 Mr. Kaushik, what attracts you to the civil service? I grew up in Mehradun and I had access to education, health care and all basic amenities. But I realized that not everyone has access to these facilities in life and I also slowly realized the importance of it. So I want to help improve the quality of service in India and the quality of life of people. Hence I thought this would provide me with a good platform to do the same. Good quality of life is integrated. Now have you read in the paper yesterday that in the HDI index we have followed? Yes sir. What is our ranking? So we fell from 138th to 131st rank this year. Out of? Out of one. So if I am not wrong 187 countries. Okay. Now what are the parameters on which they measure the HDI index? Sir the three broad categories are standard of living which measures the relative income of the country. It is a secondary education which takes into account expected years of schooling. What is the standard of living? Yes sir. What is? The education parameter takes into account expected. Access to education knowledge. Yes sir. What else? That's our health. Health and healthy life. Healthy life. And third is quality of life. The top of quality of life. So what is the state of children below 5 years in our country? How many children would be there in India in this category? Sir I am not aware of the number. Okay. I will help you. About 12.4 crores. What is the... There was a national family health survey report which came out last week or 10 days ago. It is done by the government every year. So government carried out this survey covering 6 lakh households. 6 lakh. For the year 2015 and 16. Any idea what it says about kids below 5? Sir if you avoid that only we will talk. So the under 5 mortality rate is high. And so the infant mortality rate as I remember it to be 42. So that is also high. And so apart from the mortality rate it talks of nutrition. Okay. What is the figure here? Sir 42 infant mortality rate. Okay. Okay. Go ahead. And so the under 5 mortality rates I am not able to recall the exact figure. So I think it was around 157. Sure. But it says something more, much more than that. Apart from mortality we are slowly improving this rate. IMR and MMR. Yes improving. You know what is MMR and IMR? Yes sir. Infant mortality and better. But it says something about the health of those below 5. Yes it is a talk. It is a talk of the nutritional status. And so how the child wasting and stunting is a major problem. How many of those below 4 percentage are enemies? Any enemy? We need to be leaders. Say for example, I open up. Okay. Now the economics is a subject. Mr. Jetty while presenting the project stated that my main focus is on agriculture and environmental development, infrastructure development, poverty alleviation and fiscal deficit. As an economics expert tell me whether Mr. Jetty has kept his promise in the budget. So could I just take a few seconds. So I would start with fiscal deficit. So from that perspective we have a 3.5 percent deficit recently. So we aim for 3.2 percent. So even though if our BM says that we should get it to 3. But sir keeping in mind the scenario in the country of 3.2 is a very balanced target to have. So in that respect if we stick to our fiscal deficit target as we have in the previous year, it would be keeping the promise. So what about the other three areas? If we go to infrastructure, so the budgetary allocation was around 3.9 lakh crore. Very good, 3.95. It's a huge allocation. I got your answer. In fact of all the sectors infrastructure gets the maximum. Now let's move quickly to the agriculture. Sir agriculture we aim to double the farmer income by 2020. So let's come straight to the point. How much allocation? Sir I do not remember the exact allocation. But some few figures budget that 40,000 crore. 40,000 crore. Property allocation programs, what are those specifically they have been doing? Property allocation from the national... Safety net for the poor, landless. I guess landless, homeless. Now you can't do it. Sir the national tool employment guarantee... Very good, very good. How much? Sir I do not remember the figure. 40,000 crore. 40,000 crore. Very good. One is this. Another there are four programs I identify. There are several but major are four. So housing for all... How much? More than 29,000 crore. What else? Very good. What you have prepared? Sir poverty allocations are... Sir we have to adjust. Is it for the poor or for the rich? Sir for the poor... How much allocation? Sir for allocations... More than 2,000 crore. And lastly you have forgotten the most important. Who is subsequent? Subsequent. How much? 1,45,000 crore. One of these facts. That you also will be presented. Yes. Mr. Ujjala scheme. What is it? Sir Ujjala is an LPG scheme. Is it an acronym or something? Or just Ujjala means life. Sir it is an acronym sir. Sir I am not able to call the exacter. So it gives LPG benefit to poor households In the name of the... Ujjala and Krabu Ujjala. I am so sorry sir. So Ujjala scheme as far as I can remember was for LED program. And so providing subsidized LEDs to households. So what is the target? How much has been achieved? When was it launched? So it was launched last year. So what is the target? To provide how many LEDs? What do you mean by women empowerment? So women empowerment implies equal opportunities for women. And so that is from an external perspective. And so from the women's perspective it's giving each woman a faith and belief in her own capability to achieve her