 We see there. So you are from Uttar Pradesh. At present you are staying in Uttar Pradesh? Currently I am staying in Delhi only, Jamiya and Delhi. Jamiya and Delhi? Yes. You are studying there or? Sir, their residential coaching academy is there. Oh, very good. So you are staying there, residents are coaching academy. So did you get coaching there? Yes sir, last two years, from the last two years I have been there. And you are staying there? Yes. The hostel facility is there? Yes sir. So those who prepare they give the facility? They conduct the exam kind of entrance test and through that they select. Okay, tell me why you want to join the civil services? Firstly diversity of job work is there. Diversity of job? Yes sir. Everyday you have a new challenge and above all... Everyday? Yes, you can work in different domains and you have different challenges at your disposal. Suppose you are in the income tax? Yes sir. Everyday you will not have a new challenge, same kinds of income tax problems. But those are all different problems like corporate sector is there, individuals are there, international sector is there. Okay, so you are saying diversified job then what else? Then sir, above all you are among the people that I feel is the best thing. You listen to their problems, you can give solutions to those things. Okay. You see geography is your optional subject, isn't it? Yes sir. So we had this green revolution earlier. Yes sir. How green revolution when was it? 1960s. 60s. So now we are going for the second green revolution. Oh, what was the need for this? Because that time also we gained self-sufficiency in food trends. So what happened? We are going for the second green revolution. Sir, first thing is the sustainability of agriculture. First, in first green revolution we focused on wheat and rice only. Wheat and paddy, yes. Wheat and paddy, yielding varieties, we produced it through that, we focused on that. The second thing is it was more or less restricted to the northern part of the country, Himachal, Punjab, Haryana, western UP. These all regions benefited out of the first green revolution. But the eastern part of India, it didn't get benefited out of it. The third part is the input cost increased due to these high yielding varieties and the rich farmers, they were able to get the benefits of that. So now the second green revolution, what is the chance? So in second green revolution, first there will be a focus not only on paddy and wheat. Pulse is would be in focus and in north-eastern region where horticulture is, potential is very massive, their focus will be there. Second, then in all part of the country, they can, eastern parts, the rich potential for agriculture, focus will be on there also. So we are thinking of the second green revolution. When did it start? Sir, this particular scheme started after this new government came into power. But in 2014, second October. Second October. Because it is connected with Mahatma Gandhi. Then what is the progress so far in the idea? Sir, in quantitative terms, 6 crore toilets have been constructed. Sanitation in rural areas has improved from 39% to 79%. 78%. 78%. And some, above all the social... How many states have declared themselves over-deficient? Sir, three states have declared themselves over-deficient. Two more have been added. 11. 11. 11. And so you are ready for regular? Yes sir. Regularly? Yes sir. So I will ask another, have you read then you would not have said three. It came out some eight days back. All the papers. One big page advertisement. Okay. Corruption perception index. Who determines this? There is some organization. Sir, it's an international organization. Transparency International. Very good. So now, for example, India has slided. You have a render? Yes sir. 84th rank, then you are out of majority countries. Very good. Now, what is most important in a budget scheme? Not there, it is there for some time. For employment generation. For employment generation. So, engineering is there? Yes sir. That is there for job employment? Yes. No no. I said no, I wasn't there. So you said it is also there for employment. Anyway, now. Amandar, tell us something about why it was considered. What purpose are you? Engineering? Sir, this scheme. It was in the rural areas where employment is left less. In the late season of agriculture, rural people are not able to get job. So it envisages that people will get at least 100 days of job work that will be supported by the government. So, the benefits of it can be seen in the present times. Incomes have increased in rural areas. Then protein intake in health has also increased. Now, what are the feelings where it is not afraid in the general analysis people have? Yes. So, first thing is about the beneficiaries. Before the management information system came in, it was said that some were spent on people who were not even enrolled. And then the issue was there with infrastructure which was being developed with M.G. Nareka. It was said that it is not sustainable. Only ponds are there and roads are being constructed which are not sustainable. Is it sustainable or it was not there? In many cases, like there was a news that one toilet or something was constructed and it was shown as three numbers. Three roads lead to the same infrastructure and they have put it as three infrastructure. It is complete. Cars also, job cars. So, you said, you know, fake job cars. Yes, sir. What is the, you know, pure for that? Government functions for what? Recently, government came in, management information system is nothing. Then, second is Aadhar, they