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Name : Results Ke Baad
Board : Sanjay Verma Sir
Date : 25/03/2025 (FN)
Duration : Approx. 30 minutes
Second to go
Keywords from DAF : Judiciary, Blogging, Hindi, Hackathon

Chairman :
1. If you have to completely eliminate one of the organs of state (Exe./Legislature/Judiciary), which one will you do ? (Follow up questions on that)
2. What types of blogs do you write ?
3. How many people read it ?
4. What is friendship for you ?
5. Do you have any friend who is exactly opposite of you ? (Based on my answer he asked if I live in an echo chamber)
6. Why boys have more friends than girls ?

M1 (Lady)
1. What are 7 steps followed in enquiry against judges ? (Didn't know the answer)
2. Name some poets you read in Hindi (Based on 12th Class)
3. Read one Doha of Kabir Das or Rahim Das (I recited on by Kabir Das)
4. Name one modern poet
5. What is process of Aadhaar for children ?
6. What is Child's Aadhaar called ?
7. What is Artha Ganga ?
8. Religious Significance of rivers
9. Rate of Renewable Energy transition in India
10. What all other sources of Energy are we looking at?
11. Is India's 4th Pillar doing it's work properly ? (Chairman intervened with his opinion about Aaj Tak, India Today, Lallantop)

M2
1. President Trump's tariff policy vis a vis Canada-Mexico ( He was looking for some specific reason, I didn't know)
2. Recent book titled "Anger Management" by a Ex Diplomat. (I didn't know)
3. Why a diplomat would write such a book ?
4. Einstein said that the toughest thing to understand is Income Tax. What did he meant? What do you think of Income Tax ? (Went to the new IT Bill)
5. Recent criticism of 3 language formula. Is it being imposed ?
6. What is situation of 3 language formula in context of Northern states ?
7. What are the principles of natural justice ? (Follow up questions with hypothetical situations)

M3
1. What is ODOP of your district ?
2. What is next logical step in ODOP ?
3. As an administrator, what will you priorities, management or leadership ? (Choose just one)
4. What will be your approach for effective leadership ?
5. If you are made DM of your home district, what steps will you take ?
6. What is situation of education in your district ?
7. How will you remain informed about your district ? (He said SSP will be your only friend in district)
8. There was a recent exhibition in Lucknow, which product of your district was displayed there ? (This I thought was a bluff.)

M4
1. A scientist said that we will have to leave Earth in 100 years and find another planet. (I didn't know, then he told me and asked my opinion)
2. If Elon Musk chooses you to travel to space, what kind of preparations will you do ? (Not as an astronaut but as a passenger)
3. What is ethical hacking ?
4. Is hacking an international library database ethical ?
5. How will you proceed to hack the EVM ?

Mocks : Subhra Ranjan, NextIAS, Vajiram, Vajirao, Samkalp, StudyIQ, Vision
Helpful in learning to articulate answers otherwise main interview totally random

Thankyou to this evergrowing and helpful community !!

Date of interview: 25 March, 2025 (Forenoon session, first to go)
Key DAF details: B.Tech, Electrical, IIT, Gujarat, PSIR, Blogging on Indian Foreign Policy
Board: Suman Sharma Ma'am
Duration: ~30 minutes.

Questions asked:
Chairperson:
1. India has 500GW RE target, what are the issues?
(Mentioned grid stability, harmonics, storage, load shedding etc)
2. What can be done for storage?
(mentioned PSP, Battery storage, flywheel)
3. Issues in PSP? (long gestation)
4. Issues in battery storage, no lithium availability?
5. What else can be done? (decentralised storage systems)
6. GJ excelling in rooftop solar adoption, but why not the rest of India?
7. India poor rank in WHR. what can be done?
(told the ranking is flawed with Pak, Gaza above India. Talked about meditation, Yoga)
8. Will there be no financial angle? What about people in rural areas?

M1:
1. Why do you write on IFP?
2. Why Trump backflipped from Biden’s policy in Ru-Ukr war?
3. Russia Ukr War, and then Hamas attack on Israel to divert attention. What is the linkage?
(Sir was looking for RIC axis but I couldn't tell, I told them they are separate issues in volatile geopolitics)
4. Hinted on who is backing Hamas?
(Talked about octopus and its tentacles)
5. Hinted on Iran China relations
(teapot refineries, RIC is becoming single strategic space)
6. He wanted to show the coordination of RIC in diverting attention from Ru-Ukr war. Gave monologue.

