Interview Location: UPSC Bhavan, New Delhi
Interview Date: 4th Might 2016
Interview Board Chairman: Shri Vinay Mittal, Former Railway Board Chairman
Interview Board: 1 Chairman, 4 members
Interview Period: 40 minutes
Spherical 1:
CHAIRMAN: So xxx, you’ve got a decade of expertise within the personal sector and you might be at the moment working with XXX. What’s that do you do precisely?
Me: Sir, I’m the product supervisor for the pharmacy utility of XXX.
CHAIRMAN: What’s the product?
Me: Sir, we offer transparency options to the consumer sir. Each time a consumer searches for a drug, we present the drug worth, whether or not it’s a generic model, mail-order pharmacy, and so on.
CHAIRMAN: So, it is sort of a search instrument, I can go and seek for drug costs.
Me: No sir. An organization has to purchase our product sir. Then we take the claims of all workers below that
firm, run our algorithms, and generate costs based mostly on their insurance coverage supplier.
CHAIRMAN: OK. So, it’s extra restricted.
Me: Sure Sir.
CHAIRMAN: However how does this assist anyone?
Me: Sir, within the US healthcare system. An individual strikes by way of three phases, sir. Out of Pocket, Coinsured, and Coated. By permitting the customers to decide on cheaper choices, we make sure that the worker stays inside his out-of-pocket restrict. This helps the worker, in addition to the employer, to bear the price every time an worker crosses out of pocket restrict.
CHAIRMAN: OK. Now within the US, there was a change within the healthcare system. It was known as Obama Care. What’s it and what’s the criticism in opposition to it?
Me: Sir, within the US, the well being care system is totally privately owned sir. The federal government doesn’t have any hospitals and the sufferers entry the well being care system by way of insurance coverage. It was noticed that most of the poor weren’t in a position to entry the healthcare system as they may not afford insurance coverage. The Inexpensive Well being Care Act launched by President Obama states that no insurance coverage supplier can reject offering
insurance coverage whether or not attributable to previous well being issues or affordability. This has resulted within the well being care prices going up throughout the nation and that is the primary criticism in opposition to the act.
CHAIRMAN: So, mainly, it’s like a cross-subsidy the place the wealthy should bear some prices because of the poor.
Me: Sure sir.
CHAIRMAN: So, there has not been any pushback?
Me: Sir, a number of states filed circumstances with the US Supreme Court docket stating that the act infringed on the federal construction. However, the Supreme Court docket upheld the act, sir.
CHAIRMAN: Acha. So even now the federal government shouldn’t be paying something, it’s the wealthy which are getting affected.
Me: Sure sir.
CHAIRMAN: What number of corporations are there that do what your organization does?
Me: That is an rising sector, sir. We’re the leaders on this business.
CHAIRMAN: Inform me in your profession have you ever completed something revolutionary in your work:
Me: Informed about one thing in my earlier firm.
CHAIRMAN: Nothing in your present group?
Me: Sir, I’ve been right here just for a 12 months and the product I’m engaged on is already out there. So, there’s not a lot scope for innovation.
CHAIRMAN: Oh, however there should be nonetheless some new issues.
Me: In fact sir and instructed me a few complicated undertaking I’m engaged on. Chairman appeared happy.
CHAIRMAN: Now inform me one thing. You might be in a really excessive place. You earn greater than I do. You appear to like your job. Why civil companies?
Me: Sir, truly I utilized for civil companies once I handed out of faculty, however, I moved into the personal sector and overpassed my purpose.
CHAIRMAN: However, why so late? You’ll not even attain the best place by the point you retire?
Me: Sir it was my dream to enter civil companies.
CHAIRMAN: interrupts: Was na.
Me: Sure sir. However all by way of this time I had a remorse that I couldn’t pursue my dream, sir.
CHAIRMAN: However, you’ve got crammed all companies, not simply IAS, and IPS. You’ll work in any of the federal government departments?
Me: Sure sir.
CHAIRMAN: However, why? Why this curiosity in civil companies?
Me: Sir, I consider civil companies is among the few avenues the place one can serve the nation whereas discharging official duties. I additionally serve the nation in my present job by paying taxes and serving to the IT business develop. However, civil companies is far nobler sir.
Spherical 2:
CHAIRMAN: When you’ve got a lot ardour for civil companies, why did you go into the personal sector in any respect?
Me: I had household compulsions, sir. With this chairman indicated member 1 to ask questions.
MEMBER 1: You will have simply now talked in regards to the healthcare sector. What’s the standing of well being care in our nation now?
