Interview date - 14 January
Daf keyword - Allahabad, law , psir , ramcharitmanas
Board - B b swain sir
Chairman - should we increase the age of the judges
Q1. Follow up citing the examples of USA but sir was not satisfied my answer
Member 1
Q1) . should we have time bound judicial process
2). What is kalpavaas and why people do it
3). Is kumbh leading to divide between hindu - muslims
4. Should we make ramcharitmanas compulsory in school
5 . What is the benefit of reading scriptures
6 . Difference between Procedure established by the law and due process of law
Member 2
1. what is air Mail
2. tell me famous things about Allahabad question
3.why zero road in allahabad is known as zero road
4.what is the difference between IPC and BNS is it reformative or punative how is it gender neutral .
5 .what is what are the other hostels of other than PC Banerjee which hostel had the most IAS officers question
6.what is samudrayaan  question
7 . Recite ramcharitmanas

Member 3
1.what is the benefit of reading  Ramcharitmanas
2.what is the significance of Ramcharitmanas in administration
3. which character you like the most in Mahabharat and why
4. what is vidur Niti
5. as NEP 2020 says about implementing Indian learning system  which major text will you include in  it question
6.will you include Bhagavad Gita question
7. what advice will you give to Vidhur

Member 4
1. how is India china  relations
2. What is the growth story of China trace it's gowth story
3. How China begin such a superpower
4. Compare the growth story of China and Japan that how China over took Japan
Chairperson again
Tell us  any area that you want to have questions on I said  sir I  I'll try to answer the question that the board ask me with  all of my abilities then sir said no tell us what you were thinking outside that you will be expecting questions on

Name : John Snow
Background: Civil Engineering
Optional : PSIR
Work Ex - YPF - Govt of Maharashtra
VRO - Govt of Maharashtra
Hobbies - Chess
Date : 27/03/2025
Board - Preeti Sudan Ma'am

Chairman
You were working as YPF with the Govt of Maharashtra. What work did you do there?
Where are these CoExcellences ?
In what sectors these Centres of Excellence were there ?
You also worked for a recruitment drive for workers in Israel. Did the Israel agency had MoU with India ?
From where did you get most of the workers
Why people from Marathwada are not ready to go abroad for work
You worked as VRO, what are the important problems facing at village level
Problems of villagers ?
Literacy of the village you work ?
Female literacy level ?
What you work for enhancing female literacy

M1
If you are not satisfied with any government policy, what will you do ?
Who is current RBI governor
You were secretary of the hostel. What was your work?

M2
Chess.. Your rating ?
Elo ratings for Grandmasters ?
What do you learn from Chess in life?
Civil engineering marvels of Maharashtra ?
What is special about Atal Setu ?
Trump tariff - Why he is levying so much tariffs
How other countries are reacting ?
Why India levies so much tariff ?
Trump praised India yesterday. Why did he praised India ?
Role of Chhava movies in the recent tensions

M3.
Can you name a civil engineering marvel in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar district ?
Tell me about Kailashnath Temple.
What techniques they must have used for working in the dark ?
Tell me about Suicides in Vidarbha. If you are made agricultural secretary what will you do to avoid the suicides
Are there any suicides in the village you work ?
How is water table level there ?

M4
You graduated in 2019. How do you landed with this village Revenue officers Job
How did your job help in the preparation of civil services ?
New Techniques in Civil engineering
Self healing concrete

Mocks
DAF Discussion with Shri. Mahesh Bhagwat Sir, ADGP, Telangana
One on One with Shubham Agarwal Sir of Vidyapeeth IAS- Worked like Magic
One on One with Abhishek Dudhal Sir, IAS, Odisha + Pallavi Sangale Ma'am (AIR 452, CSE 2022)
Mocks - SIAC Mumbai, Jnana Prabodhini Pune, Samkalp IAS, Next IAS, Chahal Academy

Name: harid
Daf key word: b.sc agriculture, job in revenue and disaster management, tamilnadu, hobby as watching wildlife documentaries

Chairman: raj Shukla sir
M1:
1.what is your job role
2. Is your district have disaster management plan
3. Cyber security in india
4. 5 weakness and strength of Indian economy
M2
1. Russia Ukraine war
2. Why russia initiate the war
3. Israel hamas war
4. Why hamas regarded as representative of Palestine inspite of different religious ideology
5. New criminal justice reforms
M3
1. 5 things to be learn from Covid 19
2. Tariff war by Trump asked about percentage of tarrif on china canada mexico
3. Why tarrif on these countries
4. Auto tarrif on india export and car brand exported from india
5. Top headlines of the day
6. Asked about Myanmar earthquake that was happening just 1hr before my interview
7. No of wildlife sanctuaries in tamilnadu
M4
1. Famous things in district
2. As an agricultural secretary what reforms do you propose
3. Follow ups and counter questions

