{"id":352159,"date":"2025-12-17T16:50:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=352159"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:20:56","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-42-mr-ajay-kumar-board-psir-optional-chemical-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-42-mr-ajay-kumar-board-psir-optional-chemical-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #42: Mr. Ajay Kumar Board, PSIR Optional, Chemical Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 12\/12\/2025 AN<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Mr. Ajay Kumar<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> PSIR<br \/>\n<strong>DAF &#8211;<\/strong> Chemical Engineering, PSIR, Cat nutrition (rest nothing asked)<br \/>\n<strong>Duration &#8211;<\/strong> 24 min<\/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. You are a chemical engineer and there&#8217;s a lot of discussion about critical minerals today. What are critical minerals? Why are they called so?<br \/>\n2. India&#8217;s efforts at critical minerals<br \/>\n3. Name some critical minerals<br \/>\n4. Challenges in critical minerals wrt India<br \/>\n5. Recent amendments to a legislation regarding the same<br \/>\n6. Which minerals are still not open to pvt sector?<br \/>\n7. Link geopolitics with critical minerals suppy chains<br \/>\n8. What is BRI? What is China&#8217;s intent?<br \/>\n9. Link BRI with critical minerals<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Nuclear deterrence and its effectiveness at present<br \/>\n2. From post-War era we are moving to a pre-War era at present. Examine this statement.<br \/>\n3. Can USA&#8217;s strategy on restricting technology to competitors like China work?<br \/>\n4. Any recent development wrt this?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Relevance of sports in life<br \/>\n2. some question on sportsmanship<br \/>\n3. Architectural heritage, some questions and follow ups I can&#8217;t recall<br \/>\n4. If not civil services, what will you do?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Collegium system, what it is?<br \/>\n2. Tussles between executive and judiciary?<br \/>\n3. Recent controversy regarding appointment of judges?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. GLOFs? Recent incident in Sikkim, how it happened, govt steps<br \/>\n2. What is your one weakness which might hinder in your work as an administrator<br \/>\n3. Have you thought about personal growth if you get selected in services?<br \/>\n4. What about professional growth? Any area where you would like to see yourself?<br \/>\n5. Significance of ISA?<br \/>\n6. How did you develop interest in cat nutrition?<br \/>\n7. Food toxic for cats?<br \/>\n8. Plants toxic for cats?<\/p>\n<p>Some questions I can&#8217;t 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: 12\/12\/2025 AN Board: Mr. Ajay Kumar Optional: PSIR DAF &#8211; Chemical Engineering, PSIR, Cat nutrition (rest nothing asked) Duration &#8211; 24 min To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman 1. You are a chemical engineer and there&#8217;s a lot of discussion about critical minerals today. What are critical minerals?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-42-mr-ajay-kumar-board-psir-optional-chemical-engineering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #42: Mr. Ajay Kumar Board, PSIR Optional, Chemical Engineering<\/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":[12150,12166,12164,12148,1679],"class_list":["post-352159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-ajay_kumar2025","tag-chemical-engineering","tag-interview_transcript2025","tag-psir","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352159","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=352159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}