M2
1. Constitution talks about scientific temper then why state funds for activities like dipping in high E 2. Coli water? Isn’t it a hindrance towards rationality?
3. How spirituality helps in developing rationality?
4. Why is India’s research output bad, compared to China?

M3:
1. What is Act east policy of India?
2. What is India doing under it?
3. Is quad a military alliance?
4. Purpose of quad then?

M4:
1. What can be done to improve school and higher education?
2. NEP 2020 provisions for that?
3. Did we have 3 lang formula before NEP?
4. Any benefit of regional language learning in higher education?
5. India’s higher education enrollment? Told ~47%(which is wrong), he asked if sure, I said I have to check it.

Chairman: Thank you, your interview is over.

Mocks: gave lots of them, found Samkalp, Vajirao and Reddy, JICE very useful
Special thanks to Utkarsh Shukla sir (Sriram) and Brijesh Patel sir (SPIPA)

Name- Gamma Male
Date of interview- 26th March, Afternoon
Board- Sanjay Verma
Fields- BE Civil, MA Sociology from JNU, Writing poems, Quotes and short philosophical notes , Bihar

Third to go around 2:55

Chairperson-
1. Asked me to narrate my philosophical notes and then some discussion on it
2. He said that do such hobbies emanate from being a heart broken person. But I said no sir as I have been lucky enough to avoid such breaks. Then he asked me if I have not entered the game. I replied that u have entered the game but I have played well.
3. Whom do you idolise in India? I said Virat Kohli and he seemed a bit pleased that i did not say MS Dhoni

M1- Female Member
1. What is My one construction
Rest of her questions not able to recall

M2
1. What are the changes in income tax in the budget and why it has been done? Some further conversation on this topic
2. How is inflation controlled
3. What are Global public goods
4. What is India’s stance in Israel- Palestine issue?
5. Is Palestine a State?

M3
1. Started by describing the greatness of Bihar and then asked as to why Bihar is still backward. A bit of further conversation on this topic and he remarked my this answer as very diplomatic
2. Should India allow the import of dairy products in India from USA?
Few more questions which I don’t remember.


M4
1. Please explain the design of UPSC buildings. I explained it as a load bearing form of structure to which he agreed .
2. What is Brahmanisation? When did it happen in India?
3. Which type of minerals are present in Ukraine?
4. What are strategic metals?
Few more questions which i dont remember.

Mocks- One to one mock with Anupam Jain Sir (Smart Work labs) really helped in framing my answers well and some questions even got repeated.
Rest, I went for around 10 mocks including Samkalp Ias, Next Ias, Vajiram, Bihar niwas mocks, Unacademy.

NAme: selection ke baad
Board's Chairman- Sanjay Verma Sir
DAF: Delhi, UP,
Anthropology ,Banking, Geopolitical analysis, maths , Chess

Chairperson
1. Are you still in Bank?
2. Do you regret leaving the bank?
3. Aspirants have managed both work as well as preparation. Why not you?
4. Is open source intelligence misnomer?
Some monologue on intelligence leak issue of America and opinion

M1 (Lady)
1. what is the difference between Mental maths and maths?
2. tell name of 5 countries in Indo Pacific, middle east and north Africa
3. How do you anthropologically relate them?
4. What is the concept of Smart City?
5. Has delhi achieve any component of Smart City?
6. What is Gyanpeet award and recent awardee? ( I said that maam I am not sure about this but if you allow I can make a guess, She declined and went ahead with another question. Though I was thinking right)

M2:
1. Is UN Failing to fulfill its mandate in two ongoing war?
2. If you were secretary general what would have been your approach?
3. will AI took over the world?
4. Where did the human originate? and timeline related to it.
5. 1960 budget as gamble of monsoon? and some long discussion on current dependence on monsoon.

M3:
1. What is the concept of singularity?
2. Is quantum computer can be feasible? What is the difficulty?
3. What is Rare Earth Elements? Difference between rare earth mineral and rare earth elements? Why is it called Rare Earth

M4:
1. IVC Script and controversy
2. Probable origin and recent research on it.

Overall Experience: Good and questions were mostly daf based.

MOCKS: vajiram, vision, forum, chahal

Mahadev ji karege ab nayia paar 🚩

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi:
Name- Sherlock Holmes
Date of interview - 24/03/25
1st to go ~40 mins
Board-Lt Gen Shukla sir
DAF keywords- Urban planning,civil engineering, Bengaluru, Karnataka,eco sustainable building ,Rubik's cube, Vipassana meditation

Chairman
1. Where are you from?
2. Do you the know debate about ship vs chips?( Sir explained it in depth)
3. Asked major reasons for this debate?
4. Why chinese are setting up trend in every field, be it defence, technology,trade( debate went on to china vs US)
5. Why Trumps wants to take over panama,Canada, Green land?
6. Do you think India neglected the maritime domain in its defence strategy and why?