ambitions. So internally we have to empower them mentally, emotionally, financially. And so externally we have to create an environment where they can grow without any violence. So what has been done in this regard in recent times? So with respect to women empowerment to begin with even though the focus of the Narega plan was not on women 51% utilization is by women. So in that sense it gives them an employment opportunity. And so from that the new housing for all vision aims to give the house in the name of the women which would give her a greater decision making path. What else? Any legislation will empower women? Some maternity benefit act was passed recently. So it increases the maternity leave from 12 weeks to 26 weeks. How can it empower women to increase maternity leave limit to 26 weeks? How can it empower anything else which really empowers women under this act? It's only a facility you are giving that instead of 20 weeks you can have 26 weeks. And so organized sector has to provide a crash at the workplace for women. So in this legislation that will also help. Any other legislation? So in recent times? Yes, passed 1, 2, 3 years. So can I just take a few seconds to report? The amendment shall be made in some laws? Yes sir, after the December 2015 case the amendment was made to so the sexual act sexual harassment and sexual I'm not aware of the exact name of the act but so the juvenile justice act was changed and today accused me. Any other legislation like issue Indian Penal Code? You are from Nishrathant. But you have not given Nishrathant as your first preference, why is that so? Ma'am, I am very attached to the state and I would keep going back to definitely just ma'am, I thought that since I have seen Uttarakhand and I have seen a lot of new places. There were the flash floods last year. So what happened? Have we come back to the normal situation or are things still very bad? Ma'am, the flash floods are a seasonal pre-mortem feature. Ma'am, at that point of time there was a cloud burst especially the area in Uttarakhand the river was very high level. And now the immediate impact was that there was a landslide and the roads were broken. So ma'am, the building of roads has taken place. However ma'am, we are still prone to that again this year. So in that sense the administration is working. So do we have a disaster management agency in the country? We have the natural disaster management. So what sort of disasters do they impact? Ma'am, the NEM looks at natural, as well as man-made disasters, natural disasters, floods, earthquakes, recently droughts were also a major part of natural disasters. Ma'am, chemical biological leakages, nuclear disasters, so how many of these task force members are there in Uttarakhand? Do we have a response team or do they come from the center? Ma'am, we have a state disaster response force after the 2013 cloud burst of floods. Now have you heard of the smart city concept? Can you give me the ingredients and how many cities are going to be considered as smart cities? Ma'am, the ingredients of smart cities are, firstly it uses information and communication and technology to make cities more inhabitable, that includes better waste management, better buildings. So then tell me now, and this management, transport, safety, and now the urban local bodies would work in a special purpose vehicle along with private players, in order to leverage land. So how many smart cities have been decided on? Ma'am, as far as I can recall, 100. Okay, now, the smart city concept is also the hunger. Are you aware? Can you give me something for example? Mass electricity. I tell the vision of urban transport. Ma'am, it replaces the gender. And Ma'am, the difference is that now the approach taken is more, it gives more autonomy to the urban bodies. Earlier they would have been appraised of the scheme by the centre and only then funds would be released. Now the funds, they would just look at the plan and release funds unconditionally. And the last question, you heard of NETI IOC. So NETI described what the NETI IOC is, what is its purpose and what is it? Ma'am, the NETI IOC is a think tank that caters to planning in a mixed market economy like India. Planning doesn't have to be centralized and imperative anymore. They function as a guidance to planning. It also provides members Mr. Amitabh Khan One of the chief ministers is the United States and UK. And the leader of the action is Mr. Amitabh Khan. Particles of prizes, medals, schools, etc. are mentioned in the publication on credit ratings in emerging markets. For the light of that, what they get? Sir, in the research, I think that specifically breaks nations. So the sovereign rating assigned to these countries, what is it based on? So according to standard and poor... Sir, I did a quantitative analysis of... So they said the quantitative factors taking in world fiscal health, growth rate, inflation, deficits... What kind of conclusions would you draw? Sir, that these rating agencies also give themselves a little event of qualitative factors. For instance, between India and Russia there weren't as many reasons to have a difference in ratings. So we are the last investment rates at triple B minus. So without bias, I would place it above triple B minus because India has a history of never developing on its own. Okay. So let us develop economics. In specific development that we have been monitoring? Sir, recently on a global level so I have been reading a lot about de-globalization and fallout of globalization, how we