{"id":353628,"date":"2026-01-10T16:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=353628"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:00:52","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-88\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #88: Sheel Vardhan Board, Gujarat Home State, Vipassana Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 06-01-2026<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Sheel Vardhan Singh Sir<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Gujarat<br \/>\n<strong>Hobby:<\/strong> Vipassana<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key DAF Details:<\/strong> Mechanical Engineering, Vipassana, GST, Gujarat<\/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>(Not asked to introduce youself)<br \/>\n1. How many courses of Vipassana you have attended ?<br \/>\n2. who introduced Vipassana in India ?<br \/>\n3. what is the born place of S.N. Goenkaji ?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Members<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>4. who was the first home minister of India ?<br \/>\n5. why Sardar Patel is known as iron man ?<br \/>\n6. what is the contribution of sardar Vallabhbhai Patel ?<br \/>\n7. What was Kashmir dispute at time of Independence?<\/p>\n<p>8. why Rajkot is famous for ?<br \/>\n9. where Mahatma Gandhi taken his education ?<br \/>\n10. what is Mahatma museum ?<\/p>\n<p>11. why manufacturing sector was not developed in india?<br \/>\n12. what is steam engine ?<br \/>\n13. what is robotics ?<br \/>\n14. what is 1st industrial revolution ?<br \/>\n15. what is 2, 3, 4th industrial revolution ?<br \/>\n16. when 5th revolution will happen ?<\/p>\n<p>17. when name of country Burma change into Myanmar ?<br \/>\n18. Status. of India&#8217;s relation with Myanmar ?<br \/>\n19. what are effect of Myanmar&#8217;s relation on India ?<br \/>\n20. give me three friend and enemy of India except those which are sharing\u00a0 boundary with India ?<\/p>\n<p>21. who was the father of Indian space program ?<br \/>\n22. what was the business of Ambalal Sarabhai ?<br \/>\n23. is there any business institute regarding textile in Ahmedabad ?<br \/>\n24. what is textile museum in Ahmedabad ?<\/p>\n<p>25. how you create awareness among people regarding GST ?<br \/>\n26. what you have done to create awareness?<br \/>\n27. what is rate rationalization ?<br \/>\n28. how rate rationalization increase consumption of India ?<br \/>\n29. what was tax system before GST ?<\/p>\n<p>Overall interview was good. Interview board was very cordial.<\/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: 06-01-2026 Board: Sheel Vardhan Singh Sir Home State: Gujarat Hobby: Vipassana Key DAF Details: Mechanical Engineering, Vipassana, GST, Gujarat To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman (Not asked to introduce youself) 1. How many courses of Vipassana you have attended ? 2. who introduced Vipassana in India ? 3.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-88\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #88: Sheel Vardhan Board, Gujarat Home State, Vipassana 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":[12150,2059,12148,12168,12152,12158],"class_list":["post-353628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-gujarat","tag-interview_transcript2025","tag-mechanical-engineering","tag-sheel_vardhan2025","tag-vipassana","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353628","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=353628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}