Chairman with smiling
1. Houthi attack by us in red sea.. mechanism used by us (long monologue)
2. Relevance of WTO in protectionist world and free trade agreements (long monologue). Asked my opinion

Overall very good experience

Sanjay Verma sir
Date: 27th march, Afternoon
Name: Physics Valhalla
DAF keywords: Vipassana, Running, Kushinagar, Kanpur, Kota, Delhi, Physics optional, Electrical engineering graduate

Chairperson Sir
1 Some random physics book name(can’t recollect), have you read it?
2 Which physics books would you recommend to general public
3 Any documentary that you have watched about physics
4 Have you watched Oppenheimer? What do you think of his character?
5 Should he go to hell or heaven
6 Are you an atheist?
7 You have won bronze medal in interhostel where only 10 members participated and you consider it an achievement
8 How many newspapers did you read today? Which one? Did you see a big full page advertisement of ProMilk by mother dairy, what is it? why companies are selling this?
9 Simplest electrical machine and most complex electrical machine
10 Name few major Indian physicists post independence

Member 1(Ma’am)
1 Who started Vipassana
2 What is the core idea of it
3 How do you practise it
4 Can it be practiced while running
5 How Coachings should be regulated and who should regulate it
6 What minimum standards would you prescribe as a DM for a district in which coaching are being run
7 Are we a consumption based economy? Any data to support it.

Member 2:
1 “Give a man a fish you feed him for the day, teach him how to fish you feed him for life” what does it mean
2 “Assault” and “battery” in law difference
3 BraMos Missile name origin
4 NDPS act full form
5 What’s the difference between narcotics drugs and psychotropic substances

Member 3
1 Rate the places kushinagar, kanpur and delhi order in which they have prepared you for appearing in Civil services
2 What would you do in your district to prevent students like you to move from so many places
3 Defence indigenisation and Atma nirbhar Bharat has relatively slow pickup in country. Give some innovative ideas that should be implemented to improve defence indigenisation
4 How exactly will you promote research in this field
5 There are already 1.6 lakh Startups how would you use startup in defence indigenisations

Member 4
1 What do you understand by Elasticity of time
2 What do you understand by “freezing gravity” recently done by china in a lab. What is the use of it?
3 Uses of magnets by ISRO
4 Difference between minor and major ports and how are they classified


Board was very cordial and encouraged me to answer.

One to One DAF discussions with Mahesh Bhagwat sir(thorough coverage of DAF topics), Venkata Mohan Sir at LaExcellance.

Many mocks through Quantel (Thanks to Vikram Bhai for arranging all the mocks on short notice), NextIAS, VisionIAS, StudyIQ, Vajirao and Reddy. etc

Name- Beetle
Date of interview-28/3/2025
Board- Sanjay verma sir, Afternoon, second to go
DAF keywords- Anthropology, computer science and engineering, Telangana (others not asked)



Chairman
1. You know brand name on your name
2. Did you work anywhere
3. Tell some Indian manufacturing goods company names
4. Let me be sexist and tell me indian origin brands of beauty products used by females
5. Uniqueness of Hyderabad compared to other South Indian cities
6. What is gastronomy tag
7.What is the cuisine called
8. Link anthropology with the dialect of hyderabad
9. What is the specific name of that language
10. When did british leave Hyderabad

Mem 1(lady)
1. What is gene editing
2. What are its applications
3. Tell some ancient caves with paintings in india
4. Soon , we are going to celebrate centenary celebrations of India's independence, what are goals that India should achieve

Mem 2
1. Opium, how is it produced
2. Name of the plant and how is it extracted
3. Is it illegal to grow in india
4. It's legal uses
5. What are western disturbances, what effect do they have on local climate
6. How will you check using AI plagiarism in research thesis
7. As you mentioned lakme earlier, do you know the origin of the word

Mem 3
1. Name the famous temple near Hyderabad  where people visit before going to foreign countries. Sir asked local name of that God
2. Chairman interrupted and asked if there is any UPSC balaji god too
3. How do you see usa exiting WHO and other organisations? What can be its impact
4. Tell me how it impacts india.
5. What can india and other countries do
6. Recently Trump's announcement of 25% tariff rate, which country will be affected .
7. Any other country which is equally producing automobiles in the world
8. How does it affect india. Any Indian automobile company name

Mem 4
1. Tell me names of four cities in india- in North, south, east and west, which are important cities since ancient period and even today
2. If I give you time to rethink, what changes do you want to make
3. Maritime silk route, tell me the routes
4. Tell me the famous ancient ports and routes involved in trade, follow up questions on that

Ch said your interview is over.

