UPSC IAS Interview Transcript 2023

Smita Nagaraj Madam From: Telangana Edu : Electrical Engineering Optional: Maths Institutions: IIT Bombay, , IBM research, Goldman Sachs( GS) Interests: Introspection,Counselling, Volunteering , Styled handwriting Chairman 1 GS being dream job for many, why did u come this side 2. Are your parents not confident about your employability by then? 3. Despite being 9 pointer, why not research or other fields.. 4. Your signature is very aesthetic and symmetric, what made you to do that.... 5. Don't you think, content doesn't need good handwriting.? M1. 1. Do u accept.. Justice delayed is justice denied. 2. How do you view on going events 3. What are two reasons for ongoing people eulogising extra constitutional actions of state 4. Rate integrity among all other values. M2. 1. In whole daf i don't see any sports activity, why? 2. In all the services, which one do you feel most important 3. Which one do you choose? why? 4. How to tackle Pakistan? 5. How should we tackle china? M3. 1. Do you support bifurcation of AP 2.So, you support gorkhaland issue!!!. 3. Did it benifit the two states now? 4. Power is everywhere now. Why only telangana is seen progress? 5. In AP, consaguinal marriages are normal, how do you view this M4. 1. Are you a risk taker? Instance? 2. Mention crops grown from your district? 3. Is maize starch plant there in your district? Do u want to promote it? Why? 4. How do you convince AP farmers to take up food processing? 5. (Counselling) don't you think your target persons feel you as mad choice maker, instead of role model... As you have choose ias after iit 6. (Counselling) , given a 12th boy aspiring for civil services want to chose maths optional, so he wish to opt BSc maths... What do u suggest.. Iit route or the one he said..? Chairman: 1. Did GS employee convince you to stay when you wanted to leave? What did u say? Why dint you say "no" directly? Can you say "no" Now? M3 ( back) You tried for the job to prove employability to family... Are to trying for IAS to prove success to family ( in a smiling mode) Thank you :) 👇For interview transcript @upscinterviewscript

Gavit Date: 23/07/2020 (Morning) Board: Choubey sir Optional: Electrical engineering (no questions asked) State: Delhi Hobbies: Bonsai rearing College: IIT Delhi Job: IRSEE (Railways electrical engineering) currently on EOL/extension Chairman 1. Please put your mask under your chin, this will be comfortable for you. 2. So you're from Delhi? That means you must have had a good breakfast at home. People staying at the state Bhawans are complaining that they don't get good breakfast. (All laughed) 3. We will ask you certain questions. If you do not understand something, feel free to ask again. If you don't know anything, just be honest. We appreciate that. 4. So let us start. Tell me something about yourself, about your education and work experience? (My last sentence was that I'm currently on extra ordinary leave EOL from railways) 5. Let us start with railways? Why do you think railways should be a departmental undertaking? (I answered that some parts are being privatised but the welfare motive also has to be kept in mind) 6. If we see aviation sector, it has reached parity with AC class of railways. On many routes even airways is cheaper than AC class of railways. Shouldn't we do the same to railways? If we privatise railways it too will become cheap. M1 1. When a country becomes independent, it embarks on the path of growth and development. We have doctors, soldiers, bureaucracts, engineers and other people who drive this growth. According to you who is most the important of them all in the development process? 2. In wildlife act, there are animals declared as vermins. What are vermins? 3. Should they be killed? 4. Do you think they need to be relocated? 5. Should killing be done or relocation? 6. Give an example of vermin? 7. Do you think in the fight against coronavirus, it is the politicians who know nothing about science are taking all the decisions, and not the scientists? Your take? 8. Should politicians take decision in such pandemic situations? M2 1. We have created the post of CDS, how will it help? (My main point was that the aim is to have jointness in training, procurement and operation) 2. So you mean to say that jointness in operation was not there earlier? 3. How can we use technology for development of rural areas? (I talked about health and education sectors and use of technology in them) 4. What about technologies in agriculture sector? 5. What is capital punishment? 6. Is it justified? (I said according to me it should not happen) 7. There are murderers and rapists on parole. They come out and do such crimes again. Still you think it is not justified? M3 1. Are you interested in international affairs? 2. What is happening around the world? (I talked about a multipolar world and how power is shifting eastwards) 3. Tell something with respect to boundary issues? 4 What are the reasons for wildfire in the Siberian forests? 5. What do you understand by Hinduism and Hindutva? M4 1. Are bureaucractic reforms needed immediately or they can happen slowly over time? 2. So what are some reforms that are needed? 3. So you live in Delhi. Have you heard about Bawana? (Yes) 4. What is important about that place? (No idea) 5. IIT Delhi is doing some work in Bawana and Ghazipur to curb pollution? What is it? (Had no idea) 6. What are INDCs? 7. What are India's three main contributions under it? 8. You have bonsai as a hobby. In doing that, we're promoting dwarfism. If we do this to a human, it will not be appreciated. Is doing the same to a plant justified? (One of my points was that we do things such as plucking fruits and flowers) 9. But plucking fruits and flowers is not the same as promoting dwarfism. Why are you promoting dwarfism? 10. So you are disagreeing with me. I like people who disagree with me. Okay tell me finally, do you justify bonsai as an art or not? Chairman 1. Anything else you'd like the board to know about you? 2. Are you sure? 3. All the best for your result #sharing_is_caring 👇For interview transcript @upscinterviewscript

