ESE CE Interview Transcripts:

Name:XYZ
Anant sir panel
Last person to enter
Around 5:10pm
Duration 15mins
Date: 08/03/2021

Chairman: read about my btech and mtech clg name and asked where are these college
M1:
tell me about flood routing
Which method we used
Difference between them
Practically which method is good
Define CV
Interrupted saying i did not prepare hydrology
Few questions related to practical based I was unable to hear then he switched to rcc.
Asked about few questions about two way slabs
M2:
Explain his questions in Hindi
Like why we laid pipe in zigzag manner
For water supply to 10storey building which method you will use and how will ensure about the
pressure
About central water commission
How will you save water in home
And in your area
Technical term abot water saving
M3:
difference between slope and deflection method, moment area method and conjugate beam
method
Difference between moment and couple
If the moment you calculate at 1section from one should side from other side what will be the
moment

Last question what did you do after 2017

I gave my answer in Hindi..so they asked me questions in Hindi

No questions from DAF, Mtech, Current affairs, Famous personalities

Interview happened with Face shield face mask hand gloves. During interview they will say if
you are not comfortable with mask you can remove that
Glass panel was there among everone
mask and faceshields are provided by UPSC
Full payment of Travel allowance was there, for IRCTC air tickets.

Only pen and documents you have to carry into reception..they will provide place to put your
belongings

Chairman sir is helpful and said jane do na sir bachi ko itna practical based questions ata nahi
hai and everyone smiled..

They gave sandwich tea coffee water

Interview order is according to Who registered first (First come first service)

Be careful about the chair, It has wheels and it is rotating.. you have to control it :)
They said if you don't understand questions then asked [Link] first understand the question
clearly before answering.

Name: ABC
Date: 08/03/2021
Chairman TC ANANT SIR
Morning session

Chairman ne sirf service aur profile puchi bas

2 cash crops,2 Zaid crops

Wheat base period
Can dam analysis be done by STAAD PRO
2 west flowing rivers
No of river basin in India
Name them
What is problem by taking excessive water from GWT
How can problem be solved
What is MDM method used for
What is your city famous for
What can you predict based on SCI-FI movies innovations in civil engineering future
What sci-fi movies you watch
what is DPR and CPR
Which states Narmada flows

This is all I can remember

Name: XYZ
Date:-08/03/2021
Chairman:- Anant Sir
Afternoon Session

Chairman
[Link] no Job?
[Link] me about results of [Link] Project

Member 1
[Link] your project

😢
[Link] Engineering importance of your project
(IIT ke hoke aisa project karte ho )
[Link] and Longitude of Delhi
[Link] Sensor
[Link] of Spillways
[Link] of Concentration and use of Dicken's formula
[Link] for rainfall of duration 2Tc and Tc
[Link] bw Pier and Abutment
[Link] of Consolidation
[Link] in detail
[Link] excess PWP develops
[Link] and Consolidation diff.
[Link] possible reasons for Differential Settlement and about Pisa Tower
[Link] life Field test for Soil
[Link] and where is it used and it's significance
[Link] Software used in designing buildings
[Link] is Subcritical Flow and real life examples

Member 2:-
[Link] bw Subgrade and SubBase
[Link] of Subgrade and SubBase
[Link] before making Flexible Pavement
[Link] test
[Link] test in extra detail
[Link] Bond and Flemish Bond
[Link] Bricks and Nominal bricks diff
[Link] load test in details
[Link] Reamed Pile and where is it used
[Link] of Failure in Foundation and which types of test

Member 3:-
[Link]-GIS method in details
[Link] to find capacity of Reservoirs
[Link] is famous from your hometown

Name: ABC
Chairman- Anant sir
Duration 25 to 30 min
Date: 09/03/2021
afternoon session

First two members asked questions related to [Link] and metro as i have done [Link] in
structure and working in upmrc.
M1-Design of water tank
Detail reinforcement of circular tank
Force acting on water tank
M2 type of pile used in metro
How underground station constructed
Length of agra metro project
Type of section used for elevated section and different type of section used by dmrc
M3 i think he was from water resource or hydrology
He asked qns from FM irrigation and hydrology
Notch and weir
Flood routing
Pan coefficient
Base period and crop period

Name: ABC
Date: 09/03/2021
afternoon session
Panel -Bharat Bhusan Vyas
Entry
Chairperson- Is college se ho ,2019 Passout ho shi hai
Chairperson - Kya kr rhe avi
Fire kaise lgta hai building me
Fire proof building kaise bnate hai
Fire Extinguisher kaise kam krta hai
Divyang Logo ke liye bharat sarkar ne scheme nikal hai btao
Ek aur koi scheme pucha
Mjhe dono ni pta tha
( Aap log itne bde post pe ja rhe ho ye sb janna chahiye)
cement ke type btao
Pozzolana kya hota hai
Kya cement aur sand ke jagah fly ash use kr skte hai
Grades of cement

Technical Member 1-
Elective subject koun sa tha
(Maine Dam wala subject bol dia)
Dam ke type
Arch dam kyo use krte hai
Dam ka foundation kaise decide krte hai
Dam ke liye soil investigation hoga ki ni?
Koun sa test krenge soil investigation me

Member 2 -
Koi road yojna pucha jante ho ni pta tha mjhe
Monorail jante ho?
Mass Rapid Transit system
Building code jante ho
Bituminous road ke upper layer ke liye kya test krte hai
Marshal test kaise krte hai
LL 40% PL 26% then soil type

Member 3 -
What is new version of Is 800 ( Means year)
What new amendments have been added
Types of steel section
Difference between plastic and slender section
Why Mp value is more than My value

INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE #1
Mine was on 8th march, I am here to tell you about order,
Basically it is first come first basis type in your slot (morning session and evening session), so
mine was afternoon session ab there were 12 candidates to be interviewed, as expected there
were 2 panels.
After checking at gates if you were ahead at waiting line then you get earlier entry and u will
directed to reach at a place where baggage and mobile wallet have to be submitted, so the
person who entered first gets lower number tag like no. 11th alloted to the first guy because 10
were already interviewed in morning batch, and this tag number is for seat seat no. In dv room
in increasing order, and u r allowed to take your certificates folder, a pen and watch (if you you
are having one) only to that seat, here after biometric n some signs, they check your 10th,
12th,degree,degree transcript, caste certificate, 2 passport size photo, and any other relevant
document. (Here, safety kit offered, and wear mask and glovs from kit and a face sheet. During
dv you may take off these except mask, but at the time of interview you have to wear facesheild
and gloves back, told to take mask at chin tough) . And the 11th number candidate taken from
dv place to the chairmen's office, at ouside office you have to wait for five more minutes until the
bell rings, a guy opens the door for you, he will close the door also.

Name-Ankit Yadav
Date - 10/03/2021, Afternoon session
Chairperson- BB Vyas

what are the major 5 projects of NHAI in INDIA?(Since I m currently working in NHAI)
what is the need of NHAI?
why speed and delay studies are done?
methods of speed delay studies?
what is home interview method?
what is grand challenge mechanism in Bharatmala pariyojna?
why traffic volume studies are done?
what are the different methods of tunneling ?
what is pilot tunnel?
what is industrial corridor?
what is defence corridor?
how it is different from industrial corridor?

Member 1

Do u know abt FRC?

In what form Fibres are used in the concrete?
Do u know abt any stretch of projects u mentioned where FRC is being used?
what are hanger bars?
Are hanger bars used in Bridge deck?
How load is transferred by deck in arch bridge?
what are the major forces which are generated in arch?
what are the structural elements in building which are designed for fatigue?
how the rupture of pressure vessels occurs?
what is the pattern of cracks?

Member 2

What is castigilano’s theorem?

what are causes and preventive measures for piping in earthen dam?
what are the causes of slope failure?
what are the different method for preventing slope failure?
How is soil nailing done?
what exactly is the mechanism by which soil nailing prevents slope failure?
what are the practical conditions where slope failure due to sudden drawdown occurs?

