Name - Airawat
Board - Sheel Vardhan Sir
DAF - lawn tennis, google/goldman sachs tech scholarships, socio

Time - ~35 mints

Chairman
1. Why socio after science background?
2. ⁠How science has benefitted the society?
3. ⁠How to manage AI fallouts?
4. ⁠Dont u think internet has replaced personal relationship to virtual relationships, no real connection to people, virtual friends and all?
5. ⁠ if I make you the PM of India in 2047, which part of the land in the world will you want to control? ( reference from Trump, claiming Greenland, Panama.)

M1
1. Tell me about the above mentioned scholarships? How did it help u? Why did u get? Some questions on Google’s quantum experiments
2. ⁠Define urbanisation, challenges, how to solve them?
3. ⁠ air pollution, causes, what the government is doing, what more can be done

M2
1. Difference between deuce and advantage.
2. Real life experience where u felt yourself in above two conditions
3. ⁠ recent podcast controversy (Ranveer Allahbadia one)- what was it, Supreme Court judgement, how to regulate this?

M3
1. 2 step to curb air pollution as an individual
2. how would you implement the solutions? (About points mentioned above)
3. ⁠ what is government doing to improve the freight movement in India?
4. ⁠ what is Sagarmala? What is the status of Sagar Mala?

M4
1. Workplace dynamics between boss and subordinate in India
2. ⁠Situation based questions based on workplace dynamics between men and women - role reversal etc

Mocks - Civilsdaily , Chanakya Mandal, vajirao reddy, ONLY IAS, NextIas, Sleepy, a couple of other through quantel


Special thanks to- Saket Jha sir civilsdaily ( 1:1 discussions were very helpful), Mahesh Bhagwat sir, Manoj sir ( sociology related ) , Utkarsh sir , friends and family

Sheel vardhan sir board(Last to go in)
03/03/2025
Keywords - web series, law, PSIR, Kumbh, Pune, AFSPA, Chhava, Badminton.

Chairman sir
1. So have u seen Rocket Boys?
2. Who is it about
3. What was the business in which Vikram Sarabhai's family was involved in?
4. Tell me 3 laws in recent times that have impacted the society at a large scale
5. What 5 skills will you tell girls between the class 5th to 10 th to learn for their empowerment

M2

1. What are the things that come to mind when you think of Pune?
2. Is Pune a smart City?
3. What features does it have of smart City
4. What more steps can be taken?
5. Recent kumbh happened in Prayagraj, next one will be in Nashik, what can we learn from this Kumbh which we can implement in next one to make it better

M3(lady member)

1. What was the problem with Lakshya Sen's performance in his last olympics?
2. How can we improve?
3. How you as district administrator try to reduce the problems which you just mentioned
4. Have you seen Chhava movie?
5. What's your taken on that?
6. There was controversy with respect to that and what is your take on that?

M4

1. Have you read Army act?
2. Take a wild guess as to what rules will not apply to Army
3. Have you heard about AFSPA
4. who declares it?

M5

1. What 3 important international relations events happened in last few months
2. What is your take US deportation and tariffs
3. So whatever you said will you give advice to PM
4. Have you read Motor vehicle act?
5. What more can be done in this?

Cse interview transcript
Name - निमित्तमात्र
Forenoon session
2nd to go @Sheel vardhan sir’s panel
Daf- mantra meditation, diary writing, teaching mentoring, computer engineering, sanskrit in class 10th, rajasthan, psir

Took permission to enter , came closer to chair nd wished chairman first then lady and other members

Chairman sir-

You are interested in diary writing, meditation, badminton, teaching lets start with diary
1.So you write diary what kind of it - reflective , journal or just routine one?
2.Why do you write?
3.What impact does it have on personality?
4.If you have to persuade your younger brother who is naughty how would you convince him?( mentioned that i would say that start with writing naughty ideas …….)
5.So you write personal things in it as well?
Would you ready to make it public if you write private things in it?
6.as evryone is writing on social media in public .Should social media to be used then for private matters as it could be exploited as well?
7.What would you suggest then how to use social media ? What’s the way forward?
8.Ok now you are a PSIR guy tell me 3 friends and 3 adversaries of india beyond neighbourhood.
9.You mentioned Argentina( mentioned it as not adversary but contradictory interests wrt to coffee club vs g4 ),its president javier milei is espousing anacho capitalism what is it?
10.Which ideology it is near to ? Neo liberal or other?

Member1-

1.So you are a technical person interested in meditation, which kind of meditation mantra meditation is?
2.What mantra do you recite?
3.How does it benefit you .can it be beneficial for others?
4.As a public servant would you implement meditation in your office?
5.So you are interested in teaching as well tell me how did you get in it?
6.What is teaching and would you continue to teach while in office?
7.Should civil servants use online platform to teach shouldn’t they focus on performing their duties as public servant ?
8.How you integrate your technical background and teaching experience with public service to improve productivity?
9.Technology in education would it benefit education sector?
10.I feel it will replace teachers what are your views?

Member2-

1.Continue with teaching what role of language has in imparting education?
2.You have studied Sanskrit in school there is some controversy going on around it ? Do you know Stalin not that you studies in PSIR there is one more 😂 do you know him ?
Why he is opposed to Sanskrit?
3.does Sanskrit need protection?
4.What do you think why stalin is opposing Sanskrit?
5.What is the way forward in this regard?
6.Tell me use of AI in governance ?
7.are there any challenges associated with it? What is needed to tackle?
8.you enjoy writing diary do you know Anne frank ? Lesson can be drawn in present time?
9.So you have been to kota as well tell us some initiatives of kota ( asked clarification if it is regarding infra projects)
Further follow uo regarding kota oxygen city park initiative?

