 How do you call your friends? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Yes sir. Good afternoon. Good afternoon sir. How should I call you Venkat Srikanth? Venkat Srikanth is my first name sir. Okay. Srikanth. Yes sir. This is the second time you have written the IFS exam. Yes sir. There is one exam you have written is Central Armed Forces. Yes sir. Result has not come. Yes sir. Result not yet announced. No sir. I recently gave interview in April. The result is yet to be announced. You have studied in Chennai only? Chennai? No sir. Srinathri University, Uttar Pradesh. No Srinathar University. It is here only. That is another campus sir. There is also other campus in Uttar Pradesh. Okay. You have taken geology and forestry. Yes sir. How do you do in forestry? Sir, both the papers went quite well sir. Both the papers are alright. Yes sir. Very good. I like your confidence. You are from Guntur district. Guntur district of Uttar Pradesh. Yes sir. Guntur. Yes sir. Tell me something about the geological features of Guntur district. Sir, Guntur mainly composed of sedimentary and igneous rocks. And we also have eastern guards, which is the part of eastern guards mobile built. And we have weathered soils. And like quartzite soils. Yes sir. These are the things I can remember right. Is there any excavation for granite mining also in that area Guntur? Yes sir. We have Agnekuntala mines here in Palanada district. Where it is mining has been done for minerals like copper lead also. Yes sir. Recently, Andhra Pradesh had some issues with Telangana forest areas. Sir. Are you aware of it? I am not aware particularly about the issues. Sir, is it regarding the forestry land boundary issues? Yes. Yes. No sir, I am not aware. Some disputes about boundary areas. Do you have the problem of naxals in Andhra Pradesh also? Yes sir. We have LWV in Vijayanagara Manda Sri Kapilam districts right now. Because these are forestry areas and they provide for the... You have visited some forest areas there in your state? Sir, I have went to Sri Venkateshwara National Park in Tirupati Chittu district. You have observed something? Yes sir. Sir. What is what you have? Sir, the National Park mainly consists of dry deciduous and moist deciduous forest. And the flora I have observed are Shoria species. Terminalia species. We have neem and mango trees also. We also have scissorium species. Shoria, you find in your areas? What is that sir? Shoria, Shoria, Shoria, Robusta you said. Not sir, Shoria, some other species. Genesis Shoria. Not Robusta, Shoria not Robusta. Shoria species is there. Shoria species. The entire Andhra Pradesh agricultural areas are quite potential for social forestry. Yes sir. Have you observed any activity in those areas? Social forestry activities. Sir, right around where I live, I do not observe any agroforestry or social forestry as such. It is only agriculture and crops are only paddy or Bengal gram etc. I did not find any agroforestry. Mango cultivation is the major cultivation there, is it not? Yes sir. Mango is in plenty. Yes sir. And also part of social forestry? Yes sir. Mango farms are there? Yes sir. I am kidding sir. From your hobby I saw nature lover. Yes sir. What does it mean? Why do you love nature? Sir, I would like to observe plants and animals. It gives me peacefulness and a connect with the nature. Like I enjoy being in the nature. Also do some countryside walks sir to feel this connect and be peaceful and calm. So it looks like a poetic hobby. Nature lover, one loves nature. There are many kinds of loving of nature. Yes sir. If you read Varswar poems, you will find different stages of love of nature he has described. Yes sir. So I thought maybe you are inclined towards writing poetry. No sir, not in nature but doing countryside walks and observing the countryside animals and plants. That is my love of nature. And composite walk also? Yes sir. You walk in the countryside? Yes sir. For what? Sir, I basically enjoy doing this walk sir. It gives me peace and refresh my mind. You are staying in the countryside or you go to the countryside to what? No sir, I am staying in the town and I will go to the countryside outskirts and generally agriculture and fruits and canal sites. And I will take a walk for half an hour or so and I will relax and I will come back. That is actually positive. Humanity's number is increasing by lift and bounce. What is it sir? Our number, human beings number is increasing by lift and bounce. Yes sir. Some months back, 2-3 months back it crossed 8 billion. Yes sir. So humanity has already become a city animal more than half are remaining in city. Yes sir. Okay, they have become an urban phenomenon. Yes sir. So how long do you think we should have our countryside? Sir, how long do, pardon sir? How long we will have our countryside? Sir. Because more people are coming from the countryside to the city animals. Sir, I think agriculture as a profession will stay because human beings need the food and food supply. Many people might go to urbanization like we see in America 80% is in the service sector and only 2% is in agriculture. But there are predominantly suburban areas and rural areas in America also. So I think the countryside will stay even if India become urbanized substantially. India's population will exceed China in another one or one month by the middle of this year. Sir. All this is beneficial to India. Sir. Sir, mainly this provides the demographic dividends sir. Like what China have experienced in 1980s and 2000s. We are experiencing the democratic peak right now. So this will help in propelling the India for much larger