 Good morning sir. Good morning. Thank you sir. How are you Preetam? I am fine sir. Thank you for asking. Tell me something about your interest in this watching documentary, big cats. Sir from young age I came across Discovery and Animal Planet channel. So there were shows mainly on lions, tigers etc. You appeared for forest service also? No sir. You appeared I think once? No. In my first attempt I appeared for forest service. What do you know about forest in India? So we have a variety of forest. The total forest cover is around 23%. Around? Around or something more? Inject number? Inject percentage? The forest and tree cover would go around 24%. I am not exactly showing the decimal points. How do we assess the forest cover? Sir the measurement is on three basis. Dense. What way we do that? How we measure it? I am not exactly sure but it can be satellite measures. Your good interest in national and international affairs also? Yes sir. Tell me what are the latest developments in India? In India or in India? In India. Sir recently we had elections to states. That is over a month now. In the last 2-3 days something is happening in India? So there is pedipracurement issue regarding Telangana. There was a controversy regarding Hindi imposition by many states. Something Ajadika. That has been continuously going on. But something is happening now in the last 3-4 days. Sir I do not recall that. Brick. Sassan is going to take place somewhere. Brick you know Brick? Brick's nation yes. Full form? Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa sir. Sassan is going to take place somewhere? The summit is planned to be hosted in China sir. India is participating? I have not seen any official statement on it sir. India will participate. But some efforts are being made by China? Yes sir. China won't Prime Minister Modi to represent India at the summit. It has come in paper? How? How they want? Sir I have read media reports but no official statement on that sir. I think there are some foreign ministers visited there? Recently sir the foreign minister visited India. Some fire incidents have taken place on the scooters, EV scooters. Heard of that? Electric scooters have been burnt very recently. Burned or caught fire? Caught fire. Caught fire. Sorry sir I do not recall that sir. You don't recall? Only state or UT where there are no grampan chives. Or all the states are having grampan chives? Rural areas, urban areas? I am sorry sir I don't know. You have grampan chives? You are from village or town? Yes sir I am from village. You have grampan chives there? Yes sir. Largest cricket stadium in the country? It is in Gujarat. Moteira cricket stadium that was innovated. And in the world? It is the world's largest also in the sitting capacity now sir. I think it has been renamed now? It is being renamed after our prime minister. Being renamed or renamed? Already done. Sorry sir I am a little blur on that. I do not recall exactly. Do you have power shortage in our country? Yes sir we have been facing cold shortage due to that. How much shortage? Any idea? It is coming in papers that one day shortage was that much? I do not recall it in hours. Thank you sir. Kotra sounds very much like Kota. Is it nearby? No sir it is far. Can you tell me about your Kota city? It is a village Kota in the local language. Sikar is the district? Sikar is the district. Can you tell me about Sikar district? What are the important attractions and things about your district? Sir there are few religious attractions like the Khatu Shyam Jeen Mataji Other than that sir we have many famous forts and havelis like the Luxembourg Fort etc. Other than that sir Sikar is also emerging as an educational hub in Rajasthan after Kota. So these are few things sir. Energy basket India's energy basket where to be what kind of energy sources do we have where do we get it from? Sir we have a major dependence on fossil fuels like coal, oil and for coal also we import around 30% for oil we import our 85% in the natural gas we import our 55% of our LNG from Qatar mainly and other than that sir there are renewables like solar wind etc. Other than that we have nuclear energy which accounts for around 2% of our installed power capacity. Okay. You are following the latest developments in international relations. Yes sir. Do you think for India geoeconomics is more important or geopolitics is more important? I am not able to exactly differentiate between the times. Geoeconomic is the economic interest of the country. So sir I am not able to Sri Lankan crisis what are the positive things for India from the Sri Lankan crisis? So one thing is that Sri Lanka has stored India's help and there is throwing off ties from earlier times. So that is one thing. Secondly sir China is kind of seen as the Sri Lankan people are also seeing that the Chinese side has been putting Sri Lanka in its death trap. So that there is a certain resentment among public also regarding that sir. How can we use this to improve our relationship with the remaining neighboring countries? Sir we can use like China has been approaching Nepal and Bangladesh etc. So Sri Lanka gives us an opportunity to showcase other countries that how Chinese policy is completely in its way without any thought to the welfare of the other state. So that can be a caution for other countries to trade cautiously with China sir. Okay. You are familiar with IUCN red list? Yes sir. Can you tell me the categories in IUCN red list? Sir we have critically endangered, endangered vulnerable near threatened least concerned and some have insufficient data and in the extreme we have wild extinct in the wild and then is completely extinct. Can you classify the big cats in India into these categories? Sir lion and tiger are endangered. Leopard and snow leopard are currently vulnerable sir. Cheetah. So we do not have cheetahs in our country. They went extinct around 1950s. So that is extinct? In India. Watching documentaries on big cats. What are your key takeaways from this watching documentaries on big cats? Sir it gives me a perspective about wild that how things are in wild it is a completely different world from us. So that is one thing. Secondly sir it gives me perspective about how critical it is to balance nature. We cannot disturb nature and how in some documentaries they show the extent of ecological degradation that has taken place and has been harming this and due to their impact on other