all india 5th ranker

SRI DHARBABU – INTERVIEW
( 5TH RANKER IN 2007 CIVIL SERVICES )



I was interviewed on April, 11,2008 afternoon by D.P. Agarwal Board.
I wore grey coloured suit that afternoon. I was at the U.P.S.C. Main Gate by
1:14 pm. I was allowed in to U.P.S.C. exactly at 1:15 pm.

After completing all the formalities I came to know that I was the Third Person
To be Interviewed. I passed my time by having a light that with the other candidates and boosting my confidence by saying to may self that I will do my bet that day.

My turn came at around 4:00 pm. While going into the Interview Room,
I said to may self that, It was the Greatest Day of My Life and I will give my best.
The Board comprised of one lady member and four male members including the
Chairman D.P. Agarwal.

ASB: May I come in sir?
Voice: Yes Please come in.
ASB: Good afternoon Madam. Good afternoon sirs.
Chairman: Good afternoon. Please take you seat.
ASB: Thank you sir.
Chairman: Why did you wear a suit in this hot summer?
ASB: Sir, today is the most important day in my life. I like to be the best on this day.
That is why I wore suit.
Chairman: Don’t you think it is irritating in this summer?
ASB: Sir, I am used to wearing suit. Moreover, I know that I will always be in A.C.
In U.P.S.C.
Chairman: How many times in your life time did you war the suit?
ASB: I wore some 5 or 6 times till now.
Chairman: Do you think wearing 5-6 times means – ‘used to ‘ ?
When did you wear suit for the first time?
ASB: Sir, I wore for the first time on April 11, 2007 (Last year exactly this date)
Last year through Civil Services Exam-2007. In I.P.S. there will be formal occasions
Where we are required to wear suit. Therefore I said that I am used to wearing suit.
Chairman: Mr.Sridhar Babu, do you know that an Indian Intellectual named Mr.xxxxx
(Not M.F.Hussain) ( I could not recollect the name ) was not allowed into a
Function premises due to his dress/attire? He did not wear suit.
ASB: Sorry sir, I do not know about that issue.
Chairman: How important is the attire in attending functions? And even in colleges?
Some Universities have even put restriction on girls wearing skirts what do you think about this?


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ASB: Sir, I thing the choice of dress should be left to the individual. There should not
Be any external force to wear or not to wear a particular type of dress, after the
Individual is able to decide his choices on his own.
Chairman: But don’t you see a threat to our culture? Should the culture not be
Imparted in the educational institutions?
ASB: Sir, the greatness of our culture should be know to the4 students at their
Younger age, say in the schools. After that the people should be left free to choose
Everything. I don’t thing there should be moral policing ……….. ( I am about to
Say much more…)
Chairman: Now you said. ‘Moral policing’. What is Moral Policing? You only said
“ Moral Policing”.
ASB: Sir, I would like to explain this concept with an example. One the Valentines day, Some Shiv sena activities, Bajarangdal Activists for the youth not to celebrate
That day. They become proactive and see that foreign culture does not corrupt
The indigenous cultures. This is ‘Moral Policing’. Though, they are not required to do
All this, they does this.
Chairman: Is Moral Policing good or bad? Don’t you thing with out this, our culture
Would be corrupted?
ASB: Sir, as I already said, the choice should be left to the individual culture. Should be imparted to the young and to the students at the school level at the best to the
+2 level. Therefore, there is no need for moral policing. And this moral policing in
My view does not any way help in checking the culture . . . . . . .
( At this point he pointed out to another member)
M1: Mr.Sridhar, you have written that you have own prizes in essays?
What prizes did you win and what essays did you write?
ASB: Sir, I used to write essays and send it for various competitions and various magazines.
The remarkable priz3es are - first prize given by the Andhra Pradesh State Government Forest Department, in my tenth class. The others being- first and
Second prizes in Civil Services Chronicle Essay Contests, the Prizes in Competition
Refresher, General Knowledge today etc.
M1: Name some essays you have written.
ASB: I wrote about - Man proposes God Disposes. The importance of forests to
Mankind. The Language problem in India. The impact of Globalization, Liberalization, the Position of Women in India.. . .. . . .
M1: What did you write about Women?
ASB: Sir, I got second Prize for this essay.. . . . .
M1: Sridhar, tell us what you have written in the essay.
ASB: Yes Sir, I have Strongly argued that women should be protected as they
Are vulnerable. . . . . .
Chairman: Speak up Sridhar, what did you write?


