u2060how to stop fraduent calls and unsolicited msgs and way forward<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. What is crypto currency<br \/>\n2. \u2060what government is doing in it<br \/>\n3. \u2060what are trends in it<br \/>\n4. \u2060why people are investing in it<br \/>\n5. \u2060what are pros and cons<\/p>\n<p>Interview lasted 30-35 mins and was more on opinion based rather than DAF based.<br \/>\n<strong>Mocks taken: S<\/strong>amkalp, Vajiram, NextIas, Vajirao, Onlyias, Quantel<\/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: 5 March Board:\u00a0lt.Gen Raj Shukla sir Optional: Geography Home State: Gujarat Background: Computer Engineering Last one to go in forenoon session. DAF keywords: Gujarat, Surat, Diamond, Geography, Computer Engineering, Blood donation, AI To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2024, visit this page Chairman 1. Where are you from? I said Gujarat (Long&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-10-lt-gen-raj-shukla-board-geography-optional-gujarat-home-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #10: lt.Gen Raj Shukla Board, Geography Optional, Gujarat 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":[12062,80,2059,12063,12066],"class_list":["post-330877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-12062","tag-geography","tag-gujarat","tag-interview_transcript2024","tag-raj_shukla2024","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330877","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=330877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}