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UPSC Interview Transcript 12: Sathiyavathy Mam Board/ Economics Optional

#Sathiyavathy Board / Economics optional / Textile Engineering

Date: 6th Feb, Forenoon Session (last to go)

Board: M. Sathiyavathy Ma’am

Education: B.Tech Textile Technology, IIT Delhi.

Optional: Economics

Other DAF Keywords: Mathura, Run for Laadli Half Marathon, Robotics, Football, Global Financial crisis, Infotainment shows.

Experience: 6 months Business Analyst @ Ola.

Category: Visually Impaired (PwBD-2).

 

Chairperson
  • What are you doing since 2019?
  • What did you do in your job?
  • Why did you not prepare for job?
  • What is Run For Laadli?
  • What is the status of women in UP?
  • First, tell me about the scene in Mathura.
Member 1
  • Why so many widows in Vrindavan? Why not somewhere else?
  • What would you as administrator do for widows in Vrindavan?
  • But will talking to a widow’s family work?
  • Are most of these widows Bengali? (Sorry sir)
  • So how do you show leadership?
  • How would you build consensus during communal violence? (I mentioned consensus formation in last answer).
  • But nowadays there is no leaders in violence. (I said religious leaders above).
  • I said nowadays there is a hidden leader which is social media and we need to check such instances. 
  • You mentioned Eastern UP & Bundelkhand (I did in an answer), why are they relatively backward?
  • Is enough being done for these regions or are they just exhibitions of poverty?
Member 2
  • What is the Aspirational District Program?
    • Is it even working?
  • So you are a textile engineer, tell me about the economics of the textile sector of India.
    • Why small countries doing better than India in textiles?
  • Cross question on labour costs.
  • What can be done to lower labour costs in India?
  • I mentioned focusing PMKVY-like schemes on textiles, to which the chairman intervened and said isn’t that already a part?
Member 3
  • Monologue on gender equality, what to do?
    • All that you said sounds good, but what to do realistically?
  • Monologue on family as the first place to bring a change for gender equality. 
    • Why so many crimes against women in UP which is increasing day by day?
  • You play football, what position?
    • What major events have happened regarding football in last 1 year?
    • Name the quarter-finalists of FIFA WC. (Actually wanted semi-finalists)
  • Anything else? (I said U17 women’s World Cup in India)
  • He replied you missed the great Pele died.
Member 4
  • You have economics optional. What is Development economics?
  • Name a few economists working in this field?
  • What has India done on the lines of development economics?
  • What is taught in Textile engineering in IITs?
    • Is anything taught about machinery and production?
  • Tell me about handloom sector in India.
    • How can you use what you learned in engineering for handlooms?
  • Anything related to technology upgradation and machines for them?
Member 3 Again
  • How would you distinguish a saree whether it is hand-woven or power loom? 
    • I said uneven texture.
  • Again asked can you do it while a shopkeeper tries to sell it to you by claiming it as handwoven?
    • I said, that will be very difficult for me.
  • They all had a chat about this topic and laughed.
Chairman Again
  • Chairman asks what is the difference between fibre, filament, yarn and thread. Corrected me once, I said thank you.
  • Your interview is over thank you and all the best.

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