Category: Interview Program

Board-  Bhimsen bassi Sir

Chairman

– You have done Bsc. agri and ur hobby is seed collection it’s very interesting ..,
– How many seeds u have collected,? Which seeds?
– How do u store bajra seeds?
– How long can the seeds be viable?
– what are orchids? Where are they found? Are they found in western Ghat? Are they epiphytic? Parasitic?
– What is tissue culture? What are its advantages?

M1

– What is contribution of M. S. Swaminathan in indian agricultur?
– Why farmers suicides are happening? And give solutions?
– How digitalisation can help to overcome security?

M2

– Tell about BT cotton issue. What are ur views on GM crops
– In which country GM food is grown?
– What happened to gm mustard and gm brinjal

M3

– Interlinking of rivers and its technical problems
– How role of farmers can be increased in markets chain?
– How can food adulteration can be controlled?

M4

– What is emotional intelligence? Example of how it can be used in administration.
– How u will motivate yourself and ur team
– Many people do well in the studies but not in life.. Why does it happen??

Chairman

– Tell me in detail about PM Fasal bima yojana

Thank you Rohit

Board-  Bhimsen bassi

Background: B-tech metallurgical and material sciences engineer + MBA
Hobbies : football, reading and writing answers on Quora

Chairman

– If I were to tell you that there is a plant and its parts are made of gold, what would your reaction be?
– Who is your favourite footballer?
– Do you know the signature move of Pele?

M1

– Amongst all the sources of energy other than coal, which all have the most potential in the next ten years?
– Why?
– What is iso4 (dnk)
– How is material sciences used in mining.

M2

– How is material science influencing human life?
– What is the geography of Bahrain? (I grew up there, schooling as well)
– How does India have to behave in the Maldivian crisis?
– Dont remember two more

M3

– What are the problems faced by Indian workers in the gulf region?
– How does the Indian community help them?
– What steps has the government taken to aid these workers?
– Does the srilankan issue still exist?
– What is the opinion of the government of India on it?
– Doesnt the state government have another opinion?

M4

– You are a management graduate, what kind of advice can you give to a company which wants to invest in another country?
– We have improved our ease of doing business, what are some of the parameters on which it is judged?
– Salient features of India-Bahrain ties?
– Present to me a holistic description of the country you grew up in, I don’t have any knowledge about it.

Chairman

– Is the latte irrelevant today?
– Is this your photo?

Board- Smita Nagraj

Interview date: 26 February 2018

Chairman

– what do you think of encounters in UP.
– Should human rights agencies have a role in encounters.
– what should be the way out

M1

– India’s performance in south Africa tour DAF
– Which country PM visited lastly.
– Strategic significance of visit.

M2

– Status of Lok pal bill
– Issues with appointment
– What the govt is doing with Lok pal right now

M3

– Performance of ISRO
– One biggest achievement of ISRO
– Why ISRO is performing well.
– Comparison with DRDO

M4

– If you are made DM of Bundelkhand region what will be your priorities.
– PNB issue
– Media..is it biased
– Why media is giving some news and ignoring the others.

Chairman

– just carrying forward the argument. Should there be govt ownership of media.
– Why is unbiased news.

Thank you very much.

Board- Sujata Mehta mam
Background – B.tech

Chairman

– Tell about urself
– What r u doing right now
– Why army was used in Elphinstone bridge reconstruction
– Why not private sector
– We could have doubled the price to private and work would have finished in half time

– Why we stick with L1 quotes only
– How to resolve it
– Why no one trust anyone in India ?

M1

– Judicial intervention
– How to infuse credibility in judiciary
– Why judiciary don’t want any interference

M2

– U know Mike Tyson ?
– How to infuse transparency in judiciary ?
– How technology can be used ?
– Is it right to have cctv recording of court proceedings
– What is family court .
– Why they have rule of video recording
– Should we remove institution of DM as no developed country have it
– What America have inherited from British .
– What kind of laws are there in USA

M3

– What is autonomous robotics
– Should India have them ?
– There impacts ?
– Is I right to name any institution on basis of some individual ?
– What are the parameter to decide that ?
– What are the stakeholders in your college ?
– Alumni ?
– Why alumni connect is low ?
– Any example in India where alumni have contributed much ?

M4

– Why u left IRS for IPS
– Why now IAS
– Why going back from revenue to revenue
– What is think India ?
– What were it’s benefits

Chairman

Ok
What else you have in mind which should have been discussed ?

Okay
Thanks

Board- Ms. Smita Nagaraj

Background : B Tech (CSE)

Chairman

– Do you know any tribe which still lives in almost complete isolation?(I explained her about Jarawa tribe of Andaman)
– How to deal with such types of tribes if they are not even allow people to land on there island?
– How to achieve right balance between protecting their identity & addressing their developmental needs?
– If they become hostile how to deal with them?
– What should be threshold to use the force?
– What should be the guiding principles to use the force?
– Then…she explained me about Naxalites problem…how to address this?
– Do you know any successful attempt by any state to address the issue?
– Is there any need to audit security forces?(context…human rights violations)
– Is there any existing mechanism present for this?

M1

– Why people generally dont want to enroll their children in government schools?
– What are problems of gov schools?
– What you would do to address these problems?
– What government is doing in this respect?

M2

– Tell me about big announcement regarding agriculture in recent budget.
– How to achieve MSP 1.5 times higher than cost of production?
– What formula gov have proposed?(he is asking about A2 + FL formula)
– According to you which national park is better managed in your state?….What should be parameters to assess management of national parks?
– Tell me about core, buffer & transision zones.
– Do you know about JFM? (Joint Forest Management)
– How much it is successful in your state?…What should be criterias to assess success?

