{"id":351856,"date":"2025-12-12T20:03:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=351856"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:33:35","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-29-bidyut-behari-swain-board-psir-optional-travelling-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-29-bidyut-behari-swain-board-psir-optional-travelling-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #29: Bidyut Behari Swain Board, PSIR Optional, Travelling Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 9th Dec 2025 Forenoon<br \/>\n<strong>Board:\u00a0<\/strong>Bidyut Behari Swain<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> PSIR<br \/>\n<strong>Hobby:<\/strong> Travelling<br \/>\n<strong>DAF Details:<\/strong> Travelling, constitution, PSIR. ( Other things 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>: Asked How are you ?<br \/>\nI said I am good sir.<br \/>\nSaid you like travelling. Asked Where did you travel last?<br \/>\nThen kept on asking on it.<br \/>\nThen asked you went to Sarnath also. I said yes sir. Then asked about museum. I said sorry sir I did not went there. asked me about Sarnath lion. Gave me hint. I said sorry and not able to recall. Then he again asked. I said Ashok Chakra and he corrected me. I said sorry.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Que : Asked which article is described as heart and soul of Indian constitution by Br ambedkar.<br \/>\nQue : Asked why it is called so?<br \/>\nQue : further asked About Writs.<br \/>\nQue : Who gave theory of separation of powers ?<br \/>\nQue : Which country have strict SOP?<br \/>\nQue : Asked SOP scheme in Indian constitution?<br \/>\nQ : Give an example.<br \/>\nQue : Further asked about Indian judicial appointments.<br \/>\nQue : Which country is testing nuclear weapons and why?<br \/>\nQ : What is inter-generational equity in terms of ecology?<br \/>\nQ : why the world is falling in democratic standards?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>: very low voice.<br \/>\nQ : About protection of free world , why it is receding? A very long question..<br \/>\nQ : Asked in which topic you are interested in PSIR ?<br \/>\nQ : Aked from where you read about this?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>: Asked many questions. Almost all situation based and somewhat tough.<br \/>\nQ : Ased about failing indian foreign policy in India&#8217;s neighbourhood.<br \/>\nQ : why indian investment are falling in India&#8217;s neighbourhood.<br \/>\nQ : what can be done to revive indian foreign policy?<br \/>\nQ : how indian private companies can generate goodwill in other countries ?<br \/>\nQ : False reports by indian media houses. How can you create trust between Indian journalist and local people?<br \/>\nQ : How can you ensure that wrong reports about you as DM are not published in media and generate trust among people?<br \/>\nQ : asked about RRTS? I said sorry sir.<br \/>\nQ : Aksed why preferred services like this?<br \/>\nCould not remember other.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>: Lady member. Very cordial and kept on encouraging..<br \/>\nQ : Somewhere I talked about Jaishankar&#8217;s India way. She asked explain india way in one line?<br \/>\nQ : said explain in one word. I said Comprehensive National power. She said I was expecting Multi alignments. But I remained affirm on my stand and said Multi alignments is also necessary.<br \/>\nQ : How India can ensure its goals are fulfilled in future?<br \/>\nQ : India&#8217;s stand in Ukraine conflict.<br \/>\nQ : why Ukraine and Russia are fighting.<br \/>\nCould not remember other.<\/p>\n<p>Except the lady member all others kept poker face. They were talking in between.<br \/>\nChairman sir said Thank you. Your interview is over. You can go now.<\/p>\n<p>What 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: 9th Dec 2025 Forenoon Board:\u00a0Bidyut Behari Swain Optional: PSIR Hobby: Travelling DAF Details: Travelling, constitution, PSIR. ( Other things not asked) To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman : Asked How are you ? I said I am good sir. Said you like travelling. Asked Where did you travel&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-29-bidyut-behari-swain-board-psir-optional-travelling-hobby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #29: Bidyut Behari Swain Board, PSIR Optional, Travelling 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":[12150,12155,12148,1679,7989],"class_list":["post-351856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-bb_swain2025","tag-interview_transcript2025","tag-psir","tag-travelling","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351856","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=351856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}