Category: Interview Program

Board – Sujatha Mehta Mam

Background – Pune, Maharashtra
Optional- Agriculture and Botany

Chairman

1.Is this is you? (photograph)
2.Tell me about your educational qualification?
3.when you completed your graduation? (2015)
4.What you are doing since 2015?
5.Western ghats-illegal felling of trees-what is your opinion on development vs conservation?
6.How your Agriculture knowledge helps in Forest service?
7.Is there any contadiction between Agriculture and Forest?

M1 (Lady member)

1.What are cash crops?
2.What is soil erosion? How we can control it?
3.What are the problems faced by farmers?
4.differnce between Reserve and protected forest?
5.Modern techniques in Agriculture?

M2

1.Wht is precision Agriculture.? (Detail explanation)
2.How will you convert desert area into Agriculture land?
3.what are buttress??
4.soil collidal properties
5.types of soils?what is podzol?

M3

1.difference between Intensive Agriculture and intensive Forestry?
2.Seed act?Is forest seeds comes under this?
3.Domestication of NFTP?
4.How seed varieties are released?Certification ?

Chairman

You want to share something with us other than whatever we already discussed??
I told about recent initiatives of Maharashtra government in Forest Management like Green Army and Forest helpline.

Thank you.

Board – Sujatha Mehta Mam

Background – Vishakhapatnam, Telangana.
Profile – product design, customs

Chairman

– Tell me about your educational background
– What after graduation
– Explain product design
– What parameters do you check while designing a product
– How do you explain the evolution of mobiles until Apple smartphone
– How do you incorporate the ease of use in mobiles
– How do you explain sustainable development
– Do we need polluting industries like a ship breaking in India
– How will balance environmental protection with employment generation in this regard

M1

– What is environment performance index
– What parameters are included in it
– Why is Vishakapatnam projected as a future hub for investment
– Impact of 2004 tsunami on Vizag
– Forest types in eastern ghats
– Explain Biodiversity Act 2002

M2

– Why is China blocking India’s entry into NSG
– States with the highest forest area
– Role of customs in wildlife and forest conservation
– Name an endangered species

M3

– Name the national park adjacent to your campus (IIT Madras)
– What’s the area of the park
– What’s the smallest national park in India
– What are the environmental issues in your campus
– Fauna in the campus
– Type of vegetation in the campus

– Impact of MGNREGA in Telangana
– How MGNREGA is related to forestry
– What are SDGs
– SDGs associated with environment
– How success of achieving SDG 1 and 2 are related with SDGs related to an environment
– Forest cover in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh
– Forest types in Telangana
– Red Sanders
– Green trading

Chairman
– How do you promote environmental awareness in rural areas
– Is there anything you want to ask to the panel

Interview date : 05/2/2018

Board – Nagrajan madam

Chairman

– so kasturi seeing your daf its so varied…we saw you do so many things. So why DON’T u tell us about yourself in your own words.
– apart from your nature trekking and bird watching what interests you to join the ifos
– OK, so the people have attracted you to it. But DON’T you think the people itself are sometimes at conflict with forest dept. Where do you think can the people be at conflict ?
– what are the reasons of such conflicts( she sighted many like attitude , land etc and then came back to original question) ..what do u think is point of conflict ?
– so what steps do u think can be taken ?

M1

M1- you said that colonial mentality is there, do you think it can be changed ?
M1- indigenous people only harm forest then how forest can be conserved
M1- u think u can change the mentality of people n forest dept? To get cordination
U will have to face lot of opposition and pressure from up..do u have conviction?
M1- if you have to do urban forestry then what steps you will take ?
M1- so first thing you shud do is xompre with best practices world wide. OK?
One last question- why u did pub ad after engg
M1- ok have h qualified for civil mains.
M1- what new u learnt through pub ad?

M3

M3- you did lot of trekking. What are eight thousanders?
M3- any peaks in India?
M3- which rare bird that you saw and you felt very great after seeing it?
M3 so do u Cary binocs?
M3- so you play keyboard n guitar. U sing n play or only play
M3- keyboard is easy or guitar
M3- what music you play lead or chord?
M3- in keyboard what music you play?

M4

M4- what is in situ and ex situ conservation
M4- what is community reserve then
M4- wat is climax vegetation?

Thank you

This script would be of great help to everyone having PSIR as optional.
It gives a glimpse of a good probing interview/conversation. All of you are requested to understand the pattern of interview clearly depicted here.

Board – Sujatha Mehta Mam
Background – Sonipat, Haryana

– Education – B.Tech, Comp Sci, IIT Hyderabad
– Job – 3 years as Software Developer at Goldman Sachs
– Hobbies – Cooking, Watching TV Shows

Chairman

– Can you introduce yourself focussing on your education and job?
– When did you leave your job?
– What did you do in your job?
– Were you developing software for in-house clients or outside?
– What is that you were working on?
– Have you read the article on medical implants?
– tell me about it

M1

– Why does Haryana have high economic growth but low social development?
– I answered but he seemed unconvinced
– How is Bangladesh developing? Why it has better social parameters than India?

M2

– Why are there so many vacancies in engineering colleges?
– Why do people move to other fields?
– Why the majority are not working in technical fields?
– “We can not innovate” – do you agree? what do you think about it?
– B.Tech can not innovate but M.Tech can?

M3

– Means and Ends discussion
– Are means important?
– Isn’t that the case that sometimes consequences are very important?
– Have you heard the word critical thinking? With thinking we attach many prefixes like lateral thinking, innovative thinking. Tell me what is innovative thinking?
– Then, what is lateral thinking?
– What is ignorance?
– What is the difference between ignorance and ignoring?

M4

– How did you get the inspiration to join civil services from a good job?
– What do you look forward to in civil services?
– So, let’s give you a challenge. Suppose there is an encroachment on the middle of a road. You have to demolish it but the elected representative does’t want it to be demolished?
– He has a personal stake, won’t allow. Then?
– He has business there. Then?
– Do you think India’s Pakistan policy is a failure?
– Has the army been able to tackle it?
– Then, what do you think of yesterday’s event (attack on CRPF convoy)? Should we talk to Pakistan?
– What should we do with Pakistan?

M2 – Tell me your one strength. Then, he confirmed are you sure? Then, tell me one weakness as well. Tried to probe on how and why? Chairman passed intervened and asked the next member.