development. See, democracy dividend doesn't come automatically. Yes sir. You have to provide so many things for that. You have to provide some health, provide for education, provide for housing etc. So that you can get the, you can reap the demographic dividend. Yes sir. So do you think the government is doing the necessary things? Yes sir. Government is getting such health skill development providing basic requirements of life. Without that, without that the population becomes a problem. Yes sir. Sir, I think the government is providing many schemes in terms of health, education and skilling through Aishma and Bharat. We have education in health and Samagra, Siksha in education. And also many Kaushalvikas, Yojana schemes in through government stage there. Sir, but also sir, I think we have to increase the private participation and also increase the human captain through private participation. Sir, I think it will become demographic burden as you have pointed out. We need to take steps in these things. But in our country, health has become such a big problem. And it has been exposed during the COVID times. Sir. So educational health must be ensured so that we can get the demographic dividend. And skilling of course. Yes sir. Sir, I think that health sector is lagging in India because there is low penetration of the primary healthcare sector. And less number of doctors in the rural areas where our large cooperation resides in the rural areas. So we need to provide more health facilities in rural areas. There should be more that work needs to be done sir in these areas particularly. Okay, okay. What is carbon border adjustment mechanism? Carbon border adjustment mechanism. Why is it recently news? Sir, it was a law made by the EU countries where they want to tax the goods which have high carbon footprint from other countries. So that they adhere to the climate tab ledges of reducing the carbon footprint and carbon emissions. It has been news for the last one year. Even today if you see Hindu, the editorial is on carbon border adjustment mechanism. Yes sir. Okay, when does it start? Sir, I am not sure about exact date. It will start from this October. Taxing would start from 1st of January 2026. Okay sir. So what is India's objection to that? Sir, many of our goods we have been producing from the MSMEs which are in carbon emitters. And also we do not have the technology, the green technology like the Europe MSMEs and in manufacturing house. So I think it will be a problem for our goods because more tax will be levied on us and our goods will become less competitive. Sir, in that sector we will face the issues. What has India requested today to you? Today or some days back to the European Union? India has requested something. Sir, I am not sure about the particular request India made. India has requested that our MSMEs should be exempt from your carbon border adjustment mechanism of tax. Because and our carbon credit system should also be taken into account by the European Union. Yes sir. The carbon credit system that we are having that should also be taken into account. And especially our medium, small scale and minor industries, minor, medium and small scale industries. They should be exempt from this kind of because they do not have the same means. Yes sir. Okay, so this goes against the WTO's provisions. Yes sir. This is imposing a new kind of tax to protect their trade union. Yes sir. Okay. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thank you sir. Sreika. Yes sir. Where from Gundor? Sir, I am from Babatla sir. What? Babatla is Babatla from Gundor. Yes sir. Now it was under Babatla district sir. After the newly formed districts. This is a new district. Okay. What else are there in Gundor? Sir, Guntur have a rich history from third century BCE to right now. From Shatavahanas to the Kuthubshahis and to the British. And we also have Undavali caves which are Buddhist heritage caves and the Amaravathi stupa. And it is also famous for chillies and tobaccos sir. Okay district cultivating tobaccos even now. Can you hear me? Hello sir, can you repeat the question? Is it cultivating Gundor district? Is it the only district now even now cultivating tobaccos? Yes sir. Gundor district has even now it is creating cultivating much tobacco and output is large and export is also there sir from Gundor district. You have mentioned predication as one of your base. Yes sir. Sir, I am doing a Shambhi meditation right now of Satguru program sir. How long you do it in a day? Sir, I do it in the morning. Do you practice daily? Yes sir, daily I will practice in the morning for 30 minutes sir. So, it is exercising, weightlifting, jogging. Yes sir. Can you develop too much of physical exercise? Not too much sir. But these are different types of exercise but I will do 30 minutes in a day for exercise 30 to 45 minutes. That's all. Yes sir. For variation I do these different types of exercise. Yes sir. If you look at Andhra Pradesh, the southern part of Andhra Pradesh and the other part of Tamil Nadu. Yes sir. The southern part of Andhra Pradesh is a special species. Yes sir. Located in this area. Any special reasons for this? Sir, red sandals only occurs. Is it endemic to the Andhra Pradesh in Chittur region? In Seshachalam. So, the demand is high and the supply is less. So, there is a, why it is coveted all around the world? The red sandals is only grown here. What is the suitable soil for this? Sir, it is weathered shade and gauze soil that is suitable for the red sandals. Sir, it is already iron content in the soil. Sir, I am not really sure about iron content. Okay. So, recently the Apanid League has