ESE CE Interview Transcripts

Name - Aditya Sharma Panel - Rajiv Nayan chobey Panel head- ( first he made me comfortable, had a friendly chat) Asked me for the intro Then one qn which I cannot recall Member 1- asked me about dam, i didn't get the qn, something about side of the dam - what is river - why river flows - types of river - in which river canal should be formed Some other qns about river About steel truss. Member 2- theory of failure - test about steel - difference between tension, shear and torsion - what is modulus of elasticity - how modulus of elasticity is measured of steel and concrete - modulus of resilience - and one two qn about som Member 3- asked me about jaipur Asked about elastic curve of mild steel and asked me to elaborate it Chairman- asked me to tell something about civil eng

ESE PT (05/12/22, Afternoon) - Entry started at 12:50 PM - Mobile phone etc deposit - Document Verification process in waiting hall (Smooth and fast) - 3 panels were there today - Interviews started from 2:00 PM - 1 Chairperson and 3 Members inside the room Panel: Smita Nagraj Ma'am Duration - 25 minutes My background: Dual degree from BITS PILANI, BE (Hons) Civil and MSc (Hons) Chemistry, Final year One semester Internship at CRRI Delhi on Slope Stability and a Thesis on Nanochemistry for MSc Degree Work experience: Assistant Highway Engineer at a Private Consultant Firm in New Delhi (College Placement), Left the job in 2019 Chairperson 1) You have worked in a Highway consultant firm, why did u leave your job? (Gave two reasons: Told lack of technical work for me, more focused on report and presentations and management, coordination and timely delivery of reports Told that my goals were IAS and Indian Railways, so thought of preparing for ESE first) *She smiled and said u are in a ladder ( career wise, moving step by step) & now u have to prepare for civil services as both of your goals are there now😂 2) Role of consultants in highway projects? (basically wanted to know how the project is done from start to end, Tenders, Consultant, DPR, Bids, Contractors bid etc etc) 3) Boss name, company turnover, is it a big or small company, how many departments and people were there? 4) Cyrus Mistry accident, road accidents, what is the fault and reasons, how to make it better? 5) Highway Design, QCBS (Quality & Cost Based Selection) in bidding • Mostly everything from Work Experience and Job profile Member 1 1) Two questions about Canal system (don't remember exactly what) ( Said I am not aware of it) 2) Slope Protection Methods 3) There is a water supply pipeline going from authority to consumer, now the consumer says that he is not getting the amount of water that he is paying for, how will u check the issue? (Something like that) 4) What is Piping? 5) Spillway and energy dissipation? Member 2 1) So u have done MSc in Chemistry, how does this dual degree program work? 2) Use of Chemistry in Civil Engineering? Latest advancements? ( Told about Nanochemistry and nanotechnology in civil engineering with some examples in different areas like nanoparticles in concrete, self healing asphalt, nanosensors in structure health monitoring, nanobubble tech to improve DO and bring back dead water bodies in life etc etc, so discussion went that way, he wanted to know about a particular nano compound, couldn't tell the name, but told the concept) 3) IOT in Civil Engineering? 4) Hardness of water and permissible limit? 5) If drinking water from supply is salty, what compound is the reason? • Mostly everything from Chemistry and its application in civil engineering Member 3 1) Continued from Smita Ma'am discussion on QCBS in bidding, and DPR etc (Job profile) 2) Indonesia earthquake recently in news...Why it occurred? What was the one special thing that caused so much damage? ( Said didn't follow that news in depth so don't know about that special thing, then he told it was liquefaction, so the next question was-) 3) What is liquefaction? 4) How to protect buildings from Earthquakes, both the new construction and the already constructed ones? 5) Then something about Nominal cover in M50 slabs (don't remember exactly) - Thats all, you can go. Thank you! * Everyone was very cordial, polite and supportive. Nice experience 🙂

