[Official] Interview Transcripts of UPSC (CSE) 2019 - CSE & IFoS At One Place

Electrical Engg, watching movies, Political science and IR

Panel- Sujata Mehta Mam

CH- 1.Brief introduction

2. Did you pursue any job after graduation?

3.Did you appear for any campus placement?

4. Why do you want to join civil services?

5.so you stayed in sangli for 4 years. Tell me about sugar plantation in sangli district?

M1- asked questions on International Relations

1.Is Indian diplomacy successful in dealing with Pakistan challenge? 

2.Role of China?

3.who becomes President if both president and vice president are not available?

4.Talked about Constitution and role of scientific temper and asked me that which unscientific things we do in our life?

M2- 1. What is single most imp factor responsible for climate change?( I talked about Humans , role of fossil fuels)

2. Asked about Look east to Act East policy transformation in Indian foreign policy?

3.what is Indo Pacific?

4. Should india go for participating in Indo pacific- is that in India's interest ( because primarily the fight is between USA and China..Why should India get involved?.) Subsequent questions

M3- 1.You talked about Policy formulation and implementation in Government?. What is the process?

2. Role of Bureaucrats, politicians , and Public in it?

3. What is the role of Standing committee in policy formulation?

4. Role of Chairman in Rajya sabha?

5. Why we consider women as second class citizens ? What's your solution? 

6.Dont you think Women are supressed even in Educated sections of our society?What's your take on that?

7. Killing of Jamal khashgoggi and Iran commander..What is more important - Human rights or National interest? What about mutilation of soldiers body on borderline?

M4- Talked about Electricity sector and consequences of fossil fuels and how we are going for renewable energy.

1.How India aims to achieve this transition?.

2. What are the technical challenges in connecting standalone solar/ wind sources to grid ?

3. Talked about smart grid , green energy corridor and smart metering and subsequent questions.

4. How smart meter works? How it will help in reducing losses?

Chairman- do you want to ask anything or anything you prepared and we didn't ask u?

I talked about my hobbies - watching movies.

1. Which two movies you watched recently?

2. what type of movies do you watch generally, what kind of genre?

3. Diff between Art films and commercial films.

4. Can mainstream directors produce art films and become successful?

5. Have you watched Article 15? What was it about? Was it based on real story?Should we show such movies? Are the authentic? Don't they portray our country in bad light?

Thank you so much..Your Interview is over.Overall the board was very cordial and supportive.

Background- computer science engineering 

Optional - literature of Sanskrit 

Hobbies- dog caring 

Other activities- aso in MSDE 

Board- t c a Anant sir - chairman

2 male and 2 female members

Chairman sir: 

How do u care about dogs? What different u do for street dogs, why does dogs bark unnecessarily?

M1: Can you please explain official language policy. Can we have sanskrit as official language .

U have taken sanskrit optional after computer science. Can you please name some of the scholars?

Why students don’t want to study sanskrit. What’s wrong with our education system.

Can u please tell what all steps you would take to ensure that there be no malnutrition .

M2 

U are from Delhi and Delhi has been constantly facing issue of very high air pollution. Stubble burning is one of the cause, do u think that government has taken enough steps to deal with stubble burning or do u think that something more should be done?

In other countries stubble is used for various purposes,can you name any such use. 

Do you think some legal framework should also be made. 

M3 please tell us about uav. What has been the role of drdo in that . Do we have sufficient technology to deal with aerial attacks?

Why there is jobless growth in India

Why 80 percent of our engineers don’t find jobs 

What should we change in our education system. 

How do we relate skill and employment.

M4

She asked 3 ques which I have never even heard of.

Then she asked about conventional wars. Do we have more of direct wars or are we moving towards other means of war. 

Chairman then asked me : what is ultra vires.    

Am not able to recollect . He said ok no issues   . Your interview is over. Thankyou. I thanked everyone

Overall chairman was continuously smiling and very cool .

Optional- PSIR

Graduation- Civil engineering 

Mentioned helping out father in his shop.

Hobbies - reading books and GIS mapping

Chairman (TCA Anand): 

-Your hobby is reading. Which book did you read recently?

-What is it about?

-Your other hobby is GIS mapping. What is it about? How did it become your hobby?

Member 1:

-What are the principles of store management?

-BS4 vs BS6

-When does it come into force? what will happen to the BS 4 vehicles that are running in the roads now?

-What are the techniques used for earthquake resilient buildings?

-there is a special type of Steel that used for earthquake resistant buildings. do you know about it?

-How to measure tensile strength?