Member3

1.How after engineering humanities is useful for you?
2.How would you use your expertise of technology and Psir in administration?
3.what is your views on ONOE?
4.should be be implemented? Benefits of it?
5.what are challenges?how to proceed ahead with it?
6.what are the concerns of regional parties?
1 more question but not able to recall

Member4-

1.why did you choose PSIR after being an engineer?what do you like most in psir?

2.What humanities subjects have taught you how it is different from computer engineering?
3.What is desertification is it expanding?
Why is it expanding factors?
4.How severe it is in Rajasthan? Direction-of its expansion?
5.Where the issue of groundwater over exploitation is more intense ? Region?
6.You said overall Rajasthan is facing water scarcity how?
7.Can you suggest solutions what would you do as DM of your district in this aspect?

Chairman - it was nice talking to you your interview is over .
Thanked everyone

Cordial and encouraging board

Thanks to community and all helped me for pt preparation
Took 4 mocks and 1 O2O

Name - sabudana vada
Date- 28/02/25
Daf keywords- watching movies and web series on otts, psir, MP, history

Chairman sir
1. What have been doing since graduation..no post graduation no job
2. Why would any movie be released on ott or in theatre
3.duration between a movie release on ott and theatre
4.name some ott platforms
5. MOBI ott platform
6.which is your all time favorite movie
7. Where is bollywood

M2
8. Favorite character from lapata ladies
9. Character of policeman in this movie
10. Why changed from PCM to humanities in graduation..are you scared of these subjects
11. In accounts services..how will you tackle maths n all
12.Where is vidarbha
13. Why gwalior and indore were fighting (scindhias and holkars)
14. What all regions constituted madhya pradesh
15. Recite any poem of ramdhari singh dinkar(dinkar is my surname)

M3(ma'am)
16. Are you a feminist?
17.what is feminism according to you
18.females have to bear Children..then how will they come on equal footing
19.why it's Bombay high court and not Mumbai high court
20. Why Bombay is Mumbai now and madras is Chennai
21.should we change names

M4
22.what has happened in bangladesh
23. What changes after khalida govt ousted
24. Where is siliguri corridor
25. Countries surrounding this corridor
26. Issue between nepal and bhutan (pre independence)
27.disputes between India and nepal
28.territorial disputes between India and nepal

M5
26.Tell some rulers who fought valiantly but do not find place in history books
27. There can be many such..how will you give place to all
28.have you read any book on Indian politics (syllabus k Bahar 🥲)
29.name some current scholars who write on Indian politics

Forgot some questions..I feel I could do better🥲
Mocks - 10+
Sankalp, vajiram and ravi, vision are good (vese to most of the mocks are similar) still good for having language fluency and confidence

Name: Westside
Board: Raj Shukla Sir
Date: Recent
Key DAF: Rajasthan. NIT XX, Banking experience of 2 banks, Chess (no q), fictional novel(no q), Other two section was empty but no questions on them too.
Forenoon and first one to go.

Chairman
1. Where are you from?
2. ⁠From where you did your graduation?
3. ⁠What is quantum technology? (Not related to DAF)
4. ⁠Then he just went on and on and on and related the QT with defence, banking, encryption, stealth fighter plane and what not. I knew basics but at not that level. Tried to answer some and said sorry to some. Some discussion but largely one way. Then he passed on to another member.

M1
1. So you worked in XXX bank and then shifted to YYY bank and then he says 100 crores are siphoning off EVERYDAY through duping from gullible customers and why that is happening and what can be the consequences and what could be done. Discussion went on for some minutes largely on the same line. He was some what satisfied but somewhat not too. Finally said should be go back to vedas and asked me who said go back to vedas but even before i could answer he again started. Some discussion and then he passed on to another member.

M2
1. So you are working in XXX bank tell me what are the consequences and reason for rupee falling. I answered.
2. ⁠said but these phenomenon going on for many time and rupee falling for some time.
3. ⁠asked what RBI doing doing.
4. ⁠But this tine RBI not doing with as intensity as it used to.
5. What is the consequences of rupee falling. Gave him multiple reason but he was hoping for liquidity crunch in market which i knew but couldn’t recall and he finally said this himself. But he seemed dissatisfied that I couldn’t tell him this but i try to make it up by saying that recently RBI did OMO to counter liquidity issue. But.

M3( Ma’am)
1. So your place resemble one famous person tell me. I told but it was not something she was looking for. Then she said herself and I humbley corrected her saying it is misnomer.
2. ⁠Why there is a demand for reservation from Gurjar community.
3. ⁠whether reservation is even successful
4. ⁠Then she asked why banks are failing. Recently cooperative bank failed.
5. ⁠asked why BR Act amended in 2020. I told the reason but she said any other reason which i answered that it was going on for some time etc. Then she passed on to another member.

M4
1. Only 1 question regarding what is sovereign gold bond and what is their status. Which i dont know recent one. Then i said govt has decided that to not go ahead and RBI also not issuing new tranche. But then he said why it is happening but I knew but couldn’t answer at that time and then he moved on.

Finally chair said you may go. All the best.

Observation: Typical Shukla sir interview as i got to know letter. Poker face of all the members. Nothing from hobbies or other area but largely on banking. Shukla sir deep dived in QT which i had little knowledge but tried. Finally as everyone said board was cordial but i was finding it tough to answer as they were speaking more. There was gaps in their sentence so many times i just startted answering. So future aspirants should take care of these.
Finally it got over. Best of luck to everyone. Hope i could help. Let’s see.