Member 3

why Firozabad is famous for? ( glass making)

what are different consituent used for glass manufacturing?
Different types of glasses?
Jo bathroom mn andha sheesha hota he use kya kehte hn aur kese banta he?
Have u seen the manufacturing of plastic bottle?
how plastic is affecting the environment?
what are the major alternatives?
Have u seen any canal?
What sections are generally provided in canal?
How velocity is controlled in canal?

P.S. The approach in which questions were asked was quite practical , I have written the crux of
questions.

And the order of the interview was roll no. Wise in their respective panel.

Date- 9/3/21
Civil engineering
Chairman - T C ANANT
Duration- 30 min
Btech - 2017 pass-out

ASKED ABOUT BIRTHPLACE , SCHOOLING AND COLLEGE.

didn't you get placement from NIT MEGHALAYA?
Water body there - BADA PANI is a place between Guwahati and Shillong .
About UMIUM DAM ?
What are the source of water in bada pani ?
What is your favourite subject

Member 1
Which different consultancies required to construct a building?
What is the slope of roof we provide in Shillong?
Have you seen a canal? Where?
Designing of canal ?
Have you heard optimisation in canal length ?
What is STP ( SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT)
How it works ?
Structural drawing and architectural drawing.
minimum wages of a labour as per govt rule? Tell me exact amount.
You have been a coordinator in ur college? Tell me what are the things you need to coordinate
while constructing a building.
Draw reinforcement in a 2 way slab .
Minimum spacing between reinforcement
Shillong in which earthquake zone ?
How will you provide reinforcement in 2 way slab for earthquake (in same drawing which I hv
already drown)

Member 2
You have been captain of cricket team,
What things you will consider while choosing playing eleven ?
What is Magnus effect?
What is the concept of swing and reverse swing ? How is it related to fluid mechanics?
What is doosra , Harbhajan singh uses that very well.

Member 3
Unwins formula?
Time lag ?
Drainage density?
Stream density?
Difference between them?
Which case have more peak ? Greater drainage density or less?
Which case peak will get earlier ? More density or less?
How do we separate base flow .
What is piezometric head?
Water hammer?
Surge tank?
Super critical flow and where it occurs?
Hydraulic jump?
Why we use spillway in dam
Types of canal? Ridge canal , contour canal
What is heaving in soil
What is normal consolidated soil , over consolidated soil?

Last candidate. Was called around 4 pm. Went in at 4.10pm approx.

Date: 10/03/2021
Panel: BB Vyas Sir.
Duration: 20-25 mins

No questions from hobbies, current affairs or DAF.

Chairman: General Civil Engineering, shear flow, torsion, normal questions bht hi basic.

M1: Earthquake Engineering based questions, Liquefaction, Tunnelling, all practical based
questions.

M2: couldn't answer much from him. Asked many terms that I hadn't heard of.

M3: Questions from Mathematics based Structural engineering. Like differential equations.
Fire resistance of building.
Some terms in PSC I didn't know.

Chairman again: Strengths and Weakness.

PS: Some bonus points. Personal observations.

1. They had a list of questions already prepared from what I noticed. I don't know if other
candidates felt so or not. Questions pehle se soch k rakkhe the unhone.

2. They were sitting quite far away. And there was no glass shield in this panel. Chairman had
his own table. Others were sitting on just chairs. And we have a table and chair given for us.

Panel: TC Ananth sir

Date: 10th March morning
Last one to enter
Timing= 20-25min (12:35pm-1 1pm)

[Link] river issue ( I from Karnataka)

[Link] wall
3. Fire safety design ( have experience of 2.5 years)
4. Safety measures in high rise buildings ( worked in 21 storey building)
5. Dead storage & it's % approx.
6. Live storage
7. How will you calculate wave pressure in dam
8. Column layout, provide stirrups reinforcement, hook length
9. Grade of concrete used in your site
10. Bunching of reinforcement
11. Penstock
12. Low speed and high speed turbine
13. Roles and responsibilities of your jobs
14. Quality control of concrete
15. Slump used in your site
16. Slump used in general construction like one storey or two story building without pump
17. How to Design a hydraulic structures at a place where no record is available of anything
earlier
18. Torque and bending moment
19. how to design rcc mix

These are the some questions which I can remember now..

They also asked some new/application based questions, I haven't heard such names before.

Tc anant.

Cavity wall
Load bearing and non bearing wall
What you did in last 3 yr
What is nss(DAF)
What you did there.
Footing of staircase
How to test tank during construction

🤔
Type of earthquake accelerations
"Film creation, telescope.!!
What do you do?"(DAF)
Influent effluent flow in river
Why s curve flat an infinity
How to separate a continuous storm
Type of cracks in buildings
Pacific ring of fire
Where horizontal crack comes
How cement sampling done
Example if brittle plastic ductile materials
Field test of aquifer permeability
How to do cost estimates
What precautions during construction a building near railway line.
Why welded lines?
What is base flow
Weight and specific gravity of cement bag
Where vertical acceleration is important?
What are diversion headwork

Why divide wall provided (avoid toppling)

M1- No, in terms of silt.
Me- don't know sir.
Where provided?
Where spillway provided
Why.

How will you counter any tilt in pile.

Which pile is suitable at which place

One was structure,RCC,eq specialist.

One knows fluid,hyd,irrig.
One knows transport,soil etc.

Chairman- B B Vyas sir

Duration- 20 min
Chairman- Asked about tunnelling, About technical textile, Civil Ethics

M1- Soil Mechanics basic questions

M2- diff between Ductility of structures and substances. How to test ductility of structures. Civil
engg lab tests
M3- Soil and climate characteristics of coastal areas.. remedies for it, foundation
Job related questions

Rest all questions DAF related they asked.

Manas Tripathi
Interview on - 12-03-2021
Entered - 2:25 pm
Exit - 2:50 pm
Board - T C A Anant sir

Chairperson
Read the DAF, pointed out my college and job
1. what was you your job profile?
2. why did you leave your job?

M1.

[Link] is this MHRD scholarship?

I replied that I am 4th sem student of Mtech program env at iitd.
Here chairman interrupted and pointed out that he missed this, and clarified that after the job i
had joined mtech and then asked my thesis topic.
Now M1 continues..
2. What are your fav sub?
I replied geotech and env. (my mtech in env)
[Link] was your thesis elaborate?
3. how is this useful?
[Link] will you decide fine to industries?
5. Suppose if the damage done by industry is 25 crore should the fine be 25 only?
6. who should be responsible(pay) for rehabilitation?
7. How is you thesis different from EIA?
8. How can you determine the width of a river without going on the other side and doing just
chain surveying?
10. What is BOD and COD and difference between them?
11. For industries which is more important BOD or COD?
11. Do you have interest in other subjects like fm, irrigation or hydraulics?
12. what is Unit fhydrograph and its assumptions?

Transfers to other members

M2
1. What are different types of pollution?
2. What are different noise pollutions?
3. What are different effects of noise pollution on humans?
4. Can you tell any other effects on human?
5. suppose you have to construct a school, how would you select site?
6. what is bearing capacity?
7. what is toughness index?
8. what is void ratio?
9. what all services you would provide in school?
[Link] is flexible pavement?
[Link] of flexible pavement?
12. what is use of subgrade?
13. what is other name of surface layer ?
14. what is corrosion and various ways in which it can occur ?
15. suppose you have to prevent corrosion of reinforcement kept at site, how would you do that
?

