Civil Services

Interview
2017-18
Interview
Practice Questions
Based on...
1. Indian Economy
2. Budget & Economic Survey (2017-18)
3. Governance & Development
4. International Relations

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 QUESTIONS BASED ON INDIAN ECONOMY
1. What is RIRI? Why India ranks better on this as compared to the credit rating agency calculations?
2. Which sectors receive Venture Capital Funding? How to bring it to mass manufacturing?
3. What is a Land Bank?
4. Is it possible to double farm income by 2022, as government aims?

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5. Do you think APMC is one of biggest hurdle for food processing industry in India?
6. Are we giving adequate crop price to our farmers as MSP?
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Why investment summits are considered mere eye-wash?
8. We always had a dedicated roads program in last 15 years. What is special in Bharatmala?
9. While electricity production has improved leaps and bounds, the distribution is still struck in
web of leakages and inefficiency? Discuss.
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10. Smart cities program is too slow and inadequate to address the problem of Indian cities. Do you
agree?
11. Has separation of Railways Budget from General Budget brought any benefit?
12. What is your view regarding the slowdown in IT industry?
13. Why service sector always fails to generate adequate jobs?
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14. Is the new health insurance scheme announced in budget a half-hearted step in correct direction?
15. Why is Indian tax system was compared to terrorism?
16. How to resolve the issue to flight of money to tax haven?
17. While in other countries even the head of government lost their posts after panama papers
release; not much actions were taken in India. Are we non-serious on black money issue?
18. Why India has revised it’s DTAA with Singapore and Maldives?
19. Why India had to offer the Advance Pricing Agreement?
20. What are the reasons behind upwards revision in Fiscal deficit?
21. What is middle class? What are its aspirations?
22. Has Namami Gange failed?
23. Is price regulation of medicines justified in a free market economy like India?
24. Why the NPA issue is getting bad to worse?
25. Pakistan may allow Yuan as acceptable currency in Gwadar. What are the potential impacts?
26. Has bilateral trade pacts helped India?

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27. What are the reasons behind ‘Improvement in Ease of Doing Business Index’ of India?
28. Logistics sector was recently given status of Infrastructure? What benefits does it bring?
29. Why the bitcoins have suddenly increased so much in value and what is the impact on India?
30. What was the impact of demonetization on the flow of remittances in India?
31. The recent ceiling drive in Delhi set to disrupt well-settled business and livelihood. Is it
justified?
32. How exit policy differs from Entry policy? Which one is the focus under the Make in India?
33. Remittances from USA and West-Asia are inherently different, can you explain how?
34. Are we at the cusp of manufacturing revolution, as many experts claim? What are the indicators
in support of this?

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 QUESTIONS BASED ON BUDGET AND
ECONOMIC SURVEY (2017-18)
1. What are the priorities of Budget 2018-19? Can it be called a great leap for inclusive growth?
Is it an election budget?
2. The budget has failed to implement a new direct tax code in view of changing income and
expenditure profiles of Indian households? Is it a disappointment for the middle class?
3. Will the government be able to maintain its fiscal deficit targets?

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4. Why is Economic Survey 2017-18 pink coloured? Do such symbolisms have any real significance?
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Do you think that estimated growth and its future projections in the Economic Survey are
achievable? Why?
6. What are the incentives offered to SMEs in tax policy in view of GST's adverse effects on them?
7. What are the proposals for agriculture sector and rural development in the Budget 2018-19?
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8. Do you think raising education and health cess is right?

9. Free power connections to 4 crore homes under Saubhagya Yojana and eight crore free gas
connections for poor women through Ujjwala Yojana may appear welfare oriented, but inside
they are populist majors equal to freebies which may not be fiscally sustainable?
10. Why the Economic Survey believes that private sector investment would rebound?
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11. What are the chances of India's exports rising?

12. Do you think that Fiscal Deficit targets of the government are achievable in immediate terms?
13. One of the politicians said that Budget 2018-19 is based on "Jumlanomics". Do you agree?
14. What are the steps taken in the Budget 2018-19 for financial inclusion? What are the problems
in the financial inclusion model of the government?
15. How do you see the proposal of new flagship National Health Protection Scheme? What are the
other initiatives outlined in the Budget 2018-19?
16. What are the visible advantages of GST despite its muddled introduction and design?
17. What are the challenges the India Inc' s economic management may face in 2019?
18. How would insolvency code being used the problem of NPAs in the banking sector?
19. What are reasons of lowest inflation now in India compared to last 6 fiscal years?
20. What are the proposals in the Budget 2018-19 for improved water supply to Indian households?
21. What is the significance of launch of Operation Green as proposed in the Budget 2018-19?
22. How technology can be harnessed for better implementation of labour laws?
23. What is the importance of social infrastructure in inclusive growth?
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24. What is meant by son meta-preference and its reasons in Indian households? What are its
consequences?
25. What are the proposals in the Budget 2018-19 for pollution management in the NCR?
26. What are the budgetary proposals for the advancement of the Railways Sector?
27. What is your reaction on Budgetary proposals to raise the salaries of some Indian dignitaries?
28. What are the Budgetary proposals for the promotion of Artificial Intelligence in India?
29. What are the proposals given in Economic Survey with regard to Centre state cooperation for
better control of pollution?
30. What is the impact of urban migration in rural farm sector?
31. What are the suggestions of policy vigilance in Economic Survey?

