Board: Sujata Mehta
Optional: Geography
Hobbies: Cricket, Bollywood movies,
Home State: Rajasthan
Indian Defence Estates Service
Chairman
- Introduce about study and job experience in breif.
- defence Land: long conservation, questions, counter questions like land monetization, defence infra, Optimum utilisation etc.
- Cantonment road closures issue ma’am said about recent incident of minor girl rape case in delhi cantonment (old nagla village)- should they have right to protect in cantonment?
- What’s your views as cantonment authorities are not allowing.
- How do you see this CDS move, relevance?
- CDS and department of military affairs (DMA) are there than what is the need of IDES?
- NOW how defence land will be managed after this DMA?
Member 1
- what is retrospective tax ?
- Recent case status ?
- TRP ?
- relations between fake news and TRP ?
- what to do with private land in cantonment ? ( B3 land )
- merger of civil area in nearby municipality and discussion on this like what if municipalities don’t agree to do ? Way out
- chairperson ma’am took a point from my reply and asked specifically about enclaves of civil area between military area case .
- which finance commission it was ?
- specific recommendations for defence by this finance commission ? ( I remembered 2 recommendations )
Member 2
- 16 )about one recommendation of non lapsable fund for defence – benifit from it ?, if we don’t have this what will be issues ? , Should we go for fund like this in these situations of financial crisis?
- 17) unable to remember clearly but they talked about Jems col. Tod ( related to rajasthan)
- 18) you have geography optional tell me about latitude, longitude, magnitude?
- 19) how times are different for countries, how it decided?
- 20) you said like we can go for monetization of defence land to some extent , don’t you have a perspective plan fo defence land for long term ?
- What point you have in your plan ?
- 21) curefw under which law of section
Member 3
- suppose you as DM of a district , there are riots in two groups ? Now you have to take decision for section 144, curfew, shoot?
- How you will assess that what course of action should be taken?
- in this he asked what you will do to report of SP of that district ?
- what are the similarities and differences between CEO of municipalities and CEO of cantonment ? And further questions
- are you doing digitization in your cantonment ?( Explained e-chhawani)
Member 4
- is there anything that we should ask?
- ( I said about cricket and Hindi movies )
- Ma’am looked at all members to ask and finally, she herself asked what kind of movies do you watch?
- padmawat movie issue?
Chairman
- was that agitation and incidents regarding this movie were appropriate?
- filmmakers should have liberty to make films with some changes in real stories?
- Your interview is over.
- I may not be able to recall some questions, questions are not in sequence.
Overall: cordial board, helpful people, most of the Questions related to job, ma’am was specifically want to know only opinion, nothing factual.
Source: Forum IAS