Transfers to M3

M3
1. Do you still play chess?
2. what is castling?
3. Min no. of moves for pawn to reach to rook of opposite end?
4. How to obtain fhydrograph of different duration?
5. how you determine valuation of a building?
6. what is depreciation?
7. how do you calculate depreciation?
8. two buildings having same life but different conditions at end of some period would
depreciation be same ?
9. How would you calculate depreciation in this situation?
10. What is T beam?
11. why is it used?
12. what is L beam?
13. Show reinforcement details of the T beam.
14. show reinforcement in the flanges.
15. How development length is calculated, what is the formula?
16. How development length is related to dia of reinforcement, approx value?
17. show details of reinforcement in flat slab and its connection with the column
18. what is thin cylinder theory?
19. What is thick cylinder theory?
20. what is net safe bearing capacity?
21. suppose you have to design a 8 meter beam how would you decide depth of beam?

ok thank you.

Date: 09/03/2021
Board: TCA Anant sir
Duration: somewhere around 25-30 mins
Afternoon session

I was the first person to be interviewed after lunch. Anant sir's panel was running a bit late.
Other panel had already started interviews at 1340 hrs, whereas my turn came at 1410 hrs. I
was led to the interview by a friendly person who advised to remove my mask and shield for

🤦‍♂️
some time just before the interview as he had seen people fainting due to the heat and anxiety
in the past .

Chairman started out by reading my DAF out loud. He read the name of my college, when did I
graduate, and read the 3 position of responsibilities that I had mentioned in my extra-curricular.

Chairman:
1. What did you do after your graduation in 2019?
2. So you must have got MTech in the desired college on the basis of your GATE rank?
Clarified that I am undergoing training at IOCL.
3. Where is your training location? Is it Dehradun?
4. When did the training start and when will it end?

Over to member 1:
1. Nowadays, overhead bridges do not have the conventional retaining wall at the ends. They
are now using small panels joined together, what is the principle on which this mechanism
works?
2. Okay, so you mentioned about roofs... tell me what are the ways to reduce seepage and heat
transfer through roofs in residential buildings.
3. Difference between OPC and PPC
4. Why does concrete deteriorate under sea water
5. What kind of cement can you use under sea water
6. What is the %age salt present in sea water
7. Can we use solar panels for heating purposes?
8. What are the different type of solar panels
9. Suppose you are AEE, and are sent to the site for completion of some work, what is the first
thing you will do?
I gave some ans, but he kept on insisting on 2 words, 'you' and the 'contractor'.
I again gave some ans.
Again he started explaining me in detail that the design has been done, site had been cleared,
contractor is finalised, now what is the first thing you will do.

Now Chairman intervened and said that let me make it simple for you, first of all you have to
construct the basement and foundation. But by now I had realised that the M1 was not asking
about this. He was looking for something else. So M1 still neglected the chairman and said " Vo
sab to theek h, but sabse pehle kya karoge"
After grilling for about 5 mins, he finally gave up. I still don't know what he was trying to get out
from me.

Over to Member 2:
You have a good educational background and an excellent GATE rank, I have high expectations
from you.
1. Shear centre
2. Specific Energy and Specific Force
3. Basic difference between Rigid and flexible pavements
4. Flexural strength of M20 concrete
5. Tell me about some of the schemes run by the government on Pan-India basis in which there
is significant Civil Engineering work involved.

Over to Member 3:
1. History of IIT Roorkee
2. Solani aqueduct, What is Solani
3. Upper ganga Canal system
4. Where is Madhya ganga canal system
5. Why are there so many Cross drainage structures between Haridwar and Roorkee
6. What was the previous name of Water Resource department in your college
7. From which barrage does Upper ganga canal originate
8. What is the apex body for Hydrology in India
9. What is CWPRS and where is it located
10. What is the difference between LSM and WSM
11. Drawings are really important for engineers. Tell me the number of drawings that you have to
study at any construction site and their names as well.
12. What are the different type of Cross drainage structures that you know of.

TCA anant sir is pretty cool. He interrupted multiple times in between my answers to ask
questions out of curiosity. He was always smiling and kept the environment of the room friendly.

I felt that 2 of the members, specifically member 1 and 3 were senior IES officers themselves,
because they asked a lot of practical questions and from multiple disciplines.

😅
While member 2 was more like a senior professor from a reputed college. His personality had
some strictness, which reminded me of my college professors

Name: Amit Sharma

Date : 11/03/2021
Interview duration: 25 minutes
Panel: T C Anant

Chairman asked about soil characteristics of my hometown and nearby areas and some general
questions about my background
Also asked me my favourite subjects
M1: asked basic questions about fluid mechanics

M2: asked practical questions about hydraulic pumps

(He got stuck on one question that I ended up not answering)

M3: asked questions about strength of material, gave me a problem to draw sfd, BMD,
Then asked about gravity dams, asked follow up questions, about embankment etc

Apart from member 2 everyone was cool

My interview started on 2:15 pm

One more thing, if you rely on made easy question answer booklet then you are in for a big
surprise.
They asked me a question that was from given in made easy booklet, and I gave as it is answer
but they were not impressed, asked more details.

they ask you to speak loudly so they can hear, but won't do the same, I had to ask them to
repeat the question and stress on terms they were using.

If you can ask them to speak loudly without being rude or appearing oversmart, then that will
really help.

Detailed transcript is attached below

10/3/2021
Afternoon session
TC Anant sir

Chairperson questions
[Link] me about your work in Mumbai railway and Nhai.
[Link] me about project of Nhai.
[Link] and destination of river Narmada.

Member 1
[Link] flexible pavement and function of each layer.
[Link] between National highway and expressway.
3 about tie and dowel bars.
[Link] to design wearing course based on loading.
[Link] of toll collection.

Member 2
[Link] diagram of water closet.
[Link] of traps
[Link] and dry area.

Member 3
[Link] river in the world
[Link] forest in the world.
[Link] of river Ganga and Narmada.
[Link] is viscosity,use of viscosity in practical life.
[Link] of viscometer.
[Link] water evaporates first sea or fresh water.
[Link] to construct roads in cold climate.
[Link] to construct structures near sea.

Name: Ravi lakad

Date :15/03/2021
Duration :25-30min

Chairperson: Smita mam (kuch yad he ke bhul gye engineering ka)

C: 1 .for recycling of the waste. For drinking what would you prefer?
2. Desalination ya recycled waste ?
[Link] subject
4 why soil as fav
5 What do you thing as tough subject and why?

M:1
1 we have to construct an embankment on soft clay how will u proceed?
2 consolidation
3 why it takes too much time
4 long dia pile
5 micro pile

M2
[Link] theorem
[Link] will you use it in civil engineering
3 value of π and who invent it

M3
1. WTP in between how will you measure discharge
2. Aerobic and anaerobic digestion
[Link] tank

16/03/2021
Afternoon session
BBV panel
Hobbies cricket, basketball
Total practical questions and situational based question.
Duration :30 minutes

CH: UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES BASED QUESTIONS how to maintain them etc

M1:- construction management question and again geology based questions.
M2: why you want left previous job as pay scale is more than ESE and other practical question
like slope stability etc difference between rock and soil
M3:- histrionic questions like height building in last 50 years in increasing order to till date
Why Taj mahal height comparison with other monument height. Why we don't generallly
compare other monument with taj

Interview Date: 18/03/2021

Afternoon session
Panel: Smita Nagarajan Mam
1st Interview of the session

Duration: 25-30 mins

Chairperson:
Why did you leave L&T?
What is your Job profile with Town Planning Department?
Why there is a perception about town planning department that something they permit at first
and them come to demolish?
Problems faced at Job and how did you rectify them?
Eco sensitive Zone

M1:
Do you know about IS 1888 and SP7 for EWS housing? standard?
What is the minimum size of room?
What is the minimum Height?
What is the height of that door? (pointing towards entrance door)
Fire safety Provisions in a high rise buildings?
Refuge area
Wet riser?
Pressure and location of wet riser?

M2:
What is the Work profile with L&T?
Specifications of Ballast?
Cu,Cc Values for Ballast?
Significant contribution made to your Job?
Methods to determine bearing capacity?
Sub ballast depth
Use of Geotextiles in Railway Lines?
Type of Foundation would be considered as a railway embankment?

