 please come sit down. Already in trade service? Yes sir. What do you do in this service? Sir, main objective is to facilitate the international trade of India sir. Why do you want to make a change now? Sir, the trade has not that good as it can do. So by coming to a yes you will do, you will do the trade. That's what you said. No sir, I thought. No, no. That's not an answer. So I thought that you won't trade but you won't trade. Now, what are the qualities which you possess which will make you a good service? Sir, I take other advice into consideration and I try to find the basic problems first and then I go for a solution. I do not rush to things. Mr. Harpreet, you spent two years in the border security? Yes sir. Where were you posted? Sir, I was posted in West Bengal sir, 24 North Chowmey's families. Now tell me, in the Northeast, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act is enforced and also in some parts of Jammu and Kashmir. Yes sir. What are the powers which are bestowed on the paramilitary forces and the armed forces through this act? Sir, there are basically two enabling sections in Armed Forces Special Powers Act, section 4 and section 6. The one talks about that we are right to search, read and even shoot and the section protects from the appropriation. Yes sir. Now the issue of shoot, are you aware of what the Supreme Court has said? Yes sir. Sir, in Manipur there was around 1500 villains and Supreme Court has said that they should be investigated by CBI. They should be investigated by the CBI. Mr. CBI is doing it. Yes sir. Yes, CBI is doing it and they have co-opted two persons from the NHRC also on the direction of the Supreme Court. Yes sir. Now Nagaland has been witness to insurgency for quite some time. Yes sir. And which are the groups which are operating there? Sir, can I take a seat? Sure. Sir, there were two groups. One was led by Aysak Moiva and the other was by Kapland. Kapland, that's why. The NSCN. Yes sir. National Search Service for Nagaland. Now they have been demanding a concept of Greater Nagaland for Greater Nagaland. Yes sir. What does that mean Greater Nagaland? Sir, where the Nagas stayed, some of the territories are in Myanmar and some of them are in Manipur. The Greater Nagaland they want to unite all those entities. You have said what? There are some portions of Manipur, the hill districts of Manipur. Manipur is here. Assam. Assam. Assam. And also Arnachar Pradesh. Assam. Nagai inhabited areas in Manipur, Assam and Arnachar. Three are joining states to Nagaland. Okay. Now what was this Kartarpur corridor which has been coming in the media nowadays? Yes sir. Sir, the Kartarpur was the place where Grananikli just spent some of his lifetime here and it is just two or three kilometers from the border. When the partition was done it went to the Pakistan state and lot of pilgrims has to go to Ataripur to proper visa. So what is required to be built there? Sir, there used to be first corridor of even 100 meter of breadth and up to the river. Up to the river also isn't there? Yes sir. A bridge has to be built. Yes sir. Which river is there? Ravi. Ravi river. Yes sir. So is this a good move? Yes sir. I think it's a good move sir. Okay. But did the initiative come from Pakistan or was it an Indian initiative? Sir, there were already demands prevalent in the Punjab but they did not got something concrete when the Maratham government came in. Now the government had set up something called aspirational districts. What is the concept behind this? Sir, previously there were some of the least developed districts and now we have named it into aspirational districts. They have potential to grow. It is just a change of perspective. How many of them are there? Sir, 150. Out of these, how many were LWU affected districts? 35 are LWU. So what is the mechanism now to monitor what is happening in these districts? Yes sir. Now sir, senior level officers, IOS officers, they have been called Bhaariya, Bhaariya officers and they have to coordinate with someone in the PMO. They will coordinate with a similar officer from the state authority. Yes sir. And the whole monitor is the NETIO. NETIO is supposed to monitor. Now this controversy around surrounding Cambridge Analytica, are you aware of that? No, I have heard of it sir. What is that? Are you aware? Yes sir. Sir, Cambridge Analytica is a firm which was basically taking out the Facebook data and checking out the bent of the people, which party they are or conservatively trying to do. Thank you. Why didn't we go for some rigidity in our constitution? Sir, because when the constitution was made, there were apprehensions that like Pakistan and Bangladesh had got separated today in the East Pakistan and there were things that in the station there may be other demands as well. So that is why the, what the NEO has put into a good site, the article 1 terms that the unitary structure, the indestructible nation of destructible states. In terms of amendment to the constitution, we have some rigidity. Yes sir. Why do we need that? Sir, because