[UPSC Interview Transcript #2] TCA ANANT Board, ISRO Engineer, Writing Poem hobby

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Transcript of interview 2020
Interview Duration: 30 Mins
Background– Scientist  (ISRO)
Board: T C A ANANT SIR
Hobby: Writing Poem
Members: 2 male members and 2 lady members

Chairman

  1. What are your responsibilities in ISRO? Give a brief description of yourself.
  2. Why civil services?
  3. Which projects are you currently working on? You were the Event organiser for the Cultural and Technical fest at college. Which events you organised?

Member 1

  1. Why did Chandrayaan 2 could not land?
  2. What are the future missions of ISRO?
  3. What is the budget expenditure for ISRO?
  4. Why do we need to do huge expenditures on space missions?

Member 2

  1. You write poems. Which topics are your favourite? Recite some lines of your poem for us.
  2. What other creative works you do?
  3. What’s your assessment of work done by you?

Member 3

  1. If you’re a civil servant, what one step you would take to improve the economy?
  2. (I said to provide the right set of skills to make people industry-ready)
  3. What skills you’ll give? Will it be the same for rural and urban populations?
  4. What are some problems in corporate governance?
  5. Will teaching ethics to them is a sufficient measure? Give some details about Coronavirus. Is the allegation of it being a bio-weapon true?

Member 4

  1. What is the main problem in doubling farmer’s income? What are some schemes in this year’s budget?
  2. What are some commercial satellites of ISRO? How does ISRO prioritize its missions?
  3. What are some laws for corporate governance?
  4. What is the contingency fund of India? How is it utilised?
  5. Who approves the expenditure from CFI?

Chairman– Thank you. It was nice talking to you. You can leave now

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[UPSC Interview Transcript #3] TCA Anant Board, Engineer in Qualcomm, Delhi Home State, Play acoustic drum hobby

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Interview date: 17/02/2020
Session: Afternoon  (mine was 2nd inline)
Interview Duration: 29 minutes (I timed it :p)
Board: TCA Anant
Edu.: B.Tech from DTU
Background: Engineer in Qualcomm
Hobby: play acoustic drum
State: Delhi
Members: 2 of the 5 members were women

Chairman

  1. Started reading my DAF….u  have done B. Tech from DTU….thereafter u have worked as an engineer in Qualcomm.. till March 2018…then u left?

Member 1

  1. What is Qualcomm? What does it do?
  2. What is the internet of things?
  3. Why is it a future technology? Every technology is evolving, when would u say that it has arisen?
  4. What is 5g?
  5. What did you do in the 5g project?

Member 2

  1. So u are from Delhi..what would be the advantages if Delhi is given full statehood?
  2. Aadhaar case and privacy at supreme court verdict? Could u elaborate on that..what was the verdict?
  3. What is the diff between Sagarmala and Bharatmala?
  4. What other initiatives do you think will help India achieve $5tn economy?

Member 3

  1. So u’ve done electrical engineering. Tell me how is hydroelectricity produced?
  2. What about run-off the river projects?
  3. What is the megawatt rating of a hydro plant?
  4. What is the max amount of power that a hydropower plant generates? You know about the max capacity hydro plant in India or the world?
  5. What is mini-hydro? Do you know the diff between mini-hydro and large hydro in terms of MW?
  6. What is the FUNCTIONAL (said it 2 times) difference between mini-hydro and large hydro?
  7. Ok, let’s come to electronics…I have two questions..what is the difference between GSM and CDMA?
  8. Is the CDMA technology in use anywhere? Where is it maximum used?
  9. Has India used CDMA technology at any point?
  10. U have been to Qualcomm which is a very big company..why did you leave your job.? You must be getting very high pay…
  11. You know what is the AGR issue? What exactly is AGR? in one line..tell me what is the controversy? 1999 revenue sharing model..what was before it? So if a telecom company has no profit, it did not have to pay charges to govt? But presently all telecom companies are in losses, how to revive them?

Member 4

  1. U play acoustic drums? So can you tell me what is the difference of frequency/vibration to a listener when he listens to a string instrument and a percussion instrument?
  2. U are from Delhi and u have done electrical engineering as well, we are pushing for electric vehicles and we also have CNG vehicles. Can you tell me what is the difference between them in terms of pollution?
  3. You like philosophy also? Which philosopher do you like the most? Why?
  4. Have u heard about dashnami order which Adi Shankara had established? What is it?
  5. Do you know the story of how he went to the Himalayas?
  6. Who is your favourite in Western philosophy? Why?
  7. Have u heard of …… (some psychologist name)?
  8. Cybercrimes and security threats are increasing nowadays. We also have an IT Act. u must have read about the act… Do you think our IT Act has enough provisions to tackle these issues of the future?
  9. So you are saying that the laws of Macaulay were also sufficient enough?
  10. You chose philosophy as optional despite doing electrical engineering. Can you tell why so many engineers dread taking their own subjects?

Member 5

  1. U have written “team head for social- development projects”. could u tell me about it? What did you do? Were they implemented in Delhi?
  2. Have u heard about SHGs in rural India? What is their significance?
  3. Suppose u are a district head. What would be your priority areas for women of rural areas? Tell us what comes immediately to your mind…just 3 points…

Chairman: okay Thank you. You may go now.