M3
What is your role as Covid Warrior?
What are the average life of structure?
FSI/FAR
Built-up area
Permissible Values in your area
Salvage Value
Scrap Value
Will cost of demolition will be higher than scrap Value?
Book Value?

Prince kumar Mall

Interview date ~16/03/2020
Duration of interview~20 to 22minutes
Chairperson ~Smita Nagraj

Chairperson ~ So you are from Kushinagar

Ch~ Anything special about it (Told her about buddha and airport project )
Ch~what is green building
Ch~What is AutoCAD and others software used
(In between I told mam that I have difficulty in breathing so is it okk if I remove my mask in
between interview for some time. Then she asked about my health )

After that other technical member

Technical member 1
[Link] about green building again
[Link] water harvesting
[Link] sustainable building (I don't get it what he was trying to ask)
[Link] and Dam
[Link] and why it is provided
[Link] about stilling Basin and apron
[Link] is drag and lift

Technical member 2
1. EDM
2. total station
3. Gps and how it works

Technical member 3
[Link] cantilever beam
[Link] bmd and sfd for point load at midpoint
[Link] and torsion in shaft

This is at most I can remember

Ese 2020
Panel :- vyas sir
Civil Engineering

Chairman:
1. Where are u from? I said Bhilwara Rajasthan
2. Ohhh Bhilwara... Why it is so famous?. ( Actually he was in Bhilwara for a long period, he
knows my area)
Ans: for textile industry
3. So then how industrial roof is designed?
4. How industrial girders are designed?
5. What type of industrial roofs are provided in Bhilwara Ricco area?
6. Scarcity of water in Bhilwara because trains were used to transport water... I said yes then
what is the depth of water table in your area?
7. Have u seen handpump?.. then what is the cost of a handpump?
8. Last question, difference in between centrifugal pump and submersible pump?

Member 1
1. Why we have more focus on treatment of waste water?
2. how grit chamber and PST are designed? Give me range of HLR and OLR?
3. What is the foundation of Burz khalifa?.. ( maine sab pile and raft bataya and ki depth 3 to 4
m boli.. then unhone kaha you are an engineer tell me the exact depth.
More questions. But I don't remember

Member 2
1. what we are different type of c/s in steel?
2. How will you classify plastic compact semi compact? They wanted exact values of b/tf and all
other constants?
3. Which type of steel is used in burj khalifa?
4. What is the formula for girder depth?
5. Gross buckling and local buckling?...
(2-3 more questions. From steel which I didn't even understand so I told them sorry sir)

Member 3
1. Have you studied the latest notification of EIA?
2. What are the major impact of cement industries?
3. Have you done triaxial test?
4. Which is the longest test on the soil?
Name: HADOLE CHIRANJIVEE PRAKASH
Branch: CIVIL ENGINEERING
Date: 18/03/2021 (afternoon)
Panel: Smita Nagraj Madam
Time: 20-25 minutes

Educational Qualification:
[Link] (Structural Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering)

Chair Person:
1. What is manholes and it’s purpose
2. Why there are many deaths because of people falling in manhole.
3. Can you give any advanced technological solution to it.
4. What is septic tank, it’s working, problems associated with it.
5. For small village will you go for underground sewage system.

Member 1:
1. What is liquefaction.
2. Soil Conditions for liquefaction.
3. What will you do if you have to construct structure on soil prone to liquefaction.
4. IS codes for earthquake design.
5. Response spectrum in 1893
6. Questions on fire analysis of RC building related to [Link] thesis
7. What is critical damping

Member 2:
1. Base isolation
2. Buildings in India in which base isolation provided.
3. What you will do to protect building from blast.
4. Terrorists park vehicle with bomb in basement of building, then it will lead to collapse of
whole structure. What will you do to ensure evacuation of people before complete collapse of
building.
5. Factors to be considered in planning of building to make it blast resistant.
6. If truck full of RDX approaches to building at high speed, how will you ensure safety of
building. (Civil engineering aspect)
7. Have you studied SOM (yes sir)
8. Okay. Tell the basis on which timber is classified. (He was asking about classification based
on elastic modulus, could not answer)
9. How to measure moisture content of timber.

Member 3:
1. Basic principles of planning
2. What is plinth, why it is provided.
3. What is plinth beam
4. We do not provide plinth beam in every structure. why so.
5. Have you heard about soling
6. What is plinth filling, layers of plinth filling. It’s Purpose.
7. Why plinth is provided above ground level (apart from seepage)
8. What is BOQ and CSR
9. What is there in specification of items.
10. What is the number in bracket at end of every specification signify.
11. Thickness of stone compound wall.

18/03/2021
Afternoon session
Panel: Smita Nagarajan Mam

Chairperson:
1 What are you doing? ( I said Mtech in environment from IIT Delhi)
2 is there any research going in IIT Delhi for stubble burning ?
3 Stubble burning solutions
4 Your field of interest in environmental engineering?
5 About my Mtech thesis and applications ?
6 why are you not going for research work ?
7 use of your project in ESE departments and some more questions related to my project?
8 have you seen any green building?
9 one best aspect about green building
10 IIT Delhi's initiative for energy efficient buildings

M1
1 Btech project
2 favourite subject ( i said soil n environment)
3 consistency index is used for which type of soils?
4 liquid plastic limit test
5 type of sampling?
8 disturbed undisturbed samples?
5 CBR test, triaxial test
6 proctor n modified proctor test
7 slope stabilisation techniques
8 Difference between angle of repose and and friction angle?
9 Geosynthetics
10 group index method
11 soil classification

M2
1 quantity of delhi' solid waste generation
2 Delhi's landfill sites?
3 have you heard about accident in Gazhipur landfill site
4 height of Okhla landfill site?
5 problem of solid waste management in delhi n solutions?
7 type of treatments ?
8 biodegradable wastes n examples?
9 when we will do incineration n composting?
10 waste to energy plant
11 what is RDf?
12 RDf manufacturing process?
13 bioremediation n biomethanation ?
14 vermiculture composting?
15 leachate problem ?

M3
1 about Namami Gange project?
2 civil engineering aspects in Namami Gange
3 riverfront structure development kya hota hai?
4 industrial effluent monitoring in Namami gange ?
5 Permissible limits of BOD, COD, SS ?
6 toxic metals treatment issues of leather industry in Kanpur
7 About CNG and vehicular pollution
8 government policies about CNG
9 nanoparticles pollution treatment
10 some ethics based questions related to pollution and govt policies
11Arches construction n load transfer mechanism

Board BBvyas sir (17/03/21)

Chairman
1. What were u doing during last 3 years
2. About job profile
3. What are the tests we do on rocks in field
4. asked about some type of concrete I have never heard of it
5. what is industrial corridor
6. What is economic corridor and how it is different from conventional road projects
7. What are some distinct features of economic corridor from civil engineering point of view
8. What is stiffened length

M1:
1. What was the topic of your paper presentation.. explain in brief
2. What is plagerism, how it is checked, what are software used, is it a crime
3. What is the role of civil engineer in skill India initiative by PM of India, ( I answered but sir was
expecting some pan India level application)
4. What is the redundant member, why is it provided and does it carry any force,
5. What is load reversal.

M2:
1. What are the cases of load reversal, explain.
2. Tell the advantages of symmetric structure in analysis, design and construction.
3. If wind flows in some direction such that compression is on top face and tension on other.
Now due to some other direction of wind load reverse and top is in tension and bottom in
compression then, tell me what is the role of concrete in this beam will it take any stress, which
type of beam u will design.
4. How to give supports in STAAD pro
5. STAAD pro is designed based on finite element method or stiffness matrix method

M3:
[Link] are the advantages of walking ..and how can u find an average size of step using
persons height.
2. Before 10-15 years there was a shortage of experienced civil engineers what do u think is the
reason

Chairman- VYAS
TIME-11:21-11:45
date-19/3/21

CP
1. Read DAF and college name and ask some little questions
2. What is meditation and which type of meditation you do?
3. Benefits of meditation
4. What is littoral drift?
5. What are various methods of tunnelling in hard and soft strata?
6. What is unconformity?