to avoid the whims and fancies of the parliamentarians for their political gains, we need some kind of stability to work with the constitution. That is why sir, there is some rigidity there. Is there a limit to amendment of the constitution? No sir. What is basic structure, doctrine? Sir, basic structure doctrine was decided in the case and it tells that you can amend the constitution a number of times, but it should not alter the basic structure of the constitution. Like the federal scheme, the secularism, the socialist land, there is these kind of things. Are fundamental rights part of the constitution? Yes sir. But in case 1 and party itself, fundamental right was amended and it was of help. Sir, but it did not change the main broad purpose of the fundamental rights. Okay, can you tell us about law which prevents people with criminal, convicted people from entering electoral politics? The representation of people that... What is the problem? Sir, I am not aware of the proof exactly. Is there any bar? I don't need the exact section or whatever. Yes sir. Are you aware of Lily Thomas case? There is almost smoke sir. Okay, tell us something about the salient features of right to education. Right to education talks about providing free of cost education from the age of 6 to 14 years of age. That is there in article 21A. 21A, yes sir. So I am talking of the act, how is the act different from the constitution? Sir, I am not sure sir. Okay, last. Why is, what is the latest on SYL canal? Latest sir, I do not know. But I know what has happened until few months back. And tell us about that. So realized money, water and Punjab is not giving it to it and they are... That is lingering. And sir... Okay, thank you. You have given your hobbies as exploring music. Yes ma'am. So do you sing, do you play an instrument? No ma'am, actually I wanted to write just exploring songs but I instead of... So what do you do when you explore songs? Ma'am, I actually try to find the songs of my days. Like some of the songs are from Pakistan. Here some Farsi songs and some other songs. And you have written Manga and Malwaikita. Yes ma'am. What is the difference between the two? Manga is done by the males and Malwaikita is also done by the males. But it is actually done by the older men of the village community. And they actually try to have this style on the women's life. So it's not as vigorous as the manga? Ma'am earlier it used to be in a traditional sense. It is not very vigorous but presently the youth is coming up with... It was actually dying art form so now in the college days and it is getting revived. Now since you are from Punjab, one year is about the drug problem. Yes ma'am. Which is very very prevalent in Punjab. What is the reason? Ma'am it is a more or less a sly demand problem. We have a bundles of sly because of being... A bundles of sly because Punjab is proximate to the Golden Chris and Punjab lies on the drug route. So a lot of drugs comes in and the demand is there because the youth is having the money with them. How do they have the money? From their parents basically. They do not have them on employment but they still got money. They got something to spend it on. And it seems like... So is anything being done to look into this problem? Yes ma'am. The special task force was set up and some of the key smugglers were arrested as well. The border security force and is doing to put up a much more effective technological solutions to the man in the borders. And I think... You also have something related to... Yes ma'am. Now you must be aware of the green revolution. What is the second green revolution? Ma'am the second green revolution is trying to... Revolution is agriculture in an organic and much more environmentally friendly way. It is different from the first green revolution. How is it different? The first green revolution was basically cereal-centric. And because main objective at that time was the food security of the country. Now we have got enough food security compared to... So are we diversifying the green also? Yes ma'am. We are diversifying the green into pulses and other agriculture also. Alright. And we also talk about the blue revolution. Yes ma'am. What is that blue revolution? The blue revolution is the term to develop our ports and the marine economy. So what has been done to develop our ports? Sardar Malaparte is their port modernization scheme is also working under that. We also have the operation plant. Can you do something about that? What is operation plant? I am sorry. The milk production? Yes ma'am. Yes ma'am. The operation plant was with the Amul cooperative and to boost the... How did it become such a successful cooperative? One of the largest in the country? Yes ma'am. I am not very sure but their marketing strategy was like that. They marketed it as an international product. Like to use demand of Amul. And they also take over the other cooperatives. Okay. Just read it. Now you had electronics and communications. Yes ma'am. But tell me something about drones. What are drones? Drones