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State : AP Optional: PSIR 23/07/2020, morning session (last to go) Chairman: Manoj Soni Board 1) what is your present activity/status ? 2) what is women empowerment? Role of men in the women empowerment? Don't you think women in the past were in better status. Today they are burdened both by work and household work. Some discussion on this. M1: do you know carbon trade exchange and Electronic trade exchange. Do you think is it ethical to have carbon trade exchange. Do you think coaching institutes are impacting students negatively ? How are you different in teaching. ? M2: You know Napa slabs of kadapa? Are they still used? Three conflicts in neighborhood impacting India Three politicians( of the past) you don't like IT industry in Bengaluru and Hyderabad. Differences. Health and Education are important. But expenditure(%of GDP) is less. For which ministry you can reduce the budget and allocate it to the health and education ministry. M3: 1) If I give option between Sci and Tech, and Social welfare which ministry you give more emphasis and resources. 2) how technology can help to revive economy. ( question was not clear) 3) data protection. Who own data? People or MNCs 4) what is clean energy? How can it revive economy? M4: 1) you chose sci and tech ministry but you explore traditional practices in agriculture? 2) which practice you want to revive? 3) three agriculture problems and how you are going to address 4) name any modern technology which benefitted agriculture? 5) what is SRI cultivation? Overall it was good. More general questions with more emphasis on Opinion based questions. They are pushing me to take a side. 🤞 👇For interview transcript @upscinterviewscript

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State: Telangana Date: July 23, FN (1st to go) Sociology Optional Hobbies/Interests - Playing Cricket and Ethical Hacking Board: Smita Nagraj Mam Chairperson: 1. What were you doing since 2014 when you graduated ? 2. Would be easy for you get back to technology field ? 3. What are the social faultlines you see in today's society ? 4. How are the caste inequalities being manifested in the society today ? 5. Would you consider caste as a determinant for marriage ? 6. What is vote bank politics and how is it affecting caste system ? M1 1. What is Howdi Modi event ? 2. Do you think India should go for Presidential system ? 3. Why didn't you go abroad for higher studies? M2 1. What is Ethical Hacking ? (Hobby) 2. How is it ethical ? 3. How is IPL helping promote Indian Cricket ? 4. Is it leading to commercialisation? 5. Should the cantonment areas in Hyderabad be completely closed for civilian population? M3 1. Does caste system only have dysfunctions? 2. Caste based inequalities - are they because of social or economic factors ? 3. What is the difference between Tax evasion and Tax avoidance ? M4 1. What the various tools required for Ethical Hacking ? (Just name them) 3. What is the biggest internal security threat in today's society ? 4. State of Naxalism in Telangana ? 5. Was the state successful in its approach ? Chairperson: 1. Recent encounter in Telangana ? 2. Why was there popular support for the encounter ? 3. Do you support the encounter ? Thankyou, You're interview is over. The board was very welcoming and cordial ! 👇For interview transcript @upscinterviewscript

