Interview 1

Name: Sahil
Optional: Chemistry
Education: B Tech
Job: IFoS
State: Punjab
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. What are your areas of interest?

2. Tell me some important social issues currently in news

3. Have you heard about live-in-relationships? What is your opinion on that?

4. Suppose a live-in couple with a child decided to break up, imagine the
mental trauma the child has to go through. In this context is such a
relationship right for our society?

5. What is your opinion on people watching pornography within their own

personal space? Should individual autonomy guide all such actions?

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Member 1 Questions

1. Tell me about some important environmental issues

2. Expalain El Nina and La Nina events and its impact on India ?

3. Tell us about melting of polar ice caps and its effects

4. What is the impact of Climate Change on food security of India?

5. What is Earth Sciences?

6. Tell me your strengths and weaknesses

Member 2 Questions

1. What is the issue regarding capital city of Chandigarh between Punjab and
Haryana? What is the solution ?

2. Why do farmers in Punjab burn paddy straw despite government

restrictions?

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3. Why should the Government compensate the farmers for not burning
stubble ? Does it not go against the "Polluter Pays Principle"?

4. As an Engineer tell me how can we solve the stubble burning problem ?

Member 3 Questions

1. So your hobby is reading memoirs. What memoirs have you read?

2. What leadership qualities have you learned from that book?

Member 4 Questions

1. Why do we need to remove the stubble before planting new crop?

2. Tell me about Malnutrition and Food Fortification in India .

3. Why India lags in Global Hunger Index?

4. Have you heard about the term "Fraternity" in our Constitution. Explain its
meaning.

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Interview 2
Name: Unknown
Optional: Public Administration
Education: B.Tech Computer Engineering
Hobbies: Classical music, Playing Harmonium, Vipassana
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. How is your surname pronounced?

2. Your hobby is classical music. So what do you do? Play, sing or listen?

3. In this rainy weather and this timing, which are the three ragas that can be
played?

4. What is the timing of Megh Malhar?

5. Tell me the situation of Covid in your native place.

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6. Looking at Maharashtra, is there any hope that Corona will be overcome, at
least in the long run?

Member 1 Questions

1. So suppose if you get selected, and your joining got delayed by 2-3 months.
What will you do during that time? Will you learn something related to the
services?

2. Some states have multiple capitals. What is your view on having multiple
capitals?

3. There are issues of data security in recent times especially they have a
geopolitical angle, What is it?

4. What should be done by India to ensure better security in 5G technology?

Any technical solutions?

5. To contain China we are going for multi-alignments. Is it going against

NAM?

6. What could be the fallouts of such multiple strategic engagements?

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Member 2 Questions

1. You are computer scientist and a musician. is it a deadly combination ?

2. You play harmonium. What were the reasons that it was banned by All India
Radio?

3. We are getting so much into these mobiles and technologies that we are
losing ourselves. Do you think that in future our civilization can get
endangered because of this issue?

4. What is your view on vertical construction of buildings in cities and limiting

their geographical expanse?

5. So you agree with the idea? Can we start implementing it immediately from
tomorrow?

6. With respect to Indian Foreign Service they choose one foreign language in
the career and then specialize in that country's affairs. Do you think that similar
domain specialization should be made compulsory for IAS based on their
respective graduation?

Member 3 Questions

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1. So when sir referred you as scientist you immediately corrected him that you
are an engineer. Don't you think engineers can be scientists?

2. Where do you see engineers then?

3. You referred some technologies, tell me with respect to Quantum

computing, what is the difference between q-bit and ordinary bit?

4. What will be the impact of Quantum computing on security? Can India

benefit from that?

5. What are the initiatives of govt to promote Quantum computing?

6. What are the challenges or issues in Quantum computing?

7. Have you heard of 3D modelling of universe?

8. You have stayed in Pune, there are many famous labs in Pune. Which are
they?

9. What is the speciality of NIV?

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Member 4 Questions

1. If in future there is occurrence of a new event like Corona, but not the same
novel Corona, can it be dealt in a better manner?

2. With benefit of hindsight, what should be done so that in future if novel

Corona reoccurs we all can enjoy it without suffering?

3. What are the learnings from this corona pandemic?

4. Illegal works in real estate is an important issue in urban governance. What

has the government done to address it?

5. What is the difference between the function of RERA and function of

Municipal Commissioner of Pune or Mumbai?

6. What was the recent bank fraud in Maharashtra?

7. What is the full form of PMC? Why did it occur? What is the background of
Wadhwans?

8. What happens to the money of depositers if such frauds occur?

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Interview 3
Name: Augustus
Hobbies: Watching TED talk
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. You have mentioned so many addresses in your DAF, where are you based
in ?

2. What have you been doing in Delhi for last one year?

3. Have you given TED talk ?

4. What is the procedure to give TED talks?

5. You might be having lot of ideas to give Ted talks , share some ideas.

6. In three bullet points tell me about Delhi education model.

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7. Have you read about it in official documents?

8. What is happiness curriculum?

Member 1 Questions

1. Do you support statehood for Delhi ? Why not?

2. Delhi is considered unsafe for women, do you agree? And what is the reason
behind it?

3. Housing for all scheme: give civil engineering solution to it?

4. What else apart from prefab structures?

5. What was your institution's role in working with BMTPC ?

Member 2 Questions

1. What's the price of gold these days?

2. Can you tell me the price of 1kg of gold?

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3. Would you suggest someone to invest in gold ? What financial instruments?

4. Two things for which your district is famous for?

5. Why is it called gateway to the north east , Even if it is not in northeast?

6. India foreign policy for Nepal : tell one positive, one negative aspect .

7. What is Unofficial blockade ? is it good or bad in your opinion?

8. Nandan Nilekani started a platform few days ago, do you know about it?

9. Tell us one positive, one negative aspect about it.

10. What is Visvesvaraya contribution to India? Which year did he die?

Member 3 Questions

1. How will you use knowledge of civil engineering in civil administration?

2. What is National Building code?

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3. Tell us about some changes in NBC regarding fire safety done recently

4. What are reasons behind fire outbreaks in buildings?

5. How will you ensure compliance to norms?

6. Any government platform that takes views of citizens directly for better
governance?

Member 4 Questions

1. What are the uses of jute?

2. Would you suggest farmers in your district to continue with jute farming or
to diversify?

3. Any Air force base in your state?

4. What is the historical significance of these bases ( world war 2 reference)?

5. How is the course that you studied in B.Tech different from your course in
masters ?

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Interview 4
Name: Unknown
Optional: Anthropology
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. Where are you currently living?

2. Do you like Delhi?

3. What do you like in Delhi?

4. Tell me the culture of any one tribe.

5. You are DM of A&N island and you came to know Sentinelese are dying due
to some disease. As no one is allowed inside their territory including DM, what
will be your course of action?

6. Will you resign for saving them?

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7. What is your priority, law of land or constitutional morality?

Member 1 Questions

1. You are officer in a Forest area, you came to know about tribal festival in
which they kill many animals. What will you do?

2. Will you shoot if they have weapons and retaliating?

3. Why 'Naxalism' is prominent among tribals?

Member 2 Questions

1. Do you know Christopher von Haimendorf? What are his contributions?

2. Who is the leader of Santhal movement?

3. What is 100m sprint race world timing(daf)?

Member 3 Questions

1. What are the issues with tiger conservation?

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2. You are a Police officer and you come to know that forest dweller family in
Sunderbans has killed a tiger. Upon reaching there, you came to know that the
same tiger killed member of their family few weeks back. What will be your
course of action?

Member 4 Questions

1. University of Roorkee was so marvellous and at par with other IITs then what
was the need to make it an IIT?

2. Why IIT Roorkee is not in List of eminent institutes?

3. What is Coding?(DAF)

4. Why did you choose Software engineering job after graduation in polymer
engineering?

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Interview 5

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Name: Unknown
Optional: Geography
Job: IMD
State: Bihar
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. You play flute. Did you have training for it? Do you play classical ragas?

