 Good morning ma'am. Yes ma'am. Ma'am, my name is Srishti Jayant Deshbukh and I belong to Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. I have done my graduation in chemical engineering from Lakshmi Narayan College of Technology, Bhopal itself. And I have done my schooling from Kamil College School. Some of my hobbies are yoga and meditation. And I look forward to join the civil services because they provide me a platform to work for the social welfare at the grassroots level. Chemical engineering is a subject that I chose for graduation because I had an interest in chemistry and sciences. Civil services was there in the back of my mind from earlier itself. And chemical engineering itself is a field that has varied applications. And whether it is disaster management or environmental engineering, manufacturing, there are a lot of issues with which chemical engineering is associated. And so I think my knowledge would definitely be helpful. Madhya Pradesh is very rich in whether it is natural or other heritage places. So some of the sites, for example, madam B. Sachi Stupa, which is the Buddhist stupa site. Then apart from it, Khajuraho temples are really famous. They belong to the Meribana. Then apart from this, Pachamadi Biosphere Man and Biosphere Reserve is also a very important site. That is the only hill station, Madhya Pradesh. Because apart from the ancient time, there are a lot of lakes here. The present condition is not that really good. But about 50 to 70 years ago, we had 11 to 12 lakes. Today the condition is that two lakes are very properly maintained. One is the upper lake and the other is the lower lake. And in the old area, there are a lot of lakes even today, 5 to 6 lakes. Yes, lakes as part of the environment are really important. They not only somehow help regulate the temperature, provide a cooling effect, but at the same time for the biodiversity, lakes are really important. In that sense, lakes in Dupal as a chemical engineer said that they are used for drinking water purposes. So city supply systems for water are sourced from the lake. So properly if they are polluted, then the entire health system of the city might collapse. It is really important that both the primary, secondary and tertiary water treatment systems are properly working so that the pollution levels are controlled and the purity of the water is enhanced. Yes. I do unfortunately acknowledge ma'am that Madhya Pradesh is lacking behind in health parameters as you rightly stated. Infant mortality rate is the highest in the country. Which is 50 children per thousand. So as a district collector, given an opportunity, I think we need to first work on the very basics that the women should be of a mature age. As it happens, women are married early. They have very low levels of nutrition. 56 to 70% of women are anaemic. So I think the first is that we make sure that women are getting nutritious diet as the different programs are also going on the ICDS and others. So all of these institutional deliveries also need to be made sure after that vaccination levels are something that I will focus on because only 42% vaccinations prevalent as of now, which is very low. And apart from that, hygienic diet should be ensured. In the first 1000 days when the child is born, that golden days, so that the adequate level of nutrition can be maintained and the health levels could be improved. Passive euthanasia, as it has been recently allowed by the Supreme Court in the Common Cause case. I see passive euthanasia as a good start because there are a lot of people who are in the permanent vegetative state and are unable to live properly. They themselves have such intrusive medical equipments that they hurt their bodies as well. Even the pressure is on the family members. They are not able to either take care of them or improve their condition. So in such scenario, passive euthanasia should be allowed and on a case-to-case basis, if the proper care is taken by the district administration and the medical board, I think it is a good move in that direction. My question is going on in Shabri Mala. Do you think the women and the menstruating age should be allowed to enter into the temple premises? My personal take on this is madam, whether it is male or female, the right to worship should be given to one. I especially see that the women of the age of 10 to 50 years who are mature and of menstruating age are not allowed. But I see it as a discriminatory fact and I see that I think that this is a relic of tradition that should be gone. The menstruation, a lot of time, the polluting element has been associated with it. But as we have developed in biological sciences and other fields, we must understand that it is a part of the women's body and I don't think that it should be considered polluting. And that is why I believe that women should be given entry to Shabri Mala in line with the Supreme Court judgement. There is a fair of the current issues which are going on there. There is a hartaal. There were three to four people who were killed yesterday and the entire community is in a mode of a backlash. And even though the authorities are in a position to implement the orders of the court, the local community doesn't perceive it the same way. On one end, if you see the directive of the courts have somehow intervened into the customary practices. And don't you think that these things should also be taken into consideration? There are many other temples in the country where women are allowed to worship and there are also