Some of the questions candidates face in interview

Expected questions on current issues1) One belt, one road (OBOR) route and India's response, will entering into it will legitimize the PoK as area belong to Pakistan?2) Mehdesis - Indian or Nepali?3) Difference between nationalism and patriotism4) Jallikattu, dance bars, liquor, pornographic sites, beef shall they be banned?5) or shall we ban the bans?6) What is integral humanism of Dindayal Upadyay?7) What is people of India survey? Is it same as languages of India survey?8) Gandhi - Bose debate 9) Was Ravindranath Tagor Nationalist?10) What is operating system (OS) BOSS?11) Sufi tradition - hardliner Islam vs Sufi12) What is counter propaganda?13) What is sectarian fundamentalism?                     14) Progress of Indian claim to permanent seat in UN security council – justify how India deserve it?15) Membership to NSG, how much vital for India16) Issue of woman reservation in PRI in Nagaland.17) Protection of Indian's in US, how to manage the 'brain in'?18) What is the issue of rising nativism in USA19) What is the difference between H1B Visa and Green Card?20) Difference in the working of DRDO and ISRO21) Viability of Universal Basic Income (UBI)22) Is arming nebours a correct policy?23) What is the difference between smart city and AMRUT?24) What is ‘Swach Dhan Abhiyaan’?25) Competitive sub-federalism will be complimentary or competing with competitive federalism?26) What is ‘Modi-fication’?27) What are the components of ‘New India’?28) What is the future of refineries in India?29) Is the demand for state flags a signal of rising sub-nationalism?30) Has AADHAR became now Big Brother’ for Indian masses now?31) Shall AADHAR be linked to citizenship?

Nothing personal about it1) What is the aim of your life?2) Describe yourself

3) What is the reason of your existence?4) Why you are opting for civil services?5) Suppose if you do not get success, then what is your alternate career plan?6) Which of qualities of yourself you cherish the most?7) What are the 3 biggest mistakes you have done in the life?8) What are the 3 biggest things gone right for you in the life?9) Who are your ideals in administration?10) Your ideal in politics?11) How you will describe your political leaning left, right, centre or centre left or centre right?12) What are going to be your priorities as bureaucrat?13) How you see yourself 15 years down the line14) Do the SWOT analysis of yourself15) It seems that you are not stable in career and continuously changing your decisions.16) Why you took so many attempts for preparation? (if taken)17) Which color you like?18) Why engineering students watch football more?19) Tell any such occasion when your parents are proud of you.  20) What is the difference between ‘Shreyas’ and ‘Preyas’? What makes you most happy?

Soul searching on Bureaucracy 1) Bureaucracy should play a role of administrator or facilitator?2) What is the difference between Public service and Social service?3) What is difference between Administrator and Manager?4) What is the difference between Public Administration and Public Management?5) Is Kejriwal a frustrated bureaucrat? Is Ashok Khemka successful bureaucrat?6) How much should be distance between politician and bureaucrat?7) Bureaucrat is govt servant or public servant or both?8) Bureaucracy should be neutral or committed? If committed, then to whom?9) What country require more, generalist or specialist?10) What is the difference between DM and collector?11)What is the principal of anonymity? Is it followed in India?12) PM has said that bureaucrats are 4th face of lion (on in behind) in Ashokstambh, what is means?13) Does India need government or governance?14) What is good governance?15) Do you think it necessary to reduce the training period of civil services?16) For IPS is there a need of conducting separate exam?

17) Shall we handover the country in the hands of bureaucrats to bring discipline and development (like Singapore) 18) Shall we allow lateral entry into bureaucracy?19) Better to serve backward state or advance state as bureaucrat?20) Shall sabbatical to work in private should continue or should be discontinued?21) Administrative structure should be vertical or horizontal?22) Line vs staff difference, problems in India23) Shall bureaucrat should accept or oppose the fame and power which come along with work?24) What is difference between graft, bribe, kickbacks and speed money?25) Difference between influence and manipulation26) Will technology solve the issue of corruption in the country?27) Can private could be charged under corruption?28) Is working as bureaucrat is thankless job or adventurous job?29) Shall bureaucrat maintain relationship with media?30) Shall bureaucrat use social media?31) Shall bureaucrat use grape wine?32) For any decision accountability should with bureaucrat or politician?33) Is accountability same as responsibility?34) Shall cooling period be kept between retirement/resignation of bureaucrat and taking private or govt. responsibility?35) Promotions should be seniority based or performance based?36) Being in IAS is career or service?37) Shall we continue keeping IAS at top and other all India and central services under it, or is there a need to establish parity between both?38) How to transform the IAS from ‘I Am Sorry’ to ‘I Am at your Service’39) Is reservation a poverty alleviation program?40) Shall there be a reservation in promotions?41) Shall we give reservations to Muslim’s because of their backwardness?42) Shall reservation be extended to private sector too?43) Reservation depends on educational backwardness or social backwardness or both?44) What is ‘deliberative bureaucracy’?45) If ‘state is a necessary evil’, why you want to be a part of evil?

General questions1) If justice delayed is justice denied, then isn't justice hurried is justice compromised?2) Are equality and justice opposite ideas?3) Can faith be rational? difference between faith & trust.4) Distinguish between attitude and aptitude5) What is difference between morality and intellectual morality?

6) In respect of world as a whole how you see India after five years?7) Shall we permit euthanasia legally? What are the pros and cons?8) Is India budding superpower? In what sense?9) Shall rapist be hanged? Issues of Juvenile justice.10) Will social media replace newspapers?11) Shall Media be allowed to set agenda for the nation?12) Shall India promote its alternative media platforms as China has promoted?13) What are the similarities and differences between Black Panther and Dalit Panther movement?14) LGBT - the legal and moral issues involved, Transgender rights15) Nuclear Liability Bill - what hurdles in passing?16) Land Acquisitions Bill – what hurdles in passing?17) Is Defence spending justified? Shall it made more accountable?18) Who is visalblower? What are provisions for his security?19) Does 3 idiots and Dangal have opposite message?20) What is the future of regional languages in India?21) Films should be censored or should be only certified?22) Is writing as a skill fast becoming outdated?23) What are the moral hazards? Give examples24) How you define talent?25) Why India is good in individual games (like Badminton, chess) then group games (like football, hockey)?26) Shall we use caste structure to implement social welfare schemes?27) Why India has not signed UN conviction against torture yet?

General questions (Political- External)1) What the definition of terrorism given by United Nation? Shall equate terrorism with ‘Islamic terrorism’ as president trump has done?2) Are international relations zero-sum-game?3) Is Trumpism a counterpart of Putinism?4) Republican day bonhomie with ASEAN countries and its outcome.5) India’s look west policy? How it is unfolding?7) Impact of Bregzit on India8) Shall start giving stippled visas to the residents of Pakistan occupied Kashmir?9) Are multilateral and plurilateral treaties are same?10) Has time come to launch India into ‘realpolitic’ in international relations instade of traditional ideological policies?11) Blood and water can’t flow together, what is your opinion on it?12) Shall India accept seat in UNSC without veto? 13) What is ‘Malacca dilemma’ of china?14) What is Nine Dash line issue?

15) Shall Rohingya refugees be given asylum in India, what about Chakma refugees, shall they be given same treatment?16) What steps India should take to get release of Kulbhushan Jadhav?17) India got success or failure in handling Doklam?18) Is our ‘nebourhood first’ strategy failing?19) Is India trying to isolate Pakistan internationally? Does India have any policy towards Pakistan?20) Shall India get actively involved in Maldivan crisis?21) What position India took regarding boycott on Katar?22) Why on Indo-EU FTA consensus has not build yet?23) Shall India should completely cutoff its relationship with North Korea?24) China treats everyone born in china as Chinese person irrespective of country he is located, does India follow the same policy?25) What is the importance of the film ‘The Post’ for India?26) Is India too is living in the post truth era?

General questions (Political- Internal)1) Is Indian secularism different then European secularism?2) Is there a need to form second state reorganization committee?3) What are different alternatives to formation of separate state? (like autonomous council)4) What is civil society? Have we seen the rise of the same in India?5) What difference AAP has made in Indian politics?6) Shall we shift to presidential system of government?7) What solution you will offer for a Kashmir Issue? Is using pallet guns moral?8) What problems Indian democracy is facing today?9) Difference between regionalism and provincialism10) Does regional parties has any future?11) Can India become two party democracy like USA?12) Need of forming shadow cabinets in India?13) Nehru- Patel controversy. Was Patel communal? Was Subhashchandra fascist?14) Out of communalism and corruption which is larger issue?15) Shall 'plurality' be included in the preamble along with other ideals?16) ‘Special state’ category and politics of backwardness.17) What is the Gujarat model? How it is different from Kerala model?18) Ghar Vapasi, Love Jihad - how much seriously it should be taken?19) Explain the statement 'Individual is endowed with soul, but state is a soulless machine'20) Shall govt maintain 'absolute transparency’ in decision making?21) How to define 'public interest'? What is public?22) What is banana republic and mango people

23) Which part of constitution is by Indian's?24) What is social impact assessment? How it is done?25) What is democracy deficit (govt working legally but not democratically)26) What is majoritarianism, is that the essence of representative democracy27) What is moral policing? How to handle it?28) What is ‘New Democratic Revolution’ of Naxalites, shall army be involved to solve the naxal problem?29) Difference between legal, fundamental and human rights30) Sedition laws - need to change?31) NITI Aayog - what could be a political counterpart?32) Has 'left' remained relevant?33) Shall constitution be declared as ‘National Book’? 34) What is the definition of 'minority' according to Indian constitution?35) What are classifications of rights in constitution?36) Which are positive and negative fundamental rights?37) Is terrorism only law & order problem? Is militancy and terrorism same?38) What is the difference between bail and parole?39) How much believable EVMs are?40) Are wars good? War's have uplifted the civilisations to next level41) Make a critic of present Triple Talakh Bill – is the clause of criminal offence correct?42) Shall marital rape be punishable? 43) Which will correct timing for Uniform Civil Code?44) What solution could be there for the issue of Rammandir?45) Is 35A part of Indian constitution?46) Word of the year 2017 is ‘youthquake’. How we can relate it to India? Is rise of Kaniyakumar, Jignesh Mewani, Kalpesh Thakor, Hardik Patel related to it?47) What do you understand by soft hindutva?48) 25 years of PRI in 2018 – time to take stock of achievement and failures49) Like Haj subsidy shall Kailash Manas subsidy be also ended?50) Is IPC section 498A regarding cruelty to woman is getting misused?51) What is the meaning of ‘Azadi’ slogan given by JNU students?

Election1) What is the message one gets out of film 'NEWTON' Is political democracy unsuitable in India?2) Primaries - Are they suitable for India?3) Opinion Polls - Should be banned or allowed4) Is direct democracy suitable for India?5) What is the issue of bru voters?6) Assam and National Register of Citizens (NRC)

7) Shall elections be held in academic institutes?8) How is the idea of taking simultaneous elections for centre as well as states? (One nation, one election)9) Reservation given to woman in Local Self-Government, how much it proved useful?10) Will electoral bonds improve the transparency in election funding? 11) Shall voting list be linked to Aadhar? It will eliminate double voting and bogus voters, isn’t it?12) Shall voting be made compulsory?13) Here after shall major decision be taken by plebiscite? (with the help of AADHAR it is practically possible now)14) Are voting machines manipulating results in elections? How much VVPAT could be solution to this problem?15) Shall we get rid of first pass the poll system? How much list system is suitable for India?16) What do you understand by ‘soft hindutva’?

