 Good morning sir. Good morning ma'am. Thank you sir. Sorry you are coming from Raniket? Yes sir. By bus? Right now no sir, I am staying here in Delhi. So by train or by bus? From Kathgudam. Kathgudam. Kathgudam, Raniket how far? 80 kilometers. 80. Up to that place by bus? Yes sir. Or cab? Good roads. Sir in rainy season they get deteriorated. So in rainy season it gets difficult. You come by road, you pass through the Corbett National Park? No sir. Have you seen Corbett National Park? Sir actually my nanny's place is there in Corbett only. In the fringes of Corbett. You have seen? Corbett is famous for what? Sir for Tigers and for Deers also. It is the oldest national park of India. And it was unfamous previously for many test tigers there. Who was Corbett? Sir he was a naturalist. He was a person who has keen interest in forests. He has keen interest in forests and wildlife. He was a hunter? He was a hunter too. He was a killer of tigers. Perhaps I don't know sir exactly. You have visited there? Sir? You have gone inside the park? Yes sir. How many times? Sir one or two times. How did you get admission to army in public school? Sir I wrote the entrance test when I was in class 5. So I got through there. Okay for the civilians there is entrance test. Yes sir there are limited seats for civilians. And you have gone on youth delegation to Russia? Yes sir. Tell me what was the objective and how did you find Russia? When it was? It was in 2017. How it was? Sir actually... That was from your college? Yes sir. The Ministry of Youth and Sports they selected us. Through the ministry we went there to attend the World Festival Youth and Students. So it is a festival which started after 1945 to bring in the solidarity of the democratic nations. So it was the 19th festival. So it was a 12 day festival. And there were programs ranging from discussions on various issues. Climatic issues, environmental issues. And then there were exhibitions for art and culture. And there was sports event as well. So my experience was good. It was I kind of explored the nearby regions also. And I attended few lectures and also participated in sports event. What was your research scholarship from France? So it was a part of my internship. I went there after the third year, after the completion of third year. And the project was to plan the electric charging station in first sector there. So my work basically was a geographical information system to prepare the geodatabase and do the analysis of multi-graded decision making. In the last 15-20 years, lot of changes have come the way we live. And public also is aware of many issues now. Can you tell me what type of awareness has been generated in public for the last 10-15 years? 45 points. I was going to take few seconds. Yes. Transparency, accountability of the authorities. How the money is spent, public money is spent. By whom? Who is accountable? Yes, through RTI distance also. What is the position of vaccination in our country? So right now we have completed around 53 crore doses. So around 11-12 crores, both the doses have been completed. So it covers approximately 45% of adults with single doses. And rest around 13% both the doses. And active cases? Active cases is around 3.9 lakh right now, approximately. Where is state governments have banned use of plastic? Banned or is it still yet to be banned? So currently today on itself I read that the government is facing out single use plastic from the next year. And they have set the graded target. For example, the plastic with less than 50 microns, it has been banned. And now the target is to ban. So can you tell me single use plastic, where it is being used? So firstly the wrappers of the biscuit and the snacks that we use. And so the other one is these bottles, water bottles. And third example is packaging. So how it will be changing like the biscuit wrappers and all? What they will be doing? Because if they put paper, there will be fear of that moisture getting into those. So it is a difficult one because there is still alternatives not available, which can be scaled to the extent that plastic is being used right now. So perhaps they will use biopolymers to make some kind of wrapping material. Still some research is going on. Taliban thing. How far they are approaching towards India? So they have almost encircled the boundary of Afghanistan. For example, they have covered two-third of the country. And soon I think they will cover the whole. So our worries are increasing or we are doing something? Sir, we are engaging through platforms like SCO of one contact group and also with the help of other countries. We are engaging with Iran Russia. Where are those negotiations going on? What will happen to Heart of Asia conference? Sir, which conference? Heart of Asia conference. Sir, I am not read about it. Roniket, what are all the things it is famous for? Sir, it is famous for tourism purpose. So there are good orchards of apple. It is also famous for its host, one of the largest regiment of Indian Army, Kumar Regiment. Other thing, it is famous for adventurous activities and for sightseeing. Have you heard the disease called Roniket disease and Roniket disease virus? No, that is not true. Disease which affects cold ring. Roniket disease. Thank you sir. You have a lab near Roniket, Mukteshwar. Yes sir. Virology lab. Have you heard of that Mukteshwar Virology lab? Mukteshwar sir? Yes sir. How far Mukteshwar is from Roniket? Around 100 kilometers. Tell me something about India and France relationship. Sir, India and France relationship is all time high. So we have common engagements in nuclear energy, in solar, renewable energy. So further there are more areas of convergence like maritime security in Indian Ocean region. Further there is collaboration on science and technology. And after