Date of Interview: 16 -09-2021
Board: Sathyavathy Madam
Optional: Sociology
Background: Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS)
Home state: Kerala
Chairman
- What were you doing after your graduation in 2015 till 2019?
- What is your opinion about bank mergers? Are you in favour or are you against it?
- Why are banks being merged when small banks are being given license?
- Is the purpose of small banks only financial inclusion?
- What reforms are required for improving the efficiency of PSBs?
Member 1
- Should Railways be bothered about efficiency or should it be merely a social service?
- What is the operating ratio?
- What are the reasons for the low operating ratio?
- How to improve operating ratio?
- What is Ro-Ro service? Do you know that Railways don’t favour it that much?
- Why are passenger fares not being raised even now?
- Will people use Railways if fares are increased?
Member 2
- How to solve the NPA crisis?
- Do you agree with the view that public sector bankers are being unnecessarily targeted by government agencies?
- Necessity of manpower recruitment in banks (Addressing manpower shortage was one of the reforms that I had suggested in one of my earlier answers)
- Should Railways engage private players in freight and passenger operations?
- Mention one reason each that is preventing private players from becoming active in the Railways
Member 3
- Instead of increasing manpower, shouldn’t banks go in for technology adoption to reduce costs and increase efficiency?
- How to solve the India-Pakistan issue?
- Talks have been a failure since Independence. Give other suggestions.
- Should India balkanise Pakistan? If not, why? What other choices do we have?
- Should India go on the offensive? If yes, why? If not, why?
Member 4
- Why do nano-materials have more strength as compared to other materials?
- Recently farmers conducted Kisan Parliament. Why was it conducted and is there a requirement for other such ‘Parliaments’?
- We are going in for de-mergers and decentralisation of institutions but at the same time merging banks. Why is there no uniformity in approach?
- Wouldn’t creating more elite institutions like IITs and AIIMS lead to loss of brand value? Do you support it?
- Railways don’t have the cold chain infrastructure to move perishable goods. So, is there hope for Railways in moving perishables?
Thank You. Your interview is over.
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