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[UPSC Interview Transcript #12]: TCA Anant Sir, Hyderabad Home State, Sociology Optional, Following F1 Motorsport, Teaching children hobbies

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Interview date: 18 Feb 2020

Board: TCA ANANT Sir, Morning session

Background: B.Tech(Chemical engineering)

Home State: Hyderabad

Optional: Sociology

Hobbies: Following F1 Motorsport, Teaching children

Third-person to go Time: 11 AM

Chairman

  1. Why did you opt for sociology even after having an engineering background?
  2. What the name of your college? (Passes on to M1)

Member 1

  1. What is there for the farmers in the recent budget?
  2. Tell me about Kisan rail.
  3. What is net neutrality? Is there any authority to regulate it?
  4. What can we do to control the burgeoning population? Follow up questions
  5. What is the national biofuels policy?

(Passes on to M2)

Member 2

  1. what is vivaad se Vishwas?
  2. what is the difference between chemicals and petrochemicals?
  3. What has the government done to help the working class?
  4. Tell me about the codification of the labour laws.
  5. Tell me any labour law that has led to relief to the working class.

(Chairman interrupts and passes on to M3)

Member 3

  1. Have you read this book called(forgot the name)…it is about Hyderabad?
  2. Why do you like teaching the children?
  3. What is your opinion regarding private coaching and tuition?
  4. what can we do to improve the education system
  5. what will you do as a DM of a district to improve the education system?
  6. some other follow up questions

(Passes on to M4)

Member 4

  1. So you like F1 racing….why? 2- Can you tell me which Indian company currently has an F1 team (humbly told that it’s Formula E and not F1)
  2. What is the current scenario of F1 in India?
  3. Any prominent Indian racers?
  4. What the future of F1 in India?
  5. Ok tell me what is WTO Follow up questions
  6. What is piracy in oceans?
  7. Why is there conflict in Africa?
  8. What is a blood diamond?
  9. Can you tell me which element was discovered recently that is more precious than a diamond? Some casual words from

Chairman: your interview is over … thank you.

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[UPSC Interview Transcript #17] :TCA Anant Board, Delhi Home State, literature of Sanskrit Optional, Dog caring hobby

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Duration: 29 mins
Board: TCA Anant sir
Background: computer science engineering
Home State: Delhi
Optional: literature of Sanskrit
Hobby: Dog caring
Other activities: also in MSDE
Members: chairman 2 male and 2 female members

Chairman

How do u care about dogs? What different u do for street dogs, why does dogs bark unnecessarily?

Member 1

  1. Can you please explain the official language policy? Can we have Sanskrit as an official language? U have taken Sanskrit optional after computer science. Can you please name some of the scholars?
  2. Why students don’t want to study Sanskrit. What’s wrong with our education system.
  3. Can u please tell me all steps you would take to ensure that there be no malnutrition?

Member 2

  1. U are from Delhi and Delhi has been constantly facing the issue of very high air pollution. Stubble
  2. burning is one of the cause, do u think that the government has taken enough steps to deal with stubble burning or do u think that something more should be done?
  3. In other countries stubble is used for various purposes,can you name any such use.
  4. Do you think some legal framework should also be made?

Member 3

  1. please tell us about the UAV. What has been the role of doing in that? Do we have sufficient technology to deal with aerial attacks?
  2. Why there is jobless growth in India
  3. Why 80 percent of our engineers don’t find jobs
  4. What should we change in our education system?
  5. How do we relate skill and employment?

Member 4

  1. She asked 3 ques which I have never even heard of. Then she asked about conventional wars. Do we have more direct wars or are we moving towards other means of war?
  2. Chairman then asked me: what is ultra vires. Am not able to recollect. He said ok no issues. Your interview is over. Thank you. I thanked everyone
  3. Overall chairman was continuously smiling and very cool.

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[UPSC Interview Transcript #18] :TCA Anand Board, PSIR Optional, Reading books and GIS mapping hobbies

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Duration: 30 mins
Board: (TCA Anand)
Background: Civil Engineering & Mentioned helping out father in his shop.
Optional: PSIR
Hobbies: Reading books and GIS mapping

Chairman

  1. Your hobby is reading. Which book did you read recently? What is it about?
  2. Your other hobby is GIS mapping. What is it about? How did it become your hobby?

Member 1

  1. What are the principles of store management?
  2. BS4 vs BS6
  3. When does it come into force? what will happen to the BS 4 vehicles that are running on the roads now?
  4. What are the techniques used for earthquake-resilient buildings?
  5. there is a special type of Steel that used for earthquake-resistant buildings. do you know about it?
  6. How to measure tensile strength?
  7. What is Narvik?

Member 2

  1. What is Pradhanmantri Awas Yojana? Why is it important? (Also asked about specific provisions regarding the scheme)
  2. What are the problems with it? What are the latest techniques that we are looking to imbibe in it?
  3. That’s a specific definition of affordable housing. Do you know that?

Member 3

  1. You have read books on anthropology. How differently did Adivasis of India and aborigines of Australia fire when they came into contact with mainlanders?
  2. What is a time zone? What is India’s? How many time zones does the USA have? Do you need another one?