Overall questions were random.

One to one:
Mahesh Bhagwat sir IPS, Babu Gunasekaran sir,  Vivekananda sir(Reflections IAS), Ravindran sir (Vajiram and ravi), Chanakya mandal(Dharmadhikari sir), venkata mohan sir(la excellence)

Panel Mocks:
Vajiram and ravi, vajirao and reddy, RC reddy , Samkalp, MACS society, Forum IAS, PW only IAS, Vision IAS

Name - Unnai pol oruvan
Board - Dr. Dinesh Dasa Sir
Date - 19th March
5th to go in the morning
DAF - History, Tamil Nadu, Foreign Policy, Weight loss and Strength training, Training underprivileged children (Rest not asked)

Chairman sir:
Greeted me smilingly
1. You're a history student from Tamil Nadu. So you must be aware of Tamil Nadu culture. Imagine you're the secretary of Culture of Tamil Nadu and you've come to Delhi for a cultural event and you have to deliver a speech on the outline of Culture of Tamil Nadu. So please stand up and deliver the speech
2. Recently, there was a movie based on which there was tense situation in Maharashtra nah (I said yes and I think it's Chava). Ya, if you're the Director of CBFC what would you have done?
3. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Stalin has announced $5 Million dollars for deciphering the Indus script. Despite Tamil Nadu being geographically distant from IVC, why is he doing so and what is the reason behind it? ( First I clarified that it's $1 million dollar, then asked the member near me how much is that in INR, he was doing some calculation, then I said it's around 8 crore. He said ya around that amount to the Chairman)
4. Tamil Nadu is mostly ruled by regional states and they said good bye to National parties, and still they are doing exceptionally well in most sectors. What do you think is the reason for that?
5. (Follow up) Is there any historical or cultural reasons for it?

Member 1 (Gentlemen with no expression):
1. There are lot of talks about language these recent days like language diktat is being imposed on them. What do you think about it?
2. You put weight loss as your hobby. Why is it so?
3. You follow foreign policy as your hobby. What is IMEC?
4. (Follow up) Through which country which it passes through? What are the significances of it?
5. In Africa, China is undertaking a lot of projects and India is also undertaking a lot of projects, what is the difference between both countries' projects?

Member 2 (Lady listening and nodding her head throughout)
1. UCC is one of the constitutional mandates. It's given in DPSP and some states implemented it. What is your view on it
2. (Follow up) If the government implements it, what will be the challenges or we should consider anything while doing so?
(Forgot 1 question)

Member - 3 (Gentlemen)
1.Tamil Nadu is performing well in many things than the rest of the country. Tell me one thing in which Tamil Nadu is performing better than other states. (GER of 47%)
2. (Follow up) Do you know what is the reason for it? There is one reason why it is so and that is being implemented all across the country. Do you know that? (MDM)
3. If you are posted as the Director of a loss making Public Sector Undertaking, would you disinvest the company or make reforms in it?
4. Which state would you like to serve?

Member - 4 (Lady with friendly look)
1. Since you're training underprivileged children, do you know what is Teach for India?
2. I want to pick up your answer for 3 language policy. Some of our neighbours are pushing English to reap the benefit of English (in the context of service sector). But we are promoting mother tongue for primary education for multiple reasons and rightly so, do you think that would result negatively since English advantage we have now could be lost?
3. (Follow up) Ya I understand that but will the proficiency be lost in doing so and won't it affect India's advantage?
4. History is mostly written by victor. The other side of the history is not mentioned fairly. So do you think, history should be rewritten?
5. (Multiple Follow ups) What evidence can we follow for rewriting?
6. Have you heard of time capsules? (I said I am not aware of it) Explained it and asked can we take that as evidence to rewrite history?
7. Then how can we believe the other evidence too?
(Dasa Sir asked mam to stop)
Finally Dasa Sir said thank you

Almost all questions are from DAF. Board was listening mostly except Member 4 alone kind of followed up on the same question. Thankful to my friends in the process.