M1- long discussion about Bengaluru and issues


1.List out problems in Bengaluru
2. about water scarcity and cause
3. About flooding
4. About traffic management
5. About Solid waste management
6. How to solve these problems as a civil engineer
7. As a administrator
8. Cauvery issue

M2 - Was smiling whole time

Do you watch cricket?( Not in my DAF)
I said , yes sir sometimes

1. Which one is better T20 or Test tell me three merits and demerits ( stopped me to merits only
2. Why ipl has done well compared to other series - a debate on some points about superstars
3. What are its implications
4. Rubik's cube and it's benefits

M3 - lady member

1. Who is Basavanna?
2. What are his teachings
3. Tell me unique things about Vipassana?
4. How did it help you?
5. Delimitation debate
6. Do you think it will be injustice to Southern states if implemented as per new census
7. One vote one value ,art 82 mandates!!
8. When was last delimitation done
9. What should we do now.?


M4-Was preparing questions on the DAF whole time

Unfortunately sir had prepared questions on someone else's DAF not mine!!!

So he had to leave DAF and ask something outside due to shortage of time ( only one topic asked)

1.Tell me about rooftop solar scheme
( I could not recollect data)
2. Why it is not successful - reasons
3. Why there is disparity among states (GJ,TN,RJ,KA. have done relatively better)
4. What are the solutions?
5. Is subsidy enough?

Sir was thinking another question but Chaiman sir intervened
Ok your interview is over you can go now

Overall cordial board



Mocks - Samkalp, Sri Ram,only ias ,vajiram,Vajiro and Reddy,KSG,Vision and others

One on one: Basu sir, Vivekananda sir,Mahesh M Bhagawat sir and SOMP

Discussion with friends helped a lot.
One on one helped to improve answering skills
While mocks set the tone for facing fear of interview

Greatful all for the support from friends,mentors and the community
Har Har Mahadev 🙏🙏

Name—
Date- 24 march
Chairman - bb swain
Chairman
1. You are from vidisha tell me why vidisha is famous
2. What is stupa?
3. Who built it?
4. Significance of it
5. Other places relics are kept(I said not able to recall)
M1
1. What is NEP
2. SPECIAL Provision of it
3. 3 language formula and importance of mother tongue in primary.
4. Teaching in primary level in mother tongue will leave students less proficient
5. I said importance of mother tongue education and how it will reduce drop out rates and foundational literacy.
6. What is vocational education.
7. Why govt promoting it(I mentioned about drop out and skill training)
8. Why after mechanical you did MA in sociology.
Member 2 (female)
1. Why engineers taking sociology as optional just because it is more scoring.
2. I mentioned that I can't say about others but for me other considerations as well mam.
3. Why communalism is rising in India
4. What you will do as a person and as a DM.
5. WHY RIGHT WING ideology rising across Europe.
6. Why india not able to attract investment
7. What will you do to attract investment.
MEMBER 3
1. what is the repercussions for MP industries after bifurcation.
2. What mp did then(I mentioned now energy surplus)
2. Energy surplus can be a poor state like bengal also so what is special in it .
3. What is about tourism and eco tourism
4. Tell me about ecotourism (I mentioned a case study of a village.)
5. Why indore so clean and don't tell me about adminstration work tell me about people
6. Why people own the success so much there
7. What special is done that people have such a high civics sense (I said sorry here)
Member 4(lady)
1. Tell me how Jainism related to climate change (now some grilling started)
2. I said minimalism like aparigraha follow and many more points.
3. Aparigraha is not followed at all in consumerist world it is lost principle (I politely disagree here )
4. How many shirts you own? Tell me how there is aparigraha and don't tell me about elders like dadi but you.
5. I said yes I do agree that in consumerist driven world difficult to follow.
6. Give me 2 qualities of you as positive and negative.
7.

Board : Suman Sharma Ma’am
Date : 27-03-2025 forenoon

Keywords: J&K, BTech computer science, Hcl, zentangle art, geography


Chairperson: While reading the Daf, place, BTech, corporate experience asked if I am doing anything else.
Told her about state pcs
What are we doing for trees in Kashmir ?(QR codes for chinar trees)
Why we are doing so? Importance of Chinar trees?
Semiconductor: what is government doing?
Missions for semiconductor?
GPUs?
Limit on GPU by USA? Why restrictions?
China deep seek? How they developed it despite restrictions?
Controversy with Sam Altman ?
Do we need DOGE in India ?