Member 4

  1. Have you been to a village? Have you attended any gram Sabha/Panchayat meetings? What is the difference between both? Why are they important?
  2. My assessment of the interview: The interview was good and cordial. I didn’t get any challenging questions at all. Some were fact-based of which some I didn’t know. But broadly, it was a good conversation, and at no point was I put under any kind of pressure.

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[UPSC Interview Transcript #30] :TCA Anant Board, Delhi Home State, Philosophy Optional, Playing acoustic drums Hobby

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Interview Date:17/02/2020, Afternoon session
Total time: 29minutes
Board: TCA Anant
Background: B. Tech, Electrical engineering
Employee: Worked in Qualcomm
Home State: Delhi
Optional: Philosophy
Hobby: Playing acoustic drums

Chairman

Chairman started reading my DAF….u have done Btech from Electrical engineering then I’ve worked in Qualcomm…

  1. What is Qualcomm? What does it do?
  2. What is the internet of things?
  3. Why is it a future technology? Every technology is evolving, when would u say that it has arisen?
  4. What is 5g?
  5. What did you do in the 5g project?

Member 2

  1. So u are from Delhi..what would be the advantages if Delhi is given full statehood?
  2. Aadhaar case and privacy at supreme court verdict? Could u elaborate on that..what was the verdict?
  3. What is the diff between sagarmala and bharatmala?
  4. What other initiatives do you think will help India achieve $5tn economy?

Member 3

  1. So you’ve done electrical engineering. Tell me how is hydroelectricity produced?
  2. What about run-off the river projects?
  3. What is the megawatt rating of a hydro plant?
  4. What is the max amount of power that a hydropower plant generates? You know about max the capacity hydropower plant in India or the world?
  5. What is mini-hydro? Do you know the diff between mini-hydro and large hydro in terms of MW?
  6. What is the FUNCTIONAL (said it 2 times) difference between mini-hydro and large hydro?
  7. Can electricity be stored??. (I said no, but only converted to some other form)…..then what do we do if we generate excess electricity, what do we do with it?
  8. Ok, let’s come to electronics…I have two questions..what is the difference between GSM and CDMA?
  9. Is the CDMA technology in use anywhere? Where is it maximum used?
  10. Has India used CDMA technology at any point?
  11. U have been in Qualcomm which is a very big company..why did you leave your job.? You must be getting a very high pay…
  12. You know what is the AGR issue? What exactly is AGR? in one line..tell me what is the controversy? 1999 revenue sharing model..what was before it? So if a telecom company has no profit, it did not have to pay charges to govt? But presently all telecom companies are in losses, how to revive them?

Member 4

  1. You play acoustic drums? So can you tell me what is the difference of frequency/vibration to a listener when he listens to a string instrument and a percussion instrument?
  2. You are from Delhi and u have done electrical engineering as well, we are pushing for electric vehicles and we also have CNG vehicles. Can you do a comparison between them?
  3. You like philosophy also? Which philosopher do you like the most? Why?
  4. Have u heard about dashnami order which Adi shankara had established? What is it?
  5. Do you know the story of how he went to the Himalayas?
  6. Who is your favourite in Western philosophy? Why?
  7. Have u heard of …… (some psychologist name)?
  8. Cyber crimes and security threats are increasing nowadays. We also have an IT Act..u must have read about the act… Do you think our IT Act has enough provisions to tackle these issues of the future?
  9. So you are saying that the laws of Macaulay were also sufficient enough?
  10. You chose philosophy as optional despite doing electrical engineering. Can you tell why so many engineers dread taking their own subjects?

Member 5

  1. You have been involved in “social- development projects”. could u tell me about it? What did you do? Were they implemented in Delhi? What were those projects? What were the target communities?
  2. Have u heard about SHGs in rural India? What is their significance?
  3. Suppose u are a district head. What would be your priority areas for women of rural areas? Tell us what comes immediately to your mind…just 3 points…

Chairman: okay Thank you. You may go now.

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[UPSC Interview Transcript #33] :TCA Anant Board, Uttar Pradesh Home State, Sociology Optional

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Interview Date: 18th Feb- Forenoon
Duration: 30 mins
Board: TCA  Anant
Background: Civil Engineering (BIT Mesra)
Optional: Sociology
Employee: Amazon
Home State: Uttar Pradesh

Chairman

  1. Reading from DAF, you graduated in 2015, what have you been doing since then?
  2. What was your role in Amazon?
  3. What is the public perception of Amazon and e-commerce in general?
  4. Isn’t giving deep discounts a good thing?
  5. What can be the benefits of e-commerce?

Member 1

  1. Why did you switch to sociology as your optional?
  2. Do you know Sanskritization theory and who gave it?
  3. Which castes have gone for it?
  4. What process did they use to achieve it?
  5. How have the Yadavs in UP done it?
  6. What is the main obstacle to gender empowerment and how should we address it?

Member 2

  1. Why is the status of women better in Marwari families?
  2. What is the objective of the Hindu succession act?
  3. Should we bring in a uniform civil code?
  4. By not bringing UCC aren’t we being treated differently and some sections as super citizens??
  5. Tell me a few progressive legislations in Muslim community?
  6. What looks east policy?