2. Is IMD doing it's job at par compared to other countries forecasts?

Member 1 Questions

1. You have studied from CBSE.. Tell me 2 things that we are doing fit for
education? Two things that we are doing wrong in education? Two things that
we can do to improve it?

2. Ok now tell me two things we did right during lockdown to fight with covid?
Two things we could have done better to manage during lockdown?

3. What is integrated agricultural farming?

Member 2 Questions
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1. Tell me famous temples in Gaya

2. Why is Gaya famous for?

3. How can cricket be played in present circumstances?

Member 3 Questions

1. How is IMD useful?

2. What is it doing for agricultural insurance?

3. What are the schemes for agricultural insurance?

4. What are the Objectives of JNV (DAF)? Has it been successful in reaching
those objectives? How can you improve it?

Member 4 Questions

1. Have you heard about ancient silk route?

2. Somewhere I read that it also passed through Patna-Prayagraj-Delhi-

Amritsar belt.. Do u think it's correct?

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3. Ok, how do we conclude that it existed here.. What is the evidence we see?

4. Have you heard about cryosphere?

5. If polar bear goes extinct, how will it affect people in distant lands as in
India?

6. What are zoonotic diseases? Any correlation between climate change and
zoonotic diseases?

7. Can covid be called an example of climate change induced virus... Just only
an opinion on it.... Your opinion May differ?

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Interview 6
Name: Unknown
Education: LLB
Hobbies: Running, Travelling
Year: 2020

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Chairman Questions

1. There are too many address in your DAF. so where are you currently- Sir?

2. Tell us the famous line on Surat food, since you are also a foodie.

3. Do you think we should make DPSP justiciable by 2047 ?

4. Tell me two points in favour and two against it?

5. How many DPSPs do we have in our constitution and tell me 5 very

important ones?

Member 1 Questions

1. Tell us about the big epidemic in Surat in the 1980s?

2. What is the difference between solicitor general and advocate general?

3. How many war India has fought. and in one line explain all of them.

4. Was 1999 Kargil not a war ?

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5. What about Galwan? we lost 20 lives ? was it a war ?

Member 2 Questions

1. SDGs - does it have any special provision for disabled ?

2. Is the govt doing enough ? if not, where do we lack ?

3. How do we improve this ?

4. As an admisitrator how will you bring changes ?

5. Any provision in the National building code regarding the same ?

Member 3 Questions

1. Why do you like experimenting with food ?

2. Explain with one recent experience and explain the dish with your logic?

3. Which is the famous food of Bihar ?

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4. Why don't you join judiciary?

5. What is the major amendment in cr.pc by which executive magistrate's

powers was transferred to judicial magistrate ?

Member 4 Questions

1. Do you think civil services is still effective today ?

2. What all things can be done with regards to the same ?

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Interview 7
Name: Unknown
Education: MTech
Hobbies: Writing emails to editors
State: Andhra Pradesh
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

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1. Your name is xyz. Both parts refer to Lord Krishna. Then why do you have
two parts in your name?

2. How do you want to be remembered in your life? What is your goal in life?

3. Haven't you made any positive impact on others' life till now? Give
examples.

Member 1 Questions

1. On what topics do you write emails?

2. Give an example of what you wrote about and the result ?

3. Do you know RTI? Have you ever used it? For what reasons? Did you get the
reply?

4. You have a good academic record. Now why are you changing stream?

5. How can engineering institutions ensure that engineers remain in

engineering? There is a lot of brain drain. What do you suggest?

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Member 2 Questions

1. What is your view on cryptocurrency? Should it be allowed or banned? Why?

2. Under which law the cryptocurrency can be banned?

3. How do you think 2021 will be? What impact 2020 will have on 2021?

Member 3 Questions

1. What is Guntur famous for?

2. Tell me top-4 states in terms of GDP. Make a guess ?

3. Now tell me top-4 states in terms of per capita income?

4. Among Sikkim, Delhi and Goa - what do you think is the order in terms of
per capita income?

5. There is one public institution doing exceedingly well without reservations.

Which is that?

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6. Why is there no reservation in armed forces, when it is there in civil services?
Doesn't efficiency matter in civil services?

Member 4 Questions

1. What is your view on granting permanent commission to women in army?

2. Why do you think it took 70 years to achieve that?

3. Which other country has gender parity in armed forces?

4. What is the status in US?

5. Guntur is famous for food. Is it still famous? What food items is it known
for?

6. Tell me a traditional martial art from Andhra Pradesh

7. Is it popular now? Why not (as many martial art training institutes are
coming up over time)?

8. What can be done to revive it? What can you do as an individual?

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Interview 8
Name: AK
Optional: Law
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. Any difficulty in reaching Delhi from your district?

2. What is the procedure for tribes to get listed as ST?

3. Tell us about FATF?

Member 1 Questions

1. You are from Maharashtra. Tell us about the origin of 'vadapav'?

2. Which single leader comes to your mind when you say Maharashtra?

3. Tell me one way in which Shivaji Maharaj altered the way of Maratha life.

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4. There are no international bodies currently on international law in
environment. Do you think India should take a lead?

5. Consider a case where government is trying to raise finances after covid,

announces a bond for general public at 2% higher rate. Give positive and
negative effects.

6. In current scenario, which three countries would you like to rely on? And
why? What about Russia?

Member 2 Questions

1. You have volunteered at social projects related to organic farming. What was
your role?

2. Why organic farming has not increased much yet?

3. Why environment protection law was brought? Tell us a specific event after
which it was framed ?

4. What provisions were added?

5. Tell us any new environment related legislation and explain the same ?

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Member 3 Questions

1. Is Maharashtra's covid scenario a failure?

2. Tell us about Mumbai floods? Who is to blame- people or administration?

3. Why are there so many lawyers in the courts? Can courts restrict the
number?

4. Compare police response to riots in USA and India

Member 4 Questions

1. Common man's access to justice is limited. How?

2. Do you think advocate's fees be reduced?

3. Do you think some case load should be transferred from courts to

Panchayats?

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Interview 9
Name: S Chaitanya
Optional: Mathematics
Education: MTech
Hobbies: Badminton, Tennis
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. How is Covid in Chennai?

2. Tell us about your Job experience.

3. Why you are interested in Chinese culture? (DAF based)

4. How can you use knowledge of Chinese culture to better deal with China?

Member 1 Questions

1. Do you watch Mann ki baat?

2. Tell 3 steps to reduce water use in agriculture?

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3. What is the status of UNSC reforms?

4. What is India doing?

5. China has veto power and will surely veto any chance of membership into
UNSC. Should we even try and how?

Member 2 Questions

1. What is good governance?

2. What are the parameters of good governance?

3. How should we involve citizens?

4. At what level should we involve citizens?

5. What is the method of measuring good governance?

6. What are the indicators?

7. Why is Tamilnadu doing better?

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8. What areas TN is not doing good?

9. What are SDG is ? List them.

10. Are they relavent and useful?

Member 3 Questions

1. Tell me what changes should be done so that you will stick with electrical
engineering and not join civil services?

2. How do people become judges?

3. Shouldn't we take generalists there too, as bureaucrats form laws and they
are generalists and are better placed to implement them?

4. In Army recruitment, is there a need of degree?

5. When should we allow students to choose careers and jobs? Is it after 12 or

after degree?

6. Should we select civil servants after class 12 itself?

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Member 4 Questions

1. How shall you use your background to better formulate renewable energy
policies?

2. Why is someone with background required when bureaucrats can get same
advice from a specialist in field?

3. Do you know China's sword policy?

4. Tell us about Plastic waste management rules?

5. What is the difference between recyclable and non recyclable plastic waste
and should they be regulated differently?

6. How will you better implement plastic waste management rules? Is it not
too impractical?

7. Tell any further measures about plastic waste management ?

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Interview 10
Name: Arjeet
Optional: Public Administration
Education: Electronics engg
State: Chhattisgarh
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. What is modern in new Raipur?

