UPSC IAS interview previous year questions – Part 7

UPSC IAS interview made easy with findings and experiences of aspirants faced the same . Following is data given by previous year aspirants about questions, responses and experiences in their UPSC INTERVIEW . 

This is part 7 of the series. 

Name – Amit Kale

Interview date – 11th February, Afternoon
Board – SMITHA NAGRAJ
Graduation – B. Tech Mechanical Engg.
Optional – Geography
Service – IDES

CHAIRMAN

1. Did you know about IDES before?
2. Why so much of land under defense control?
3. How is it utilised?
4. How “land” has been associated with various issues and why?
5. Decline in land size holdings…
6. What issues are involved in large area under contract farming?

M1

1. Bureaucrat politician nexus
-why does it happen?
-what are the solutions to it?
2. What is Mcmohan line ?
3. What is it’s historical background?
4. How is the line demarcated?

M2

1. Where have you been being a part of nature club? (DAF)
2. What biodiversity did you see? Did you see snakes? (And the board started laughing)
3. As a district magistrate, how would you like to apply your mechanical engineering knowledge? What is that you have thought of?
4. Which cash crops are grown in Maharashtra?
5. Why are they grown?
6. Why still the farmer distress then?
7. Kolhapur cultivation of sugarcane etc Why? What are the factors?

M3

1. Indore city has done well in Swatch Bharat Abhiyan. So why other cities have not achieved the same goal?
2. What are the solutions to improve the situation?
3. What have you done at Hiwre Bazar?

M4

1. What is this Smart cantonment initiative?
2. What is Smart Cities initiative? What issues are involved in it’s implementation?
3. Car crash testing?
4. Why smaller cars are more vulnerable to crash impact?
5. Why the cars exported from India have better safety standards (crash testing) than the same model used in India?
6. What are the International Standards of Health (ISO standards)?

Chairman

1. Bullet train project
-opinion on project going through the flamingo sanctuary
-why are the protests taking place?
-how do you foresee the future of project then?
-will it be completed in time?

Thank you.

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Name:  Indushree

Background:  BE – ECE from VTU

Work:  Software engineer for 3 years

Currently Content developer at IASbaba

Place: Bengaluru

Chairman:

1.What is IASbaba?

2. Were you preparing for upsc before joining IASbaba or strtd preparing only after IASbaba

3. Can a person just mug up content prepared by coaching institutes and clear upsc?  Does it not affect the quality of students who get selected?

4. Is there a social impact too?

5. What are the qualities of civil servant?  Say an SP what qualities must he have?

6. Is knowledge of law necessary?  Can it be taught?

7. Are leaders only born with abilities or can leadership also be taught?

8. How do you identify born leaders?

9. Should we continue supporting born leaders?

Member 1

1.You have read Sanskrit in 10th and 12th. Was choosing Sanskrit a conscious choice? Why did you continue with Sanskrit even for 12th?

2. Can you name the ancient manuscripts of Sanskrit?

3. Have you read manusmriti?

4. Who is Visvesvaraya?  What are his contributions?

5. Do you know air purifier?  Can you name the technology behind it?

6. Is electrostatic precipitation enough?  It needs suction also right?

7.Have you heard of air purifier for open spaces?

8. What is the difference between leader and manager?

9. What is your biggest weakness?

Member 2

1.What is demographic dividend?

2.The demographic dividend can be reaped only if working age population gets jobs. Youth are not having skills. They are not finding opportunities. How is India faring?

3. Why is there a mismatch in skills and jobs?

4. What should be done?

5. Retail inflation has hit an 18 month low. It is mainly because of fall in vegetable prices. While it is a good news to consumers, farmers are being hurt. What should be done to help farmers?

6. Tell me something that can be done immediately.

7. Tell me more about Price deficiency payment?

8. Will it not result in inflation?

Member 3

1 What is your role in IASbaba?  Do you handle any in subject in particular?

2. How do you frame questions?

3. Let’s leave it there. What did you work on as a software engineer?

4. In in-vehicle-infotainment(IVI) there is navigation also.  How is the licensing done?

5. Does it not distract the driver when you let him change channels or browse content while driving?

6. Why do certain high end cars have sim cards?

7. Why do you think gold is smuggled? Who profits by smuggling gold?

8. What is under water acoustic communication?  Where was the paper published? Where was the conference held?

Member 4

1.What exactly did you do to achieve the bit error rate improvement? What was the improvement?

2. Do submarines already use this technique?

3. What is LTE and voLTE?

Chairman

1.There are several interstate disputes for water, resources, against migration, border issues. Is it not a major challenge to Indian polity?

2. What are the interstate disputes for Karnataka?

3. Are not protests against migration against constitutional or illegal?

4. Isn’t the linguistic reorganization basis for all these?  Should we continue with linguistic basis for states?

Thank you

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