-What is nirvik?

Member 3:

-What is Pradhanmantri awas Yojana? Why is it important? (Also asked about specific provisions regarding the scheme)

-What are the problems in it? What are the latest techniques that we are looking to imbibe in it?

-That's a specific definition of affordable housing. Do you know that?

Member 3:

-You have read books on anthropology. How differently did Adivasis of India and aborigines of Australia fire when they came into contact with main landers?

-What is a time zone? What is India's? How many time zones does USA have? Do you need another one?

Member 4:

-Have you been to a village? Have you attended any gram sabha/Panchayat meetings? What are the difference between both? Why are they important?

My assessment of the interview: Interview was good and cordial. I didn't get any challenging questions at all. Some were fact based of which some i didn't know. But broadly, it was a good conversation and at no point was I put under any kind of pressure.

 Background:B.E biomedical optional:PSIR

hobbies: writing letters to editor of newspaper

 Date of Interview: 20/2/2020 FN

Board name: Bhonsle sir

after entering chairman explained about interview process and read daf aloud. And he spoke about best practices in tamil nadu government

CM

1. What are your qualities apart from good student?

2. how many letters published till now?

3. which letter u wanted to get published but it is not?( here i mentioned tnpsc scam and spoke need for self employment)

4. how can we address problems in farm products procurement and distribution?

5. what parameters u look for while implementing  model u suggested?

6. what farm products famous in ur district ( jackfruit)

M1( cant able to understand his english)

1. he said some quote and ask me to explain. i cant recollect

2. what is ur view on lavish wedding

3. why rich blaming system after using the system to become rich

M2

1. governance index

2. Why tamil nadu is best in index

3. Is really your state well in health and education

M3

1. How to address rural poverty

2. you speaking on economic aspect give some other factors

3. what is patriarchy

4. Is students union necessary for colleges

M4

1. why u opt for civil service rather opt for self employment ( i mentioned i have backup idea of jackfruit processing)

 2. if i give u 10 lakh what business idea u have. asked me to use paper and pen to explain model

3. cancer status in TN

4. TB status

5. MDR TB

CM

1. Ur business model is good how u address intermediaries

2. what products can be form from jack fruits

He ended by saying i like jackfruit. what is ur plan after interview

asked to visit upsc museum if u want to pass the exam. 

Board was very cordial. And made me comfortable throughout.

Ifs interview 2019

Board :Manoj Soni

Cm:

1)Is ur native village or town

2)u didn't get any placement

3)Tell me thirukural on forest

4)Novel wat u r reading last

M2

5)tell me something abt chola dynasty

6) climate change impact in Southern plateau

7)govt efforts to tackle climate change

8)tn efforts

9)role of women in forest management

10)y v need to protect wildlife

11)step to mitigate drought

Is this first interview 

M3:

10)do u eat grass

11)is tiger eat grass

12)human eat both y tiger not

13wat is Iran us tension

14)role of Saudi

15) objective of namami ganga project

M4:

16)Growing potted plants abt hobby

17)Wat pots prefer

18)Hw long u do

19)Wat plants u take care

20)As dfo wat u will do

21)Is plants need affection

22)wat is flagship species

IFoS 2019

Background

13th Feb; Forenoon session; Soni Sir

 Mechanical engineer; optional - agriculture and geology

CM

  While reading DAF, xyz is meaning of your name, here is you who write diary at a time when even writing is disappearing...

  1. 

When you started writing?

  2. 

What was trigger to start?

  3. 

Tell me by introspecting, if you have second chance which thing you will do in different way than you did earlier.?

  4. 

How was the rainfall in Maharashtra this year?

  5. 

How was it in your village, district?

M1

  1. 

What is clean energy?

  2. 

What is solar potential of India?

  3. 

Why India has large solar energy potential?

  4. 

Is India tropical or sub tropical?

  5. 

What is India's Geo thermal potential?

  6. 

What is biodiversity?

  7. 

What is species diversity?

  8. 

What is ecosystem diversity?

  9. 

What are the areas having large ecosystem diversity- globally and in India?

  10. 

What is habitat diversity?

  11. 

Which types of forest does Maharashtra have??

  12. 

What are the types of deciduos forest?

  13. 

Where they are present?

  14. 

what is dominant species of dry deciduous?

  15. 

Which is the dominant species in dry deciduous?

M2

  1. 

What promote you to donate blood?

  2. 

Isn't it harmful?

  3. 

What are the benefits of donating blood?

  4. 

Suppose there is a mutilated animal, how will you know weather it was attempt of poaching or conflict between animals?