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ASB: Sir, I have highlighted the importance of women in the society and wanted
People to be sensitive towards the problems faced half of the society. I wanted reservation for women in every walk of life where they are underrepresented.
M1: Why do you want women reservation?
ASB: Sir, the basic premise for reservation itself is to see that every person gets
Equality of Opportunity. It is a means to enforce the equality before las.
I really feel that historical injustice is done to women like the scheduled Castes.
And also feel that, like the scheduled Tribe people, they also should be given opportunity to come into the mainstream.
M1: Do you think that ‘Reservation’ should be given to all people and carried on forever?
ASB: Sir, as I said ‘ Reservation Policy’ is mainly to bring equality. That is why I
Feel that Reservation should be extended to all those deprived people.
But there should be a clear cut formula to know who are really deprived.
Reservation should not be based on Caste or Community alone. As the National
Knowledge Commission (NKC) recommended, there should be a deprivation index
Based on the Candidates, Community, Sex, Urban or Rural Background, Economic
Criteria etc.
Regarding the time span to which this reservation is to be there reservation should be stopped at the point where there would be equality of opportunity
( in every aspect ). That is why, targeting the reservation to the deprived, and once an individual crosses the limit, not extending reservation anymore . . . should be the
Wayout. . .
M1: You have written that you hobby is visiting new places. What places did you visit till now?
ASB: Sir, I have visited almost all the parts of the country. I visited Mumbai, NewDelhi, Kolkata, Chennai, all parts of Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Karnataka. . .
M1: Tell me the places you have visited. . .
ASB: Agra, Patna, Gauwhati, Dehradun, Darjeeling, Sanchi, Bhopal, Nasik, Ajanta,
Ellora, Aurangabad……
M1: What is there to see in Aurangabad?
ASB: Sir, there is Daulatabad Fort, Panchakki, Bibi-ka-makbara, Aurangazeb’s tomb…
M1: What is Bibika Makbara?
ASB: It is a Replica of Tajmahal in Aurangabad. It is build by Aurangazeb’s son for
Aurangazeb’s wife, for her remember…..
The first member finished . .. . Chairman wanted second member to take over.
M2: Sridhar Babu Addanki . . . . You said you are in Police Service. When did you get into it?
ASB: Sir, I got into IPS through Civil Services Exam-2007( I am continuing….. but he asked next question. )
M2: So, you have gone into IPS in May 2007.
ASB: The training for Civil Servants begin with foundation course in August 2007
And the professional training for IPS starts in December 2007.
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M2: Where are you trained?
ASB: Sir, the training to Indian Police Service is imparted to the probationer of
IPS in Sardar Vallabhbhaipatel National Police Academy at Hyderabad.
M2: How is the Training like?
ASB: The Training has two components. The indoor and the outdoor.
The day in Police Academy starts with Outdoor. We run for about 6 km per day, do the drill, riding the horse, firing various weapons, swimming, weapon assembling,
Stripping, mechanism etc. Indoor work comprises of subjects like Indian Evidence Act, Criminal Procedure Code, Indian Penal Code, Criminology, Police in Modern India, Forensic Science, Forensic Medicine, infor. . . . . . ( Did not allow me to Complete )
M2: What are your service Options?
ASB: Sir, I have Opted only I.A.S. This time.
M2: Why did you not Opt for I.F.S.? Don’t you want to serve the Government of India form other country?
ASB: Sir, as you said, we have to serve form other country. Given a Chance,
I would like to serve from my own country. Moreover I.A.S. would have a wider
Scope to serve the maximum number of people, and to serve maximum people is my personal choice.
M2: Which cadre you have got in I.P.S.?
ASB: Cadres are awaited in I.P.S.
M2: In which cadre do you want to work?
ASB: Obviously my home state – Andhra Pradesh Sir.
M2: Why do you want to work in A.P. Only?
ASB: Sir, A.P. is my first preference only. If the Government. . . . . .
M2: What is your Second Preference?
ASB: Any State is Southern Part of the country because my family has also to be with me and the culture in Southern part is almost the same as in A.P.
( At this point M2 indicated that his part is over. Chairman wanted M3 to ask me. )
M3: Mr. Addanki, you just said that you travel a lot. How do you plan your travel?
ASB: Sir, before choosing a place to travel, I would know the information about the
Place. The places of select are the World Heritage Sites, the most Famous beauty etc.
M3: Where do you get the information from?
ASB: Internet has tremendous information. I get most of the information from the
Indian Tourism Office, the Tourism Corporations of Various States, their brouchers. Etc.
M3: What after the information?
ASB: I like to travel in train. I plan my journey in such a way that I travel at nights
And reach the place in the day. I choose the trains and does reservation like that.
M3: Where do you Stay?