Member 3

(asked too many technical questions)

  1. What are the main minerals of Jharkhand? (College in Jharkhand)
  2. What percentage of Fe content is needed to economically extract it from iron ore?
  3. What is the difference between mechanized bricks and normal bricks?
  4. What is the area of the cement to steel in a RCC pillar?
  5. What are the technologies used in prefabricated concrete?
  6. Do you prefer centralization of governance or decentralization?

Member 4

  1. What is ISA? What is India’s role in it?
  2. What is FATF and its role?
  3. What steps has Pakistan recently taken to avoid blacklisting?
  4. Tell me about China’s debt diplomacy?
  5. Which countries are impacted by it?

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[UPSC Interview Transcript #36] :TCA Anant Board, Indian Trade Service (ITS)

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Duration: 30 mins
Board: TCA Anant.
Employee: Indian Trade Service (ITS)
Most of the questions revolved around trade.

Chairman

  1. You have done b tech. worked in companies as well. good. now in ITS.
  2. when did you join?
  3. which batch?
  4. how many months of training?
  5. where are you posted now?
  6. what is the posting?
  7. what work do you do?
  8. What exactly the job profile of ITS.

Member 1

  1. What is FTA?
  2. What has been the status of FTA of India with others?
  3. Advantages and disadvantages? is there fta with china?
  4. No then why so much trade deficit?
  5. with whom we have signed FTA tell me the status of FTA?
  6. how much is the trade deficit with Japan, South Korea?
  7. what is anti-dumping duty?
  8. Is there any law? how is it being implemented? who implements it?
  9. Tell me the whole process. have we used anti-dumping against any country? yes, china. okay, on which products?
  10. I said steel, is there any other product?
  11. what is safeguard duty?
  12. how antidumping is different from safeguard duty?
  13. Some computer technology question asked, unable to recall

Member 2

  1. Tell me details about Foreign Trade policy? I started explaining? countered with not chapter-wise but recent developments in FTP?

(few economy and trade-related questions but unable to recall and write here)

Member 3

  1. Can you tell me about the Indus Water treaty?
  2. What is Jaish e, Mohammad? How to tackle terrorism?
  3. what is the difference between terrorism and extremism?
  4. How many extremist factions in the Northeast? How to tackle them?
  5. Famous Rousseau’s quote- we have history but we have not learnt from history, something like that…can you comment about his statement in the present context. whether it is relevant?

Member 4

  1. Should we allow students to take part in politics in college and universities?
  2. how will you tackle the agitated students? if you DM of that district and mob is violent what steps
  3. will you take? What are the Gandhian principles that still hold ground in today’s world and you will implement them?

Chairman

Your Interview is over. You can go

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[UPSC Interview Transcript #106]: TCA Anant Sir Board, Rajasthan Home State, Geography Optional, Watching Movies, Cricket Hobbies

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Interview Date:  4 March 2020
Interview time 15 minutes…
Board: TCA  Anant Sir
Background: BA  &  MA  in PSIR,
Home State: Rajasthan
Optional: Geography
Hobbies: Watching Movies, Cricket

Chairman

1. What are u doing after graduation.
2. What is the development problem of your district and how to solve it as dm

Member 1

1. Why you choose geography optional, inspite of PSIR,U did ma in this subject
2. Hobbies movies- which type of movie do u like
3. what is role of social movie on society

Member 2

1. hobbies – playing cricket…bating or bowling , favourite cricketers
2. auto and telecom sector problem and solution
3. usa- taliban agreement and effect on india.

Member 3

1. Movies based on cricket
2. English literature graduation subject- favourite indian writer

Member 4

1.   CAA issue and northeast Bangladesh migration issue
Chairman -thank u your interview is over

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[UPSC Interview Transcript #112]: TCA Anant Board, Service IRAS, Mobile photography, Movie Hobbies

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Board: TCA Anant
Background: Btech ECE NIT Trichy
Post Grad.: MBA IIM CALCUTTA
Work: Product Manager Samsung India Electronics
Service: IRAS
Home State: West Bengal
Hobbies: Movie reviewing, Mobile photography, Weight training

Chairman

  1. Reads a synopsis of my DAF
  2. What is your service pref?
  3. Why IRS isn’t IRAS better ?
  4. Your hobby is Movie review
  5. Tell me a movie that you reviewed

Member 1

  1. You said Parasite has made the Korean govt invest in housing for the poor. Did any Indian movie have an impact like that?
  2. Is there an actor in India trying to do a socially relevant movie through comical approach ?
  3. What did you do in Samsung
  4. How did you develop product
  5. What the National Electronics Policy
  6. Why are start-ups in AI IoT struggling

Member 2

  1. You are paid heavily in private why now civils
  2. One of the subjects from your IIM is economics tell me what govt is doing to improve economy?
  3. Your hobby is weight training would you continue it after getting into service?
  4. Tell me about winners of Nobel prize in economics

Member 3

  1. You are interested in Mobile photography, what is bokeh
  2. Your second choice is IFS what is the belt road initiative