Judiciary   1) Will you support formation of National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC)?2) Shall CJ be allowed discretion in roster?3) Do you believe India is suffering from 'bench fixing'? 4) Khap Panchyats - the symptom or a disease?5) Shall Judiciary be make accountable to people? If yes, then this change should happen internally or should be forced from outside?

General questions (Economic)1) Explain relationship between liberalization, privatization and globalization2) Do you think time has come of launching second generation reforms?3) What are third generation reforms?4) What is neoliberalism?5) Point the core difference of Jagdish Bhagwati and Amertya Sen camps.6) What are Sustainable Development Goals? Difference between MDG & SDG7) 'make in India' vs 'made in India' vs 'make for India' vs 'manufacture in India' vs 'create in India'8) Indian society and its lust for gold, gold deposit scheme and chances of its success9) How the consumption of gold could be reduced?10) Difference between ‘financial literacy’ and ‘financial inclusion’11) Your views on retrospective taxation 12) If retrospective profit is allowed than why not retrospective taxes13) Shall we introduce risk management in farming? Krishi Bima Yojana

14) Smart cities or smart villages15) NPAs by PSU Banks - what is the solution, shall Banks be ‘bailed-in’ or ‘bailed-out’ give your opinion.16) What is evergreening of NPAs?17) Controversy on measurement of GDP18) Is India going in the grip of recession?19) What problems may occur in implementation of competitive democracy20) Will oil prices pickup again?21) Shall India play secondary role to China in economic initiatives?22) What is 4th industrial revolution?23) What is the difference between annuity, gratuity, provident fund and pension?24) What is ease of doing business report? How it is measured? Do you think it has improved recently? Ease of doing business is more imp or ease of living?25) Has time come to tax agriculture income? What are two agricultures referred in survey?26) What is the difference between duty and tax?27) Does WTO support free trade? Is free trade really free?28) What is more important that global trade should be ‘open’ or ‘free’?29) Why the differentiation between plan and non-plan expenditure is given up? What is the alternative?30) With privatization has negative discrimination has gone up?31) What is the personal sector?32) Difference between NEER & REER33) How is the idea of starting financial year from 1st Jan every year?34) How much democratic is the Monitory Policy Committee (MPC)?36) What is capability approach of Amertya Sen?37) Shall we put a ban of Chinese products as a part of economic nationalism?38) Give the list 5 major economic problems India is facing at present.39) Is mixed economy model relevant even today?40) Is recent demutualization of NSE a decision in correct direction?41) Decision of merging oil majors, will they become ‘too big to fail’?42) If we are shifting to the goal of 'oil less economy', then is it worth erecting new oil refineries? 43) Can NITI Ayog allocate funds? Have we abolished planning commission without creating suitable alternative?44) What are the disadvantages of liberalising FDI in various sectors?45) Can we conclude from Gujrat elections that Rural-Urban divide is widening? 46) What are the recent changes made in the Benami Properties Act, will they curb the menace of Benami properties?47) Which changes are expected by passing ‘e-way bill’ in Indian economy?48) Will bullet train become commercially viable project?

49) Why Indian GDP growth rate is in slowing down?50) Is it because of GST that Indian economy is facing trouble?51) Are local self governments sidelined in GST structure?52) Is privatization of Air India is only alternative remained now, or even other alternatives are remaining?53) Was 2G spectrum allocation a scam? Or just a case of over speculation of revenues?54) What is BRICS Plus? How the idea of forming credit rating agency of BRICS will help?55) How to give boost to employment in India?56) Difference between SHG and cooperatives57) What is ‘Digital economy’? Can we say that we are entering into the age of ‘Digital Divide’?58) Shall the financial year of country shifted from march to December?

Demonetisation1) Is all unaccounted money black money?2) Is all black money tainted money?3) Is money black or activities black?4) By paying tax can tainted money become white?5) Can govt suspend the legal tender of money permanently?6) Is counterfeit currency a black money?7) Black money is static or flowing? If flowing describe the flow?8) More black money is in India or outside?9) Can country become 100% cashless?10) What is parallel economy?11) Does currency in circulation match the money in market? why not?12) Strategy should be partial remonetisation or complete remonetisation?13) How is the idea of cancelling all taxes and shifted Banking Transaction Tax?14) What is bank note?15) What is fiat money?16) What is near money?17) What is tax terrorism, tax planning, tax evading, tax dodging, transfer pricing. 18) Demonetization got success or failure?

If you are a woman candidate1) Will corruption decline with more woman in administration?2) ‘Men are from mars and woman are from Venus’, it is said, is it correct?3) How you will do work-life balance?4) Will appointing woman directors on companies will make any difference in economy? If yes, what? Have you heard 'glass ceiling index'?

5) Why the companies are reluctant to appoint woman directors on the board (its issue of supply or issue of attitude)6) Why woman director is required?7) Does woman require reservation?6) What if you are posted in the remote place?7) Is gender discrimination hurdle in woman's progress?8) How being a woman you can make difference in decision making?9) Which woman is your role model?10) Shall matriarchal society be re-established? Are some societies in India are matrilineal or matriarchal? Do India has truly matriarchal society?11) What is your opinions on 'My life, my rules'?12) What is environmental feminism? Explain with examples13) What is your opinion on 'Right to Pi', 'Happy to bleed' movements?14) Is gender discrimination same as gender bias?15) Shall housewife be given salary for her work? Shall Motherhood be most paid profession?16) Can you suggest a gadget useful to rural woman?17) What is difference between Sex and Gender?18) Does the movie 'Pink' reflect the changing society?19) If 1 child norm is affecting child sex ratio then shall we revert to promotion of 2 child norm?20) Have you participated in ‘Me too’ movement?21) Is Indian woman as a ‘class’ is a myth?22) Have you seen ‘NARI’ portal?23) How the recent interpretation of Right to Privacy will help the woman to maintain her dignity?24) Give a speech on 'how gender sensitization could be a panacea for gender equality'

Technology centric question1) What is net neutrality? 2) Why India has failed to develop operating system (OS)?3) What is cyber terrorism?4) Does social media be censored?5) JAM Trinity - how it will work?6) What is internet of things, web 27) What is embedded technology?8) What is near field technology, what is Li Fi, white fi9) What is UPI, BHIM, have u used it? 10) Shall we give primacy to m-governance over e-governance? 11) CFL is better or LED?

12) 3D printing technology13) Chan Zuckerberg initiative 14) Shall robots be allowed to replace human labour? Shall they be taxed?15) Implications of giving citizenship to robots.16) How whatsapp make a money?17) F16 is a better choice or Rafael?18) What are the different application of Block chain technology?19) How atomic clock works?20) How AI is impacting job scenario?21) How me we should take inspiration from our past for development of science?22) Does Indian’s lack scientific temperament?23) What changes Elan Musk is bringing to the world?24) What is open stack technology?25) Cloud computing26) What could be better than binary code

Science centric question1) Can science become substitute to religion?2) Does science make people devil?3) Does science have answers to everything?4) Can anyone make breakthrough in science without scientific temper?5) Why India is not a land of basic research and why not produced noble laureates?'Trouble ahead' situation1) What is your goal? Ans. 'IAS'  Whether IAS is your mean or the end. 2) I worked in NGO as hobby. Panel: Working in NGO cannot be hobby.3) Rate yourself. Ans 'I am average student', Panel: then how you reached here?4) Asked some complex issue, and candidate claims that 'I will manage it' panel 'what do u mean by manage it'?5) Fighting on the wrong point with panel, is becoming Abhimanyu6) After bombardment of questions unrelated to your education or biodata candidate claim that 'ask something else'7) Claim by candidate that 'this question is outside the UPSC parameters' 8) Panel demanded solution on some complex issue and candidate give so call diplomatic answer ‘I will appoint a committee of experts’

Situation based questions

1) If a man is walking along the bank of lake. He suddenly found that his daughter, wife and mother is sinking in water.  All of three don't know to swim. In this situation the man can save only one life. Whom should he choose? Daughter or wife or mother?  And why? ?2) What is corruption? Suppose a government servant took bribe for illegal work and has not done it, then is it corruption? Does private sector also has corruption? can they be caught?3) Suggest some scheme to solve a particular problem (say corruption) and give name to it.4) If suppose you become chief minister for a day (like Anil Kapoor in Nayak) which task you will take on priority?5) Success is a matter of chance or hard-work 6) If two emergencies developed at the same time in your area, communal riots and fire, which you will attend personally?7) If you are in boat with your experienced senior and old servant who played important role in your upbringing. Suddenly boat started sinking and both can't swim and you can save only one, whom you will save?8) If as an officer given a choice, your priority for reforms will be Education or Health or Corruption9) Suppose you are head of some school in which 100 students are studying both boys and girls, out of them 3 students are transgender. Other students are not allowing transgender to use their toilet. How you will solve the issue?

If your family is involved in agriculture1) Shall agriculture be taxed?2) Do you have Kisan Credit Card, is your farm is covered under Fasal Bima Yojana?3) If income is very low, is your family comes under BPL. What are the norms for fixing BPL?4) How agriculture income calculated? have u taken cost of labour of your parents into consideration?5) Which crops you take, how much fertilizers and how you arrange for sale of output.6) e-NAM, livestock mission, micro irrigation mission7) Water harvesting techniques8) What are the major recommendations of Swaminathan committee report?

9) Do you agree with the idea that ‘farm output should be given price according to input cost’?10) Is agriculture a profession or culture?11) What are agro-climatic zones, how many India has, does your cropping pattern is according to agro-climatic zone?12) Shall farmers be subsidized? Can’t farming sustain on its own?13) Opinion on farmers debt wavers schemes. Compare it with corporate debt waiver.14) Shall corporate farming be allowed?15) What are the provision for agriculture in recent budget?16) Is contract farming and land leasing same? What is the difference?17) Is mechanization of agriculture a necessity? Will it increase unemployment?18) Shall we promote Cooperative agriculture?19) 2018 is declared as Indian year for which crop?20) Is India a net exporter or importer of foodgrain?

If your parents (are you) are in teaching field1) What you have not chosen teaching as career?2) What is ‘common schooling’ program in USA?3) What is ‘nebourhood school’ concept?4) Education from Behaviourism to Constructivism.5) What is cognitive revolution?6) Contribution of shantiniketan, vishwabharti.7) Ideas like ‘Nayi Talim’ or ‘Buniyadi shiksha’ or ‘vardha school of basic education’8) What should be the medium of education?9) Is running semi-English mediums a scientific idea?10) Is our education still ‘Macaulaiyan system of education’?11) ‘I want a man making education’ said vivekanand.12) Shall school be declared as national assets?13) What is the provision for punishment to parents under RTE for not enrolling there pupils in the school?14) Success of Right to Education (RTE)15) We should promote more private schools or public schools?16) Can government run schools match the quality of private schools?17) Shall FDI be allowed in the field of education?18) To improve the quality of govt schools, shall we implement the idea of education stamps?