admitted the Sriraya into its membership. Which was suspended for more than 10 years. Last week they have admitted the Sriraya. So, are you aware of this? Sir, what said? I couldn't, pardon sir. Sriraya. Yes sir. The country named Sriraya is admitted, re-admitted. Yes sir. Into the Arab League. Yes sir. Are you aware of this Arab League? Yes sir, I am aware of it. Which are the members of this League? Yes sir. Which are the countries who are members of this League? Sir, excluding India, the Muslim of the North Africa and the Muslim countries of the Middle East are members of this League. And Indonesia and Malaysia also. Muslim countries are the Arab countries. Arab countries. Arab League. Arab League. So, even Sriraya is already suspended. Yes sir. In 2011 they suspended Sriraya. Yes sir. How it is they admitted to Sriraya. Anyway, what are the reasons? Sir, because of this civil unrest there and the war that is being going on in Sriraya, I think they have suspended from Arab League. And I'm not sure about this issue sir. Okay. Sir, one more thing. We noticed the large number of Telugu inserts migrated to US. Yes sir. I think on all the states. Yes sir. Other countries stops the list. Yes sir. Special reasons for having such a high number in US. Sir, I think it is basically a trend here like after graduation they are seeking other opportunities in America because they can afford the initial captain and go to America and have good education and good job there. Okay. Yeah, Mr. Sriram, I'm sorry. Yeah. Sir. Mr. Venkatrikanth. Yes sir. This Andhra Pradesh has a very long coastal area. Yes sir. Now, what is the reason we are not able to tap the ocean energy? Sir, the ocean energy consists of tidal energy and OTC energy and also wave energy sir. But these technologies are not particularly established in India as such. So I think we need to first improve the ecosystem of these energies. How do you do that? Sir, through government policy and private participation, we can increase just like solar like how we have scaled up solar in short of many gigawatts. We can also do for the ocean energy sir. If you have the forward and backward link. So why it has not been done? Sir, I think it was lack of public policy as such for the wind and solar as it is supporting, there is no support for this ocean energy. No, the question is why there is not because it is available. Is it that technology is not refined enough or what is it? Yes sir, I think it is a mix of technology is not enough and also public policy is not also in that direction. Tell us about thermal energy converters in ocean. How do you get it? Sir, it works on the principle of energy difference from the surface to the bottom. In the bottom layers are cooler by 20 degrees centigrade and we can use this difference for generating the ocean thermal energy. So if you do the comparison of the three sources of energy from ocean, what is the energy intensity in the sense how much energy can you produce per hour and so on? Is the investment worth it? That is the question, no? No, it is still at each of these three and just produce. Would you repeat your disconnected? Sir, I am not exactly sure about the energy intensity of these energies and also cost benefit ratios. Now, there was recently a high sea treaty which was signed after a long negotiation. Could you tell us about high sea treaty? Sir, I am not sure about it. I only have overview. What is the reason for coral bleaching? Sir, there are many reasons primarily due to climate change, high temperatures and more nutrients and pollutions that has been released into the oceans. These are the changes that leads to the coral bleaching, sir. We also recently seen massive coral bleaching in a great barrier reef in Australia. That was because of that, what? This great barrier reef, there was a bleaching event which happened 10 years back. What was the reason? Sir, I think it was because of high temperatures that coral bleaching happened. Ocean warming which happened, so what happened? Sir, when ocean warming happens, the corals expel the zooksia and the algae which are present in them. So, they cannot produce their food because this algae produces the corals food. And how is ocean acidification? How much is that? Sir, due to increased carbon dioxide levels, ocean is acting as a sink and this carbon is increasing the acidification of the ocean. Sir, regarding how much of it is a threat, according to the IPCC, carbon acidification is a primary threat in the climate change. Correct. Like it will affect the various ecosystems in the oceans, so we need to counter it. So, how much is the pH value of ocean right now? Sir, it should be around 7.5 to 8 in the tilting towards the basic side. So, where do we get this data? Sir, this pH ocean sir? No, this data which you mentioned that it should be between 6.7 to 8. Sir, I have read somewhere I couldn't recall what source it was exactly. That's not correct. My last question is, if you have an electric burn and secondly, if you have a chemical burn and you have a thermal burn, which is more previous? Sir, I am not sure about this issue sir. Take a guess, you are an electrical engineer, which will be more localized, which will be more spread out? Sir, I think the chemical one will be more spread out because it involves chemicals and reactions and electrical will be more controlled. Could you explain that? When you get an electric shock, it passes through your body, isn't it? Yes sir. How is it localized? It damages yourself throughout the body. Yes sir, I stand corrected sir, that is right actually. Alright, thank you. So, Mr. Srikant, so I will give the