Member 4

  1. What is City of Joy
  2. Tell me novel prize winners from Calcutta
  3. Do You know Satyajit Ray
  4. Tell me his movies
  5. What is his contribution
  6. Do you know Charlie Chaplin
  7. Why Is he adored
  8. What was indigo rebellion
  9. what was a permanent settlement

Chairman
Thank you, Vivek. you can leave

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[UPSC Interview Transcript #116]: TCA Anant Board, Chhattisgarh Home State, Geography Optional

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Date of Interview: 20/02/2020
Board: TCA Anant
Background: Mechanical Engineering
Optional: Geography
Employee: Tata Motors
Home State: Chhattisgarh

Chairman

  1. Why you left Job at Tata Motors?
  2. You are from Koriya district in Chhattisgarh? How its name came about?

Member 1

  1. Was Korea a princely state once?
  2. I said No. He said it was a princely state.
  3. Then he asked about US killing general Sulemani.

Member 2

  1. Your father is in Coal India and You are from Mechanical Engineering.
  2. Tell me what coal is found in India?
  3. How much ash content in it?
  4. What is the Fuel supply agreement and its benefits?
  5. What is Metallurgical Coal?
  6. Can we convert normal coal to metallurgical coal?
  7. What is efficiency of Ultra supercritical power plant?
  8. Do you know place called Kirandul in Chhattisgarh?
  9. What are prudential norms (something like that) of RBI for banks to give loans?
  10. What is Reverse Mortgage?

Member 3

  1. What PSUs are in Chhattisgarh?
  2. Any CSR activities done by PSU?
  3. What are the 5 qualities of a good administrator?
  4. Don’t you think the qualities you told are also the same qualities needed for being a politician? (He was laughing).
  5. Explain the Statement “Administrators are made not born”
  6. Tell me how can we control population growth?
  7. Have you heard about UNCCD in Noida? I said NO.
  8. He asked what is desertification and how it happens?

Member 4

  1. Sir said about politics.
  2. Tell me what Chanakya Said about Politics?
  3. Can you compare Machiavelli and Chanakya?
  4. Said a statement of Plato and asked me to explain it.
  5. Asked about how Multitasking by people in Railways can improve its efficacy?
  6. Asked full form of CSIR.
  7. Asked how much of CSIR funds go in paying salaries to its employees.
  8. How has India performed in R&D?
  9. What is NPS and how the economics of it works?
  10. How important is Data becoming in our lives? Give examples.

Member 5

  1. What is Coronavirus and explain associated issues?
  2. You are a DM how will you chart out plans to revamp the health sector in your district.
Chairman
  1. You said Ayushman Bharat is an Insurance scheme. How it is an insurance scheme when a premium is paid by the Government?
    Thank you, Interview is over.
    It lasted 25-30 mins

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[UPSC Interview Transcript #119]: TCA Anant Board, PMRDF, IFS Service, Bird Watching, skill Development Hobbies

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Board: TCA  Anant
Service:  PMRDF,  IFS
Hobbies: Bird watching, skill development

Chairman

  1. Asked about education qualification and work-ex
  2. Where have u worked is it the Naxal area
  3. What is the work you have done?
  4. Why tribal land is grabbed
  5. If indebtness is cause, one has to repay, so what’s problem there
  6. What are various acts regarding the protection of land rights are they implemented well

Member 1

  1. Asked about Disha incident
  2. Is it correct to encounter
  3. What is way ahead, what is deterrence
  4. She asked about all Indian judicial services.
  5. Is it needed, will it bring transformation
  6. What is stopping it?
  7. What is procedure for appointment of judges at a higher level
  8. What is problem there

Member 2

  1. What is mission Kakatiya
  2. What is your work?
  3. What kind of changes you brought.
  4. What is tribal perception about Naxals are people with us or Naxals, what is ground level perception.

Member 3

  1. What is ERP?
  2. Asked about a software that I haven’t heard
  3. What is the bank rate?
  4. How are interest rates calculated
  5. What is hypothecation
  6. How do u differentiate between urban area, rural area, tribal area
  7. what is a tribal area?

Member 4

  1. India low in ease of doing, what can be done
  2. low in transparency index, what can be done
  3. What govt doing for financial inclusion.
  4. What is Pravasi Bharat di was it its success?
  5. He asked about some economic survey questions.
  6. One lady member also asked about the river water dispute.

Chairman said your interview is over. Humbly came out with smile on their face??

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[UPSC Interview Transcript #130]: TCA Anant Board, Kerala Home State, History Optional, Music Hobby

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Home State: Palakkad, Kerala
Background:– B.Tech EC from Cochin University, M.Tech in RF and Microwave
Engineering: IIT Kharagpur
Hobbies: Music, History, Learning Languages
Optional:– History
Date of Interview:– 06/03/2020
Board:- TCA Anant Sir

Chairman

  1. Entered, was greeted with a smile.
  2. Chair read the DAF aloud.
  3. Chair:- From Engineering to History how did that happen?

Member 1

  1. What is the deal about History, right winger and Left Wingers, what are they fighting
  2. Are you saying India didn’t exist?
  3. How about Ashoka and Harsha and others ?
  4. Why so much emphasis on Medieval Indian History?
  5. So dearth of sources is the reason?

