{"id":351570,"date":"2025-12-09T14:24:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=351570"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:00:52","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-8-dinesh-dasa-board-mining-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-8-dinesh-dasa-board-mining-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #8: Dinesh Dasa Board, Mining engineering, Cricket, Vipassana Hobbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 8\/12\/25 afternoon: 5th to go<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Dinesh Dasa sir<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> IIT BHU<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> Cricket, Vipassana<br \/>\n<strong>DAF-<\/strong> IIT BHU, Mining Engg, Cricket, Vipassana<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/#it2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. History behind your name<br \/>\n2. You are education secy and you have 2 proposals to either setup IIT inside BHU campus or outside as greenfield campus..which one would you choose and why?<br \/>\n3. Why is it that mineral rich regions are lesser developed across world?<br \/>\n4. MMDR amendment details<br \/>\n5. Contribution of mining to india&#8217;s gdp<br \/>\n6. How much is the target under mineral policy?<br \/>\n7. Reasons for chaos in sri lanka, bangladesh, nepal and Afghanistan<br \/>\n8.What india can learn from these countries?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. RTI strength &amp; weaknesses<br \/>\n2. How would you solve the shortcomings?<br \/>\n3. A person has filed RTI for seeking health info of DM..would you release the information if you are the person authorised to do it?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Have you been employed after graduating from IIT?<br \/>\n2. What is the placement scenario at your college? Average package? And how many get placed?<br \/>\n3. You did not do any job..had you continued in private sector for all these years you would have been earning good..so wouldn&#8217;t you be dissatisfied with a meagre salary that an IAS joinee gets? What if tommorow you are posted in Manipur?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Tell me the name of a female dancer in the court of the king who shared the same name as you<br \/>\n2. Youngest indian centurian in one day cricket?..I said yashasvi jaiswal<br \/>\n3. Any other you remember? Not just in international cricket..I said Vaibhav suryavanshi<br \/>\n4. What is his age..any idea?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Is it really possible to not have any enemies? especially in administration?<br \/>\n2. India will have growing elderly population in the future..what social security measures would you suggest for them?<br \/>\n3. How Vipassana can be used for mental health?<\/p>\n<p>All the best everyone <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji emoji-small\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/web.telegram.org\/a\/img-apple-64\/1f44d.png?w=750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc4d\" data-path=\".\/img-apple-64\/1f44d.png\" \/><\/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 2026:\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: 8\/12\/25 afternoon: 5th to go Board: Dinesh Dasa sir Background: IIT BHU Hobbies: Cricket, Vipassana DAF- IIT BHU, Mining Engg, Cricket, Vipassana To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman 1. History behind your name 2. You are education secy and you have 2 proposals to either setup IIT inside&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-8-dinesh-dasa-board-mining-engineering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #8: Dinesh Dasa Board, Mining engineering, Cricket, Vipassana 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":[12147],"tags":[12150,2495,12149,12148,12157,12158],"class_list":["post-351570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-cricket","tag-dinesh_dasa2025","tag-interview_transcript2025","tag-mining-engineering","tag-vipassana","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351570","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=351570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}