19) What is Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan 2.020) Shall corporate firms be allowed to run schools under CSR?21) What is ‘credit system’ in education?

If your parents are in Army1) Haven’t you thought of joining army?2) What is OROP controversy?3) Is India army ready for any war?4) Defence ministry is passive name, it should be war ministry, your opinion?5) Shall army be deployed to tackle naxals?6) Compare Indian army vis-à-vis Chinese army7) Are allegations of human rights violation on Indian army are true?8) Shall reservation be extended to army too?

If your parents (are you) are in Railways1) Has Indian Railways has become white elephant?2) What are the major recommendations of Vivek Debroy committee to improve performance of Railways?3) Is there a need to privatise railway operations?4) What is Kayakalpa?5) Has really railway given 400 cr to google to enable WiFi on stations?6) Is there a need to appoint separate regulator for railways?7) Decision to merge railway budget into general budget has ended its autonomy, correct?

If your mother tongue isHindi1) Shall Hindi be declared as national language of India?2) What is the difference between Hindi, Hindvi and Hindustani?3) Where is National Institute of Hindi?4) Can Hindi sustain in the competition to English? 

Birth YearIf you are born in1983India won cricket world cup1985Anti-defection law1986

Environment protection ActOperaftion Black ThunderConsumer Protection ActShahbano case1987Deal with Srilanka on LTTECreation of GoaDevrala sati case1988Industrial Policy – beginning of liberationFormation of SEBI, NHBReduction of voting ageYou share your birth year with Virat Kohli19891) Fall of Berlin wall, the wave of change, how it affected India?2) Was Boforce a scam, why it has not gone to logical conclusion in so many years?3) Do you consider yourself as person from pre-liberalization or post-liberalization era?4) Beginning of era of coalition governments. Is coalition politics progressive or does it slowed down decision making process?19901) Age of turbulence for India and the world – anti establishment wave2) Beginning of the years of coalition governments.3) The govt. become unstable or state become unstable or both?19911) Eye of storm2) New economic policy – is it departure from socialism?3) Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi – fatal mistake of LTTE?4) Gulf war – proof of rise of unipolar world?1992Fall of Babri mosqueBeginning of economic reformsLook east policy73rd & 74th constitutional amendment – transformation it bought19931) Transition phase for economy – devaluation done twice2) Bomb blast series in Mumbai3) Latur earthquake

1994Hum Apke Hai Kaun – post reform generation cinemaMiss world crowns of Sushmita and Aishwarya1995You are born along with internet and wto – both are vehicles of globalization

If you are OBC1) Has Dr. Ambedkar supported OBC reservation?2) It is a reservation based on caste or class?3) Do you support inclusion of other communities in OBC list?4) Non creamy layer criteria should be removed or should be made applicable to other categories too?5) shall reservation be extended on economic basis?6) 50% limit on reservation put by courts should be removed should be continued?7) Shall all communities be given reservation according to their population?

If you are SC1) Do you think that Atrocities Act is misused?2) Shall SC list be expanded?3) Shall we start ‘Give it up’ type campaign for those who are willing to give up reservation?4) SC reservation is according to caste or class?5) Can India get rid of castism?

If you are ST1) ST should be called as ‘Adivasi’ or ‘Vanvasi’?2) Can Ambedkar emerge among ST?3) How much mainstreaming of STs is successful by now?4) Which is the biggest tribe in India by population?5) Does tribes in India have history of violent revolts that reflected in rise of Naxal among tribe’s?6) Does India has ‘aborigine’?7) Does tribels have caste system?8) Are tribal cultures are patriarchal? (recent NAGA opposition to give reservation to woman?9) Tribal students should be taught in the which medium? Mother toung or state language or Hindi or in English

If your interest/ hobby is Cricket1) By which different methods a cricketer can get out?2) What is chinaman, dusra, night watchman, duckworth lewis, french cut, helicopter shot. In DRS who can call for decision? Difference between sim and swing.3) Lodha committee report, shall betting be declare betting as legal activity?4) Shall Politian’s be kept out of criket?5) Shall Criket be replaced as national game instead of hockey?6) Has criket became native game of India or it is still a foreign game?7) If it is a colonial legacy, shall we ban it?8) In the mythological books there is a reference to krishna playing 'chendufali' (ball and bat) is it same a criket?9) Has it remained gentlemen's game?10) It is also called a game of lazy men, why?11) Is IPL killing criket?12) Shall IPL be treated as sports or entertainment?13) IPL is getting more popular with woman viewers now, what could be the reasons?14) Shall different teams be nurtured for all the 3 formats?15) Who is the captains of Indian Women Criket team?16) Shall Criket be made a part of Olympic?17) What is French criket? Is it same as gully criket? 18) Was giving Bharatratna to Sachin Tendulkar right decision? Then why not also give it to Vishwanathan Anand?19) Whom you will consider as the greatest captain India got, Saurabh Ganguli or Mahendrasingh Dhoni or Virat Kohli?20) National Criket Academy is located at?21) Shall we give quota to each region of India in the national criket team?22) How Mumbai has won highest number of Ranji Trophies? Is it something to do with Mumbai being established by British?23) Tell the dream team that could be formed taking players from all countries presently playing. 24) Team coach should be a foreigner or Indian?25) Indian criket team is national team or private team of BCCI?26) Do you support the idea of turning test matches into 4 days game?27) Is India at present into ‘golden age of Indian cricket’?28) Will Virat break records of Tendulkar?

Football1) How it is different than soccer?2) Why only few states like Goa, Kerala, west Bengal it is more popular?3) Why Indian football team do not qualify for Football world cup?4) Who is the captain of Indian football team at present?5) Will Usen Bolt will make successful career in Football?6) Is height of the Indian players is the main hurdle in success?

Hockey1) Is golden age of hockey is over?2) Can India regain the lost glory?3) What could be done to make it popular again?4) Which are major competitions in hockey?

Lawn Tennis1) What is your service speed?2) Which is your favorite racket? What is the tension of strings?3) What is the weight of racket? Racket body is made of?4) Stamina is required more in grass court or clay court?5) By what sequence devis cup is played?6) Can ‘Pune Open’ become part of grand slam?7) What is tennis elbow?8) Who you think is all time greatest player?9) What is more important in the game, power of shots or placing of shots?

Badminton1) Which place badminton game is invented?2) Does Chinese have some natural advantage in the game?3) The shuttle is made from feathers of which bird?4) Does rules of Ball Badminton differ from normal Badminton?5) Who you think is all time greatest player?6) What is more important in the game, power of shots or placing of shots?

Trekking1)     Mountain trekking or trekking in plains?2)     Difference between trekking, hiking, mountaineering.3)     Is it a sports?4)     What is difference between trekking in Sahyadri and in Himalaya?5)     Is it a group activity or better should be done alone?6)     As trekking has developed in western countries why that has not happened in India?

7)     You prefer hunter shoes or sport shoes for trekking?8)     Do carry cooking equipments and tent also?9)     Shall trekking be promoted among administrative officer to improve fitness and group

dynamics?10)Give us 1 trek route plan in sahyadri and one in himalaya.

Wrestling1) What is main message in Dangal?2) Sultan – is it advisable to transform Indian wrestlers into free style fighters?3) Is Khali a wrestler?4) Which medieval south Indian king himself was wrestler?5) What is difference in rules in Indian wrestling and greeko-roman wrestling?6) Victory in wrestling is more about power or skill?7) What measures could be taken to make wrestling popular among masses?8) Is Maharashtra losing its lead in wrestling to Haryana?

Chess1) Why the game always starts from white side.2) Which countries have chess as national game?3) Which country is the origin of it? Difference between chaturang and chess?4) Why Russians dominated the game?5) Shall chess be mixed up between men and woman, instead of keeping both genders different?6) Can computer defeat the humans in the game continuously?7) What is elo rating and how it is calculated?8) What is the frequency of chess Olympiads?9) Which are the types of openings, which is favorite of vishwanathan anand?10) Is India a chess superpower?11) What is gambit? What is bullet chess?12) Divide the types of chess according to time allotted.13) Can you write down the move in chess, show it.14) Have you seen ‘Satranj ke Khiladi’ of Satyajeet Ray? What is the storyline?

Reading or writing literature1) Was is post-modernity? Has India produced post-modern literature?2) Why Jaipur emerged as site of literary festival?3) What is the difference between novel and long story?

4) Which language of India is called as ‘Italian of the east’? (telugu)5) Sahitya Academy award is given in how many languages?6) Highest number of Dnyanpeeth awards by writers in which language?7) Though literature may continue, can ‘writing’ become obsolete?8) What is ‘navras siddhant’ about literature?9) What is ‘popular literature’? How is it different from Classic’s?10) Why India has not produced Noble winner in literature in last 100 years after Tagore?11) Is Indian idea of aesthetics differ from that of west of world?12) We can understand person better by reading his Biography or Auto-biography?13) Have you read any biography and auto-biography of same person?

Debating1) Which is the best program at present for debates on current issues?2) Has Republican TV tilted towards establishment?3) How many should be ideal participants in debate?4) Shall we arrange on TV the debates on candidates for election as part of election process?5) Was Indian ‘Vaad Parampara’ is synonymous with debates?6) Winning argument is more important or winning heart?

Music1) Film music and classical music are complimentary to each other or opposite.2) What is a meaning of classical? Can’t folk music get elevated to the level of classical?3) Can music be amoral?4) Main difference between western music and Indian music.5) How sufi music is ‘ruhani’7) Are Gharana’s relevant today? Why southern music do not have gharana’s?9) Why only in India that music is never banned by any dynasty?10) Does music get recycled and appear again after some decades?11) It is said that music is in nature, then is folk music near to nature more than other formats?12) What is your opinion on fusion music?13) Can Jazz, Pop, Rock become mainstream music systems in India?14) Does rising popularity of western music in India is indication of cultural divide?Film Music1) Films should have songs or not?

2) Why decade of 1950s is called as golden era of Hindi film music?3) Has O.P.Nayyar copied from western tunes?4) Is melody lost from our film music now?

Dance1) What is difference between lasya and tandav tradition of India?2) What is criteria of declaring any dance as classical dance?3) How difference is made between folk dance and classical dance?4) Is dance a best physical exercise?5) Were is National Dance Academy?6) Does bollywood has its own contribution to dances?7) Have you participated in shows like ‘Dance India’?

Painting1) Forms like cubism, expressionalism, existentialism, realism, surrealism etc2) Do Indian painting has been stuck in symbolism?3) Does tribal painting lack aesthetics?4) Why painting fetch very high prices in auction?5) What is the contribution of New art school and progressive artist movement on painting?6) What is the difference between water colours and poster colours?7) What is wrong to oust the great painter M.F.Hussain from country?

Films1) Have western films become abnormal with subjects like aliens, monsters etc2) Does the society impact films or films impact society?3) Shall state should finance films for making good films viable? (like NDFC use to do earlier)4) Difference between ‘art film’ and ‘commercial film’5) What are genres like war film, road cinema, retro film, period film, candy floss cinema6) Why Indian films fail at Oscars?7) Shall studio system like in USA should be introduced in India?8) Are films expected to give social message?9) Your favorite film, director, actor, actress, producer.10) Shall Central Board of Film Certification should only certify or even sensor the films?11) What is ‘S’ certificate is about?12) Highest number of films are made in India in which language?13) Ideas like collywood, tollywood, lollywood.

