{"id":354938,"date":"2026-01-30T15:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=354938"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:38:30","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-122-sujata-chaturvedi-board-civil-engineering-mindfulness-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-122-sujata-chaturvedi-board-civil-engineering-mindfulness-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #122: Sujata Chaturvedi Board, civil engineering, mindfulness meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date\u00a0 of Interview:<\/strong> 9 Jan 2026<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Sujata Chaturvedi maam<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Jharkhand<br \/>\n<strong>Daf keywords-<\/strong> Jharkhand, dhanbad, mindfulness meditation, raebareli, civil engineering, iit ism dhanbad<\/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. Is it your first interview? What were you thinking when you were sitting outside?<br \/>\n2. When was Jharkhand bifurcated? What gains have been made by it after bifurcation?<br \/>\n3. What places have you visited during your college days in Jharkhand (and discussions regarding them)<br \/>\n4. Rivers in Jharkhand<br \/>\n5. You belong to Raebareli, it is a political hotseat for decades. What it has gained? Yet it is backward district, why?<br \/>\n6. What is Mplad scheme?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Despite having large reserves of coal, why India still imports coal?<br \/>\n2. From which countries does India imports anthracite coal?<br \/>\n3. Post 1980-90s, what different path has China followed to achieve such remarkable growth rate?<br \/>\n4. Can India also become Centralised country like china?<br \/>\n5. What is ease of doing business and What most important things you can provide as a government to the investor?<br \/>\n6. Whats wrong with china\u2019s political system if it is yielding such a good result?<br \/>\n7. Is Wasseypur l&amp;o is similar to what has been shown in gangs of Wasseypur movie? What Censor board could have done?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. What does development mean to you?( I mentioned the term previously)<br \/>\n2. What is Ashtang Yoga?<br \/>\n3. When is International yoga day celebrated?<br \/>\n4. What is the current base year and what are the changes proposed?<br \/>\n5. Real vs nominal gdp (difference)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Why is it sometimes needed to create a image of something? Does the image of something isn\u2019t the result of the actions that are being undertaken? (I previously mentioned that gangs of Wasseypur movie has created negative perception of the town among the people)<br \/>\n2. Tell me about India Australia relationship<br \/>\n3. What do you mean by \u2018strategic\u2019? (I have mentioned it)<br \/>\n4. Countries of quad<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Which building will you prefer: made with glass or clay brick?<br \/>\n2. Difference between transidental vs mindfulness meditation<br \/>\n3. Origin of mindfulness meditation<br \/>\n4. Vipassana vs mindfulness meditation<br \/>\n5. History of vipassana meditation<br \/>\n6. Don\u2019t you think our meditation is being colonised by west (eg mindfulness meditation)<\/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\u00a0 of Interview: 9 Jan 2026 Board: Sujata Chaturvedi maam Home State: Jharkhand Daf keywords- Jharkhand, dhanbad, mindfulness meditation, raebareli, civil engineering, iit ism dhanbad To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman 1. Is it your first interview? What were you thinking when you were sitting outside? 2. When was Jharkhand bifurcated?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-122-sujata-chaturvedi-board-civil-engineering-mindfulness-meditation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #122: Sujata Chaturvedi Board, civil engineering, mindfulness meditation<\/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":[12150,8004,12148,832,12159],"class_list":["post-354938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-civil_engineering","tag-interview_transcript2025","tag-jharkhand","tag-sujatha-chaturvedi2025","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354938","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=354938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}