 Please sit down. So why do you wish to join civil service? Sir, in civil service I know that I will get the opportunity to contribute to my contribution towards nation building as well as a very good career opportunity. What qualities do you possess which will make you a good civil servant? Firstly, I believe I have a single-minded focus towards my work that helps to raise my commitment. Secondly, I believe I am a woman of principles when it comes to my integrity and my honesty. Thirdly, I believe I have a discipline as a civil servant and time management skills which enhance my commitment and passion towards my job. There are a few more qualities required for these jobs. These are leadership positions. First is your faith and rule of law. You have to abide by the rule of law. Second is you are required to have moral courage, that is courage to say and do the right thing. Thirdly, you don't finish from ending crisis. You ready the end of crisis. Because every day practically you get crisis in the situation in the districts. So these are some qualities which you should always believe. And is this your first attempt? Sir, this is my third attempt. This is your third attempt? Yes. Now, I see from the bio data that you have done colleague administration. Yes. So I will ask you a few questions on constitutional matters. Okay. So where is the philosophy of the constitution? Where does it reside, the philosophy of the Indian constitution? Sir, primarily the preamble of the constitution embodies the philosophy of the constitution. Quite right. It contains a word called socialist. Yes. Now, is it the same as socialism? No, it's not. Or it has a different meaning in Indian context. Sir, the Indian context is a little different from socialism. Entailing that we have a mixed economy where the state does pay a family. But there is a free and fair environment even for the private sector. So it becomes a mixed economy. So you were trying to say that this word socialist connotes it has economic meaning. So mixed economic meaning. No, it doesn't have economic meaning. Sir, it entails regarding the state's presence because the means of production in... That is socialism. Yes. When the government controls the means of production and distribution, that is called socialism. Yes. This is a definition. Yes. But here socialist means social and economic justice. Remember this. Yes. It has nothing to do with economy. Yes. Sir, the state takes a primary role of welfare which is social and economic justice. Exactly. But the private sector is equal. That is right. That is right. So this is actually a concept of welfare state. Yes. Not of socialism as you defined. Now, you have... Must have heard of, read about the Keshan and Bharti case and the basic structure concept. Yes. Now, near three most important or most salient features of the constitution which are basic features which cannot be changed. Near the important are not the unimportant. Basic features which cannot be altered. So first, I might say that it's a democracy feature of the constitution itself. It's a democratic institution of the state. Second, I would say the secular nature of the state which is most important. And third, I would say separation of powers between the three institutions of the law. The institution of power is correct. But suppose I still told you that the most important thing is the federal structure. It cannot be touched. Second is the independence of judicious. And third is separation of powers. I would put it in that order. I will continue with this public application. What is the concept of good governance? Sir, governance is the act of governing and good governance means when the act of governance involves principles of transparency, accountability, rule of law, citizen participation. That it becomes more inclusive in future. Okay. Now we will just come to mentioning of federalism. Right. How federalism works in India? What is your assessment? Sir, India has separate state governments and central governments. That's a basic feature that we have. That we have a separate state government person. Secondly, we have divided the functions of the central state governments into separate lists which has... What kind of changes have come? Sir, there have been some deletions in the state list and addition in the concurrent as well as the central list that have happened over the period of time. And apart from that, there are changes like GST council which was very recent that provide for pools of vanity between the states in the center. Do you think that the financial position of the states are being strengthened? Certainly some of the recent GST council formation where states have been given equal powers when it comes to... India already has some of that strengthening of the financial position of the states. Sir, the 14th finance commission, it increases the evolution of funds from the center to the states, increases from 30 to 42 percent. So that is one reason. What is the concept of cooperative federalism? Sir, cooperative federalism is when the states cooperate amongst themselves as well as with the center for a common national objective. So that becomes more of an inclusive governance again where they cooperate into each other. And how does it work? What is the inclusion mechanism for that? Sir, it's the... India state council is one mechanism. There are some new councils as well. And these are some of the methods. In the budget this year, the interim budget... Yes. For the individual sector, they must give more interviews, right? Sir, I beg your pardon. One important scheme was introduced for the individual sector. Yes, sir. What is your take on that? Sir, the particular scheme is Pradhanwantri Kisan scheme, sambandhidhi scheme. And it aims to provide direct income support to farmers. So in the sense of providing them an investment support and also a choice to what to do, it's a good scheme in that sense. And it will help in boosting agriculture productivity. However, certain concerns need to be addressed with it because it concerns itself only with land-pulling farmers. And also its penetration needs to be addressed with that. The implementation of the scheme also... We have some other difficulties. What kind of difficulties are being encountered? So