14) Why present Indian cinema is tilted towards biopic?15) How much should be a scope for ‘cinematic liberty’?

Dramatics1) What is the difference between Street play and Nukkad Natak?2) Is Drama and Rangabhumi same?3) What is prahsan (farce), what are the qualities of good farcical drama?4) Which Sanskrit play was without woman character? 5) What is satire? What is black comedy?6) Can single act play be called as drama?7) What is the main difference between Indian dramas in ancient India and Greeko-roman dramas?  8) Who was Safdar Hashmi? Which Hindi film came on him?9) What is IPTA and what is INT?10) What is specialty of Rangshankara theatre at Bangluru? 11) What changes should be done for survival of dramatics?12) To give social message, drama is more powerful medium or films?13) Is folk drama dying art?

Poetry1) Is writing poetry is political action?2) Is expected that poets views and action should match his words?3) How much is the scope for poetic liberty? Say writing poetry in the role of Gandhi.4) What is more imp in poetry content or form?5) What is poetic justice?

Making friends1) What you do to make friends? Do you give any gift?2) What qualities you look for when you make friendship?3) You believe in virtual friendship (on facebook) or not?4) On the duty will you make friendship with your seniors and subordinates?5) Do you have enemies?

Coin collection1) Which dynasty issues highest number of coins?2) Who issues 5 coins of pure gold 5 kg each3) India’s coin museum and research centre is located at___

4) Why there are coins of Vaishnodevi and Rajrajeshwar Temple in secular country like India?5) Will coins become outdated soon?6) Why Kawaries are used in past as coins?

Web surfing1) Net neutrality – do you support?2) What is internet of things?3) Shall there be a censorship on internet?4) How you maintain your privacy?5) Can it be a addiction? Are Indian’s fast getting into grip of it?

Do it yourself1) Give the description of best of what you did2) Is it same as Jugaad?3) Do you follow websites for it? Is there is good Indian website for same?

NSS1) What work you done under NSS?2) Has it imbibed any social values in you? If yes, which one?3) NSS is better or NCC?4) What is the moto of NSS?5) Has NSS contributed in any substantial way in progress of country?

NCC/ Scout1) What is the moto of NCC and scout?2) At national level who command NCC?3) Does NCC lead to regimentation?4) Shall compulsory military training be given to the young citizens of India?5) Who started a scout in India?

Yoga/ Meditation1) What is transcendental meditation?2) Is yoga related to religion? Does yoga believe in god?3) When the yoga originated?4) Why 21st June is celebrated as International Yoga day?5) Does Indians have special advantage in meditation since its longer tradition in the country?

6) What are ideas like Kundalini, shahastradhara, siddhi etc7) Yoga has pair with which other darshan shastra?8) What is the contribution of Yogi Arbindo to yoga?9) Differentiate between yog, jog and bhog.  10) Has yoga became static or it is expanding? Cite the examples?11) Shall suryanamaskara’s be taught in the school?12) Is vipassyana same as meditation through yoga?13) Using pali for vipassyana or Sanskrit for yoga, how much it is correct?14) Can meditation lead to indoctrination?15) Is meditation a science?16) Is it something to do with spirituality?17) Can it take care of lifestyle deceases?

Physical exercise1) Sound mind is more imp or sound body?2) Your aim is fitness or bodybuilding?3) Your ideal in this field?4) Is yoga part of physical exercise?

Swimming1) Why swimming in sea is easier then swimming in river?2) Who was the first Indian to cross English channel?3) How Michal Phelps won so many matches?  Jogging1) Is brisk walk better or jogging?2) Which shoes you use for jogging?

Cycling1) Shall cycle be declared as national vehicle?2) What are the advantages of cycling?3) Which are the cycling tournaments in country? Have you participated in any of them?

Nutrition/ cooking1) Which food is advisable vegetarian or non-vegetarian?2) Are both should be consumed, is man omnivorous?3) What is the aim of good health?4) Shall we promote the cause of pink revolution?5) Does our thinking process depend on what food we consume?6) Is there something called ‘Indian curry’?

7) Do you cook at home? (This question become more personal if you are male and more tricky you are married man.)8) Why majority celebrity chefs are men, when cooking in country is predominantly done by woman?9) Can cooking be hobby of Indian woman?10) Which types of oil is used for cooking in various parts of India?11) Cooked food is good or baked food is good for health?12) Can name the king who was also excellent cook in the history of ancient India?13) What is origin of Jilebi, Pedha, Biryani14) What is the specialty of Tribal food?15) What is your opinion on 'ready to cook' and 'ready to eat' options available in market?

Working in NGO1) Can there be profit making NGOs?2) Why recently govt cracked down on many NGOs?3) Have NGOs become part of establishment (para-governmental orgainsation PGO)4) Does NGO play main role in solving problems in society or only complimentary role?5) Are social enterprises different then NGOs?6) Are NGOs part of pressure groups?7) Is NGO model sustainable?8) Can NGO remain aloof from politics?9) Will keep working with NGO after joining service?

If your 1st or 2nd choice is IPS1) Why the image of police is not as bright as that of army?2) Difference between law & order and internal security.3) What are stages of controlling law & order? first laathi charge or tear gas?4) What is communal violence bill?5) How to tackle attraction of youth towards 'ISIS', will post fall ISIS will turn into Al quida’?6) What is loan wolf attack?7) 'Ghetto' a potential time bomb8) What is moral policing, do you support it?9) What is the difference between Judicial custody and police custody. 10) In policing numbers matter or quality?11) What do you mean by ‘modernization of police forces’?12) Shall police forces be allowed to form Union? Is it not a issue of their democratic rights?13) Is Panchakula episode properly handled by administration and police?

14) Are terrorist and Anti-social elements same?15) Border areas like J&K and Nagaland, police should be given more powers or military?16) Is there a need to rewrite IPC?17) Is CBI work areas limited to Delhi? Has it become ‘parrot in the cage’?18) Is CIA more effective or our NIA?19) Shall NIA be made as powerful as CIA?20) To reduce cyber crimes, is cyber policing be introduced?21) What is 'SMART' policing?22) Home secretary should be from IPS or IAS?23) What is 'community policing'? how it works?24) What are 'commission ate' Are they useful idea?25) What problems para-military forces are facing in service conditions?26) Severity of punishment is more important or certainty of punishment?27) Punishment should be reformative or retributive?28) Can be bring criminal activities to zero level?29) Shall ‘zero tolerance policy’ be followed for breach of law and order?30) Have you bribed traffic police any time in your life?

If your 1st or 2nd choice is IFS 1) What is the hierarchy of foreign service?2) Diplomacy is art or science?3) What is difference between ambassador and councillor?4) Who is 'charge de affairs', is it same as ambassador?5) Who is a high commissioner, where he is appointed?6) What is long distance nationalism?7) What is the scope of diplomatic immunity?8) Security concerns should be given a primacy or economic opportunities?9) What is ‘domestically engaged foreign policy’?10) What is Track I – II – III diplomacy?11) What is ‘shuttle diplomacy’, ‘ping pong diplomacy’?

If your 2nd or 3rd choice is IRS1) It is said that IRS are real collectors today, do you agree?2) Among all services IRS is declared as most corrupt service, then why you are putting it at up?3) Is IRS a generalised service or specialized one?4) Like CBI is even tax departments are dancing on the tune of ruling govt?5) What is the meaning of the statement that particular activity in budget will be ‘revenue neutral’?

If you belong to minority communityJAIN1) How Jainism survived in India while Buddhism was ousted?2) Is ‘santhara’ misused as a camouflage for euthanasia?3) Was ‘Ahimsa’ principal of Gandhi based on Jain principal of non-violence?4) Which are major jain cave architecture sites in India5) You believe in Kalpasutra or Agam Granth?6) Gujrat has Jain CM now, will it happen in Maharashtra?7) Movement on farmers rights by Raju Shetty, how much successful?    

BUDDHISM1) Buddhism was revolution or counter-revolution?2) Is Mahayaan better then Hinyaan?3) How Navayan is different than traditional Buddhism?4) Can there be a Buddhism without Buddha?5) Do you believe in the reincarnation of Buddha?6) Is Hinduism is degraded Buddhism?

SIKHISM1) Sikhism emerged as part of bhakti movement, but later turned into band of fighters under khalsa. Does it impacted its original message of peace?2) Shall Haryana and delhi be given separate SGPCA?3) Is Dasmant system (contributing income to religion) goes against art 27 of not collecting religious taxes?4) Has SGPCA became parallel structure of power?5) How much is the influence of Islam on Sikhism?

If your education background isFinancial management1) Explain Debt-Service ratio2) Price Earnings ratio3) Padta system of accounting4) What is rate of return on investment?5) What is negative rate of return in economy?6) In the present condition of economy you will advice to go for debt or equity?7) Why corporate bond market is underdeveloped in India?8) How much returns govt should earn on its investment?9) Give 3 important ratio's to be referred before taking decision to invest in shares of any company.

Banking

1) Shall private banks be compelled to run welfare schemes of govt.?2) What is prompt corrective action by RBI, is it effective?3) Will PARA have same fate like BIFR?4) Was Bank nationalisation a mistake?5) Do you support the merger of Public Sector Banks?6) Compared banking in India with that of China7) Is there a need to appoint a super regulator?8) Can you tell how PNB scam happened exactly?

CA/CS1) Now company could be formed by even 1 person, is it a correct decision?2) Why woman are inculcated in director board of all companies by law?3) What is shell company?4) Do we have proliferation of companies then there activities?5) Is it possible to register a company in single day?6) What is limited liability partnership?7) Is compulsion of CSR correct?8) Are Indian companies over regulated?9) What is the difference between company and the corporate?10) What is the difference between Minimum Alternative Tax and Alternative Minimum Tax

IIT/IIM/NIT1) It is said the highly educated people have high number of variables in front of them while taking decision, so they become slow in decision making. Do you agree with it?2) We think that you are overqualified for the job.3) If govt is offering you less pay then what you earned in private, isn't it injustice?4) Shall the salary and incentives in govt be decided by education and experience?5) Shall IITs run courses on linguistics, literature and fine arts?

IT1) Is Information superior or knowledge?2) Are we living in the era of information tsunami?3) Can we say that those who control information will control the world?4) who has right over information say fb, company or people?5) Is IT boom over? Will come back on track or AI will keep reducing manpower required?6) Being IT expert have not you thought of staring a start up in this sector?7) Being IT graduate give a problem and solution two main themes of present India facing i.e. GST and AADHAR8) How to keep Data security?

Architecture1) What is lorry baker conscious?2) What is the speciality of Charles Koria3) Can we really make existing cities smart?4) Can you suggest a material and design to make home in one lakh under Pradhanmantri Awas Yojana?5) Why except Chandigarh other planned cities in India failed?6) Are glass covered buildings suitable for India?7) What could be ideas to save the cities from becoming urban heat islands?B.Pharma1) What is ‘fixed does combination’ controversy?2) What is the pricing formula for pharma sector?3) Is NPPA effective?4) Is Janaushadhi a correct strategy?5) or better method is creating competitive environment and controlling prices.6) Shall India focus on generic medicine or try to shift to branded medicine?7) Doctors should prescribe medicine name or formula?8) Shall doctors be forced to give printout instade of written prescription?9) Shall Phama graduate be compulsory for every chemist shop?10) what is nano-drug delivery? How it will save expenditure on medicine?

