 morning sir morning sir yes sir sir I got into Indian forest service last year so I have joined it but I have not yet joined the training I'm on leave yes I qualified for IDS as well but I opted for Indian forest service yes sir I find that in the last 20-25 years people have become more religious they have more faith in God is it correct or wrong sir different sociologists have read this differently there's an there's a growing opinion that in the last few years people religious beliefs of people are getting stronger one of the reasons is that in the fast-paced modern life people need something to cling on to something to derive strength from so religion is some is a tool which has which is serving that purpose on the other end we are also seeing that the number of people who don't entirely believe in God is also increasing so both situations have both situations are happening but the demographics of the quality sir the base of it equality can be we can begin use the preamble to see how many types of equality are there we have a political equal this political equality there's economic equality that we talk about and the social equality as well which is considered equality before the law yes there's also equality before the election equal protection of the law and then equal opportunities that should be available to people okay you studied something what was the subject in the forest service sir it was forestry in geology forest so that something works yes tell me in nineteen nineties tool can go up to two zero zero five what have been developments in the biodiversity conservation so from nineteen nineties to nineteen ninety to twenty two thousand five we have seen that project elephant has come into existence under which we are taking measures to conserve the number of elephants that we have apart from that in 2002 we had biological diversity app under it we are recognizing the rights of indigenous people over the local biological resources and we have also amended by life protection act as well in 2002 under which we have acknowledged community reserves conservation reserves so these are some major globally I'm so globally we had a convention we had a meeting under the four of you UN three conventions came out of it UNF so this is some most important you're forgetting so the something in nineteen ninety five sir the UNF triple C was implemented through something very important at least for India sorry sir I can't see sorry sir I'm case Godavarman case I'm sorry sir I'm not read forward sorry sir I'm Godavarman case is permet Ethal going on and it has changed the sake of forestry environment environment in the country how the governments institutions by behaving and now tell check up how many relative What is the difference? Sir, in all India services the operational control is with the state governments and the officers are distributed across the state or as far as central services are considered all the officers are directly under the control of central government. What about postings and all? Sir, it depends on the offices of central India, central government. Central government officers can be posted anywhere in India? Yes sir, it entirely depends upon the office. And all India service officers can be posted only generally? Generally in the state to which they belong to the carder data. Then why it is called all India? Is this normal type? Sir, by all India services the meaning that is to be derived is that the people who get selected for all India services they could belong to any state but eventually they could be serving in another state as well as and then the central government could also recall them as part of the duty. Okay, you know finance commission, they do all a lot of the recommendations that is accepted by the government. In the case of local bodies there are two types of funds, tide and tide. Tide funds also have been recommended and those are being given to. What are those types? Sir, the tide funds are usually they there are certain purposes which have been defined. I just want to know the purpose. Yes sir. Sir, for example there is the local water bodies in the conservation that is one thing apart from that sir I don't think I am able to recall right now. Sanity. Okay, you are an electrical engineer from IIG Kanpur right sir. Then what is the difference between electrical and electronics engineering? Sir, majorly in electrical engineering we are talking about current levels of current which are higher than which are in MPs. Well in electronics those currents are less in mini milliamperes or so. No sir, apart from that in electrical engineering we usually talk about conversion of other sources into electricity. In electronics we use that miniscule current to get some other purpose. For example in sensors we are we are we are trying to use it for detecting proximity and those kind of things. Good, your option is sociology. Now you know what is happening in Afghanistan from a sociological point of view how do you look at it? There any sociological implication of the whole thing? Sir sociologically speaking the current government which will now be headed by Taliban it would be alienating certain sections of society which we have seen through the exodus of people from the country. Secondly there would be impact on women of the society. We have seen that Taliban is not very conducive towards the right of women and that is already something happening so a large chunk of population would feel undermined by that aspect. Apart from that even in the globalization project that we have been talking about which has been ongoing since decades that is something which will be heard given the kind of development that have preceded Taliban coming into the power and which will now happen. Sir we have seen that Pakistan has been supporting Taliban and it considers Afghanistan as an area which provides strategic. Only Pakistan? Sir there are other countries as well in the earlier times we have evidence of countries like Saudi Arabia also supporting Taliban. So sir but one of the since we have better relations with Saudi Arabia right now one of the major concerns going forward for India is going to be the support of Pakistan to Taliban and the factor that these now the Taliban has Afghanistan under its control it could be used as a safe harbor for terrorists and they could operate out of it and cause problems in India. You didn't mention China at all? Yes sir China is already developing