Panel:- Lt. Raj shukla Date :- 05/12/2022 Afternoon session Chairperson... What is geotechnical engineering? Once visited a place in punjab, power cut was for 9 hrs...what would u say as a engineer? There is no power for running geyser in fully solar based building due to clouds...what would you say as a engineer? No of road plans are there but then also not executed fastly ...what would u say? Member 1 Subjects of Masters Taylors series? It is infinite series then how will u get a solution? What are the recent techniques used for foundation engineering? Any software in resent use for foundation engineering? Layers of landfill liner? Practical examples of quick sand ? Member 2 What is the role of geotech engineer in highway design? What should be properties of subgrade? Which test will you perform? How to check compaction during highway construction in field? What are the foundations used for bridges with cases? Member 3 River in ur district? Length of bridge over that river? Which foundation is there in that bridge? How will you determine scour depth? (Told about lacey scour depth formula) Who is lacey ? How can you apply that formula over there? What is RQD? Which value will give maximum value of RQD? What silica fume will do in concrete? (B.Tech project) What should be features of concrete pavement? Design of formwork?

Chairman : Raj Shulka Date:05-12-2022 Ch: your opinion on kota being a caoching factory? -Why coaching has become important? -Can 12 student can crack competitive exam without coaching? Reasons? -Should we close all schools and open only coaching institutes? -Now teachers teach more comprehensively in coaching than in schools. Why? -Why kota has become a hub for coaching institutes and what is its effect on children? (and more similar questions on coachings) M1: Importance of mathematics in civil engineering? -Write equation of beam in mathematical form. -What is its degree and order? -What is EI and its effect on beam? -What is rigidity in truss member context and why? -Draw Stress strain curve of concrete ans steel with values? -What is difference between abrasion and attrition? -What is difference between aggregates in road construction and RCC construction? -What is difference between mastic asphalt, DBM, BC, SDBC? -What are tests to be conducted on Bitumen? -What is flash and fire point of bitumen? -Difference between tar and bitumen? M2: What is civil engineering? (he wanted an elaborate answer) -How does civil engineering contribute to social lufe if people?(had a discussion on it) -Difference between compaction and consolidation? (more related questions) -How is design of hospital different from normal building? -What is bio medical waste?its different types and their disposal? -Difference between ETP and STP? -How much sewage waste is treated in India? -Name of body who makes the norms of effluent discharge? M3: what is high rise building? -What additional forces will act on it? -What additional safety features it must have? -How to make it seismic resistant? -Highest building constructed in India? -If burj khalifa to be built in India what codal provisions should it follow? -If a hospital built in India of 200 bed, 400cr cost. what cost should hospital charge to make recover that cost per bed? -What is survey? - How alignment of road is decided un hilly areas? -difficulty of survey in hilly areas? -How alignment is transferred from a map to ground in hilly areas?

Date 29/11, morning Chairman: Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla Questions C: You were part of NCC? How did it benefit you? C: What is the most important quality of a leader according to you? C: What quality should a technical leader have? C: According to you what is more important, ethics or national interest? Me: National Interest C: So you believe in Saam daam Dand bhed? C: Can you share some examples (I said about India's relations with gulf nations and Russia) C: Gave some examples of the hypocrisy of china and USA and asked why should India not be like them? M1: You studied in Navodaya, how was the water demand met? M1: What was the capacity of the tank? M1: what was the stage(Here my answer was probably wrong so he was asking cross questions) M1: Smart building M1: Difference between smart building and intelligent building M1: Green building M2: What were you doing for the past 3 years? (I said was helping family with farming) M2: what type of crop do you sow? M2: Difference between crop period and base period? M2: type of roots M2: Duty? M2: where do we measure duty? M2: what do we call duty at reservoir? M2: Permanent wilting point and ultimate wilting point? M3: Gate rank is good, why no Mtech? M3: Electives(I said CPM PERT) M3: Some complex question related to float M3: project M3: can you explain the theory behind your project? M3: some general questions on project like what you did? Any experiment? Simulation? Review: Chairman asked general opinion based questions. Also, the TV was on and he was watching TV during some questions(even his own). Read DAF, most of my interview was based on DAF. I might have missed some questions.

