{"id":333105,"date":"2025-04-17T07:29:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T01:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=333105"},"modified":"2025-04-17T07:29:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T01:59:04","slug":"upsc-interview-2024-transcript-70-bidyut-behari-swain-board-psir-optional-cooking-watching-science-fiction-movies-hobbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-70-bidyut-behari-swain-board-psir-optional-cooking-watching-science-fiction-movies-hobbies\/","title":{"rendered":"UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #70: Bidyut Behari Swain Board, PSIR Optional, Cooking, watching science fiction movies Hobbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 03\/04\/2025, Afternoon (2nd last to go)<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong>\u00a0Bidyut Behari Swain<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> PSIR<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> Commerce<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> Cooking, watching science fiction movies<br \/>\n<strong>DAF entries asked:<\/strong> PSIR optional, Commerce, hobby-cooking, watching science fiction movies<\/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>&#8211; When you got selected, in 2021 ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Malwa, what is this malwa ? Is it a place ?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is malwa cuisine?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is dal bafla ?<br \/>\n&#8211; How will you promote it ?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; This department of telecom and post has become redundant, do you see any role ?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is the one positive of private players coming to telecom ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Do you cook just dal bafla or other things also ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Is malpua also from malwa ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Movies which you have watched recently<br \/>\n&#8211; Dont you think ott needs to be regulated ?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is this IMC ?<br \/>\n&#8211; What role you performed ?<br \/>\n&#8211; On which topics sessions were arranged ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Why we need bsnl ?<br \/>\n&#8211; There are lot of issues when you lay infra for telecom like forest clearance , what are they ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Don\u2019t you think cooking is a woman job, there is a clear separation between household duty ?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; (in hindi) atta guthna aata hai ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Do you know a book written on malwa cuisines ?<br \/>\n&#8211; There is one sweet malwa dish which has meat in it ? Do you know ?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is e commerce ?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is difference between people from malwa and people from delhi ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Why people of malwa lives a life of contentment ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Do you see any change in their aspirations , are they doing something in startups ?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is the different aspect of indian scifi movie, do you really consider them scifi ?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is science fiction ?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; You just cook dal bafla or something else also ?<br \/>\n&#8211; (In hindi ) bhindi mein kitna paani daalte hai ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Why you want to be ias when you have such a great hobby of cooking , just open a startup and earn crores of rupees ? What you will do in govt service, where do you see yourself in government of india at the age of 60 ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Where do you adjust loss in networth ? Does it affect networth ?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is networth ?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is the issue of VI recently in news ? What government will get out of it ? What is the exact amount that has been converted to equity ?<br \/>\n&#8211; What role you are looking after in DoP ?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; Starlink coming to india, tell me three things which it will change ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Will it be feasible to use such a huge satellite network which will cost crores.<br \/>\n&#8211; Shall we go for it ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Can we connect whole globe with satellite without laying ground infrastructure?<\/p>\n<p>Okay Son, Your Interview is over, we will surely try dal bafla.<br \/>\nI told please sir come to Indore i\u2019ll host you.<br \/>\nHe replied- Arre! you are staying in Delhi, won\u2019t you be able to cook here itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall Experience-<\/strong> Very Good. Board was very cordial.<\/p>\n<p>Relevance of mocks &#8211; Gave 7-8 mocks, they were helpful for practicing and improving speaking skills.<\/p>\n<p>Gave a few O2Os with Samkalp, Puneet Sir SOMP, S. Baliyan Sir,<br \/>\nThankyou everyone for sharing the transcripts. All the best.<\/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: 03\/04\/2025, Afternoon (2nd last to go) Board:\u00a0Bidyut Behari Swain Optional: PSIR Background: Commerce Hobbies: Cooking, watching science fiction movies DAF entries asked: PSIR optional, Commerce, hobby-cooking, watching science fiction movies To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2024,\u00a0visit this page Chairman &#8211; When you got selected, in 2021 ? &#8211; Malwa, what is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-70-bidyut-behari-swain-board-psir-optional-cooking-watching-science-fiction-movies-hobbies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #70: Bidyut Behari Swain Board, PSIR Optional, Cooking, watching science fiction movies Hobbies<\/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":[12062,12069,7970,7990,12063,1679],"class_list":["post-333105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2024","tag-12062","tag-bb_swain2024","tag-commerce","tag-cooking","tag-interview_transcript2024","tag-psir","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333105","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=333105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}