Board: TCA Anant sir
Background: Civil Engg
Optional: PSIR
Home State: Karnataka
Hobby: Reflective writing, cricket, Table tennis,

Chairman

1. What have you been doing since your graduation?
2. Not yet all working ??
3. Why civil services even though civil engg is a good field?
4. Tell any instance where you served society recently and what exactly what was your role
5. What is this Reflective writing?
6. Recent writing, summary of it, and what have I learned from it.

Member 1

1. What is Marketing?
2. Name any 2 Indian tt players – Olympics and paralympics included
3. Afghanistan issue and Indian role ..follow up question on that
4. Present status of doklam standoff
5. 4 Civil Engg questions – all I don’t know

Member 2

1. Diff between fiscal deficit and revenue deficit
2. Primary deficit meaning ( I asked if I could take a guess as I wasn’t sure about the answer and mam obliged)
3. What do you mean by Economic reforms and tell any recent economic reforms
4. About reflective writing – who inspired you, how does it help you, do you write it for self or others, do you follow anyone’s writing, when did you start writing
5. Banglore metro issues – when I said some issues, mam asked for one specific issue and I told I don’t know

Member 3

1. What Is the fiscal deficit allowed in India? ( picked from 2nd member )
2. Have we crossed it? And what is the present deficit?
3. About frbm act and how fiscal deficit should be reduced
4. My role as a cricketer and what is chinaman bowler?
5. Neighborhood issues – how to solve it
6. What is Stagflation and Present inflation rate..is it good for economy?

Member 4

1. IR – mechanisms through which infra projects carried out in the neighborhood? ( picked from 3rd member )
2. Bimstec and its current status ( picked from 3rd member )
3. Scheme under aatmanirbhar Bharat for manufacturing?
4. About pli scheme and asked to mention any one specific component ( picked from previous question )
5. Why Women labour force participation rate less in india
6. How to generate jobs – agri or services should be preferred?? When I told we need to go for manufacturing, asked me to specify certain areas.. when i told about engineering goods,

chairman

1. intervened and asked me if it was labour intensive..i replied its not but it can create forward and backward linkages and this could create employemnet
2. Views on caste census
3. Scheme for Muslims to avail educational loan in India

P.s: asked to remove face shield, m1 and m4 were sitting very close to me, asked Me to also pull my chair towards the table, asked me to correct my mask as it was coming down while answering, overall very cordial board, no grilling at all, 25 – 30 minutes.

Source: Forum IAS