Sheel Vardhan sir
Morning session
First week of March


Chair-M1

Welcome to this conversation.

1. Do you know this xyz author?
2. Mentions some concept of this author?
3. Again another concept
4. Then discussion about interstellar movie
5. What makes it so special?
6. Another question about it but can't remember
7. Karman line?
8. Impact of karman line?
9. What happens to objects beyond?

M2

1. Taxation - ULBs major sources?
2. Tax assessment?
3. Tax target?
4. 74th amendment?
5. Types of engines?
6. Amrut mission?
7. Urban governance reforms undertaken under Amrut 2.0(very specific demand, i didn't know)
8. Lakhina pattern? Demystify Administration
9. What do you understand by demystification?
10. Impact on citizens?

M3

1. About teaching hobby
2. Some people can't smile. Name those biological condition?
3. Impact of International events on Indians?
4. Give more specific impact on ordinary citizens. Inflation, exports, employment, msme, agri exports, energy prices etc.

M4

1. Aerodynamics of vehicles?
2. GST?
3. Fuel taxes ?
4. Inclusion of FUELS in GST?
5. Impact on state finances?
6. Discussion on ATF taxes in Maharashtra. Recent changes.
7. Is India High tax country?
8. Should we reduce taxes on fuels like Bhutan?

M5

1. Meditation types?
2. Which one you do?
3. Recent incident at Shirdi?
4. Some discussion on IR events?
5. Pick one country from the region to invest time and money? Only one plz

Thank you. Your interview is over. All the best.
Mocks- Actual experience was way different. Don't stress.
Thank you all for transcripts.

Name - sabudana vada
Date- 28/02/25
Daf keywords- watching movies and web series on otts, psir, MP, history

Chairman sir
1. What have been doing since graduation..no post graduation no job
2. Why would any movie be released on ott or in theatre
3.duration between a movie release on ott and theatre
4. name some ott platforms
5. MOBI ott platform
6.which is your all time favorite movie
7. Where is bollywood

M2
8. Favorite character from lapata ladies
9. Character of policeman in this movie
10. Why changed from PCM to humanities in graduation..are you scared of these subjects
11. In accounts services..how will you tackle maths n all
12.Where is vidarbha
13. Why gwalior and indore were fighting (scindhias and holkars)
14. What all regions constituted madhya pradesh
15. Recite any poem of ramdhari singh dinkar(dinkar is my surname)

M3(ma'am)
16. Are you a feminist?
17.what is feminism according to you
18.females have to bear Children..then how will they come on equal footing
19.why it's Bombay high court and not Mumbai high court
20. Why Bombay is Mumbai now and madras is Chennai
21.should we change names

M4
22.what has happened in bangladesh
23. What changes after khalida govt ousted
24. Where is siliguri corridor
25. Countries surrounding this corridor
26. Issue between nepal and bhutan (pre independence)
27.disputes between India and nepal
28.territorial disputes between India and nepal

M5
26.Tell some rulers who fought valiantly but do not find place in history books
27. There can be many such..how will you give place to all
28.have you read any book on Indian politics (syllabus k Bahar 🥲)
29. name some current scholars who, write on Indian politics

Forgot some questions..I feel I could do better🥲v
Mocks - 10+
Sankalp, vajiram and ravi, vision are good (vese to most of the mocks are similar) still good for having language fluency and confidence

My interview transcript
Name-Vladimir putin
Date 5 march 2025
Board- Lt. Gen Shukla sir
Time -40 mins , afternoon 2nd to go
Daf key words- Nothing asked from daf ,State(UP), hobbies,prizes ,achievements
Optional -History medium of interview -English
Only one question from current Affairs
Around 35 questions asked (some I forgot)
Chairman Shukla sir-
Kahan se aaye ho, College kahan h tumhara ,Keval UG PG bhi kr lete
1.Some in west are analysing past and predicting future and charging crores .Tell me few
2.Tell me few in India
3.why indian historians are not in such business
4.why don't you try such business you will earn crores?why this bureaucracy?
5.Romila thapar says something else vikram sampath is saying something else.A laymen like me , always remains confused what is truth in history
6.This is like open Ai and deepseek .He then asked  me to compare historiography with AI models
7.Then said good u tried but I m not convinced
8.Then I took name of yajnamdevam who is using cryptography to decipher indus script.he noted it down and said are u sure I will read about this.
M2 (Male) not audible properly speaking slow
1.Recited few lines of a  poem and asked me the author
2.Tell me  Russian interests in eastern Ukraine other than nato and black sea
3.Asked me about differences between facts narratives and Popular history and many follow ups (I forgot)

Lady member 2- grilling
1.Asked me in hindi what is Itihas in hindi
2.Then asked differences between itihas and history
3.Then asked about Macaulay and bureaucracy and many follow ups .she was forcing me to criticize bureaucracy
4.Colonial legacy in India right now
5.Asked differences between indian and western ancient traditions and some follow ups

M3 (male)More interested in asking questions and listening answers
1.Asked me to summarise discussion happened till now
2.Started asking grey areas in history
3.Continuosly pressing me to change my stand on History as a disciple of utility
3.Asked me differences between Science,social science and humanities and asked me where do you put history
4.situation based question on how you will allocate houses in your district
5.what do you mean by Indian bureaucracy as Steel frame?
Has it rusted?
6. Many follow up questions (I forgot) but Shukla sir stopped him in mid saying sir bahut time ho raha hai

