{"id":352387,"date":"2025-12-20T15:40:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=352387"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:10:32","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-56-dinesh-dasa-board-public-administration-optional-uttarakhand-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-56-dinesh-dasa-board-public-administration-optional-uttarakhand-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #56: Dinesh Dasa Board, Public administration Optional, Uttarakhand Home State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 16\/12\/25, forenoon session (last one to go)<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Dinesh Dasa sir<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Public administration<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Uttarakhand<br \/>\n<strong>DAF:<\/strong> Uttarakhand, Haridwar, Mumbai, Public administration (rest keywords 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>Have a seat, How are you feeling today?<br \/>\n1. What impact does high Tourist footfall have on Haridwar?<br \/>\n2. Chief information commission appointment committee members?<br \/>\n3. Role of dissent in democracy<br \/>\n4. SC cases where earlier it was dissent and later approved ( I gave one example then he said to give another, I gave again then sir gave his own example)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. What do you make of large infrastructural projects going on in Uttarakhand?<br \/>\n2. What Reforms would you make in tourism policy of Uttarakhand ?<br \/>\n3. How to balance large infrastructural projects ?<br \/>\n4. Is EIA conducted properly?<br \/>\n5. If minister wants to go for large mountainous highway neglecting reports of EIA, what would you do?<br \/>\n6. Why rupee is depreciating despite GDP increasing ?<br \/>\n7. Do you see this as a concern?<br \/>\n8. Exports are increasing but our capital account and forex reserves decreasing?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Plan vs non plan expenditure<br \/>\n2. Suppose you are DM having limited funds, would you improve the condition of existing public hospital or create an entirely new one?<br \/>\n3. Again if minister says he wants to create a new hospital despite limited funds how would you tackle that situation?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. What steps would you recommend to reduce the impact of global warming ?<br \/>\n2. Have you heard about cafe norms ?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Are we still using five year plans? If not, what has changed then?<br \/>\n2. Can you give me an example of the same?<br \/>\n3. Tell me what you know about rajabai clock tower? Who made it ? Why? When ? Anything special about it?<br \/>\n4. Why there was a need to abrogate article 370 and what has been the impact of the same?<br \/>\n5. Tell me key Contributions of Dr BR Ambedkar<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairman sir:<\/strong> Thankyou your interview is over, you may go now!<br \/>\nOverall the board was really cordial, helped me in few questions which I could not answer , 1-2 more questions were there but can\u2019t recall them now<\/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: 16\/12\/25, forenoon session (last one to go) Board: Dinesh Dasa sir Optional: Public administration Home State: Uttarakhand DAF: Uttarakhand, Haridwar, Mumbai, Public administration (rest keywords not asked) To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman Have a seat, How are you feeling today? 1. What impact does high Tourist footfall&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-56-dinesh-dasa-board-public-administration-optional-uttarakhand-home-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #56: Dinesh Dasa Board, Public administration Optional, Uttarakhand 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":[12150,12149,12148,1709,4662],"class_list":["post-352387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-dinesh_dasa2025","tag-interview_transcript2025","tag-public_administration","tag-uttarakhand","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352387","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=352387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}