the first implementation hurdle would be to identify the farmers given the land records in India are not that nice. They are not very nicely maintained. So that would be the first hurdle that we would face. The second hurdle would be that there is no cap regarding how much investment support needs to be given to farmers. Many of the state governments have gone in for role-wavers. What is your take on that? Sir, known waivers are an instrument that helps in providing short-term relief to farmers who are healing under beds. So in that sense, it becomes important to give our known waivers up to a certain extent. However, given the fiscal indiscipline and the moral hazard that it entails, farm-loan waivers need to be few. They need to be not many instance. Okay, last question. You and security council, the present situation between India and Pakistan will be security council. For transfer, what happened in that? Sir, the committee on ISIL and Al-Qaeda was set up. There was a resolution that was moved by the United States. What was the resolution number? Sir, it's 1 to 6. So what happened? The resolution was moved to enlist muscle hazard as a terrorist and freezes funds and activities. However, China has put a hold on the resolution. What is the implication of total mode? Sir, till September, there is a temporary hold that the particular terrorist, his funds and his activities, there will be no impact on it. But till September, there is a second review, which either China can veto or agree to. Thank you. Meenan, you are a student of public administration. Yes. What according to you would be the four main principles of public administration? Sir, four main principles, according to me, the first should be rule of law, because the public administrator's need to abide by it. The second, according to me, should be inclusive approach, because the public administration cannot function as a top-down structure. Third, according to me, should be transparency, because corruption is an issue that public administration is facing. And fourth, according to me, should be accountability and responsibility, because to assess the needs of the people and to react to them is also very important. Excellent. You probably left out one efficiency in delivery of services, because that's quite important. Now, I find from your CV that you are interested in women's issues. You have done research, and you love reading feminist thought and discourses. Now, can you name some of the legislations which safeguard women's rights in India? Certainly. Yes. So the first I would say is the Davi Pollution Act. Yes. The second is Domestic Violence Act. Yes. The third is Sexual Erasement and Perplex Act. The fourth is also the Criminal Law Act, which addresses the issue of rape. And apart from that, I cannot recall all of that. There's the Indecent Representation of Women Act, which is 1986. Okay. Now, talking about women's rights, the Supreme Court in its judgment on the Sabarimala case offered one of the constitutional principles. Can you name that principle? Mr. Righto Equality. Yes, very good. One more question. Now, you must have read in the papers recently more than 100 economists, social scientists and statisticianists. They disputed or they questioned the government on the integrity of data that it's been releasing over the last few months. So what do you know of that? Which are the data actually they were referring to? Is that the primary reason that the employment data has not been released by the government? Yes. And that is one area where a lot of economists have worked and tested. How so ever the government has also reasoned that the economic data that was given by the National Statistics Commission was also being attested by the Labor Bureau and confirmed once it was released. So there's a little delay, but that is what the government's reasoning is. Was that the only data which they cast as persons on or was there something else also? So there's one more data under Mudra election. I am not very clear on that. No, you are leaving out the main one. The GDP, the division of GDP which the present government did changed the back series numbers. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. You studied at Stevens and Stevens has become an autonomous college now. Madam, current status I'm not aware of. It is. So are you aware at all about what is autonomy and what are the advantages, disadvantages, etc. or I move to another question. Madam, Stevens is demanding an autonomous... No, not demanding, it's become. It will become more than I asked for. The questions are good to another topic. So that it has freedom when it comes to designing its syllabus and conducting its own examinations and it was hoping that there would be more quality improvement when it comes to the education delivery on its side. So why do you think that despite the typical way of thinking the other colleges have not asked for autonomy? What is the reason? Certainly it's about how well they themselves adjust with the... Then you know this isn't. It's all about finance. Okay. Alright. You've done a policy research paper on representation of women in India indecently. So what was this about? You just took some of the advertisements and analyzed them. Madam, initially there was some literature search on why it happens. Why it is out of context. Okay. And then there was an analysis of acts which is indecent representation of women in an act in cable television. And then there was the regulatory bodies that exist. Regarding the particular analysis of women. So regarding this particular research paper which you presented, was there any follow-up action by this particular workshop foundation? Now in 2014 it had made a representation of a Parliamentary Standing Committee regarding the same act because they were moving amendments to propose our beliefs in representation of women. So was there anything important then? Or just a portfolio? There was a representation in the parliamentary committee. Nothing else. All right. Now you also were editor of the environmental society. So did you write articles or you just edited it? I wrote an editor. You wrote an? What article did you write? Because it's a semesterly system for the journal as well. Oh, okay. So this was related to