M4 -male (cordial , continuously noding head)
1.science and social science which is bigger for you
2.Then asked me to compare technological advancements in different yuga cycles
3.technological advancements and evidences and excavations of Mahabharata period
4. Literature should be believed or not
5.many follow ups on this
Then Shukla sir started asking again few questions and said something about Wright brothers (All started laughing including me then he said to me with a laughing face I m not joking )
Finally sir asked me about Truths and fallacies  in history
At last said with a smiling face chaliye chaliye bahut time ho gya  hai

Overall observations - Shukla sir constantly looking at me and also smiling ocassionally
M4 most cordial ,Rest all in grilling mode
They were constantly pressing me to change my stand on few ocassions.
Mocks not much helpful as  interview went completely on different trajectory than mocks .mocks only Helpful for building confidence.
Mocks - PS Ravindran sir(Help ful) Utkarsh sir( spent around 1 and half hr ,very helpful)
Panel mock - next ias (good),Chankyamandal ( very good),sankalp ias,Drishti ias
and few others but they were not much helpful.

Name - Vaastav
Board: BB Swain sir
March 1st week afternoon session. 2nd last to go.
Keywords - PSIR, Trekking, movies, Delhi University.

Chairman:
* describe the genre of movies you've mentioned.(corrected me), gave his known example of old movie.

M1.
1.you're food inspector - what would you do to curb adulteration?
2.link with nayak movie?
3.What would you do to curb real estate corruption?

M2.
4.history and literature - why should we study? people say it's of no use
5.what social sciences teach that engineering doesn't?
6.should we go for institutes of eminence or concentrate on basic education? But resources are limited how would you manage that?

M3.
7.what are you doing since post-graduation? and sub-questions..
8.trekking - which one you last trekked? where exactly? height? base? kms distance of actual trek? duration?
9.who are rohingyas?
10.why only rohingyas persecuted and not much of other ethnic minorities in Myanmar?
11.what's happening in bangladesh? what's their problem with India?
12.official status of mohd. Yunus? why he chosen?
13.why don't we send lakhs of Bangladeshis alongwith sheikh Hasina back?

M4. Lady member
14.If you're DM, which kinds of political pressures would you probably face?
15.what's a wasteful state expenditure? give examples? long discussion.
16.subsidizing farmers for fertilizers and inputs v/s DBT income support - give pros and cons.

Chairman - looking at the clock said - ok your Interview is over. Thank you.

Mocks - Samkalp, Vajirao, Chahal and many mini- mocks with friends.

O2O with Mahesh Bhagwat sir, Srirangam Sriram sir, Taneja sir

Mocks and O2O help in covering wide range of questions on DAF, practice and confidence boosting. Actual Interview is very mature level discussion and not a confrontational dialogue or interrogation like in camera mocks. Rather than catching up every bits and pieces of information till last minute, focus on being in the moment and respond to the question on it's merit. We get enough time to speak our mind.

Name - RS45
Date- 06/03/2025
Chairman - Lt General Raj Shukla sir
Daf keywords- Agriculture, Cricket, Maharashtra, Chemistry, sociology rest not asked.
Interview duration - 35+ min

Chairman sir
★ long monologue on Quantum and defence capacity and its comparison with china?
★ What will you suggest to bring quantum in defence?
★ what is full form of DRDO?why DRDO is not working upto mark? After I given answer and showed positivity in answer then they appreciated optimistic view.
( As I was regular followers of Shukla sir X handle and I followed all tweets specially last 15 days and these questions were they tweeted in last 3-4 days. So expression of Shukla sir was like they must have understood that I was following them and I hope they must gave acknowledged my Smart approch. Bas ab marks ache dene chahiye😂)

After that Sir was going outside then coming, again going. Between interview they opened their laptop, was eating farasana and reading letters between interview)


M1(Very cooperative and smiling and appreciated alot)
★ What is PMFBY? Give three important features of it
★ what is issue in maharashtra related to PMFBY
★ As agri secretary how will you resolve issue of bogus claims of PMFBY.

Other questions not able to recall.


M2(ma'am)( listening very patiently and not interrupting)
★ What is difference between FPOs and Farmers cooperative. ( Long discussion on it. At last they appreciated my answer)
★ Why farmer's from Maharashtra not participated in ongoing farmers protest? ( Again long discussion here also)
★ MSPs feature and how it is given? What's future of it?
As agri secretary how will you resolve this issue?

M3( Very jolly&chill, cracking joke and appreciating answers at the same time interrupting too much)
★ What do you think about Gender equality?
★ You are DM of District which setps will you take to ensure gender equality?
★ Are you married? Any plan of marriage? You are going to married, then will you go to wife's place after marriage or will wife comes to you? ( On this question all were laughing although I was given answer but they said that I know 100% you are not going to wife's place. Then again all were laughing)
★ Between above questions discussion M2 Madam asked, Do you able to cook? Which food items? Then I gave answers madam appreciated that answer with positive smile.

Other questions not able to recall

M4
★ Why we often says there is Chemistry in relations among people and not physics?
★ Don't you think we should discard democratic model of governance and adopt autocratic like china to achieve faster development ?
★ What is Yorker and Googly?
★ why batsman often get out on yorker?

Forgot some questions.
Although not lots of questions were asked but discussion and long monologues were present in my interview

Experience - once in life time. Different from coching mocks. Beauty of Anxiety, excitement at the same time. I enjoyed conversation. Ab mark dekh ke pata chalega members or president ne bhi enjoy kiya tha kya nahi 😂

Mocks&Other discussion-
Maharashtra Sadan(very diverse panel{3M+3F officers);Sankalp(Close to UPSC actual interview); DAF discussion with Mahesh Bhagwat sir, IR lectures of Shailendra Deolankar sir;Sanjeev kabir (Career Quest); Satya sir for sociology; O2O with Ravindran sir&Bassi sir

All the best to all

Thank you transcript family for sharing transcript which helped me to guess questions and prepare according to it.

