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

  1. remove shield and mask if you wish to, I declined as I did not wish to reveal facial expressions while answering.
  2. Tell something about your current job
  3. what have you learnt till now
  4. tell the schemes that you are implementing which are performing best and worst reasons for above

Member 1

  1. problems you are facing in job
  2. how would you improve beneficiary identification (follow up from previous reply)

Member 2

  1. Tell us about Formula 1 (hobby)
  2. qualities of drivers
  3. how would it help in administration

Member 3

  1. What is your view on All India Judicial Service
  2. why it has not materialised yet
  3. Tell your service preference – told first three
  4. Tell more – told next five
  5. Why IRS (IT) above IRS (C&IT)
  6. Any latest developments in income tax ? – told about faceless assessment
  7. How faceless assessment happens ?
  8. counter on above
  9. you have good academic credentials, why civil service

Member 4

  1. (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.
  2. what places would you take me to in your district
  3. counter on above
  4. new technologies with respect to vehicles in India (from hobby and education background)
  5. what about tesla ? (Later he told he is asking about driverless cars)
  6. 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