Member 1:
Zentangle art (hobby) ?
Border with Pakistan , what is the issue?
We call it IB, Pakistan call it by some other name, what is it?
How to initiate for inclusion of POK in India , steps?
Pakistan , Afghanistan rivalry ?
India Afghanistan relations ?

Member 2:

Monologue on Roshni Nadar ( corporate experience)
Roe vs wade?
What is it ?
India scenario ? Any law, Act?
Situation question on abortion why abortion not allowed, what should be way ahead?
Situation of women in J&k ? It is said society is very rigid ? Impact on women ?

Member 3:
India Afghanistan issue , follow up questions ?
Importance of Indian Ocean ?
Challenges of Indian Ocean ?
Alternate route to Europe and Central Asia apart from Suez Canal ?
Kashmir issue, the root cause, from where it started ?

Member 4:
AI, it’s scope in different domain? Long discussion on it
Emergency ?
Reasons for emergency ?
Was it political or something else ?
Who proclaims it?


Thankyou team for sharing the transcripts, it helped.

Name - @pablo_chocobar42 (Yeah, the same one)
Date and session of Interview - 25th Mar, Forenoon, 3rd to go
Board - BB Swain Sir
College - CSE, IIT Guwahati
Work Ex - GS, Ola, IPS (P)
Optional - Psychology
Hobbies - Chess, Speedcubing, Watching psychological crime thrillers

— Transcript begin —

Chairperson
1. * On being greeted with Jai Hind * Seems like you’re coming directly from the Academy? (jokingly)
2. You’ve listed watching crime thrillers as your hobby and your optional is Psychology, tell me the psyche behind why 60-70% of movies/shows in any language nowadays come under ‘thriller’ category.
3. They should be making more shows and movies in comedy genre.

M1 (Female)
1. Does watching crime thrillers, especially the ones containing gore and violent scenes, make one violent?
2. You’ve spent a sufficiently good amount of time in Assam, tell me 3 good things about Assam and Assamese.
3. One of my friends recently lost 4 lakhs by being under Digital arrest. Analyse the personality traits from a psychological perspective, of people who are prone to Digital arrest.
4. You’re an IPS officer. What will you do to declare an area under your jurisdiction completely safe for women?
5. Not just making it safe but how would you convince/declare the same to the public?
6. What would you do if you find your subordinate sleeping in his vehicle during patrolling hours at a different location?

M2 (Male)
1. Don’t you think the brand of IITs in recent years been diluted due to the opening of so many new IITs?
2. Then why do people opt for NITs like NIT Trichy and others instead of newer IITs and why is there so less placements in newer IITs?
3. Tell me two major changes you’d want to bring to the way policing happens in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
4. What is one short term and one long term peril of instant delivery of justice via encounters?
5. Have you chosen only IAS in your service preference list?
6. So, is IRS your Plan B? If selected, would you quit IPS and join IRS?

M3 (Female)
1. Why did you opt for Psychology as your optional even though you have a degree in Computer Science?
2. Not because it is a high-scoring Optional?
3. Why have people started using foul language and abusive tones in day to day communication with each other? Analyse it from a psychological perspective.
4. What would be your suggestions to control this Brain-rot that you mentioned?
5. Indians, in general follow all the rules and maintain cleanliness on streets when they visit any foreign land but do not do the same when present here, what’s the psychological reason?
6. You mean to say we are a gone case?
7. How to bring about such change then? What is this nudge theory that you just now mentioned?
8. What was your job at Ola?
9. Tell me 3 challenges that you faced while working at Ola and any exhilarating experience while solving the same.

M4 (Male)
1. Tell me a positive and a negative thing about AI in today’s world.
2. Some say that AI in coming days would take over the world, what’s your opinion about the same?
3. Who is the father of Indian Psychology?
4. Tell me any Indian institute famous for treating mental health issues.
5. Full form of NIMHANS?
6. Can your hobby of watching crime thrillers be of any help in your current service?
7. Design any AI system which can be used for policing, especially investigation and which does not exist in the world right now.
8. What is the difference between AI and DeepMind?
9. How do your seniors treat you in the service? Is there any kind of pressure?

Chairperson - Your interview is over, thank you.

Thanked them all and left.

