CANDIDATE 1
Board – Smt. Sujatha Mehta
Date - 05-02-2018
Background - Tamil Nadu, Civil engineer
Chairman + 3 members ( including 1 lady member)
Duration: 20 minutes
Chairperson
- Tell me about your Educational background.
- Tell me about your extra-curricular activities ( this question had several follow up questions based on my hobbies DAF )
- How will you manage water resources being a civil engineer?
- Are dams damaging ecology?
Member 1 (Lady)
- What is synergy survey?
- Grassland ecosystem?
- Shola?
- Anamalai tiger reserve?
- Minor forest produce?
- Elephant reserves in Tamilnadu?
- Use of radio collar?
- Forest fires?
- Sacred groves?
Member 2
- Water crisis in India?
- Solution for water crisis in India? ( these two questions went for 5 solid minutes )
Member 3
- Why is census needed?
- How tiger census works?
- Watershed management?
- Difference between western and eastern ghats?
- Where do they meet?
- Species of Western and Eastern Ghats?
- Highest Peaks in India?
Very Very cordial board
CANDIDATE 2
Board : Shri. Manoj Soni
Date 06-02-2018
Chairman + 3 members ( including 1 lady member)
Duration: 20 minutes
Questions
- Science of rainfall?
- Opinion on Elephant man conflict
- Why IFS?
- Technological solutions for man animal conflict
- Technological solution for watershed management
- Namakkal district
- Romulus whittaker and Guindy
- Genetic diversity
- Gene pool
- Questions on Ecology
- Benefit sharing with tribals.
- Have you visited ifs website
- Where is training institute in Tamilnadu
- Plantation in your district
- What type of plants what is the criteria
- Any afforestation programme
- Why elephant migrate?