  5. 

What will you do?

M3

  1. 

What is the meaning of name of your father?

  2. 

Weather he was god ?

  3. 

Was it from your region?

  4. 

What do you know about Buddhist culture?

  5. 

By observing Ajanta caves can you tell that how was that society?

  6. 

Suppose you are going with your driver, and you saw there is accident has took place, what will you do?

  7. 

When you were at home last time?

  8. 

Does ambulance come to your village?

  9. 

What are the challenges of health sector in your locality?

  10. 

As a engineer how will you help SDM to ensure attendance of doctors and stock of essential medicne?

  11. 

Have you saw Municipal sewage treatment plant?

  12. 

In which company did you worked?

  13. 

How effluent treatment plant in company is different from Municipal STP?

  14. 

How company was disposing sludge and treated water?

  15. 

How they were reducing toxicity of sludge?

CM

 Thank you, our interview is over.

Date- 17/02/2020,  Forenoon,  First to go

Board- Bassi sir

Duration- approx 30 min

Basic info-

1. Political Science graduation and optional 

2. Working in EPFO

3. Hobbies: Film, TV series and Teaching 

After entering the chamber wished the CP and lady member and then other 3 members. CP asked to seat.

CP- (Called me by my father's name. Politely told my correct name.) You like to watch TV series. Any specific genre or everything?(Told everything)

Still u will have some favorite, right? 

Tell me your favorite TV series? (Game of Thrones)

Okay. Give me an introduction to Game of Thrones. What is it about? 

(Gave brief introduction)

I want you to speak for 2 minutes on Game of Thrones.

Why those kingdom are fighting among themselves? 

What msg we get from this line of thought of fighting among ourselves.(Told United we stand and divided we fall)

M1:

So,  u r working in EPFO. Tell me how u decide the interest rates.

You have studied in Pune. Do u know about NDA? 

What is the role of NDA in our nation building? 

What do u think is the advantage of training cadres of all three forces together? 

You have studied IR. Tell me what is our relationship with Afghanistan?  

How it is different from other countries? 

(Told we are more focused on development of Afg while others are more interested in their strategic interest.Bassi sir smiled)

Do we have our troops in Afg? 

Should we sent our troops thr? 

What is our official policy about sending troops in Afg? 

M2(lady member):

Have you herad about merging of banks? 

Which are the banks been merged? 

What is your view about this bank merging?  Is it good or bad? 

Have you heard about Bank Nationalisation? 

When did it happen? What exactly was done in nationalisation? 

M3: 

You have dine certificate course in women and development. Tell me about the course, it's duration, syllabus and what you learnt? 

Tell from independence till now how do u see development of women in the country in various field like social, economical and political etc.

So u have studied PSIR. Tell me about UNSC.

There are some countries which are demanding changes in UNSC.Can u name them? 

Why they are demanding the changes?

Okay tell me why India is demanding seat in UNSC and whether India deserves it? I want your view on this not yes or no answer.

M4: 

So you like teaching. What is the age group of children you teach? 

You have studied  Marathi in your school. Suppose u have to teach Marathi to non- Marathi how will you teach them?  What methods you will adopt? 

You watch TV series also. Tell me about OTT platforms.

Tell me advantage and disadvantage of platforms like Netflix? 

How should we regulate them?( I told about censorship)

So,  how censorship can be imposed? 

How the producers of films and tv series earn money by releasing the their content on Netflix. 

Suppose you are travelling in a car with your family. U r passing by a small village where people are protesting for some demands. U come across them, they are angry. How will you handle the situation?  What will you tell them.

CP: 

Have you heard about BRI? 

Tell me about it.(Fumbled here.So I asked for some time and started again.)

We were hearing about it a lot last year now we are not hearing about it much. What were the reasons then and what are the reasons now? 

Is china back rolling the initiative?

Thank u. Ur interview is over.

(Overall very cordial interview. Had a good feeling at the end. Hoping for the best now)

Thank you Mahesh Bhagwat sir and all the seniors and friends for helping with the preparation.

Date : 17th Feb 2020

Board : sujata mehta

Background : electronics, worked as software engineer

Chairman : 

1. tell me about your education and job experience.

2. Why did you leave the job? Said something like private mai development opportunity is less and all.

3. So, why do you think development opportunities are less in private sector. - said private sector is pro profit and serve certain categories of people

4. So, don't you think private sector has no role? - said , no and gave other side of argument.

5. Why private sector is needed?

5. Private empanelment in ayushman Bharat - what is your opinion? Should we involve private sector or not?

6. Private sector good in district level hospitals? - said yes

7. Why are they good? - said that they help in phc, new tech and all.

8. So private sector has more tech than govt? Said, not so , but they supplement.

9. Private sector promotion regarding some more questions.

M1:

1.what did you do as a software engineer?