M1
1. How you reached UPSC?
2. Which mode you used to reach here?
3. From which station to which station you used metro?
4. Which lines of metro you used?
5. Is there any difference of quality in these lines?
6. Which line is opened lately?
7. What is RRTS
8. Which are planned routes of RRTS in Delhi NCR
9. On which RRTS route currently work is going on
10. Which mode u will prefer for travel out of metro and bus and why?
11. Which is nearest metro station from your home and It is how much km?

M2
1. What type of survey you will do while starting a construction project
2. How will you do quality check of a completed project
3. Why tyres are provided in vehicles.
4. Any other thing which is used in place of tyres?
5. What is difference between tyres and chain system in vehicles and give two examples of
chain system
6. Draw diagram of chain system of movement.
7. you use seat belt while driving ( I said I don’t know driving)
8. Wheel transfers load as point load or UDL
9. On what factors contact area depends
10. How will you check that any govt scheme is implemented properly on ground( like 100%
electrification). Which type of survey you will do for it
11. Types of contract

M3
1. What are skyscrapers?
2. What is minimum height of a building to call it as skyscraper?
3. What is type of cladding in high rise buildings
4. Design difference in skyscrapers and low rise buildings
5. Which type of instrument you used on survey camp for levelling
6. One more question on type of levelling
7. What is nanotech
8. Types of nanotech materials used in civil engg

Chairperson - Smita Nagaraj

Duration - 20-25 min
Date - 17-03-2021

No question from hobbies and current affairs

Chairperson

1. You are already doing job in NHAI , getting such a good salary , why do you want to come
here?
2. What is your current profile in NHAI?
3. You have worked for 2-3 months now, what is it you didn't like working there?
4. Being an IIT graduate that's a small problem, something else?
5. No. of project currently being executed by NHAI?
6. Which one of these has highest cost?
7. What is its length?

Member 1
1. You are working at HQ, recently minister thrashed about delay in NHAI new building, what is
the actual reason?
2. Name the layers present in flexible pavement?
3. How do you design flexible pavement?
4. Layers of rigid pavement?
5. What is ESWL?
6. How do you use ESWL in bridge design?

Member 2
1. What are your favourite subjects?
2. What is 3D consolidation?
3. Any example of 3D consolidation?
4. How a layman can identify whether it is NH , SH ?
5. What is Coefficient of consolidation?
6. What is the formula to determine it?
7. What are the methods to determine coefficient of consolidation?
8. How do you find pre-consolidation pressure?
9. Can you draw a graph of it?

Member 3
1. While laying a brick, what is the most important thing to keep in mind?
2. While constructing a wall, any type like brick, stone etc. What is the most important thing to
keep in mind?
3. There is a test you missed which include aggregates also, what is it?
4. What are different tests of bitumen?
5. What is Marshall mix design?
6. What are different quantities we find in Marshall mix?

Interview Date : 19/03/2021 (Forenoon)

Timing : 20-25 mins

Chairman (BB VYAS) :-

1. How will you reduce the air pollution due to industries.
2. What type of rock in Jabalpur
3. What other two names of marble rock.
4. What is rock stressing and rock coupling
5. Flexible and rigid pavements
6. What is LSM, what is the conditions to use LSM

Member 1 :-
1. What is road end management
2. What are famous civil Engineering structures (i told many including sea link)
3. Do the actual ground assessment with facts and figures of Bandra-vorli sea link, if that project
is giving benefit or not.
4. What is closing error , explain in paper
5. How will you do traversing
6. What sports you play (I told cricket, VB and BB) , ok you not play tennis par dekha to hoga hi.
7. What is the material of frame of the tennis racket
8. Govt. launched one scheme in which they said that make the buildings which are accessible
to all, then what is "accessible to all" means here?
9. Tell me types of lifts (lift matlab building wali)
10. What is the difference in the lifts of residential and hospital buildings
11. How will you design accessible to all buildings
12. What have you seen in railways/airports which make them accessible to all.

Member 2 :-
1. What is self healing concrete
2. What is bacterial concrete, is both are inter related
3. What is ferro cement
4. What is the minimum height of a building to be called as skyscraper
5. What is used to make skyscrapers steel, concrete or both
6. Which has better fire resistance steel or concrete and why

Member 3 :-
1. Difference between Kota stone and marble
2. Marble is which type of rock?
3. Ingredients of marble
4. Which has more strength processed marble or initial marble rock
5. How initial rock is converted into marbles
6. Example of igneous rock
7. What wall made of rocks is called
8. Tell me who said this quote "Give me blood , I will give you freedom".
9. In which situation he said that quote
10. And he said that in India or outside India ?

BB Vyash
16/03/2021
Afternoon session,
Duration ~ 25min
Hobbies: Repairing machines, Watching movies, Photography

CP:
Reads DAF

— Asks, what have you been doing after graduation

— You have got this interesting hobby “Understanding and repairing defective machines.”, Tell
me one recent situation where you have repaired a machine.
— What are cranes
— Tell me 10 machines in this room
— CP showing his ball pen, is this a machine?
— He asks for One line definition of machine.
— What is difference between tool, equipment and machine
— What is Work Breakdown Structure

M1:
— Continuing on the topic of machines, what are the Types of crane?
— What is the name of moving crane
— Asks about precaution in designing of moving crane
— If you are given a crane, How will you know its load lifting capacity.
— Give me an example of one simple machine
— Lever is not a machine it is a tool.
— How does a machine reduces work?
— How a man of 40kg will lift 160 kg, show using a diagram.
— Name of pulley arrangement used to compound forces
— How will you say that how much load is safe for a machine
— He asks about Efficiency of crane and associated graphs

M2:
— What is a boom length
— Boom length and load lifting capacity relationship
— How will you select an equipment
— No I am saying if you have 3 equipment and you have to select between them
— No, goes straight to point, asks Difference between Renting, Leasing and Buying.
— Difference between wheels of car, Bike and bicycle. (DAF related)
— Again he wanted to talk specifically about spokes and alloy wheels, How does a spoke of a
wheel work, in tension or compression
— M2 insists me to draw and look further, I draw a figure and explain how spokes being slender
member would buckle.
— Difference between bending and buckling
— What is the meaning of Earth quake resistant design?
— What did you do in your earth quake resistant model?

M3:
— Precautions while building near an already constructed building.
— In terms of safety
— Are retaining walls only way to prevent failure in case of excavation.
— What types of foundation you will provide for a building wall close to the property line.
— Difference between raft and stripped raft.
— What is a long span structures
— Log span not in terms of building.
— Different methods of providing long span
— Any other way than truss and domes
— Any other way, when the building is of rectangular shape.
— Have you heard of shell structure.
— What are deep foundation,
— Classification of piles

Chairperson : [Link]
BACKGROUND: Working in Capgemini as Senior Analyst from last 6 month and
Completed B.E in 2020
HOBBIES: Volleyball, Mountaineering
Date: 12/03/2021 Time: 25 Minutes

CP:
1. Tell me about your work profile.
2. How do you end up being a software engineer.
3. Have you heard about IT act , name the act and tell about it.
4. What are the restriction on social media.
5. Types of Dam
6. Various program used in civil engineering.
7. Various clearance that are needed to be taken before any project.
8. What do you think which is better approach project design completion
execution by one company or different company.