Name: Tamil
Date:3.4.25
Daf: badminton, agriculture
Board: BB swain sir

Chairman:
What steps should be taken to take care of old age people

Member1:
1. Whether we can increase retiring age to 80
2. Whether smartphones are destroying critical thinking
And follow up questions .
Member2.
1. Elon musk two forthcoming projects.
2. What is Ghibli art
3. Difference between viral and trending
4. Where does viral word originate

Member 3.
1. Major agriculture problems
2. How to do ploughing in slope
3. What are the techniques for tackling drought

Member 4:
1. Major issue faced by small and marginal farmers
2. What is cooperative farming
3. How to promote cooperative farming
4. Why it is not done yet.
Chairperson sir said thankyou. Greeted every members and came out

Name: Unknown
Board: D. Dasa sir
Forenoon
DAF keywords: Odisha, State civil services, India Post, distance education, PSIR

Chairman: congratulations for clearing Odisha civil services and also clearing upsc mains.
1) what upsc can learn from opsc? Whose examination process is better, upsc or opsc?
2) you're from a political science background. How psir has helped you in clearing the OPSC examination?
3) Corruption in judiciary? What would have been the public reaction if the corruption case was found against a civil servant or politician? Is there any provision that provides immunity to the judges?
4) what was the impact of the 1st amendment of the Constitution? How 9th schedule has impacted the overall Indian polity?
5) suppose you cleared upsc and became cultural secretary of Odisha, how would you present your state in front of a cultural meeting of the country? Stand up and give a presentation on it for 2 mins.
6) what is the Rasgulla GI tag issue between Odisha and WB? Who got the GI tag?

M1
1) your state is disaster-prone. Suggest some measures on how can we create disaster-resilient infrastructures in India?
2) why India doesn't have any transshipment port? What are the steps being taken? What is the depth required for such ports?
3) how to manage plastic pollution? Mention some of the best practices.

M2
1) why there are drop years in your education? What did you do after the 12th?
2) long monologue- on how in India there is a stigma attached to drop years while in the US students take drops and decide their career carefully. Suppose you're an education secretary, what steps would you take for this?
3) How many post offices in India? How branch post offices are managed? Are they digitized? Is there any scope for corruption? What issues do they face? What is the work profile?
4) there are banks in rural areas. Why people would keep their money in post offices?
5) the salary you got was below minimum wage? How is this possible?
6) how long have you been preparing for the civil services?
He wanted to ask more questions, and the chairman asked him to stop.

M3
1. Suppose you're posted in a LWE affected area, what steps would you take for the development as well as security of the district.
2. What is NSA? When was it created? What tasks does he perform? What is the need of the NSA?
Some other questions I don't remember.

M4
1. In the US there is a provision for taking loans for education which he/she can repay after getting a job. In India, it's not prevalent. What are the positive and negative aspects of this?
2. But in your case you joined the postal to finance your education. What can be the solution for study loans? What if people default?
Chairman asked him to stop.
Chairman: your interview is over. Wish you all the best.

Mocks: only 2. 1st: from a local coaching institute, 2nd: PW onlyias

Board : Sanjay Verma sir
Date : 20/03/25
DAF keywords: Jharkhand, EEE, Sociology. Rest not relevant.
Chairman :
1. Why don't you play sports? Do you play any sports?
2. Only a couple of them?
3. What comes to your mind when I say the word "time"?
Anything else?
4. I mentioned a book. He asked me about the book I read and it's scenario in terms of children
Member 1 :
1. The main discussion revolved around tribal development and failure of policies. Around 2-3 qns on this.
2. Why is the environment important for the tribals. Development will always face issues in such cases. Asked my Opinion on the same
Member 2:
1. Qns on Jharkhand handicrafts/arts.
2. Qns on PPF and Kisan Vikas patra scheme
3. Opinion based qn on the same
1-2 qns i can't remember
Member 3:
1. Questions on Dhanbad as a Mining town
2. Question about coal mining research
3. Question about Jharkhand's failure in development.
Member 4 :
1.Transmission/distribution lines
2. Lossless transmission lines
3.Specific Distribution lines issues?
4. Opinion based question on Per capita Gdp
I mentioned something about happiness indicators.
5. Qns on World Happiness Index.

Chairman: Your interview is over. You may leave.

Mocks : In total 6-7 mocks. Vajirao and Samkalp mock was helpful in my case.
Special thanks to Mahesh Bhagwat sir for helping in DAF preparation and Avinash Dharmadhikari sir for One on One session.