2. Border security

3. Why electronic sector is not improving vis a vis China or USA?

4. What is to be done?

5. Electric vehicle related 3-4 questions. What is being done. What are the challenges, what is govt doing and all

6. Questions related to Malabar coast ( from Karnataka)

7. What is konkan railways, it's impacts?

8. Ports that are being  developed in konkan coast

9. Sagarmala

10. Some factual question specific to Mangalore- said, I don't know

M2 : 

1. apart from cricket, why other games are not much developed or popular? What is the issues in sports sector in India? What is to be done?

2. Public administration - perception of not enough responsive, corruption and all... Why do you think so?

What is to be done?

3. How to bring changes in administration?

4. How to use technology in administration?

M3 : 

1. Hobby related - 2 things you learnt being part of those?

2. Again hobby related - some question. Why, what and all

3. How do you use electronics in day to day administration

4. Work related questions - 3-4 questions on role and all

M4 : 

1. Among bill gates, Steve jobs and mark zukerberg - who do you think brought disruptive changes? 

It is a personal question - choose one.

2. MSME sector changes in budget.

3. As a DM, how do you improve MSME - hypothetical situation

Chairman

1. Corporate tax rate reduction related.

2. Why is the govt doing it? Govt doesn't unlimited resources, still wants to undergo tax revenue.. why why why?(literally) Why are they doing it?

3. NGO - what is the need? Is it because of administration deficiency?

4. Social media - end to end encryption related.

5. What is block chain technology.

6. Is there anything left out which you think we should ask?

Thank you.

State: Andhra Pradesh

Optional: Mathematics

Hobbies: Cycling, Badminton, Programming

Sports: Tennis

Education: Computer Science Eng (IIT Madras)

Job: Software engineer

Board: Sujata Mehta madam

Chairperson:

0) Is this you? (pointing out the photo)

1) Introduce Yourself.

2) Why did you quit your job for attempting Civil Service?

3) Don't you enjoy your job in IT sector?

4) What is the condition of Indian IT sector? Compare with developed nations (US).

5) Despite having IITs, why is Indian IT sector still very nascent stage?

6) What is your work in the company?

7) You worked on e-Learning apps. Is anyone using them? Which sections of the society are using them?

8) Are these Apps free or paid?

M1: (Completely on IR)

1) UN vs. Multilateral organizations - strengthening which one is better?

2) SAARC vs. ASEAN - differences

3) 2 more Qs

M2: (Completely Opinion based Qs - none were from CA)

1) What should be the priorities of a young civil servant placed at a responsible position in lower level, say District Magistrate/ Collector?

2) Should Betting (in sports & in general) be regulated - opinion?

3) Media is invading privacy (individuals, institutions) - what should be done?

4) 1 more Qs

M3: (Completely on Sports + Social media Q)

1) Recently, a Badminton player got a national 2) award, who & what is that award?

Mary Komb got award, what is that?

3) Who received Bharat Ratna recently?

4) A female Hockey player received an International award recently, what is it?

5) Why sports other than Tennis, Cricket, Badminton are not gaining popularity?

6) Social media - opinion (Good/Bad)?

7) 1 follow-up Ques on Social Media.

M4: (Completely on Computer Science)

1) Moore's law

2) What are the problems/limitations by increasing the transistors?

3) If there is a limitation on the number of transistors, then how can we gain computational speed?

4) Super computers - applications, what is China doing, etc

Chairperson:

1) AP 3 capitals - opinion.

2) Is there anything you want to discuss with us?

Thank you. Your Interview is over.

Cordial board. Went smoothly.

PSIR, Civil engineering IIT Guwahati, JNV

Chair- Smita maharaj madam

1. Why JNV, IITs quality is not replicated in all other educational institutions.

2. Is it only political will that is lacking in changing education system.

And some follow up questions.

M1

1. What is anti defection law and why it is news always

2. JNVs have something on lines of ek bharat shreshta bharat, what is that. 

M2

1. What is issue in SCS and indias stand in it. Role of US.

M3.

1. Architect and civil engineer. Who should get priority in building construction.

2. Do you think Corona virus is a biological weapon by China.

M4.

1. Are international bodies- UN, WTO losing relevance !? What's there future.

2. Politics is art of possible. What's your view on this.

M5

1.Did you visit all NE states.