Me: Madam, now we have a blended mannequin the place each the personal sector and authorities healthcare amenities run collectively. All healthcare amenities are offered freed from value in authorities hospitals whereas sufferers should pay within the personal sector.
Member 1: So, what’s the downside ailing this sector if the federal government offers every part totally free?
Me: Madam, the federal government hospitals are in a dilapidated situation and plenty of of them don’t even have correct amenities. There isn’t a gear accessible and there’s power absenteeism.
Member 1: What’s going to you do to alter this?
Me: Madam, the spending on well being care is only one% of our GDP, much more must be invested to extend the amenities.
Member 1: No, however what would you do as an officer to alter this?
Me: Madam, I’ll attempt to make sure that hospitals are maintained cleanly so sufferers can entry the identical. I may also cut back absenteeism among the many docs.
Member 1: What else?
Me: Madam, I’ll attempt to purchase the required gear so hospitals have all of the amenities. I may also attempt to get the folks in my district insured so that they don’t should pay out of their pocket.
Member 1: In your profession, have you ever ever confronted a state of affairs the place a mistake was dedicated by you or there was a disaster:
Me: Sure Madam. Talked about some examples from one among my tasks.
Member 1: So how did you encourage the crew to recover from the disaster?
Me: Blah blah blah.
Member 1: What was the takeaway from the expertise?
Me: To all the time talk within the clearest method so there aren’t any ambiguities. (Everybody nods in settlement)
Member 1: OK. Inform me 5 methods you should use a pencil aside from for writing.
Me: Completely Shocked. Tried to suppose.
Madam, the pencil can be utilized as a scale to attract one thing. It may be used to dig one thing from the bottom. Can be utilized as a paperweight (chairman laughing, not an efficient paperweight). Me too laughing.
Member 1: That’s high quality. Thanks.
The chairman factors to member 2 to ask questions.
Member 2: So xxx. You defined the Obama care act fantastically. You talked about expertise and your work. I’ll ask one thing else.
Me: OK Sir.
Member 2: What’s BRICS?
Me: Sir BRICS is a time period coined by a Goldman Sachs analyst.
Member 2: interrupts: Was it known as BRICS?
Me: No sir, it was known as BRIC referring to the international locations Brazil, Russia, India, and China. South Africa was added later.
Member 2: OK
Me: These had been the creating economies at the moment and it was mentioned that these economies would grow to be financial giants within the a long time forward.
Member 2: China is a creating economic system.
Me: It was a creating economic system when the phrase was coined sir.
Member 2: When was the phrase BRICS coined?
Me: Sir, late 90s or early 2000s sir.
Member 2:OK go on.
Me: Sir after that these economies fashioned into a company and had summits and so on. and now we even have a
BRICS Financial institution is named the New Growth Financial institution.
Spherical 3:
Member 2: What’s the goal of this financial institution?
Me: Sir it’s estimated that greater than a trillion {dollars} are required to cater to the infrastructure wants of those international locations. However, such funding shouldn’t be coming from the present establishments just like the ADB or the World Financial institution. Therefore, this financial institution is required, sir.
Member2:How are they funded?
Me: They’re funded by contributions from the member international locations sir.
Member 2: Are the contributions equal?
Me: Sure Sir.
Member 2: Are you positive?
Me: Sorry sir I’m not fully positive in regards to the degree of contributions.
Member 2: The key contributor is China proper?
Me: Sure sir.
Member 2: So, are you snug with India taking cash from China
Me: Sir, China has surplus capital which it needs to take a position, we’d like cash for our infrastructure wants. So long as our sovereignty shouldn’t be compromised, I don’t see something incorrect in taking the cash.
Member 2:So, should you grow to be a diplomat and you might be posted there, you’ll attempt to make India extra authority over the financial institution.
Me: Sure sir.
Member 2: As an IAS officer, you can be posted in rural areas. How will you reside there? You gained’t have AC and all these amenities?
Me: Sir, I’m a small-town boy. I’ve spent nearly all of my life in small cities like Chittoor, and Anantapur. So, I’ve no downside serving in small cities.
Member 2: However, it was greater than a decade in the past proper? Not prior to now few years.
Me: No sir.
Member 2: Stored on prodding on challenges I might face in rural areas.
Me: Answered how that isn’t the case and the way I’ll handle.
Member 2: OK. Apart from your job, how have you ever diversified prior to now few years?
Me: Sir, aside from my job, I’ve discovered rather a lot about my nation in the middle of UPSC preparation sir. Earlier I used to be a typical IT man who complained about site visitors jams and a scarcity of amenities. However, over the previous few years, I’ve discovered the structure of our nation, I’ve discovered what unemployment means, and what poverty means, I’ve studied the historical past of our fantastic nation proper from historical instances to the current day, and that has enabled me to be taught a lot. Chairman pointed to the subsequent member to ask questions. This member was very very severe. The one man who didn’t smile.
