Name: coronation
Date: 04/02/2026 || Afternoon session
Key DAF Details: Civil Engineering, Environmental engineering and management, IIT Kharagpur, Ola electric, Startup, Bhagwad Gita, Nagaur, Rajasthan, Self awareness, Artificial intelligence, volleyball, Mental health, Sociology, NSS
Board: BB Swain sir
Questions asked:
Chairperson:
1. Everything else is understood, explain me about this 'X' Project. (X was about improving self awareness using AI)
Gave a holistic answer, no cross questions and asked other member to ask questions
Member 1
1. Why do you have to read Bhagwad Gita again and again? Reading it once should suffice, right?
2. Did you use your learnings from Bhagwad Gita during job switch and how?
3. What was your role at Ola and what is the issue in service of scooters and why?
4. Do you know about governance change at ola after IPO
5. Do you think our economy will sustain the growth?
6. How budget will help in sustaining growth, give few examples.
7. Who is your role model and why?
Member 2
1. It is said that "everything that happened, happened for good, everything what is happening, is happening for good, everything what will happen, will happen for good", do you think everything is good now?
(Not so, took the answer towards acceptance and reworking)
2. You have cleared JEE and now you are here, so you have a neck of competitive examinations. Suppose one of your friend, graduated from not so good college and is also giving interview. On the day of final result, he gets selected and you don't. So will you think it is all because of Karma and how do you react?
3. We are doing so many Global summits on environment, is this only for optics or we are really doing something. how we are progressing towards environmental goals at global level?
4. Is india doing Good in environmental role, rate it on scale of 1 to 100.
5. Why did you take sociology as optional?
6. Will you pursue sociology in future? (I said "yes, maybe I will do Masters alongside whatever job I will be doing")
7. Why did you do masters in environmental engineering then? (He got confused, mine was a dual degree program, I explained about it. Chairman also intervened and explained)
Member 3
1. In today's time many young people, talented people are leaving their jobs and joining cults to pursue ascetic life. what is the reason for this and do you think they will regret it later?
2. Do you think GenZ dont want to shoulder any responsibility and are afraid of commitment?
3. With issues with American visas etc, students who used to go to America to do UG, whose parents could afford will also come to coaching centres and maybe fight for JEE etc. so this competition will increase, also students are under pressure during preparation what do you think about it?
4. You stayed in Bangalore and it is said that there is an engineering college in every corner of Bangalore. but now a days employability is not good for engineers also, what do you think?
Member 4:
1. You are from Nagaur and Mirabai was from Merta in nagaur, what do you know about her? How will you apply her ideas in administration
2. What is pax silica?
3. Why is Netherlands in there?
4. Should india join? What would be your call?
Chairman: Thank you.
The interview was very conversational. They listen very attentively. Most questions were contextual, probing and based on deeper enquiry.
020: Shrikant baldi sir, Utkarsh Sir(Mentor Aid), Shubham Aggarwal sir(Vidhyapeeth IAS), Gurukul IAS, Ravi Kapoor sir, Dharmadhikari sir(CMP),
DAF discussion: Mahesh Bhagwat sir, Vikash sir (VK IAS), Bassi sir, B singh sir, Satyendra Garg sir(samkalp),
Mocks: Samkalp(2), NextIAS, Vajirao and reddy, Vajiram and ravi, few online with upwise.
I am grateful and indebted to a lot of more people for giving me their valuable time and helping me understand things! People are way too kind, from bureaucrats to friends! 🙌🙌