Name: AC 
Interview date: 18th February 2025
Board: Dr. Dinesh Dasa sir
Daf Keywords: NIT Bhopal, Geography optional, MP, UAE, Qatar, Middle East, Kuno National Park, cheetah, resources, Chinese aggression, movies, football, etc.


Chairperson: Have you prepared your introduction or do you want me to introduce you? I said I would introduce myself, sir.
Tell me the names of the countries of the Middle East starting from the Senai peninsula 
Why the Middle East has been burning since World War 2 ? (gave the reasons).

The chairperson said that don't you think the Middle East is having petrol and gas and thus the fire.

Mines and Minerals Act. 
Kuno National Park, reason for choosing. 
How many cheetahs were introduced? was it a success or failure?
Question related to resources of India?
Why Indian movies are not performing well at the Oscars? 
Slumdog showed India in a bad light? what is your opinion?

BIMARU states: who coined the name? Is MP still a BIMARU state? 


Questions asked by members:

continued with the resource topic and asked me to justify that India is rich in resources. 
Hydropower plant, do we need or not?
Pithampur vs Mandideep Industries.
Reasons for MP's recent increase in development. 

Gave a monologue on UAE and its development. What are the reasons why UAE became a financial hub?

Learnings from UAE that India can learn.

Question on mechanical engineering and geography for Biofuels: how mechanical engineering and geography can help in biofuel production.

The location asked for lithium deposits in India Chinese dam in Bramhaputra river: issues and what India should do.

Reasons for the death of Cheetahs in Kuno. 
How many lakes are there in Bhopal, the significance of lakes/wetlands?
There were many cross-questions and questions from other topics as well. However, I am not able to recall those questions now.

Approximately, 30 to 35 minutes was the duration of my interview. The Board was cordial and provided me ample time to think and respond. Most of the questions were from my DAF and current affairs questions were also inspired from my DAF.
Mock interviews Offline: Forum IAS, Vision IAS, OnlyIAS, UnacademyMock interviews online: UPSCprep, Shankar IAS, Sleepy classes, etc One to One: Dr. Khan sir (KSG), Shubham sir (VidyapeethIAS), Dr. Tanu Jain ma'am (Tathastu IAS), Unique IAS Bhopal, etc.

Raj Shukla sir board( last to go )
Date: 3 rd march
DAF keywords- red dot campaign, chemistry, cat companionship and care, Olympiad - superlative english, Fergusson college

Chairman
Long monologue on three language policy, sharing his experiences and opinions.Asked for my opinion
Questions and counterquestions for the same topic

M1
1.You come from a good college,you are a good student.Why did you do chemistry and not engineering or medical?
2. What better could have been done wrt kumbh?
3.Why it's called mahakumbh?
4.Even if we restricted no of train tickets, people would have travelled without tickets.how to handle such crowd?
5. What more arrangements needed at prayagraj?
6.sangam ghat is considered more auspicious,people prefer to go there only.whats the solution?
( Questions were based on my answers and were in a good flow, conversational)
7.women live more than men.why?


M2
1.if I am a poor and there is a person who is super poor. Who will you allot house?
2. No matter how much you convince people ,they prefer sangam ghat only.Its widely known fact. How to avoid mishap then?

M3(mam)
1.your CV is really good.What is red dot campaign?
2.good that you are already doing service in society.whats cat companionship and care?
3.what will you do as an administrator to tackle street dogs and cats issues?

M4
1.superlative english.whats that?
2.whats the writing style of Shashi tharoor.is it superlative?
3.what we are speaking, is it superlative?

Chairman
Thank you.your interview is over.

Board is very cordial and interested in knowing your personality and opinions.
They might dig deeper in the topic,just to check your capacity to think deeply,and conviction for own opinions.
It's more like a conversation than question answer round.

Name: Casanova
Board: Sheelvardhan sir
Date: 17 feb 2025
It was a warm sunny day
2nd to go in Afternoon
Daf keywords: Language preservation, test cricket, volleyball, PSIR, self help books, strength training, jammu and kashmir
Chairperson:
1. Strength training is for building strength, how can i build my endurance? Give me a plan?
2. What is a language?
3. What is a dialect?
4. What is a script? Some examples
5. Ancient Kashmiri script? How is it written now?
6. Taking clue from my answer, sir asked me , are there people who still read and write kashmiri in sharda script?
7. I am fascinated by river jhelum. I replied that i live alongside it. Then, Tell me the greek, Sanskrit and ancient kashmiri name of jhelum
Member 2:
1. The impact of political turmoil on the society of jk?
2. What needs to be done to improve things?
3. What actions will you take to ensure streamlining youth ?
Member 3:
   1.Impact on the psyche of youth?
2. Why you like watching test cricket in todays fast world?
3. Any memorable match that you can recall?
4. Is there human right violations by security forces there?
5. If someone comes to you and asks one security personnel has fired on a civilian but other person says the opposite. What will you do?
6. What will you do in a rural area ?