are moving countries are moving towards a more inward looking world. What is your aim? Tell us briefly on that, what is the drain that you are going to notice? Sir, starting from the United States there are some signals that you get. So the United States, when you form TPP and the president thinks that they would want to withdraw from the world tree organization which they could. So Brexit is a sign of them moving away from the European Union. Okay. Now, India has been appreciating play and I think yesterday this was the highest level in 17 months. What is the significance of the country? Sir, I am appreciating that I have mostly effected our exports and so imports would also become more expensive. So it would give a positive signal to FTI so we could have more foreign investment coming in. So even what might act as a positive signal, it would be a challenge for the export industries. How much information do you have? Sir, around 335 billion dollars. More than 360. What is the impact on the products in this country? Yes, sir. How much capital do you have? Sir, we have more than 5 years of capital. Sir, we are comfortable of the current economy. Why we are living in this? Sir, previously committees like Taurapur committee were being set up. So we feel that it would expose us to greater quality than we normally. And so learning from the Asian crisis in the late 90s when they opened up the capital market, so the currency fluctuation But that is an ongoing process, you know. So that means the perpetuity we don't take a decision on that. Sir, we have vulnerability will be there always. So we have been relaxed. So for instance, external commercial war wings are more, we have a liberalized reputable scheme in capital account. So slowly we have to tackle the last question. Sir, you have studied economics. Can you share your reasons? Sir, the climate in Asia tended to have low aggregate demand during the recession. In the fiscal policy sense it is very vulnerable to India because the government constantly uses and will be required to use fiscal policy to move the country towards poor employment. And the government should die instantly? Sir, where not? Sir, I would also like to answer. Thank you. So we close the interview. Let's see how you perform and if you feel bad. Why civil service? You said quality of life, you want to improve the quality of life. My suggestion is don't make these statements. Just say that these are the highest services in the country. So it will be a personal achievement. If you give me a sense of achievement, I can make it to a new service. At the same time, this will provide me a unique reform of public service. We should know the service in the country. Don't go into those that I want to, some people say I want to transform society. Do you want a great career? Do you want an opportunity for public service? This opportunity is available. Keep it simple. Then check upon this health indices. This is a burning topic with the national health policy. National health survey. HDI index. Who is number one in this index? It's an HDI index. Skeptical countries generally score the best. Now budget, I ask you only one question. Some you could give, but other replies were inadequate. So take a second look at budget. Have you got a copy of it? Not the whole thing, but just highlights a little bit. Read it again and again. You still have time. Read it every day like a Bible and like a prayer book. So you will get a lot of data. You will be able to find a number of questions. You know there are three things. Ujjola, Ujjala and Ujjul. You know all that? Someone can ask you to distinguish and tell you what is it. So how is Ujjul doing? Ujjul is at the other thing. What is Ujjul doing? Ujjul is calm. Women empowerment, you got stuck at legislation part. Now they have so much legislation. You know anti-doubting laws, 498A, IBC. Just check. Go to internet and say legislation empowering women. They will give you 7-8, keep it ready. Smart city, you know how much money has been allocated. Total money, government will give you more. Smart cities, total over 5 years. You know it's a 5-year scheme. 500 crores each. The average is already 48,000 crores. What is the allocation this year? No idea. I think 4,500 crores. Maybe I have another important step. Just check how it is working properly. Disaster management is also an RDF scheme. Then we come to rupees 10. It helps our imports. But it reduces the income of the exporters. But in the long run what is better? Should it become weak or should it become strong? You check how I think strong rupees will be comparatively better than the weak. Then foreign reserves, more than 360 billion crores. You know what are macroeconomic indicators? How do you rate India's economy? Who are doing poorly, badly, nicely? So it's the fastest growing large economy. Mr. Rajan said that. Take a seat. Mr. Rajan said that. Standard economy, how does it do it? You can say it with a step-by-step. My indications are that it is improving. For instance, agriculture has restored a 6% growth in the platform. This is remarkable. Then exports have restored from the 17% income. There is a continuous rise for the last 6 months. And manufacturing has, after the decline in November, in December. It has again gone up to 2.7 in January. But this information will come only if you are reading it here. If you want to ask about economics, you can ask about movies. You can ask about this. I don't think so. Good luck. Thank you sir. And press the bell icon to never miss an update.