Date of Interview: 6th April, Forenoon,
Board: TCA Anant
Home State: Delhi

Chairman

1. can remove mask and face shield if you want and feel comfortable
2. All the questions related to my college
3. Who established, when established, what makes it one of the top colleges

Member 1

1. suppose a person from tamil nadu comes to your place of residence. Which all places would you take him?
2. there is system of VIP entry in temples. your views on that.
3. People having black money donating it in temples. Should the temples accept it or not?
4. What are the instruments required for doing hand embroidery (hobby)?

Member 2

1. Do you like walking alone or in a group (hobby)?
2. What is the longest distance you have walked at a stretch?
3. Why are you leaving maths and coming to civil services(background+optional)?
4. You could serve the nation by being a scientist too
5. What are your service preference?
6. What do see is there for your growth in IFS?
7. The world order post second world war and where does India stand. What all we have achieved and what are the area to be worked upon?
8. How will you promote relations between countries?
9. Difference between and what do you understand by tangible and intangible cultural heritage?

Member 3

1. AI and Deep learning
2. Cloud processing
3. Data centres in India and their significance
4. Issue of standardisation in India
5. You have lived all your life in Delhi. How would you manage if posted in say far north or southern India?
6. You have sudoku as a hobby so tell us why Wordle is becoming so popular?
7. How should we use simplicity in day to day administration?

Member 4

1. Have you ever done some sort of public service by volunteering or interning?
2. Why are slums in Delhi?
3. Issues with slums?
4. How would you deal with problems of slum localities if made incharge of that?
5. Benefits of Delhi metro and its significance for Delhi.

The questions mostly revolved around my DAF. No current affairs questions. Only M3 asked questions related to emerging technologies which he said are related to maths since maths form all the basis of computing.

Source: Forum IAS

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

Date of interview: 11.04.2022, forenoon
Board: TCA Anant
Optional: Agriculture
Background:  IIT Delhi
Hobbies: space documentaries, guitar

Chairman

1. Why did you leave your job
2. Civil services except IAS are mostly limited to their domains so how will you find diversity there
3. What got you interested in space documentaries.
4. Where can I watch space documentary
5. What documentary would you recommend for me to watch

Member 1

1. You have done production and industrial engineering.. so why are industries in India backward, why are we losing out to China and what can we do about it
2. How to reach India’s goal of carbon neutrality
3. What will you do for it.
4. Can Hydrogen be a substitute of coal
5. Green hydrogen
6. Blue hydrogen
7. Grey Hydrogen

Member 2

1. Impact of Russia Ukraine on global energy transition.
2. Can India be the global superpower
3. You won dance competition.. what type of dance.
4. You also play guitar..what type of guitar..what do you play
5. What is more important- ‘India for world’ or ‘India for india’

Member 3

1. You told about theory of relativity.Explain in layman term.
2. Why does earth revolve around the sun as per general relativity.
3. What will happen if your daughter leaves earth in a space ship and comes back after a few years.
4. What areas do you want to work on.
5. What will do in agriculture
6. Usa is giving huge subsidies.. how can India compete.
7. IIT.. people go abroad. Get into bureaucracy. How Will India get engineers.

Member 4

1. Do you think India needs more iit
2. What is special about iit
3. Difference between iit and other colleges
4. Difference between btech and be
5. Difference between engineering, technology and science.
6. Won’t new iit dilute the image of old iit.

Chairman: your interview is over.

Source: Forum IAS

Date of Interview: 12th April Forenoon session
Board: TCA Anant
Home State: Telangana
Background: B.com honours
Hobbies: watching stand up comedy, Debates, Yoga, Self Interospection

Chairman

1. You are from Telangana.
2. Impact of bifurcation on both states.
3. Do u support the stand of making smaller states?
4. Other than administrative factors which have to be kept in mind while bifurcation.
5. Do u participate in Debates(hobby)
6. What is self Interospection. (hobby)

Member 1

1. How can we ensure growth of all regions in a state( in addition to bifurcation question)
2. America vs India.(Division of states based on geographical factors vs USA division of states)
3. Which model do you think is better?

Member 2

1. Lot of cultural identities in states..ex-Arunachal Pradesh tribes… How can we tackle this.
2. Self interospection in Accounting.
3. Women are bad in finances..Your take on it?

Member 3

1. How can we make India a five trillion economy?
2. Can we be completely self reliant without being dependent on other countries?
3. Difference between male and female minister (specially female finance minister).

Member 4

1. How does government tackle inflation?
2. How does Rbi tackle inflation?
3. Why does inflation take place?
4. Can inflation and growth go hand in hand?

Thank you.

Source: Telegram

Date of Interview: 5th April 2022
Board: TCA Anant

• A little detail of the day….I reached UPSC bhawan before the reporting time, obviously because “bilkul RICKS nahi lene ka re baba.”
• It was a hot day and I was sweating a lot,so i decided to sit in the car for almost an hour and half so that the suit will not be ruined before the interview.
• Entry at 1 pm,then all electronic gadgets were submitted and we headed towards the waiting hall where my documents were verified..
• Around an hour later after small formalities and paperwork,a list was circulated to our coordinator and we got to know it was TCA ANANT Sir’s board.
• Fast forward 4 hours…around 5.40pm,I was the last candidate in the waiting hall and then I was called by the peon to get ready for the interview…
• I rushed to the washroom to get my clothes in a proper manner,washed the face, set the hair..
• I was then asked to wear the gloves,mask and face shield that was provided earlier…
• After around 10 minutes of waiting, I was called in.
• I entered the room,there were 2lady members and 3 gents, I greeted the lady members first,then the chairman and then others.. they asked me to sit .
• Even though I had practiced unbuttoning my coat a lots of times,but I fumbled in the hall, due to the rubber gloves on,the chairman sir sensed this anxiety and asked me to relax and not to Panic.
• Sir asked me if I had any symptoms of COVID and after I said no,then he said I can remove the mask if I wanted.