the Brexit, European Union is also looking to negotiate BTIA, Violator Trade and Investment Agreement. What are the major irritations or friction points or pain points in BTIA? Sir, there are few list of commodities to which, I mean, for example, Europe wants to export the commercial vehicles or the personal vehicles as well as wine. But India has reservation and it is still considering them with high import duties. Similarly, there are Indian products like agriculture products for which the export for which the European Union is not very comfortable about. That is the tariff lines. And what about dispute resolution? Sir, that I will have to read it. The existing, there is already one existing BTIA in Europe, right? Sir, with India? India Investment Treaty is there or? State is undergoing negotiations in 2007. Okay. Under which treaty or which international law, the cane energy went to international dispute settlement forum and got Indian assets frozen? Sir, under which treaty? Under which international law? Sir, that I will have to read it. Paris only they got this award, right? What? Paris, quote only they gave this award, right? Yes, sir. What was it? You heard about this news? Yes, sir, I heard of it. What is this news? Sir, actually the India in 2012 they had come up with the law Retribution Taxation. So under which the indirect transfer of the assets before 2012 attracted taxation. So Khan and other companies like Vodafone, so they were sought after by the country for taxation. So they appealed firstly in Indian code and then in the international arbitration code there and won the case. So now the India has to pay around 8000 crore rupees to Khan energy and recently new amendment has been brought about in ITF. What was that amendment about? Sir, it is discarding the Retribution Taxation and under two conditions. Firstly, it wants the countries to withdraw the cases. What is tax terrorism? Sir, it is a term wherein any state imposes a lot of taxation. And try to, the taxation, the value is, the tax rate is also high and in addition there is a shorter timeline to pay back the taxes. Are you sure? Sir. Are you sure? Okay. What are the options available to India in dealing with Afghan? So the first option is to right now as there is a possibility that Taliban will take over. So firstly, India need to secure its territory in the northern region, northwestern region. Whose territory? Sir, our territory. Do we have some territory there? Sir, not directly in contact with Afghanistan, but through Pakistan terrorists can infiltrate in the Indian territory. So secondly, India need to consider the possibility of Taliban taking over and has to think about how it can engage with Taliban directly. And thirdly, it should continue its support to the Afghan people through the developmental aids and other kind of support atroids. So what is your personal forecast of events in Afghanistan? In my opinion, the Afghanistan will take over completely in let's say 30 to 40 days. The timeline is not certain, but it will take over because as a fundamentalist group, they have nothing to lose. And since 20 years they are fighting to gain the control over Afghanistan. What is the crux of this? Why Taliban are fighting? What is their ultimate objective? Sir, firstly, they have the ideology of Islamist nation. So they want that through the various customs and tradition of Islam, these customs should prevail in the nation. And they consider the current regime to be a puppet under foreign nations. So they don't legitimize that and they want to have their own control there. Last question. Good research in foreign university also. In my opinion, you will have a bright future outside the government. Why do you want to come to the government? Sir, I had the inclination towards Indian administrative services. Though in the college, I tried to explore all the available opportunities that I had and even in the research I took interest in it. However, I found that the research that is being conducted here in India is not very rewarding or personally satisfying. It is because generally, firstly, due to lack of fund. For example, I started my independent research while I was in third year. But due to lack of fund, I could not complete it. The second is the availability of live and equipments and there is a lot of red tapeism to even access those things. So then I thought to go abroad and I take an admission. You are doing two things simultaneously. One is, into the service, you will deprive an opportunity of a generalist, number one. Number two, one IIT degree is wasted. Number three, you are far in research that slot also goes waste. Okay. Or do you justify your entry into the civil service? Sir, I think the civil services also provides a lot of opportunity to work firstly in the grassroot level and to take the projects which you think they are directly affecting the people. So the kind of satisfaction one can derive from this service is beyond comparison, I would say. And when we talk about the infrastructure development, especially the road construction. So they create a lot of problems to the environment because the way they implement the project, they don't implement it properly. For example, they cut the hill but don't go for the slope stabilization. So it leads to landslide and a lot of loss of life and again the property. So secondly, the river or the level of water in the streams is also drying up. This is because of the overpopulation and also during peak seasons of summer, the tourism inflow is very large. So it creates problems for the residents also of the water shortage. And thirdly, as the tourism is not that sustainable, so a lot of pollution also gets generated there. So there is Kosi River, which is the main river in the district. So the water level in the river is decreasing. And