M1:
1. How do you use autocad and staadpro in your company.
2. How to calculate ductility of structures.
3. What is material inconsistency and structural inconsistency.
4. Some questions on earthquake.
5. Few more questions I can’t recall now

M2:
1. What is the name of instrument used below snowboots.
2. What is 2 point and 3 point climbing.
3. Do you know about laterite soil.
4. Which equation is used to draw flownet.
5. How to solve laplace equation.
6. Is there any difference between Horizontal and vertical permeability.
7. In his time there was some problem related to water in Bengal and it
was fomous in his time also.
8. Do you know about Marine soil.
9. Why it has flocculated structure.

M3:
1. Define gravity dam.
2. Do you know about piping.
3. Have you also heard about drainage gallery.
4. Tell me about the name of scientist who provided filter at toe, how it
works and various specification related to it.
5. All the instrument are mounted on a platform present in lab, what is the
name of that platform.
6. What is floor to floor ht.
7. What is quick sand condition.
These are 90% of question which I remember.

TC Anant
Chairman- Manoj, you completed your [Link] in 2017,
After which You did your [Link] from IIT Delhi, in water resources engineering, And as you have
mentioned Now you are working in UPMRC, where are you recently posted?
you have mentioned your [Link] project on scouring analysis of Indian railways bridges, brief
me about your Mtech project

What was your Btech project?

Transfer to M1

M1-
Tell me about bridge pier and abutments what are these?
What kind of forces acted on bridge piers ?
What kind of forces on abutments?
How pier and abutments is designed?
Have you ever seen construction of well foundation at site?
Which kind of foundation for pier and abutments is provided?
In place of Well foundation what other types of foundation is provided in bridges?
How do you know about which kind of piling will be provided?
Will always be their Rocky strata below the river bed?
In case of sandy strata which kind of pile will you provide?
In clay which kind of pile?
What do you mean by rest pressure? Does no force act on the wall?
What is active and passive pressure ?
Give me example of passive pressure?
For the given porosity in sand and clay which will have more water holding capacity and why?

M2-
You have done your [Link] in water resources,
What was elective courses in your [Link] course that you studied?
Did you read about climate change or impact of climate change?
How climate change is affecting in farming sector?
How can we tackle with it?
Tell me some specific solutions for the farmers, as climate change effects has been observed
from last 2-3 decades
In South India there is problem of water scarcity and at the same time there is some intensive or
high flood r also occurs what should be done?
Do you aware of developed site and undeveloped site, suppose you are incharge of a
undeveloped site that is to be developed what things would you consider?
(Requested to specify the context or for what purpose the undeveloped area to be developed
like for industry set up? For residential or for other....)
What things do you consider to be done first as a civil Engineer?

Transferred to M3
So as you mentioned in your daf about Quora article.
What is Quora?
Which kind of articles?
As you stated your [Link] Project on fly ash cement replacement
Tell me which property of concrete will enhance?
Tell me some other properties benefit of fly ash
Fly ash doesn't have binding properties then why we use it ?
How is it react with cement?
Tell me about design mix?
Basic parameters and steps that how to prepare design mix?
How would you determine standard deviations for target mean?
Do we know standard deviations before testing of samples?
Can we calculate standard deviations from 3 samples?
How many sample We take at the time of testing?
How you would select water content in design mix?
What are the 'parameters' and what are the 'variable' in design mix?
Suppose for a project that is to be executed in 2 years, is designed mix concrete condition will
be same or it will change?

Transferred to Chairman:
Thank you Manoj, you can go!!

Name-Ghevar singh
Chairperson- Smita Nagrajan maam
Date- 22/3/21

1. Problems in constructing fort now a days?(As I'm from Rajasthan)

2. what is Famous of Allahabad? (Btech from NIT ALLAHABAD)
3. And which rivers meets at Sangam?
4. Sangam ke baad isko Ganga kyon kahte hai, Yamuna kyon nahi?
5. Aapne technical jawab diya hai. Koi aur reason pata hai?

M1
1. What are components of concrete?
2. Why not desert sand used in construction
3. Long column effect
4. Short column effect( dono pahli baar sune the)
5. Forrest mein highway kaise?
6. What are disadvantages of prefabricated structural member.

M2
1. What is Pozzolona?
2. Positive of Pozzolona
3. OPC Poori strength kab le leta hai?
4. RHPC
5. How monolithic in Pre-fabricated?
6. Adv. Of it?
7. What is prestressing?

M3
1. How you prevent animals when road is passing through forest?
2. One of your idea is fencing . Matlab Aap animals ko kaid karna chahte ho.
(4-5 aisi terms poochi jo pahli baar suni thi)

additional questions
1. If I have less time for curing then what would I do? (steam curing)
2. What are other cases when we prefer this curing? (Precast members...)
3. If temp is below zero degree then how concreting is done?
(I've answered isolation..bla bla But last mein woh khud bole ki garam paani daal do)
4. Hot climate concreting?
5. If I have limited water then how to cure concrete?

Board - Bharat Bhushan Vyas

Date 08/03/2021
ESE 2020

C - What is meaning of your name ?

C- DCE VS DTU (Difference between state and central university college name)
C - What is difference between Technology and Engineering
C - What is DL and LL
C - What is difference between weir and barrage
C - What is ROR project ?
C - What is Indus water treaty
C - About recent government policy on electricity in haryana, Rajasthan
C - Effective length of beam

M1 - If you are chief engineer how would you start construction (geotechnical side)
M1 - What is soil exploration
M1 - What is difference between Representative and Undisturbed sample
M1 - Plate load test, SPT Test, Vane shear and UCS test
M1 - Pumping in pumping out test
M1 - Constant head and variable head permeability (which soil is suitable and how to perform)
M1 - Can you make structure from soil only
M1 - Have you heard of earthen dam (which type of soil you will use)
M1 - How will you measure GWT depth

M2 - What is two way and one way slab

M2 - Made a T beam asked questions on it
M2 - What is composite girder which is used beneath highway
M2 - What is Euler Bernoulli beam model vs timoshenko beam model
M2 - What is load factor across the whole world
M2 - Can you guess whether it should be same or difference because engineer studying in India
has to work in America in some stage of life
M2 - Why do we give load factor
M2 - Why don't we use WSM if safety is only criteria
M2 - What is ULM WSM LSM
M2 - Questions on ULM
M2 - What is shape factor
M2 - Does large Shape factor is good or bad
M2 - Difference between Warping and torsion
M2 - What is simple theory of bending
M2 - Flat slabs
M2 - Why do we study simple theory of bending
M2 - Difference between material ductility and structural ductility
M2 - Which section we use for plastic analysis
M2 - Difference between plastic hinges and mechanical hinges

M3 - Asked about electives

M3 - So you have studied Solid waste management
M3 - Municipal or Industrial
M3 - Asked about bhalswa landfill
M3 - How is dumping there
M3 - What should be the ideal process
M3 - Can you tell anyway to economical recover some money
M3 - What are soil type material
M3 - Why flyash known as soil type material
M3 - Can you make building on heap of flyash

C - How can you reuse glass material in engineering purpose

Interview (23/03/2021)
chairman': T.C.A. Anant
Duration: 20-25min

Chairman:(3-4min)
College name
Work experience: about project and my role in the project
Achievements: from DAF asked what these achievements were and little bit of details

Member 1:(8-10 min)

Practical problem on slab,
Site related technical, sand drains, soil stabilization, liquid limit in detail. Keep on guiding to get
the answer from his perspective

Member 2:(5-6min)
Worked in irrigation project..I said yes.
Okay....tell me what is suction head.
Max theoretical value of suction head.
Few questions on Hydrology duty delta isobar, rainfall depth methods
Then asked some random terminology...( didn't heard about it...said sorry)
Few more terminology ( some of them never heard of )

Member 3(5-6min)
All questions starts from DAF only then asked few I continuation to the answers
Work experience
QMS Discussion
Risk Management
Field test
Few more site related terminology

Conclusion: majority of questions have some relation to the information filled in DAF and after
that started asking the practical problems. As I've a work experience so majority of questions
start from that part only

11/03/2021
Chairperson: BBV
Civil

C:
1. Do saal se kya kar rahe the?
2. Kya padhe 2 saal me?
3. What is shear strength of soil?
4. Explain all the terms contributing to shear strength.
5. Reinforced concrete suna hai ye reinforced soil kya hota hai?
6. What is rock stress?
Many questions related to rock, geology, geography. Couldn't answer hence dont remember

M1:
1. FEM
2. Numerical methods
3. Water flow ho raha soil me ek jagah se dusri jagah. Batao iske kaise represent karenge
mathematically? (Laplace eqaution)
5. Write it down?
6. Iska boundary condtion batao?
7. What is GSF and PSF?
8. Where it happens?
9. What is PSF then?
10. Soil in Mumbai
11. Black cotton soil found in Mumbai?

