 Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Please sit down. Thank you, sir. You have an outstanding academic record. Thank you, sir. First class everywhere. Thank you, sir. So why don't we wish to join the service service? So I wish to join service services because it's a very good career option one. And also everybody wants to make a change at some level. So if I get to join services, the network of the services is very large and I will get a chance to make a difference and teach out to the last person. And what qualities do you possess which will make you a good citizen? So I think I'm an honest person and within integrity. Apart from that, coming from a standing standard gives me a rational thinking. And being also from an environment background, I think that in the process of implementing schemes and later on if I get a chance to participate in policy making, I will also take into consideration these. Right. What about leadership qualities? You only mentioned those. But you are looking at IAS, IFS, etc. These are leadership jobs, aren't they? Yes, sir. So leadership qualities are also very important. Yes, sir. Do you think the rule of law is an important thing? Yes, sir. It should be a pen? Yes, sir. The rule of law is an important thing and it should be a pencil. So I believe the rule of law should also be considered as a great quality, is it important? Yes, sir. Apart from honesty. Thank you. Pusher Khan. Ms. Jasleen. Yes, sir. What was the main objective of bringing in the Right to Information Act by the government? So Right to Information Act was brought with the idea that information sharing forms an important process of a democracy and also it enhances transparency and accountability in the system. Basically it's to promote transparency and accountability. That is the main objective. So how are we going to go about seeking information under the ITV? Sir, there is an institution of chief information officer and there are information officers in the departments. So one can file a request online and the data, if it is not against the national security or the official sequence, it can be dismissed. Right. Now are any government departments exempt from the purview of the RTI Act? Sir, I'm not very sure about this. Under schedule 2 of the Act, the government has listed out certain agencies. Security and intelligence agencies which are exempt. Well, the RTI Act also has a provision for a Central Information Commission. What is the purpose of this? What is their role? So as far as I remember reading, a separate institution was needed under the Act so that when the inquiry happens or when the information is shared, there is no bias and the information is... Basically an appellate body. It's an appellate body. If you are not satisfied with the information provided by the CPIO and the first appellate authority of that department, then you go to the Central Information Commission. And the other role is of course in supervising you to see whether the Act will be implemented correctly. So it's basically an appellate body. Thank you for telling me. Okay. Now, you have given a formal service in your second choice. The US is facing a very peculiar situation of they are talking of a US federal shutdown. What is this? So the US shutdown, as we are seeing the news, is where the government bodies... It's a partial shutdown, the government bodies. The workers are not being paid because of the... The federal workers are not being paid. Yes, because of the no convergence of the interest of the president, the executive and the congress. The major issue is regarding the US, Mexico one. So how much money does the president want? So somewhere his demand is around 5.7 billion dollars. 5.7 billion dollars is what he wants. Now you know the Supreme Court sometime back had legalized passive euthanasia. What is this passive euthanasia? So euthanasia is a mercy killing as we call it in simple terms. And passive euthanasia, they are passive and active euthanasia. So passive euthanasia is where we do not actively go and kill somebody out of mercy or his vegetative condition. So in passive euthanasia, the person is on artificial support, external support. So that could be life support. Thank you sir. That could be vitro. But they also introduced the concept of a living will. What is that? So a living will is a will that a person can sign by his living to tell after what stage or if in case he is at that stage so the family can vitro the life support system. Right. Okay. Have you heard of the constitution provides for a motion of no confidence? Yes sir. What is the procedure? Can it be introduced in the Raj Sabha? So motion of no confidence can be introduced in Lok Sabhaan because it's the representative of the people. So that is how we show. So is there any restriction that how many people are required to move a motion? If one everybody wants to move, he can't do it right? No sir. So how many would be required? So I am not sure. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Just when you are from Kanpur? Yes sir. At present you are in Kanpur also? Or you are working somewhere? No sir. I am in Delhi. Okay. You have heard of this Namami Ganga? Yes sir. So what is this project about? Namami Ganga. So this project is about cleaning and rejuvenation of the Ganges river and it has several components. What are the main components? Yes sir. The main components are the construction of STPs in the cities for sewage treatment, the ghat rejuvenation, the growing of green belt around the Ganges to some extent. The major components are these. But you didn't talk about this, you know, Adiral Ganga and... Yes, the Nirval Ganga, they are interrupted and the... The cleaning of the Ganga itself, that is the main task. Yes. You talk about their effluent and also the sewage treatment and they can ghat, what have you known. Okay. So also another important aspect you have missed is the behavior. Right sir. That is, you know, that part is... Okay, that means Kanpur. What is the change, what have you known? Kanpur also, what have you known? Polluting Ganga. Kanpur has a major role. Right sir. The industries, the tanneries. So, have you any idea, what have you done in Kanpur and... Yes sir. As you suggested, the pollution from the tanneries is what is causing, contributing to the pollution in the river. And also sir, the sewage treatment, the sewage from the city also is contributing. In this regard, the government has taken various steps. The most recent ones being the shutting down of almost 89 industrial tanneries did not have a treatment plant, the common effluent treatment plants. And besides that, the government has also... There was a drain that was discharging the water directly into the river. So that has been connected to the sewage treatment plant. However, I think this can be even made better and better. Environmental studies is your subject, isn't it? Yes sir. So, you did a main environmental studies. Yes sir. Tell me, the climate change, which is a kind of a boring topic. The steps taken globally for climate change and what is the progress? So climate change is a very burning issue and it is an issue that is forced sovereign. So countries together have taken up various measures. The most important one is the UNFCCC, that is United Nations' favourite convention on climate change. We are in Paris Agreement and the latest Katowice landmark conference. Apart from that, we also have a red plus initiative wherein we try to reduce the carbon emissions from forest cutting. And we also have an international solar alliance wherein India has taken leave. That would lead to renewable energy and cut down on the carbon emissions in Katowice. In the Paris Agreement, there are number of steps to be taken. Yes sir. So what have been done in that regard? In Paris Agreement, number of steps to be taken for climate change and to reduce the carbon emissions. So what have been done so far in that regard? So in Paris Agreement, various measures were given. Like? Like sir, one was the 100 billion dollar fund wherein the developed countries had to contribute considering the historical pollution that they have caused. Apart from this, we also had INDCs intended nationally determined contributions wherein every country would mention how much reductions it aims to achieve. So what is done so far? So since the agreement was not legally binding. So not much has been achieved also due to new standards for measurement of the measurement and verification of the carbon emissions. There had been certain challenges which have tried to be sorted out at the recent Katowice. And Trump also, what is his role? U.S. is a major participant. So what is his statement for U.S. role and all that? Some countries like the U.S. and Mr. Trump have been denied climate change but that is to our pedal. So he did not want to contribute to the fund. And also he does not believe in the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities. Tell me, have you heard of this basic structure of the constitution? Yes sir. So it is in the constitution itself? No sir, it is not there in the constitution. It evolved from the case of 1973 and new features keep on added. The court keeps on adding. What are the major, you know, some basic structure of the constitution adds two hours by Supreme Court from time to time. So there are many. But for you? Yes. So federalism is one such which is not there in the constitution but it is then the basic structure. Apart from that, we also have a right balance between the fundamental rights and the director principles. And? And so I am not able to recall right now. Okay. Thank you. You were talking about tineries and closing down the tineries. So the cow and the slaughter, the common cow slaughter always affected people in Hanukur or in Luthia Sanjee. Whether it is farmers or others. From the little knowledge that I have now, the impact of cow slaughter temporarily, yes ma'am, sorry, a ban on the cows slaughter temporarily was seen. However, over the period some of the tannies have been compliant with the norms as I've heard from my parents. So, yes, there is an impact still but... So where are they getting the heights from if there is a ban on slaughter of cows? Given the little information I have, I think there were certain norms and they have to be licensed or something was there to be done. We agreed on this. Another question, you had philosophy as an optional subject. You would also have studied ethics as one of the papers. Do you think there is a lot of cobalt between the two subjects? Yes ma'am. Suppose you asked to give your recommendations, what would you say regarding either of the papers? I am sorry ma'am. Suppose you asked to give recommendations, since there is so much of cobalt, what would you say, what would you recommend? Either in the ethics paper or in the paper of philosophy? Ma'am, sorry, recommend as in which... What would you say? Should we have an cobalt? There's a complete cobalt. Yes ma'am. Thank you ma'am. Ethics is a part of, in fact, philosophy and it's a normative science where a philosophy we take and issue and we particularly rationally go about it. But ethics is a normative science where there are certain... No, I think you didn't get my question or maybe I didn't make myself clear. There's a paper known as ethics. Yes ma'am. What is that paper? The paper in UPS. Yes ma'am. Yes ma'am. So it's a GS4. Yes. And there's a cobalt there between that paper and the main philosophy paper which is an optional subject. Suppose you