Dentistry1) Dentist are highly paid in western countries, but not in India, why?2) Is fluoride based toothpaste is better or opposite?3) Is ‘namak’ required in toothpaste?4) Why age of person is ascertained by examination of teeth?5) How many years teeth can survive after death?6) ‘Buddhas tooth’ stupa is located at?

BA1) Once prestigious stream of education but has lost the glamour now, how?2) How the course could be improved?

Areas worth pondering for Maharashtra focus1) How you see the Bhima-Koregaon issue, it is a victory of lower caste against dominant caste or is it a end of independence?1) Cooperative movement in Maharashtra2) Varkari movement in Maharashtra

3) Lakhina pattern, no new achievement of Maharashtra in last 20 years. Is it a sign of decline?4) Is Maharashtra still a progressive state?5) Ralegansiddhi and Anna Hajare, Hivrebazar and Popatrao Pawar difference in the model of idea village 6) Maharashtra vs Gujrat comparison. Is Maharashtra loosing leadership position to Gujrat?7) Issue of migrants8) Case for separate vidharbha 9) Farmers suicide – reasons and solution10) Reservations to Maratha community – Is it justified (also compare the situation with Jat, kapu, patel reservation)11) Entry of woman in Shanishingnapur, Hajiali 12) Jaitapur - boon or curse13) Toll Roads - policy alternatives14) 'Son of the soil' movement, what is ethnicity?15) Is the ban on beef justified? Discuss the constitution angle to it.16) Though Maharashtra has population is second to UP failed to give PM to country, why?17) Why 5 main parties in state, lack of unanimity on vision?18) Is it a sign of competitiveness? good or bad?19) Is it correct to call Maharashtra wine capital of India?20) 5 major problems of Maharashtra21) Shall dance bars be allowed to operate?22) Issue of female feticide in Maharashtra.23) Do you support the project of building massive statue of Chatrapati Shivaji on sea?24) What are cluster development schemes in Maharashtra? Are they viable?25) Explain structure of economy in Maharashtra?26) Is it worth giving debt wavers to farmers in Maharashtra?27) How to regulate the use of pesticides?

Region specific questions1) GI tags from all the regions2) World heritage sites from regions

If u r from 'Vidarbha'1) MIHAN project, potential and reality2) Vardha scheme of basic education or Nayi talim or Buniyadi shiksha3) Is prohibition of liquor successful in Vardha, Gadchiroli and Chandrapur?4) How Anandwan is funded?

5) It is owned by public or Amte family?6) Why leprosy cases are more in vidarbha region? Is there a decline in leprosy patients?7) Melghat - malnutrition issue 8) BT cotton - myth and reality9) Difference between model of Amte family and Abhay Bang10) Nagpur treaty 1954 - contents, is it followed in letter and spirit?11) Will formation of separate vidarbha solve the issue of Naxalism?12) If seperate vidarbha state is formed, what will be its state language Hindi or Marathi?13) Shall we take plebiscite on the issue of separate vidarbha?14) Difference between Vidarbha vs Vharad15) Why the heroines in epics like Rukmini, Subhadra, Damyanti, Malvika are shown from Vidarbha? 16) Shall we ban commercial farming to avoid farmers suicide?17) 'Smrudhi highway' obstacles in completion, will it bring prosperity?18) Why cooperative movement remained weak in the region?19) What is the central theme of Gramgeeta?Nagpur  1) National Cargo Hub prospects   2) Metro at Nagpur with help of Chinese company, is it a wise strategy?  3) Is Nagpur a ideal destination to become India’s capital?  4) Has Nagpur something to with Naga’s?  5) RSS and Dikshabhumi - meeting of two ends

If u r from 'Marathwada'1) Why most backward part of Maharashtra, and still do not support seperate state, why?2) Joining Maharashtra unconditionally was mistake? Why demand for separate state is weak? 3) In the Hydrabad Mukti Sangram what was the role of Communist, Hindu Mahasabha and Aryasamaj?4) Which is the Marathwada Mukti Din?5) Rising suicides of farmers 6) Why marathwada is facing a high incidence of dowry cases?7) Highest number of landless labour and highest internal migration in the state. 8) Issue of migrants to western Maharashtra (on sugar cutting) 9) Has separate statutory development board helped?10) Legacy of Vilasrao Deshmukh, Gopinath Munde and Promod Mahajan11) What is 'latur pattern' in education, is it still getting success?12) Kailash and its eternal glory

14) Why marathwada is called as land of saints?15) Gurudwara Sachkhand, and its glory.16) What is Marathwada Watergrid Project?17) What could be a permanent solution to draught situation?18) What are the features of Osmanabadi goat?19) Aurangabad

i) himru shawl - has it got GI?, Is jayakwadi a failure?ii) Why Aurangabad is called as heart of marathwada?iii) Shall Aurangabad be renamed as Sambhajinagar Or Osmanabad as

Dharashiv’?           iv) Compare ‘Bibi ka Makbara’ with TajMahal.If u r from 'Kokan'1) Potential in tourism, comparison with Goa2) Mine of personalities - Tilak, Ambedkar, Sane Guruji3) Issue of Gadgil report and Kasturirangan report4) Why lack of cooperative movement though near to western Maharashtra5) Jaitapur project - comparison with Enron, what is the technology used and is it viable?6) Kokan Railway - success or failure?7) What will be the impact of coastal road on economy of Kokan?8) Sea world project in Sindhudurg9) What is the idea of converting Kokan into California of India?10) Shall sugarcane farming be promoted in Kokan since it has sufficient rainfall?11) Is separate statutory board require for Kokan?

If u r from 'Western Maharashtra'1) Cooperative movement and its present situation2) Traditional dominance in politics - reasons, it is losing its political clout?3) Is there something called 'Baramati Model'?4) Raju shetty and clash within5) Shivaji - the clash of ideologies, rise of the cult of Sambhaji6) What is the meaning of 'satara'?7) Karad - Yashwantrao chavan - why he failed to become PM though he as full potential? 8) Koyana - what could be done with excess water? is it causing earthquakes?9) What is the specialty of Kaas Plato?10) Gold melting community from sangli 11) Sagli as a market of turmeric and manuka (dried grapes)12) How Kolhapur lost the glory of wrestling to Haryana?13) Ahmadnagar – famous personalities Meher Baba, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Zahir Khan, Jorwe culture

14) Features of land ford of Ahmednagar, chandbibi15) Who was Ahmad of Ahmednagar?16) Pune – Why called city of culture, why maximum attacks on Gandhi are done by the people of pune?17) Is Pune fast turning into hotbed of controversies and assassinations?18) Why Pune is called as oxford of the east19) Solapur – On the one hand bed of sugarcane cultivation on the other tankers are used. Gadda yatra, why called hutatma nagari, in british period solapur has major camp of criminal communities, what happened to them? Is solapur losing its industrial glory? Why? Pandharpur – coming together of multiple waves of bhakti, how?

If u r from 'North Maharashtra'1) Jain irrigation, have they monopolised the industrial scene?2) Sureshdada Jain, Ekhanath Khadase and the nature of political class3) How got specialized in gold refinery, how gold industry build in jalgaon?  4) Nemade and his perceptions on Indian society and literature, his idea of 'deshivad'5) What is special about Banana6) History of Ahir's, Is Ahirani connected more to Gujrati then marathi?7) Faizpur session of congress and its achievements8) How the farmers suicides have become issue now, what could be done to stop it. 9) Is Dhule a planned city? Who planned it? Which national highways pass through dhule? 10) Why Nandurbar has emerged as most backward district of Maharashtra?11) Which are the tribes in the area?12) How Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor will help the region?13) How the name Nashik? Queens edict, why coins museum of India, why remained relatively backward then Mumbai and Pune?14) Is there a need to bifurcate nashik district?15) How Malegaon developed dominance in textile sector? Touring films of Malegaon

If u r from 'Mumbai'1) Mumbai in history - ashokan pillar, elephanta caves, jogeshwari, mahakali, kanheri2) Mumbai in only metro city in world with national park - its significance3) Shall western command of navy be shifted out of mumbai?4) Shall capital of state should be shifted out of mumbai?5) Security issue of mumbai - a sitting duck6) Shall visa type documents made compulsory for entry7) Bollywood and the issues they are facing (unorganized nature, relationship with underworld)8) Maximum city or exhausted city

9) With approximately 60% population in slums and around 15% living on streets can Mumbai become smart city of India?10) Why monorail project failed?11) Is there a need to set up 3rd mumbai in Raigarh?12) Turning Mumbai into International Financial Centre (GIFT has already taken takeoff)13) Why Mumbai is targeted by terrorist again and again?14) Some imp places -Gateway Of India  - CST  -  Hanging Garden- Siddhi Vinayak Temple   - Haji Ali Dargah    - Bandra Worli Sea link- Wankhede Stadium        - Oval Maidan        - Rajabhai Tower- Banganga Tank              - Mani Bhavan       - Dhobi Ghat- Parsi Tower of Silence   - Ancient hill at andheri- Town hall (Asiatic library)     - Chabad house               - Jinnah House, Peoples Jinnah Hall -Rajgruha (residence of Dr Ambedkar), chaityabhumi

If you are from Delhi1)     Has Delhi became a classic case of failed urbanisation?2)     Shall law and order of state be handed over to state government?3)     Is there a need to declare Delhi as full fledge state instade of

keeping it as UT?4)     Why it is called ‘city of cities’?5)     How it lost to Ahmadabad in the race of World Heritage Cities?6)     If India’s administrative capital be shifted out of Delhi then you will

recommend which place?7)     Does Virat Kohli reflect attitude of Delhi?8)     Why old Delhi remained neglected?9)     Can we describe Delhi as city of ‘Babudom’?10) Shall India keep multiple capital s instead of 1, 1 administrative, 1 judicial, 1

financial?

If you are from J&K1)     What is Dixson plan?2)     Is bifurcation state into 3 geographical regions is good option to go

with?3)     Why Hurriyat conference do not fight elections?4)     Is there a need to adjust the state legislative strength according to

population?5)     Does 35A exist?6)     Is Article 370 hurdle in development?7)     Can ‘Kashmiriyat’ survive without Article 370?

8)     Kashmir issue should be handled by army or police?9)     Are we differing on treating terrorism in Kashmir and of naxals?

If you are from Punjab1)     Why Udata Punjab? What is the way out?2)     As Bengalies still repent over the partition why it has not happened

with Punjab?3)     Has the state saturated in terms of agriculture production?4)     What is kabutarbaji?5)     Shall state concentrate on industrial development for further

growth?6)     What is your opinion on sharing water of satlaj with Haryana?7)     Can AAP make a base in Punjab?8)     What are the reasons of dominance of Punjabi culture on

bollywood?9)     Why the recruitment of Punjabi men declined in Police and army?10) How Punjab lost sports crown to Haryana?11) Has influence of Arya Samaj declined on Punjab after

independence?