— Transcript end —

Comments —

1. The table was big and oval shaped with Chairperson, M1, M2, me (:p), M3 and M4 sitting in a clockwise fashion.
2. The help came around 2-3 times during the 35-37 minutes of interview, sometimes with Bingo mad angles (that spicy crunchy smell though), sometimes with chai samose.
3. The board was EXTREMELY cordial. I enjoyed the experience to the core!

PS: Did not take any mocks for Mains or PT this year.

Board: Suman Sharma mam
Date; 26.03.2025
DAF; B.com,Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu

Chairman Mam
Give investment plan - assume 100% money I have
Why gold rate is increasing now( based on my first answer)
Why silver rate also increasing?
Today there is news about introduction of mandarin uttarakhand. What is significance? ( 2 more follow ups )

Member 1;
Did you see the Delhi budget highlights today?
Effectiveness of teaching in regional languages 
What is your opinion on higher studies in regional languages 
What are the major issues with Sri Lanka?

Member 2:
What is objective of the WTO?
What is MFN
Can we come out from WTO ? Because Trump not encourage it?

Member 3 ;
Tiruppur textile exports association chairman Dr.Saktivel- his contribution related to the environment ?
Did you visit Kanchi kailsanath Temple?  significance chalukya invasion?
Do you like thiruppavai or thirukkural? Must choose one ( poem writing is my hobby)

Member 4;
What is budget of foreign aid?
Which country get more share? Why does Bhutan get highest share?
Why we decrease the aid to afghanistan 
Is Afghanistan share border with India? Is in our direct control 
What is the strategic interest in Myanmar?

Chairman Mam; Thank you.

1. The table was big and circular shaped with Chairperson, M1, M2, me (:p), M3 and M4 sitting in a clockwise fashion.
2. The arrangement felt very weird as no mock had this one. It felt like ki I was taking their interview as it was like a conference room discussion
3. The board was EXTREMELY cordial. They asked questions mostly on Daf (around 80%) barring FRBM, Judicial order and POCSO. But surprisingly no one asked me any Pol science and IR questions as I had PG and optional in it. Nevertheless it was a satisfactory effort. It lasted around 25 mins

Mocks given: Around 8 at all the major places like Next Ias, Vision, Samkalp, Onlyias, Maharashtra Sadan. In all these only Maharashtra Sadan was very good and only that felt to be anywhere close to Upsc interview

O2O and prepration:
1. Extremely thankful to Mahesh Bhagwat Sir for detailed DAF discussion which covered all the questions.
2. O2O with Major Abhinandan sir was very helpful
3. Nikhil Gowda sir of Insights Ias helped in IR preparation
4. O2O with Vinay Sir of Insights Ias helped in Mythology questions
5. Guidance and Mock with Aditya sir of Karmayogi Ias helped me in science fiction, hobbies and graduation subject preparation
6. Nikhil Bhaviskar Sir of Adhikari group was my mentor throughout who helped me personally on my Daf and arranged peer mocks with like minded aspirants which helped a lot

Live long and prosper 🖖🖖🖖

Name-kungfu panda
-20 March , afternoon
-sheelvardhan sir board
- largely DAF based

chairman
1- which is your favourite cartoon
2- what is this fitness regimen
3- when jogging becomes running
4- what is your pulse rate, when you are exercising
5-impact on body from prolonged space stay( sunita williams arrived a day before)

member -1( lady)
1-what is dostev ( my public speaking group)
2- how many members are there
3-what is your fav  inspirational movie and why
4- any Bollywood?
5 - tribal development and national development since independence
6- suggest us a tribal policy for the tribal development

member -2
what are the problem at coastal area.
why cyclone are increasing
what will you do at coastal area to solve the issues

member -3
what govt is doing to tackle malnutrition
how you developed cartoon making as a hobby
draw us a cartoon***

member -4
chanakya theory?
chankya book?
Cartoon vs caricature difference bato?
CrossFit mae konsi exercise krte ho app?
drama vs skit, difference btao ?
which theatre you have visited in delhi?

end of the interview.

Board indeed was very cordial, all were very polite.

I gave many mocks almost at each coaching, didn't help much( interview is different,they don't interrupt in bw)but was fun .

one to one includes shubham sir( vidyapeeth)helped me a lot, vajiram raveendran sir, Shukla sir at Sriram, Anil swaroop sir's sessions also helped plus my friends : aniket b, deepak b, Ankit b, urmi and transcripts of fellow aspirants

Board- Shukla sir.
March-3, Afternoon session.
DAF: Economics, Coimbatore, Indian elections.