Panel-Smita Nagaraj Interview -2 Dec Chairman- 1. Whet are you doing these days? 2. Where do you stay ? 3. Difference between planned city and unplanned city. 4.Tell me something about silchar. 5. What is sewage treatment plant.? 6. Source of water supply in silchar. 7.What is the capacity of your college sewage system. 8. How waste water is utilised. 9.What is ur best subject. (I told soil mechanics)- She said why soil mechanics ,it was in 1st or 2nd sem. few more questions related to water supply and waste water. Member 1 1. Difference between soil erosion and slope failure. 2. Measures to stablize soil failure and erosion. 3. few questions from survey. 4. Dimension of retaining wall. 5. How to increase bond when we have to build a new structure over an old existing building. Member -2 1. Design of ioslated footing. 2. Dimension of footing. 3 .In which criteria depth will be maximum. 4.design of retaining wall. 5. Water table correction for footing. 6. Few more practical questions. member 3 1. Significance of streter phelps equation. 2. Initial Do deficit and mechanism involved in self purification 3. Do sat of water 4. whose Do is more Sea water or river water. 5. sewrage appratus 6.Different type of manholes. 7.what is deep manhole. 8. which material is used in sewage pipe. 9. Type of RCC pipe. 10. Few more questions related to envi. engg

20. Where else have u seen expansion joints?(*I said boundary walls) 21. Suppose you have a 200m wall, how many joints would u provide? **Okay u don't know 22. Would you provide expansion joint in a compound wall? **Okay u are not sure 23. What is the difference between bitumen and cutback bitumen? 24. What is the difference between bitumen and tar? (*In tar part, i said distructive distillation of crude oil) 25. Are u sure that it's crude oil? **I smiled and said I'm not sure, he smiled back, he looked at nagraj mam, nodded then nagraj mam smiled (*kinda smirk smile) Your interview is over, you can go

Chairperson: 1. What are u doing right now? 3. So you are from Varanasi, as right now there is a lot of influx of people due to newly built temple, what are the major civil engineering challenges and how would u deal with them? 4. Have u seen any water treatment plant? 5. From where your hometown gets drinking water from? 6. How would carry it from there and supply it to the houses? 7. How would you know that water has been disinfected properly and is safe for supplying? 8. There is major problem of water lowering of water table in punjab, how as a civil engineer would u deal with that? 9. (Shows a biseri bottle), there is major criticism of this packaged water, are u aware of that? 10. There is also a criticism that it removes the required minerals, so whats your take on that? Technical 1: So you have done MTech in structure... How many types of live loads are there? (*Shocked to hear that live load has types)... In my answer I said somewhere 'earthquake load' Then the entire conversation went to rapid fire round about earthquake designing, from zone factor values, R, I, Sa/g to calculation of base shear to force distribution (even the formulas) Technical 2: 1. What is the height of a office building? **Okay u are not sure, 2 what is the dimension of a office building(or maybe room, not sure)? **Okay u are not aware of the values 3. What gate width would you provide in a office,? **Okay u don't know any practical values 4. What is the name of the code which specifies all these dimensions? **Okay u are not aware 5. Have u ever heard of National building code? 6. Suppose you saw a design of roof of this room, and u find out that it's failing, what would you do? 7. How would you provide r/f at the corners? 8. What other subjects you like? *Said geotech and environment 9. Have you heard of Environmental impact assessment? 10. How would you do EIA in a forest? **Okay u are not aware 11. What are the studies/tests you would do in a EIA? **Okay u are not aware 12. How would you get a NOC for a project? **Okay u don't know the field procedure 13. What is the maximum(*or min, not sure) period to get NOC for EIA? **Okay u are not able to recall 14. So what do you know in Environment then? 15. Okay so water and waste water treatment, but that's different from environment na? *Chairperson signalled him to stop (stop the humiliation infact🥲) Technical 3: 1. So you said waste water treatment, what is a tertiary treatment? *Feeling humiliated, Didn't wanted to say I don't know, I asked him, Is sludge digestion tertiary? *he smiled and said no its secondary 2. So is sludge digestion aerobic or anaerobic? 3. In anaerobic digestion, some people say there are 2 steps, some say 3 steps, how many steps are there? Do you know? 4. How after hydrolysis, acid comes? 5. Why do we prefer anaerobic digestion? 6. What is the percentage of methane in the gases? 7. Do you know the calorific value of methane? *From here started I Don't know streak 8. Govt is promoting gobar gas plants now a days, Have you seen any? **Okay u haven't 9. Gobar gas plants has a major operational trouble, what is that? **No don't say I dont know, the answer lies in the previous answer you have given, relate to that **Then I said its diificult to maintain the pH, bacteria gets upset...from there contd.. 10. How would u maintain the pH? 11. What should be the range? **Okay u are not sure 12. Have you heard of expansion joints? 13. Why they are provided? 14. Have u seen them anywhere? (*In CC pavements) 15. What is the gap between them? (*I said we calculate the length based on strength, he interrupted) 16. No I want to know the general spacing? (*I said 45-50m) 17. Do we provide anything in that space? 18. Give some examples of those filler materials? 19. What other joints you see in the pavements?