are the small area vehicles which we can use for many purposes. What are the purposes like? Sometimes telemedicine or something. Some observing, observing, surveying. Do we have any policy for drones? Can anyone just fly a drone? No. There is a limit on drones like... Why? Because now there are many incident where drones are used for the good causes. Like marriages, they are shooting and then IPL matches. These kind of drones do not cause us any security threat. But when there are bigger drones which fly much higher, they can be a challenge for this threat. Also they can be not only a security challenge but a practice. Yes ma'am. Thank you. Mr. Harpreet, as an officer from the Indian Trade Service, how do you look at India's foreign trade? Sir, India's foreign trade has not yet reached its potential. There is huge scope. Explores, how are we doing on the exports? We have only 300 billion of exports as of now. It has been stagnating for a long time. Yes. The market is stagnating. Yes. Why is it that India's exports are not competitive? Sir, there can be many reasons. One of them is quality issues. There is not good packaging. No proper marketing is there. Our exporters find difficulty to export because there are a lot of organizations working in and they find that exporting of products... What is your trade balance? Trade balance is like 150 billion, sir. 450 billion are in import and 360 billion is export. And CID? I am not sure. You are not sure? Okay. Imports, what are the main imports? So the major import is through oil. And prices are hardening in the international market. Our import bill has also gone up quite a bit. Yes. What is the latest price on oil in the international market? Sir... It has come down or it has gone up? It has come down but it is not going up. It is around 67 dollars. Under what circumstances do you impose comparable in detail? Sir, when a lot of subsidies are provided in other countries and the products are actually damaging the domestic market. Can that be done unilaterally or there is a procedure prescribed under the WTO? Sir, there is a procedure. What kind of? Sir, I am not sure. Okay. SCJs. Sir. What is your role and how many SCJs are there in India? I am not sure. I am not sure of the number. But its role you must... Yes. So they are actually for affiliated with the foreign trade investment actually. For even the local investment into the SCJ they are deemed foreign directly for the purpose of... Okay, IFS is one of your service reference. Brexit. Sir. That is something to do with your trade service in the world also. Yes. Briefly mention what is this problem and where it is in the country. Sir, Brexit problem has its main major basis in the immigration of the lot of Eastern Europeans into the inter-government. What is the present? Presently what is the crisis? The present crisis is that the parliamentarians there have not supported the deal of the... What is this deal? So the deal is actually... Yes sir. The deal is basically to provide a transition period from going out of the European Union. I think you need to sir. Okay. Thank you. Now, what is unemployment rate in Punjab? Not sure sir. No idea. No sir. But it is higher than the rest of the country sir. The rest of the country has 7% unemployment rate and the Punjab has higher rates. No. Check up the figures. Don't just give unconfirmed figures. Sir. Now a recent leaked report says 6.1%. Yes. And you are going to 7%. Sir, approximately... It's not been accepted by the government but even if you accept that report that 6.1 is what they are saying. So recheck the figures. Sir. Now you are interested in foreign services as a second choice. Yes sir. Correct? So what are the goals which foreign policy is trying to achieve? Name two most important goals or objectives of foreign policy. India's foreign policy. So as of now the major two foreign policy objectives are one is the permanent seat at United Nations. And the second is getting the nuclear supply groups. Afghanistan. So. It's a country in termoid, a provincial termoid. Yes sir. But we are spending money, 3 billion dollars. Yes sir. Yes. We have given. Yes sir. What is so important about Afghanistan that we should... Sir, the importance of Afghanistan is huge because it will act as a pathway to Central Asia through Chabahar port basically. One seat. So... There is something else. All that is visual thinking. There is something else which is very inverse. Something else. Okay. Electronics communications subject. Yes sir. How many people use internet in India? Do not know the exact figures. How many people use mobile phones? Sorry sir. You know. There is a digital India program. Yes sir. One of its main goals was to connect 250,000 raised panchayats. First with optical fiber and then with internet. Yes sir. So what is the progress in connecting it with in laying the optical fiber to these panchayats. And secondly, providing them with the internet facility. What is the progress? No sir. No idea? No sir. Now we close the interview here. I will give you a little feedback. Sir. Most