State : Rajasthan Optional : Maths Background : Civil engineering, NIT Hamirpur Job : Business analyst Board : T C A Ananth Hobbies : E sports, Football, Trekking Date :23/07/2020 Ch 0. Read some details of my daf 1. What did your company do ? 2. Tell me about any project you have worked upon. 3. What is e sports ? 4. Give me some names. 5. How are they played competitively ? M1 0. You have been to different climatic conditions of india. Told me about himachal, raj, karnataka. 1. Tell me some traditional systems of rainwater harvesting. 2. He told me that stored rainwater is going bad in one or two months but earlier it could be used for 6 or 7 months. Why is it so ? 3. Tell me about some technologies which can be used to treat that stored rainwater. 4. Told me about bureau of energy efficiency then said that we can also rate some things of daily use on the basis of water use efficiency. Can you name some of them ? M2 1. There is a problem of NPAs in banking sector. Reasons ? 2. What is the ratio of genuine npa and npa due to fraud ? Take a guess.(I took a guess 70:30) He said noone knows the exact data. Your guess is as good as somebody else's. ( I told him about the public credit registery and said we can develop a mechanism to know the ratio by using that. He nodded and said yes it can be done.) 3. Two news that caught your eye ? (I told him Hagia sofia and political tussle in Raj.) 4. What is the history of hagia sofia ? 5. What are the reasons of hagia sofia conversion ? 6. Do you think Turkey is moving away from Ataturk's principles ? Why ? Give me reasons. 7.Why turkish govt is taking such kind of steps ? 8. What political tussle is going on in rajasthan ? M3 1. Why speaker of rajasthan went to supreme court recently ? 2. What is anti defection law ? 3. Then asked me about the provision regarding merger of 2/3 rd MLAs/MPs won't be considered as defection. 4. When a loan can be considered as NPA ? 5. How to revive economy ? 6. What do you mean by fiscal stimulus ? M4 1. How to revive tourism in Rajasthan post covid 19 ? 2. Why tourists are not harrassed in Rajasthan as compared to other states ? 3. Why do international tourists visit rajasthan ? 4. Which tournament did you win in football ? 5. Your favourite goalkeeper ? ( Ikor cassilas) 6. Name some other famous goalkeepers. 7. Best goalkeeper of all time ? (Here I said that it is very subjective thing but I consider cassilas to be the best and gave him some reasons , he was clearly dissatisfied , said to me "look, it is not subjective because there is a trophy which is named after a goalkeeper, I said I don't know) Ch: thanks mukul 👇For interview transcript @upscinterviewscript