M3: What are the factors contribute to Urban flooding? M3: How to rectify that? M3: What is the one main reason for places like Dadar gets flooded during Monsoon?

ESE-2022 Date of PT: 01-12-2022 Panel: Smita Nagaraj Mam CH: Why did you left pvt. Job for govt. job? CH: What is this govt. job’s exposure every other candidate is talking about? All the govt. works is taking care by pvt. Firms. DPR, estimates, design, drawings & even project management is done by Pvt. Firms. Govt. people only sits on their desks and put sign on some papers. Is this even exposure? CH: Why you left pvt. Firm? Every other candidate says salary, pride for family, etc. What was your reason apart from that? CH: What is the biggest project you handle in your current organisation and previous organisation? Just tell me the names only. (I said residential flats in current organisation and design of metro station in previous organisation) CH: See. You are exposed to lots of things in pvt. Firms. How can you say govt. gives you same level of exposure? CH: Are you selected in pvt. Firm through campus placement? CH: Have you analysed that interview? What is pvt. Firms look into a candidate? CH: People having zero practical knowledge are coming to govt. job & perform checking of pvt. Firm’s work. Are they fit for those roles? CH: Do you believe people having very good theoretical knowledge (fresh graduates) have same level of practical knowledge (site problems)? CH: Can you suggest something to solve this problem? CH: What was the exact work you did in metro design? CH: Are you an expert in design? Lets evaluate that. M1: What is the detailing of beam-column? M1: What is the minimum size of column? M1: Suppose you get a drawing of any column reinforcement. How can you say that this much reinforcement will take care the load effectively without using any software? M1: Minimum & Maximum reinforcement criteria is very elementary, tell me some solid answer. M1: What is the minimum size of beam? M1: So you have design the substructure of Metro. Is it a cast-in-situ or precast pile? M2: Just visualise us how will you cast that in site. What are the steps involved? (I told step by step process and he has questions for every steps) M2: Sometimes it is seen that pile hole collapses. How can we say whether its collapse or not? M2: How can you rectify this problem? M2: (back to his first question) Suppose 28 days are over for curing. Now visualise us how will you cast pilecap? M2: What will be the code used for coastal structure? M2: Is there any codal limits for coastal structures? M2: Minimum cement content, grade of concrete is very elementary. Is there any other thing? M2: How will you protect coastal bank? M2: Have you seen the stones near Marine drive? What is the name of that shape? M2: How to place that on real site (step by step)? M2: Is there any codes for those stones? M2: Tell me the codal procedure to design those stones? M3: How much water is there in ocean? M3: How much salt is there in sea water? M3: Can we use sea water for curing? M3: What is the name of reaction (Corrosion)? M3: Tell me the mechanism of corrosion in concrete? M3: Can we use sea water for curing for any other material & why? M3: Can we use sea water for drinking? M3: What are the limits for water used for curing? Is it written in any code? Tell me the name of that code? M3: Is there any code for coastal structure built very near to sea? M3: What are the parameters one keep into mind to design structures near to sea? M3: How Mumbai Municipality dispose their sewer? M3: What are the different methods of disposing sewers? M3: What are the one main factor to keep into mind to dispose sewer into the sea? M3: Which tide is more critical for disposing sewer: High or Low? Why? M3: If with same parameters, one buildings is built in Mumbai and one building is built in Delhi. Which one is more durable? Why? M3: What is the direction of wind during day & Night in places like Mumbai (near the ocean)? M3: Why Mumbai gets flooded during rainy season? M3: Do you know about RL? What is the RL for Mumbai? M3: What is the RL for Delhi? M3: What is urban flooding? M3: What are the factors