2. How can water conservation, be jan andolan?

3. What have you done to conserve water?

Member 1 Questions

1. What are the benefits of a small state?

2. Is it better to make small states in India?

3. How to improve blocks in administrative system?

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Member 2 Questions

1. Tell us about 'Naxalism '?

2. Tell us about Nyay scheme ?

3. Tell us about PDS of Chattisgarh ?

Member 3 Questions

1. Global innovation index - should we be ashamed or proud of it ? choose

only one.

2. There is so much hype about solar, but why are we investing billions in other
energy like coal gas plant?

Member 4 Questions

1. How to prevent forest fire?

2. What are the innovative ways to tackle it?

3. What are nano materials?

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4. What are the negatives of nanotechnology ?

5. What do you mean by Prisoner's dilemma - how to solve it?

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Interview 11
Name: Rajanikant Chilumula
Optional: Psychology
Education: MTech
Hobbies: Writing Motivational Articles
State: Telangana
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. Your hobby seems to be interesting. Do you publish your articles? What was
your recent article about?

2. Why do you want to leave your specialisation? Is it not waste of resources?

There are very few specialists like you in India. How is specialisation useful if
you get a Postal service job?

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3. Do you think the changes in the energy sector has led to increase in
disequilibrium of ecosystem as well as rise in internal & international conflicts
over a period of 500 years? Do you believe in this hypothesis? Can you give us
examples?

Member 1 Questions

1. What do you understand by Energy security?

2. How much is India dependent on other countries for energy needs?

3. Do you know about a recent deal between India & US what is it regarding?

4. What does US gain by giving India such access?

5. Do you know about any modern technologies in the ocean domain?

6. Did you hear about the new project of ocean exploration and stations
similar to space stations? Do you think India must invest in such modern
energy technologies?

7. Have you heard of Hydrogen economy?

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Member 2 Questions

1. Tell me what are 'Life Skills'? How do we teach them? (DAF based)

2. What is the difference between Psychologist & Psychiartist?

3. What kind of therapies are used by Psychologists?

4. Do you think you are a good psychologist? You have studied Psychology for
almost 3 years. You are like a graduate .

5. Which departments would you prefer as an administrator? What would you

do if given an urban development role?

6. What is the scheme being implemented for urban development in cities?

7. What changes have you observed in Telangana with the implementation of

the schemes?

8. What is the mission being implemented for drinking water supply? What
was the challenge to implement this?

Member 3 Questions

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1. Recently there was a culture of 'Work from home' for employees? What was
the effect of it?

2. Do you think it is good for Government employees? How would you make
sure public are satisfied?

3. Recently banks were insistent to give loans liberally to businesses by RBI.

But banks say MSMEs are not ready to take loans. How do you resolve this
issue?

4. Do you know about the 3Cs hanging over the necks of bankers? Why is it
said so? How do we manage this?

5. What was the impact of reverse migration of skilled labour from Telangana?
How did the Government tackle the issue?

6. We have seen that the noumber of patients with other diseases in hospitals
reduced. What do you think is the reason? How long can the patients delay
their surgeries?

Member 4 Questions

1. Can you name one famous Educational Institute in India which is

internationally famous? Which was built before Independence ?

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2. Tell me three negative qualities of a good leader. Give me examples

3. Who is more famous in India Amitabh Bachan or Rajinikanth? What about

foreign countries?

4. I will give you a case study. Answer me direct. If you are going to use AI &
use robots for surgeries, let us say the patient died. Who will you find
accountable? The doctor, the hospital, the Government or the manufacturer of
the robot?

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Interview 12
Name: Unknown
Optional: Political Science and International Relations
State: Andhra Pradesh
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. What is your present activity/status ?

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2. What is women empowerment?

3. What is the role of men in women empowerment?

4. Don't you think women in the past were in better status.?

5. Today they are burdened both by work and household work. Right?

Member 1 Questions

1. Do you know carbon trade exchange and electronic trade exchange?

2. Do you think is it ethical to have carbon trade exchange?

3. Do you think coaching institutes are impacting students negatively ?

4. How are you different in teaching. ?

Member 2 Questions

1. You know Napa slabs of Kadapa? Are they still used?

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2. Tell us about three conflicts in the neighbourhood impacting India ?

3. Name three politicians( of the past) you don't like.

4. What are the differences between IT industry in Bengaluru and Hyderabad?

5. Health and Education are important. But expenditure(%of GDP) is less. For
which ministry can you reduce the budget and allocate it to the health and
education ministry?

Member 3 Questions

1. If I give option between Science and Technology, and Social welfare which
ministry would you give more emphasis?

2. How technology can help to revive economy?

3. Tell us about data protection. Who own data? People or MNCs?

4. What is clean energy? How can it revive economy?

Member 4 Questions

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1. You chose science and technology ministry but you explore traditional
practices in agriculture?

2. Which practice you want to revive?

3. Tell us any three agriculture problems and how you are going to address it?

4. Name any modern technology which benefitted agriculture?

5. What is SRI cultivation?

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Interview 13
Name: Unknown
Optional: Philosophy
Hobbies: Teaching
State: Uttar Pradesh
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

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1. What is so happy about today apart from it being your interview?

2. How was your city named?

3. Why did you study social science instead of going for engineering or
medicine as most other aspirants do?

4. How can you use any Indian philosophy in administration?

5. Tell me the names of 5 Indian philosophers?

6. Pick any one and tell how can you use his philosophy in administration.

Member 1 Questions

1. Whom do you teach?

2. Where do you watch comic videos..do you watch series or what?

3. Which comic show would you recommend me?

4. What are the 3 core functions that the government performs?

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5. What were the functions performed by the colonial administration in India?

Member 2 Questions

1. What are your thoughts on the extra judicial killing of criminals?

2. Why does UP have such poor law and order?

3. What would you do as an administrator to tackle this problem?

4. Why do we take actions against criminals only when they become a history
sheeter...Why not nip them in the bud?

Member 3 Questions

1. Choose 5 people from history with impeccable integrity?

2. Rank the neighbours of India in decreasing order of importance? Why such

a low rank for Bhutan despite it being India's best friend in the region?

3. Has India ever defeated China in a war? Can we do that in the present
times?

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4. Pick any one relative or friend who has had the greatest impact on your
personality.

Member 4 Questions

1. You mentioned J Krishnamurti ji. What have you read about him?

2. Some statues are being raised abroad? Do you know about it?

3. Many names are being changed in India.Does it change the ground reality
also?

4. Do you think we have bio-ethics in the world?

5. Suppose there is a baby which is to be born and we know beforehand that it

would have some disability or deformity. Should we allow such birth or should
we go for abortion?

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Interview 14

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Name: Unknown
Education: B Pharm
Job: Banking, Income Tax Officer
State: Andhra Pradesh
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. You're basically from AP, but as a part of your job, you're now residing in
Pondicherry. Right?

2. What are the two things you like most about Pondicherry?

3. Suppose a woman subordinate of you, complains to you about sexual

harrasment, how would you handle it?

Member 1 Questions

1. Tell us about the menace of tobacco and habit forming drugs. What are the
legislative and regulatory measures in place?

2. What is the status of vaccine development for Covid ?

Member 2 Questions
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1. Do you think GST is a hindrance to businesses?

2. You have banking experience coupled with GST experience. How is it related
to your academics and how all these inspired you towards a career in civil
services?

Member 3 Questions

1. MNREGA is increasingly being 'misused' for employment generation. What

are the pros and cons?

2. What do you know about targetted drug delivery mechanisms and is

vaccine one such thing?

Member 4 Questions

1. What is Tirumala temple's revenue and expenditure. Which is the body

administering it?

2. Do you think there is motivated interests behind popular protests against

development activities like nuclear reactors etc.?

3. Tell us about India-Iran relations ?

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4. What is the relative importance of Virology, Vaccinology, Epidemiology,
Pulmonology in containing Covid?