Member 2

  1. So, you are from IIT Kharagpur, What was it before?
  2. Why is the place important?
  3. Who is the most important person w.r.t RF technology?
  4. It is J C Bose, where did he get this idea from? (Didn’t Know)
  5. Where did this happen (Didn’t know)
  6. Which is you favorite part of History ? (I said Medieval )
  7. Who is your favorite Historian? (I said Upinder Singh)
  8. Who is Upinder Singh ? I have not known her I am from DU as well? What is her contribution?
  9. I said about she being daughter of Manmohan Singh. He accepted it. I spoke about her Feminism in History about, vedic period and Gargi and her debates..
  10. What is special about Vedic Period in 600 BCE if I say it was dominated by a Symbol Sign and Logic. (Had no clue )
  11. Who is your favorite social reformer? (I said Basava)
  12. Who is satyarthi. What was his contribution?

Member 3

  1. You are into Music, what sort of Music do you like? (I said about Carnatic Music and Rabindra Sangeet)
  2. What is so special about Tagore? (Spoke about Sub Nationalism, Nationalism and
    internationalism)
  3. How many languages do you speak. I said about 7 languages and they smiled, I also speak a bit of German, so question took a different tone from there.
  4. What is the new technology which is implemented in the Tolls these days. (RFID)
  5. What is the name given to that program (Was about FASTTAG, didn’t recollect it then, though he gave a lot of clue)
  6. Courts are having a lot of case pendencies, are lawyers taking court for a toll. ( I said yes, but I also criticized government a bit by not taking decisions and passing buck to the courts)
  7. Chair :- Can you give an example (Spoke about many, like Kaveri issue, Homosexuality, Ayodhya issue all must have been a political solution and Judicial Solutions)

Member 4

  1. What is HAM Radio? Where is it used? What is the specialities? (Couldn’t answer much, but they insisted and got busted a bit)
  2. What about Nazi Germany , some of their dark period has made them what they are?
  3. Have you visited Concentration camps?
  4. What was the experiment he did on Twin babies (Didn’t know much)

Chairman said interview is over..

  1. If you want to know the answer I can type it up in detail as well, Coz most question flowed from one to another.
  2. They were very cordial over all, and I could smile through out the interview.

Source: Telegram

[UPSC Interview Transcript #136]: TCA Anant Board, Madhya Pradesh Home State, Management Optional

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Date of Interview:  06/03/2020 2nd to go
Board: Mr TCA Anant
Background: Computer Engineering, MBA
Optional: Management
Home State: MP
Employee: CRISIL

Chairman

  1. Read the daf out aloud
  2. So you belong to Mumbai?
  3. You were working in CRISIL. Why did you have to leave the job?
  4. What was your role?
  5. Which verticals
  6. What Risk Analysis did you people do?

Member 1

  1. You’ve done computer engineering. What is Turing test?
  2. What is State of economy? Why is there a slowdown?
  3. What is the Government doing in relation to this?

Member 2

  1. You have stayed in Kolkata for a long time. Have you visited some historic places there?
  2. There were rishis in ancient India that were related to mathematics (Long explanation). DO you have some idea about this? Can you name them and their contribution?
  3. What are your service preferences?
  4. What are the issues in administration according to you?
  5. CHAIRMAN – Why the name Red Tape? Where it comes from?
  6. How will you use computers to solve the problems in administration?
  7. How administration can reach people through computers? What is the recent trend?

Member 3

  1. You’re a singer. What kind of songs do you sing?
  2. Who are your favourite singers?
  3. Today morning it has been raining. Do you think climate change is upon us?
  4. What are the causes for it?
  5. You’re into weight training. Why do you think people in India not taking it up?
  6. Digital payments. Why is it not picking up in the country?
  7. CHAIRMAN – do you really think that people in rural India who now have a smartphone may not have a bank account? Is it still true?

Member 4

  1. You spoke of MSMEs – what specific provisions are there in this budget?
  2. What do you do in a rock band? Do you rap?
  3. In credit rating do they only do a check on the financial health of the company or also other parameters?
  4. Tell me something about India – US trade. How is it going?
  5. In defence were just buying from USA. How does it help us?
  6. Data localization. What are your views?

CHAIRMAN – what exactly data localization means?
You have studied in Gwalior. Why Gwalior is lacking in industrial development?
CHAIRMAN – Thank you

Source: Forum IAS

[UPSC INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT #6] Sathiyavathy Mam Board, Maharastra Home State, IFoS, Zoology & Forestry Optional

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Interview Date: 10 February 2020, Time :1 pm
Background: MSc. Biotechnology
Optional: Zoology and Forestry
Board: Sathiyavathy Mam
Home State: Maharashtra

Chairman

  1. what u did after your MSc please tell me in sequence.
  2. why aren’t you working full time anywhere and only part-time jobs?
  3. what made you turn to forest services?
  4. how is biotechnology useful in forest services?
  5. what was your research project? (Worked on the effect of Tinospora cordifolia plant on diabetes mellitus)
  6. Does Jamun seed also have any relation to diabetes?

