{"id":354491,"date":"2026-01-22T17:11:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=354491"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:41:04","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-116-sanjay-verma-sir-board-gujarat-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-116-sanjay-verma-sir-board-gujarat-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #116: Sanjay Verma Sir Board, Gujarat Home State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 12 tha Jan morning (1st to go)<strong><br \/>\nBoard:<\/strong> Sanjay Verma Sir<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Gujarat<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAF keywords:<\/strong> Fitness, Podcast of changemakers, Personal Development Books, Gujarat, NGO<\/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>: Greeted me with smile<br \/>\n1. How are you (you are opening batsman&#8230;I said Yes sir)<br \/>\n2. Tell me your favourite women batsman ( random)<br \/>\n3. What 3 qualities you look in your life partner or Begum? ( Everyone was smiling)<br \/>\n4. Why ambitious?<br \/>\n5. Agar aap se bhi jyada ambitious hui to?<br \/>\n6. Who are top 5 changemakers at global stage in January 2026 (Daf keyword) some counter questions<br \/>\n7. who are top status quiest ( not able to answer&#8230;. Chairman skip questions)<br \/>\n8. Now tell me if we remove Navsari district from map what can be it impact on India ? ( Parsi community contribution)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>( Asked too broad questions with 4-5 sub part\u00a0 on AI)<br \/>\n9.Compare current development in AI with next decade scenario<br \/>\n10. What are its challenges<br \/>\n11. How it will help in\u00a0 governance<br \/>\n12. Its impact across the spectrum ( For students , engineers , etc.)<br \/>\n13. How it will help to someone who dont have mobile or internet ( Kisan help desk in Village : farmer can talk in local language &#8211; customized ans in his language)<br \/>\n14. Indian approach to fitness like yoga etc. vs western approach like Gym.. its Advantages, Disadvantages ( counter by chairman sir in last)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>( Books, Leadership: DAF keywords)<br \/>\n15. Why personal development books?<br \/>\n16. Which books you have read last,uske bare mein kuch\u00a0 bataye<br \/>\n17. Infrastructure committee ki leadership se kya seekha?<br \/>\n18. 3 qualities required in leader ( from your experience)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>19. NGOs role in viksit bharat ?<br \/>\n20. Current relations between NGOs and Government<br \/>\n21. Why government is not reaching to last mile ( que from my previous ans)<br \/>\n22. What will you do as DM if you are posted in interior backward area<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>( lets talk about Gujarat)<br \/>\n23.tell me something about Lothal<br \/>\n24. Have you visited statue of unity ( unfortunately not yet )<br \/>\n25. What is GIFT city, why , what is current status , what roforms will you suggest ( all questions in one sentence)<br \/>\n2-3 questions not able to recall<br \/>\n**In last Chairman gave counter argument of one of my ans. I explained my context behind argument but also\u00a0 agreed with sir&#8230;<br \/>\nOkk&#8230;.your interview is over<\/p>\n<p>Overall observation: Board was very cordial, everyone was smiling, asked too broad questions, all opinions no factual questions, Only from DAF<\/p>\n<p>Thank you everyone <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"open emoji emoji-small\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/web.telegram.org\/a\/img-apple-64\/1f64f.png?w=750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude4f\" data-path=\".\/img-apple-64\/1f64f.png\" \/><br \/>\nAll the best <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"open emoji emoji-small\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/web.telegram.org\/a\/img-apple-64\/1f44d.png?w=750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc4d\" data-path=\".\/img-apple-64\/1f44d.png\" \/><\/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: 12 tha Jan morning (1st to go) Board: Sanjay Verma Sir Home State: Gujarat DAF keywords: Fitness, Podcast of changemakers, Personal Development Books, Gujarat, NGO To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman : Greeted me with smile 1. How are you (you are opening batsman&#8230;I said Yes sir) 2.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-116-sanjay-verma-sir-board-gujarat-home-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #116: Sanjay Verma Sir Board, Gujarat 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":[12150,2059,12148,12151],"class_list":["post-354491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-gujarat","tag-interview_transcript2025","tag-sanjay_verma2025","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354491","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=354491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}