Distribution: z3

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

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