Date of Interview: 7 April forenoon.
Board: TCA Anant
Background: B.Tech Mechanical, IIT Roorkee
Home State: Uttar Pradesh
Employee: currently working as district social welfare officer (development) in a district of UP
Chairman
- remove shield and mask if you wish to, I declined as I did not wish to reveal facial expressions while answering.
- Tell something about your current job
- what have you learnt till now
- tell the schemes that you are implementing which are performing best and worst reasons for above
Member 1
- problems you are facing in job
- how would you improve beneficiary identification (follow up from previous reply)
Member 2
- Tell us about Formula 1 (hobby)
- qualities of drivers
- how would it help in administration
Member 3
- What is your view on All India Judicial Service
- why it has not materialised yet
- Tell your service preference – told first three
- Tell more – told next five
- Why IRS (IT) above IRS (C&IT)
- Any latest developments in income tax ? – told about faceless assessment
- How faceless assessment happens ?
- counter on above
- you have good academic credentials, why civil service
Member 4
- (started speaking in Hindi since official language of UP is Hindi) – you have to invite all gram pradhans in ur district for a meeting. Tell me exactly what will you write – Told him 2-3 sentences in hindi language that I would write.
- what places would you take me to in your district
- counter on above
- new technologies with respect to vehicles in India (from hobby and education background)
- what about tesla ? (Later he told he is asking about driverless cars)
- Is your post insignificant ? (I told chairman earlier that my current post was lying vacant since many years)
Chairman – thank you. You can go now.
Remarks : DAF based. Some random questions in between by M3.
Source: Forum IAS