{"id":96223,"date":"2021-03-18T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T09:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=96223"},"modified":"2021-03-18T14:30:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T09:00:56","slug":"upsc-interview-transcript-by-asked-to-the-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-transcript-by-asked-to-the-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview Transcript #80]: Smita Nagraj Board, Gujarat Home State, PSIR Optional, Weight Training Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interview Date:<\/strong> 20-02-2020 Afternoon slot
\nBackground:<\/strong> B. Tech, EE
\nOptional:<\/strong> PSIR
\nSport:<\/strong>\u00a0 Boxing (National level)
\nHobby:<\/strong> Weight Training
\nHome State:<\/strong>\u00a0 Gujarat
\nBoard:<\/strong> Smita Nagraj ma’am<\/p>\n

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Chairman<\/h3>\n
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  1. Pulkit, will you be one of those 7 million who’ll be attending President Trump’s event?<\/li>\n
  2. As an IFS officer,how would you look at such an extravagant visit with a headache for you to<\/li>\n
  3. arrange for such a large audience? What’s there for India to gain from it?<\/li>\n
  4. Who’re our hostile neighbours and how’re we dealing with them?<\/li>\n
  5. Doesn’t India also have a deep state?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Member 1<\/h3>\n
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    1. India-Myanmar relation and impact on it due to China factor?<\/li>\n
    2. Your favourite boxer?<\/li>\n
    3. Why boxing isn’t doing well in India?<\/li>\n
    4. UN’s relevance?<\/li>\n
    5. What was UN World Humanitarian summit certification program about? ( I was awarded a certificate under this program)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Member 2<\/h3>\n
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      1. GSP?<\/li>\n
      2. Mammalapuram’s significance?<\/li>\n
      3. Boxing’s weight categories; mary kom’s weight category? your weight category? is Boxing a sport of violence?<\/li>\n
      4. Is there a dichotomy between India claiming the status of a global power and simultaneously wanting to retain its ‘developing’ tag under WTO?<\/li>\n
      5. Which are developing countries?<\/li>\n
      6. Is Nepal and India same in the level of development?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Member 3<\/h3>\n
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        1. What is the definition of a developed country?<\/li>\n
        2. By when India should become a developed country?<\/li>\n
        3. Share of renewable energy in India’s energy mix?<\/li>\n
        4. share of renewable energy in Gujarat’s energy mix? which is the dominant renewable energy source in Gujarat?<\/li>\n
        5. What will be the impact if we increase wind energy in the grid to almost half of the grid capacity? is electricity the cleanest form of energy?<\/li>\n
        6. As an SDM, how would you reduce Ahmedabad’s air pollution?<\/li>\n
        7. what is the difference between weight training and weight lifting?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Member 4<\/h3>\n
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          1. What has the US done by re-classifying India as a developed country? Will it impact India? How<\/li>\n
          2. are we going to deal with it?<\/li>\n
          3. What is mid-day meal scheme ? As a DM,what will you do to ensure food quality under it?<\/li>\n
          4. If you’re a DM and your subordinate reports to you that in a cattle fair, a mass selling of cows is<\/li>\n
          5. being observed. What would you do?<\/li>\n
          6. How can you dilute sulphuric acid? Do we add water to acid or acid to water?<\/li>\n
          7. 1 major port of Gujarat?<\/li>\n
          8. Who was behind Kandla port’s development?<\/li>\n
          9. Why was Kandla port established?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n

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            1. Have you lived in a village? What difference did you feel in terms of amenities?<\/li>\n
            2. What difference could you see in social terms?<\/li>\n
            3. Is Dalit youth’s attitude changing to such(discriminatory) social structures in villages?
              \nThank you. Your interview is over.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n