of the cushioning according to us would be based on your bio data. That is your data. Sir. Since you are from Punjab, so you have two mother facts about Punjab. Yes sir. Its economy and employment, poverty, etc. etc. Okay sir. Second will be public administration. Yes sir. Third would be electronics communication. Sir. Since you are already in a security organization. Yes sir. Some questions on these security matters. Yes sir. And so these are the four areas where I think you should focus. Yes sir. Then current affairs. Sir. Then constitutional issues and some important judgments of the Supreme Court. Sir. Yes sir. Sir. You have very little time. Yes sir. Yes sir. If you have less time, you should read these 5-6 articles. Yes sir. You will take an hour on every subject. Yes sir. Read the newspaper for current affairs. Read them very carefully. Sir. Start with first of February because of the budget. Budget. Yes sir. Then some important events have taken place since then. Yes sir. You identify those through newspapers. Take those cuttings. Keep them. Read them at least every day before you start a new work. Read those cuttings again and again. You will see how quickly you master these facts. Yes sir. Within 4-5 days you will be having at least you will have improved your knowledge by 50%. If you do what I am telling you. Sir. Take out two good newspapers. One on say on say financial expense and other types of ideas. Take out all important cuttings. Sir. Start reading them again and again. Sir. That is the first thing you should do. Secondly, we have asked you a lot about public administration issues. Sir. I will tell you a little bit. If you ask me about quality, then you go for basic qualities. Basic qualities are honesty, integrity, hard work, rule of law. You believe in rule of law, professional competence, diligence. Yes sir. And you are willing to, you are ready to handle responsibilities and handle crisis. Sir. Crisis. Right. These are some qualities. Which are? Yes sir. As per Maripur case. Yes sir. Yes sir. Yes sir. Yes sir. That is before the Supreme Court. Yes sir. Yes sir. Sir. You were asked why rigidity is in the constitution. Why is it brought in? You have said Bangladesh is broken. No. No. There have been attempts at certain political parties or facilities to break this constitution. You see. To dilute certain basic features of the constitution. There have been attempts. What are those? Either to deny the or dilute the fundamental rights. Yes sir. Or to dilute federal structure or independence of duty. Sir. Therefore, there has been a need. Not because Pakistan and all that. No. All these basic concept came later on. Several years after the constitution was already enforced. So, this basic structure concept brought the rigidity because of this. Threat to the basic concept and its of the constitution. Yes sir. India will not remain a democracy. India will become like a dictatorship if we do not have these basic features. Yes sir. This is the concept. Yes sir. Next. Limit to amendment in constitution. You say there is no limit. Is this rigidity for basic features? Yes sir. This limits. Sir, but the limit I was thinking in the number of times amendment can be done. Limit is. You can do it or not. You can do anything. You can do anything. You don't have to do anything from the number. Fundamental rights only. Three rights are part of the constitution. Of the basic structure. 14, 19, 21. No other. Remember this. Lily Thomas case, read it. Criminal in politics. Yes sir. Sir, actually I knew something about it. But I didn't. No problem. Read it. We are telling you. Generally it was. Read it for a minute. This is the constitution issue. It is very important. Section 8, subsection 4. This is changed. Subsection 4 has been added in the constitution. Okay. I was asked about you. This is a paradox. An employee is also there. And money is also there for drug use. You find an answer to this. Read it carefully. What are your objectives in the permanent seat council? And there are two NSG. To secure our nation against foreign threat. That is to strengthen our security integrity. That is the first. And second is economic development. All the permanent seats, they come much later. After your security. Okay. We have been asking you for 4 years. You have not given any job. How many internet users? How many mobile phones? What does Digital India do? Read it carefully. You will get it out. You will get a DVD. Yes. In which all these questions and answers. The whole interview has been captured. Read it carefully. And start preparing. You have time in 4-5 days. You should do as we are trying to suggest to you. Okay. Your bio data. There are two questions. On the political issues. Correct. And the Supreme Court's important judgments. Read it carefully. Okay. Read it carefully. Read it carefully. You should also read it carefully. Your interview. So that no one miss it. Good Luck. Thank you. Good luck. Thanks. Don't forget to like share and subscribe to our channel. Press the bell icon to never miss an update.