Name : Caeser's friend.
Board : Dr Dinesh Dasa Sir.
Forenoon session
Last one to go.
Agriculture, Sports, Bengaluru, IDAS

Chairman :
1. Should all account services must be merged ?
2. Job profile ?
3. Why agricultural graduates are not taking R &D further and settling for lower clerk jobs ?
4. Why agricultural productivity is less in india compared to China ?
5. As agricultural secretary, how will you improve farming sector.
6. Opinion on Md Yunus statement during his recent visit to china ?

Member 1 :
1. Opinion on giving govt jobs on compassionate grounds ?
2. Speciality of Defence account department wrt other accounting services.
3. Which article in constitution under which UPSC is recruiting civil servants ?
4. Rest , he was giving his opinion on above questions.

Member 2 :
1. How do you liking your job ?
2. What lessons you have learnt from current posting ?
3. How to rationalize defence budget , and means to improve capital budget.
4. Agniveer scheme , opinion.

Member 3 : Retired army officer it seems , slight grilling.
1. Agniveer problems, reality , camaraderie issue etc etc
2. Why defence budget not spent properly, is your department the problem.
I humbly mentioned we are there to expediate the process and not to create barriers.
And discussion went on till chairman sir asked last member to take over.

Member 4 :
1. You play sports, does civil servants should play more ?
2. If u are DM and SDM beats you in badminton, what will be your feelings ?
No hard feelings !
3. Agriculture exports of india. Challenges , and way forward.
4. Bengaluru traffic, as urban development officer , what will you do.

Chairman asked me if I want to tell something, i said I am grateful and thanked all of them and that's it.

Overall experience : Good 😊

Mocks : All online
India4IAS , Unacademy ( Good ), Vajiram and reddy ( out of 40 minutes , 20 minutes went like... Sir , can you hear me , I can hear you now )
Daily discussion with fellow aspirants/friends did help a lot.
And most importantly , sincere thanks to this transcript community.

All the best everyone 😊

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Name: XYZ
Date- 03.04.2025(LAST ONE TO GO)
DAF- Anthropology, IRS(C&IT), Tamilnadu, Aeronautical engineering, NCC.
Chairman:  DINESH DASA SIR


Chairman:

Congratulations for your selection last year. Sit comfortably.
1.so you are from the IRS(C&IT). I heard your academy is one of the best campuses in our country.(he first thought i am from IRS(IT).Later i ask sorry and clarified)What about the new campus? How many acres?
2. Tell about the economy of Tamilnadu.
3.comparing three decades before, indirect tax contribution was more. But now it's completely reversed. What's the main reason behind this?
(He hinted to me about LPG reforms)
4.What is the significance of PESA ACT for tribals?
5.what's your opinion on executive and judicial interference on cultural and religious issues?
For eg:sabarimala verdict.
6.Do you know where our PM is now? For what purpose he went?


Member 1:
6.Your graduation is aeronautical engineering. Even after 4 years you studied, your cgpa is more than 9,why don't you show interest in joining aviation sector?
7.Have you visited ISRO? I thought you have visited during your college days.
8.Why is there a disparity between northern and southern states in terms of development and economic strength?
9.Despite the earth quake in Thailand, BIMSTEC summit is going to happen. They are organizing. How?



Member 2:
10. Are you following the controversy of lucifer 2(empuraan movie)?
11.Do you know about the supreme Court judgement on auctioning of natural resources?
(Like 2G spectrum, mines)
12.do you think digital payments are financially sustainable in long term? Because I visited marina beach, there vendors resisted not to pay in online, asked cash.
13. you gst people are saying, you simplified and reformed the system, but it is still complex for small scale business peoples(you are taxing panipoori wala)


Member 3:
14.why you are showing too much interest on civil services?
15.Am I pronouncing your name correct? Ok, you are born in kanyakumari, your training in Andhrapradesh, now in Delhi. What about our country's policy on tourism? Do you know about heal in India initiative?
16.though aviation sector is blooming, but no civil aviation companies in India are not sustaining for too long except indigo. Why?
17.what is fly by wire technology? Why HAL producction rate is not up to the mark?
18.USA sending people to the moon long back ago, later they stopped, then now they are continuing. Do you know why? What is the force behind recent mission?


Member 4:
19. you are an IRS officer. So certainly you know about tarriffs. What is the tarriff rate imposed by Trump on India?
20.what do you think about the reciprocal tarriff by trump? Is it truly a liberation for USA? How it will impact Indian economy?
21.what about Immigration and foreigners bill? Though opposition wants to send the bill to committee, it bypass the scrutinization and passed, why?
22.Whats your opinion on ONOP? What's the rationale behind this?
23.what about MRO facilities in India? Why there is high taxes?

