UPSC IAS interview previous year questions – Part 10

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This is part 10 of the series. 

Name-Shrikant Khandekar

Optional-forestry and Agri.Engg.
Graduation-Agri Engg.
Board-Smita Nagarajan
29-Jan(last in the afternoon Session)

Ch-
1.Despite getting gpod rank in Gate why you did not go for Job or Post graduation?
2.How you can use the knowldege og Agri Engg in foreatry?
3.Generally people and authority are aware about the agri.technologies but still
tribals are not adopting?why?
4.Dont you think that shifting from subsistence to commercial agriculture will lead to deforestation?
5.Have you visited any tribal region?what u find there?
6.What type of minor forest produce they generally sells?
6.Where tribals sells there minor forest produce

M1-
1.Is it necessary to extend the farm machinery to tribal areas? And why?
2.Agriculture in tribal area is the only seasonal activity,then how you will provide them sustainwd livelihood?
3.You mentioned about soil and water conservation,recently a report has came out where it states that for forest conservation water is most important prerequisite,can you explain the relationship between water and forest?
4.Can you name some water conservation structure?
5.Have you ever visited any large forest area where this conservation structures are prepared?
6.Is there any improvement in the groundwater level?

M3-
1.What is your vision of India?
2.India was country of snake charmers, poors.Do you think this image is changed?
3.Do you know about Human devlopment Index?tell me the parameters.
4.Is Shrilanka, and Bangladeah are ahead of India in HDI?
5.How you are saying we are progressing?
6.On what front India is still lagging?
7.What is culture?
8.What is difference between culture and tradition?

M-4
1.What is difference between cycling and mountain biking(cycling hobbey).
2.Have you watched mountain biking?Where it is held?
3.Tell me some famou cyclist.
4.What type of crop do you grow in ypur field?
5.Tell me about Zero budget natural farming?
6.Why it is not practised in your region?
7.Is it possible to introduce ZBNF technology in pomegranate production?
8.How to produce pomegranate seedlings in field itself?
9.Tell me difference between Grafting,Pruning,and budding?
10.For what Solapur is famous?
11.Why Solapur becomes special for Chadder production why not other cities having similar climatic conditions?

Ch-
1.Can you tell me the migration trend in Mharashtra?
2.In case of tribals,usually they prefers to live in forest,then why they are migrating now?
3.Tell me the name of tribe from maharashtra who are migrating?

Thank you,your interview is over.
Time around 25 min.

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Name: Arnav Limaye

Pune, Maharashtra
B.E. Comp, worked as a software developer
Optionals : mathematics and forestry
Board : Bassi sir

Chairperson (C): Hello Arnav
Aren’t you feeling cold? Let me switch on room heater for you.

1. Ok. So you’ve worked as a software developer. What was your company’s product?
2. On which platform your company worked?
3. So what’s the difference between c++ and c sharp(as c sharp was the platform used by my company)
4. Ok. So tell me things which you know about forests apart from whatever you’ve read in the books.
5. What is fern. Tell me something about ferns.
6. Where do they grow?
7. What are orchids?
8. What are epiphytes?
9. You said that orchid is epiphyte. So they don’t have roots, and their seperate existence as a plant so how do they propogate?
10. Have you seen any orchid?
11. Where in Konkan? What is Devrai?
12. Haven’t you seen them in man made structures such as nurseries?

Member 1

1. Ok. So you’ve worked as a volunteer for drought relief. What type of work you did? And in which region?
2. Why there is drought in India?
3. Can’t we use drought resilient varieties in India?
4. There are many countries which have less rainfall than us, they manage water better. What can we do to improve our management.

Member 2

1. So Arnav, there is a concern about dwindling numbers of birds and it is said that insecticides and pesticides are one of the important causes for it. How do you think they hamper the bird population? (I mentioned bioaccumulation and biomagnification)
2. There’s minamata disease in Japan. Which metal is behind it?
3. So what is bioaccumulation and biomagnification?
4. What is living fossil?(I had used this word to describe ferns in Bassi sir’s question)
5. Have you heard of “some unknown species”?

Member 3

1. Can you recite a Sanskrit Shloka trusted with teacher? (Sanskrit topper in board exam hence the question)
2. Tell me the meaning as well.
3. You’ve been leader of personality development through sports. So what’s the personality development? And how do you develop personality especially through sports?
4. Suppose you’re playing badminton, now tell me how it’ll develop your personality?
5. You mentioned watershed management in your answer to drought issue. Tell me what’s Integrated Watershed management?
6. What’s the difference between Carbon stock, carbon sink and carbon sequestration?
7. If there’s large body of water, will it be a carbon stock or a carbon sink?
8. Tell me any 2,3 international institutions working for ecology and wildlife.

Member 4

1. What’s JFM? What’s the principle behind it.
2. What’s the use of it for forester and forest dwellers?
3. Do you know any successful models of jfm in the country?

Chairperson

1. Tell me something about ‘yellow vest’?
2. Why BREXIT is in news?
3. Why the BREXIT bill was defeated?
4. What’s the stand of Northern Ireland and Scotland on it?

Thank you Arnav.
Thank you.

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