apart from that, as there is no solid waste management system in the hilly areas, so a lot of waste also gets dumped to these river bodies. And the most difficult thing would be to construct any reservoir, water reservoir. Firstly, because the geology is sedimentary rocks. So it is more fragile and it cannot withstand the weight or the sheer weight of the if we go for any dam construction. So it is a problem. The other problem is again the road construction and tunneling. Yes, my road construction is going on. Yes, ma'am, it is a challenge. Firstly, if we are constructing a road, so in our hill there are two sites. One is more prone to get, you know, more to landslide or more destabilized. So we should make the alignment in a way that we don't touch that side of the hill. The second thing is when we construct the road, there are good methodologies. For example, we can, there are methods to use explosives, but there are explosives available which do not do that harm. And then when a lot of trees has to be felled down, so a forest station has to be simultaneously done. And lastly, the roads are built by cutting the hill. So slope stabilization through terracing retaining wall or through gabion walls can be done. I am not aware. Ma'am, Mr. Pushkar Singh Bahami. Yes ma'am. Ma'am, within a year, within this year, there is going to be election. Ma'am, for the state registry. Ma'am, change of the CM. The context of it. Ma'am, firstly, there were internal differences within the party of BGP. So the last to last CM, he issued to Mr. Teerath Singh Rawat. So he came up with two acts. One is for the religious places management act in which he undertook the control of the four chargams and other religious places. Management control was taken by the government. So the priest communities and some of the other people protested against it. And the second was he, firstly, there was a shift in the capital. So they come up with new capital that is in Gersen. So people again protested against it. So the political figure didn't attract to the people and there was demand to change him. So the next CM came and that CM, I think in the initial days only, he passed some of the comments which didn't appeal to the people and they protested again. So then, and also there was a possibility of, as he was not being elected, there was a possibility he would... That's right. Okay. Pushad, landslides or almeas? Landslides. Can you tell me about it? Yes, sir. So firstly, landslides is the process of the coming down of the earth material in the slope areas. So the causes are manifold. Firstly, slope gets destabilized during construction. Then due to heavy downpour of rainfall, the moisture content changes, which also destabilizes the slope. So firstly, the hill slopes has to be stabilized. Second thing, the drainage system has to be well developed. Along with the longitudinal drain, there has to be cross drainage in the form of culverts. And then thirdly, there can be terracing in the slope so that the rate of discharge of runoff would be reduced. So it will not wash away the soil in the top soil. You worked on the AB vehicle. What lessons that you learned? So first thing is that the electric vehicles, the people are more and more aware about it and taking those vehicles. And since the prices there are also not very expensive. And secondly, the government has two prong approach. First is to cater the demand. So when a person or an organization demands for having electric vehicle infrastructure, so through the private companies, they supply that and also give rebate and some relief on the tariffs. The second thing is for the plan orientation to attract more EVs. So the government is installing the infrastructure in the whole cities. And so the learning for India is India can also use the approach. Firstly, the city-wide infrastructure planning has to be done. The government can prepare. So what is the average number of EV stations limited to the opposite? What was the density of the EV charging stations? So the city where it was planned said it was around 10 square kilometers and there are approximately 5 to 6 charging stations. How do you look at it as a civil engineer? As a civil engineer, the project would bring new kind of infrastructure to the country. And as it was also a requirement to expand to as the previous. So they are taking care of the earthquake risks in building and the rest I will have to read. Sir, prior to 1991 our relationship with Russia was very strong as compared to United States. But now with United States our relationship has improved a lot and there is almost equal terms of relationship. With Russia we have time-tested relationship and with USA we are looking for new opportunities to engage. But Russia is declining. Sir, when we talk about the defense deal, so the import from USA has increased. However with Russia they have not increased to that extent. And secondly there are new avenues to engage with United States for example the Quad. So however and with Russia also we have mechanisms like SCO brakes. So I see that with Russia the relationship are decent and they are continuing. But with USA they are increasing. Calisthenics, what is calisthenics? So calisthenics is a weight training wherein we do not use the weights, the equipments. The resistant weight is provided by our body weight. So the exercises such as push-ups, pull-ups, body-ups and L sets these all come centre class. Can you mention two three core body exercises? Yes, the one is burpee. The other one is set-ups. The third one is mountain running. Reading novels, what do you read? So I read fiction, mainly dystopian. What do you understand by kafkas? Yes sir, I have read metamorphosis. What do you understand by the word kafkas? Kafkas? To the term kafkas. No sir. Okay, so Sharia interviews over.