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My interview transcript Name- Satyendra State- Uttar Pradesh Board- T C Anant sir Date- 23rd July, forenoon Edu- BA from Allahabad University,passed out in 2016. Hobbies- reading fiction, football and interest in other sports.. This is my third interview in 3 attempts in a row-2017, 18 and 19... Chairman 1. Why no pg ?( But didn't ask my attempts etc) 2. What sort of fiction ( I said no particular genre per se.. named to kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee) 3. Lee wrote another book? ( I forgot the name😅..it's actually Go set a watchman.. 4. Any other author?( I told arvind adiga - the white tiger) 5. What it's about ( about a guy called balram halwai😂..didn't say so although!) M1 1. Why Allahabad University lost its sheen? 2. Is student politics always bad? 3. What other reasons? 4. Is anything being done of late to revive the situation? M2 1. Why anthro as an optional even from graduation? 2. Diff between anthro and sociology? 3. Why and Andaman and Nicobar tribals are always in news? What to do( wrst to tribal issues) 4. Why left wing extremism in tribal areas.. 5. Const safeguard fr tribals( could tell only 5th 6 th schedule.and art 46 on general) 6. What about ncst ( told about its mandate) M3 1. Have you heard about Rakhigarhi? 2. How the findings significant? 3. Dating techniques ( 😅 don't get me wrong- it's about dating of sites!) M4 1. What are your fallback options( with a BA degree..that question almost made me laugh.. told also trying fr state services.. 2. How ics emerged 3. Did ics provide sound administration fr Indian people?.. something of that sort.. I said they were tools of colonial exploitation..but was known fr its efficiency and calibre.. 4. Ics and ias comparison? .. who continued it? 5. Reforms in civil services needed.. Chairman Your interview ( ordeal)is over.. General gyan 1. Do practice fr waiting and then speaking with mask and face cover on..can get annoying.. 2. Upsc is super cooperative in all respects.. 3. For morning shift , the gate 3 ( museum side ) doesn't open before 9 am, so if you come too early say 8: 15 ..will have to wait on the roadside itself.. 4. Don't take too much gyan from people like me!🤣.. give your best and leave the rest.. My best wishes 👍 👇For interview transcript @upscinterviewscript

Name: Rajanikant Chilumula Background: B.Tech & M.Tech (Dual degree) from IIT Madras (Energy technology specialization) State: Telangana Optional: Psychology Hobbies: Writing motivational articles Date: 23rd July 2020, A/N (2nd to go) Board: Manoj Soni Sir board Chairman: 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?(tried to corner me!) 3. Gave me a long hypothesis..Do you think the changes in the energy sector 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: (Lady member) 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 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(gave few foreign names which I was not aware of)? Do you think India must invest in such modern energy technologies? 7. Have you heard of Hydrogen economy? (I said using Hydrogen as fuel like fuel cells technology).. She said think of entire life cycle of Hydrogen. Member 2: 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 (Was not clear what he was expecting) 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: (COVID-19 based) 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 insisted 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 no. 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: 1. Can you name one famous Educational Institute in India which is internationally famous? Which was build before Independence (Only after I said IISc Bangalore, he went to next question) 2. Tell me 3 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 directly ( 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?) Chairman: Asked me to remove mask for a final verification & wished me All the best! 👇For interview transcript @upscinterviewscript

Name: Rajanikant Chilumula Background: B.Tech & M.Tech (Dual degree) from IIT Madras (Energy technology specialization) State: Telangana Optional: Psychology Hobbies: Writing motivational articles Date: 23rd July 2020, A/N (2nd to go) Board: Manoj Soni Sir board Chairman: 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?(tried to corner me!) 3. Gave me a long hypothesis..Do you think the changes in the energy sector 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: (Lady member) 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 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(gave few foreign names which I was not aware of)? Do you think India must invest in such modern energy technologies? 7. Have you heard of Hydrogen economy? (I said using Hydrogen as fuel like fuel cells technology).. She said think of entire life cycle of Hydrogen. Member 2: 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 (Was not clear what he was expecting) 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: (COVID-19 based) 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 insisted 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 no. 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: 1. Can you name one famous Educational Institute in India which is internationally famous? Which was build before Independence (Only after I said IISc Bangalore, he went to next question) 2. Tell me 3 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 directly ( 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?) Chairman: Asked me to remove mask for a final verification & wished me All the best! 👇For interview transcript @upscinterviewscript