relations with Taliban and it has some projects undergoing in Afghanistan those projects will also probably continue. Last question what is FRBM? Sir FRBM act was passed in 2003 fiscal responsibility and budget management act it was later amended in. So what does it give? Does it give any roadmap? Yes sir the amended act provides for reducing fiscal deficit to around 3% by 2024 it also talks about reducing the revenue deficit and the public debt of the governments the central government has to be limited to 40% while that of state governments has to be limited to 20%. What is internal brain drain? Sir internal brain drain has two aspects that we can talk about one of which is the brain drain within the country for example people from less developed part of the country like UP or Bihar they move out to better developed parts where we have a economic and education opportunities and we can also talk about brain drain in the sense that the public sector or the state is not attracting many people not educated or otherwise and there are other chose working for MNCs or other such. How do you see IIT and the bright students coming into coming out of their stream of education and field of work coming to the public service? Sir in my opinion people from technical background who have received a particular kind of education when they are opting to join a public services it helps in terms of making sure that the right talent is allocated at the right place because often we have seen that people realize what they actually want to do at different times in their lives. So sir rather than getting bogged down by the sunk cost fallacy as in the problem of the cost that has already been invested you should be future looking and see what other developments they could bring in public services. Secondly some public services also benefits by having people from different backgrounds with different kind of knowledge and so public services paramount and it is only present. Have you heard of become RODT, ROTTAP? Yes sir. Sir ROTTAP is a scheme which aims to promote exports the what they what the scheme does is that it it stands for remissions of duties and taxes for exported products. So the products which are exported out of the country the duties that have been paid by the exporters indulging with those products that is remitted back to them. The logic is that we do not want to export our taxes out of the country we just want the cost of the product to reflect in the price. Have you heard of duty drawback? Sorry sir I am not entirely sure. The definition which you have told that will fit into the duty drawback okay and RODTAP is a little different from what you said right number one. Number two why government has after so many years not only come out with this scheme? Sir earlier we had merchandise export incentivization scheme but that was declared as against provisions of WTO. So the government has come up with RODTAP which is supposed to be. What is the difference between MEIS and RODTAP? Sir I am not entirely sure. Okay you were answering Gundelk and non viability. Yes sir. Not only Uttarak and Shashish they are telling on us that these are all good examples and what I see is you are so much biased against the leaders of Bundelkhand region. You blanketly you made a blanket statement that political accountability is lacking. How do you say that? Sir I do not mean to say that political accountability is lacking. What I meant was that the leaders who have suggested for carving out Bundelkhand as a separate state they have not been preferred by the electorate. I remember the last elections the 2017 elections when the party running on this platform they could only receive votes in three digits in my constituency. So sir I believe that there is no particular demand. If they become popular you accept separate statehood for Bundelkhand. Sir that would provide legitimacy to the demand and accountability could flow in afterwards if such a state is created but we will also have to see the administrative and economic viability at the same time. Economic viability there are so many other states, north-east and states also. We have small states and all. I do not know how I can accept your argument the economic viability. Statehood is not just based on economic viability. Okay. Secondly there is a difference between what you told because Mike I was provoked to say that until unless a political accountability is attained this state cannot become viable. That is what I said that is why I asked. Okay. That your UP's chief minister made a statement yesterday or today's news preparer has come. He slammed those people who are in social media being apologetic about telephones. What is your personal take on this? Sir in my opinion different kind of statements have flown in ever since Taliban has come into the park. Some people have expect that this would be Taliban 2.0 wherein they would respect all sections of society and would make it. At union level government is making all out efforts. It is weighing various options. Is it right on a part of chief minister to come out with a public statement like this against Taliban? Sir in my opinion we the chief minister a particular chief minister or other chief ministers coming out against Taliban is not something we can is not something which should be seen in a negative light as a negative light. There are definite concerns that we have with Taliban coming in power in Afghanistan. So people should be free to express those concerns but it's at the end of the day. But that is only your elected government at the center and they are far enough is their domain. And one state chief minister is directly attacking right or wrong. Taliban has captured power. They are the rulers. Now India has so many options in navigating in troubled waters. My pointer question. Do you agree that state chief minister making a statement on foreign affairs issue like this when government is already struggling? Sir in my opinion foreign policy of the country also reflects the concerns of different states. We have been talking about making states as part of our foreign policy. Different states organize different conferences to attract investments and all those kind of activities are happening. So sir given this kind of background a state chief minister if he or she has some concern against Taliban which they feel should be a part of her foreign policy or which should be a part of her negotiating tactics with Taliban. I don't