species also. So there is a complete imbalance in the ecosystem regarding that. Finally sir I also have seen some of the steps that we can take regarding these to save or to preserve our. You are familiar with the concept of tiger senses. What kind of technologies are used for the process of tiger senses? I am not aware of the technologies but we use both pug marks and stripes in the current app which we camera capturing technologies there. So we put cameras in the places like where there is possibility of capturing images and then we evaluate them so we come across the number. If you were to highlight three most important international interest in a general affairs from national perspective and from global perspective. Three major important events right now. Sir one is the Russia Ukraine crisis. Secondly our neighborhood crisis that both in Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Thirdly sir I would say the rise of China or the aggression by China shown on many neighbors. Thank you sir. Can you comment on the Russia Ukraine peace talks and where is it heading? So both countries have held dialogues in Turkey recently and both have given assurances that we will figure out a way diplomacy but the aggression or the violence is not stopping. Russia has said that we will not stop the war while the talks are on so they have been going parallel. What is the objective of Russia? Sir while declaring the special military operation President Putin gave that we are aiming for demilitarization as well as the Nazification of Ukraine so from their point of view these are two basic objectives. Zero COVID policy which is being followed by China. China sir has taken a strict view of the COVID cases so whenever a case crop up in any place it takes harshest measure and lock down the entire place around it so that it does not spread and China is aiming for zero cases so that is called zero COVID policies. India US 2 plus 2 dialogue is still going on. What is the 2 plus 2? Sir it is meeting at the ministerial level where our external affairs minister and defense minister hold a meeting with their counterparts in USA. Who are the counterparts? Sir we have Anthony Blinken their USA's foreign minister foreign secretary and their defense secretary is Mr. Lloyd. I do not recall the first. I think Blinken is the defense secretary. Just take a look when you go home. So what were the outcomes of this dialogue? Sir both countries took a review of the strategic partnership and all that we will be cooperating on many areas like climate change, emerging technology etc so it was a broad discussion on the ties going forward sir. What are the US's criticism of India's approach towards the Ukraine crisis? Sir USA has continuously hold the opinion that India is not being strict in its condemnation of Russia and USA has also called for stopping the energy or the oil that we are purchasing from Russia. You also play volleyball? Yes sir. What does the Indian team do at the international level and who is the captain? For Indian women we have Chenawala and from the mains we have Karthik Ashok at the moment captain. We have not been doing well at the international level. We do not qualify for Olympics. We are ranked very low around 80s and 90s in the international rankings. Which countries do well in the international competitive volleyball? Sir in men we have Brazil, USA Russia, France Italy, Poland and sir in women we have China, Brazil Russia and sir France also does well in women volleyball. Ok last question. What is load shedding that we often get to your electrical engineer? Load shedding is when the demand of electricity surpasses the supply so to maintain a balance some load is said like a certain village or a certain part of city would not get electricity. That is load shedding. Thank you sir. Have you seen Sherney? Movie? Yes ma'am it has been a while but I have seen the movie. So what happens to the main character? She is founded at the end the Tigress. She is the main character and what happens to the forest officer? Forest officer have important role but I believe that the Tigress was the main character. But what happens to the forest officer? She was transferred now. So if you were in the place of this forest officer would you have handled the situation differently? She took very honest and precocious measure while performing her duties and I do not think ma'am I could have done any different from her. She was upright in her duties now. Okay. Jalshakti mission How is it connected with Rajasthan? It is in news right now Rajasthan for some reasons. How it is connected with Rajasthan Jalshakti and Rajasthan? In general I know but I do not know the current news. Is there any canal issue going on in Rajasthan? It has been coming in news almost every day. There is the river interlinking project of Chambal, Parvati and Kali Sindh. So that has been in news for some time now. You do not know the reason why it is coming in news right? Rajasthan government is asking the centre to declare it a national project and fund it. So that has been an example. Okay. Take out forts, palaces and deserts from Rajasthan. So how will Rajasthan introduce itself? Sorry ma'am I could not. I mean Rajasthan would still have a great culture. We have our cuisines like dal vati churma less empty chutney etc. So food is one. Second is ma'am the Bishnoy committee that co-habitation co-existence of nature with humans is second that Rajasthan is second that Rajasthan is identified with. Okay. Fine. Good. So do we have presidential elections coming in India? Yes ma'am. When? This year only, later this year. And can you briefly tell us the process? Presidential The presidential election of the president? It is conducted by election commission of India. Electoral college include the elected members of state legislative council as well as assemblies and that of parliament. Both the houses? Yes ma'am. Okay. One last question. You are from a village. So tell us about one of the most successful welfare schemes in your village? Ma'am I would say it is Mandrega. Okay. And what has led to its success? Ma'am I see people who do not get work regularly. They do take part in the MG Naregazov that come up. So it helps in stress or distress in economic terms. So and there is a huge participation of women especially. So that helps the children in their families to join schools etc. And so I think I am due to these reasons. Thank you.