Date of Interview: 22/04/22
Board: M Sathyiavathy Ma’am
Bsckground: Btech ECE
Work exp: 2.5 years IT firm
Optional: Geography
Home State: Kerala
Hobbies: sports (no Question)
Chairperson
Remove faceshield and put on lap
Pull down mask for verification and asked to wear it throughout
Read out DAF aloud
- You had decent job with good pay, why did you resign?
- you studied in NIT Calicut, why 2 names Calicut and Kozhikode. Few Questions on history of names
- an air accident happened recently in kozhikode.what are reasons?
- what is peculiarity of airport? (Used my hands to explain, other members were surprised)
- what is use of black box? what is its colour?
Member 1
- explain smart wheelchair project you did in college? (Daf)
- will it be useful for specially abled in buildings?
- what measures to be taken to make buildings accessible?
- does Kozhikode have a railway station?
- Suppose you want to implement accessibility in railway station (which is under Union govt.), What steps will you take? ( Whenever I said a point, member kept on saying next what, a bit impatient here)
- largest district in Kerala?
- state capital of Kerala? Which temple there? What controversy behind temple and follow up
- Thiruvananthapuram vs Bangalore (worked here) in terms of ease of living.?said Bangalore, mention 3 reasons( Specifically cautioned not to mention climate as factor)
- public transport vs private transport. (Follow up on my answer that public transport better in Bangalore)
- metro transport falls under which ministry?
- (Since I mentioned Bangalore metro)
Member 2: (had to repeat most answers, as member did not hear)
- Since you took geography optional, I will ask from there
- which river flows through Badrinath shrine?(didn’t know)
- giving hint, he talked about recent disaster in Joshimath. What was it?
- Which river ? It did not happen in Joshimath, which peak it took place? (Didn’t know)
- long monologue on Himalaya being young and fold mountains. Which are old mountains ?
- relation of European discovery of India and kozhikode. Where did Vasco da gama land?
- 4g vs 5g?
- 5g uses ?how it heps in national security ?
- what is NSS? (daf) and follow up questions
Member 3
- what is your service preference?
- based on my answer, and issue of political violence in Kerala. Suppose you are posted as DM, get orders to bulldoze to curb violence your action plan?
- if not bulldoze, then what actions?
- based on answer, those are soft mechanism, What else?
- coming to ECE, how it helps in defence?
- Indian PSU based on defence electronics? private company? Globally?
Member 4
- pointing to earlier question, recently bulldoze issue happened . Are you aware?
- what was reason for it? (Member hinted about delay of communication between judiciary and Mayor)
- in times of tech, are such delay acceptable? (Said no), coming from ECE background, what are solutions?
- confirmed whether Amadeus software labs( job) is the company related to air ticketing. Then asked randomly, what is unicorn? Asked stats about unicorn and follow up on startups
- most startups are located in Bangalore, delhi (based on my answer). How to ensure startups come up in other areas? Few follow up
- difference between cell and mobile phone.
Chairperson:
- Interview over
- Thank you .all the best
- May be forgetting few questions
- PS: board repeatedly asked to pull up mask.
- This impacted flow of answers
Source: Forum IAS