{"id":332524,"date":"2025-04-14T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T04:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=332524"},"modified":"2025-04-14T09:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T03:43:10","slug":"upsc-interview-2024-transcript-61-sheel-vardhan-sir-board-public-administration-optional-reading-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-61-sheel-vardhan-sir-board-public-administration-optional-reading-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #61: Sheel Vardhan Sir Board, Public Administration Optional, Reading Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> April 04 (Afternoon)<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong>\u00a0 Hon&#8217;ble Sheel Vardhan Sir<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Public Administration<br \/>\n<strong>Hobby:<\/strong> Reading<br \/>\nRelevant details- BHU, Reading Fiction and Non Fiction, Spycraft, Optional- Public Administration<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2024,\u00a0<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>(Keenly observing throughout the interview)<\/p>\n<p>1) So you love reading spycraft novels, do you know about Eli Cohen?<br \/>\n2) Tell me about his life.<br \/>\n3) What happened to him?<br \/>\n4) Why was Vienna &#8216;the spy capital of the world&#8217; during the cold war?<br \/>\n5) I am telling you that New Delhi is the new spy capital of the world. Now tell me the factors which can make New Delhi the new spy capital.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) Why incidents related to L&amp;O are increasing.<br \/>\n2) So much of expenditure on vehicles and technology by Police but still so many incidents.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) Problems in land acquisition<br \/>\n2) Solutions<br \/>\n3) People will always be dissatisfied with compensation, what can be done?<br \/>\n4) Issues of urban areas<br \/>\n5) 1st National Commission on Urbanisation came in which year<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) Continuing on the topic of urbanisation- difference between Urbanisation and Urban Development<br \/>\n2) Are you sure that most cities do not have a master plan or development vision. What are the real issues?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) Our hill stations are over crowded. What can be done?<br \/>\n2) How to deal with development vs environment conflict?<br \/>\n3) Last book you have read. What did you learn from it.<br \/>\n4) Favourite Book<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairman Sir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) Tell me how land was acquired for BHU. Any famous story.<\/p>\n<p>Sir said thank you. We had a good discussion with you.<\/p>\n<p>Board members were cordial. Overall a good experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mocks-<\/strong> 02 at NextIAS and one at Chahal Academy<br \/>\n<strong>One to one-<\/strong> BS Bassi Sir (IPS Retd)<\/p>\n<p>Discussions with friends helped build confidence. Heartfelt gratitude to the Transcript Community for sharing their experiences.<\/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:\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: April 04 (Afternoon) Board:\u00a0 Hon&#8217;ble Sheel Vardhan Sir Optional: Public Administration Hobby: Reading Relevant details- BHU, Reading Fiction and Non Fiction, Spycraft, Optional- Public Administration To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2024,\u00a0visit this page Chairman (Keenly observing throughout the interview) 1) So you love reading spycraft novels, do you know about Eli&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-61-sheel-vardhan-sir-board-public-administration-optional-reading-hobby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #61: Sheel Vardhan Sir Board, Public Administration Optional, Reading Hobby<\/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":[12077],"tags":[12062,12063,1709,10757,12067],"class_list":["post-332524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2024","tag-12062","tag-interview_transcript2024","tag-public_administration","tag-reading","tag-sheel_vardhan2024","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332524","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=332524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}