2. What are some issues faced by NE states- individual. 

Chair

1. Is changing parties after elections legal, ethical.

2. How would you categorise  a society developed. Tell indicators.

3. In civil services you will face issues. What are they. How will you deal them.

Qualification: Mechanical engineer

Work: 1)associate engineer in Robert Bosch

            2)Asst engineer in water resources   department

Board: TCA ananth

Optional: Kannada literature

C:tell me what kind of work you do in your department

C: is it based on dam maintenance kind of work or any other allied irrigation work 

C: sugar cane farmers are facing problems, and it is water consuming crop, so tell me why we should we grow sugar cane inspite of all this problem

M1: tell me efficiency of thermal power plant 

M1: why it is not possible to increase efficiency

M1: what is  critical pressure in thermal plants

M1: contribution of agriculture is very less to gdp, tell me why we are not possible to increase contribution 

M1: what is institutional credit and priority sector lending ( he was  not agreeing with whatever I was telling and he is kept on countering my viewpoints)

M2: you are  already working in govt department then why u want to join civil services now

M2: in which sector u want to work n tell me why

M2: tell me some schemes which have convergence of all these objectives you  have mentioned

M3: brexit and it's impact on EU and

 reasons for brexit 

M3: did  UK join brexit earlier whole hearted

M3: opinion about ASEAN

M3:  regional grouping is better or bilateral relations are better for our country

M3: why quality of engineers is not up to mark as per industry standard

M4: tell me about samagra shiksha abhiyan and  how it is helpful to increase quality of primary education

M4:tell me at least 5 reasons for farmers suicide 

M4: their is repeated drought and floods in India, tell me how garland of canals can help to solve these problems

M4: some more questions followed I can't  remember

Date 17 feb

Board bhoshle sir

Background BDS, working in EPFO, swimming as hobby

Chairman

After his cheerful greet n welcome, discussion on provisions of ICC ( DAF)  ,Issues faced by women, innovative role played by me, harrassment of male employees etc

1st memb

Discussion on money laundering

,Hawala ,how to curb what can you do more on it,some more  follow on q

M2

Why anthropology

Why dentistry

Plight of dentists

What can be done to improve on it

Some counterquestion on it

M3

Some more q on dentistry

Q on national integration related to language a barrier or not

Was india a nation before Britishers came some follow on q on this

M4

Provisions of recent ammendment in medical instruments

Panel provisions to check suitability of a instrument

Q on criminal justice system

Q on provisions of EPFO to punish defaulters

Chairman

Q on organ transplantation and women issues why women are more donors n less recipients

Innovative steps taken in office

Q on delhi education model

Last was what are your plans after this interview

Overall a cordial board

Board : Sujata Mehta maam 

Forenoon :Last to go

Mechanical engineering, table tennis and job in honda cars 

Chairman 

You're an engineer what drove you to civil services?

Why is it that the people in rural areas tend more towards civil services and people from urban areas have inclination more towards the other fields ? What shapes their choices?

If you had to choose one sector in civil services which would you choose ?

M1

Let's talk about jhabua ? There is a royal head even today. Do you think they have not done enough for the people of jhabua ?

What are the reasons for its backwardness? 

M3

I will continue with TT. If a junior player comes to you for advise what advise would you give him?

As a mechanical engineer where do you see car industry 5 years from now ? 

There has been changes in our culture due to various factors.

Have you heard of phoolan devi. She killed 18 people. Is killing right in your opinion ?

M4

Do you know about nirbhaya fund ?

Pocso?

Mid day meal scheme ?

Issues in higher education sector?

Does your college has any link up with the industries. 

Do you know about naxalism ?

There is a unique characteristic associated to it in india . Do you know that ? 

M5

Name some female parliamentarians?

If I had to buy a car which one would you suggest under 10 lakh?

As a female you chose mechanical, but women usually go for other branches like circuit branches. 

Some questions I am unable to recall.

Treant Protector

Anthropology

Kerala

Smita nagaraj ma'am board

Chairperson:

Have you read Tagores book Geetanjali?

Why? Its an easy read?

Okay often with tagore and other leaders we see that there are lots of debates about them and criticism as well about them. What do you think of this?

Okay but hitler and stalin were alive when it happened. What about dead people?

Okay lets do critical analysis in real life? Take any scheme analysis and criticism?

Okay but premiums will be capped. What else?

Why Government is focused on secondary and tertiary care then?

Then isn't it okay to focus on secondary and tertiary and not primary?