ESE-2022 Date of PT: 01-12-2022 Panel: Smita Nagaraj Mam CH: Why did you left pvt. Job for govt. job? CH: What is this govt. job’s exposure every other candidate is talking about? All the govt. works is taking care by pvt. Firms. DPR, estimates, design, drawings & even project management is done by Pvt. Firms. Govt. people only sits on their desks and put sign on some papers. Is this even exposure? CH: Why you left pvt. Firm? Every other candidate says salary, pride for family, etc. What was your reason apart from that? CH: What is the biggest project you handle in your current organisation and previous organisation? Just tell me the names only. (I said residential flats in current organisation and design of metro station in previous organisation) CH: See. You are exposed to lots of things in pvt. Firms. How can you say govt. gives you same level of exposure? CH: Are you selected in pvt. Firm through campus placement? CH: Have you analysed that interview? What is pvt. Firms look into a candidate? CH: People having zero practical knowledge are coming to govt. job & perform checking of pvt. Firm’s work. Are they fit for those roles? CH: Do you believe people having very good theoretical knowledge (fresh graduates) have same level of practical knowledge (site problems)? CH: Can you suggest something to solve this problem? CH: What was the exact work you did in metro design? CH: Are you an expert in design? Lets evaluate that. M1: What is the detailing of beam-column? M1: What is the minimum size of column? M1: Suppose you get a drawing of any column reinforcement. How can you say that this much reinforcement will take care the load effectively without using any software? M1: Minimum & Maximum reinforcement criteria is very elementary, tell me some solid answer. M1: What is the minimum size of beam? M1: So you have design the substructure of Metro. Is it a cast-in-situ or precast pile? M2: Just visualise us how will you cast that in site. What are the steps involved? (I told step by step process and he has questions for every steps) M2: Sometimes it is seen that pile hole collapses. How can we say whether its collapse or not? M2: How can you rectify this problem? M2: (back to his first question) Suppose 28 days are over for curing. Now visualise us how will you cast pilecap? M2: What will be the code used for coastal structure? M2: Is there any codal limits for coastal structures? M2: Minimum cement content, grade of concrete is very elementary. Is there any other thing? M2: How will you protect coastal bank? M2: Have you seen the stones near Marine drive? What is the name of that shape? M2: How to place that on real site (step by step)? M2: Is there any codes for those stones? M2: Tell me the codal procedure to design those stones? M3: How much water is there in ocean? M3: How much salt is there in sea water? M3: Can we use sea water for curing? M3: What is the name of reaction (Corrosion)? M3: Tell me the mechanism of corrosion in concrete? M3: Can we use sea water for curing for any other material & why? M3: Can we use sea water for drinking? M3: What are the limits for water used for curing? Is it written in any code? Tell me the name of that code? M3: Is there any code for coastal structure built very near to sea? M3: What are the parameters one keep into mind to design structures near to sea? M3: How Mumbai Municipality dispose their sewer? M3: What are the different methods of disposing sewers? M3: What are the one main factor to keep into mind to dispose sewer into the sea? M3: Which tide is more critical for disposing sewer: High or Low? Why? M3: If with same parameters, one buildings is built in Mumbai and one building is built in Delhi. Which one is more durable? Why? M3: What is the direction of wind during day & Night in places like Mumbai (near the ocean)? M3: Why Mumbai gets flooded during rainy season? M3: Do you know about RL? What is the RL for Mumbai? M3: What is the RL for Delhi? M3: What is urban flooding? M3: What are the factors

