Previous Year Interview Questions -2023 : Candidate 23

Previous Year IAS Interview Questions(2023) : Candidate 23

Board:- Manoj Soni Sir // Date of interview:-24.04.2023 //  Education:- Mechanical Engg. // Home: - Tamil Nadu

25-30 mins

Chairperson:

Q1. Let us start on a happy note. Tell me some happy news - Personal/National/ world level- in the last week.

Q2. Do you think India becoming the most populous country is more a problem than an opportunity? Issues of unemployment, education, health issues, drug use are prevalent in the country.

Q3. Tell me something about your college, how it evolved?

Q4. You have a work experience of 5+ years with a year break. Considering that you are a public servant, how you are managing work and study? People are taking study materials to the office and studying there, misusing office time and public resources.

Q5. Is there any Annual performance review report with respect to your office?

Q6. How much would you rate yourself on a scale of 1-10 w.r.t public service?

Q7. Why not 10 or 9.5?

Member 1:

Q1 Tell me something about Self-respect movement.

Q2 What is the Tamil Nationalist movement?

Q3 What is special about Thanjavur?

Q4 Geographical locations of Sandalwood forests in Tamil Nadu?

Member 2:

Q1. Why is there an opposition to Hindi from Tamil Nadu?

Q2. Why should Hindi be the link language? Why not people from UP learn Tamil?

Q3. Tell me something about one self-help/ motivational books you have read.

Q4. Comparison between private and public employment (w.r.t to my work) , which one you prefer and why?

Q5. Private employment offers more benefits in terms of salary than public employment. Don't you think so?

Q6. What is 3D printing? Its applications.

Q7. Can this room and building be built using 3D printing?

Member 3:

Q1. We had a monumental amendment that changed the constitutional landscape and how it is viewed? (Kesavananda Barathi case)

Q2. Tell me about the evolution of the case?

Q3. What is the ratio of the Consenting and dissenting judges?

Q4. Have your read about the dissenting judgements?

Q5. What is an unicorn?

Q6. How many unicorns in India and what is India's position with respect to the world?

Q7. Why less no of girls opt for mechanical Engg, and which branch has led to women enrolling more in Engg.? (The question was kind of not clear, he later said that he was talking about CAD/CAM)

Q8. What is Geo-tagging?

Q9. Why not location of industries be geo-tagged?

Member 4:

Q1. Discussed about Gandhi's visit to TN and an institute of rural development established in the state. What is the location and name of the institute?

Q2. Gandhi's idea of rural development and why he insisted on it?

Q3. How NSS helps in rural development, are students enrolling only for certification?

Q4. Has industrial development helped in the development of Villages?

Q5. How to develop skills and generate employment in rural areas?

Q6. How Sanitation has changed in the recent years in villages and if you become an administrator with respect to Water and sanitation, what will be your role?