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Interview 15
Name: Vikash raj
Education: BTech Mining
Job: CIL
Hobbies: Badminton, Teaching
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. India since independence has not been able to drastically change the
education system leading to slow growth of education. Comment

2. Tell three points about drafts education policy?

3. What are the issues in draft education policy?

4. You were involved in an NGO. How was your experience?

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Member 1 Questions

1. What are the alternatives of coal?

2. Are you afraid that your job in coal sector will go?

3. What is the impact of opening of coal sector?

4. What are the alternative methods of extraction of coal with less pollution?

5. Is your home district a agricultural town or industrial?

6. Why there is no growth of industry in your hometown?

Member 2 Questions

1. Anthropology is an apology to primitive man. What is your opinion?

2. Tell us about underground coal mine fire in Jharia?

3. Why government is not able to resettle the people there?

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4. Is there any Law and order issue in settlement?

5. What you know about 'National reserve security'?

6. Is there any Law and order issue in settlement?

7. Tell us about Coal gasification?

8. What is Coal bed methane?

Member 3 Questions

1. What was the last movie you watched. How has it impacted you?

2. What is the scheme related to restororation of the village tank?

3. Tell us about industrial discharge in Ganga near Patna.

4. Which country is a pioneer in water conservation?

5. How will you handle a huge protest as a head of district.?

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Interview 16
Name: Anupam
Education: PhD
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. What is Geography in your research topic?

2. Tell 5 places related to lives of Babasaheb Ambedkar.

3. Any place related to his life in Uttar Pradesh or Madhya Pradesh?

Member 1 Questions

1. Is Ghazipur a peaceful place?

2. How will you deal with Mafia in Ghazipur?

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1. Who produces maps of India?

2. Who produces satellite imagery?

3. How remote sensing can be useful in disaster management?

4. Any ministry of India that uses remote sensing in its working?

Member 3 Questions

1. Do you think merger of banks is a good step?

2. Tell some similar merger strategy you would like to suggest in any other
affairs of government?

Member 4 Questions

1. What are the issues sugarcane farmers are facing?

2. What could be it's solution?

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3. What could be other use of sugarcane?

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Interview 17
Name: Unknown
Job: IPS
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. You are already in IPS. Aren’t you happy?

2. Would you regret if you aren’t allotted service you are aspiring.?

3. Honestly tell me, do you believe UP gangster encounter was staged?

4. What makes you believe that it was not true?

Member 1 Questions

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1. Does police exceed its brief and use excess force?

2. How would you use GIS in policing ?

3. How would technology help in tackling law and order situation ?

4. Tell us about Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning.

Member 2 Questions

1. Some senior police officers say criminal justice system doesn’t work properly
because judicial process is slow and ineffective. Do you think so ?

2. What changes do we need in IPC, CrPC, Indian evidence act. Tell specific
changes.

3. What type of subsidies do we give, should we give them or not ?

4. How should we rationalise PDS system, FPS etc?

Member 3 Questions

1. What is the role of police during covid times ?

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2. Has police able to deliver on people’s expectations ?

3. Which section of law authorised police to enforce lockdown ?

4. What is FATF?

5. Why Pakistan escaped from blacklist ?

6. When UN blacklists some terrorist, how can we leverage that ?

Member 4 Questions

1. Isn’t golden temple most important part of golden triangle ?

2. What is golden triangle?

3. DM and SP are fulcrum of district administration. Don’t you think for 1 year
SP should do DM’s job and DM should do SP’s job for better coordination?

4. Shouldn’t we have one standard investment policy throughout India for

boosting investment?

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Interview 18
Name: Unknown
Education: B.COM(CA)
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. You have lived in Delhi, how’s the city ?

2. Why civil services ? Are status and power not a consideration ?

3. Talk about a policy of current government for 2 minutes ?

4. Do you pursue your hobbies ?

Member 1 Questions

1. Tell us about the history of your native place?

2. Is Delhi perfect for capital ?

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3. What is the impact of Covid in profession - CA and business ?

Member 2 Questions

1. Why South korea became developed and not India ?

2. What will be the two potraits in your office apart from PM, President and
Gandhiji ?

3. Why can’t we have direct recruitment in civil services after 12 like NDA?

4. Which is better - current process or after 12?

Member 3 Questions

1. Astronomy - tell us about the recent planet alignment

2. Offset what do you mean by ? Is it applied ?

3. What is Ethics behind offsets ?

Member 4 Questions

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1. Why to join IAS when as a CA you can do good in IRS ?

2. What you will do if posted in department of social justice ?

3. Tell some schemes for women empowerment ? How will you empower
women ?

4. SFIO ? When was it established ? Why was it established ?

5. Satyam scam - Why it happened despite renowned auditors ?

6. Suggest one improvement in your native place? What will you do if posted
there ?

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Interview 19

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Name: Nidhi
Optional: Chemistry
Hobbies: Mandala Art
State: Haryana
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. How did you utilise your lockdown period?

2. What is decoupage ?

3. Showed me a painting and asked me about mandala.

4. During locust attack, which chemicals were used?

5. Will it impact forests or crops only?

6. What is biodiversity?

Member 1 Questions

1. How did NCR deal with covid ? How it could have been done better?

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2. How federalism fared during covid ?

3. Why Maternal Mortality Rate is high in Haryana ??

4. Tell us about Good governance Index? Give some parameters?

5. What is the rank of Haryana in Good Governance Index ?

Member 2 Questions

1. Give comparison between India-China

2. Tell us two good things that China did that it reached here and two bad
things about India that we couldn’t do better.

3. Tell us two most important ministries according to you and why?

4. How much should we spend on health infrastructure?

Member 3 Questions

1. What is Inspire scholarship? When did it start?

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2. What is its impact ?

3. Have we seen any change in R&D sector?

4. What are the issues with R&D sector in India?

5. What can be done better?

6. What is the difference between agri productivity and agri production?

7. What is Minimum Support Price?

8. Who is responsible for implementing it?

9. What about oil seeds and pulses?

Member 4 Questions

1. Which month is this in Hindi?

2. What is the next month?

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Interview 20
Optional: Literature - Punjabi
Job: Banking
Hobbies: Poetry
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. You come from city of golden temple. How often do you visit golden
temple?

2. So you must have been working in bank during lockdown, what all
precautions did your bank take?

3. Do you think UPSC has taken enough precautions as compared to bank?

4. You have studied in S.R College. What is S R. Who is Swarup Rani?

5. Quote an example after 12th standard life or recent life which changed you
perception about life or taught you something.

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Member 1 Questions

1. So you write blogs and active on Quora Don't you think there's so much
hate content and judgemental content is posted on social media. How to
regulate it?

2. Tell us about Government regulations on social media. How to regulate it?

3. Give some names of famous Punjabi poets.

4. Free knowledge vs IPR of books. Should books be available free on various

sites as we find them or IPR be protected?

Member 2 Questions

1. Which banks were merged with Union Bank.?

2. How the merger is implemented at ground level?

3. Is bank mergers, good or bad?

4. Don't you think there would be discrimination with staff of other banks?

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5. Tell us about privatization of Public sector Banks?

6. Why not privatisation,taxpayers money is used for re-capitalisation?

7. But it's the profit that matters and private banks are doing well in it .

8. One reform in Education Sector - what you'll suggest?

9. You have lived in Punjab all your life what if you get Tamilnadu cadre?

Member 3 Questions

1. There's trade from Afghanistan to India via Pakistan. Do the reverse also
happening( i.e India to Afghanistan via pakistan)?

2. Do you think we have done enough for health sector during covid?

3. Aren't we entering into stage of Stagflation?

4. Compare Make in India and Aatamnirbhar bharat . Aren't they same things
with different names ?

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Member 4 Questions

1. Have you visited Wagah border?

2. Shouldn't such a show of anger and power be banned?

3. Why did Amritsar became famous in 2019?

4. Should UK publicly apologize for Jallianwala Bagh Massacre?

5. Tell us any three positives and three negatives of lockdown.

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Interview 21
Name: Unknown
Optional: Geography
Education: Civil engineering
State: Madhya Pradesh
Year: 2020

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1. Why Indore is the cleanest city ?