Member 3: You gained an essay competitors in class. What was the subject about?
Me: Sir it was in class, I don’t keep in mind the subject.
Member 3: Okay no downside. In the event you write an essay now, what could be the subject you’ll select?
Me: Sir, worldwide relations.
Member 2:OK. Would you be snug with inside safety matters?
Me: Certain sir.
Spherical 4:
Member 3: There was a current assault on Pathankot. What was it?
Me: Sir, insurgents from Pakistan moved into Pathankot. They kidnapped an SP, his pal, and his servant. They made calls to Pakistan utilizing the SP’s mobile phone. Then they moved into the Pathankot air base.
Member 3: What’s the takeaway from this incident?
Me: Sir, the insurgents made calls to their handlers in Pakistan. The intelligence companies should be monitoring calls comprised of India to Pakistan, but the knowledge was not handed shortly sufficient. The terrorists profiting from the expansion of shrubs and bushes had been in a position to cover within the air base and we had been in a position to flush them out solely after an prolonged operation.
Member 3: What can we be taught from this incident about actionable intelligence?
Me: Sir despite the fact that the SP knowledgeable the authorities that terrorists had kidnapped them after which allow them to go, no one took any motion. We needed to name within the NSG from Delhi once we had armed forces accessible close by, this led to a delay within the mission.
Member 3: There was a military within the air base?
Me: No sir. They had been close by and so they might have been known as in faster than the NSG.
Member 3: Me: Sir the Maoists have been nearly fully eradicated from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. They’re
now restricted to Member 3 interrupts: Uttarakhand?
Me: Sorry sir, Jharkhand. They’ve been restricted to Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, and sure elements of Maharashtra. As acknowledged by their senior management, they don’t seem to be in a position to appeal to anybody from the city areas and are actually restricted to tribal belts. The federal government has been in a position to efficiently prohibit their actions and their affect has been decreased.
Member 3: How is their affect decreased?
Me: Sir, I’ll clarify by taking the instance of Andhra Pradesh.
Member 3: Sure, go forward.
Me: Sir, in Andhra Pradesh, a particular pressure known as greyhounds was raised by DGP Vyas (M3 nodding in settlement). The cops becoming a member of the greyhounds got higher incentives and higher pay, and within the case of lack of life, their households had been supported as properly. Additionally, the police moved into the villages and recommended folks on the hazards of becoming a member of the Maoists. This additionally had an important impact. As well as, sir, when the late chief minister Shri Y.S. Raja Shekhar Reddy invited the Maoists for talks, the police recognized the route taken by the Maoists to come back out of the jungle. When the talks failed, they went by way of the identical route and had been in a position to shrink the realm of Maoists’ affect. In the course of the peace talks, the Maoists additionally organized big sabhas and went on a recruitment drive. The police had been in a position to insert a number of data and had been in a position to get rid of a number of their high-ranking leaders. Chairman pointed to the final member to ask questions.
Spherical 5
Member 4: Does India have Commerce Secret Regulation?
Me: I’m sorry sir. I have no idea.
Member 4:So, you’ve got labored on so many tasks, how did you handle the mental property-related objects?
Me: Sir, I by no means encountered mental property-related work.
Member 4: However absolutely there should be some sort of IPR the merchandise you constructed had.
Me: In fact sir. I’m positive my firm has patents on the merchandise we developed. However, I used to be by no means
personally concerned in it.
Member 4: How have you ever empowered girls workers?
Me: Blah blah blah
Member 4: However, that’s managing their work effectively, how have you ever empowered them?
Me: Sir, the IT business itself has girls empowerment, sir. There isn’t a discrimination in opposition to girls workers. I’ve solely ensured that I allocate work based mostly on their skills and capabilities and never based mostly on their gender.
Member 4: How do you handle sexual harassment in opposition to girls within the office?
Me: Talked about firm insurance policies. Safety in opposition to sexual harassment and so on. and so on.
Member 4: However how did you handle sexual harassment circumstances?
Me: Sir, fortunately there has by no means been any sexual harassment case in my groups. So, I didn’t should deal with it until now.
Member 4: The federal government has handed sure guidelines concerning sexual harassment, what are these?
Me: Informed them.
Chairman: Thank You. Your interview is over.
Me: Thanks, sir. Thanks, madam. Thanks, sir, Thanks, sir, and Thank You sir to each member.