If you are from Haryana1)     Which will be suitable place for Haryana’s own capital?2)     Why Faridabad lost to Gurgaon in urban development?3)     Is changing name from Gurgaon to Gurugram correct decision?4)     What will be the advantage of Saraswati Mission?5)     Why the Dera politics have prospered in the region?6)     How is the progress of ‘Beti Bachav, Beti Padhav’ in the state?7)     Is real estate boom in the state creating a obstacles for growth of

agriculture?8)     What measures could be taken to further boost the sports culture in

the state?9)     Has historic Mahabharata war took place at Kurukshetra?10)Shall Haryana be termed as ‘rape capital of India’?

If you are from Chandigarh1)     Is there fort (garh) in the city?2)     What lessons we can learn from success of Chandigarh as planned

city?3)     Chandigarh has emerged as costly city, difficult for poor to survive,

what could be the solution?

4)     The expansion of Chandigarh is not possible, is vertical development a solution to this problem?

5)     It better belong to Punjab or Haryana?

If you are from Rajasthan1)Questions related to Jaipur

1)     Who was the founder of Jaipur, why it is called as pink city?     2) What is the speciality of Jantar Mantar, was it a place where black magic is practiced?      3) Who build hawa mahal?      4) Significance of Umed bhavan, why high court is not there in Jaipur?      5) How Jaipur build up as place of literary conference?      6) Why kachwaha's shifted capital from Amer to Jaipur?      7) Was famous poet hasrat jaipuri is from Jaipur?2) Why the name of the state is Rajasthan, does it not belong to common people?3) Why it was called mastyadesh in Ancient period?4) Which are the tribal in the state?5) Shall separate state of 'marubhumi' be formed?6) Why the Adai din ka zopda at Ajmer is named so? Is it build in two and half days?7) Which hindi film has background of seperate state demand of marubhumi?8) Which are the world heritage sites from the state?9) Is Padmavati film hampering proud of Rajputana?10) What was 'Devrala' controversy in Rajiv Gandhi times, and how it is connected to 'Shahbano case'11) Which are the imp GI registered from the state of Rajasthan?12) If refineries have no future why at Barmer largest refinery is taken to build?

If you are from Gujrat1) If Vallabhbhai Patel would have been prime minister of India, what difference it would have made in politics?2) Do you support Sardar sarovar project?3) Do you support building of statue of Patel?4) What is contribution of Bardoli in national movement?5) It is said that Gujrat has walked long distance away from Gandhi now, do you agree?6) Has Gujrat became factory of Hidutva?7) Was Gujrat riots was assertion of manliness of Gujrati people?8) Has the development become mad?9) Is bullet train worth a idea?10) Does the last election show the rural-urban divide?11) What is ‘Gujrat model’ of development?

12) What is your opinion on separate state movement for Saurastra?13) It is said that Gujrati people prosper more outside state then inside the state, is it true?14) What is the background and history of Gurjar people?15) Which are the major GI tags state has received?16) Has prohibition been successful in the state?17) What is special of Champaner – Pawagarh?18) Shall Rani-ki-vav be promoted as symbol of love?19) How the cooperative movement has got success compared to other states?20) Why Gujrat refuse to give lions to other states?21) Ahmadabad    1) Shall it be renamed as Karnavati?    2) If Gujrat would have kept Baroda as capital instade of Gandhi Nagar, then the development of Gujrat would been different, do you agree?    3) How the Ahmadabad bagged the world heritage city tag, while it has competition with Delhi and Mumbai?    4) Shall Ahmadabad be renamed as Karnavati?    5)  Can Ahmadabad be still called as ‘Manchester of the East’?    6) Why Sarabhai family clash with government regularly?    7) What are the achievements of Ilaben Bhat and SEVA    8) What is special about Rani Sipri Mosque?    9) Is the Bus Rapid Transport system in city is successful?    10) Is building cement embankments to Sabarmati river in city and turning it into canal a correct decision?

If you are from Madhy Pradesh1)What has made Indore cleanest city in India?2) Sarafa bazaar, how indore got its name?3) Indori saris are made at? what is the speciality? maheshwari saries4) Who is the founder of city of Bhopal? Why is called as Queens city?5) Is attempt is done to compete with Taj in Bhopal?6) Who was surma bhopali?7) Is Bhopal gas tragedy is the consequence of green revolution?8) Gwalior – Raja Mansingh, first edict with zero, Gwalior gharana, dynastic politics  9) Shivpuri – tatya tope is handged, what is unique about forest in shivpuri region?

10) Why the highcourt of MP is in Jabalpur?11) List the schemes or practices of MP which are adopted at national level12) What the ‘Happiness department’ do the work in the state?13) Ujjain – Jantar mantar, 64 yogini temple, mahakal14) Is MP still tiger state of India?15) Why tourism department has described state as ‘ajabgajab’?16) Having highest number of ST in state what special measures state has taken in the hand to uplift the tribals?17) Why tourism at Burhaanpur is utterly negelected?18) Are Khajuraho temple erotic sculptures are deviation from Indian culture?19) Which temple is called as the Somnath of the east?20) Have you visited Chitrakoot project?21) Which city in MP is referred as shadiabad i.e. ‘city of joy’?22) Where is Jahangir Mahel in MP?

If you are from Himachal Pradesh

If you are from Uttarakhand1)     Shall permanent structure be banned to avoid natural disasters?2)     Apart from Hill tourism and religious tourism which other sectors

could be developed in the state?3)     Though originally formed for hilly regions, practically plains got

developed in hilly regions – what could be done to correct this anomaly?

4)     What is special about ‘valley of flowers’?5)     Which is the Non-tangible heritage from the state?6)     Which books took shape in Naini’ prison?7)     Was Jim Corbett Indian person?

If you are from Uttar Pradesh1)     Shall state be bifurcated in smaller parts?2)     Why regional parties in UP failed to give PM to country?3)     Why the relationship with Nepal soared recently?4)     Saffron colour represent what emotions?5)     What could be done to improve law and order situation in the state?6)     Do you agree with ‘Dabang’ approach of solving issues?7)     Suggest solution to the issue of Ram Temple in Ayodya.8)     Differentiate between Bareily and Deoband school of thought.9)     Is TajMahal a wrong monument to cherish?

10) Why Namami Gange, Swach Bharat are not taking take-off in the state?

11) What exactly is the case of Sahara?12) Is state suffering from burden of history?13) What are the features of Imambara of Lucknow?14) Is Metro symbol of development?15) What is Ganga-Jamni Tehjib?16) Gorakhpur – How Subrato Rai Sahara rose from Gorkhpur? What exactly he done?17)Who was Gorakhanath, why the nath sect importance declined?18) In hospital mishap who is responsible?19) Why could be done to avoid such tragedies in future?

If you are from Bihar1) Is there a need to give special status to the state of Bihar?2) It is said that history of Ancient India is a history of Bihar, what went wrong in between?3) Can Bihar became number one state again?4) Is the state has ‘money order economy’?5) What is unique about Chat puja?6) Why the state is called as ‘homeland of socialism’?7) Barauni - how here is a oil refinery when no oil is found in the region?8) Bihari vs bahari debate?9) India has many cities by the name patna, why?10) How Guru Govindsingh is born at Patna?11) The sacrifice of maithili (sita) is superior or that of urmila?12) Nitishkumar is representative of caste dynamics or class dynamics?13) Has the chief minister ship of nitishkumar empowered kurmi's?18) Do you support the decision of prohibition?19) It is said that Nitishkumar is focusing on ‘woman’ as class instade of caste, do you agree?20) Has Nitishkumar defied the electoral mandate by changing side after election? 14) Shall bhojpuri be included in schedule 8 of the Constitution?15) What is speciality of Rohtas fort? How sher shah won it?16) Case of bhagalpur riots17) Bihar - is it a classic case of - more the things change, more they remain same.18) From the Chetan Bhagat’s novel ‘Half Girlfriend’ we can see the reflection of changing Bihar?

If you are from Zharkhand1) How much of gangs of wasseypur is true?2) Jharkhand - was separation from Bihar a mistake?

3) Which is the major hydroelectric project in the state?4) Has geography of Jharkhand determined its history?5) How much royalty the state govt gets for its minerals from the centre?6) Shall Jharkhand protect is nature or shall concentrate on development?7) Was Birsa Munda a revolutionary?8) Compare Bokaro steel plant with Tata Steel at Jamshedpur

If you are from Bengal1) It is said that Bengal is only province that experienced Renaissance, do you agree?2) If it is true, then Bengal should have been most modern part of India today. Why it is not?3) Has the spread of vaishnavaism made Bengali people feeble, who succumbed to attacks?4) Why the current of dalit literature is absent (or weak) in bengali literature?5) Can Bengal get noble for literature again? which writer has potential?6) Why not north 24 pargana should not be now called as 12 pargana?7) Shall Bengal be named as only bengal, instead of west bengal?8) Why Bengal has 4 level of PRI instead of 3?9) Gorkhaland and Kamtapur movements10) Criket is more popular or football?

If you are from Assam1) Shall Bodo and Karbi Onlong be given separate state?2) What results the current exercise of National Population Register will give?3) Is Assam losing its cultural identity because of migrants?4) Can Majuli be saved?5) Is the productivity of tea plantation declining? What is the reason?6) Shall Assam be given autonomy to deal with china in case of trade and commerce?

If you are from Odisha1)Why Jagbandhu revolted? what was his real name?2)Was it a first revolt against British?3) What is tri-kaling? What is difference between Utkal and Kaling?4) Why national anthem mentions only Utkal?5) Why people of Odisha support regional part instade of national party?6) Does rasgulla really belong to Odisha?7) Was Jaydev belong to state of Odisha?8) Shall state make a claim on Subhashchandra Bose, since he is born in Katak?9) Why called as ‘soul of India’?10) Why Biju Patnaik separated from Congress?11) Is the film Aandhi was based on life of Nandini Satpathi?

12) Contribution of Illiyana to Oddisi dance

If you are from Andhra Pradesh1) Since Andhra is the first state formed in linguistic reorganisation, shall we assume that the bifurcation has Andhra prove that it was wrong decision?2) Government has planned to spread development along various cities in Andhra, can you give the list of sector and city?3) Was Kurnool or Vijaywada are better options then Amaravati for new capital?4) Amaravati will be happiest city on the planate, it is claimed, how?5) Is giving contract of designing Amaravti to Singapore a wrong decision? Since Sigapore is vertical city and Amaravati could be planned horizontally.6) How land was acquired for proposed capital? How it is different from proposed National Land Acquisition Act?7) Pradesh in the name of Andhra, does it show linguistic dominance of north?8) Telugu - how the language of tribal origin reached to the level of classical language?9) Why Telugu is called as Italian of Asia?

