{"id":353623,"date":"2026-01-10T12:56:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=353623"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:26:03","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-83-sanjoy-verma-board-geography-optional-watching-and-playing-football-hobbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-83-sanjoy-verma-board-geography-optional-watching-and-playing-football-hobbies\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #83: Sanjoy Verma Board, Geography\u00a0Optional, Watching and playing Football Hobbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 05\/01\/2026 Afternoon Session<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Sanjoy Verma Sir<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Geography<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Tamil Nadu<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> Watching and playing Football<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key DAF Details &#8211;<\/strong> Geography optional, Watching and playing Football, Mechanical Engineering, Tamilnadu.<\/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) How do your friends and relatives call you? Then throughout the interview he addressed me like my friends used to call me.<br \/>\n2) What are all the Hindi movies were Illayaraja had worked on? (DAF)<br \/>\n3) what&#8217;s your favourite songs of 2025?<br \/>\nChairperson himself mentioned about Dhurandhar music. (Had no idea)<br \/>\n4)You play football, so with whom do you play? Answered with young people.<br \/>\nFollow-up question &#8211; don&#8217;t they feel that you&#8217;re bullying them?<br \/>\n5) If you have absolute power to change the climate of India, what would be your actions? (Geography optional)<br \/>\n6) According to you which state in India has the perfect weather?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>7) so you have done mechanical Engineering, What are critical minerals?<br \/>\n8) Currently which country holds the monopoly in critical minerals?<br \/>\n9) Don&#8217;t you think they are weaponising the monopoly?<br \/>\n10) What would be the implications on India due to supply chain constraint?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>11) Asked Questions regarding Job details which was not mentioned in the DAF.<br \/>\n12) eV sector is extremely dependent on Batteries and it is quite expensive, so apart from Govt subsidies how does the price of battery would be reduced in the long run?<br \/>\n13) what is circular economy?<br \/>\n14) Questions regarding Biofuels?<br \/>\n15) what are all the initiatives of government in using Stubbles burnt in Punjab and Haryana for circular economy?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>16) What according to you are leadership qualities? Are leaders born or made?<br \/>\n17) Questions regarding recent Indian Football issue related to AIFF and it&#8217;s implication on Indian football?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>18) Situation based question where a subordinate of you (me) who is close with your boss is corrupt. How would you handle this?<br \/>\n19) Is corruption can only be handled with actions and complaints?<br \/>\n20) what is that one quality that you would need to develop to become the best officer?<br \/>\n21) Which service would you like to join and Why?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairperson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>22) Evaluate India as a whole &#8211; Is India a introvert or Extrovert nation? (Follow-up)<br \/>\n23) When India has never tried to occupy other countries how can India be an Extrovert nation?<br \/>\n24) What is that one historical fact that only you or only few people knows about it?<br \/>\n25) what is the famous dish in Madurai? And some follow up questions regarding that.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all. All the best for you all.<\/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: 05\/01\/2026 Afternoon Session Board: Sanjoy Verma Sir Optional: Geography Home State: Tamil Nadu Hobbies: Watching and playing Football Key DAF Details &#8211; Geography optional, Watching and playing Football, Mechanical Engineering, Tamilnadu. To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman 1) How do your friends and relatives call you? Then throughout&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-83-sanjoy-verma-board-geography-optional-watching-and-playing-football-hobbies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #83: Sanjoy Verma Board, Geography\u00a0Optional, Watching and playing Football Hobbies<\/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":[12150,80,12148,12151,1888],"class_list":["post-353623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-geography","tag-interview_transcript2025","tag-sanjay_verma2025","tag-tamil-nadu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353623","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=353623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}