{"id":333107,"date":"2025-04-17T07:48:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T02:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=333107"},"modified":"2025-04-17T07:48:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T02:18:24","slug":"upsc-interview-2024-transcript-72-sheel-vardhan-sir-board-uttar-pradesh-home-state-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-72-sheel-vardhan-sir-board-uttar-pradesh-home-state-irs\/","title":{"rendered":"UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #72: Sheel Vardhan Sir Board, Uttar Pradesh Home State, IRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 3rd April<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Sheel Vardhan Sir<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Uttar Pradesh<br \/>\n<strong>DAF &#8211;<\/strong> IRS, Jhansi, Economics honour, Pottery, Rural development, Spirituality, Wellness Program<\/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; Rational behind intermittent fasting? keto diet?<br \/>\n&#8211; are they marketing driven trends lacking scientific backing?<br \/>\n&#8211; gender based quotas in high performance and merit-driven domains?<br \/>\n&#8211; India tax t -GDP ratio is still low. As an IRS, some practical and applicable policy changes which you suggest ?<br \/>\n&#8211; I suggested few then he counter that aren&#8217;t all these implemented ?<br \/>\n&#8211; FTA agreements affect MSME and local artisans ?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; How to make spiritual tourism secular? &#8211; i connected it with rising stress and mental health issues.<br \/>\n&#8211; National Monetization Pipeline is being questioned in rural areas. Do you think public assets should be monetized ?<br \/>\n&#8211; is there any law regulating fitness influencers and wellness gurus in India ?<br \/>\n&#8211; India soft power gain or lose credibility when politicians openly promote spiritual gurus ?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; govt schemes focus more on rural science labs or building smart classrooms ?<br \/>\n&#8211; One Nation One Health policy ?<br \/>\n&#8211; but with poor rural infrastructure does not are we missing the basics ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Suppose a village school was giving expired food in the mid day meal. Then who should be held responsible &#8211; the cook or the panchayat or the government?<br \/>\nMember then ask if I have to choose one among them then who would you hold responsible &#8211; My answee was I would hold the panchayat responsible coz it nodal monitoring body.<br \/>\nWhile government handle policy and supply logistics&#8230; the cook executes instructions butit is the panchayat that act as bridge between policy and ground implementation.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; AI generated research and essay becoming common now a days so is it ethical to use such tools in academic competition ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Is rural cluster development effective?<br \/>\n&#8211; As a DM of Jhansi how you encourage reverse migration of professionals ?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; What type of clay you used for pottery?<br \/>\n&#8211; tariff rationalisation causes job losses in small domestic industries and now you have to balance trade liberalisation and livelihood security?<br \/>\n&#8211; Tax terrorism and shadow economy ?<br \/>\n&#8211; Can an atheist person be spiritual ? &#8211; I said yes and went on to give example where spirituality can be explored through scientific lens.<br \/>\nMember were very keen to discuss this topic further but chairman sir intervene and sai your interview is over.<\/p>\n<p>Overall the experience was very good. I was better prepared than last time and the interview went largely along expected lines.<br \/>\nNo unexpected or tricky questions were asked, and the board members seemed quite satisfied with the answers I gave.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mock Interview &#8211;<\/strong> Samkalp, PW, Nextias. Didn&#8217;t gave much mock this time though i would suggest that those who are giving there first interview should attend 5 to 6 mock.<\/p>\n<p>One to One with Puneet Sir and Ias Pcs Pathshala Rahul Sir. Both guidance were extremely helpful. Rahul sir covered almost all the daf point very exhaustively.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you community for the transcripts.<\/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: 3rd April Board: Sheel Vardhan Sir Home State: Uttar Pradesh DAF &#8211; IRS, Jhansi, Economics honour, Pottery, Rural development, Spirituality, Wellness Program To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2024,\u00a0visit this page Chairman &#8211; Rational behind intermittent fasting? keto diet? &#8211; are they marketing driven trends lacking scientific backing? &#8211; gender based quotas&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-72-sheel-vardhan-sir-board-uttar-pradesh-home-state-irs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #72: Sheel Vardhan Sir Board, Uttar Pradesh Home State, IRS<\/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":[12062,12063,9354,12067,2183],"class_list":["post-333107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-12062","tag-interview_transcript2024","tag-irs","tag-sheel_vardhan2024","tag-uttar-pradesh","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333107","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=333107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}