Your interview is over.

Name:MSD
Date:28/03/2025
Daf keywords-Tamilnadu, Swachh bharat, Anti-tobacco,smart street light project, NCC, EEE, Sociology(not asked).
Chairman-Raj shukla sir.

Chairman:
1.Meaning of the name.
2.He told you are an electronics engineer and then had a long Monologue on closed source ai( chatgpt) vs open source ai (deepseek). Asked the opinion, which is the best and which would dominate in the future.
3.India's position in AI race.

Member 1:

1.Why civil service?
2.Tell about the swachh bharat mission
3.Achievements of the mission
4.Challenges in bringing the clean society
5. What is Sensex and Nifty.

Member 2(Lady member):

1.You have a unique name(I don't know why she told that..)Did you study 3rd language in your school. Why there is anti hindi issue in Tamilnadu.
2.Tell the top 3 most spoken languages in the world.
3.Tell me about the smart street light project.It's benefits..
4.Did you implement this in your home.
5.starlink -satellite bases internet connection--Does it require any changes in the mobile phone software or hardware.
5.Can we ban tobacco completely?
6.what are the reasons which resist the government to ban it.. Any benefits to the gov from the tobacco production.

Member 3:

1.what are the steps that the government can take to encourage certain product consumption and discourage certain products consumption
2.Tariff vs duty
3.Reciprocal tariff -its impact on USA(short term and long term)

Member 4:

1.NCC--criteria for getting C certificate
2.Green hydrogen mission, its targets, Need of the green hydrogen.
3.Defence:India's reforms till now
4.Achievement in Domestic weapon production( he was expecting Tejas. He told it later)
5.Issues in tejas production and 5th generation aircraft in India and asked the solutions.

Chairman:Your interview is over. You may go.

The board was cordial and it was more like a conversation.

Special thanks to the interview transcripts Community.

Name: Sivapadashekhara
Date: 02/04/25
Board: Dinesh Dasa Sir, last to go
Keywords: BSc Statistics, Anthropology, Father Journalist (rest not relevant)
Time - 26 min

Chairman (CM)

1. What made you sit here for the interview today?
2. Tell me how you will use your graduation subject, Statistics, and your optional subject, Anthropology, in public administration (a combination of both).
3. Explain the difference between cultural relativism and cultural nationalism (I had mentioned the keyword "cultural relativism" in my earlier response).
4. What are the challenges faced by SCs and STs? Highlight the similarities and differences in their challenges.

M1

1. Why do we not wear shoes in the house or temple? (I had mentioned the practice of wearing or not wearing shoes in my earlier response.)
2. Why are some Sikhs demanding the right to wear shoes inside gurdwaras? (I was unable to answer this, and sir explained that it is due to the cold climate in northern areas.)
3. What is happening in Nepal currently?
4. Can monarchy help overcome corruption?
5. Why is Greenland so important?

M2

1. Why do you want to join the civil services despite coming from a metropolitan area?
2. What does nationalism mean to you?
3. Who is a nationalist?
4. The world is moving away from globalization. What do you think are the impacts of this shift?
5. What are the impacts of protectionism?
6. How can we move towards globalization again?

M3

1. Since you have a background in Statistics, I will give you a scenario—based on data and facts, how would you consider the merger of the Uttarakhand-based Wildlife Institute of India and the Coimbatore-based Bird Conservation Centre?
2. What are the constitutional provisions for health in India? (I mentioned Article 21 and DPSPs, but sir clarified that he was asking about the Seventh Schedule.)
3. Health is a state subject. How can we strengthen our healthcare system?
4. Take the case of any state, say West Bengal, and explain how you would improve healthcare there.
5. Should we amend the Seventh Schedule?

M4

1. What is the state of journalism in India today? Everyone seems to be a journalist—what is its impact on traditional media?
2. What are the issues associated with citizen journalism?
3. How can these issues be tackled?
4. Should we have a merit-based system for the judiciary?
5. What should be done to improve the judiciary?

CM:
"Okay, your interview is over."

Experience:

The board was cordial and provided answers where I was lacking.

Utility of Mock Interviews:
Great for practice and improvement.

Group discussions with friends proved vital—Rahul and Shrushti were the best group I could ask for.


