{"id":353629,"date":"2026-01-10T16:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=353629"},"modified":"2026-01-10T16:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:09:22","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-89-raj-shukla-board-anthropology-optional-mbbs-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-89-raj-shukla-board-anthropology-optional-mbbs-background\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #89: Raj Shukla\u00a0Board, Anthropology Optional, Mbbs Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 6th January, session forenoon<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Raj Shukla<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Anthropology<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Telangana<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> Mbbs<br \/>\n<strong>Keywords-<\/strong> Mbbs, audit service, badminton, Vipassana meditation, anthropology, AI in healthcare, Hyderabad<\/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>Is Hyderabad going in the lines of Bengaluru, Mumbai in terms of development or it has its own path?<br \/>\nHow is Hyderabad different from these cities?<br \/>\nWhat is genome valley ( my prev answer included genome valley)<br \/>\nWhy isn\u2019t Hyderabad attracting much investment?<br \/>\nHow long will it take for a company to start business in Hyderabad?<br \/>\nAnd a follow up discussion on GST ( The GST regime is hampering investments in sir\u2019s opinion)<br \/>\nAnd a monologue on GST<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Favourite player in badminton and why?<br \/>\nDifferences between PV SINDHU and SAINA NEHWAL\u2019s game<br \/>\nHow has Vipassana meditation helped you?<br \/>\nDo you audit GST?<br \/>\nChallenges a you faced as a team lead?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Doctor to audit to civil services- explain how these 3 phases happened to you in life<\/p>\n<p>How do you achieve consensus building as a team lead?<br \/>\nDo women make good administrators?<br \/>\nAI in healthcare and applications<br \/>\nBest practices in India<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Have you ever thought of continuing as a doctor?<br \/>\nWhat is wrong in joining a family firm?<br \/>\nDoctor patient ratio in india vs prescribed ratio<br \/>\nIf you join bureaucracy what is the one thing you would first work on?<br \/>\nWhat are reasons for existence of red tapism( my answer was red tapism)<br \/>\nDo you think civil servants in the country are still in the British mindset of civil services or are they behaving differently?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>healthcare state in tg and india?<br \/>\nSex ratio in Telangana?<br \/>\nAs a doctor what will you bring into civil services?<\/p>\n<p>Overall conversational type of interview. Chairman sir was looking at his phone but was paying attention to every answer. Cordial board<\/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: 6th January, session forenoon Board: Raj Shukla Optional: Anthropology Home State: Telangana Background: Mbbs Keywords- Mbbs, audit service, badminton, Vipassana meditation, anthropology, AI in healthcare, Hyderabad To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman Is Hyderabad going in the lines of Bengaluru, Mumbai in terms of development or it has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-89-raj-shukla-board-anthropology-optional-mbbs-background\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #89: Raj Shukla\u00a0Board, Anthropology Optional, Mbbs Background<\/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":[12150,209,9355,12148,12165,1819,10710],"class_list":["post-353629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-anthropology","tag-badminton","tag-interview_transcript2025","tag-raj_shukla2025","tag-telangana","tag-vipassana_meditation","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353629","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=353629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}