came up with, so that exclusion of beneficiaries could be avoided and real beneficiaries can get killed. So, these two things, are there biometrics, introduction of biometrics, Now, you are only reading books. Yes, sir. What books do you, what type of books? So, currently I prefer more North Fiction. North Fiction is more of a, more or two like. So, currently I am reading Viceroy Space, Money and Muscle Power in Indian Politics. Millan Bajna is a person following Cambridge University. What theory, what thesis, what is his thesis? Sir, he tried to tell this thing that why people, despite of knowing that the elected people are criminal, they have criminal records. Why they keep on electing them? So, the reason which he gave us, first thing is the failure of law and order. If a person is there and he has a problem, he goes to police station. They are not ready to file an FIR and if he goes to the local level, he has muscle power, he can call the police officers and he can ask them to file a case. I mean, his technique is fine. So, people think. You think it is, you think then go out of the system or what, is there any specific, you know, inherent limitation? Yes, sir. Is it, you think now this money and muscle? Yes, sir. You can go out of the system or it has to be accepted as, you know, for some time, at least as part of the social media system. What do you think? Sir, it's there. These problems are there in the society. Because they can be, these problems can be removed. Like, muscle, money power is there. If election finances can be made transparent. If there is a cap on the funds which the parties can raise. And if they bring their books and the RTI, these things can be solved. And muscle, for muscle power, there is a need to ensure an order situation in the state. This will improve the system. Yeah, you have electronic service. Does the government have electronic policy? Yes, sir. The electronic manufacturing policy is there, which came in 2000. I don't exactly know there yet. But anyway, are we a net importer or exporter of electronics? Sir, we are net importers. But we have this target and the digitality of having 0% imports. What kind of strategy would you advocate, boosting exports of electronics? Sir, the problem with electronics is we don't have the infrastructure. Like, if we talk about the chip industry, we don't have that. For inputs, we have to import it from countries like Korea, Japan, US, or our technology. So the government came up with cluster methods of betting chip industry. But it didn't take off. So I think there is a need to promote that. Then MSMEs are there in the country which needs support of the government in this sector. Those MSMEs also need to be promoted. In this way, we can improve the exports. What are they like that? I will explore today in electronics. But in the case of geography, how many coastal states do we have? You belong to UP. UP is not a coastal state. So how many coastal states do we have? I don't know. Don't keep the mortgage. Good. Now, let me say one thing. You haven't seen that. There's a flip side to why people, people from civil service and all that. There's a flip side also. In the same way that you also have to prepare to go to jail. Yes, sir. You know how many people have gone to jail whenever you're jailed in this case. Who are they? There is a case going on. Bureau facts? There is a case going on. Yes, sir. But you have standards of procedures. You have all the laws. You have the constitution. You have to go according to that, I don't think. No, no. I think the whole secretary of law also. People say he has also gone by the rule book and everything. The procedure. There is a flip side to it also. So anyway, what I'm trying to say is judiciary, getting into the ethical decisions, policy decisions, challenging them and making the civil servants as possible for that either is in the process or in this process. But that's how life is. Sir, but the whole secretary, it is alleged that corruption was going on and there is no, and he didn't do anything. Keeping quiet is also a crime. So because of that, he had to pay for that. Well, you have to think very highly of it. Good that you are thinking like that. Junaid, you have done electronics and communications, right? Yes, sir. Can you give me your views on the artificial intelligence and the impact it is going to make in terms of technological innovation in India and all the economics? So artificial intelligence is about giving human-like capabilities to the machines. So the potential of artificial intelligence is huge because we have these cell-driven cars, Google cars, simulation techniques are there, military bills, even in the health sector, the robotic arm surgery which is there. So the human error which is there in all these things, it puts the reduce with artificial intelligence. But there are certain issues with AI also, like log losses, it is said that around 6 million jobs will be lost in 90 sector in India because of AI. Then Facebook recently, it created its own language and there was even cry over that. So these problems are there with AI. But I think if limited in the proper way, then AI will be beneficial for the economy and for the humans also. How does the work of AI in India compare with the work being done in the other countries? Sir, at two levels we can see it. One is the government level and the other is the private sector level. In the US and other countries, a lot of research is going on on AI. And recently in the budget also, Niti IU also said that we have to build our capabilities of AI, the government