think there's any problem. Last question. Explain Goss law. Goss law. I in electricity you made up very Goss law. Explain Goss law to a common man. You are writing a piece in a popular magazine. Anybody who really should understand what is Goss law? What is his practical application? Sir I am unable to recall right now. So what are the characteristics of official transactions? So mostly we look at patterns. There are any customer of credit card has spending patterns. For example there could be a particular limit which they typically operate at. There are certain locations which the card is usually used to make use of those kind of parameters and if let's say a person who is used to buying things typically up to 5000 larger transaction is being made out of that credit card it is probably fishy and it will be blocked. And for example similarly if a person is mostly purchasing items at NCR or a T-commerce portal and suddenly we see that a transaction is happening in let's say USA or some other location which is not expected that is something which will also be probably blocked. HTFC was suspended from issuing credit cards. What is that about? Sir RBI has had come up with a policy where the data had to be stored and processed in India. But this was not being complied by HTFC. So RBI said that they could not issue new cards. What is the status of it now? Sir only yesterday or day before yesterday they were allowed a certain I don't exactly remember the details they were allowed certain thing was allowed and some things were still under ban. Did you watch the independence day speech of the Prime Minister? Sir yes sir I read it. Can you tell us some key takeaways from the speech? Sir one of the primary focus was on participation of the people where the slogan of Sapka Sath, Sapka Vikas, Sapka Vishwas goes on to say that it has to be Sapka Prayas or everyone's efforts toward making sure that the next 25 years which the Prime Minister has dubbed to be the Amritkal or a fruitful period. We all have to take part in it. Secondly there's talk of Gati Shakti project which basically talks of investing in the infrastructure of the country. So these were the major two takeaways for me. Post COVID first wave and second wave both central government and state governments have initiated various measures to help the people. Relief measures. Can you think of some relief measures at the UP government and the central government as an issue? Sir the post second wave or post second wave in particular. Sir measures have been taken to ramp up the healthcare which will benefit the people in case there's an impending third wave. For example oxygen plants have been the number of oxygen plants has been increased and even the pediatric wards in different districts has been strengthened. Yes sir I can't recall any central government initiatives. Sorry sir none that I remember in particular after. How has the institution of family or marriage, institution of marriage transformed in the recent decades? Sir in India talking about India, earlier the marriage was more of a prerogative of the families and marriage in India has been considered to be union of two families. We are seeing that the choice of individual is something which is gaining prominence now and it is also becoming an important factor in marriages. Secondly, since the joint families, the concept of joint family is getting a little less traction now. We are seeing individual nuclear families coming up where the rights of women are more respected and their individuality is considered to be more. We are seeing trends of living relationship. The Rajasthan High Court recently said that living relationship is against the fabric of society and Supreme Court has a different view. What is your view on living today? Sir in my opinion two consenting adults if they decide to live with each other that is something which belongs to their private sphere and should not be interfered into. However, I do believe that there has to be some law which defines the liabilities of which defines the which regulates this institution. We have to come out of denial and accept that this is an institution which has come into being and we have to make sure that we have sufficient laws to regulate it. What do you understand by cultural lag? Sir cultural lag is a concept by Ogburn. It says that the technological advancement in a society, they proceed at a faster pace and the way society adapts to those changes, there is typically a lag between the two advancements. So that is cultural lag. You said you have been blogging from which year? Sir 2014. How has the blog sphere changed in the last 7-8 years since you have been blogging? Sir when I started there were usually wordpress or blogger owned by Google which was which were used by bloggers to put out their thoughts. Now we have this changed a bit through Kora. It is a question and answer side which later also delved into allowing people to host their own blog. The advantage with Kora was that people could write their thoughts based on particular questions as well. Then we had medium. The problem with Kora was that the independent thoughts which did not particularly cater to a question, those were drowned in the sea. So medium came and in medium you could highlight your particular interest and you would be able to see different posts by people who write on those topics. And now we have substack where people can write and other people could subscribe via email and they would receive a newsletter. Substack is also focused upon making sure that the creators of the content they get paid if the newsletter reaches out to more people. Their paying mechanism is better. Sir when I started I was a blogger so the major medium that I use is blogger. Sir you still continue with blogger you have not moved on to medium. Sir blogger is I post my the primary medium is blogger but I have but I am also making all those posts similar posts at other media as well. For example medium substack is something which I have not which I have not yet dealt into. So do you follow SEO principles when you write a blogger? Sir blogger allows you to develop to write to pick the keywords which your post pertains to. So sir I make sure that the keywords which I am using are something which are relevant to the blog and which are typically used during finding a particular topic. So football is a part of the project? Yes sir. Who won the single this time? Sir Brazil. Sir silver? Spain.