M3

– What is this social awareness group of engineers? (DAF)…he explained about issue of irregular water supply…how awareness will help to solve the problem?
– He explained about problems of rural…semi urban areas…how to solve these?…what gov is doing?
– Why you want to join administration?
– Do you think accountability and transparency will help to solve all problems?

Chairman

– Have you filed RTI?
– Tell me about positives & negatives of RTI.
– Do you see any change in psyche of administrators after RTI? Then why still cases of corruption?
– Long term effects of RTI.

Board – Aravind Saxena

Chairman

– Why IPS
– What’s issue with PNB
– How fraud has happened

M1

– Relation between Capetown and Bangalore
– Water scarcity in Bangalore
– Meat and water relationship
– Israel model

M2

– How to prevent school dropouts
– How to improve women participation rate
– What needs to done for ensuring safety of women

M3

– Opinion about cauvery judgement
– Vishy Anand should retire??
– Ur opinion
– Ground water exploitation
– Prevention

M4

– Reasons for drug addictions
– Prevention
– Difference between drug abuse and addiction
– Positives and negatives of movies on society

Chairman

Is social media is also addiction?

Board- Sujata Mehta mam

Chairman

– Introduce yourself
– What are you doing since 2016?
– Why graduation in agri. engg.?
– Your favourite subject in agriculture
– Ground water contamination problem in india
– Is it a good option to use ground water as primary source in agriculture?

M1

– Explain role of agri. in india economy
– How would you use tribals knowledge in forest management?
– Scope of wildlife tourism in india
– What are provisions of indian forest mgt.bill, 2017?
– What is forest inventory?

M2

– What are soil colloidal properties?
– What is natural binding capacity?
– As a lady officer,how would you tackle challenges in this service?
– What is crop infestation?
– Difference in agri. practices in China and India

M3

– What do you mean by entrepreneurship?
– Horticulture production In Kolhapur
– Regions of pomegranate production In Maharashtra
– What is the difference between agri. engg and horti. engg?
– What is ex-situ and in- situ conservation?
– Opinion on rehabilitation of tribals from protected areas
– Mangrove cover of Maharashtra
– Threats to mangroves
– What is green army?

Board – Dr Manoj Soni sir

Chairman

– What is Parli-vaijnath, is it town or village or city?
– Is it named after any personality?
– Why you left the job?
– So can I consider that civil services is your priority?
– Explain in brief the whole process of paper manufacturing? Have you seen yourself?
– Tell me ten names of trees commonly found in India?

M1

– You are specialist in mechanical engg?
– How would you use your knowledge?
– Explain to me how would you use that processing industry, with example?
– How to reach to tribal to ensure their participation?
– What are the challenges in tribal development? Should all IFS officer learn all the tribal languages?

M2

– What is annual Raw material requirement of your industry?
– Have your company taken any initiative to increase Raw material supply?
– But there is criticism that these industries give low price to the farmers?
– As IFS officer what would you do to ensure farmers get better price for their produce?
– Is there any govt regulation to control the prices offered by these industries?
– What is PESA? What sectors have been deregulated?

M3

– You cook vegetarian ,is it only because you eat only veg or something else?
(Some light moments)
– In what dishes you are good at?
– Have you offered these to your mother,sister? What was response?out of love and care??? (Again Light moments)
– Latur is recent district, earlier it was part of which district?
– Any improvement since then?
– Do you mean these developments occured due to it was made a district? (interrupted in my Ans and started a question)
– Latur is in news due some notorious reasons, what are they?
– If a sudden earthquake in your division then what would you do? Do you think apart from Police and Revenue administration the Forest need to be concerned ?

Board – Ms. Smita Nagaraj

– Education – B-tech (ECE), Jaisalmer

Chairman

– Pronounciation and meaning of the name
– Tell about yourself
– Wild life of jaisalmer
– Camels, schemes about them, numbers, now what is the use
– Have u seen GIB
– Why IFS
– What does DFO do in jsm
– Given choice which part of natural india would u like to visit
– Have u been to Ranthambhore/sariska
– Give suggestions to address dvpt vs env issue
– Balance b/w dvpt & env in india if no then which region of india balanced both

M1

– Manganiar music (my hobby) what, where, how
– Yoga what, basics why
– Which kind of movies
– Electonics uses in forest
– have u design electronic device of that sort which can be used in forests M2:-
– Kota, Engg.(I took coaching from kota)
– Civil and forest as option
– Artistic freedom(film ban, protests) scenerio going to worse or better

M3

– Goal of life
– Non-forest wood
– Biodiversity, CBD, EArth summit and subsequent actions, National       biodiversity law
– Managing tribals, mining, forests, wildlife
– Social forestry

Chairman

– Tribals vs forest
– Naxalite vs IFS
– Why naxalite in tribal belt
– Do u want to ask something to board

Board – Sujatha Mehta Mam

Chairman

– Tell me about your educational background
– What we’re you doing at CARE
– Why did you decided to leave CARE
– Tell me about JFM in India
-What were the challenges in JFM
– What was the role of IIFM in your career and how did it help you

M1

– When did the environmental movement start in India
– Do you think awareness in environmental domain is necessary ? How would you promote awareness on Forest fire issues
– What are true colors? Why they are called so?
-What GIS layers you would used for Forest coverage estimation

M2

– Interesting combination of subjects , tell me what were your favourite subjects
– Bhubaneswar zoo was in news some time back ? Why?
– What are White tigers?
– What is plant succession?
– What are the challenges faced by zoos today?
– What is agroforestry ?
– current challenges in agroforestry? Area under agroforestry?
– what is IR… Some law of agriculture ..never heard

M3 (lady)

– What is Jhoom?
– how would you control it
– issues faced by Forest today
– which tree is called Flame of Forest