Date of Interview: 02 May, afternoon
Board: Smita Nagraj
Optional: History
Background: Shri Ram College of Commerce
Profession (if any)- IRPS
Hobby: Book Reading
Utility of mocks (if any)- good for practice, idea of questions from Daf, minor fine tuning, Nothing More.
Chairperson
- Asked where are you posted these days, how many person with you in training. (just to let me get comfortable)
- Named some reasons behind corruption. How will you solve these issues? (gave some points)
- Is this not going on?
- Which reason of corruption according to you is most important (said red tapism)
- What is red tapism?
- Have you faced corruption? (talked about my experience)
Member 1
- You belong to small town, how was your locality, rural or urban?
- Why Patiyali is famous? (town in my district, birthplace of Amir Khusrau)
- Despite being birthplace of Amir Khusrau, why it’s not developed?
- What are biofuels?
- India grows and export a lot of rice. What is the problem in that, with respect to climate change?
Member 2
- India is growing economically, but is it not jobless growth?
- What is the railway university that’s coming in Vadodara?
- Lot of South Asian and South East Asian countries have better socioeconomic indicators than India? How do you see this?
Member 3
- Do you follow table tennis, what was the incident between Manika Batra and her coach during Tokyo Olympics?
- What is crony capitalism?
- Work from home culture? What is its future, is it good?
- What type of books you have read? (book reading my hobby)
- What books you have read on history?
- Why you opted for history, despite being commerce graduate?
- Who are subaltern historians? Have you ever read any book written by subaltern historians?
- Why IPL viewership is declining?
Member 4
- What is the govt target for tuberculosis?
- What are the problems in TB program?
- How will you solve these issues?
Chairperson – your interview is over
It went for about 25 minutes. Plain and simple, few hiccups in between, rest fine. Nothing unusual except light went off once.
Source: Forum IAS