Member 1

  1. Tell me something about mangroves in Mumbai? Are they increasing or decreasing? Any problems with mangroves?
  2. what projects are being taken up by India for climate change? By Maharashtra?
  3. anything by Maharashtra for forest conservation?
  4. schemes in Maharashtra for the health sector?
  5. medicinal plants name any five. How can tribals help in this area?

Member 2

  1. which bt crops are there in India?
  2. why don’t we have other bt crops apart from bt cotton?
  3. how as forest officer u will help in the development of botanic gardens?
  4. tell me about some biotechnology parks in India. What do they do?
  5. why India is chosen for clinical trials by foreign companies?
  6. why students don’t want to pursue a career in research and just join govt services?

Member 3 (he grilled me the most)

  1. difference between botanical gardens and herbal gardens
  2. which bodies are working for biodiversity at different levels? At which level do people contribute? What do they gain out of it?
  3. various adaptation and mitigation steps for climate change?
  4. contribution of biotechnology in food crops? How can they be useful in the future?
  5. what are clones? How can they be useful in forestry?
  6. can biotechnology be useful in tree improvement? Any recent examples from India?
  7. how will you identify which tree to use for the tree improvement program? How will you propagate these species faster?
  8. tell me about micropropagation. Can it be used in forest tree improvement?

Source: Forum IAS

[UPSC INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT #7] Sathiyavathy Mam, Rajasthan Home State, Chittorgarh

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Board: Sathiyavathy Mam
Background: Textile technology,  Chittorgarh, railways
Home State: Rajasthan
Employee: railways
No of Members: 3+1

Chairman

read the whole daf loudly for 2 mins

  1. Man Animal conflict
  2. Ecotourism
  3. How to boost livelihood opportunities for fringe communities?
  4. How to escape forest fragmentation problems
  5. what kind of jobs gets created by ecotourism
  6. it seems that ecotourism is indeed the cause of man-animal conflict? Isn’t it so?
  7. Why coming from railways to forests?

Member 1

  1. What is Chittorgarh famous for
  2. Padmavati issue? Do u think she was real?
  3. People are becoming extreme and becoming violent? why
  4. Forest products with GI. Tell some benefits that accrued to number teak n sandalwood after GI tag
  5. Development due to the cement industry can be there but its problems are also many. Quote some
  6. solve silicosis by forestry
  7. which species you will plant in ur area

Member 2

  1. What kind of forests as per champion classification
  2. name species of each
  3. sand dune stabilization. Technique
  4. Cold desert vs hot desert difference
  5. A few questions on traveling
  6. Monkey issue and animal culling

Member 3

  1. IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
  2. forests traveled
  3. Problems. Trees there.
  4. Have you seen anogiessus
  5. biodiversity of eastern Rajasthan
  6. animal train collisions
  7. Sariska problems

Source: Forum IAS

[UPSC Interview Transcript #11] : Smt. M. Sathiyavathy Ma’am Board, Jharkhand Home State, Agricultural Engineering & Forestry Optional

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Date: 11February-2020 (Afternoon)
Last to enter. Around 25 to 30 minutes.
Board: Smt. M. Sathiyavathy Ma’am
Background: B.Tech(NITK Surathkal, EEE)
Employee: IOCL
Home State: Jharkhand
Optional: Agricultural Engineering and Forestry

Chairperson

  1. Showed me my picture. Is this you? Started reading my DAF(Education, Hobbies, Achievements, etc.).
  2. What are you doing since graduation? When you resigned from IOCL?
  3. What are you doing since then?
  4. Why forest service? Did you qualify for CSE Interview?
  5. Environment vs Mining debate. Should mining be allowed in the forest?
  6. You are DFO, what will you do when Environment and Social Impact Assessment allow for mining? So, how ecological value and economic value are factored?
  7. Will you give clearance as a DFO?
  8. Dhanbad is famous for mining. Have you visited any mine? Is it open cast or underground? How open cast mining impact forest? How can we overcome the challenges?

Member 1

  1. What is your optional?
  2. Tell me about topics which you read in Agricultural Engineering?
  3. Are Solar pumps good? Can we replace all Electric pumps with solar pumps?
  4. What are the challenges of Solar pumps? What if the weather is poor and it is not able to produce electricity? So we have to use traditional measures as well? How to conserve water resources in the field?
  5. You can also add micro-irrigation technologies like drip and sprinkler for water conservation.

Member 2

  1. Tell me specific areas in the topics of agricultural engineering?
  2. What is the other name of food processing? Is it food technology?
  3. How much food is wasted in India? What are the challenges to food processing?
  4. What is a watershed? So it has a single water drain channel?
  5. How will you manage watersheds? Are trees capable of groundwater recharge?

Member 3

  1. What are the documents which a forest officer follows for the management of forest and wildlife? Is a working plan used for wildlife management?
  2. What are the factors to consider before making the working plan?
  3. How working circles is divided? Have you heard of Saranda forest?
  4. What is it famous for? Tell me qualities of Sal tree
  5. How is it regenerated? How is controlled burning helpful?
  6. Do you know about its flower and seed? Anything in addition to the Sarhul festival
  7. What is the most intriguing thing about Sal flower and seed? About its Phenology
  8. Have you seen Sal tree? Colour of Sal bole?
  9. The surface of bole? Is it smooth or not?