2. Why does sunrise in the east ?

3. Why Earth rotates from west to east and why does earth revolve around the
sun ?

4. What is the period of rotation and revolution?

5. How will you construct a toilet in a village in a cost-effective manner?

6. What are the resources required for toilet construction?

7. Tell us about Australian Bushfire and specific impacts?

Member 1 Questions

1. What is nature photography ?

2. What is your speciality in nature photography ?

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3. What are the settings and the lens you use in nature photography ?

4. What is CDS and how does it affect civil-military relationships ?

Member 2 Questions

1. Name one civil engineer who got Bharat Ratna and his contribution

2. Where will we reach if we dig a hole right here ?

3. What was the fight between Lord Shiva and King Daksh?

Member 3 Questions

1. What is heritage building from a civil engineer's perspective and from

general perspective ?

2. Was Babri masjid a heritage building ?

3. Why GDP is low ?

4. How to increase GDP, tell us as an economist ?

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5. Why students from IIT's are not getting job ?

Member 4 Questions

1. Who was Christopher Columbus ? Why he navigated ?

2. Who discovered solar system ? Are you aware of any Indian scientist who
contributed to this ? What about Galileo's contribution ?

3. What is sustainable development ? Is it possible to achieve it considering

the resources are getting exhausted etc ?

4. Can we increase total volume of water present in Earth ?

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Interview 22

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Name: Unknown
Education: B.Tech CSE
Hobbies: Cooking
State: Rajasthan
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. You are from Baran.Is it right pronunciation?

2. So you currently live in Baran?

3. Any other motive for coming to Delhi other than preparing for civil services
?

4. So you are from computer science background?

5. Would you like to work in computer science field in future?

6. But you are no more in touch with the new developments which is
happening in computer science .So how will you manage?

7. Tell me two steps which should be taken to combat the global terrorism?

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8. Name five global terrorist organisation?

9. You talked about some constraints for India in joining BRI.What are those
constraints?

Member 1 Questions

1. What is non alignment?

2. India was following non alignment in early 1971?

3. What is strategic autonomy?

4. Is India following this strategic autonomy?

5. What was Cold war?

6. Why US was taking so much interest in cold war?

7. Have you heard of Rousseau?

8. What is general will?

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Member 2 Questions

1. What is a start-up?

2. What is 5G?

3. How is it different from 4G?

4. Tell us about IOT and Artificial intelligence?

5. Refugees are entering Turkey from Syria. Should Turkey kill all of them?

Member 3 Questions

1. Your hobby is cooking.What do you cook?

2. So you have worked in hospitality domain.What is hospitality?

3. What was your role?

4. What did you learn from all this?

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5. Did you scold someone working with you?

6. Why scolding someone is wrong if he is not doing his work properly?

7. Even after using these methods someone is not mending his ways, then?

8. What was Marshall plan?

9. Tell us about Berlin wall?

10. What is BRI?

11. Should India join it?

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Interview 23

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Name: Unknown
Optional: Psychology
Education: Btech electrical engineering
Hobbies: Diary writing, Jogging, Watching movies
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. You have a very unique name. What does it mean?

2. Why did you take electrical engineering in graduation and not as an

optional?

3. When did you last visit a post office?

4. Why is it a common answer in today's generation?

5. What are the uses of post offices these days?

6. What can we do to make post offices better?

Member 1 Questions

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1. Why did you take psychology as an optional?

2. Why do you want to become a civil servant?

3. Why didn't you choose electrical engineering as an optional?

4. Which branch of psychology do you prefer more? Social or clinical? Why?

5. Which are the 3 most important psychologists according to you?

6. What did Sigmund Freud base his research on?

7. What is child psychology?

Member 2 Questions

1. What is eidetic memory?

2. What is Stress in workplace. How will you reduce it?

3. Tell us about Maslow's 'Hierarchy of needs '?

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Member 3 Questions

1. There are different post offices for soldiers. How can it be made better?

2. Suppose you're given a budget, to make new highways or repair the existing
ones? What will you do and why?

Member 4 Questions

1. So, you're a Delhite. Do you think this is a good step, giving free bus travel
to women?

2. Should the bus tickets be made free for students? Why not?

3. UP has brought new Commissionerate systems into place. Why?

4. What is the difference between police commissioner and Commissionerate

system?

5. Do you think it's a good idea to spend so much into Delhi metro?

6. Should they be shut?

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7. But the number of vehicles have gone up plus the last mile connectivity is a
problem. Even then?

8. Should all towns be having metro?

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Interview 24
Name: Mridul Singh
Hobbies: Photography
State: Rajasthan
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. How's the morning?

2. From Ajmer, where have you been staying?

3. Tell me about Dhirubhai Ambani?

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4. What are the top 5 private companies, name them?

5. Would it have been better if we have choosen an open market economic

structure after independence?

Member 1 Questions

1. What is this rural Internship?

2. Where did you go?

3. What was the water problem?

4. What did they do?

5. Have you heard of Doklam Issue? what was it? Where was it?

6. Is it advisable to send force in other country territory?

Member 2 Questions

1. Why are there are so many suicides in Kota?

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2. Students pressure etc points you said is there everywhere why specifically
Kota?

3. Should government spend so much money in higher education? There is a

private sector why should government invest?

4. Shouldn't government invest more in primary education?

Member 3 Questions

1. What is Landscape photography ? Difference between landscape and nature

photography?

2. Do you own a professional camera?

3. What is the difference between oriental and western forests?

4. Tell us about tropical rain forest?

Member 4 Questions

1. In which case Basic Structure was pronounced?

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2. How large was the bench?

3. What is gross enrollment ratio of India? What is that government expects?

4. What is the use of ICT in administration? Won't it creat unemployment?

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Interview 25
Name: Unknown
Optional: Public Administration
Job: Indian oil
Hobbies: Internet Surfing, Travel
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. Have you heard about Noble Prize?

2. Can you name any Indian who got it?

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3. Tell me names of International Noble prize winners.

4. Any Indian noble prize winner, how you can frame policy over it?

5. Tell in which five sectors will you like to work?

Member 1 Questions

1. Do you have subordinates. What rating you have given them?

2. Suppose we four are your subordinate and you gave all four excellent rating
and one will be promoted.....whom will you choose?

3. Very good rating not excellent, will it be bad?

Member 2 Questions

1. Tell me about good governance?

2. What is the use of good governance in IOCL?

3. How Public administration will help in controlling Coronavirus ?

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Member 3 Questions

1. What is CSR? explain it.

2. Is it not a type of extra burden over company?

3. Tell about the Final Pricing of Oil to customers..why its not coming down
despite low crude?

4. Your views about Disnvestment of BPCL?

Member 4 Questions

1. So you travel, which places have you travelled?

2. Why travel to known places ? don't you like adventure?

3. Tell about Vir savarkar?

4. As a DM how will you deal with Coronavirus ?

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Interview 26
Name: Anurag
State: Uttar Pradesh
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. Tell me something about Tajmahal from civil engineering point of view?

2. Tell me something about your current Job profile ?

3. How was Vadodara ?

4. What is your opinion on 100% privatization of Indian Railways ?

Member 1 Questions

1. What are your leadership skills?

2. Will privatisation of Railways improve the economy of India?

Member 2 Questions

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1. What is smart city?

Member 3 Questions

1. Should Railways do checking of everyone for Coronovirus?

2. What is Green building?

Member 4 Questions

1. Why we are not making Green building?

2. What steps should we take to ensure that?

3. How Dams decipiate energy after spillway?

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Interview 27

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Name: Unknown
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. Where are you staying currently?

2. Have you ever visited Shaniwar wada?

3. What did you mostly like about Pune?

4. How was the monsoon in Maharashtra this year?

5. There has been high farmer suicides in Maharashtra, tell me some out of the
box innovative solution to address farmer suicides in Maharashtra?