Chairman.
Are you working?
You have mentioned, you participated in Talent exam (Olympiad style exam mentioned in DAF), now tell me how talent is linked with emerging tech.?
Monologue on Deepseek.
Do you use it?
What is the difference that we find in its emergence?
What's the status of AI in India? Said, it is in its infancy.
Why is it so?
Again stated, India's forefront in softwares and IT Tech. Why didn't these IT powerhouses step up?

M1
What's your take on BRICS and its idea on bringing BRICS Currency?
How did BREXIT from EU affect UK?
What majorly causes inflation in India? Told both cost push and demand pull, influence of fiscal and monetary policy.

M2 (lady)
Continuing with Chairman sir's questions, Why India's r&d is insufficient?
Why private sector not making enough contribution?

M3
Where are you staying currently for your preparation?
Tell me three main issues in Chennai?
How should we tackle floods in Chennai?

M4
You are from Coimbatore. Tell me about ISHA foundation? What they do there?
Have you visited it?
Since You were part of Electoral literacy club (DAF), began telling the Electoral funding issues and electoral bonds verdict by SC.
What's your take on it? Told state funding an option.
What are the challenges to implement it? Told resource constraints.
Is resource constraints the only issue?
Told also how much to be given, whom to be given, formulae for it etc.
Now, tell me how much money was in circulation during demonetisation?
Do you know how much prevails right now?

Chairman interrupted and signalled time up.
Your interview is over. All the best.

Time-30 mins

25/3/25
Sanjay Verma sir
Forenoon first to go
Keywords: animals, hassan, karnataka,etc
Chairman
1.list five animals based on intelligence
2.which 3 question will you ask if u meet Greta thunberg
3.why some people eat some type of meat but others don't
M1 lady
1 name companies which give debit card, explain their process of working
2 how to bring reform in fci
3 tell 3 behavioural difference between lion and tiger
4 what are endocrine glands name them
M2
1 how to reduce dog menace in india cities
2 do you know about indian cow sold for 40 crores in Brazil
3 why hassan is famous for
M3
1 why belgaum is famous for
2 how can you promote participation of indian dogs in army
3 is kho kho in Asian game
M4
1 do we see Covid in animals
2 horse is friend of human still man eats it why
3 did dolphins came at Sunitha williams to welcome her back from international space station

It was conversation type,they were listening well...
Mocks helped me

Mocks: everywhere,thanks to ankit sir- smart work labs , vijaya mam -vision
All the best
Thank you everyone

My interview transcript

Name-kungfu panda
-20 March , afternoon
-sheelvardhan sir board
- largely DAF based

chairman
1- which is your favourite cartoon
2- what is this fitness regimen
3- when jogging becomes running
4- what is your pulse rate, when you are exercising
5-impact on body from prolonged space stay( sunita williams arrived a day before)

member -1( lady)
1-what is dostev ( my public speaking group)
2- how many members are there
3-what is your fav  inspirational movie and why
4- any Bollywood?
5 - tribal development and national development since independence
6- suggest us a tribal policy for the tribal development

member -2
what are the problem at coastal area.
why cyclone are increasing
what will you do at coastal area to solve the issues

member -3
what govt is doing to tackle malnutrition
how you developed cartoon making as a hobby
draw us a cartoon***

member -4
chanakya theory?
chankya book?
Cartoon vs caricature difference bato?
CrossFit mae konsi exercise krte ho app?
drama vs skit, difference btao ?
which theatre you have visited in delhi?

end of the interview.

Board indeed was very cordial, all were very polite.

I gave many mocks almost at each coaching, didn't help much( interview is different,they don't interrupt in bw)but was fun .

one to one includes shubham sir( vidyapeeth)helped me a lot, vajiram raveendran sir, Shukla sir at Sriram, Anil swaroop sir's sessions also helped plus my friends : aniket b, deepak b, Ankit b, urmi and transcripts of fellow aspirants

Date: 28/03/2025 FN 2nd to go

DAF details: ECE, Content developer, TN, watching hollywood movies (others irrelevant)

Suman Sharma mam:

1. You are a content developer..you will develop content in which subject?
2. Tell me about the recently passed telecom bill (but 2023 passed)..and important provisions? (I didn't know)
3. Regarding spectrum allocation?
3. Elon Musk's star link ...why initially opposed in India but later signed?
4. Recently in one PSU...CMD was appointed from private sector..who is it? (I didn't know)
5. Is it good...employing private /lateral entry in PSU?
6. Recently a year or more ago..there was a strike in Hollywood...what is it? (2024 happened) (I didn't know)

Member 1:

7. Trump tariff on auto parts...how much?
8. How India will be affected?
9. Apart from companies, are the any other impacts on people?
10. How?
11. What about AI?
12. Impacts of AI regarding job market?
13. What can be done?