temples where men aren't allowed to visit. So why can't one maintain the sanctity of that particular temple and let it go just like that? Madam, different issues. I'll just try to address it. Beginning with the first point that there are many temples where men are not allowed. Now, in that case, men as a class are not allowed. But in the case of Shabri Mala, it is not that women per se are not allowed. It is that women of a particular age are not allowed. In that sense, that is discriminating. The second thing coming to the traditions and the customary laws, definitely traditions and norms come in the historical traditions once they are followed for a lot of years. But India has had this experience. We are a transitional society that we have been advancing the head and a lot of other issues, say triple the lack or infreend to other mosques. All of these are coming up as an issue and we are taking it as a society. I think even in this issue, we should respect the fact that the society is moving forward. And I understand that the local traditions to some extent might be against it. I know that it will take time for the local people, even the women and the men to understand that the women should be given rights. But I believe that the government should be pursuing it. I'll try to compare this issue with the entry of Dalits in the temples. Even at that time, there was a lot of opposition to it. The very fact that the Dalit would walk in front of the temple was considered defiling. And we have come far ahead as a society. So I think that even in this issue, there will be certain developments, certain opposition. But I think one should persevere on this front and another thing as you asked about the customary traditions, one of the arguments of the Sabarimala site issue is that Lord Ayyappa is a deity who has very special requirements or any such thing of his own. And it is said that he is celibate. So this thing is that women should not be allowed. My personal take is that the worship of a woman in any form would defile the celibacy of a God. And we all, I think, the women do worship Lord Ayyappa at home. But I think they should be allowed in the temple as well. Especially with respect to the citizen's register. The current issue in Assam with regard to the national register of citizens that is made in accordance with the Assam Accord of 1985. A lot of people have been left out. The numbers estimate that about 3 million people have not got their names in their register. And they are also unable to prove their citizenship. I believe that this issue has multiple perspectives. The first is the security point. There have been reports that illegal migrants have been coming from neighboring countries. Unfortunately, like Bangladesh, etc. And there have been certain activities which can be anti-national. So there's one perspective that we need to make sure that we understand. And the integrity and security of the country should be the first good. The second issue, which is a very humanitarian issue, is that many people came here. And in the olden times there were no birth certificates. Even the lands, they could not get registered. So they have been living here for so long, but they are unable to prove it. And now their cases are pending in front of the foreign tribunals. I think there should be additional time given to these people so that they can prove their claim for citizenship. And again, I would also add that the further developments do not really show that there could be any sending back of these people to Bangladesh if at all they are found that they are from there. So we need to step up cooperation with Bangladesh and other neighboring countries as well to come up with a comprehensive solution. Anti-agging wing. The anti-agging wing in my college was intravenous. Making sure that all of the young students, the first year students, who joined the college and after that anybody and whoever is junior to us was taken care of. The fact that anybody should not harrass the person or put him or her in an uncomfortable situation, something that could be against her or his personal understanding of decency. So some of my experience was interested with the bus so that anybody who was boarding the bus and the entire journey, I was making sure that nobody is misbehaving and I tried to ensure that a friendly atmosphere is created and a proper friendly interaction could be conducted because that is also important. We also got to learn a lot of things from our seniors and I tried to communicate that to my juniors as well. Gender development index and gender inequality index. In my perspective, gender development index, I think, is the measure of how well the different development indices like that of education, health, employment, all of these are accounted for the women and for the males as well, especially I think the focus will be on women because they are the ones who lag behind in a lot of issues and the gender inequality index would be a specific comparison with the males to let us understand the deficit where women are very much lagging behind and there are inequalities. For example, the women are paid less in employment sectors wherever they go, whether it is formal or informal. That will be a prominent measure in the gender inequality index. In the GST collections, per se, I was just reading a report recently in a newspaper. They said that 90,000 crore was the collection in a month about something around it, but we have not been able to reach the ideal figure of 1 lakh crore. So that is