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Avadh singhal

21/07/2020 Forenoon
TCA Anant Sir board


Completely DAF based, no current affairs at all.

Chairman-
Q1- You have lived at many places- why
Q2- You have been working after college, tell me about your work
Q3- Key issues in school education sector (my recent project was about that)
Q4- How would you solve these issues
Post this, CM was disengaged, constantly looking in his mobile

M1-
Q0- Whose tie is this? What’s the brand of tie you are wearing :P
Q1- You hail from Fazilka- key political importance of place during the unrest in Punjab
Q2- Punjab went through long phase of insurgency- Why did it last so long and how was it finally tackled?
Q3- You mentioned about KPS Gill- in what capacity was he involved
Q4- There were reports about Police excesses during the time- What were they?
Q5- Do you think situation was this bad that such severe measures had to be taken
Q6- Judiciary is also blamed to be reticent through the phase- you think that was the case

M2-
Q1- Ways of parliamentary checks on executive expenditure of money
Q2- What does CAG stand for
Q3- Have you heard about progressive auditing ( or something like this which basically meant evaluating not only fund utilisation but also effectiveness)
Q4- I said no and then he explained it for a while and asked me as a consultant explain the ways in which we can include this in auditing
Q5- He mentioned about a more formal EEE approach (Efficiency, Economy, Effectiveness). Asked me to explain what each of this means in context of public expenditure

M4-
Q1- Back to education, you mentioned about drop outs in school- do you know about the differential between male- female dropout
Q2- Then, he asked me to explain the reasons
Q3- Can you relate water also to girl dropout- On responding, he told me to make sure that we include these measures in future projects
Q4- Then he said if you become IAS, which state will you choose
Q5- Why not Chhattisgarh (state where I did high schooling)
Not able to recall 1-2 Qs that he asked too

M5-
Q1- Give details of what all projects/ sectors and your contribution
Q2- Do you think you made any meaningful impact in these projects
Q3- On explaining- he said if you are creating such impact why civil services
Q4- After some discussion on money and it’s importance for me- he asked me how are you sure civil services will give you job satisfaction.
Then he wished me good luck

Chairman again- I was last candidate for forenoon and he was constantly indicating the members to hurry and after they were done he said Thank you- That’ll be all.
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Anonymous
Current - IPS

21/7/20
Chair-Manoj Soni board. Initially 4 members including one lady were sitting. 5th member joined in 5 mins.

Chair
1. You are already in IPS. Aren’t you happy.
2. Would you regret if you aren’t allotted service you are aspiring.
3. Do you believe UP gangster encounter was staged. Before asking this he said ‘honestly tell me’ twice.
4. What makes you believe that it was not true. Some more related discussion.

M1 Lady
1. Does police exceed its brief and use excess force?
2. How would you use GIS in policing ?
3. How would technology help in tackling law and order situation
4. Some more technology related questions AI, ML. She said something about scalar data vector data.

M2
1. Some senior police officers say criminal justice system doesn’t work properly because judicial process is slow, ineffective. Do you think so ?
2. What changes do we need in IPC, CrPC, Indian evidence act. Tell specific changes.
3. Detailed discussion on subsidies. What type of subsidies do we give, should we give them or not ?
4. How should we rationalise PDS system, FPS etc

M3
1. Role of police during covid times
2. Has police able to deliver on people’s expectations
3. Some discussion about police and COVID lockdown
4. Which section of law authorised police to enforce lockdown ?
5. What is FATF
6. Why Pakistan escaped blacklist ?
7. When UN blacklists some terrorist, how can we leverage that ?

M4
1. Isn’t golden temple most important part of golden triangle ?
2. What is golden triangle.
3. DM and SP are fulcrum of district administration. Don’t you think for 1 year SP should do DM’s job and DM should do SP’s job for better coordination
4. Shouldn’t we have one standard investment policy throughout India for boosting investment. Some discussion on this
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