IAS 2008 Interview Transcripts #21

Hat-trick with UPSC

Its 28th March. Interview was scheduled afternoon. Went with 2 other interview-goer frns to UPSC.
Again I was unlucky to be the last/5th member of the day. I had to wait from 1 30 to 5 30 for my turn but what to do? then chatted with others for a while , they include Deepa, Miss Dubey , Ravi and Zakeer Ahmed. When it was her turn, The first lady was so confident that she got up and said we will meet again in FC. :-) Then we all got engaged in some chitchat as one by one took their turn. It's as if narrated in Mahabharata. Each of the pandavas get out to get water but not to return. We don't know what is happening.

Now lemme brief about the main stuff-----

It was Parveen talha's board, supposed to be one of the good boards.

Brief of the questions.

on hindu , did u see the 50 years that age column ? I might have come across but not recollecting
say yes or no? No madam -- this is the main draw back

y u quit the job
dont u know that a bird in a hand is better than two in a bush?
do u think exit polls are good or bad?
problems of electronic media companies
then y cant they go for staggered news instead of 24 by 7

sebi
any scam which it probed? Yes bank IPO
what did it do ? barred some
name them ? gave up again

cyber security
cert and what does it do?
IT act

agripedia
village knowledge centre


geography:
hawaain Islands
panama canal
baikanur
time difference as we move by 1 longitude
seismic zones in india
where does delhi NE and HP fall
whats the problem ? dam burst
dont u knowabout run off the river scheme? what is its problem? temporary dams
name one such dam ? Pareechu
where is it ?

IPO fPO