{"id":351674,"date":"2025-12-11T16:53:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=351674"},"modified":"2025-12-11T16:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:23:22","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-21-bidyut-behari-swain-board-economics-optional-cricket-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-21-bidyut-behari-swain-board-economics-optional-cricket-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #21: Bidyut Behari Swain Board, Economics Optional, Cricket Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 09\/12\/2025<br \/>\n<strong>Board: <\/strong>Bidyut Behari Swain<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Economics<br \/>\n<strong>Key DAF Details:<\/strong> Gargi College, JNU, Economics Optional, Hand Lettering, Visually Impaired Cricket<\/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>What is Hand Lettering?<br \/>\nWhere did you learn it?<br \/>\nDo you still do it?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>What do you understand about balanced growth in the economy?<br \/>\nHow will you ensure balanced growth as a DM?<br \/>\nWhat do you think about the elderly population of society?<br \/>\nHow will you include them?<br \/>\nWhat about the paperwork and procedural hurdles as they might be illiterate or some of them can not even see at that age?<br \/>\nWhat sections of society will you consider vulnerable?<br \/>\nWhat will you do for them as a DM?<br \/>\nWhat is more important for Administration empathy or efficiency?<br \/>\nHow will you balance both?<br \/>\nWhat do you think of idealism, should administration be ideal or pragmatic?<br \/>\nAll theories are idealistic so how can they be used for pragmatic administration?<br \/>\nWhat is the importance of Russia for India?<br \/>\nWhat agreements have taken place recently?<br \/>\nHow will our economy benefit from it and particularly which sectors?<br \/>\nWhat about connectivity?<br \/>\nAre the tariffs placed by US on India justified?<br \/>\nWhat were the reasons for putting these tariffs?<br \/>\nAre tariffs for buying Russian oil justified?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>What are critical minerals?<br \/>\nWhat steps has the government taken for critical minerals?<br \/>\nWhat are climate bonds?<br \/>\nWhat are social bonds?<br \/>\nIs interest paid on such bonds?<br \/>\nHave you heard of the ministry of co-operation?<br \/>\nWhich institute has been developed for cooperation?<br \/>\nWhat do you know about the GIFT city?<br \/>\nWhy has it been created?<br \/>\nWhy do international corporations set up their offices there?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>You have economics optional but you have not studied it at college.<br \/>\n(I told that I have)<br \/>\nWhat are the benefits of conflict resolution? (No context)<br \/>\nWhat is the status of Climate finance?<br \/>\nWhat do you know about Gunnar Myrdal?<br \/>\nWhere can we see this model being illustrated in India? (myrdal&#8217;s Backwash and spread effect)<br \/>\nWhat is the fundamental difference in the approaches of Adam Smith and Amartya Sen?<br \/>\nWhat is the entitlements based approach of Amartya sen?<br \/>\nWhat do you understand by Trickle down?<br \/>\nDo you think it works?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Who was Gargi?<br \/>\nWhat did you learn from her?<br \/>\nWhat is the USP of JNU?<br \/>\nWhat were your lessons from organising a cricket tournament for visually impaired women ?<\/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: 09\/12\/2025 Board: Bidyut Behari Swain Optional: Economics Key DAF Details: Gargi College, JNU, Economics Optional, Hand Lettering, Visually Impaired Cricket To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman What is Hand Lettering? Where did you learn it? Do you still do it? Member 1 What do you understand about balanced&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-21-bidyut-behari-swain-board-economics-optional-cricket-hobby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #21: Bidyut Behari Swain Board, Economics Optional, Cricket Hobby<\/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":[12150,12155,2495,7966,12148],"class_list":["post-351674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-bb_swain2025","tag-cricket","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\/351674","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=351674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}