your academic performance? No. So as in, for a semester one jump came out from the society part. So I wrote two articles. One was the story of the water and water. And the second was your morning coffee set to get expensive. The worst was regarding the fire. So since you're so involved with the environment we also talk in terms of climate change. What exactly is climate change? Climate change is where the average temperature of the earth is increased necessarily. It's only the global warming which is included in climate change or something else also. Apart from global warming there's also environmental levitation that's happening as a result of it. So erratic climate weather conditions in different parts of the world. So are we doing anything on the international level or the international climate? Certainly. We had the International Solar Alliance being inaugurated when we went for the Paris Climate Change conference. So that was one initiative in your family we took. And lastly we've committed a nationally determined contribution of the international... What are these development contributions that we made? First is we aim to reduce our emissions from the 2005 level by 33 to 35% by 2020. Second is to create carbon sinks in the terms of forests. What is carbon sinks? Carbon sinks are primarily forests which can absorb carbon dioxide and offset emissions that are happening in other places. So we're talking about carbon sinks but we are debating the other views. Do you see a diagram in there? What's happening? Certainly there is a movement as a Supreme Court has already put a state so that's reaching the resolution certain. Now you studied in Delhi so Delhi sees a lot of pollution. What has been done to deal with pollution? First tell me the causes and then what has been done to deal with this pollution. The causes of pollution in Delhi are private because there is a molecular pollution there is a name. Second there are also thermal power mountains around Delhi. Thirdly there will be construction dust along the street. Fourthly there will be solid waste matter which is happening around this. So these are some of the causes. And Delhi has a greatest response according to the air quality index according to which they were initiated inside or even let us take it in. Now we are proposing stickers of different colors and colors. Never mind what we are proposing what has been done. Just mention that. Are you aware of the NGT directions? National pink and red directions? Any of them? Specifically van on vehicles in Delhi rather than on the diesel vehicles which are more than 10 years old in Delhi. Also a shift was to 7, 6, 9, 11 in order. So why is there a jump? 6, 9, 4, why not 5 at 5? There was not much of a difference between 4 and 5 and given the critical situation of climate in Delhi it was hard to bring it down to 2. Alright, thank you. Okay, now we are from Uttarakhand. Uttarakhand faced some disaster. So is Uttarakhand ready now to face the disaster? What has been done on disaster management in Uttarakhand? Sir, the carrying capacity of many tourist destinations in Uttarakhand has been very limited because one of the primary reasons is that a second lot of debris because of landslides and mining issues had caused damage during the Kedavna challenge. So one effort has also been to balance near and around that particular area. So is there any disaster management or any government initiative on managing the disaster in the state? Sir, I am sorry. You are not agreed? Look into that because there is a complete disaster management organization which functions in the state. Okay, public administration. Government came with a slogan that minimum government and maximum governance. So can you name some schemes which support this statement? Minimum government, maximum governance. Sir, for example, there was an e-filing of tax returns that is in Uttarakhand. And there was this E-district scheme as well in which the other services have been offered online in the strict ranging from getting your birth certificates and birth certificates. That is also one case. There was this total regarding single minimum clearance for business management for the government. So these are some initiatives. They are much more. At least let's talk some of the major problems of India, flagship schemes that are there to help governance. You understand the difference between government and governance. So would you like to rethink? Sir, I should give you a second point. Sir, specifically I am not able to recall you. Okay, let's come to Me Too movement raised a lot of debate. What is your opinion, what are the pros and cons of Me Too movement on society? Sir, the Me Too movement was against section harassment in workplace management. It was mostly an online campaign that was run by women in which they came up with their stories of section harassment and the pros of this was, firstly, that the collective support that women got from various porters regarding their own experiences and the address of the issue that previously existed nearly as silence networks in the organization. And the second was that the legislative approach that was earlier ensued with respect for section harassment was now replaced by how women are cheated in the workplace itself, apart from the laws existing and apart from how they balance these outcomes. So two pros and the two cons were that there were some women who had misused this campaign in terms of falsely accusing certain people. And because the second con was that people were dismissed from their jobs without any investigation of receiving it. So that was also one con that I found. So what should be done to check the misuse of Me Too? So when it comes to investigation procedures, the firstly is that the narrative that the woman relates regarding her experience should be thoroughly investigated by the authorities. And the second is the internal compliance committees themselves which have not been functional organizations. And if they are properly acquiesced, probably these demands would not arise. So they need to be constituted. Okay, can you name some account by the foreign regulars to India historically who visited India and what kind of India they witnessed? History is your subject. So I want you to go back