Member 4:
1. Tell me something about tungstun mining in india?
2. About data protection bill?
3. Rathole mining?
Member 5:
1. Which self help books you read?
2. What is so fascinating about these?
3. Taking clue from my answer. Are you able to control your subconscious mind?
Chairperson:
Names of some books and asked whether you read these or not?
Forgetting other questions
It was very nice talking to you . Your interview is over

Name: Casanova
Board: Sheelvardhan sir
Date: 17 feb 2025
It was a warm sunny day
2nd to go in Afternoon
Daf keywords: Language preservation, test cricket, volleyball, PSIR, self help books, strength training, jammu and kashmir
Chairperson:
1. Strength training is for building strength, how can i build my endurance? Give me a plan?
2. What is a language?
3. What is a dialect?
4. What is a script? Some examples
5. Ancient Kashmiri script? How is it written now?
6. Taking clue from my answer, sir asked me , are there people who still read and write kashmiri in sharda script?
7. I am fascinated by river jhelum. I replied that i live alongside it. Then, Tell me the greek, Sanskrit and ancient kashmiri name of jhelum
Member 2:
1. The impact of political turmoil on the society of jk?
2. What needs to be done to improve things?
3. What actions will you take to ensure streamlining youth ?
Member 3:
1.Impact on the psyche of youth?
2. Why you like watching test cricket in todays fast world?
3. Any memorable match that you can recall?
4. Is there human right violations by security forces there?
5. If someone comes to you and asks one security personnel has fired on a civilian but other person says the opposite. What will you do?
6. What will you do in a rural area ?

Member 4:
1. Tell me something about tungstun mining in india?
2. About data protection bill?
3. Rathole mining?
Member 5:
1. Which self help books you read?
2. What is so fascinating about these?
3. Taking clue from my answer. Are you able to control your subconscious mind?
Chairperson:
Names of some books and asked whether you read these or not?
Forgetting other questions
It was very nice talking to you . Your interview is over

Name - Dr DKS
Date -06/03/2025
Board- Sheelavardhan sir
Session - Afternoon(first to go)
DAF keywords-Karnataka, Maharashtra(Sangli),Medical officer, Anthropology,Nepal Earthquake,Beti bachao beti padao, Reading non fiction books.

Chairman sir
Read my name and place of birth and  asked me What my friends call me?
Chairman sir thought my place of birth as my home town.I clarified it.Then he smiled and started discussion with yes Dr
1)Imagine you have magical power and which three diseases you would like to eliminate from India. (I said TB HIV and non communicable disease as one group whole😄).But sir asked specific one non communicable disease. (I said then  Diabetes) .
2)Tell me the reasons.
3)Don't you think cancer and mental health illness would be considered.
4)Tell me which all books you have read apart from these five books? (He mentioned five books in  which only one I had heard but rest never heard or read in my life😄). I said Ikigai, Strategic Conundrum, Argumentativ Indian and other two.
5)What's ikigai?
6)Is that ikigai was reason for you to take up civil service?
7)Why did you take anthropology as an optional?

M-1
1)Sangli is known for?
2)Which was the last major earthquake india witnessed?
3)Asked one place and said do you know where it would be? I said no.
4)Take guess.I said it may be in Maharashtra.No it's in Gujarat near Gulf of Kutch.
5)Where is Gulf of kachch?
6)What all steps are being taken as reforms to Disaster Management in recent times in India?
7)What are NDRF and SDRF?
8)Swatch Bharat mission 1.0 and 2.0 difference?
9)One major difference for urban and rural with respect to Swachh Bharat.
10)Poshan 2.0?
11)What are the recent changes in Poshan 2.0?

M-2(lady member)
1) What is 3rd eye ?
2) What is 5 eyes?
3) Why it's in news?
4) President Trump has said only two genders as Male and Female.
What's your opinion as Doctor?
5) Why do we need to recognise them?
6) Consider that Beti bachao beti padao has not performed well.I would like to remove the scheme. What's your opinion?(I told some of the datas)
7)R u telling them due to success of BBBP?
8) Issues associated with BBBP ?

M-3
1) (Continued discussion from member one)
What all help India provided during Nepal earthquake?
2)What all you did in Nepal Earthquake?
3)Why despite such help Nepal has no good relationship with Indian even then?
4)Is there any relationship with people living in Himalayan region and gene mutation due to UV radiation? Does it cause cancer?
5)Tell me one example of such case from Himalayan region.
6)Which profession in medical science is less chosen by female doctors?
7)Why so?
8)They also prefer  cardiology as a less preferred option due to high risk and responsibilities associated with it.Why she wants to escape from such responsibility?

M-5
1)Do you think Generic drugs option is good?
2)What all steps have been taken by government to improve quality of generic drugs?
3) What's your opinion with regard to generic medicines?(Repeated the same above question 😄)
4)Why private doctors won't prescribe generic medicines?
5) At what policy level you would like to make doctors to prescribe generic medicines?
6)What's the Medical tourism value in India?
7)Why Karnataka is lagging behind Medical tourism compared to Other Southern states?
8)Tell me three steps to enhance medical tourism?

Chairman sir -Hospitality in hospital and hospital in hospitality. Which one is good?

Thank you. Your Interview is over

Experience:
1)Duration : 30minutes discussion
2) Board was cordial and Chairman sir was fully engaged and actively listening till end.

Mocks taken:
Shubham Aggarwal sir from Vidyapeeth IAS(Highly recommended).Sankalp IAS (closest to the interview). Shankar IAS, India for IAS, Grace IAS, Insights IAS, IASbaba, Next IAS, Chanakya Mandal, SRIRAM IAS and others.

Peer to peer daily discussion -
Bharat IPS sir and Manoj.