M2:
1. Land slide kaise hota hai?
2. Shear ke term me explain karo?
3. What facotrs contribute to land slide? Role of water in it?
4. Abhi ek land slide hua woh kya hai? (Chamoli flash floods)
5. Explain it in shear terms. (Told it was glaicial lake outburst)
6. What is heave?
7. What is Bentonite?

M3:
1. What is dynamic modulus of Elasticity?
2. Rate of loading on strength of concrete?
3. Mild steel and stainless steel?
4. Why stainless steel is famous?

Chairman
TCA anant sir
24 march 2021
time -12.30-12.57
25 min.+
all members had paper which consisted of questions

Chairman
you have mentioned you secured AIR 219 IN ESE 2019
you were allotted any department ??
yes sir
which department?
border road engineering services
I will be joining in April, I have taken extension for joining to prepare for ese 2020, okk
okkk
so you have not done any job??
no sir
What is Btech project u have done??
comparative study of design of circular water tank resting on ground by using is 3370-1967 and
is 3370-2009
is it resting on ground??
yess sir
so what was your conclusion and project summary
over all cost reduction in structure by reduction of steel by design by LSM
okk okkk

Member -1
You have done project on water tank resting on ground
yes sir
what about underground water tanks
how are they designed
gave ans. then
which soil gamma value u will take dry or Saturated..??
why is it so we considering those two situation
will it not be designed for any uplift forces
told about base slab
What are equipment u will be keeping in lab for building construction project
what will you do when project is delayed by 15 days
how to design M30 concrete
how to check whether it is pass of fail
if you casted column and its strength came out to be
32MPa for M30 is it passed of failed.
and few others unable to recall
okk thank you

Member 2
what is crop coefficient
what is evapotranspiration
what is fish ladder
draw its plan diagram
how to hydrometeriological parameters forecasting?
what are geophysical disasters
when tsunami will occur after earthquake what is the condition
which department provides data for forecasting
asked about favourite subject told RCC and SOM
asked about which has more torsional strength is it solid shaft or hollow shaft
how to measure evapotranspiration
and few other questions unable to recall
asked about crop ratio
also

Member 3
soil, do u know problematic soil
yes sir
which are those soils
black cotton etc
tell me some more
black cotton is active why
why montmorilonite causes swelling and shrinkage
what are remedial measures for black cotton soil construction
after this he said good
then asked tell me some problematic soil then, asked what is loess
uniformly graded wind blown silt
asked what is difference between well graded and uniformly graded
told about void ratio
which has less void ratio uniform or well
how to treat loess soil in field
what type of equipment to be use for loess
what is vibratory roller used for??
disturbed and undisturbed soil application.....in field
why to use remoulded soil and some other questions unable to recall

overall I gave all answer except 1-2 never listened type questions

Name: VIKASH YADAV

Panel: BB Vyas sir(afternoon)
Date: 09/03/21
Currently working in AEGCL as Assistant Manager in Guwahati
2017 passout
Approximately 20 minutes duration

Chairman:
He was very much smiling and also wasn't putting any pressure or trying to grill me.
1. What were you doing after passing out?
2. Tell me 5 road signs
3. Why road accidents occur?
4. Why you took civil engineering?
5. If you go back in time would you have taken civil engineering?
6. Why potholes are formed?
7. What will you do to prevent it if you are posted in CES Roads?
8. What is the difference between tax and cess?
9. What are the taxes you pay while buying a car?
10. Tell something about the name plate? Is there anything special in it.
11. Name the codes you will follow to prevent potholes formation at site.

M1:
Asked very tough and practical questions on RCC and prestess concrete initially which i don't
even remember. He was very serious and was trying to grill me a bit.
1. How will you improve the slab of the existing slab in very poor condition?
2. You have two cubes one of 10cm and other of 15cm, which will show higher strength under
UTM?
3. Why cylinder test has lesser strength than cube strength?
4. How much is the strength difference?
5. Why is there a strength difference?

M2:
Was mainly asking some trick questions but wasn't grilling me and was smiling most of the time.
1. What are the test we do on aggregates?
2. Is abrasion and hardness test same? [Link] you sure?
4. After testing mild steel in utm and plotting the stress strain graph, how will you find the proof
stress of mild steel?

M3: (Didn't ask too many questions )

1. What is sensitivity?
2. How to find it?
3. What is area ratio?
4. What is the weight of hammer in SPT test?
5. What is the fundamental difference between SPT and DCPT?
6. Full form of DCPT

Chairman: ok your interview is over good luck.

My feedback: I was comfortable with the chairman questions barring a few which were
completely unexpected like the questions on taxes but he was very much cordial. The other
member asked a mix of questions which few i answered and few i denied. I avoided bluffing and
tried to be honest throughout. Its hard to say whether it was good interview as i didn't know quite
a few answers but since this was my second interview in UPSC i would say it was just better
than average rest only results will tell.

Good Luck to future aspirants.

Panel Smita Nagraj ma'am

Duration 20-25 minutes
Date 16/03/2021

Chairperson-
1. What are the reasons for flood in Bihar and tell me the solution
2. What will be the effect on downstream side if we construct dam in Nepal like China is
constructing Dam over Brahamputra

Memeber 1
1. What was your work at site(I was in job)
2. How to do compaction of soil
3. What are methods for finding Bulk density and water content
3. What is Calcium Carbide method?
4. tell any other method for water content determination which is superior to calcium carbide
method
5. What is engineered backfilling
6. What are tests to be done on the soil that is being borrowed to site for backfilling
6. describe about your project details ( as I was in job )
7. Have you visited RMC batching plant ?
8. What are functioning of RMC batching plant
9. Describe the working of batching plant

Memeber 2.
1. Why did you leave your job
2. What is index property of soil
3. what is undisturbed sample
4. How to make undisturbed sample
5. What are the testings done on undisturbed sample?
6. Tell the limits of Clearance ratio , and Area ratio
7. If soil is having area ratio less than 10% then is this undisturbed?

Memeber 3.
1. So you have worked on the site ?
So tell What are the importance of water in concreting?
2. what are testing done on water that is being used for concreting
3. What is hydration reaction?
4. How water affects the strength of concrete?
5. Role of Admixture
6 Tests to be conducted on concrete on site
7. What OMC
8. What is Proctor density
9. What is Vane shear test and it's usefulness
10. How to do liquid limit test through vane shear test
11. Have you heard about inland water way that was inaugurated by Pm Modi in last year in
Bihar
12. Tell the characteristics of inland water way
13. Which water way passes through Bihar
14. How much waterway is cheaper than Roads way
Branch : Civil Engineering
Duration : 25 minutes
Board name : TCA Annant
Interview date : 11 March 2021 (Forenoon)

Chairman (TCA Annant) :-

Read DAF and college name, year of passing and place of college (Jalandhar).