is focusing on that. Adobe recently said that in Hyderabad they will set up an institute for research and development in AI. So I think the idea is going forward in the direction and more intubated. What have you done about the work being done in China in this sector? Specific, sir. China is far ahead. China actually compares to the US in terms of the work that is being done on the artificial intelligence. Recently the president of Iran was on visit to India. We obviously have a very deep interest in building relations with Iran. However, there are some problems also. Saudi Arabia, you know that there is a contest between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Can you tell me what exactly is our interest in relationship with Iran on one hand, Saudi Arabia? And what we can do to really balance these two relationships? So with relations with Iran, first is the energy security. We are net oil importers and Iran has huge reserves of oil. So we can have energy security, have good relations with Iran. Second is the connectivity. Jabah port is there. We are developing that port in that region. So that we can bypass Pakistan and get access to the markets of Central Asia in that region. And stability of Afghanistan, security concerns. That can also be balanced if we have good relations with Iran. With Saudi Arabia, there is a regional conflict. Israel is also very much energy to Iran. So we have to balance our relations. Like we have de-hyponated our policy with Israel and Palestine. Can you tell me about our relationship with Saudi Arabia first? What is our interest in Saudi Arabia? So first the diaspora is there. 7 million diaspora in the station region and a lot of them are working in Saudi Arabia. Around 70 billion supremitances we get from that region. So first we have this interest. Second energy security. Saudi is also a provider of oil to India. And third we say FDI. Because in Saudi Arabia a lot of capital is there. And Prime Minister as well as the government is promoting. So that investment can come up from that region. And defence sector also we can improve. Because India and Saudi Arabia they are native portals of defence equipment. Largest importer. First and second largest importer of defence equipment. So we can have... How do we improve our defence cooperation? Only if we are the first and second largest importer. So there are certain areas where India can export defence equipment to Saudi Arabia. Because we have our own indigeneous defence equipment. Have you actually heard something or are you just speaking out of your own thinking? I am not sure. Okay, anyway. Last year I will say the security concern about how to tackle Pakistan. Because Saudi many times comes on the side of Pakistan. In Maldives also it is very close to Saudi Arabia. So these issues are there with... So how do we balance the relationship between the two? Because Saudi Arabia and Iran they actually cut off each other. The first thing is I think India should not meddle in the domestic politics of all these countries. Whatever the conflict is there. India should not meddle in the domestic conflicts of these countries. Indian interest they are fulfilled by Saudi Arabia as well as Iran. So we need to have relationship with both of them. Like in Israel and Palestine we have to have relations with Israel on the same side. So this kind of policy need to be taken forward. My question is that if we build good relations with Iran that will actually make Saudi Arabia happy. So they may not be interested in making good relations with India. It is not a question of India meddling in their affairs. But they are not wanting to have a relationship with India if we develop relations with other countries. How do we... how do we... about this situation? Sir I think that that should not be a concern for India that if we are making relations with Iran. Saudi Arabia is saying that you should not make relations. We should say that we will have good relations with you on where our interest are. Similar we will cooperate and where Iran and our interest are similar we will cooperate with them. So your conflict is with you but we will cooperate with both of them. One last question. U.S. our relationship with U.S. is growing. There is some feeling that it is actually growing so fast and we are becoming so close that it actually is hurting us. Sir in the recent times with the Trump administration a personal bond can be seen with the prime minister. So it is being said that Russia which is our all time friend they are thinking that we are going to close to U.S. But India has said that the interest which U.S. can fulfill they cannot be fulfilled by Russia. So we have cooperation in defense, in technology, in IT sector. And with Russia also we have bought certain helicopters and we are having certain defense agreement with Russia. So this problem is there how to balance the relation with different countries. But I think what we are doing is right with the foreign policy perspective because national interest comes first. Thank you. What is that neutrality? It is a net neutrality. So it is about the data which is being transferred it should not be discriminated. The ISPs which are providing the data it need not to be discriminated and will equal speed, will equal rate it should be given to the end consumers. That is net neutrality. Is there something pending to be discussed on that? Sir the policies of free basics and 810 those were scrapped because the government said it violates the principle of net neutrality. But the contours of net neutrality are very broad