Member 2:

14. BRICS - objective and need...
15. Do you think BRICS is a rival of G7?
16. If any problem comes in future...should India come out of BRICS?
17. Should India come out of BRICS if problem?
18. Our PM is going to inaugurate which bridge in India? 19. Also talks about Ramar Setu for so long...and there is an apprehension in SL regarding this bridge...how will it impact India-SL relations?
India Srilanka relations
20. What are the issues for Tamils of Sri Lanka?
21. Should India interfere?

Member 3:

22. Situational question..long monologue (probably 3 mins)

City and nearby village ...but no road connectivity.. because there is a religious site in between....and people from there not allowing to build bridge...also people from village due to pregnancy issues due to lack of road connectivity...you have full discretion and funds...what will be your solution?

He asked only question

Member 4:

23. Regarding SL relations...you told that India should not interfere in Sri Lanka but India did in Bangladesh...why?
24. Territorial integrity and sovereignty is must for internal security of India...address territorial integrity of India...Borders issue between neighbouring countries.
25. How many forces we have in borders?
26. What are they and where are they?
27. Other countries have one force for their borders ...Why different forces we have?

The board was liberal and cordial...wanted me to know about my views and opinions. No drilling but also no DAF based questions that we will prepare conventionally.

Name: Ra
Date 28th March
1st to go in afternoon
Key DAF details: Pol science, education Ancient History Sociology podcast, Cooking
Questions asked:
Board : Sanjay Verma
Chairman
1. Comment about my red tie
2. Who suggested me to wear it
3. How many ties I have
4. Podcast Impacted me ( He was aware of it)
5. Caste Food relationship
6. Which cader in NE
7. Some discussion about Sikkim
8. Why people maintain self hygiene but not social hygeine
9. Newspaper and 1st page discussion about Ad
M2
1. Operation by India to evacuate Indian from other countries
2. JAM trinity
3. Motion Sickness
4. Aadha enable Payment system
M3
1. Any law from Economic
2. State and nation difference
3. Nation without state
4. Westerly
5. State key features
6. Criminal and civil laws difference
7. Worth of Individual in economic terms
8. Balance sheet of company
M4
1. Prayagraj Kumbh 3 positive 3 negative
2. As DM your vision
3. Shanti Parva in Mahabharat
4. Sikkim and recent GLOFs
5. Old dynasty from China
6. Allahabad part of Purvanchal or Awadh
M5
1. Size of ISS astronaut sleeping space
2. Newspaper and their differences
3. Some technical terms
4. Arab wind but I heard Arab spring


Assessment: Most of my answer was "sorry sir I don't know"😭

Name: Saba
Date: 28.03.2025
5th to go
Board: Suman Sharma ma'am
DAF : Who cares
B.pharma, Tamilnadu

Chairman:

1. Diff between Generic drugs and branded drugs
2. What is ANDA?
3. How many indian pharma companies are applying for ANDA?
4. US exit from WHO , how does it impact India and Us ?
5. Should we legalise betting?

Member 1

6. US companies in indian pharma why? Risk?
7. AI in healthcare
8. Nanotechnology in healthcare
9. Robotic replace doctor?

M2

10. Indian Ocean importance
11. String of pearls
12.malacca dilemma
13. Why should India object to China's presence?
14. Diff between international aid and development projects
15. Why is India doing?

M3
16. Long monologue to think out of the box.

M4

17. Trace the development of India china relationship since post independence

18. One child policy

19. Status of one child policy

Your interview is over.

Overall board was cordial.
No grilling.

Thankyou

Name : satya
Date : 24-03-2025
Board : Lt gen Rajshukla sir .

DAF: sainik school , mechanical engineering, NCC, NDA-NA, Mountaineering, horse riding , j Krishnamurthy&Sadhguru, reading biographies.

Chairman rajshukla sir :
1) where are you from ?
2) Are you working currently?
3) when did you pass out ?
4) what have you been doing since ?

Sir don't seem to approve of the fact that one is only preparing for upsc without doing productive work ( rightly so 🙂) .


M1: male member ( only 1 question)

1) you have mountaineering in your DAF . How did you develop interest and what did you learn ?

M2 ) Lady member - all smile and very cordial .

