Distribution: z3

Board: Dr P.K. Joshi

Background: IIT BHU (Varanasi), Computer Science.

Chairman

– How many marks did you get in Maths Class XII?
– Which force has you been allocated?
– Why SSB?
– When we have BSF as a border guarding force, why need SSB?
– Suppose you are posted as a DM in a village school and asked to address students of Class VIII-XII, what would you speak about for promoting Maths which students don’t like?

Maths Question 1

Maths Question 2, 2(a)

M1

– Munger is famous for? (Came as a shocker for me because I am from Saharsa, Bihar)
– Do you do Yoga?
– What is the status of women in Bihar? Do you think women has been empowered in your state?
– What is accountable governance?
– How to ensure government accountability?

M2

– What was the project you worked upon in Samsung? Two follow up questions
– What is the state of R&D in India?
– What is the need of high end R&D when our basic skill needs are unmet?

M3

– Should we go for making strong laws to provide security to women?
– Are laws against Dowry enough? Why are they being misused? What are recent changes in Dowry law?
– Situational Question: Your domestic help comes to you and complains to you about her drunkard husband who comes from work and beats her under the influence of alcohol. What would be your step of action?

M4

– What was the earlier name of BHU?
– Who founded it?
– Who gave the money?
– Who founded AMU and when?
– Don’t you think that the British sowed the seeds of division by helping the setup of a Hindu University and a Muslim university?
– Why is Varanasi named so?
– Why is IIT BHU not doing too good? (Asked in Hindi)
– What is Kashi famous?
– What is 3rd Industrial Revolution, 2nd IR and 1st IR.

Board- Dr Manoj Soni

Chairman

– You are 23, so tell me about the challenges Youth face today?
– Difference between Older and Younger generation?
– Was 20th Century good, or 21st Century? – What do you do in your leisure time?
– Tell me about the historic importance of Gwalior (my hometown)?

M1

– What are foreign-funded NGOs?
– What are Anti Nuclear Energy NGOs?
– Is Nuclear Energy feasible for India’s energy security?
– What is Nuclear Waste?
– Should we go for renewable energy or Nuclear energy?

M2

– What is the civil engineer’s role in Smart city?
– What are some of the current challenges of Urban development?
– India produces so many engineering graduates, most of them are unemployed. Why?
– What should we do to employ them?
– You are a district collector if some newspaper writes a defamatory article against you? What would you do?

M3

– Should Delhi be given full statehood? Q2- What are simultaneous elections? Is it desirable?
– List some electoral reforms we can undertake?
– Is State funding of elections a desirable reform?

M4

– Why do we call Political Science as Science? What is ‘science’ in it?
– How are India Iran relations going?
– How are India Pak relations?
– Who are non-state actors in Pakistan?
– What is Track 2 diplomacy, and will it work with Pakistan?

Chairman

– If your junior doesn’t obey you, what would you do?
– Should civil servants be terminated from services, if they don’t perform well despite repeated warnings?

Board: P K Joshi

Interview Date : 27/02/2017

Chairman

– You studied in Bangalore, you are from Tumakuru. How many KMs is Tumkur from Bangalore?
– What is one nation one election? Do you support ?
– How the challenges can be addressed ?
– Why engineers are not getting jobs in India ?
– What can be done to address this ?
– What is skill India ?
– What is NAAC?

M1

– what is communication?
– Give example for communication?
– Why did you choose Sanskrit as one of the languages ?
– What is the script of Sanskrit called? (Sanskrit is one of the languages in school)
– Can you tell me the varnamalas of Sanskrit?
– What is a to aha is called?
– What is ka to la is called?

M2

– so how did you get this listening to songs as your Hobby?
– What is the league of kabaddi is called?
– Is kabaddi popular in your region?
– What are folk games played in Karnataka which is not popular in other parts of the country?

M3

– Why Hyderabad has a better entrepreneurial culture than Bangalore? ( I took an opposite stand here )
– Why Bangalore has less engineering colleges than your neighbouring states, say TN. ( Indian Express ran a series of articles on this last month)
– Why did you leave Cognizant? It’s a good company.

M4

– what is a dispute between your state and your neighbouring state Tamil Nadu?
– What is the recent verdict on the dispute?
– What are your priority areas as a DM?
– How natural resources like Land should be allocated?

Board : PK Joshi sir

Chairman

– Famous things about Jind
– Worked in DAE, why left
– National Income
– Why it is called National
– 3 states with least forest cover
– States whose forest cover has increased?
– Have you applied for IFoS also?

M1

– Hobby: Slow walking or Fast
– Benefits of walking
– Why left DAE
– What you learnt from Hospitality committee?

M2

– Should Indian Railways be privatised?
– Why do government need to run railways?
– As an administrator , what are the 3 things you want to do?
(Told working for migrant labour as one of the priorities)
– What do you want to do for them?
– Amount of migrant labour in India every year.