Mocks Given: Around 10
CD Institute (Thane) × 2
SIAC (Mumbai)
Samkalp × 2
PW OnlyIAS
Vajirao
Vajiram
Unacademy
Maharashtra Sadan

One-to-One Sessions:

1. ADGP Mahesh Bhagwat Sir (IPS): DAF discussion—sir's group provided great insights.
2. Shubham Aggarwal Sir (Vidyapeeth IAS): A great confidence booster—covered a wide range of topics from my DAF and current affairs.
3. Avinash Dharmadhikari Sir (Chanakya Mandal): Very positive interaction.
4. Sajal Sir (Sarrthi): Provided strategies to tackle tricky questions.
5. Vinay Sir (Insights IAS): Asked dynamic questions related to my optional subject and current affairs.
6. Satyam Jain Sir (Understand UPSC): Comprehensively covered my DAF and provided valuable inputs.

Name: -
Board- Dinesh Dasa sir
Date- 02 April, afternoon session (2nd to go)
Daf keywords- nagpur, sociology ( else nothing from daf asked)

Transcript:
(Entered and said good morning in afternoon session - first mistake)
Chairman:
1. Introduce yourself
2. Tell me about the 3 revolution happened in Europe during 18th century and what impact it had on India.
3. U came from Maharashtra, there is a controversy regarding a comedian, what is it?
4. What is your opinion is it relevant?
5. What about demolition drives happening?
6. I read a news in today's newspaper that Supreme Court has ordered compensation, why they are compensating?
7. In such situations what 3 qualities are required in civil servants?
8. How u are going to manage such situations?
9. Why mihan is important? What is it's relevance for Maharashtra?
M1.
1. Tell me about weber's theory of capitalism. Do u think Protestant ethics had a role to play?
2. What about weber's theory of bureaucracy?
3. Which 3 tenets of weber's bureaucracy theory u want to have?
4. What is genx, geny, genz? What are there peculiarities?
5. I am asking about how these generations impacted the world?
6. I should tell you that they were called baby bloomers, why?
M2.
1. (Long monologue)What is China's share on global trade and manufacturing?
2. What is our share?
3. Why China is ahead?
4. Tell me the difference between agricultural productivity of both countries?
5. Do u favour gm crops?
M3.
1. U said u favour gm crops, then why they are not here still?
2. At what time they were introduced in America? Counter questions
3. Is there no political will in india?
4. How should we proceed for gm crops. What are the steps required?
5. Which gm crops is currently produced in India?
6. What happened to gm mustard?
M4. (Looking at my hand movements)
1. Which party u will vote for in America? Republicans or democrats, whom u r fond of?( Got confused about recent party ruling there)
2. Dasa sir- I will clarify for u , u would have voted for Kamala Harris or Trump? Why?
3. What is the federal structure of India? Tell 3 positive and 3 negatives.
4. Why is it so that only in times of crisis all come together?
5. What should be done? Do u think doing this will ensure we are one?
6. What is Quad? Do u think we can add security dimensions in Quad?
7. If we will add security dimensions then won't it go against our non-alignment strategy?
Chairman sir- time is over.
Chairman sir-
1. I want to ask u one last question, who is your role model?
Why?
2. Have u met her? Do u want to meet her as an ias probitioner?
One thing I want to ask u , u were looking tensed while u came inside. What were you thinking outside?
Ok....your interview is over. Thank you

Overall experience: board was coordial.

Mocks: sriram ias, vajirao, Maharashtra Sadan, only ias, samkalp (most close), next ias

One to one: vinay sir( insights ias), utkarsh sir ( sriram ias), shinaz sir( ilearn ias), quantel.

Special thanks to Mahesh Bhagwat sir (IPS)

My transcript sir

Name:MSD
Date:28/03/2025
Daf keywords-Tamilnadu, Swachh bharat, Anti-tobacco,smart street light project, NCC, EEE, Sociology(not asked).
Chairman-Raj shukla sir.

Chairman:
1.Meaning of the name.
2.He told you are an electronics engineer and then had a long Monologue on closed source ai( chatgpt) vs open source ai (deepseek). Asked the opinion, which is the best and which would dominate in the future.
3.India's position in AI race.

Member 1:

1.Why civil service?
2.Tell about the swachh bharat mission
3.Achievements of the mission
4.Challenges in bringing the clean society
5. What is Sensex and Nifty.

Member 2(Lady member):

1.You have a unique name(I don't know why she told that..)Did you study 3rd language in your school. Why there is anti hindi issue in Tamilnadu.
2.Tell the top 3 most spoken languages in the world.
3.Tell me about the smart street light project.It's benefits..
4.Did you implement this in your home.
5.starlink -satellite bases internet connection--Does it require any changes in the mobile phone software or hardware.
5.Can we ban tobacco completely?
6.what are the reasons which resist the government to ban it.. Any benefits to the gov from the tobacco production.

