{"id":352163,"date":"2025-12-17T18:41:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=352163"},"modified":"2025-12-17T18:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:11:04","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-46-sanjay-verma-board-geography-optional-bihar-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-46-sanjay-verma-board-geography-optional-bihar-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #46: Sanjay Verma Board, Geography Optional, Bihar Home State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 15\/04\/2025<br \/>\n<strong>Session:<\/strong> Forenoon<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Sanjay Verma Sir, 1st to go<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Geography<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Bihar<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAF &#8211;<\/strong> New Delhi, Patna, Nalanda, Bihar, ECE Engineer, Software Developer, Art in Oil, watercolor and acrylic medium, Geography Optional.<\/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>How are you?<br \/>\nAre you working somewhere?<br \/>\nSo art is fairly analog, what do you think about the onset of digital media and technology and its impact on art?<br \/>\nCan you name some of the highest selling Artists from India?<br \/>\nGeography optional, do you think in this century Geography\u2019s relevance has increased? Compared to 20th Century<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>So you have worked in Bangalore? (No, permanent WFH)<br \/>\nAnyway, what are the present urbanisation challenges you can think of?<br \/>\nHow can the administration solve it in your opinion?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>So you are a software engineer, what is big data?<br \/>\nIf you are a DM of a district, what 3 areas will you incorporate the use of big data extensively?<br \/>\nWhat about health sector?<br \/>\nNow the UPSC recruitment exam, is a long drawn process, you are before the board, suggest three reforms that you would like to be implemented.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>So have you done your schooling from patna? (No, parents belong to Bihar, I have done my schooling from New Delhi and higher education from Rajasthan)<br \/>\nOkay, have you visited Patna? (Occasionally)<br \/>\nWhat are the three things you would say has changed with time in Patna? And as an administrator, what steps would you do in this regard?<br \/>\nFollow up on one of the things I pointed out in the previous answer- how would you tackle the inequality that persists as a DM?<br \/>\nWith the onset of GPT, we can see alot of impact on youth is taking place, can you point some of the concerns?<br \/>\nDo you think open use of AI should be allowed in educational institutions? Won\u2019t it impact the learning capabilities of our youth? What other impacts on youth?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>You have done <a class=\"text-entity-link word-break-all\" dir=\"auto\" title=\"https:\/\/b.tech\/\" href=\"https:\/\/b.tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-entity-type=\"MessageEntityUrl\">B.tech<\/a>\u00a0in ECE, so tell me, due to the adoption of 5G, do you think optical fibre is taking a back seat?<br \/>\nCan you tell me some of the industries where optical fibres are more relevant than the use of 5G?<br \/>\nNow coming to another subject, paytm and phonePe, command 80% of the market share. Do you think it should be allowed or we should support new players to enter as it must be unfair for them?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairman finally:<\/strong><br \/>\nmonologue on how to solve inequality, you just mentioned the policies that need to be implemented, but don\u2019t you think state\u2019s revenue should be kept in mind? Where will you get the money from? (i agreed and said employment and skilling in all sectors need to go hand in hand)<br \/>\nOkay what are the three things you live about Delhi?<br \/>\nDoesn\u2019t the rich history of Delhi Amuse you as well? (i said yes sir it is quite fascinating as well)<br \/>\nCan you name a few prominent writers or poet who wrote about Delhi?<\/p>\n<p>Your Interview is over, you can go now, thankyou.<\/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: 15\/04\/2025 Session: Forenoon Board: Sanjay Verma Sir, 1st to go Optional: Geography Home State: Bihar DAF &#8211; New Delhi, Patna, Nalanda, Bihar, ECE Engineer, Software Developer, Art in Oil, watercolor and acrylic medium, Geography Optional. To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman How are you? Are you working somewhere?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-46-sanjay-verma-board-geography-optional-bihar-home-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #46: Sanjay Verma Board, Geography Optional, Bihar Home State<\/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":[12150,2970,80,12148,12151],"class_list":["post-352163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-bihar","tag-geography","tag-interview_transcript2025","tag-sanjay_verma2025","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352163","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=352163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}