Panel-Smita Nagaraj Interview -2 Dec Chairman- 1. Whet are you doing these days? 2. Where do you stay ? 3. Difference between planned city and unplanned city. 4.Tell me something about silchar. 5. What is sewage treatment plant.? 6. Source of water supply in silchar. 7.What is the capacity of your college sewage system. 8. How waste water is utilised. 9.What is ur best subject. few more questions related to water supply and waste water. Member 1 1. Difference between soil erosion and slope failure. 2. Measures to stablize soil failure and erosion. 3. few questions from survey. 4. Dimension of retaining wall. 5. How to increase bond when we have to build a new structure over an old existing building. Member -2 1. Design of ioslated footing. 2. Dimension of footing. 3 .In which criteria depth will be maximum. 4.design of retaining wall. 5. Water table correction for footing. 6. Few more practical questions. member 3 1. Significance of streter phelps equation. 2. Initial Do deficit and mechanism involved in self purification 3. Do sat of water 4. whose Do is more Sea water or river water. 5. sewrage appratus 6.Different type of manholes. 7.what is deep manhole. 8. which material is used in sewage pipe. 9. Type of RCC pipe. 10. Few more questions related to envi. engg

Male Chairperson Panel (Not sure if he was Raj Shukla Sir because his face didn't match what Google or UPSC site displays) 1/12/2022 Chairman Goodmorning have a seat and remove the mask if you don't have any covid symptoms Introduce yourself in one minute Challenges in your teaching job How do you deal with them? Dissatisfaction in any front regarding the level of students? (Said that yes but I take it as a challenge and bridge the gaps with relevant change in my teaching methodology) How to deal with that? How to make building earthquake resistant? M1: Yeh AQI kya hai? What all pollutants in it? Who does the measurements and mathematical working to reach the final value? What's the AQI today? Why so high AQI? Why photochemical smog? Any other Smog also? How it affects the visibility? Why near India Gate so much pollution? Why AQI shoots up during winter nights? Inversion? M2: Wind kya hai? Dampeners for wind? Relevant IS code for wind? At what height basic wind speed measured? Relevant corrections for converting it to Design Wind speed? Bina kharcha kare low cost solutions batao to make short height buildings Seismic proof for winds and earthquake Basic wind speed of Delhi? Zones for winds and earthquakes? Passive and active system for seismic proofing of buildings. M3: What all are checked for fire proofing of buildings? Roads mei which value is IRC based on for flexible pavement measurement? How CBR is measured? Minimum CBR recommended by IRC? Suppose soil is poor having CBR value of 2, what would you do? You worked for a Building project, for which department was it being constructed ? National Building Code prescribes minimum height for floors of an office building any idea? Which ductile designing code used there? Tell the detailing of column beam joint? How to make a load bearing structure earthquake resistant? Retrofitting of an existing structure for earthquake? How to convert traffic loads to simplify our calculations for MSA (I told about standard axle loads, VDF and its calculations but somehow he wasn't convinced) Chairman: We asked you what we wanted to hear now tell me if you want to enlighten us about any new innovation being used in Civil Engineering ( I talked about the recent Waste to Energy plants being constructed in Delhi to get rid of the municipal solid waste problem and reduce the need of landfills) This is all I can remember as of now. Shukla Sir's panel is chill, especially Shukla Sir himself barring ek professor who asked me a lot about winds and it's relevant IS codes which I couldn't recall very well that time, he was a bit disappointed. Last mei ek topic of Civil Engineering khud uthaane ko bolte hai, so prepare one for yourself according to your comfort (although I'm not sure if the panel is doing the same with all) All the Best!