6. What will make you happiest person on the earth?

7. Tell me three things which you learnt outside school, college, work
experience and CSE preparation.

8. Do you want us to ask you anything?

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Member 1 Questions

1. You are from Ahmednagar, do you know Malik Amber?

2. Tell me about him. Has Bajirao Peshwa used this guerrilla Warfare in his
battles?

3. Which Bajirao died on battlefield in 1761? ( 1 or 2)

Member 2 Questions

1. You have done many team work activity. Tell me any one unpleasant
instance which you faced and how you handled it

2. Which tribal area is closest to Pune?

3. Primitive Tribes, what are they, how to identify them and how to integrate
them into main stream?

Member 3 Questions

1. You have work experience and government is hiring private players at Joint
secretary level. Why don't you wait till then and join government at that
stage.?

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2. Should lateral entry process go through UPSC?

3. What should be the way forward in lateral entry Debate?

4. COVID 19 declared as a Global pandemic by WHO. Does this have any

financial implications?

5. Does such declaration comes with financial aid from WHO to various
countries?

Member 4 Questions

1. What is the difference between Pandemic, Epidemic and Endemic?

2. Why did you choose Anthropology as an optional?

3. How will you apply your Engineering skills to Adminstration?

4. Anthropology shares a porus boundry with many disciplines, explain this

boundaries between Biological Sciences and Anthropology

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Interview 28
Name: Sumeet Meharda
Job: IPS
Hobbies: Reading
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. You come from Rajasthan, where are you staying there?

2. You were selected for IFOS also, why IPS over IFOS?

3. No you want Power and prestige in your decision making?

4. You are in touch with your graduation or not ?

5. Tell us about Energy Security ?

6. Tell us about National energy policy ?

7. Tell us about Integrated energy policy?

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Member 1 Questions

1. Reading books?

2. What is the recent book you read?

3. How long are you in IPS ?

4. You are in IPS cadre, will you join IAS Nagaland?

5. Tell us about major renewables in India?

6. How to reduce thermal energy in India?

Member 2 Questions

1. I am not an engineer, you explain me solar pv works on light or thermal ?

2. What are the negative impact of Social media on police ?

3. Is it technically possible to regulate social media in specific area?

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4. Do you follow detective stories?

5. Have you read book on autobiography of IPS officers ?

6. Have you heard of Sherlock Holmes? Who created this character?

Member 3 Questions

1. Will you follow rules at all times ?

2. Will you track a call of a terrorist? Otherwise, it will take many days? to
capture him what Will you do?

3. If Senior asks you to, will you do?

4. Under which act, you will track call?

5. Police resorting to extra- judicial things?why?

6. Explain global warming and impact on food security?

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Interview 29
Name: Devanand Suresh Telgote
Optional: Sociology
Education: Chemical Engineering
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. Have you heard of Devanand right? Do you watch movies? Which movie of
Devanand did you watch? Not a single one. Ok name some movies of
Devanand?

2. Telhara is your hometown. How far and in which direction is it from

Mumbai? What is the population?

3. You are a Process Engineer. What is the work of Process Engineer? You
worked in a prestigious company but just for 6 months. Why?

4. Why did you join teaching for JEE students?

5. What are the grapes producing region in Maharashtra?

6. How will you make the grapes industry more remunerative for farmers?

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7. Design a Industrial process to make ethanol from grapes?

8. Mudra Scheme? What is it? How will you use for farmers benefit?

9. Farmer Producer Organisation, Self Help Group how will they help?

10. You have been in Delhi since January. Why so early? Did you join any
private coaching institute?

11. Which places you visited in Delhi?

12. Is Lal Quila in Delhi?

13. What is CCRT?

14. What is Wikipedia?

15. Is Wikipedia reliable?

16. What features do you look up to when you visit a place?

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Member 1 Questions

1. You are interested in sports. What is Khelo India? What is its significance?

2. Is cricket taking space of other games?

3. Should Cricket be restricted to promote other sports?

Member 2 Questions

1. You are from Akola. Tell me about Dr. Punjabrao Deshmukh, his
contribution.

2. Should there be separate Vidarbha?

3. What should be done for political negligence?

4. What is Demographic Dividend? How will you ensure to leverage

Demographic Dividend?

5. What are Skill and Education related schemes?

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Member 3 Questions

1. What is Avanti Fellows? (DAF based)

2. What work did you do there?

3. Tell us about Geographical and Administrative Divisions of Maharashtra.

4. Who is the Captain of Maharashtra Cricket Team and also Vidarbha Cricket
Team Captain?

5. What do you mean by underprivileged?

Member 4 Questions

1. Why Sociology as optional after doing graduation in Chemical Engineering?

2. What is Sociology of Crimes?

3. What is Social Banditary? Who is Robinhood? Do you know his history?

4. You look interested in Mathematics. A Mathematical Scientist later became

a philosopher, and won a Nobel Prize. What is his name?

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5. In Cricket, Why Pink ball is Useful for bowlers?

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Interview 30
Name: Unknown
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. Why did you choose to be a fitness trainer after engineering?

2. You look fit, please give us some tips for fitness also.

3. Tell us some schemes to bring women empowerment in last 5 years

4. Why is March 8 regarded as women's day ? What's the significance of the

date?

5. Are our women empowered?

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6. In which village did MN Srinivas do his study?

7. In which district?

8. What are his theoretical contributions?

9. Can you please explain sanskritisation?

10. What is your views on sanskritisation?

11. You told that there are some negative aspects of sanskritisation . What are
they?

12. Can you back up your claim with any empirical evidence?

Member 1 Questions

1. What's special about mechanical engineering?

2. Tell us about e vehicles.

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3. E vehicles need electricity production which still needs coal. Isn't it still
contributing to pollution?

4. What do you think are the issues with e vehicles?

5. Is loan waivers good?

6. Give a sociological explanation of how loan waivers can help our society?

7. Are you justifying loan waivers?

Member 2 Questions

1. Why do you want civil services?

2. Name an activity in colonial times which kept civil servants fit and also
helped in socialising with local people?

3. What qualities do you think will make you a better civil servant?

4. You told civil servants must be flexible. Will showing too much flexibility be
beneficial?

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Member 3 Questions

1. What's the difference between sociology and journalism?

2. Since you have some farming experience please tell what are the issues
faced by small and medium farmers?

3. What can we do to improve their state?

4. Let's get back to women empowerment. What's the literacy rate of women
in india?

5. Please also tell how women education can be promoted in our country?

Member 4 Questions

1. Women are put in frontline position. What do you think about it?

2. Are woman really capable to lead in frontline positions?

3. Name some famous Indian sociologist from your state?

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Interview 31
Name: Unknown
Optional: Public Administration
Education: B.Tech CSE
State: Rajasthan
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. You are the last one , any worries about it?

2. How is weather in Jaipur these days?

3. You have studied in public insititute and not worked and wasted last 5 years,
is it not a waste of public money?

4. Tell me some instances when you have actually used computer engineering
in past 5 years?

5. So tell me finally if it was a waste or not?

Member 2 Questions

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1. Tell us about Rajasthan and climate change?

2. What steps to be taken to prevent the impact of climate change?

3. Describe geographical regions of Rajasthan?

4. Tell me about one agri research institute in Jodhpur ?

Member 3 Questions

1. Tell me about Tagore writings?

2. Tell us about shantinekatan model of education?

3. Why is India not able to be a leader of south Asian countries?

4. There is increasing influence of China in South Asia, is it really so?

Member 4 Questions

1. Tell us about banking sector crisis?

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2. Is corona virus a public administration crisis?