How to solve excessive testing and unnecessary procedures in private hospitals?

Why do we get happy when we see indian names in fortune 500 companies? They're not indian citizens?

So why do they leave?

M1

Have you heard of Geetanjali express? (Related to tagore- daf)

Where does it run from?

Andaman is strategic location why?

Till where does nations boundary extend?

Have you heard of nautical miles? Till what extent nautical miles is territory?

Why do you read books on human evolution?

Why so many migrants from kerala in gulf countries?

So they are skilled?

What state has highest literacy?

How much?

Lowest?

Why still wife beating and domestic violence is high after so much education?

What is criteria of literacy in India?

M2

Do you believe in adam and eve?

Why not?

Kochi port trust? Tell something about it

Have you seen it?

Kochi and ernakulam difference?

Jaipur founder?

What other contribution of Sawal Jai Singh?

Mirza ahmad contribution?

Administrative issues that may arise from pm jay?

Funding issue would be the biggest problem no?

What do you see when you see a mountain or rock face? (Hobby)

M3

Sports why bad in India despite large population, indigenous games, talent availability? 

And measures to improve?

How to manage funding balancing between various sectors like health education defence infrastructure?

M4

Have you read Tony josephs latest book?

Why not mountaineering? (Hobby)

You mentioned Tax terrorism. Whom does it effect- payers or non payers?

Vivaad se vishwas scheme. is it fair to give amnesty when others have paid tax on time?

What is fatf?

What is grey list?

What action taken by countries on grey list and black list entities?

Chairperson

Interference in west asia by USA, what is your take?

Western interference in libya under what clause?

West asia outlook?

Btech.electrical engineering, worked in Qualcomm

optional : Philosophy

Hobbies: Playing acoustic drums

Interview date :17/02/2020, Afternoon session

Total time: 29minutes

Panel : TCA Anant

Chairman started reading my DAF....u have done Btech from xyz....then u've worked in Qualcomm...

1. What is Qualcomm? What does it do?

2. What is internet of things?

3. Why is it a future technology? Every technology is evolving, when would u say that it has arisen?

4. What is 5g?

5. What did you do in the 5g project?

M2 : 

1.  So u are from Delhi..what would be the advantages if delhi is given full statehood?

2. Aadhaar case and privacy at supreme court verdict? Could u elaborate on that..what was the verdict?

3. What is the diff between sagarmala and bharatmala? 

4. What other initiatives do you think will help India achieve $5tn economy?

M3:

1. So u've done electrical engineering. Tell me how is hydroelectricity produced?

2. What about run-off the river projects? 

3. What is the megawatt rating of a hydro plant?

3. What is the max amount of power that a hydro power plant generates? You know about max capacity hydropower plant in India or the world?

4. What is mini hydro? Do you know the diff between mini hydro and large hydro in terms of MW ? 

5. What is the FUNCTIONAL (said it 2 times) difference between mini hydro and large hydro?

6.  Can electricity be stored??. (I said no, but only converted to some other form).....then what do we do if we generate excess electricity, what do we do with it? 

7. Ok let's come to electronics...I have two questions..what is the difference between GSM and CDMA?

8. Is the CDMA technology in use anywhere? Where is it maximum used? 

9. Has India used CDMA technology at any point? 

10. U have been in Qualcomm which is a very big company..why did you leave your job.? You must be getting a very high pay...

11. You know what is the AGR issue? What exactly is AGR? in one line..tell me what is the controversy? 1999 revenue  sharing model..what was before it? So if a telecom company has no profit, it did not have to pay charges to govt ? But presently all telecom companies are in losses, how to revive them? 

M4.: 

1. U play acoustic drums? So can you tell me what is the difference of frequency/vibration to a listener when he listens to a string instrument and a percussion instrument? 

2. You are from Delhi and u have done electrical engineering as well, we are pushing for electric vehicles and we also have CNG vehicles. Can you do a comparison between them?

3. You like philosophy also? Which philosopher do you like the most? Why? 

4. Have u heard about dashnami order which Adi shankara had established? What is it?

5. Do you know the story of how he went to the Himalayas?

6. Who is your favourite in Western philosophy? Why? 

7. Have u heard of ...... (some psychologist name).

8. Cyber crimes and security threats are increasing nowadays. We also have an IT Act..u must have read about the act... Do you think our IT Act has enough provisions to tackle these issues of future? 

9. So you are saying that the laws of Macaulay were also sufficient enough?

10. You chose philosophy as optional despite doing electrical engineering. Can you tell why so many engineers dread taking their own subjects? 