Date - 30 Nov, 2022 Panel : Ms. Smita Nagraj Mam Background: Did MTech in Water Resources Engineering, Selected as SDO in Water Conservation Department Duration: 40Min CH: What are you doing currently? Isn't it good? (Current Job) Suppose you are at a district place and you have to provide water to villages, How will you provide it, Tell me Every Step from Source? (Took 2-3 minutes) Tell me something about Water Conservation Department? Have you seen any structures? How Check Dams are designed? What is Jalyukta Shivar Yojna? Maharashtra Govt. always comes with new idea. Any new Scheme regarding Water Supply ? (Told Marathwada Water Grid) What is Purpose? How water will be lifted? M1: Do you know Bridges? Width of 2 lane Bridge? What is Kerb? How the Longitudinal Girders designed? Forces Acting on Bridges? How Live Load Calculated on Bridges? What are Standard Loadings adopted on Bridges? Difference between piers and Abutments? Forces Acting on Piers? How will you design Abutments? Which Foundation is Provided for Bridges? Have you seen Sinking of Wells? How it is done? How the reinforcement provided in Design of Bridges? Which is your favourite Subject? Difference between Shallow and Deep Foundations? Asked Condition wheather and How Bearing Correction Factor Applied? What is Dilatancy Correction? Types of Correction used in SPT Test? What is Overburden Correction? What are different types of Deep Foundations? What are Different types of Piles? How Friction Piles are Designed? M2: You have to design tunnel, How will you select the Site? How tunnel designed on Soft Soil? What is Needle Beam Method? Suppose there is a Dam, Water level in u/s is such that it has not exceeded Maximum Water level but Stored Water causing damage to Structure then what measures you will be taken? What is Spillway? How Erosion of River or Lake prevented? Black Cotton Soil is predominant in Maharashtra, How will you design pavement on this Soil?

Raj Shukla panel 30/11/2022 After noon session Chairperson 1. You are brilliant student then why private colleges for btech? 2. Can student from private college compete with IITs students? 3.Do you know what is technocracy? China recent 2 presidents have been engineers ....is that the reason for their growth? 4. China ahead or America in current scenario and why? 5. Name the Indian PM who was engineer? 6. Would you like to see any engineer PM of our country? Do you think it is possible? If yes how it is possible? Member 1.- 1. Gujrat morbi incident reason 2. Part of suspension bridge and loads associated with it 3. Type of stone masonry 5. what are type of ashlar masonry 6. He asked about 3 types of stone i couldn't hear like through type stone etc. 7. What is Dpc 8. What are specifications of dpc 9.what are materials used for dpc 10. Draw section for DPC 11. What is foundation provided if rock is there 12. What is the depth of foundation is provided if it is provided on rock 13. What is king closure 14. Where it is used draw diagram Member 2. 1. So you did teaching , what you taught ( i said maths) 2. What us use of partial differential equations 3. What is degree of partial differential equations 4. What is taylor expansion? 5. What was your btech project (Asked everything about btech project... every single details with reason) Member 3 1. You have mentioned mhrd scholarship from where you are doing masters 2. Subject in masters 3. Ine subject i told optimization techniques which was maths additional subject 4. What is optimisation..... explain analytically 5. What are methods of optimization 6. What is simplex and Big M method 7. How will you optimise resources for prestess bars 8. What are constraints?

