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UPSC INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT 2020 - Part I

  • Writer: Root
    Root
  • Mar 22, 2020
  • 2 min read

UPSC Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2019

Insight and a way forward 2020:



Candidate Details



1. Name

NANDHINI B


2. Age

25


3. Marital Status

UnMarried


4. Total attempts in CSE (including this one)

3 ( 2017,2018, 2019) 3 mains & 1 PT


5. Optional Subject

Tamil Literature


6. Schooling Medium

English


7. College Medium

SSN College Of Engineering, Chennai


8. Medium chosen for Mains answers

English


9. Medium chosen for Interview

English


10. Home town/city

Chennai


11. Work-experience if any

Nil


12.Service preferences (Top-5)

IAS,IPS,IFS,IRS


13. Preference for the first states in top-3 zonal cadres.

Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Kerala


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UPSC 2019 Interview Transcript
Union Public Service Commission

INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT


Date: 20/03/2020 Forenoon Session.


Who was the chairman of you interview board?

Sathyavathi Ma'am


How long was the interview?

30-35min.


Chairperson:

Showed my photo and asked is this you?

Read out the DAF aloud

1.Why civil services inspite of engineering?

2.Who is your inspiration?

3.Local self government -which constitutional amendment?

How is working of local self government in TN?

4.What are the functions of Local self government?

5.Who is in charge when elected representatives of local self government is not present?

6.What about proxies in Local self government?

6.how the finances are devolved to LSG?

7.Are state finance Commissions formed properly?

8.Do you write short stories?

9.Why are you not interested in sports?

10.what do you do to keep yourself fit?

11.Do you think it is necessary to be fit?


Member1:

1.What was your role in your college symposium?

1.what is reverse osmosis?explain the process?

2.how desalination is done?

3.SEBI and it's objectives?

4.what is RTI?

5.How it is misused?

6.What is BRI?

7.who is a whistleblower?

8.what is our relationship with Malaysia lately?

9.Do you know about Kandi in Sri Lanka?


M2:

1.Was economy in a good or bad shape before Corona?

2.what should government do?

3.How to increase consumption?

4.Does spending on infrastructure really helps?

5.why there is no powers to local self government?

6.Are bureaucrats reason for non devolution of power?

7.what should LSG do to improve rural development?

8.Role of local self government in women empowerment?


M3:

1.what is covid-19? Explain about it to me?

2.How can computers be used to control Corona virus?

3.Is social media being misused?


M4:

1.what is paradigm?

2.why our relationship with Malaysia was affected?

3.which other country was critical about Kashmir?

4.Why were they critical?

5.Which organisation works for the welfare of Muslim countries?

6.Is India member of OIC?

7.Recent OIC meeting and it's importance to India?

8.what relation we have with UAE?

9.who are the largest trading partners of India?

10.What is ASEAN?

11.How many members are there in ASEAN?

12.How is India's relationship with ASEAN?

13.What is our trade relationship with Russia?

14.are we supplying missiles to Vietnam?

15.Why South China Sea is important?

16.Why do we need to counter Chinese influence?

17.What is our relationship with Russia?

18.What is BRICS?

19.what do you know about NAM?

21.Another Organisation where India is a member?

22.How do to know about the Chennai to Vladivostok sea route?


Chairman

Thank you Nandhini, You May leave now.



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Urban acute water crisis: Who will provide water security ? Chennai's water wars #UPSC #GS1 #Mains

  • Writer: Root
    Root
  • Jun 18, 2019
  • 2 min read

Updated: Jul 4, 2019

Water scarcity is fast becoming urban India’s number one woe, with government’s own data revealing that residents in 22 out of 32 major cities have to deal with daily shortages.

Drought-hit Chennai has 1.3% of water in its reservoirs, one of the lowest in 70 yrs

This is the fifth lowest quantity of water recorded in the last 74 years.

Chennai is battling one of its worst water crisis in nearly 75 years. As the returning monsoon missed this part of the earth in November-December 2018, causing severe drought-like conditions, increasing water use and misuse by the coastal metropolis has raised questions on water sustainability and the city's resilience.


Chennai is battling sever water crisis with daily water supply of 550 mn l/day against a required 1,200 mn l/d
Chennai is battling sever water crisis with daily water supply of 550 mn l/day against a required 1,200 mn l/d


The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) started rationing in January this year due to severe water shortage. This resulted in bringing down the total daily supply to 550 million litres per day (mld). The demand for water in Chennai is about 1,200 million litres per day (mld).

 

During best of times, CMWSSB supplies about 830 mld. Media reports claimed that by June, the city will not get any water from its three principal sources — Red Hills lake, Poondi reservoir and Cholavaram lake.


From May 15, CMWSSB stopped drawing water from the Red Hills lake, which supplies 90-120 mld for the city. Local residents are having a tough time in the absence of adequate water supply.


Real estate developers have stopped construction work in major parts of the city due to water crisis. Hotels have cut down the number of working hours and said they will not provide thali (meals) as it uses up more water. For a 100 seat restaurant, 12,000 litres of water is used up every day, said M. Ravi, president of the Chennai Hotel Owners’ Association.


Residents from prime localities like Triplicane, Alwarpet and Mylapore have started shifting homes in search of water.


Rainwater harvesting pioneer and Chennai’s ‘rain man’ Shekhar Raghavan blamed the present scarcity on the failure of monsoon last year. The northeast monsoon has been deficient by nearly 50 per cent.


In this backdrop, it is important to note that Chennai has been a pioneer in rain water harvesting. As early as 2001, the building rules were changed making rain water harvesting structures compulsory. Ever since, for any new building to get plan approval it has to have a rainwater harvesting structure.


The dispute over sharing water from the Cauvery river between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka has further added to the distress. “Water has been a sensitive issue and nobody wants to share water with the other state. Demand keeps increasing all the time and source is dwindling. A state needs to become self-sufficient and not depend on others,” added Raghavan.



Reference: TOI, DTE, IH, TNM


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