a cause of concern, that is one. Given the fact that in the 31st meeting, the GST council has taken out a lot of commodities from the 28% slab. So I think going forward, but yes, there's one more thing that the income tax returns, the filing has increased and the direct tax to GDP ratio has also increased to 5.98%, which is like the highest. So I think that we need to give GST some time because in service taxes is integrating the economy together with the other factors. I think the collection should come up in the years to come, but probably in the recent months there could be certain glitches in it. And another thing, if you allow me to... There's some issue with regard to the compensation given to the exporters. Probably they are not able to get their... I'm just forgetting the term that is used, that levy they are unable to get it. So that is a concern for the exporters, which should be addressed very soon and technological issues should be stepped up. The platform should be such that it should be able to handle the massive transactions in a big country like India. Yes, the objectives madam, if I were to state in a very brief, the attacking the black money, making sure that it is not in circulation, trying to curb the menace of counterfeit currency and also corruption in that front. As far as the results are concerned, the RBI reports say that about 99% of the nodes came back. So that is a thing that we would say that not a very positive result. Otherwise, the counterfeit currency somehow has come down, but I will say that a lot of progress has been made with regard to the compliance of a lot of people. The compliance of the direct taxes has gone down. Sorry, I'm sorry, has gone up with the income tax filing. And another thing is that in this demonetization, a lot of data was generated for the tax department. Utilizing that data, the accounts, the big data I may call, further investigations could be conducted and they could be fruitful results on the same. So, geology? So, geology, my favorite thinker, my favorite thinker would be Max Weber. As I read about other theories, I felt that they were a bit extremist to say in a crude term. They were trying to, suppose, take, I would take a milder theme. He took a very scientific approach towards studying sociality. Karl Marx gave it a political flavor and divided things into haves and have nots. In that perspective, Max Weber has used an interpretativist approach wherein he understands that human beings have emotions and there could be certain things that a human could perceive and in his perspective, there could be certain changes. So, that interpretativist understanding of Max Weber was something that I really liked. Concept of synergy. I'm sorry, ma'am, I'm not aware of it. We constituted for improving MSME's performance, micro, small, medium enterprises. Two days back, are we aware of any terms of preference about it? Ma'am, with regard to the committee, I think the terms of... No, no. I'll try. Okay, ma'am, should I try with the terms of reference? I'm not really sure about it. Ma'am, should I go ahead? No, the terms of reference is what I asked you about the committee which was constituted for improving the performance of MSME. No, ma'am, not really. Not really, I'm sorry, ma'am. Okay, Shrishti, thank you. Thank you so much for your time, it's a pleasure. Thank you. You're just told on, aren't you? Ah, Shrishti. Don't use your audience in your time. Shrishti. Yes, ma'am. First, regarding the high points of the interview, first of all, your personality is very pleasing and you have a wonderful voice and intonation and your articulation is also wonderful. So overall, until you go and do some kind of mistake, the probability of getting less marks is very, very less. Okay? And the low points in whatever you have told today in the interview is, you have a tendency to go roundabout in answers. You're still in the main smooth, wherein you're targeting answers like that, wherein you have a little more time to answer here. The attention span is a little less. So you'll have to focus on giving specific answers. And that's one. And another part of it is, for a certain set of questions that you've asked, we thought that you gave little generic answers. You should improve on the specificity of tackling the keywords in the given question, then you're trying to put forth your answer. That's one another part which we want to say. Maybe you would go question by question so that you would also get an idea on where all you could improve. First of all, I think in your introduction to yourself, you did very well. You spoke very well about what we wanted to know about you. That part of it, there's nothing to change. The next part, ma'am asked you a question on chemical engineering and utility in civil services. For this question, the points that you wanted to tell was actually good, but then you didn't make it a little specific. For example, when they ask you, how will you utilize this in civil services? You'll have to talk about the various applications of civil engineering, which could be of help. Like ma'am was giving a clue a little later on, wherein she was talking to you on lakes and pollution and how as a chemical engineer you would work on targeting that pollution, right? So maybe you could go take a clue from what she had asked as a question. That itself could be put in as something that you can tell in your, why do you need to enter civil service or what exactly you can do there. So there, I think you could have gone a little more