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ASB: I plan and that I need not stay during nights. I travel to another place at night.
I take bath and get fresh up in the trains only. I use cloak-room for putting/
Safequarding my luggage and set out with pen, dairy, camera etc. If ever I have to stay because of lot many place, I reserve hotel rooms, or use dormitory in the
Railway Station it say.
M3 : After getting down from the train, how do you find the place where you want to go?
ASB: I would interact with people, the rickshaw walas, the auto peoples, the hotel and shop-keepers, and passers by I found that these people would be very happy to guide and help.
M3: What do you get from this travel?
ASB: (After some pause ) Sir, I may not clearly explain my great pleasure and immense satisfaction by traveling. I love traveling . . . When I am in the train, I like seeing various objects, town, people from the window of the running train.
When I am in some far-off place, I love the food habitat there. For example ‘Lattu’ of Bihar was not known to me till I traveled. Nor I expected lot of sweats in Agra or Kolkotta.
M3: Do you know what is happening is China?
ASB: Yes Sir, There is a challenge to the one-china policy as there are disturbances and protests in Tibet.
M3: Do you know that U.S.S.R has been disintegrated and why did it disintegrate?
ASB: Yes Sir, In 1991, U.S.S.R was disintegrated. It was the culmination of cold-war. As Russia could not hold the integration for a long period of time, due to financial constraints, U.S.S.R. had to disintegrate.
M3: Why could China remain one-china, while U.S.S.R could not remain integrated? What is the difference between China and Russia.
ASB: Sir, with my limited Knowledge and understanding, I could gathers that
Democratic norms have been followed in U.S.S.R or Russia, While China is not a true Democratic country at all.
M3: O.K.
( At this point, Chairman indicated that last member, who is a Lady member – ask questions. )
L/M 4: Mr. Addanki, you said you love food in various places and you are from Andhra. Do you know which kinds of Pickles are prepared from Raw Mango.
ASB: Yes madam, there are different kinds of pickles made of mango Andhra People make Aavakaya, Maagaya, Tokku pacchadi, Doosa avakaya, etc.
M4: Do you know how ‘Avakaya’ is prepared?
ASB: Yes Madam I know it.
M4: How do you know?
ASB: Every year, on the eve of summer, my mother prepares avakaya and I help her in each and every part of preparation, right from buying the mango, its selection, cutting .. . . . till packing/storing in a Jar name “Jaadi’.
M4: If you are asked to prepare it now, can you do it?
ASB: Yes madam , I can.
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M4: You know I, preparing / making a pickles is not easy. Are you still confident of
Preparation?
ASB: Yes madam, I am confident, as I know each step of it.
M4: Mr. Addanki, You said you have written essay regarding women. Do you know that women trafficking is very very high in the districts like Warangal, Karimnagar,
Khammam of Andhra Pradesh?
Shy do you think that women themselves are willing to be a part of flesh trade?
ASB: This is mainly because of Poverty in the backward areas of Andhra Pradesh.
Women would be left with no option but to resort to this.
M4: If you become a collector and have to rehabilitate these people. . . .
These poor women what will be you action?

ASB: Madam, I see that they get gainful employment in various government
Programmes like N.R.E.G.A., Swarna jayanthi . . . . . . .
M4: Mr. Addanki, do you think their families would welcome them back?
ASB: Yes madam, I think the women have gone into the flesh trade, as there
Was no option and family knows the realities and circumstances. Therefore, when they are rehabilitated they will be welcomed back.
M4: I have been to places where NREGA / P is being implemented. I have observe that men are not willing to work with women as both are paid equally. How do you convince men to work with women?
ASB: Madam, In our country work is a scarce commodity. If those men does not
Work with women, some others will get the opportunity to work. Moreover, in NREGP, One able bodied person ( either male / women ) per family would be allowed to work . . . . . . . .
( At this Point Chairman integrated. )
Chairman: No! No! Don’t get Confused. You have convince these men only work for equal pay.
ASB: Sir, I then Educate people about the importance of women. I will let them know how much women work as a house – wife and then as the wage-earner. . . ..
( I am still saying something.)
Chairman: Educate . . . .? then you will set up schools . . . . ( Laughs )
( Other Members Smile. )
Chairman: Yes Mr. SRIDHAR BABU. ADDANKI. Your personality test is finished.
Thank you.
ASB: Thank you, Sir.
( I got up from the Chair, thanked every member and came out of the interview room.)
My interview about 35 Minutes. I tried to reproduced the interview as it was.
There might be slight change is wording. But the content was almost the same. )