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 QUESTIONS ON GOVERNANCE AND
DEVELOPMENT FOR INTERVIEW 2018
1. National Health Protection Scheme redefines the role of the state from being a service provider
to a financier. Is India ready for it?
2. Schemes such as SAGY and MPLADS violates the concept of Separation of Power. Do you
agree?
3. There’s a mismatch of education and skills that young people acquire and what corporate

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actually require them to possess. How to reduce that gap?
4. What is UMANG? How will it help in e-governance in India? Is it a secure application with

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regard to privacy? OR
What are the main objectives of My Gov platform? How will it increase people’s participation
in governance? What are the limitations of such new technology platforms?
6. Why half of the funds released for sanitation projects under the Centre’s Swachh Bharat Mission
remained unused as of the end of 2017? Additional funds for Swachh Bharat Mission projects
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were not released in in 2016 and 2017. Is it a failed programme?

7. How many development schemes are categorized as major schemes of government? What is the
purpose of the National Seismic Programme, which has got largest increase in funding in the
budget 2018-19?
8. Job and skill development has seen 74 per cent increase in 2018-19 budgetary allocation, but
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frankly saying skill development scheme in India is very shallow and directionless and if it
continues in the same way, it would not be of any great consequence to reap the advantages
of demographic dividend. What are your observations in this regard?
9. There is a fear of demographic dividend turning into demographic liability. Do you agree?
10. Can you tell something about present state of India’s forest and tree cover? What are the major
concerns shown by recent data?
11. The reduction in allocation for National Health Mission is the greatest drawback of the budget
2018-19 and it would impede the realization of the goals of National Health policy. Do you
agree?
12. What is the state of R&D in India vis-a-vis China? Is India making any genuine effort to
progress in R&D? What are the measures taken by government in this regard in recent times?
13. The slogan of inclusive growth is a great joke when India’s richest 1 per cent holds a huge 58
per cent of the country’s total wealth — higher than the global figure of about 50 per cent. What
is your take? Why it is so?
14. Women in India are more vulnerable because they are coming out, but it is surprising why
women are bruatalized even if literacy rate is rising and economic empowerment of women is
increasing in India.
15. What is the implication of Supreme Court’s verdict on right to privacy?

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16. Why declining child sex ratio and meta-preference of son by Indian households continue
unabated?
17. What are the advantages and disadvantages of internal migration in India?
18. The increasing number of PIL and judicial activism from Marital Rape to Child abuse and to
pollution control and law and order indicates towards failure of Indian state. Do you agree?
19. Corruption is the grease that runs economy and political system. Do you agree?
20. The river cleaning schemes in India had been a sham and source of scams. What do you think?
21. What are the main reasons behind farmers’ suicide in India?
22. The cities have an inbuilt natural push to be smart, what we need urgently is smart villages.
What is your take?
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overheads. Do you agree? Why they have not worked well in India?
24. The civil society and NGOs have resisted/impeded development in India by leading unnecessary
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protests/movements. Do you agree?
25. Bureaucracy has been the greatest hurdle in development and the lesser it is, faster the
development. What is your take?
26. What are the fundamental reasons behind jobless growth in India and growth of informal
sector? Is it a healthy growth strategy?
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27. Why tourism is called sunrise industry in India? What measures have been taken by the
government to promote this sector?
28. What steps are being taken by the government for Housing for All by 2020?
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 QUESTIONS BASED ON INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS
India and the World
1. What are the major changes in India's foreign policy in recent times?
2. India has taken hard but realistic decisions for tackling secessionist sentiments in Kashmir, but
it has its own costs. What are those costs?

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3. What are the major objections of India on CPEC?
4. India's stand on the Rohingyas issue was neither magnanimous nor practical. Do you agree?
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6. India's decision to not participate in the BRI Forum was not diplomatically sound. Do you
agree?
7. What are the components of India's response to Belt and Road Initiative of China?
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8. Since diplomacy has lost its space, the only answer to Indo-Pak disputes is status quo and
suspended animation. Do you agree?
9. Do you think that India has been unable to counter the dollar diplomacy of China in its
neighborhood? What steps India has taken to counter dollar diplomacy of China in its neighbouring
countries?
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10. What is Indian Ocean Rim? What are the measures taken by India to safeguard its interest in
this region?
11. Is India's response in Maldives crisis inadequate?
12. Has India been able to take advantage of AIIB for mobilization of funds as other members are
doing?
13. What is your assessment of India's stand on Jerusalem issue after US announcement of accepting
it as capital of Israel?

International Relations
1. ‘China is an emerging power and America is a waning power’. How do you react to the statement?
2. What is the thesis of making America Great Again? Is Donald Trump moving in the direction
of making America Great Again?
3. Why does the Syrian crisis continue? What is the role of Russia and China in solving the crisis?
4. Why does the migration issue dominate European domestic politics?
5. Do the recent developments in the UK suggest that the BREXIT decision was wrong and
impulsive?
6. What are the challenges of new coalition government in Germany?
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7. What is pivot Asia? Has US lost on its pivot Asia agenda after Donald Trump assumed power?
8. The unilateral decision of the US to scrap the Iran nuclear agreement is a blunder. Do you
agree?
9. The South China Sea issue is more of a western propaganda to contain China rather than posing
any real threat. Do you agree?
10. The fall and rise in international oil prices would decide the fate of emerging nations in
particular and developed nations in general in so far as momentum growth and foreign policy
direction are concerned. Do you agree?
11. Has India successfully cornered Pakistan on the issue of aiding and abetting terrorism?
12. What solution do you think of the North Korean crisis- diplomacy or war?

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