Member 3:

1.what are the steps that the government can take to encourage certain product consumption and discourage certain products consumption
2.Tariff vs duty
3.Reciprocal tariff -its impact on USA(short term and long term)

Member 4:

1.NCC--criteria for getting C certificate
2.Green hydrogen mission, its targets, Need of the green hydrogen.
3.Defence:India's reforms till now
4.Achievement in Domestic weapon production( he was expecting Tejas. He told it later)
5.Issues in tejas production and 5th generation aircraft in India and asked the solutions.

Chairman:Your interview is over. You may go.

The board was cordial and it was more like a conversation.

Special thanks to the interview transcripts Community.

28/03/2025

Name: Spear thrower
Key DAF details: name, mechanical, IFS
Board:sanjay verma sir
Questions asked:

Chairman:
1. Last to go on the day... Do you felt bored waiting.
2. What did you do when u were waiting
3. Have you been ever outside ur home state
4. Do you have friends outside home state
5. Population of world now and 2000 yrs ago
6. How would u explain India to a foreigner

Member1:
1. Do u like tea or coffee
2. Types of tea
3. Tea organization
4. Robotics... Is it mechanical core field
5. Drones... Which engineering department
6. Some economics basic questions

Member 2

1. Name meaning
2. Economics factual questions like zero coupon bonds, exchange rate.. Etc

Member 3

1. Game theory.
2. It's types and where it is used
3. Factors connecting people from kashmir to kannyakumari
4. 3 lang formula... NEP...opinion

Member 4
1. Ram leela maidan
2. Other questions couldn't remember


Chairman said interview over.

Mocks give u experience..along with it self retrospection helps you to know where u should improve.

Name: -
Board- Dinesh Dasa sir
Date- 02 April, afternoon session (2nd to go)
Daf keywords- nagpur, sociology ( else nothing from daf asked)

Transcript:
(Entered and said good morning in afternoon session - first mistake)
Chairman:
1. Introduce yourself
2. Tell me about the 3 revolution happened in Europe during 18th century and what impact it had on India.
3. U came from Maharashtra, there is a controversy regarding a comedian, what is it?
4. What is your opinion is it relevant?
5. What about demolition drives happening?
6. I read a news in today's newspaper that Supreme Court has ordered compensation, why they are compensating?
7. In such situations what 3 qualities are required in civil servants?
8. How u are going to manage such situations?
9. Why mihan is important? What is it's relevance for Maharashtra?
M1.
1. Tell me about weber's theory of capitalism. Do u think Protestant ethics had a role to play?
2. What about weber's theory of bureaucracy?
3. Which 3 tenets of weber's bureaucracy theory u want to have?
4. What is genx, geny, genz? What are there peculiarities?
5. I am asking about how these generations impacted the world?
6. I should tell you that they were called baby bloomers, why?
M2.
1. (Long monologue)What is China's share on global trade and manufacturing?
2. What is our share?
3. Why China is ahead?
4. Tell me the difference between agricultural productivity of both countries?
5. Do u favour gm crops?
M3.
1. U said u favour gm crops, then why they are not here still?
2. At what time they were introduced in America? Counter questions
3. Is there no political will in india?
4. How should we proceed for gm crops. What are the steps required?
5. Which gm crops is currently produced in India?
6. What happened to gm mustard?
M4. (Looking at my hand movements)
1. Which party u will vote for in America? Republicans or democrats, whom u r fond of?( Got confused about recent party ruling there)
2. Dasa sir- I will clarify for u , u would have voted for Kamala Harris or Trump? Why?
3. What is the federal structure of India? Tell 3 positive and 3 negatives.
4. Why is it so that only in times of crisis all come together?
5. What should be done? Do u think doing this will ensure we are one?
6. What is Quad? Do u think we can add security dimensions in Quad?
7. If we will add security dimensions then won't it go against our non-alignment strategy?
Chairman sir- time is over.
Chairman sir-
1. I want to ask u one last question, who is your role model?
Why?
2. Have u met her? Do u want to meet her as an ias probitioner?
One thing I want to ask u , u were looking tensed while u came inside. What were you thinking outside?
Ok....your interview is over. Thank you

Overall experience: board was coordial.

Mocks: sriram ias, vajirao, Maharashtra Sadan, only ias, samkalp (most close), next ias

One to one: vinay sir( insights ias), utkarsh sir ( sriram ias), shinaz sir( ilearn ias), quantel.

Special thanks to Mahesh Bhagwat sir (IPS)