If you are from Telangana1) Shall Hydrabad be renamed to its original name Bhaganagar?2) Is Hydrabad example of ‘Island of development’?3) Hyderabad - high on liveable cities, how this is achieved?4) What made Gowalkonda fort impregnable?5) What is special about Gowalkonda cuisine?6) All diamonds still found at Gowalkonda?   7) Who is the founder of the city, rise of MIM8) Who is Ganapati? Who is Gadar?9) Can Naxals be bought in mainstream?10) What are the reasons of success of grey hounds – anti-naxal force?11) Is giving free electricity to farmers viable decision?12) Is creating 31 new districts instade of earlier 8 a correct decision?13) Telugu - how the language of tribal origin reached to the level of classical language?14) Why Telugu is called as Italian of Asia?

If you are from Karnataka1) Does S.L.Bairappa’s writing gave mileage to right wing political parties?2) What is difference between Karnataka and Carnatik?3) Has Karanataka created more Hindustani classical singers or Caratik singers?

4) Shall Lingayats given status of separate religion?5) State claim to have ‘many worlds, one state’ explain6) Shall Tipu be celebrated as state hero?7) What is ‘Karnataka model’ in market reforms?8) Is Bangalore an example of ‘Island of development’?9) Was Rani Chenamma freedom fighter?10) How the word ‘Karnatak’ has emerged?11) Shall the state allowed to have its own ‘state flag’?12) Who is the author of state song of Karanataka?13) Throw light on water sharing dispute with Goa of Mhadai river.14) Does Kasargod belong to Karantaka?15) Belgaon   1) Who is called as lion of Karnaaka?   2) 1924 congress session   3) Kamalbasti   4) 2nd capital, has it made any difference?   5) Is Vidhansaudha at Belgaon a white elephant?   6) Belgaon should legitimately belong to whom?

If you are from Kerala1) Is Kerala’s development model is horizontal instade of vertical?2) Is prohibition of liquor a correct decision?3) Why no party gets majority in Kerala?4) Is it a last bastion of left front in India?5) Is Kerala’s economy is money order economy?6) Why the industry has not prospered in the state?7) Has Kerala failed to translate human development into economic development?   If you are from Tamil Nadu1) Will Rajni succeed in politics?2) Is Tamil nationalism stronger then Tamil sub-nationalism?3) It is said that Tamil society is horizontal, do you agree?4) Will dominance of regional parties on state will end?5) How PURA approach helped state?6) Is Dravidian culture a political myth?

Questions expected by History optional studentsHistoriography1) Explain, "History is always contemporary"

2) It is correct statement that 'history could be understood backwards, but has to be lived forward' 3) ‘All we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history’ Do you agree with the statement?4) Does History repeats itself? Give example5) Does history strikes back?6) History is spiral or linear?7) It is said that 'there is not history, there are 'histories', it is true?8) If true, then it is said that ‘those who do not have common past, will neither have common future’ what is your take on it?9) Does every event in history becomes a corner stone of ultimate achievements of mankind?10) Explain ‘Geography can’t change, but history can’11) Does India is under the burden of History?12) Is India a 'prisoner of history'?13) What is end of History? Is End of state is logical continuation of it?14) What is subaltern approach of studying history?15) What is the main points of difference between left wing and right wing writers?16) What is the difference between left, right and centre?17) What is the difference between modern and post modern?18) Does Indians lack sense of History? Are Indian people 'a-historical'?19) What is the historiography of Cambridge School of writers? How they differ from Nationalist school?20) Does geography affect history?21) What is 'Reconstruction of History'? What are the different techniques used for the same?22) History is just a 'chronology of incidences' or 'it is a set of values'? 23) Napoleon use to say that 'History is collective mythology agreed by all' Do you agree with him? 24) Can history be studies without 'pride and prejudice'?25) Shall history be understood by archaeology or it should be studied from living present like songs and ballads?26) Explain 'You can change the HISTORY but not your PAST'27) Does people be given the right to 'forget the unpleasant past'?28) What is the place of mythology in history?29) What are different kinds of history (philosophical, reflective) etc30) History is HIS story, do you agree?31) Is history of India is history of defeats?

Story of past 1) Why you chose history as optional?

2) Historical importance of your hometown3) Who is your favorite historian?4) Who is your favorite person from history? Also criticize him.  5) What is your favorite part in world/modern/ancient/medieval  history?6) Tell us about evolution of law making in India…which helped to create current system7) What is the difference between culture and civilization?8) What is medieval mentality?9) Can we call medieval period as 'bloody history' 10) What is secular art?11) Are wars inevitable? what about peace? 12) What is Hindu nationalism and how it differs from Nationalism? Is it same as Hindi nationalism? 13) What is the difference between renaissance, reformation and enlightenment14) Has India gone through renaissance in the past?15) What are chances of India becoming modern without the arrival of Europeans?16) Shall we confirm status of freedom fighter on those who fought the struggle against emergency?

Fact to fact1) Have Aryans introduced horse in India?2) Are Indus Valley people are the Dravidian people of south today?3) Does the Muslim attackers finished the Buddhism in India?4) Why ancient coins have hole in the centre?5) Shall 'Bhagwat Gita' be declared as national book?6) Was Shivaji Hindu king? Was he nationalist?7) Adv Pansare and his contribution to history of Shivaji8) What there are two birthdays of Shivaji?9) Shall statue of Shivaji be build in Arabian sea?10) Why Peshwa rose in prominence?11) Does Maratha's have ambition to turn India into Maharashtra? 12) Why people in Maharashtra look at Delhi with suspicion?13) Rajput’s are called as Sword of Hindu’s, but they also failed to give protection.14) 'Padmavati' controversy. Have Rajput's compromised there honor by making friendship with Mughals?15) Taj Mahal should be seen as monument of love or standing proof of slavery or monument of exploitation? 16) What is Cornwallis code?17) Is it true that India never attacked any country in history?18) Is Gandhi relevant today? In what sense? Did Nehru really spoke in the language of Gandhi?

19) 5th May 2018 is 200th birth anniversary of Karl Marx. Has he remained relevant today?20) 2017 was birth bicentenary year of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan? Does his views present the zeal or reformist or revivalist?21) What are the recent excavations going on in Haryana? (Rakhigarhi)22) What is the contribution of Dr. Ambedkar in the Indian freedom struggle?23) Contribution to History by Maharashtrian historians (P.V.Kane, V.K.Rajwade, D.D.Kosambi)24) Shall we restore ancient and medieval monuments?25) Shall V.D.Savarkar be given 'bharatratna'?26) Do you agree with the view that Paika rebellion in Odisha was first war independence against British?27) Shall birth anniversary of Tipu Sultan be celebrated?28) Shall separate religion status be confirmed on Lingayats?29) Has Brahmagupta discovered gravity first?30) Shall we invent ourselves as trading civilization?31) Shall Ramayan be introduced in school to teach ethics?

What is expected is the application of theoretical knowledge, connecting the studies with our day to day. That ability is checked through the questions.

Questions for Political Science Optional1) What are Kangaroo courts?2) What are negative rights in constitution?3) Difference between fundamental rights and Human rights4) Basic structure controversy5) Collegiums system - how much constitutional?6) Lokpal Vs Janlokpal7) Difference between Judicial review and Judicial Overreach8) What is the difference between Federation, unitary, quasi federal and Confederation?9) What is delegated legislation?10) What is parallel diplomacy? Pingpong diplomacy? Cricket diplomacy? Shuttle diplomacy? 11) What is two and half party system?12) Explain the concept of pre-sovereign, sovereign and post-sovereign nations.13) What is public diplomacy?14) What do you understand by 'domestically engaged foreign policy'15) Justify 'Neighbourhood first' approach  16) Difference between International relations and Indian Polity17) What is positivism?

18) Fundamental duties originally and now19) John Rolls 'Theory of social justice'20) what are different approaches to study political science21) what is difference between working class movement and labour class movement22) what is post Marxist theory (Frankfurt school)23) is political science 'science'?24) Why constitution not gave importance to geography?25) Is CVC a constitutional body?26) In US elections difference between popular votes and electoral votes.27) Is socialism political philosophy or economic philosophy?28) Do you agree with the theory of 'clash of civilizations'?29) What is pug wash movement?30) It is said that ‘India should stop calling itself as south Asian nation, but start calling itself as Asia-Pacific nation’ what is your take on it?31) What do you understand by ‘act east, but look west’?32) What is ‘Asian pivot’? Is it a proud movement for country when US mentioned Indo-pacific policy?33) What is ‘prisoner’s dilemma’?34) Explain the statement ‘Zhakeriya is the prophet and Fukuyama bites the dust’35) Shall Atrocities Act be abolished?36) What is relationship of political science and international relationship?37) Is there difference between orientation of govt and form of govt?38) What is Gujral doctrine?39) What is Neo-Marxism? Who are the proponents of it?40) What is the better instrument to solve problems of India – political science or public administration?41) What is theory of functionalism?

Questions for Public Administration optional1) Difference between British Administration and Indian Administration2) It’s a art or science?3) Is there a need to shift the approach from Public Administration to Public management?4) Role techniques in administration like six sigma, Kaizan, JIT, TQM etc5) neglect of agricultural management, co-op management and concentration on corporate management6) Indian case, Family management vs. Professional management7) Can public administration be independent discipline?8) What is the Parkinson’s law?

9) Revenue administration should be given more importance or development administration?10) What is the better instrument to solve problems of India – political science or public administration?11) Will this subject will give you edge over other candidates having other optional subjects while services as a officer?

Questions for Sociology optional1) Why caste system remained relevant even today?2) Is kinship and caste same?3) Is word 'caste' mentioned in constitution?4) Caste system in India is horizontal or vertical?5) Shall we use caste structure to implement social welfare schemes?6) Is the end of caste system is in sight?7 Difference between Indian system of reservation and American system of Affirmative Action (AA).8) Why India is called 'sociologist paradise'?9) What is Sankritisation?10) What is Inculturation and enculturation?11) What is plural society?12) What is multiculturalism? How east and west differ in society structure.13) Khap Panchayat - continuity of clan based organisations14) Difference between bourgeois socialism and working class socialism15) Difference between matriarchal culture and patriarchal culture16) What is ethnocentrism?17) Difference between public and crowd18) What is culture lag?19) What is anti-positive philosophy?20) Conflict approach of Karl Marx21) We should sort out our social-caste issues first or economic-political issues first?

Questions for Anthropology optional1) When did the study of anthropology began?2) Difference between anthropology and sociology in India3) Is it foreign subject?4) What is the difference between kinship, tribe, clan and aborigines5) Nomadic communities should be treated as SC or ST or in the separate class?6) Why Indian constitution does not mention aborigines?7) This subject is a social science or natural science8) Why there is a separate branch of linguistic anthropology? What is cultural anthropology?

9) What is social Darwinism? 10) What is article 371?11) Have we ended abruptly Holocene period and launched into Anthropocene period?12) Why Pakistan is called Anthropological paradise?13) Are states of North-east suffering from racism?14) ‘Indian problems are social and not racial’ do you agree?15) Do you accept the claim made by Hitler of pure Aryan blood?16) Tell the anthropological difference of the panel members looking at their face and other body features.17) What was tribal panchasheel of Nehru? Was it a correct policy?18) Does Nehru treated tribal’s like ‘anthropological zoo’?