3. Corruption is a serious issue, yes or no?

4. Have you ever been victim of corruption?

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Interview 32
Name: Unknown
Education: B.Tech CSE
Hobbies: Diary writing, Trekking
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. . I have seen many students who either leave their job for CSE preparation or
change their job always .. you did none of them .. you prepared along with
your job and also stuck to ONGC .. That’s good. Tell me how did you manage
explained about my schedule and how I managed 2-3 hours on weekdays and utilised
weekends in effective way also told them that I managed my leave well and took leave on
Monday if necessary and clubbed it with weekends .. also said that my seniors are very
supportive and I took 20 days leave before Mains and 5 days before interview

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2. I see that you are from IT and you are working in IT department of ONGC ..
that’s a good symphony .. I like it .. now why you want to break this ?

3. Lets address the elephant in the room - does power excite you ?

4. You are from champaran and Gandhi ji was associated with champaran ..
let’s discuss about him and then he asked is it practical to follow Gandhi ji
ideas ?

Member 1 Questions

1. I see you are from PSIR .. tell me your view on General Kulameani killing ?

2. Tell me about the Jamal kashoggi killing ?

3. Ok, I see you like trekking.. let’s move to that area .. how frequently you trek
?

4. What was the most difficult trek and details about its terrain.

5. I want to send you to a 7seven days Himalayan expedition and you won’t
get any porter to carry any luggage .. take your time and plan your bag ..
remember you have to carry this bag.

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6. What do you think about Hyderabad killing?

7. Suppose Nirbhaya is ur sister .. how will you react ?

8. There are many leather factories which are facing non tariff barrier .. how to
approach this problem?

Member 2 Questions

1. How do you rate ONGC?

2. Tell me one major problem ONGC is facing

3. Ok it seems you have prepared ONGC well let’s move on from it?

4. What is your view on sick PSU.. I want your assessment .. where are we
going wrong .. I don’t want bookish answer .. I want your observation ?

5. I have visited champaran some time back and I am sorry to say I am

disappointed with this .. what do you think is it because of political failure or
bureaucratic apathy ?

6. Tell us about development model of Champaran and it’s challenges ?

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Member 3 Questions

1. What is nudge theory?

2. Is it successful in changing behaviours of people?

3. Give your assessment of Swach BHARAT mission and role of nudge theory in
this .

4. What is 'Name and Shame 'policy. Is it right?

5. How to use it in other schemes?

6. Is champaran ODF free?

7. Can you use IT knowledge and improve ODF status in champaran .. tell me
your plan of action

Member 4 Questions

1. What are the problems of cooperatives, specially PACS ?

2. Can you give any successful model of PACS and learning?

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3. What are the problem of district cooperatives?

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Interview 33
Name: Unkown
Hobbies: Watching movies
State: Uttar Pradesh
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. Are you still living in a village?

2. Name 3 innovation in computer science in past 10 years?

3. What is the use of Artificial intelligence in administration?

4. Name any example where government has used AI?

Member 1 Questions

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1. What are the progress made in solar energy in india? What are the goals in
solar energy?

2. What are the disadvantages of solar energy?

3. What is the unit of irradiance(solar power) ?

4. Regionalism impacts nationalism in negative way and nationalism imapcts

global world negatively. Comment?

5. Do you think nationalism is bad because PM Modi had travelled somewhere

and there people criticised him for stressing on nationalism?

Member 2 Questions

1. Tell me about contemporary movies, give example. which movie you have
recently watched?

2. Coaching Institutes are money making institutions and they exploit civil
service students. Comment.

Member 3 Questions

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1. Do you watch Hollywood movies too? Tell me which movie you have
recently watch in Hollywood.

2. Why Indian movies don't get Oscar?

3. Being a very big state and due to administration inaccessibility, UP should

be divided. What do you think?

4. Is e-governance reachable to all? Despite this,UP is still backward in almost

all indicators.

5. Have you heard about one nation, one platform?

Member 4 Questions

1. Do you remember psychology still, tell me the name of some psychologist

you have studied ?

2. Tell me about Sigmond Freud.

3. Salvation of India lies in its village. (Quote of Gandhi ji) comment?

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4. Have you studied any development model,do you know the development
model of Switzerland?

5. Why Bollywood movies have too many songs?

6. Tell me the name of a famous lyricist from Allahabad who recently died.

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Interview 34
Name: Abhishek Gupta
Education: BE MECHANICAL
Hobbies: Sudoku
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. Write the figure of 5 trillion.

2. What is GDP?

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3. What is the 5 trillion dollar economy.?

4. How to achieve it?

5. What can an individual do to make it happen?

6. How to give boost to manufacturing ?

7. What will infrastructure do if no goods are to be transferred?

Member 1 Questions

1. What is LOC and international border ?

2. Why is the present status like this?

3. Why haven't our army got it back?

4. Tell us about security issues in north east?

5. Should NCC be made compulsory to inculcate feelings of pride, love for the
country?

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Member 2 Questions

1. Tell us about advantages and disadvantages of Demonetisation

2. Why are banks being merged ?

3. Tell us about Job losses in banks ?

Member 3 Questions

1. Tell us about Sir creek

2. Why there is privatisation in BPCL ?

3. What are the provisions of Bodo accord and its impact ?

4. Tell us about the HDI dimensions and parameters ?

5. Tell us the difference between nationalism and patriotism ?

6. Extreme form of which is bad?

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Member 4 Questions

1. What is Man animal conflict. How to manage it?

2. Tell us about Wildlife corridors?

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Interview 35
Name: K Prem Sagar
Optional: Political Science and International Relations
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. It seems like you stayed about 5.5 years with cognizant . It is too long for a
person to stay and seems you are happy .. then why you changed?

2. What is your vision for 2047 as India is going to celebrate 100 years of
independence?

3. With respect to India's policy towards China , where do you want change?

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Member 1 Questions

1. Do you think UN is working as envisaged ?

2. What do you think of Jamal khasoggi episode ?

3. What do you think of common man's perspective of telangana formation

and it really benefitted people or not?

4. If you become secretary and got room , would you place Gandhi's portrait ?

5. He asked why and it seems Gandhi is not relevant today?

6. Then what should be done to make Gandhism more popular ?

Member 2 Questions

1. Let’s assume you are head of department and 10 people under you . 1000s
of people surround and about to kill you , you have 3 options : 1. Take one as
hostage and use him to make a passage 2. Do nothing and pray to god by
remaining inside 3. Fire at people . What will you choose ?

2. There is bullying happening to you . How will you respond ??

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3. Imagine there is prejudiced boss on you. You have three options 1.Do
nothing and carry on with work 2. Don’t do work as anyway not being
recognised 3. Make it public issue, what will you choose ?

4. Have your ever been angry before ??

Member 3 Questions

1. Now if you are angry because your subordinates are not working . How will
you respond ?

2. If you are in IFS ,and all people around you are speaking Chinese and
keeping you aside , how will you respond ?

Member 4 Questions

1. Now let’s see if you become IAS , what are your priorities for Warangal ?

2. Why this different interest of wars .What have you learned from World War
2 museums visit ?

3. What is INA and tell us about its contribution?

4. How world war-2 affected Indian society ?

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Interview 36
Name: Jella Manikanta Vasu
Optional: Public Administration
Job: Banking
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. What is the nature of your work?

2. What are the problems of administration?

3. How to tackle them?

4. What is the root cause for all of these problems?

5. Do you think family as institution failed in India?

6. What we can do to improve the position?

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Member 1 Questions

1. As a DM how will you tackle those issues?

2. Tell me about India and Nepal relations?

3. Have you watched recent Ayushman Khurana movie?

4. Which movie have you watched and what is the essence of the story?

Member 2 Questions

1. In your team one person works well but takes bribe at home and there is no
evidence but you received a complaint. Another person does not work at all.
What will you do in both the cases?

Member 3 Questions

1. What are the guidelines for audit in CAG?

2. What is performance audit?

3. What performance do you measure in social welfare department?

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4. Why there is Banks merger?

5. Large banks with pan India presence or small banks with technology which
is better?

Member 4 Questions

1. What are the provisions for civil services disciplinary actions?

2. What are the articles under constitution with respect to civil services?

3. Explain Article 311?

4. Why Micro financial institutions are now not performing well?

5. Why they are charging high interest rates?

6. How to make them viable?

7. How government procurement process can be made more efficient?

8. Tell us some GeM provisions?

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Interview 37
Name: Amal P S
Optional: Sociology
Hobbies: Watching movies
State: Kerala
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. Why is Kerala called God's own country ?

