Divyanshu Choudhary (AIR – 30)

Board – Smita Nagraj Ma’am
Date – 02.09.21
2nd in Afternoon session
Interview time – 25-30 minutes

Name – Divyanshu Choudhary
AIR 30

Background – Bits Pilani, IIM Calcutta, 1 year work experience at HSBC.

Hobby – Indian mythology (only asked on this one)

Details :  

1) What were the changes you saw when you moved from BITS to IIM?

2) Which college influenced you more?

3) Relation between mythology and history.

4) Negative impact on society because of this relation (Talked about believing in myths and going against            scientific temper).

5) What is scientific temper and 1 follow up question on that.

Member 1 –

1) Relate Mediation and Mahabharata.

2) Mahabharata was Dharma vs Adharma or Fight for Land?

3) Use of maths for economic justice. (talked about mathematical modelling for DBT and e muster rolls in            MGNREGA for digitisation based on maths)

4) What is surrogacy?

5) Situation of surrogacy in India.

6) If twins are born instead of just one child, what happens to the other child? (Replied don’t know)

Member 2 –

1) Impact of US China conflict on word economy and geography.

2) Should free electricity be given? 1 counter question on that (I said it should be given if AT&C losses are            kept low like in Delhi at 3% and stated Draft electricity amendment bill as well which talks about reducing      cross subsidies but he seemed a bit unsatisfied).

3) What if you won a lottery? (Told I would like to buy my parents a house as we still live in a rented house.         To which ma’am replied I should have asked what’s the lottery amount and then everyone laughed).

Member 3 –

1) How to preserve India’s intangible cultural heritage?

2) How will India meet 1.75 Lakh Crore disinvestment target?

3) Air India issue.

4) Reforms needed in judiciary (I talked about AIJS and e courts).

5) What about adjournments?

6) Electoral reforms (Talked about online rallies, MCC and criminalisation of politics)

7) Electoral bonds assessment? (Gave the solution of using state funding of elections and National Electoral        Fund)

8) Simultaneous elections opinion? (Seemed satisfied when said no with reasons)

Member 4 –

1) You talked about crony capitalism in electoral bonds? Give an example.

2) What can be done to increase scientific research in India?

3) Why did you go for engineering despite having so many science scholarships and what should govt. have           done to stop you? (Told him technology was my personal preference and govt. wouldnt have changed my           mind because it was a personal thing).

Chairperson –  

1) Why is your signature invisible? (Printing issue with DAF)

2) Managers are of two kinds. One with big picture and others who prefer detailing. Which one would you opt      for in administration? (I said big picture because at the lower levels of bureaucracy, detailing is already          there in policy implementation but they aren’t much aware about the bigger picture which is mainly                  created at upper levels. So with big picture guys getting recruited at the bottom, there will be better sync        of  efforts with upper bureaucracy for better service delivery and policy implementation).

Chairperson : Thank you. Your interview is over.