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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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