Questions for Geography optional1) Difference between bay & seashore2) What is geomorphology?3) What is CRZ? How the rules affect development?4) Why dead sea is called dead sea?5) Difference between fog, smog, haze6) Are we experiencing climate change, what is climate diplomacy?7) What is Medon-Julian Oscillation8) When is the earth day?9) book 'revenge of geography' by Robert Kaplan, what he is suggesting?10) How geography is different from geology11) reverse lapse rate (valley of floors)12) Montreal Protocol on India's position on it.13) Does geography influence the religious beliefs of people?14) Like in history their a concept called 'prisoner of history' is there a concept called 'prisoner of geography?'15) If you are told join the pacific ocean by bridge, which two points you will join?16) What is gravitation wave? liago detector?17) Geography is social science or natural science?18) What is the significance of ridge line development.19) What is geo-politics?20) Discuss the cavery issue from geographic perspective. What are riparian rights? 21) What is the relationship between Kyoto protocol and Paris agreement?22) What is law of commons?23) What is ‘stop and go determinism’?24) Is temperature inversion a main cause of smog in Delhi?25) Sagarmala vs Bharatmala26) What is central place theory? What are growth polls?

27) Name the countries on Mediterranean Sea28) Has the intensity of cyclones have gone up recently?

Questions for Philosophy optional1) Is it a relevant subject today?2) Difference between western view of world and the Indian one.3) Difference between metaphysics and phenomenology4) Can religion be called as philosophy?5) What is scope for studying esoteric knowledge in philosophy? 6) Is it still ‘king of subjects’?7) The subject propagates what? Salvation or spirituality or life mission?8) Karl Marx epitaph read ‘philosophers have only explained the world, issue is to change it’ Do you agree?9) According to you who is greatest philosopher and why?10) What is the contribution of J.Krishnamurti and Osho to philosophy?11) What is the connection between philosophy and philanthropy?12) Is this subject inherently connected to religion?13) Can morality stand separate of religion?14) Can science replace religion?15) What is your philosophy of life?16) Is philosophy also politics?17) Can bomb have philosophy?18) Has philosophy of world progressed beyond advait vedant?19) Has India suffered because of negative/ suffering Lokayat school of thought?

Questions for Psychology optional1) What is Rational Emotive Therapy? How it is applied?2) Pavlov - conditioning of mind3) Superiority complex4) Can the person be tested in 30 minutes personality interview?5) How psychology help in understanding other people?6) What is social psychology?7) Can person be changed?8) Can using psychology we can launch the world in ‘Satyayug’?9) How you can use this subject in Administration?10) Is it a social science subject or a humanities subject?11) What is artificial intelligence, does psychological finding apply on it too?

Question for Commerce optional (also for those who done BCom/CA/ICWA)1) What is forensic audit?2) What is IFRC code?

3) What is AS1?4) What is the origin of the word 'accountability'?5) Rule of real, personal and nominal accounts with examples6) Difference between finance, economics, commerce, trade7) How data analytics could be used to check data?8) What is big data?9) Who is the father of double entry accounting system?10) How calculate depreciation on services?

Question for Medical Science1) Bare foot doctor and its applicability in India2) Draft health policy of India3) Issue of convergence between pathies4) Shall cross pathy be allowed?5) Shall internship be kept for even engineering students?6) How was your experience of internship?7) Work of Medicine San Frontiers8) What is ‘fixed does combination’ controversy?9) Why sickle cell anaemia is endemic to gadchiroli?  10) What is the 'aarogydeep yojana' for PHC?11) Is their relationship between literacy and life expectancy?12) What are motor neuron diseases? Who is the most famous person suffering from it? 13) What is availability of doctors in India viz-a-viz international standards?14) What is the linkage between corporate hospitals and health insurance companies?15) What are medical ethics?16) In India focus should be on curative medicine or preventive medicine?17) If practicing medicine is profession, then shall we allow doctor to do advertisement?18) How you see rise in wellness as sector in India?19) What is your opinion on AYUSH approach?20) What do you understand by ‘administrating’ medicine?21) What was the controversy around National Medical Commission Bill?

Questions for Economics optional1) Contribution of Housewives to economy2) New method of measuring national income, does it give justice to housewives?3) What is 'economism' and how is it different from 'GDPism'

4) Can economy be studied at pure faculty or it has to be understood as political economy5) Is 'Arthashastra' related to economics?6) What is the contribution of Mehboob-ul-Haq, Amertya Sen and Mohammad Yunus to economics7) What is difference between Bombay school and Delhi school of economics?8) What is difference between GDP and GVA? Which is better?9) Difference between 'tax impact' and 'tax incidence'10) What is ‘tax elasticity' and 'tax intensity'11) Will present age of standardization end?12) Shall we bring together all the existing regulators to create super regulator?13) Financial sector should be strictly regulated or loosely regulated?14) Shall we turn bit coins into universal currency? Or they should be banned?15) What is Producers Price Index, how much useful it is? What about Service Price Index and Housing Index.

Questions on Law optional1) Give the examples of legislature encroaching judicial space and executive encroaching judicial space. 2) What is common law? How it is different from statutory law?3) Shall terrorist be given a lawyer for defence?4) Can social media be called as fifth pillar of state now?5) Is out of court settlement suggested by SC on Babri Mosque case a correct suggestion?6) Manu Smruti - was manu a person or tradition?7) Shall India follow the laws of manu?

Questions on Agriculture1) For water distribution Industry should be given priority or agriculture?2) Why all crops are not given FRP?3) Is there need to reform CACP? Which factors should be given consideration while deciding agriculture cost?4) Do you watch Kisan TV?5) Is there a need to have separate budget for agriculture as Odisha have?6) If the financial year is started from 1st Jan, then will it impact agriculture?7) Is it really possible to double the income of farmers?8) Can Israel become a model for us to follow agriculture initiatives?9) Can with Agriculture as base of our economy we can become developed country?10) Do you support GM crops?11) What is ‘Karanataka model’ in Mandi reforms?12) Can FPO model will become successful in breaking monopoly of middleman?

13) What are aims and objectives of National Food Security Mission?14) It is said that ‘2nd green revolution will take place off farm’ do you agree?15) Why the idea of Mega Food Parks never picked up?16) Shall we give income support to our farmers?17) The prices of foodgrain and vegetable should be reduce and should go up?18) How horticulture surpassed foodgrain turnover without MSP?19) Is agriculture an activity against nature?20) Why Maharashtra which is otherwise progressive state is not self sufficient in foodgrain?21) The decision of beef ban will help the field of agriculture or will bring it in trouble?22) Has NREGA increased cost of labour for farmers?23) What ways you will suggest to stop the suicides by farmers in Maharashtra?24) Is India has water deficit exports of agri output?25) Is possible to take sugarcane crop by drip irrigation method?26) Which achievements of ICRISAT, Hydrabad could be useful in improving situation?27) Soil Health Card scheme, it just checked the health or also took some corrective action?28) Why don’t you join the field of agriculture services? That will be great service to nation.29) Why feminization has happened of Indian agriculture?30) How to solve the issue of landless and marginal landholders?

Questions for Electrical Engineering 1) In the western countries they have specific course of engineering studies i.e. nuclear engineering, while still we have general classifications, shall we change it?2) What is pilferage? How it is measured?3) What is NATGRID?4) How is different from electronics? What is common between both?5) AC current is better or DC current, why?

Questions for Electronics & Telecommunications1) Which technology will work for India in long run CDMA or GSM?2) Does telecom towers cause health hazard?3) Which technology is used by Jio for its services?4) Does different handsets response differently to different frequencies?5) Electronics is said to be the third revolution in the history of mankind, explain

Questions for Mechanical Engineering1) What are compressors? Why they are not produced in India?2) What makes Germans special in mechanical abilities?3) If petrol cars are desirable, then why not ban diesel?4) What are 'quantum mechanics'?5) How IC engine works?6) How can we achieve mechanization of agriculture?7) What is entropy?8) Which are the forces acting on the moving ship?9) What is gyroscope?10) Can EVA machines be tampered?11) Drum break is better or disk break is better?12) How it is assured that machine is maintained properly?13) Which are Asimov’s 3 rules of robotics?14) How Tesla is different than regular automobiles?15) Does India manufacture lithium batteries required for hybrid cars?

Questions for Instrumentation Engineering1) Have you made conscious choice of this branch?2) Instrumentation – is it a case of over specialization?2) Are aware about 3D printing technology?3) Are days of mass production getting over?4) Being instrument engineer what suggestions you will give to Indian railway to improve performance?5) How you will save water using your knowledge of instrumental engineering?

Questions for Civil Engineering1) What is PERT-CPM?2) How much is the life of RCC structure?3) What is sheer force? 4) How the load is measured?5) How the value of ready reckoner is calculated?6) What is FSI, what is fungible FSI?7) What is 'Bakers conscious'? 8) What are 'green buildings'? 9) How avoid the issue of urban heat islands?10) How belly bridges are made?

Questions on Chemistry1) What is the contribution of alchemist to the field of chemistry?2) Does the mind is made of chemicals?

3) Who wrote the book on chemistry – rasratnakar?4) Why pharmacy shop is called as chemist?5) Organic chemistry is better or Inorganic one?6) What is the contribution of CNR Rao to the field of chemistry?7) Which innovation was given the last chemistry noble?8) Was chemical composition has kept the Mehrouli Iron pillar unrusted for centuries?

Questions for Mathematics1) what is vedic mathematics? is it really useful?2) connection of mathematics with philosophy3) how India invented 'zero'?4) what is the connection of Gwalior and mathematics?5) What is the contribution of Ramanujam in the field of mathematics?6) Ramanujam's birthday is celebrated as ?7) Does mathematics also contain values?

Questions on Marathi literature1) Has the force of Dalit literature in Marathi has slowed down? What is the reason?2) Does Marathi has any truly feminist writer?3) Is popular literature different from classical literature? Why difference arises?4) Does Marathi deserve the status of classical language?5) Who is your favourite writer?6) Can the claim be made that Marathi literature today is comparable to global literature?7) Which writer in Marathi deserve next dnyanpeeth, you think?

Questions on Urdu literature1) Difference between deccan urdu and north Indian urdu2) Meaning of Urdu. Is it a scheduled 8 language?3) Is Urdu different then Hindustani?4) How the Urdu script differ from Arabic?5) Is Urdu fast loosing in front of English and Hindi?6) Urdu is born in the state and state language of?7) Is Urdu poetry obsessed with platonic love?8) Does Arab culture and symbols dominate Urdu poetry?9) Which writer in Urdu deserve next dnyanpeeth, you think?

Questions on Punjabi literature1) Why the poet Paash has become relevant again?2) Development of Punjabi literature today is better in India or Pakistan?

3) Has partition divided the soul of Punjabi culture and literature?4) Are regional languages and literature dying?5) What is the contribution of Waris Shah to literature?6) Does Amruta Pritam focus more on form then content?7) Why the stream of dalit literature is not strong in Punjabi literature?8) Is that literature suppressed by upper caste?9) Which writer in Punjabi deserve next dnyanpeeth, you think?

Questions on Sindhi Literature1) Who is the trinity of Sindhi literature?2) More books are there in Arabic or in Devnagari?3) Who are the writers in Sindhi who write with modern ethos in writing?4) Is Sindhi a schedule eight language?5) Development of Pakistani sindhi literature is better or Indian after partition?6) Which writer in Sindhi deserve next dnyanpeeth, you think?

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