Smita nagraj panel Date: 29/11/22 CP- you are from Rajasthan and you have worked in HPCL so why you left job 2. Why do you want to join CPWD instead of HPCL 3. What do you see in state govt building ( have some random answer like life and other stuff) 4. Do you not see any cracks in those building 5. Why UPSC bhavan such not have any cracks 6. What value you bring in CPWD. M1 1. You are supposed to have choice in cpwd that you can choice your nature of job (1 design 2 estimate 3 maintenance) what will you choose.( I choose design) 2. Design process of construction of a building 3. what is sub soil exploration and how you will do it 4. If suppose SPT no. Is 8 then what will be your type of foundation then he elaborate this question as I am not able answer it( finally give answer deep foundation) 5. Then what is well foundation 6. Construction of well foundation 7. Problem of well foundation 8. Suppose as structural designer you have to given a column of size 40*90 but due to space limit you can give only 40*60 then what will you do 9. Some other ques also been asked but i am not able to recall M2 1. Type of slab 2. Corridor slab is which type 3. Room slab is of which type 4. 5 spanContinuous slab live load placement 5. Torsional reinforcement of slab 6. 13920 beam column joint specification 7. What is Beam design moment(100knm hog or 50 knm sag) 8. Wastage of material in the beam as less material required for 50knm what will you do (hint given redistribution of stress) 9. What is redistribution and how will you do it M3 1. What is tunnel engineering ( i pass this and told never studied) 2. What is the rainfall data recorded for design of dam 3. Return period of dam 4. Design data and return period for earthen dam and minor dam 5. What is yield 6. What is runoff 7. What are losses 8. Where IMD is situated 9. What is seepage water, infiltered water, percolated water 10. What is the use of S Curve

DOI - 29/11/2022 Afternoon Panel - Raj Shukla sir Chairmen 1. You worked in TCE(company)? 2. How was the experience? 3. What did you learn? 4. What was your salary? 5. What are your favorite fields in civil engineering? 6. Why we give importance to soil? 7. Why soil is different everywhere? 8. What are Story-rich video games(hobby)? M1 1. You heard Morbi bridge collapsed? What kind of bridge it was? 2. Why did it fail? 3. Explain load path in suspended bridge? 4. What will be load these each member carry? 5. What kind of load tower carries? 6. How will you design the building? 7. What different codes will you use for designing? 8. What about steel? M2 1. What are different types of staircases? 2. How do you design a staircase? 2. What are loads you will consider in designing? 3. Why staircase is so important in the building? 4. What are loads for overcrowding? M3 1. What structures you designed on in your company? 2. How did you design it? 3. What was your B.Tech project? 4. How much is distance between Sangli and Kolhapur(project related)? 5. How did you identify the blackspots? 6. How many blackspots did you identify? 5. Explain one hotspot corrective measures you provided. 6. Why did you not provide signals? 7. What should be minimum traffic volume required to provide a signal? Chairman - Thank you. Your interview is over. As I was leaving, M1(again) - was this your first time ese interview? Yes.

Member 1( Mr. Shukla) How many IITs are there and should there be more number of IITs in the country? Asked some questions on DAF- achievement section? What is innovation and how it is a necessary tool for technology? Is innovation more feasible in democratic country or a country like North Korea? Take north India and south India and tell where innovation is more feasible? Russia was better than US in many aspects before world War but now it's military, semiconductor important, etc is suffering How according to you the silicon Valley as an innovation boosted US and u agree whether Russia is lagging in innovation? Member 2 Asked about native place's altitude and reason for floods some years ago? What are different subsurface failures in dams or embankments? What is difference between khosla and blighs theory? Where khosla studied from? What is piping explain? What is extreme altitudes of Delhi? (Range approx) What if a city is to be build on flat plane or hilly plane and which one is suitable and why? How will u control drainage if city is built on slopy or hilly part of delhi? Member 3 What was your project in college? Asked a lot about the project and mainly how it will help in practical situations( mine was on hydraulic behaviour of plastic clays) How will you waterproof your foundation? Member 4 What was your elective? I said maths then he asked how partial differential equations help in civil? Fin..

Date 29/11/2022 Panel Raj shukla sir Duration 20 min. Chairperson: What are you doing nowadays. I told about Nhai What do u do in nhai They asked about different department. Why these days only nitin gadkari is doing remarkable job?? Why only promises being made and not executed..... Member 1. Draw balanced cantilever beam. Tension and compression in cantelever beam. What do we do to ensure the safety of cantilever beam related to props. What is NH, SH, MDR distinction of the above Formation width. Member 2 Difference between asphalt and bitumen Test of aggregates. Test of bitumen Softening point test? Tensile test of bitumen? CBR test ? Asphaltic concrete? Member 3 About btech project Processes of municipal waste water treatment Landfilling What do we do with the sludge Some question about methane gas