Thank you all. Wish you all the very best 🙏

Hon'ble Sheel Vardhan Sir board , last to go in afternoon session

DAF - Oxfam 100 km trail walk, IIT, IRS(C), Teaching, Trading

Chairman Sir ( Mostly Poker Face mode )

1. So you have done 100 km trail walk, when did you do it ? Can you do it again ?

2. Have you done triathlon / Marathon ? Timings ?

3. Why the low contribution of customs in revenue?

4. Latest trends in Tech ?

M1 ( Serious mode )

1. You mentioned teaching , what is NIPUN Bharat ?

2. You used to earn X, now only Y in Service. Why ?

3. What are the issues in Indian startups ? Major highlights of IITX startups ?

M2 ( Smiling lady )

1. So Dubai had a Golden Visa , and the US brought Gold Visa. What is new about it ?

2. DRI is quite in the news ? What does it do ?

3. How can you use AI in Customs ?

4. How does DRI collect data ?

M3 ( A bit of grill mode )

1. So what did company Z do ?  What was your role? ( Told Algo trading role )

2. How do frauds happen via Algo trading ( Explained Front running , Spoofing)

3. I want to make 20k in 1 week in the options market ? What should I trade ?
( Asked investment size and liquidity constraints as clarification then he said jokingly man lo 10-15 lakh hai )

4. Which option to buy ? ( Call or Put )

5. When should I buy it ? Can I buy it tomorrow?

6. How do frauds happen in GST ( Explained ITC frauds )

7. What are we doing to curb it ? Why are we not able to control it ?

8. What will you do extra to curb it ? ( Took permission for a small pause and then answered the requirements of the resident director and physical KYC for suspicious firms )

9. Why are we not doing it ?

M4 ( Chill guy )

1 "Boss is always right" what do you mean by this ?

2. How many types of bosses are there ?

3. What type of boss did you get in your jobs ?

4. Some bosses keep procrastinating ? How will you handle it ?

5. You have been waiting the whole day for interview. What is the best time to give interview?
( Mentioned Circadian rhythm )

Again Chairman Sir ( In smiling mode )
So what will you do now after the interview ?

Doing Vipassana meditation helped a lot in remaining calm and controlled.

Mocks - One on Ones with Shivendra Sir from Vision ( Quite useful to cover daf )
One on one with Sri Ram Sir ( Though Sir might be strict and brutally honest about expected marks but helps a lot in being concise and handling pressure)

Mahesh Bhagwat Sir ( Helps in covering daf themes comprehensivly )

Samkalp, Chanakya Mandal, V&Reddy, V&Ravi, Vision ( Few Qs related to GST got repeated )

Name : madshark
Date : 7th March 2025, Afternoon, 3rd to go

Board : Preeti Sudan Mam

Keywords : Bareilly, Textile Technology, logistics firm, Vipassana meditation, PSIR, Uttar Pradesh

Time : ~25 mins

Chairperson
1. So you are from Bareilly? Tell me something about Bareilly
2. What is Bans Bareilly?
3. So you are a Textile engineer?
4. You worked at? It is delivery firm right?
5. What does the firm do?
6. Why did you resign?
7. Novel composition of phase change material. Tell me about this project
8. What are phase change materials?
9. Were you able to achieve the goal set in project?
10. Haven’t seen something like temperature regulating textiles. Are there any commercial applications?
11. So your work had nothing to do with the textile engineering?

Member 1 (lady)
Let’s talk about laws
1. 17 yrs old commits heinous crime. How law will do its trial - as juvenile or adult?
2. A 17 yr old couple in relationship including physical relation. What are provisions in law?
3. Father of girl files rape case. What will happen
4. What changes to be brought in law to avoid false case against boy?
5. I know it’s a complex situation, just want to know your views
6. Consider the boy is above 18 while girl below 18 what will happen in that case?
7. Will FIR be filed or now even if case is fraud?

Member 2
1. What is Islamic state?
2. Is Pakistan an Islamic state?
3. Is Bangladesh an Islamic state?
4. After whatever happened in Bangladesh recently, is it an Islamic state now?
5. You are sitting here giving interview, which Article of constitution gives power to UPSC?
6. What is anonymity in civil services? (Completely forgot and could not recall even after interruption by chairperson)
7. Trump is threatening to acquire Greenland? Why
8. How can Greenland be acquired?
9. Greenland belongs to which country as of now?

Member 3
1. Do you have knowledge of financial market?
2. What are mutual funds?
3. When investor invests in shares he gets share, what does he gets when he invests through mutual funds?
4. (Member expressed the issues of govt schools and native language provision in NEP), How can govt schools be improved overall as no one really wants to send their children there?
5. Despite huge fees parents are sending children to private schools, again want to know how we can make govt schools popular?
(Member focused again on this question, I answered again. Not sure whether he was satisfied with response)

Member 4
1. What is the difference between welfare measures and freebies?
2. Is ideology loosing its focus in elections and freebies taking over as dominant factor to win elections?
3. PM KISAN is welfare measures as it give opportunity to buy input of crops. How is giving women money a freebie or welfare measures?
4. Meaning of your surname, who were they?
5. So they are not related to Mahavira?
6. What are the types of meditation?
7. I am not asking what can be considered as meditation but what are different types of meditations in India?
8. Do you know transcendental meditation?