M5:

1. U have been involved in "social- development projects". could u tell about it? What did you do? Were they implemented in Delhi?  What were those projects? What was the target communities?

2. Have u heard about SHGs in rural India? What is their significance? 

3. Suppose u are a district head. What would be your priority areas for women of rural areas? Tell us what comes immediately to your mind...just 3 points..

Chairman: okay Thank you. You may go now.

State; Karnataka

Optional; PSIR

Graduation; mechanical engg

Board; PK Joshi

Ch; 

1. Question on hometown, places where I studied.

2. Why cleaning Ganga is not successful? What should be the measures?

3. What are the causes of underground water pollution?

M1;

1. How India should balance between USA,China, Russia? 

2. US Iran conflict? What are India's interest ? What stand should India take?

3. India's Refugee policy. And what is the significance of giving asylum to Dalai Lama?

4. Role of G-20, BRICKS,SCO.? Why formed?

4. Question on cyber technology. Advantages and disadvantages.

5. Difference between electrical vehicles and IC engine vehicles

M2;

1. Questions about nutrition , why immunization of girls is low? Measures to improve.

2. Water crisis in Bengaluru, and BBMP role in handling real estate business.

3. Skewed development in Karnataka . Inequality

M3;

1.How to improve engg research india? What will you do if you are secretary R&D?

2. Is mechanical engg becoming redundant? Why other fields such as electronics growing faster?

3. How is India's foreign policy working in present situation? Any measures to improve it .

M4 ;

1. Asked person of my name,said I don't know.

2. Asked about ' karanji' ( word was in my DAF) , said don't know.

3. Karnataka politics. Caste politics in Karnataka

4. Any important politician from home district? Contributions.

5. Question on QUAD.

Maithili Literature

Playing cricket, Interacting with people

Jharkhand

AFHQ, 2017

Bhosale Sir Board (35 mins)

Chairman :- You seem familiar?( I had given my interview last year in the same board and had got very low marks)

So, you got the service? ( No Sir, I was selected in 2017 CSE, last year I couldn't qualify in the final list)

 So, you know the rules of the game so

 shall I start bombarding you?

The place where you sit is place where you stand (pointing towards my chair ) , what do you understand by this?

What do you understand by geopolitics in terms of the above quote?

What do you understand by responsive and accountable health care?

Social determinants of health?

M1:- Tell me about shreya Singhal case?

Tell me exactly what SC said?

Why was it( section 66A) unconstitutional?

Tell me exactly why SC said that it is unconstitutional?

M2:- Tell me geographical advantage of India?

Tell me the advantage in relation to Pakistan?

M3:- Tell me about contribution of Vidyapati?

Role of literature ?

Apart from social aspect any other point?

Isn't it important for human existence?

What is existentialism?

What is required for human existence?

M4( Lady Member ):- Tell me what is RK Mission ( Daf based )?

What is it's Motto?

Places associated with Vivekananda and Ramakrishna Paramhansa?

What is importance of Chicago conference?

What did you learn while graduating from the school?

Chairman :- What is difference between urgent work and important work ,tell me based on your work experience in govt sector?

How will you do that in your district?

( Very pin pointed questions and they were probing me on number of points  rather than elaboration and asking me to move on to the next point, they were looking for very specific words and number of  points told by literally counting the number of points I spoke)

( Felt much better compared to last year due to preciseness in the questions)

18th Feb- Forenoon

Background- 

Civil Engineering (BIT Mesra), sociology, Work experience in Amazon, Uttar Pradesh

Board- TCA Anant

CP- 

1. Reading from DAF, you graduated in 2015, what have you been doing since then?

2. What was your role in Amazon?

3. What is the public perception of Amazon and e commerce in general?

4. Isn't giving deep discounts a good thing?

5. What can be the benefits of e commerce?

M1-

1. Why did you switch to sociology as your optional?

2. Do you know sanskritization theory and who gave it?

3. Which castes have gone for it?

4. What process did they use to achieve it?

5. How have the Yadavs in UP done it?

6. What is the main obstacle to gender empowerment and how should we address it?

M2-

1. Why is the status of women better in marwari families?

2. What is the objective of Hindu succession act?

3. Should we bring in uniform civil code?

4. By not bringing UCC aren't we bring treated differently and some sections as super citizens? ?

5. Tell me a few progressive legislations in muslim community?

6. What is look east policy?

M3- (asked too many technical questions)

1. What are the main minerals of Jharkhand? (College in Jharkhand)

2. What percentage Fe content is needed to economically extract it from iron ore?

3. What is the difference between mechanized bricks and normal bricks?

4. What is the area of cement to steel in a RCC pillar?

5. What are the technologies used in prefabricated concrete?

6. Do you prefer centralisation of governance or decentralisation?

M4-

1. What is ISA? What is India's role in it?

2. What is FATF and its role?

3. What steps has pakistan recently taken to avoid blacklisting?

4. Tell me about China's debt diplomacy?

5. Which countries are impacted by it?

Date of interview--19 feb

Profile- 

Home state - Bihar

B tech - IIT Roorkee, mechanical engineering 

Optional-- mechanical engineering 

Work ex- 2 years at Engineers India Limited. 