Now the interview began

Chairman

1. So, your name is —, right.?
Me – explained the reason for my name being spelled with a B, instead of a V.

2. so, you have worked at my wish marketplace pvt Ltd for sometime,why did you leave?
Me — answered (due to lack of time to focus on studies).

3. You have mentioned in your daf that you play Kabaddi,so tell me what are reasons for sports in general not being very popular in India, except cricket,and how can this problem be overcome.?
Me — answered (lack of funding and promotional aspects etc,better opportunity at school, infrastructure creation etc)

4. You have a very interesting hobby of Culinary tourism, what exactly is it?

5. How did you get interested in this hobby, which places have you been and what culinary skills have you witnessed…
Me — answered both the questions decently and honestly, without any exaggeration.

Member 1

1.Mr. …., what’s your service preference?
Answered— IAS,IFS,IPS,IRS,IAAS.

2. Suppose you are heading the east Europe division at MEA,, what would be your response in handling the present Ukraine crisis..what would be your order of priority?
Answered what I had prepared (evacuation,then energy security,then humanitarian assistance etc)

3 . Good,,now tell us whether in the present geopolitical scenario, India should focus on it’s neighborhood,or should aim beyond.?
Me – Should focus beyond,as neighborhood is too small of an arena for rising aspirations of growing India.

4 . What are the challenges to India from its neighbouring countries?
Mentioned Chinese policy, Pakistani instability, srilankan crisis,rise of Bangladesh etc.

5 . How is Bangladesh’s rise a challenge to India?
It’s more of a guiding light rather than a challenge.

6 . What’s your view on Afghanistan situation and impact on India?
Answered -central asian policy and chabahar project etc.

7 . What’s your opinion on trade deals.. should India focus on bilateral agreements or go for multilateral agreements?
Answered— should be on case to case basis, depending on nature of trade and whether trade surplus or deficient.

Member 2

1. In one of earlier questions, you answered that you have tried cuisine from Uttarakhand,tell me something about it..
I could only answer about one peculiar dosh of bhang ki chutney, could not remember anything else at the moment (could have added a couple of more)

2 . Anything else,apart from that?
I can’t remember anything else from Uttarakhand sir.

3 . Do you eat non veg also,and have you tried the non veg cuisine of Delhi?
Yes sir.

4 . Which kebabs are your favourite?
Shammi kabas sir

5 . Since you have a Hobby of following culinary tourism,then tell me about the origin of Galouti kabab?
I nailed the answer (thank you culinary programs on TV for that)

6 . Good, now you are eligible to write culinary tourism as your hobby..
Thankyou sir.

Member 3

1.Have you spent your life in a rural setup or have you only lived in cities?
Answered.

2 . What is your opinion on civil society and NGOs?
Answered as it was already prepared during mains preparation (also mentioned about FCRA Amendment,members seemed pretty impressed).

3 . Should they be regulated or left alone?
A well balanced answer (light but tight regulation).

4 . Where did you work on that NGO..?
I had worked with adore India NGO,so told about it

5 . What should be the model of regulation?
Mains type decent answer.

6 . What was the kudankulam protest?
Answered about the foreign funding angle in the protests.

Member 4

Sorry I don’t the exact questions asked by member 5,but all I know is that I didn’t fumble in answering any questions, I kept a gentle smile and waited for every question to be finished completely before answering them…

CHAIRMAN SIR

Thank you Mr .., your interview is over..

So, overall verdict— a better than expected and pleasant experience, EXTREMELY cordial board…hoping to get good marks…

Source: Forum IAS

Date of Interview: 11/04/2022
Board:  TCA Anant
Home State: Kerala

Chairman: 

1. Your service preferences…3-4..
2. Why you want civil service…?
3. Why IPS is an all india service…?
4. Why only 3 all india services…?
5. What are the primary responsibilities of the police?
6. Why they need arms…?

Member 1

1. Water metro kerala
2. How kerala got good social indicators
3. How Romans managed number system without zero…?

Member 2

1. Srilanka problems..
2. Srilanka tourism sector
3. Kerala tourism
4. Srilanka kerala comparison
5. Agriculture issues in india…? Should agriculture be taxed in India…?

Member 3

1. Maternal mortality rate, infant mortality rate
2. What is Block chain technology..? Tell me about its applications….?
3. How you will use technology for improving government services
4. As an administrator how will u solve drop out of girls from schools..?

Member 4

1. Problems of industries in kerala
2. Remittance
3. Covid impact on economy
4. Gdp to tax ratio
5. Problems in tax collection
6. What will u do to increase tax collection in the country…?
7. What are the new initiatives of the income tax department..?

Chairman: anything you want to discuss…?

Interview is over…

Source: Forum IAS