Date of Interview: (13th April 2022)
Board: RN. Choubey Sir
Optional: Civil engineering
Service: IFS
Background: NIT
Attempt: 3rd attempt 3rd interview
Chairman
Started with typical choubey sir style…Asked me to be comfortable…if you don’t know something you can say no etc etc…told me to remove mask if I don’t have any COVID symptoms
Chairman:
- Tell me about yourself ?
- If you are posted in a naxalite affected area as an IPS. You are in a remote location where some naxalite have gathered and you have orders to nab everyone. No one should escape. When you go to a suspected naxalite gathering, suddenly one woman starts running. She is carrying a child. You appeal but she does not stop. Will you shoot at her or not?
- Suppose if she does not have that child. Then what will you do? Fire or not?
Member 1
- Questions on food inflation: causes etc (it was on first page of IE newspaper)
- Commodity price volatility e.g onions : discussion, causes, infra problems etc
- Which state produces onions the most?
- Hindi language : should we make it national language?
Member 2 : sequence of questions can not remember ( almost all are related to current affairs)
- Media trials : what? Does it affect judicial decisions or process?
- NGO and foreign funding : what to do? Tell me one NGO which has been hugely successful?
- RTI and impact : successful or not?
- Labour codes : why govt brought them? Why delay in implementation then?
Member 3
- Employment : unemployment reasons? youth why not employable? Main problem : lack of jobs or unemployability? For educational reforms which is more suitable ; private sector or government sector?
Member 4
- One factual question can’t remember
- Man animal conflict and pressure on land (open ended statement)
- As a nation are we moving from reading books ( listening to audiobooks : my hobby)
- Nayi roshni scheme?
Chairman: we had a great time talking to you. This is your time if you want to share something.
Mocks: didn’t give this time.
Source: Forum IAS