Feedback : Unlike last time, found the board to be cordial. This time members were more responsive to answers. (Can’t say about how they found my answers 😅)

Name - RS
Board- Honorable sheel Vardhan Sir
Date - 03/03/2025
Optional- Psychology
DAF Pointers- Rajasthan , non conventional energy, consultancy, advisory council, book reading
Chairperson sir
Read my DAF
- Suppose you have a younger brother how will you encourage him to read books and start journaling.. he has only interest in sports , no interest in academics, how will you convince him
- What is moonlighting, should civil servant allowed to do the same
- Discussion on ethical issues
- Lots of suicides happening, what kind of mental disorder youngsters are facing in our country and in the west
Member 1
- we have achieved so much in renewable energy still what are the challenges
- what's our target for the renewable energy
- what is suryaghar bijli yojna
- green hydrogen mission target
- overall challange and their solution
Member 2 (lady member very cordial and smiling face , continuously listening)
- Discussion on the textile sector of the country
- Challenge and 2 solution
- On my response she asked about GI tag and it's effect on branding
Member 3
- What was my work
- Views on ragging in college
- Why less women in IIT and IIMs
- Discussion on the reasons
Member 4
- Continuing the discussion from women empowerment
- What's the status
- Based on my response for financial independence what govt is doing
- Which engineering branch world you like to choose if given s chance and why
Chairperson sir
- Continuing discussion on women empowerment... What skills children must learn since childhood and what kind of education should be provided
- He added that boys should do household work from starting that will create change .. I agreed and added few points there
Sir wished all the very best .

My assessment: all members were smiling and listening
And it was kind of discussion on my response. Chairperson sir was adding points to my response. Overall great experience

Daily discussion with one interview appearing friend for speaking practice and newspaper discussion was more helpful for me
No mocks given

Thanks to all the mentors , got various insights from their respective groups

Thank you to this community for sharing transcripts
All the very best to everyone!

Board: Dinesh Dasa Sir.
Date 04/03/2025
Time: Afternoon session.

DAF Areas: Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering Anthropology, Sustainable Lifestyle, Telangana, NCC.

Chairman:
1. Introduce yourself
2. What are the three things that the Telangana Movement was fought for?
3. What is Kaleshwaram Project?
4. What is the issue with Kaleshwaram Project?
5. Why did tunnel collapse happen in Uttrakhand where around 42 people got trapped. Causes? How to prevent such incidents?

Member 1
1. What is sustainable living as per your opinion?
2. Do you force your actions upon the public in order to ensure sustainability?
3. What is the difference between tribes of NorthEast and Rest of India?
4. There are a wide variety of tribes in NE, each with distinct cultures, languages, traditions - if you are made the DM how will you enforce common laws.?
5. Common Laws vs Customary Laws? How to deal with conflict of both.

Member 2

1. What is the motto of NCC?
2. What are the three categories of things taught in NCC?
3. What did NCC teach you in your real life?
4. Why is Yamuna water polluted? What steps would you take to deal with it?
5. What is organic farming?
6. What steps would you take to develop the riverfront for Yamuna, just as the Sabarmati riverfront? Give 7 steps.

Member 3.

1. You are from a technical background, why is India not able to develop Social Media applications while other countries can?
2. Despite the government putting in a lot of money what is it not able to create successful startups and the startup ecosystem?
3. Do you think indians lack Scientific Temper, Are we only good at creating highly qualified clerks? Why are we not able to compete with other nations technically?

Member 4

1. What is National Digital Health Mission?
2. If you are made DM what steps will you take to implement it in your district.

Hon'ble Sheel Vardhan Sir board , last to go in afternoon session

DAF - Oxfam 100 km trail walk, IIT, IRS(C), Teaching, Trading

Chairman Sir ( Mostly Poker Face mode )

1. So you have done 100 km trail walk, when did you do it ? Can you do it again ?

2. Have you done triathlon / Marathon ? Timings ?

3. Why the low contribution of customs in revenue?

4. Latest trends in Tech ?

M1 ( Serious mode )

1. You mentioned teaching , what is NIPUN Bharat ?

2. You used to earn X, now only Y in Service. Why ?

3. What are the issues in Indian startups ? Major highlights of IITX startups ?

M2 ( Smiling lady )

1. So Dubai had a Golden Visa , and the US brought Gold Visa. What is new about it ?

2. DRI is quite in the news ? What does it do ?

3. How can you use AI in Customs ?

4. How does DRI collect data ?

M3 ( A bit of grill mode )

1. So what did company Z do ?  What was your role? ( Told Algo trading role )

2. How do frauds happen via Algo trading ( Explained Front running , Spoofing)

3. I want to make 20k in 1 week in the options market ? What should I trade ?
( Asked investment size and liquidity constraints as clarification then he said jokingly man lo 10-15 lakh hai )

4. Which option to buy ? ( Call or Put )

5. When should I buy it ? Can I buy it tomorrow?

6. How do frauds happen in GST ( Explained ITC frauds )

7. What are we doing to curb it ? Why are we not able to control it ?

8. What will you do extra to curb it ? ( Took permission for a small pause and then answered the requirements of the resident director and physical KYC for suspicious firms )

9. Why are we not doing it ?

M4 ( Chill guy )

1 "Boss is always right" what do you mean by this ?

2. How many types of bosses are there ?

3. What type of boss did you get in your jobs ?

4. Some bosses keep procrastinating ? How will you handle it ?

5. You have been waiting the whole day for interview. What is the best time to give interview?
( Mentioned Circadian rhythm )

Again Chairman Sir ( In smiling mode )
So what will you do now after the interview ?

Doing Vipassana meditation helped a lot in remaining calm and controlled.

Mocks - One on Ones with Shivendra Sir from Vision ( Quite useful to cover daf )
One on one with Sri Ram Sir ( Though Sir might be strict and brutally honest about expected marks but helps a lot in being concise and handling pressure)

Mahesh Bhagwat Sir ( Helps in covering daf themes comprehensivly )

Samkalp, Chanakya Mandal, V&Reddy, V&Ravi, Vision ( Few Qs related to GST got repeated )