{"id":351670,"date":"2025-12-11T10:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=351670"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:35:14","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-17-anuradha-prasad-economics-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-17-anuradha-prasad-economics-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #17: Anuradha Prasad, ECONOMICS Optional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 08-12-25 , forenoon, 5th to go .<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Anuradha Prasad Ma&#8217;am<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> ECONOMICS<\/p>\n<p><strong>daf keywords &#8211;<\/strong> ECONOMICS , Fundraising , ed tech (work ex) .rest not asked .<\/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>do u think ed- tech is the future ? A small talk on edtech .<\/p>\n<p>A situational question: if in a hilly area , there are 2-3 students , how will you ensure education accessibility for them ? Then herself suggested, can&#8217;t we make arrangements to bring those kids to nearby schools .<\/p>\n<p>A small discussion on fundraising and follow up questions &#8211; My role in fundraising, reaction of donors , how You ensured proper funds utilisation.<br \/>\nWhat are the positive impact of US tariff on India ? (In answer , I mentioned tapping new market )<br \/>\nFollow up question &#8211; So , you mean we can compensate completely by tapping new market ?<br \/>\nAsked for examples , where we are tapping markets &#8211; both sectors and the countries<br \/>\nAnd in sectors where we are lagging to compensate the loss due to us tariff .<\/p>\n<p>Ma&#8217;am (in the end , asked ) &#8212;- Give me examples of perfect competition market in India .<br \/>\nThen Examples for monopoly &#8211; oligopoly in India , apart from Airlines ( due to Indigo situation)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Discussion on ethics and integrity. The Difference between both .<br \/>\nCan ethics be learnt in services ? If yes , How ?<br \/>\nSituational question &#8211; If u r posted in an office , with corruption prevalent from top to bottom , how would you navigate yourself in such situations?<br \/>\nAgain situational : If a very needy person comes to u but there is first come first serve rule.and that person is not the first . How would you handle the situation?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>a small monologue on foreign investment and India&#8217;s desire to attract investment.<br \/>\nThen asked , what are Negative of foreign Investments . (I relate it with policy influence)<br \/>\nDo they also influence India&#8217;s policy ?<br \/>\nShould India attract Foreign investment?<br \/>\nWhy rupee is depreciating ?<br \/>\nA small monologue on direct tax proportion.(I quoted the fact ).<br \/>\nThen , tax to gdp ratio and comparison of India with west .(I did it with oecd countries )<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; (asking questions nowhere related to my daf )<br \/>\nDo you take keen interest in home appliances? Like how do they work ?<br \/>\nLike AC , FAN etc .<br \/>\nRegarding fan , I mentioned motor .<br \/>\nThen asked , how does motor work <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\/1f600.png?w=750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude00\" data-path=\".\/img-apple-64\/1f600.png\" \/>.<br \/>\nA small monologue on carbon sink and quest for 33% forest .Then question: How forest absorb carbon &#8211; I clarified if he is talking about the process of how trees absorb CO2 .(Basically photosynthesis)<br \/>\nHe replied affirmatively.<br \/>\nHow carbon sink is measured (like in tonnes ) the methodology ..<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Linked Indigo issue and the duopoly market .<br \/>\nWhy India should have duopoly or oligopoly market . ( I linked it with economics core concept ).<br \/>\nAsked for few examples<br \/>\nHow government prevent situation of monopoly in the economy?<br \/>\n(3-4 questions, unable to recall )<\/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: 08-12-25 , forenoon, 5th to go . Board: Anuradha Prasad Ma&#8217;am Optional: ECONOMICS daf keywords &#8211; ECONOMICS , Fundraising , ed tech (work ex) .rest not asked . To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman do u think ed- tech is the future ? A small talk on edtech&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-17-anuradha-prasad-economics-optional\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #17: Anuradha Prasad, ECONOMICS Optional<\/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":[12147,9],"tags":[12150,12153,7966,12148],"class_list":["post-351670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","category-public","tag-12150","tag-anuradha-prasad2025","tag-economics","tag-interview_transcript2025","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351670","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=351670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}