had to make a recommendation to the UPSC what would you recommend? Can you please take a few seconds? Yes. You study Indian philosophers, you study western philosophers and you study the safe. So should we not take away part of this ethics paper which is the UPSC paper? Yes ma'am. The main ethics. All right, next question. I would like to present your answer. Ethics basically is a part of philosophy so it's very difficult to completely isolate the two. However, if I were to suggest to UPSC I can ask them to keep the philosophers and the contents are different. For example, even now the approach that we have in socio-political philosophy is different wherein we talk about all the philosophies where there as an ethics we should focus more on what there a philosophy is regarding the grounds of it. So do you think Gandhi's philosophy is relevant today? Yes ma'am. Stuck in from empowerment. Today as we see that we are not able to deal with the or to some extent that the pollution and these problems that have been created with consumerism and all this ideas. We can't do an idea of the need and the philosophy that will be very much relevant as he has cited in the Hindus Vanash that concept is relevant. Apart from that in the terms of economy wherein we talk about corporate governance the trusteeship idea of Gandhi is beautiful. Good. Now my last question if I ask you to give me recommendations to make Delhi a safer place for women. What would you say? Just give me one, two, three, four. That's it. There could be a surveillance in North Canada. More women on the road. More women police or more women? How can you have more women on the road? We need to ensure such policies that more women police and don't be put in trouble. Lighting of streets, attitude change and self-help for the women themselves. Thank you. Ms. Kaur. Well, here's a lot about property federalism. Yes, sir. What is this concept? So corporate federalism is where in states some together and the center and we together cooperate and develop on the policies. Are we moving in that direction? Sir, to a great extent, yes we are. GST is already on the page. Any other instruments of property federalism? Anas commission. Yes. NTIO's role is promoting property federalism. Finance commission. How many finance commissions there? The recent finance commission was the 15th one. 15th one, which is currently on, right? 14th finance commission, that is the previous one. Yes, sir. The recommendation of finance commission is to decide on the percentage of how much resources have to be developed in the states. Was there any substantial change compared to the earlier ones? In the 15th, sir. 15th is still on. So 14th, was it in any way different than 13th or 12th? Yes, sir. As far as I can recall, the quantum of share that was given to the states was increased. My book. About the 14th. What question was there? It was raised from 13th to 14th. 32 to 42th, yes. So that's a very significant step up. NGT, you're dealing with environmental issues. NGT has given us a vast amount of important judgments. Which concerns the pollution and environmental issues. Can you please talk about the important judgments? No, sir. Which has made a difference? So the most important judgment and the most recent one was the one wherein the state government was asked to levy charge on the groundwater consumption. Yes. So recently also it asked, the most recent news, the Fox-Fidel company to, because it did not comply with the verification measures for its diesel engines. So it has asked to pay for it in their immediate load. These 100 logs is kind of, so that is a good step. For cheating. For cheating. Okay. They say that GST is a game changer. In what way it has changed the game? The rules of the game. So it has, it aims to simplify the tax regime. So the tax regime or tax effect has reduced. So and in the longer spillover effects can be seen in terms of in the longer run that we can see the exports that increase the ease of doing business has increased. Then the uniformity of tax drugs across the country? Yes, sir. That's a very similar objective of GST. Right. What is the difference between Jainism and Buddhism? Are there any similarities and also difference? Sir, both schools of thoughts are agnostic when it comes to God. It's a major similarity. And both of them came to oppose the ritualistic approach of Hinduism. Talking about the difference. Any difference between these two? Similarity? Yes, sir. We met a physics point of view. Jainism talks about multiple realities. For Buddhism, things are momentary. There is nothing permanent. Whereas this is not in the case of Jainism. The preponderance was also different. And the right to attain liberation in both are also different. Okay, last question. What is the Greek's initiative? The Greek's initiative will be in Russia, India, China, South Africa. Where in these developing countries are coming together? They're emerging. Yes, they're emerging. Any initiative taken by this group? Measurement? Sir, the Greek's plan is one of them. We try to finance the infrastructure and other projects. Okay, thank you. So you're fond of music. What kind of music? Sir, I was going to ask, but largely I play synthesizer. Synthesizer. Can anyone play synthesizer? A child can also play synthesizer. Sir, anyone can play synthesizer. But the question is how melodious and what tune is being played. But all tunes are pre-programmed there, no? So the background music is pre-programmed. But then the background music is simple beats. But when we press the chords on the left, then the combination of those tunes. Regarding your environmental studies, last few months back, IPCC had brought out every alarm airport. Are you aware of that? Yes, I am aware of it. What is IPCC? So it's intergovernmental panel or climate change? Is it an independent body or what is it? I'm not sure. It's an NGO. Some of the United Nations? Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. And so what was the gist of this report? Sir, the gist was that we might fail to limit our temperature increase to 1.5. No, it is said by so and so did we even breach it if we are not, it has, there is a specific war line. Have you heard or read it? I did read it some time ago. I'll go back and check it, sir. It says that global warming has increased dangerously. At this rate it will not take steps. And by 2030 we'll be breaching 1.5. Read it, it says important report. Now what was COP 21? COP 21 was the Paris Agreement. Paris Agreement. Is Kyoto Protocol dead? Sir, I would not say it's dead. But it also, the Kyoto Protocol, to deal with the greenhouse gases, wherein they talk about carbon. That was the most important condition of cause of Kyoto Protocol. You need to read these. That is of all these international agreements that was the only binding agreement. It was binding on whom? So, on the countries that signed it? Only on the rich countries. Not on all the countries. What is COP 24? So, the COP 24 is Katowash, the one that we recently have. What were its achievements? Name, tool, and past performance. So, we had a rule book. One, the other is that the measurement and the verification for the carbon emissions was decided wherein the carbon parents that we have exchanged. Has India determined its ideal seas? Yes, sir. You seem very shaky. You have done environmental studies in your MA. So, India did achievements in IDC. What is IDC? Name, tool, and marksman targets, which it has set for itself? Sorry, I am sorry. I am not very sure. Good. All right. Has India produced any great possible? Yes, sir. Name? Shankaracharya, sir. What is his great philosophy, which is practicable, which is we can all adhere to or we can adopt? What is his philosophy? So, his philosophy is that all the things ultimately are part of Brahman. So, this may sound very mystical, but on the practical level, he has accepted everything. Then you should not hang a criminal who has murdered because he is part of Brahman. No, sir. That he has spoken on the transcendental level, on the practical level. It sounds very grand, but it doesn't have any practical relevance. Is there any philosopher in India who had practical relevance? Swami Nirekanya. Yes, say that. So, we must name those who have some... we can follow those philosophy in practical life. What was his philosophy, which you find the most practical and impressive? So, the most impressive philosophy that I find is, when he says, rise awake and stop not until the goal is achieved, which is very much relevant for the youth today, wherein in this digital and quick word, they are losing patience and the world of instant gratification. So, this will really motivate them to achieve their goals. You know what I like about him? He says, I would recommend that you should play football instead of playing. Now, you come from UP. Yes, sir. There is a very serious matter on Sunday in UP, which is before the Supreme Court. What is it? So, it is regarding the land dispute of the... All right. He closed the interview. I will give you a T.P. I started this UP 1100 encounters. Matter is before the Supreme Court. Supreme Court has very first the Supreme Court has extremely serious. Do you consider it to be an important issue or not? Yes, sometimes. So, because of... The police can get anyone in the name of encounter. Right? Now, we... This is our view that most questioning will be based on your bio-data and some on current affairs. Right? We have also accordingly asked you questions. So, we have asked you on philosophy. Uttar Pradesh, you have been asked like Namami Ganga, Kanpur, cleaning, etc. Then music, environmental studies. So, these are some of the areas where we end philosophy. We have asked you these questions. Then we have asked you what current affairs like U.S. shutdown, Pasad Uttar area, the Supreme Court judgment, living well against Supreme Court judgment. What is no confidence motion? How it is ending in parliament? Then climate change which is your own subject but also very important what does the U.S. stand? Basic structure of the Constitution I am afraid you are not ready for that. You gave a very minor thing like directive principles and fundamental rights. Most important things are independence of the judiciary, independent judiciary. Financialism, yes, federalism. So, those are the things basic structure that is the real basic structure. Fundamental rights, what does it say? It has a balance between fundamental rights and DPSDs. No, it says fundamental rights, certain rights are inalienable. For instance article 21 14 22 they can never be change modified. Others can be can be amended. Then relevance of the philosophy, philosophy we have asked you a number of questions, women and safety. Then we have asked you some important question like GST cooperative federalism NGT, BRICS these are all relevant issues and finally I have asked you a number of questions I think this issue Strengthen your knowledge these are all current issues as well as relating to your environment. IPCC report Kyoto Protocol 21-22 India's IDC India has said IDC you should take a look at it. Physics is your subject so it's possible they might ask you some questions who have won the Nobel prizes in the recent years for what purpose they have won the Nobel Prize and then about your own state UP they can ask you about the economic development of UP number 2 HDI number 3 law and order like this that is all I think we and then keep it close watch on day to day developments through the newspaper reading okay good luck