{"id":354180,"date":"2026-01-16T18:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=354180"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:24:12","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-99-suman-sharma-maam-board-madhya-pradesh-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-99-suman-sharma-maam-board-madhya-pradesh-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #99: Suman Sharma Ma\u2019am Board, Madhya Pradesh Home State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 08th Jan 2026<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Suman Sharma Ma\u2019am<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Madhya Pradesh<br \/>\nMORNING SESSION<br \/>\n<strong>DAF KEYWORDS:<\/strong> Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, IIT (only relevant)<\/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.You\u2019re from Bhopal? I said yes. She said Beautiful City!<br \/>\n2 You worked for about 9 months after college. I said yes.<br \/>\n3 You\u2019re a sports Enthusiast? Yes. I said yes.<br \/>\n4 Tell should betting in sports be legalised?<br \/>\n5 really there are analytics that happen now a days in sports as well.<br \/>\n6 GIFT city Gujrat. It has allowed alcohol but the rest of the state has banned it? Why difference?<br \/>\n7 But businesses are in Surat as well. Diamond industry is there. Don\u2019t you think this heterogeneity shouldn\u2019t be there?<br \/>\n8 Okay. Venezuela is gone. What next?<br \/>\n9 Are we moving towards WW3?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1 UN is dead. Should we throw it away?<br \/>\n2 Should what kind of reforms you suggest?<br \/>\n3 Voting should be one country one vote or a weighted voting system?<br \/>\n4 I said demarcated voting. Then he said something which i couldn\u2019t understand. Then he said about imperialism.<br \/>\n5 I said One country one vote for Imperialism prevention as well<br \/>\n6 This inter country migration. Is this a good thing or not?<br \/>\n7 what kind of burden does it create?<br \/>\n8 So if someone who\u2019s staying in Mumbai for many generations is he more of a citizen then someone who came few years ago. I said no. They both have same rights and violence and resentment must not be there towards migrants and efforts should be made to arrest distress migration.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1 US last night passed a law that allows upto 500% tarrifs on India? How do we deal with it?<br \/>\n2 What are the problems that India is facing in creating products and R&amp;D, Despite having so many IITs?<br \/>\n3 World War 3. Are we heading towards it? Chairperson intervened and told the member \u201cSir Mai pooch chuki hoo ye question\u201d<br \/>\n4 Biotechnology. How can it be used to diversify meat products?<br \/>\n5 This is productivity enhancement. How to diversify?<br \/>\n6 What is A2 Cow Milk ?<br \/>\nRest forgot<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1 Tell me what do we need to do to become job suppliers rather than job seekers?<br \/>\n2 What are policies that Govt has taken for startups?<br \/>\n3 Nuclear. Energy. What are the issues in that?<br \/>\n4 Okay. Govt has taken many steps for Maritime economy. Tell me that?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1 Should India, Pakistan, China, Bangladesh etc form a bloc together to tackle west? What have been the problems in doing that? What will you do If selected in Foreign Service<br \/>\n2 Yes i am aware of the issues. But how can we surpass these issues?<br \/>\n(I said trade entanglement)<br \/>\n3 Has any Leader in India followed this policy in past. I said PM Manmohan Singh.<br \/>\n4 Anyone before that who tried to do similar things. I said PM Nehru wrt China. She nodded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair:<\/strong> Thank You. Your interview is over.<\/p>\n<p>I thanked everyone and left.<br \/>\nOverall cordial environment. It felt like a conversation.<\/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: 08th Jan 2026 Board: Suman Sharma Ma\u2019am Home State: Madhya Pradesh MORNING SESSION DAF KEYWORDS: Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, IIT (only relevant) To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman 1.You\u2019re from Bhopal? I said yes. She said Beautiful City! 2 You worked for about 9 months after college. I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-99-suman-sharma-maam-board-madhya-pradesh-home-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #99: Suman Sharma Ma\u2019am Board, Madhya Pradesh 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":[12150,12148,4563,12167],"class_list":["post-354180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-interview_transcript2025","tag-madhya-pradesh","tag-suman_sharma2025","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354180","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=354180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}