in time and give me names of the foreign regulars who visited India and their historical account you can name one of them. There will be a number of foreign regulars to India. So the first one is Ibn al-Bifidah which is he came out during the early rule of the... I'm not able to guess when he spent the year but he came to India early after the flood century. And his relation of India was how they are... thereby the regular sculptures that are previously in India. And certain criticisms as well regarding the caste system particularly that he analyzed. The second was Francois Bournier who came to India roughly in the same time. And his primary purpose was to compare the East and the West when he came to the culture the exclusion that India society had and the rule that... Last question. What will be the implication of USA pulling out of Afghanistan on India? Sir, there are a lot of security implications that they can be on India firstly because the presence of the United States of America's army has controlled the Talibani terrorist activities. So in how the jai shen for example Chinese army chain in the Taliban camps that would be the first repercussion that might occur. Secondly also because the USA is negotiating with the Taliban excluding Afghan government which India has good relations that might also be a place in India because we do not have good relations. Now Uttarakhand is has Uttarakhand benefited from separation from the UK? Yes sir to a very large extent. It has only improved. What was it before? Atleer what is it now? Sir there are various parameters on which Uttarakhand has improved. The first thing for example electricity that has reached more than 90% of the areas in Uttarakhand right now. Second is also tourism which has increased 168% in the last 12 years. Third is also industrial areas which earlier Uttarakhand never attracted because there was no specific focus in the Pahali areas. So all this would result in a better economy? Yes sir. So what is the economic growth now? Sir 6.77% currently. That's not much. Sir our average growth UB 6.4% UB 6.7% Sir since 2012 to 2017 a 5 year period our average growth rate was nearly 9-10% as well. So given how much we have grown and right now there is a Sir deterioration I would not say call it deterioration but there are certain areas that we need to still address but the growth is a secret. Now what about the human development in the ashes of Uttarakhand? How did they compare with UB? Sir in terms of sex ratio I even would not have an idea about UB but sex ratios in Uttarakhand have been better obviously. And even literacy rates when it comes to our average literacy rate being around 78% in Uttarakhand. So that is also better than the national average. Sir I know. Okay. What is India's tuition and human development index among 189 nations? So it's actually other. No 130. Uttarakhand along with the central government had planned a large number of dams in Uttarakhand. They were planned but not translated into way. They are not even the foundation as we understand. What is the reason? And why it is stuck? So there are two primary reasons where we got to it. First is the white-scale protests that have also been seen regarding hydroelectric power projects because it entails a lot of we have a replacement of people primarily from their power. So here is the military self staff which agency has stopped it? So inside Supreme Court. Supreme Court has to get after even on it. Because it is not satisfied after the Kedarnath disaster about government data. It says you better be in proper study, ecological all projects are on hold. Now you have done something about environment. COP 21 that is the first one. It evolved a concept of INDCs. Are you ready? India has set some INDCs for itself. Can you give the very brief? So the first is to reduce its emission levels from the 2005 level by 33 to 35 percent. Second is to have carbon intensity. Carbon intensity. Second is 30 to 35 percent of the TDP. That is the word you should use. What else? Second is to create additional carbon sinks about 2.5 to 3 billion tons of carbon dioxide. And third is with respect to renewable energy around 100 gigawatts. Wrong. 40 percent of electricity will be generated from renewable sources by which year? 2020. 2013. All dates of 2015. We close the interview. I will give you a little feedback now. You have done very well. Most of the questions will be presented nicely. Of course you will be given a pen drive so you will know where you are not able to answer the questions. We feel that questioning will be the way we have a lot of questions. Since you are from Uttarakhand, that is one area. Second is your hobbies, etc. environment, administration issues. So they can ask you questions on that. Third is public administration. Fourth is political science and history. These are the broad areas. So the reason that political science and history, I did read them on politics and I read them on politics and history. It is okay in history there can be some questions. What are the pending points in India's history? Did India have a great civilization in the past? Like Gola Veera etc. So read up a little or the move of Mahmada in the funeral movement etc. Social reformers in India, read up a little you have got a little time. Political science and public administration we have asked you a number of questions. That is okay. Then constitutional principles like basic structure concept then we have the new process of law new process of law basic modern constitution principles of law and finally current affairs which includes important recent judgments of the people. For instance, some issues are pending before Supreme Court. No power is pending. And RC is pending. Then current issues also you must remember what is happening especially what is happening in Bangladesh then there was a protest all over northeast about constitutional amendment bill. So what happened? Why was there a protest? These are the areas where I would suggest you should focus your attention. And finally very very thorough study of newspapers information which comes your way don't forget that. Even on the day of interview you must release the newspaper before you enter Good luck. You are doing very good. Best of luck. Best of luck.