specific. The other question which was about the health, right? MMR and P9P25. I think you need to pick up from the question the key words you started answering. Of course, IMR is very high. So if you could also say a word about how high is the MMR in your state and how the female feticide issue is really an issue in the state with some numbers or some perspective. And then you as a district administrator said what are all the things which you can do. That was fine. But to control female feticide, I think you need to bring in lots of awareness in the society, right? So it's not a thing like by which you can improve the nutrition or anything else as an intervention. But it's basically a behavioral thing. So from your sociology perspective also, you could add some more things how you can address female feticide, right? So... I must that be sure that they understand each and every case. There's something which we also want to tell you. One is we have a very effective schemes for controlling feticide. But there is also a problem of incanticide in certain places, right? So in case you get questions like that then there are some successful models like what the state of Tamil Nadu has. It's called as the cradle baby scheme. Where in... the children who do not have adequate protection or the mothers who do not have adequate protection, the state takes care of those children. There is some kind of a scheme like that. So in that particular question which Madhav had asked you, your control strategies were very good. But actually the question on connecting those two aspects, I think that part of it you had a little... you missed out a little bit on that, okay? Yeah, sure. Yeah, and see Madhav, UNESCO heritage site, there are actually four sites, right? Kanjpani doesn't come under that. So you should be... in Betka caves and all that. So if you know only two, you mention only the two that you know, that's okay. It's okay if you don't tell answers to every question. And city of lakes part, pollution part, all that was fine. And the fact that you said... your opinion was actually very good. But then I think you could also cite a few cases. Like last year we've had a couple of cases. Maybe you could mention that either you go with the cases or you go with... you know some technical terms which we use in our subject that could also be another way in which you can substantiate the view on that particular answer. Just a suggestion from answer. Opinion was good. Shabrimala, you were like very good, very strong and very beautiful arguments. So you can maintain whatever you are telling in that. Very nice. Experiences, anti-ragons, that was also very good. The gender development and gender inequality index, I think man will tell you. I think gender development is exactly HDI. Human Development Index, studied across men and women. So you need to mention, you said about education health. Standard of living. Standard of living. So that needs to be known and gender inequality is basically studying health, education and empowerment. Of all the three things which have taken into consideration, health is the most important thing. That's where we study about this MMR, adolescent fertility rate, those things. So health is a major problem which is across the world causes the gender inequality. So they are international indicators both published by UNDP. We need to be... I'll study further. Just be precise on it. About the GST collection, I think there are lots of implementation issues that are going right now. I think you came to that part towards the end. You were telling about the direct taxes collection have gone up. I think when we are asking you about the domain of indirect taxes, pick up a amount of like those things and then say it. Or why is this exactly not happening? You have to reason it. You can see these are the reasons and therefore we need to improve upon it. If it is an implementation issue, we can say the government has to simplify the things. If it is an economic issue, say the economy is actually slowing down because why the collections are not becoming better. On the point, what you said about the reduction of the rate, I think the current tax thing got into your mind and you reflected upon it. That has to happen only in the future. Just now we have done it. We are counting it upon the retrospective thing. So maybe you should say it like this. Now that they have brought in brought down the rate of certain things, the collections may still go down and therefore implementation issues or other things have to be taken care of in a proper way so that the collections do not go down in the future. So you need to like pull in all the data and weigh how you can answer it. Demolitization objectives, you said it very precisely and correctly. It was like very comprehensive. And if you say three points, pick up each point and say whether you have achieved it or not. Instead of rather getting into a generalized way after to that, you said like black money circulation has to you pick up the first point and then say that yes, it has come down to the next one. The government was successful in wiping away because all the most like the major currencies are taken back and three monies are different things. However, corruption is still happening. Corruption, we can't say that it has been completely taken away from us. Counterfeit currency, of course we have addressed major things but still there is infusion of currencies that are coming from the border countries, other countries are even have the example of Bangladesh