Working for 2 years at Central Electricity 

Hobby- watching football and studying tactics. 

CP-

1. What is your role at CEA. 

2. When was IIT Roorkee established. When it was named Thomson college of engineering. When it was named university of Roorkee? When its name was changed to IIT Roorkee.

3. How would you use your knowledge of mechanical engineering in administration.

4. What is pert.

5. Name one tool which can be used to improve administration?

M1

1. What is honour killing.

2. Why does honour killing still exist.

3. What steps need to be taken to eradicate these.

4. Do you read books?

5. Why do people move abroad after engineering? 

6. What difference do they feel after going abroad. 

M2

1. Why have you always preferred government jobs compared to private jobs.

2. What if your current organisation is privatised. 

3. Why government is privatising air India.

4. So do you think private sector optimally utilises the resources? Why jet Airways became bankrupt then.

5. Why everything is moving from mechanical to electrical like electrical trains, e vehicles etc. 

6. What is role of mechanical engineering in power sector.

M3

1. Litchi caused so many deaths in bihar. What can be done?

2. Tell 2 best football players in contemporary world.

3. Who is better among Messi and Ronaldo.

4. Why do you think Messi is better. 

5. Why India is not able to perform in hockey, football etc games.

6. Do you think private investment is required to promote these games?

7. What do you think about freebies culture in government. Is it good for economy? 

M4

1. Why bihar is facing so many floods.

2. Kosi is called as curse as well as boon for bihar. Explain this sentence.

3. What steps can be taken to prevent floods in Kosi. 

4. Have you heard of case in bhagalpur in which the accused were made blind by police? 

5. Do you think it is correct method to punish convicts?

Gujarat

Sociology Optional

Hobby - Reading and listening to verses of Kabir

Job : RBI Assistant (2 yrs) and Probationary Dy Collector Gujarat

P K Joshi Sir Board

CP : Why civil services?

Ur preference of service?

Why not IAAS as 1st preference? (Due to B.Com background)

Profile of Assistant in RBI

NPAs - Volume and present status. Reasons (RBI work experience)

"Auditor is a watchdog not a bloodhound." Meaning and in which case was it used?

How knowledge of commerce will help in civil services?

M1

Problem of Unemployment - Real or Hype? 

Reasons to support your argument

Educated Unemployment - Have you heard of it?

What is structural unemployment?

Recently RBI has imposed restrictions on 2 banks - which are they? 

difference between the PSBs Pvt Banks and Coop banks?

M2 (Lady Member) - Sociology and Gujarat

Have you been to NE India?

Education is low - Reasons 

Patriarchy - why does it still persists? Is it prevailing in lower class alone? Correlation between patriarchy and education?

What can be done to improve sex ratio?

Gujarat Wild Ass Sanctuary - 

Sabarmati filled with Waters of Naramada - How far justified?

Why use funds for beautification of river front? Water used in river front can be used for irrigation? What should be the priority?

M3 

Why Audit frauds? 

What actions can be taken?

Means to resource/fund projects in govt or Pvt companies?

If you are a DM, how will you use your knowledge of B.Com in improving the school?

M4

What is Ulat Bansi of Kabir? (Hobby)

Recite Kabir's Ulat Bansi

What was purpose of using it?

There is a song of Kabir Mann Lago Mero Yaar Fakiri Mein. Recite it for us.

Gandhi's Talisman What was it?

Gandhi's favorite bhajan - Vaishnav Jana to Tene Re Kahiye - Who wrote it and recite few lines

School infrastructure in govt schools is not up to the mark in Gujarat? Why?

Rakhiyal Why communally sensitive?

Why intermixing of religion not happening in Ahmedabad? Separate colonies for Hindus and Muslims?

Disturbed Areas Act - Have you heard about it? What is it?

As a Civil servant, ur preference - AC Cabin or Working in slums?

CM 

Ur Interview is over. U can go now.