because ISPs they usually say that whatever the earnings are there they go to the website owners. And for us to build infrastructure and to build connectivity we need to have money. For that moment they say that this can be justified. So these are the issues that... Did Blackberry close its operations in our country? Is there a reason? No idea. You must have heard of the bullet train. So how do we justify it because now of basic safety and basic number of portrayals as well as everything is lacking. So how will we justify the bullet train? Sir in the short term these issues are there of safety, speed of the trains, collision system, anti collision system. But if we have to keep the long term perspective we have to invest in those initiatives. Like when India want independence everyone says that why we are going for space industry. But we are reaping the benefits of it nowadays. So we have to keep along the perspective so that we don't lag behind when all these things come in the future. What are your view on the cryptocurrency? So most of the countries have banned this cryptocurrency. Even our finest minister said that it is like a Ponzi scheme because no capital is there for its backing. I think it is right but blockchain technology which is there behind cryptocurrency that can be utilised in many ways. Is there a ban in any country? Yes, there is a ban. South Korea has also imposed restrictions on it. What is our harm? Sir black money could be used in this and the laundering can be done. And other than that security issues are there. So a virtual currency if there is a cyber attack that currency can be gone. And above all there is no acting, no physical asset is there in that currency. So it is an issue. Open a lot of suicide among young school and college students nowadays. So what is the reason and how do you bring about a reassurance? Sir, it can be related to jovial delinquency of it. Like if family pressure is there, fighting among the families there or we have nucleated families there. Parents don't interact much with the student. Then in the college and universities pressure, studies pressure is there, peer pressure is there. Many of the students are on drugs because of these things and employment is one reason. So these all things are the reason behind suicides among the youths. 12th class students they are doing suicide so it's a big concern I think. What is the role of competition commission of India? Competition commission of India it shows that just competition is there in the market. Like monopolies are not created, trust should not misuse, like a decision happens in order to eliminate the competition. Those things should not be there and they ensure that proper competition is there in the market. So Dhune we have come to the end of this small interview. I will give you some of the questions. What do you think you have done? Have you done well or what is your feeling? Few questions I could have answered better and above all I think it was okay. No you have done very well. Let me sum up. You have done very well and your confidence level is very high. Is this your first mock interview or you have done some... This is my second mock. So last year I gave interview. So last year you gave very base interview? Yes. So how was it? It was good. I didn't get marks in the interview. I didn't get marks in the interview. Otherwise in an interview your marks was good. How much? Very good. So this time also what I find we find that you are answering with a positivity and your approach is very good. You see we because of the capacity of time we didn't ask some questions on your state and district. So there might be some questions prepared. We know then what are the strong points, what are the issues. There are communal classes at times. Suppose you are posted as district magistrate. What steps you will take to prevent such communal incidents? Then you know this farmer's loan waiver. What is your view about it? Preparing some such. There are some of the state related questions. Your hobby is reading books. So my colleague asked you what book you have read. They might ask you that kind of question. What is the last book you have read? Which book you like? Why you like it? Who is your author? Which author you like most? I will name some of the books of that author. I like that. So hobbies, state and also your subject. Now you know electronics and communication. Some questions were asked on artificial intelligence and other things. But be prepared for some questions. Because they might ask on... So many questions could be asked. And then current affairs. Current affairs you get majority of questions. And if you are reading newspaper, if you are keeping your subject with everything, Indo-US relations, then Maldives issue, then all this visit of the Iranian president, then this Canada, then this Canada. All this. Asian countries, India's relations, East, Northeast. There are the question marks that how... Northeast is related with artist policy. So like that. You might be seeing the transcripts. You have seen that. So it is like that only. So prepare accordingly. They might ask these questions which you already have read. Only thing is that you should prepare how to answer within a limited time. You don't have to write an essay there. So within one minute or one and half minute you have to answer a question. So you prepare accordingly. And you have already done well in the last few days. This year also we hope you will do extremely well. You go with a very positive mindset. And I think you will prepare. Be okay. Thank you. Thank you.