Chairperson: Thank you Your interview is over.

Source: Forum IAS

[UPSC Interview Transcript #52] Sathyavathy Board, Bihar Home State, Poetry & Story Writing Hobby

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Duration: 25 mins
Afternoon: 5th to go
Board: Sathyavathy
Background: Engineering
Home State: Bihar
Employee: IRS IT (Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax)
Hobbies: Poetry, Story Writing

Chairperson

  1. Read out the DAF for almost 5 minutes, with me correcting in between.
  2. Discussion on abolishing Taxation. With Cross questions.

Member 1

  1. Have u heard of Malinowski?
  2. Heard of Redcliffe brown?
  3. Why do we have ILP even today? Why not integrate them.
  4. Name a thinker of jurisprudence (that I don’t remember)

Member 2

  1. Do you remember anything about engineering?
  2. Discussion on the location of my village.
  3. Tell me about your priorities in Jehanabad?
  4. How will you ensure the attendance of doctors?
  5. Next preference?
  6. What about law and order?
  7. Don’t you think you should keep it first? What about hero worship habits in Bihar?

Member 3

  1. Difference between murder and homicide.
  2. Difference between dacoity and robbery.
  3. Dacoity still being prevalent
  4. Constitution and constitutionalism
  5. China has constitutionalism or not.

Member 4

  1. Tell me about dastangoi
  2. Do you go to mushairas?
  3. What is different in dastangoi?
  4. Origin of dastangoi
  5. 4R in water conservation
  6. Give example of Reuse and recycling
  7. Give it related to water.

Source: Forum IAS

[UPSC Interview Transcript #57]: Sathyavathy Board, Jharkhand Home State, Physics Optional, Jogging, Quora Hobbies

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Background: Mechanical Engineering (IIT ROORKEE)
Optional: Physics
Board: Sathyavathy
Home State: Jharkhand (Dhanbad)
Hobbies: Jogging, Quora
Other: Councillor with students affairs Council

Chairman

  1. What you did as a councillor?
  2. Tell me your 1 contribution as a councillor
  3. Why do you read quora?
  4. Why read physics from quora?
  5. What is fit India movement
  6. Why so many people don’t to any physical workout in India?
  7. What is the reasons for diabetes and subsequent questions?

Member 1

  1. (asked most of the question from UP… But I don’t have any connection with UP :P)
  2. Contribution of Roorkee in the field of hydrology?
  3. Major crops of UP
  4. Problems of sugarcane industry in UP
  5. Reasons for Bengal famine and year
  6. Asked if I have heard about Hapur and why it is famous for?
  7. What I read in physical education course of class 12th

Member 2

  1. Issue of railway line shift in my home town and about Jharia coal fire
  2. What is energy according to you as a mechanical engineer?
  3. Can energy be destroyed?
  4. Where is the energy from the tube light in this room going….isn’t it getting destroyed?
  5. Why did you switch from mechanical engineering to civil service and subsequent question on that?

Member 3

( mostly factual questions)

  1. You said IIT Roorkee constructed the Ganga canal in 1847….was it an IIT that time? ( I said sorry sir… I take my words)
  2. List the name of new IITs
  3. 5 major contribution of chemistry to humanity (my optional is physics :P)
  4. Asked about coronavirus
  5. List any 5 virus-related diseases

Member 4

  1. Number of girls in your department
  2. Why such a screwed ratio
  3. What you will do as an individual
  4. About short service commission in Indian Army issue and supreme Court recent verdict on it…Are you not disappointed with the delay? ( I mentioned it in my previous answer)

Chairman

Thank you. Your interview is over
(Overall board was very cordial though they Ok, your interview is over.

Source: Telegram

[UPSC Interview Transcript #62]: Sathiyavathy Board, Jharkhand Home State, Sociology Optional, Steet Photography Hobby

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Interview Date: 25th February
Interview Duration: 20 minutes
Board: M. Sathiyavathy
Background: B.E Civil
Optional: Sociology
Hobby: Steet Photography
Interest: Travelling, Mentoring
Born: Bihar
Home State: Jharkhand

Chairperson

1. What is street photography?
2. What did you do in your work?
3. Who were your clients?
4. What have you been doing since 2018?
5. Are you not interested in Consulting anymore?

Member 1

1. What is the problem with Indian Financial Sector?
2. Associate Durkheim’s Suicide with Farmer Suicide
3. Is Classeless Society a Utopian Idea?

Member 2

1. Why is Saharsa famous?
2. Are you aware about any new major plant coming up there?
3. When did you last go to your birth place?
4. How will the creation of plant benefit the region?

Member 3

1. You are interested in travelling, where all have you travelled?
2. You mentioned that street photography can communicate a story. How can story telling benefit administration?
3. Any more benefit?

Member 4

1. Your interest in mentoring. Can you tell me what is that?
2. How is it different from coaching?
3. Is Mentoring always one to one or can it be in large group too?
4. What is the difference between coaching and tutoring?
Overall Experience- DAF Based. Board was okay.

Source: Telegram

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