feedback. Okay sir. Try to attend the interview offline also. Be more conversant, your answer is very short and crisp, which is good, but then it is not leading to and you are also like the last question. You have to spend some time to think and answer. One thing good about you is that you are quite actively involved in the sense that quite enthusiastic and alertness is there. But then also try to be more conversant in the sense because it is becoming more of a question and answer. Yes sir. So also please don't give random data just because you feel like 7 to 8 percent. These are crucial issues, even 0.0 percent here and there changes a lot. So if I tell you that the ocean pH was 8.21 and now it is 8.17, which means that this small shift in pH value has changed the acidity by 30 percent. Yes sir. 8.27 to 8.1. So please don't give random data. So that is not credible. I mean you lose your credibility when you give answers like that. But otherwise you are doing fine and I hope you do well. Thank you. Thank you sir. Be a little more spirited. Okay. Because I found a little lack of spirit and energy. So try to be more energetic. Okay. And when we discussed about carbon border adjustment mechanism. Yes sir. So several articles have come on that. There is an article on that. Whatever external things you read. Yes sir. This belongs to European Union. But always keep India in the center. What will be India's reaction? Because you will be Indian government surveyed. You will become Indian forest service, Indian industry service, Indian police service, Indian forestry etc. So always what will be the impact on India and what will be India's response to that. And why that response? Okay. So always look at every perspective from Indian point of view. You can make a critical view of India's policy also. But at least see from Indian point of view. Anything that happens. Whatever is happening is Sudan. So what is India's? How is India affected? Whatever is happening in Ukraine war. How is India affected? Everything. Whatever comes you must analyze and see it from the angle of India's interest. Okay. Then you may agree with what steps India is taking. Make and sell it. But at least be clear about how India is going to be affected by that. Okay. So India made this request because you are going to use WTO provisions. So India made this request. So let us see what is happening. Okay. So it will start from October and the real taxing will come from first of January to 2026. Okay. So that whatever the carbon intensity products like steel, cement, fertilizer, chemicals, etc. They will have to pay extra tax on that. Yes sir. Okay. So please see from that angle. Thank you. Thank you sir. I will see you on. Yes sir. Okay. I thought you will just see the international news like Syria. Yes sir. And actually you can do more reasons, more analytical reasons for the lowest, more for the lowest in the U.S. Sir. For the lowest population in the U.S. Yes sir. Otherwise, we should all do this. Thanks. Yes Venkat Sikant. Yes sir. By and large, it's quite satisfactory. Your performance is quite satisfactory. Just two observations I would like to make on that. Yes sir. One is I found that there is sort of a small inconsistency in your statements. When sir was asking that you said that you would like to go to rural areas, countryside and you would love to be there. At the same time, when I was asking what about the status of social forestry in your area. Sir. So you are not able to tell much about it. Yes sir. This is inconsistent. And if you really go to countryside, you cannot fail but notice the activity of social forestry. Or you are going to countryside and you are not noticing the things. You are not observing things. Both ways it is not all right. I am confident that it is not possible not to observe. It is, you are observing, you would have observed it. Only thing is you are not able to recapitulate in your mind and tell at the instant. So for this purpose, whatever kind of questions are being asked. You have a mock interview of yourself. Telling that if it is coming, then what can be your sort of a response to these questions? What are the dimensions you would like to touch upon? Like Andhra Pradesh is a reputed for activity of social forestry in their respective rural areas. Yes. There is a large cultivation of light in social forestry. Yes sir. Eucalyptus also there sir. There are many. But I am going to recall that at this point. All the cultivation of Eucalyptus. Yes sir. Being done in the, and Andhra Pradesh farmers are the farmers who are expert in optimizing return from their land. Along with agriculture, they are always getting some sort of an input by way of social forestry. Pluriculture, for example. It is famous. Yes. A lot of flowers are going all over India. So these are the things which you not have missed it. You would have observed it. But you are not able to connect. Yes sir. So my request. And he is a lover of nature. He is a lover of nature. So then all these things are connected. It should be able to turn into a mosaic. It should look that you have told the truth. It should look that you are a lover of nature. It should look that you go to the countryside. It should look that you are observing the things and enriching. All these things should become a part of your personality. Number two. Always sit straight. Throughout this interview you have been sitting just to get on this. No. Whether you are an online interview or offline interview. Be straight. Look straight into the eye of the questioner and answer them boldly. You will do very well. Wish you all the best. Thank you sir. Thank you.