{"id":333225,"date":"2025-04-17T17:09:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T11:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=333225"},"modified":"2025-04-17T17:09:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T11:39:27","slug":"upsc-interview-2024-transcript-73-lt-gen-raj-shukla-board-psir-optional-west-bengal-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-73-lt-gen-raj-shukla-board-psir-optional-west-bengal-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #73: Lt. Gen Raj Shukla Board, PSIR\u00a0Optional, West Bengal Home State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 4th April 2025<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Lt. Gen Raj Shukla Sir (Forenoon: 1st to go)<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> PSIR<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> West Bengal<br \/>\n<strong>Key DAF Details:<\/strong> Debating, West Bengal, PSIR Optional (rest not asked)<\/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>(entirely conversational- lots of back and forth with Sir- no Q&amp;A as such- might have spent around 10 min on this):<br \/>\n1. So you were the President of the debating society- why is debating important<br \/>\n2. What is the point of students debating when at the highest levels of the country, we see a decline in quality<br \/>\n3. Nehru had said Vajpayee would be future PM after listening to his parliament speeches- Vajpayee also a statesman- civility, decorum, respect for opponents etc- now in India and in the US etc also, we don&#8217;t see that<br \/>\n4. How can we change this?<br \/>\n5. What is the role of social media? (At some point I had mentioned social media)<br \/>\n6. In history, accusations on both sides of distortions- opponents not saying unreasonable things, they are making an argument<br \/>\n7. Even for trump then- many cases against him- some fabricated, some true- liberals haven&#8217;t always been liberal<br \/>\n8. China says its political model delivers, democracy has stagnated, has democracy failed?<br \/>\n6. Will we see a change in the nature of debates and democracy in the future?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. What are the qualities of a good administrator? Is integrity not important (I had forgotten to mention it)<br \/>\n2. How many districts in WB. If you are posted in any district, what would be your priorities<br \/>\n4. A few good things and bad things about WB<br \/>\n5. Opportunities and threats wrt WB<br \/>\n6. Have you visited Tagore museum (I said no. Wasn&#8217;t sure which one he was talking about)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Women&#8217;s reservation in parliament- do we need it, any issue with Article 16<br \/>\n2. Differences between old silk road and current silk road or BRI<br \/>\n3. What is snorkeling (no idea why this was randomly asked)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. 4th April significance? (I had looked this up- Martin Luther King assassination)<br \/>\n2. Impact of that? Which law was passed<br \/>\n3. Black lives matter movement<br \/>\n4. Difference between US and India&#8217;s affirmative action<br \/>\n5. Microsoft was also founded today- its impact?<br \/>\n6. Your Optional is PSIR- there are protests in Turkey, will the country become more authoritarian<br \/>\n7. What is the significance of Turkey for Europe<br \/>\n8. What are the issues between India and Turkey<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Just a more personal question- you have studied English, Hindi in school. Can you speak, write, read Bengali? Why is there a trend nowadays of children learning languages other than the mother tongue, what does it say about society<\/p>\n<p>M4 only asked one question. Chairperson said thank you. In my case, this genuinely wasn&#8217;t a knowledge test at all. Could have appeared for an interview with these questions in January as well- general, analytical questions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mocks-<\/strong> 16 overall (Satyendranath Tagore centre in Kolkata, Vajiram, NextIAS, Drishti, Chahal, Vajirao etc etc) Got speaking practice and topic areas were repeated in actual interview<\/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: 4th April 2025 Board: Lt. Gen Raj Shukla Sir (Forenoon: 1st to go) Optional: PSIR Home State: West Bengal Key DAF Details: Debating, West Bengal, PSIR Optional (rest not asked) To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2024,\u00a0visit this page Chairman (entirely conversational- lots of back and forth with Sir- no Q&amp;A as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-73-lt-gen-raj-shukla-board-psir-optional-west-bengal-home-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #73: Lt. Gen Raj Shukla Board, PSIR\u00a0Optional, West Bengal 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":[12077],"tags":[12062,12063,1679,12066,1754],"class_list":["post-333225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2024","tag-12062","tag-interview_transcript2024","tag-psir","tag-raj_shukla2024","tag-west-bengal","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333225","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=333225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}