one time like pumping in lots of 2000 currencies inside the country. So we are in the crack of it but whether we have really achieved like be specific to the three points whatever you said. The last thing the last question which was about MSME please go back and read about SINGHA committee. They have a tendency of asking the current person within the 2-3 days, right? SINGHA. A recent committee has been constituted and in economics I think it's one like major area which they keep talking about micro, small and medium enterprises there are lots of issues right? So one tax issue we address rather this economic issue if we could also like be on track with the current affair we will be able to do that. Regarding this Nile Durkin and Synergy this is a question which is more to do with the collective conscience that's what they are referring to as a consensus. They are in the synthesis of the different people where he tells that the whole is greater than the parts and when he talks about society sui generis that's what he is actually referring to. So that is the concept that this matter. Thank you. So overall Shristi for the answers you ensure to bring a little more specificity to your answers and make answers like what you did for Shabarimala your opinion questions on that and the demonetization answer that we gave. If you are able to present answers like this at least like for majority of the questions which they are asking in the interview the scores will really spiral up like anything because you did these two questions really well they like hit gold there very good you have to maintain the consistency all throughout and if you do that I think it should be really fun. There are two questions can I ask you? The first one is that when a question is asked I am unable to like just respond that's why I take some time to build on the issue like the main move so could I just take some few seconds before I start doing anything can that be done? And then answering if you are taking to answer it is nothing wrong beyond 10 seconds if you think you need time then you request permission of the board say that can I take a few seconds to think and then do but up to 10 seconds it's pretty much accepted because sometimes the questions are very lengthy and to comprehend the question itself it might take you time and it would also be the case like you have boards constituting of people from different parts of India and the way they speak English might not be something which you could comprehend very easily so sometimes it could also be the case. And in case you get something like a case study kind of a question then please use the paper and pen in front of you and jot down the key points if you know that they are going a little lengthy and you are definitely not going to remember everything which you have mentioned normally what happens is you present it and would have missed out something and then we will ask sir can we please can you please repeat the question and even after we repeat it might not be in a position to answer because we have missed out on a lot of things if you think that the question is going lengthy you simply take the paper the paper is for you only take it and make jot down the points and then start answering the question do you have anything else to ask? In any case should I give a brief intro and take some cues from the question itself should I at least about one or two sentences taking from the question and then getting to the point is that okay or should I just hit the just whatever is asked only that can I take some one or two sentences to build a point issue. Sir this to be a repetition of what we have mentioned to repeat it you repeat it within yourself do not vocalize it and then maybe once you are ready with the answer you come out and you mention but do not repeat the question or do not do it in the mains mode and the very last question in the MSME question that you asked for example I was not aware of the committee but I was aware of the issues of MSME so should I have attempted the question or should I have said no. Right from the finance technology available right from the failing of rehabilitation they are the thing but if you are not specifically knowing and then in all the cases we may not be able to say that the terms of reference and the issues should be exactly point in that particular it is better if you read it answer it with confidence otherwise it is okay if you say that you do not know about it see there are two ways as Mam was mentioning one of it is like I know something about it and I do not know whether what I know is what exactly that the terms of reference are so in that case you are actually a very calculated guess so there are two ways to handle it one is you could mention to the board sir I am not aware of this particular thing but I am aware of a few problems which are really in the MSME sector so can I take a guess at it sir or can I that is one way you can do it on the other hand if you are like no clue whatsoever of what is it or what they are telling then you say nothing wrong we have had students out of 20 questions they have answered only 5 questions which are opinion questions and still they have made 190 plus so even if you do not answer a few questions it is pretty fine so the answer you should hit gold in that yes it should be like even after you leave they remember you for something that you have told or in the way that you have told something that is it yes ma'am ok thank you Shishna thank you both of you ma'am thank you so much