State: Tamil Nadu Date: July 22nd afternoon (4th to go) Sociology Optional Geoinformatics (UG) Young India Fellowship (PG) Hobbies/Interests/ Sports- Carnatic Music, Tennis, Theatre Work: Nasscom Foundation and Chargebee ( currently working as a Customer Success Manager) Board: TCA Anant Chairman 1. What does your name mean? 2. Briefly explain all your job roles 3. What does your startup do? And your role? M1 1. What was the Sathyam Scandal? 2. What is corporate governance? 3. Recent corporate governance issues in news? Expansion of Franklin templeton issue? 4. How is risk in debt market different from equity market? 5. What parameters do VCs look at before investment? 6. Role of credit rating agencies? 7. Give me a sociological explaination of the naxalite movement. M2 1. Why did you do liberal arts after Engineering? (PG) 2. What were your main learnings from Ashoka? 3. What are the 4 grand slams? 4. Which is the most prestigious? 5. What is the venue of US open called? 6. Favourite tennis player and why? 7. Why Federer when he is weak in Clay court? (Discussion after) 8. Which player has won the grandslam twice in a row? (Didn't know) M3 1. What skills did your CSR project fund? 2. Was it linked to Geoinformatics? 3. Tell me the layers to prepare a GIS map for water scarcity in Delhi. 4. What was the important measure taken by the TN with respect to water saving? (Rain water harvesting) 5. Is it still successful? M4 1. What role did you do at Nasscom foundation? 2. Why is China and US overtaking India in technology? 3. What is the role of Nasscom? 4. Has it achieved its objectives? 5. What can India do to compete globally in AI/ cloud computing? 6. Why civil services after a startup? The 4th member seemed like the seniormost. He wished me good luck to get into the civil services and said thank you. Chairperson said thank you Srutanjay and I wished everyone. House keeping pointers: 1. The board never spoke anything about mask/ shield. I kept adjusting my mask when it came off since there were many old members. 2. The room was compact and the members are quite close to us. The setting was very informal since there was no table for 4 members. Only Chairman had a desk. 3. Overall the members and employees of UPSC were super sweet and helpful. :) 👇For interview transcript @upscinterviewscript

Vikes. 22/7/20. Sujata mam board. 3rd one to go. Electrical engineer from NIT Durgapur. PSIR optional. Hobbies : Watching web series and Short distance running. Chairperson: 1. Is this your photo 2. Introduce yourself 3. U didnt work or didnt get placed or ..? 4. Do u agree that civil servants are status quoist. 5. How will then they bring changes. 6. Ques on recent labour reforms. 7. Shld economic reforms be undertaken at cost of labourers. Mam's response at end: ok. Good. Member 1: 1. Suppose u get selected and posted in ur home state. What would be ur priority. 2. Follow up questions and few cross questioning. Member 2 : 1. So, I see u have studied in Kendriya Vidyalaya. Their quality of edu is so good. Do u knw whats their administrative, teaching methology etc ? 2. I see you are a good sprinter. What was your 100m timing. 3. World record ? By ? Country from ? 4. Do u knw a person who is known globally for record in long jump. 5. U also run 200m. Whats timing there. Member 3: Stretched ques on sports. 1. Do u agree that there is a biological race that has advanatage in sprinting race ? 2. Are u aware about any constitutional provision regarding prohibiting cow slaughter 3. Whats diff bw KV and JNV. 4. Some question on name of my village and significance. Member 4: 1. I see you are from political science background. Difference bw Kautilya's Arthashastra and Chankya niti. (Something he asked...). 2. Comparison bw western thinker and Kautilya. -> name of Machiavelli's Book. 3. Do u agree with notion of "Ends justifies means"?. Back to chairperson : U want to discuss something else. Ok thank you. ----------------------- It gets bit uncomfortable appearing for interview in gloves,mask and shield. Had to adjust and clear my shield couple of times. But nothing much to worry. Once u get onto hot seat, things get going. Overall very cordial board. No grilling. No technical question. No IR question. Had a satisfying experience. Sujata mam switched on Tv and wasn't much focused. Last takeaway : mocks and actual interview dont have any direct relation as such (not in my case so far). I changed my entire strategy in last one month. (Will share post results, if any!!). 👇For interview transcript @upscinterviewscript