2. What were you doing till now?

3. You are a teacher ,so tell me what advice would you give students ?

4. Tell us Five social problems faced by the world ?

5. What is the biggest social problem faced by India?

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Member 1 Questions

1. You are a mechanical engineer, tell me what do you know about Tesla?

2. What sports do you play?

3. Tell me the skills needed for a cricket player ?

4. Do you think cricket is a game of chance or skill?

5. So you think there is no element of chance in that?

6. Have you heard of games called flush, poker ?

7. Which is the latest movie you watched ?

8. What award did Parasite movie won?

9. Whats the speciality that you felt that it won Oscars ?

Member 2 Questions

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1. Have you heard of Bharatiya vidhya Bhavan?

2. Who was it's founder ?

3. What is the contributions of KM Munshi?

4. Do you think the phones we have is a threat to privacy and should be done
away with ?

5. Do you think there are issues in orphanages in Kerala ?

6. There has been incidents of children trafficking to Kerala .What do you have
to say about it ?

Member 3 Questions

1. What is AFSPA?

2. Where all it is primarily enforced ?

3. Do you think there is a military excess taking place in North east ?

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4. Suppose you are a DM of Andaman nicobar islands and there is virus
spreading among the sentinelese .But the government policy is not to go and
government is not responding they are dying and your on the ground zero
with the cure .What will you do?

5. So what do you think about the human shield being used in Kashmir to save
lives .It was the same thing there as well?

Member 4 Questions

1. Tell me what are the ethics of a teacher ?

2. Dont you think you are imposing your philosophy when you tell the
students to never back down from their dreams ?

3. So what do you think about the Hyderabad incident and there you saw
Nirbhaya case where one guy was left scot free .What do you think we should
do.?

4. They are using the loopholes in the law and delaying justice .Still you think
we should allow them?

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Interview 38
Name: Sandeep BhaGa
Optional: Anthropology
Education: Engineering
State: Telangana
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. What is the most interesting thing that happened in your life recently?

2. What has driven you to take up blood donation camps?

3. Why do u like to listen to folk songs? Is it for entertainment or as a source to

know about the folk culture

4. Have you heard of Pathalgadi movement?

5. What is the reason that suddenly led to the movement?

Member 1 Questions

1. What do you know about Harappan civilization?

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2. Any other important site belonging to this civilization and it's uniqueness?

3. There is lot of talk on crimes against women.. What will be your priority if
you have been given authority?

4. You are SDM and wife of DM complained to you of dowry harassment and
domestic violence.. What will you do, keeping in mind ur reputation, ACR
report is with DM... ?

Member 2 Questions

1. What is UDAY and how far is it effective in achieving its targets??

2. What is one important reform in power sector to tackle discom crisis ?

3. Why are some states like Gujarat have least AT&Cs losses, but states like TN
has high losses ?

Member 3 Questions

1. Do you know any other contemporary civilization of Harappa in Mexico ?

2. What is the language they used?

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3. In shopping malls and so, lot of data like phone numbers are collected??
What are the legal provisions for data protection ?

4. What should be done for data privacy and security ?

Member 4 Questions

1. What is the status of India in international kabaddi ?

2. What is the criteria for kabaddi to become part of Olympics ?

3. What is the difference between judicial activism and overreach..?

4. Give examples for both?

5. There is lot of talk on aspirational districts... How many and which districts
from your state are nominated.. ?

6. What outcomes are witnessed in aspirational district ?

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Interview 39
Name: Alok Kumar
Optional: Philosophy
Education: BE MECHANICAL
Job: IPS
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. Hello Alok, so are you in training or leave ?

2. So, you are not satisfied with IPS?

3. Career progression, dynamism, ground work, scope, are bookish terms, tell
me something that is real ?

4. And power and prestige? That isnt the case ?

5. You know that IAS has greater prestige and power, so why dont you accept
that?

6. You are saying to your interview board that you have not experienced it ?
Are you sure ?

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7. You are already an IPS.You must have read about power differences. Why
cant you accept it that IAS is more powerful and prestigious?

8. A person should learn from his mistakes as well as from mistakes of others.
Do you agree ?

Member 1 Questions

1. What is the difference between GI and patent ?

2. So the concept is same or different?

3. How is it different?

4. Why wages of women are less compared to men in a district. Does equal
pay for equal work not apply to this ? Have you seen a wage list ?

5. What would you do to empower women and ensure they get same wage ?

6. Why you took Philosophy after Mechanical engineering?

7. Who is J Krishnamurthy?

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8. Do you know Gandhi's favourite bhajan ?

Member 2 Questions

1. Asked about 3 unheard names of philosophers. What have you read in

philosophy?

2. These are all part of syllabus? Anything else.

3. What are three threats to security of india? Arrange them in order.

4. Why LWE exists there in Jharkhand ?

5. What is aspirational district programme? What is the benefit? What does

government do ?

6. Is police corrupt?

7. Have you ever gone to a police station to file a complaint?

8. What is people's perception of police ?

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9. How will you improve as SP?

10. What is community policing? How is it effective?

Member 3 Questions

1. What is moral dilemma?

2. Explain it with an example .

3. Dont you think when you leave IPS for IAS you face such a dilemma ?

4. Justify your action of leaving IPS for IAS.

5. Which cadre did you get ? Which choice it was ?

6. Why Gujarat ?

7. What did your seniors say ?

8. But you want to become an IAS ? So why think of commisionerate system.

How is it better ? Will it solve the issue of tussle of power ?

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9. Any negatives about Gujarat cadre?

10. Is our patent regime good ?

Member 4 Questions

1. What is provisional patenting ?

2. Are provisional applications allowed ?

3. Is there a legal provision to that ?

4. What sort of applications did you work on ?

5. Your hobby is watching TED ed. What was the latest video you watched?

End of Interview

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Name: Unknown
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. Why you didn't join CAPF?

2. What are you doing now?

3. What is the role of ICLS officer?

4. Where was your training?

5. How to boost economy, What are the steps taken by government?

Member 1 Questions

1. Tell us about civil service rules ?

2. What are the protections available for civil servants?

3. What are the penalties for civil servants?

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4. Which movies you watch?

5. Why Bollywood movies don't win oscar?

Member 2 Questions

1. You are SP inJammu and Kashmir, 2 inspectors are with you and 15 civilian
staff. 2000 people crowd waiting to lynch you all. You have two options a) wait
for help, follow rules B) tie one local to jeep and go through the crowd what
would you do?

Member 3 Questions

1. Do you know about public life index?

2. What are the parameters to count standard of living ?

3. Which old western movies you saw?

Member 4 Questions

1. Which Marathi movies went to oscar ?

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2. Why they didn't win oscar ?

3. Tell us three problems of Maharashtra?

4. If you are chief secretary, how you will solve it, targets for them and whether
you will achieve it, surety to achieve, etc.

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Interview 41
Name: Nikhil Patil
Optional: Mathematics
Hobbies: Bodybuilding, Cycling
Year: 2020

Chairman Questions

1. What inspired you to follow bodybuilding ?

2. Tell me about Anna Hazare ?

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3. Has bureaucracy failed in Maharashtra .? Should we promote more people
like Anna Hazare to do work or bureaucracy should be reformed ?

Member 1 Questions

1. Explain about sugarcane cultivation and problems in Maharashtra ?

2. Explain about PM Fasal Bhima Yojana and issues related to it ?

3. GST and its issues. Has it been successful?

Member 2 Questions

1. Tell us about Rose valley and Sharda act ?

2. If you are DM of an earthquake prone region and there is an earthquake

.What would you do ?

3. Tell us about Judicial activism?

Member 3 Questions

1. Tell us about Bhima-Koregaon issue ?

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