1) you have lot of sports in your DAF, Mam read DAF.

2) what is the oldest sport ?
3) most popular sport in the world ?
4) why football has not been as famous as cricket in India .
5) India with 1.4 billion people didn't even win one gold in last olympics.how do you explain that ?

6) If given power , what changes would you like to bring ?
7)Have you heard of groak ? What is it ?
8) have you heard of GIGO?
9) so you pursued ARMY , SPORTS and now CIVIL-SERVICES . you seems to be a jumper .

M3) male member - listening intently all through the interview. And smile dancing at the corner of lips .

1) How important is women empowerment for India ?
2) If you are made a DM, how would you address patriarchy?
3) you are little abstract here( sociology theory ) . Could you give me more concrete answer?
( Schemes ) .

4) what is your take on free bus service and ladki bahin scheme ?
5) they say it is empowering, but you say fiscally not prudent ? ( Small discussion ) .

M4) very energetic and enthusiastic.

1) tell me 10 things you would teach young mountaineers on their first day ?
2)what couse did you do and where ?
3) You are from Andhra Pradesh . What is the economic profile of your state ?
4) You have not mentioned shipbuilding in vizag ? What share does it constitute? (No idea ) .
5) given such high dependency on agriculture - how is your state planning on growth ? ( Technology)
6) what are the current challenges and breakthrough in quantum computing.
7) where are we as a nation ? Did we make any progress?
9) so , we are still in discussion stage?
10) what would happen when quantum tech gets integrated with AI .

Gave over to chairman sir

1) will quantum computing challenge AI?
2) No - it will replace AI immediately.
3) how long will India take to catch up with China and USA ( 10-20 years )
4) No , if we start now , then it will take 10-20 years . we are yet to start.
5) young engineers like you should be bold and question government.
The future is yours . Ask where is our deepseek , quantum tech ?

6) tell me something about deepseek .
7)why did we not develop one ?
8) what's stopping private sector participation ? ( Me :Regulations)

Ha yes .

Chairman: your interview is over . You can leave .

Opinion: Interview started on a sticky wicket but seems to improve as it progressed (In debt of M2 Lady member) . One needs to hold their nerve in stressful situations and not make any judgements .

Thankyou . All the very best to everyone 🙂.

Mocks : vajiram, unacademy, Tathasthu helpful .

O2O- venkat mohan sir , Ravindran sir , Mahesh Bhagat sir interaction are of good help .

Name: IP Officer

19th March 2025, Forenoon
Board: Suman Sharma Ma’am
DAF Keywords: Rajasthan, IIT Kharagpur, R&D Specialist (4years Work Exp), Marathon Runner, Cricket, Bikes

Chairperson:

1. Recent changes in New Education Policy with regards to higher education and their implications (discussion for 2-3 mins)
2. Two electoral reforms you would like to see in Indian Election system, keep everything aside whatever you have been seeing in Newspapers and media
3. Transport based development model
4. Eastern dedicated fright corridor versus western dedicated fright corridor

M1 (Lady):

1. Role of diversity and inclusion in administration
2. Difference between technocrat and generalist administrator
3. Difference in approach of technical background DM and humanities background DM for handling Nagpur Communal incident
4. How would you have handled Nagpur communal incident as DM being a Technical person
5. Why Indian manufacturing sector is lacking where as china is thriving in perspective of R&D
6. Budget outlet for R&D
7. Why china is able to invest more in R&D and India still stuck at 0.6-0.7% of GDP

M2 (Male):

1. Social evils prevalent in Rajasthan society
2. What will be your priority as DM of particular District in Rajasthan and what measures will you take (2-3 mins of good discussion)
3. Fiscal Deficit and Twin Deficit and whether is there any interlinking between them
4. Precision Agriculture
5. Any Government initiative for precision Agriculture

M3 (Male):

1. Status of Renewable energy in Rajasthan and factors behind it
2. You as an industrialist what parameters will consider before making a product
3. You as an industrialist what factors will consider if you have to set up solar power plant
4. MGNREGA and what it is?
5. As a DM of particular district what will be your priority among Labour, Fund & Asset creation timeline while implementing MGNREGA
6. Are you aware about Green tribunal, jurisdiction of NGT
7. Why there are so many environmental problems even after having such a powerful body (NGT)

M4 (lady)

1. Balance of power and Indian condition
2. Power favor between Executive & legislature in current situation
3. Two similarities between you as Marathon runner and Sunita Williams
4. Is women cricket just copied men’s cricket

(Entirely based on opinions and discussion mode)