D Manoj Soni sir board 20th July, 2020 Afternoon session Home state: Uttar Pradesh Philosophy optional Hobbies: Teaching and watching comic videos Chairman (keenly watches the candidate throughout): 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 (framed questions vaguely): 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 to me? 4) What are the 3 core functions that the government performs? 5) What were the functions performed by the colonial administration in India? Member 2: 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 only take actions against criminals when they become a history sheeter...Why not nip them in the bud? Member 3: 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? 4) Pick any one relative or friend who has had the greatest impact on your personality. Member 4 (smiling lady member): 1) You mentioned Jiddu Krishnamurti ji. What have you read about him? Follow up 2) Some statues are being razed 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 their 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? CP: Thank you! You may go now. Cordial board 25-30 minutes Soni sir has a mesmerising voice and personality😇 👇For interview transcript @upscinterviewscript

D Manoj Soni sir board 20th July, 2020 Afternoon session Home state: Uttar Pradesh Philosophy optional Hobbies: Teaching and watching comic videos Chairman (keenly watches the candidate throughout): 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 (framed questions vaguely): 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 to me? 4) What are the 3 core functions that the government performs? 5) What were the functions performed by the colonial administration in India? Member 2: 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 only take actions against criminals when they become a history sheeter...Why not nip them in the bud? Member 3: 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? 4) Pick any one relative or friend who has had the greatest impact on your personality. Member 4 (smiling lady member): 1) You mentioned Jiddu Krishnamurti ji. What have you read about him? Follow up 2) Some statues are being razed 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 their 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? CP: Thank you! You may go now. Cordial board 25-30 minutes Soni sir has a mesmerising voice and personality😇 👇For interview transcript @upscinterviewscript

MA political science Optional-PSIR. State- Andhra native but bought up in telangana. Chairman:Chobey Sir We want you to go out smiling. If you go out crying it means we have failed in our job. Whatever we ask if you don't know please say I don't know. If you can't understand please ask us for clarification. We are here to help you. Introduce yourself w.r.t education and work experience 1.Is gst a violation of federal structure Couple of follow up questions on these M1 1. About Nizam and razakkar atrocities.(graduation- Nizam college) 2. 3 best achievements of the indian republic. 3. Is inequality rising in india. Chairman- are you talking about economic or even social inequality. Is Gini coefficient rising in india. M2 1. Very vague statements on rural development and asked me to give my opinion.(which I dint understand). He was inaudible too. 2. Identify some of the rural schemes. 3. Can india become vishwaguru? M3 1. Asked about some book on nizams which I dint know 2. About Vijayawada caste politics. How will you deal with caste violence if you are commissioner. M4 1. About scientific techniques used in political science. 2. Tell me some benefits of coronavirus pandemic. 3. Biggest problem of the indian economy. Chairman: Is there anything you want to discuss with us. Very cordial board overall. 👇For interview transcript @upscinterviewscript

Name : abhijith k v Optional: geography Hobbies: Travelling Graduation : Mechanical engineering State:Kerala Board: Sujatha mehtha CM: 1.introduce your education and work background 1.what helped kerala tackle outbreak like nipah and corona 2.exodus of migrants from kerala and return of NRI from west asia how can kerala manage both. M1: 1.which island group of lakshadweep is closest to Maldives 2.role of msme in industrial sector 3.How will you use 3d printing to reduce the time period of protoype development and manufacturing 4.If you are appointed in kerala what will be your first step? 5.what type of industries can be developed in kerala 6.why people prefer websites like airbnb over direct hotel booking M2 1.role of youth clubs in kerala 2.kerala gold smuggling 3.what led to collapse of oyo rooms 4.National tourism policy 5.PRASAD scheme M3 1.role of indian coast guards in maritime security 2.India srilanka relationship how tamil nadu influence it 3.Recent padmanabhaswamy temple verdict M4. 1.contemporary indian painters 2.Last place of visit 👇For interview transcript @upscinterviewscript