M3

– Difference betweem diesel and electric loco.
– How do you see evolution of India as a country from 1947 (Actually I was not able to understand the question clearly)

M4

– Haryana is a water scarce state?
– How you will conserve water in Haryana?
– Major crops in Haryana
– How much water is consumed in growing rice?
– Water table in Haryana
– Rainfall in Haryana
– Should rice be allowed in Haryana?
– Ways to ensure effective water utilisation.

Chairman

Your interview is over.

Board: PK Joshi sir

Hobbies: Voluntary work, playing and watching cricket

Chairman

– There was one famous CM named Bansilal (my father’s name)..Do you know?
– You stayed in Mumbai as well as Delhi. Tell me cultural differences? (Some follow up question)
– You are residing in ORN..so tell me distinct problems of ORN?..some light moments and
Some Supplementary…
– Relevance of annual cultural gatherings in educational institutions (daf related)?

M1

-What is voluntary work(hobby)?
– Dont you think reading book is voluntary work?
– What do you do in voluntary work?- some supplementary questions..
– What are the zones for cricket at natinal level?
– Your hobby is to play and watch cricket?
– Playing is fine..don’t you think watching the game which is already fixed is waste of time?
– Name the Players involved in fixing scandal?
– He grilled me on this but CH intervened.

M2

– Your optional is anthropology, which is your favourite part in it?
– I said socio-cultural anthropology.. So she asked..
– Explain the India from socio cultural perspective. Some supplementary questions..
Primitive tribes?

M3

– You worked in TCS,what was your role?
– What is the revenue of Tata group?
– How many employees are there in TCS?
– Why the tata is so respected group?
– I said balance between social goals and profit so he asked about Tata controversy.

M4

– Challenges of Indian agriculture?
– What is the solution for land fragmentation?
– I replied consolidation and cooperative farming..
– As a DM what can you do to consolidate fragmented land holdings?
– Is it easy?
– Have you ever seen any successful experiment of cooperative farming?
– What are the issues with it?
– Major crops of Nashik district?
– To whom we export onions?

Chairman

Thank you, Niketan

Board: Manoj Soni sir

Chairman

– What does the word Perumal refers to? Is it a place’s name or your second name?
– When did you receive the intimation about the interview?
– What are all the preparations you made for the interview after receiving the call letter?
– Tell me about the topography of Cuddalore?
– Do you know about Arab Spring? What is it all about?
– What is ISIS? What are they trying to achieve?

M1

– Do you think himalayas is affected by climate change?
– What are the effects of glacial retreat? How much glacial retreat has happened?
– Reasons for glacial melt in ladakh? What local measures would you take to reduce it if appointed as DM?
– Do you think historical fiction novels are right? Won’t it reduce the genuineness of history? ( One of my hobby is Reading Books- fiction)

M2

– Tell about your final year project?
– Is there only one Anna University or many others?
– In the construction of flyovers and bridges, is civil Engineers are only involved or mechanical engineers are also involved?
– What do mech engineers do here?
– Role of mechanical engineers in robotics.

M3

– Rohingya issue- what’s it all about? And India’s role?
– Ram Setu- what is it? Is it a real bridge? What’s the issue involving Ram Setu?
– Tamil Nadu fisherman issue- what measures could be taken?

M4

– What is the government agency involved in disaster relief operations? ( I’ve organised disaster relief operations during Cuddalore floods)
– As a DM what measures will you take to address a disaster?
– What inspired to undertake disater relief operations?
– Reasons for Chennai floods? Where the fault lies?
– What are the areas in Kerala where LWE is making inroads? Do you think they will be successful? – — Have they tried to make inroads into TN?
– Idealogies of LWE?
– What is type of mountain ranges in TN? How is it different from himalayas?
– Difference between block mountain and fold mountain?
– Where the river Brahmaputra originates?
– What’s the issue regarding Brahmaputra between india and china? Does India have any treaty withchina regarding Brahmaputra?
– What is the other nation with which India has a treaty for water sharing? Can India stop giving water to Pakistan? Is india legally bound to give water to Pakistan?

Chairman

Thank you.

Board : Bhosale Sir

Background : Graduate in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi

Chairman

– What were you thinking?(last one to be interviewed)
– Why do we select you?
– Situational question.. Should dm use his popularity to counter politicians illegitimate pressure/threat.

M1

– Why didn’t you take Mechanical as optional?
– why do you want to become IAS.?
– but then why do u went to IIT?
– Three landmark event of Rajasthan history
– Explain accountability..

M2

– You must have heard the name of Arthshashtra. But what do you know about Neetishashtra, it’s writer??
– ‎Anthodia meaning and schemes
– Brand Equity ??

M3

– Explain that history repeats itself and some counterquestions
– Problem related to urbanisation in Delhi

M4

– How often do you jog? What do you do when you are free other than study or jog?

–  (I have answered that I listen to Rajasthani songs) Ghoomar song of Padmavati, what were the objections and your view

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.