Then he asked about my past experience :

Ans : I worked as a Quantity surveyor engineer for 2 years in Tender Dept in Riyadh (Saudi
Arab). And as a site Engineer in Gurgaon for 8 months.
So which type of drawings you worked on
Ans : I worked on Structure and Architectural drawings, Although there were other drawings
also in tender documents like Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Fire Fighting etc

M1 :-
Have you worked at site.
Ans : Yes sir, I have worked at site in India in Gurgaon Region.
What was the name of your project.
Ans : I Worked at Indira Gandhi Eye Hospital.
Tell me some special features of Hospital.
Ans : We provide specially designed thick walls and slabs for X-ray rooms which are subjected
to radiations, In hospital building we take care of all the safety norms, since it is a public
building, we provide fire extinguishers, panic bars at all the exit doors to escape corridors.
He asked for some features from civil engineering perspective.
Ans : There was separate STP Tank for Treatment of Sewage. There was basement for Parking,
Then he interrupted asking “how many basements were there”….. I Replied “There were two
basements”
He asked me to draw Process of Sewage treatment.
Ans : I made the layout of Sewage treatment on paper, then I explained the whole process.
How the waste water is collected in a hospital.
Ans : The Sump pits are provided in basement, from there the water is pumped to STP and
treated further.
What is macerator.
Ans : It is a device to grind large waste product into raw sewage.
Where are these used other than sewage.
Ans : Sorry sir, I don’t know.

M2 : -
What is stability of slope and where it is done.
Ans : It is the process of strengthening of soil at slopes, it can be done by soil nailing,
Geo-membranes and Geo-textiles as reinforcements, It is done at the slopes of embankments,
at sides of excavations etc.
What is angle of internal friction
Ans : It represents the internal friction offered by soil
Is there difference b/w angle of repose and angle of internal friction.
Ans : there is not much difference angle of repose gives an approximate idea of angle of
internal friction.
What is negative skin friction.
Ans : it is the downward drag exerted by relative settlement of loose soil deposit surrounding
soil on the piles.

M3 :-
As you have done work as quantity surveyor engineer, Suppose you are working on a project
which is High income group building and all the foundation works, slab and column has been
casted, masonry work has also been done, then what will the next activities that you will
perform, what will be the specification of the materials used.
Ans : Sir, I have done structure work only in India, after that I was transferred to overseas
location at Riyadh Saudi Arab and there I worked in tender department in office, Also I was not
involved in MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing) works it was done by separate team. so I am
not able to answer this question.

He said you are a civil Engineer, you have done your graduation from NIT Jalandhar, so you
should be able to answer this question.

Then I started answering

Sir we will do plastering works, flooring works and all the civil works will be coordinated with
MEP works like fire fighting, plumbing, AC ducts, utilities etc. and finally painting works will be
done…But he said you are mixing everything and I felt it clearly that he was not satisfied with
my answer…

What is full form of EWS, how many income groups are there like high income group
Ans : Economically weaker section. Low income group, Middle income Group, High income
group, Ultra high income group.

Then Chairman asked me to Leave saying “ Thank you Mohit, Your interview is over”

Interview board name - Dr. TC Anant sir

As I enter the room, wish them and sit properly and chairman sir is reading my DAF form, about
my education detail then after 2-3 minute asked me
CP- what are you doing in this gap because I had passed graduation in 2019?
Ans- I told them I am preparing for IES exam from last one and half year
CP- Ok, tell me about your [Link] project and elaborate it
Ans- I told the detail of my project which I have done during my graduation.
CP- Tell me about your favourite subject.
Ans- I told them soil mechanics, SOM, transportation engineering

M1- tell me about 5 natural sources of energy from where we extract

Ans- since my project related to solar energy this q has been asked, I told them about solar,
wind, geothermal, tidal, hydropower
M1-in which form we extract solar energy
Ans- light and heat form and explain PVC cell and thermal equipment
M1-how wind energy is generated and supplied to household
Ans-I told them about wind turbine and I have not much detail about storage and transportation
of wind energy.
M1- how we are extracting geothermal energy
Ans-I have recently read about the Jammu geothermal energy and told about them.
M1-he asked about my hobby which is teaching
Ans- I explain my interest and how I am currently doing now
M1-ok, tell me how you detect the leakage in pipe supply system in your home without flowing
water them
Ans- I have not much detail about this
M1-he asked again about leakage detection in water distribution system in public water system
Ans-I tell them about pressure gradient measurement system and he want me other method
also here, chairman sir interrupted and handed to next sir

M2-since I came from farming background, he asked about the farming of paddy
Ans- I know very well about farming of paddy so I explain
M2- land measurement and why this particular unit you are using
Ans - I have no knowledge about this question
M2- he asked about MSP
Ans- I told them properly
M2- about fertiliser, type of farming of paddy
Ans- I told them about fertiliser which we are using
M2- what is metacentre and its uses
Ans- I told them it is used in floating body to explain its stability and how it is found
M2- for war ship you keep it 2 or 1 meter and why
Ans- I told him 2 meters because it will improve its stability
M2-ok, and for passenger ship
Ans- I tell him 1 meter because it will increase time period which provide comfort to passenger
M2-what is principle of surveying
Ans-I told them about whole to part and measurement of one point from two aspect

M3-tell me about the dam situated near you

Ans- I told them about Jargo dam and Rihand dam
M3-what is height of dam which type it is
Ans-I told them 91 meter and gravity type dam...I have read it because its capacity is highest in
Asia
M3- is there hydropower plant
Ans - yes, it produces approx. 300 MW
M3- tell me 5 company names of cement
Ans- I can answer only 3 at that time
M3- process and ingredient of cement
Ans- I told them about wet and dry process and ingredient
M3- what is rapid hardening cement and low heat cement and its uses and its formation
Ans-I explain both of them
M3-tell me about Abram law and name some plasticizer
Ans- I told them inverse relation and lignosulphate
M3- what is stage hydrograph
Ans- I have no knowledge about this term so I asked permission to explain each term separate
and explain them
M3- he asked me how many max numbers of bar can you place in one line in 300*600 beam in
M20 in 20 mm bar steel
Ans- I am little confused initially but understand it but since he has asked maximum but I am
unable to recall the is code for spacing of bar
M3- ok this is last question, how to measure the diameter of HYSD bar
Ans- sorry sir, I have not knowledge about this

My interview is over and said them thank you all of them and comes out.

Date: 19 march 2021

BRANCH : Civil engineering
Board : TCA Anant
Duration: around 25-30 minutes

Chairperson :
So Mr. you're from Sikar Rajasthan,
You did Btech from so so so college
You are 18 pass out
What did u do in these years
Any Btech project?
(carbon fibre reinforced self compacting concrete)
What was it?

OK passed to M1

M1:
what were your favorite subjects in Btech(SOM, Soil Mechanics, Irrigation engg. Highway)
So lets start from soil mechanics
How will you determine percentage of clay and silt in a soil
What is min. size of sieve and why?
What is size of clay particles
What is this hydrometer analysis based on? Which principle
How will you determine permeability in field? ( variable head constant head)
(Those are lab tests)
How will you determine in field?
What is Darcy’s law
Write the expression
What is difference between seepage velocity and discharge velocity
Which will be more and why
How will you construct a housing society project on landfill site
Why can't you?
Why soil there is porous?
What kind of soil is present there in below landfill
Why organic?
Why volume decrease occurs there?
Have you heard of secondary consolidation
What's it
In what kind of soils this occurs
Draw a curve of soil undergoing consolidation along with curve of loading unloading
Why curve is different for NC soil and OC soil
What is virgin soil
How will you determine pre consolidation pressure?

M2:
So you've lived in Srinagar so tell us about cold weather concreting
You like bike riding? So why
What is a cycling track called as?
What was your Btech project about?
Tell in detail
What is fibre reinforced concrete
Why you used fibres
Why especially carbon fibres any advantages?
How using carbon fibres is different than reinforcement bars
What changes it made to concrete?
What conclusion you drew from that
How much strength increase?
You teach mathematics also?
Explain Pythagorus theorem
Tell us about use of Pythagorus theorem in civil engineering
How a Mason uses it in construction
What is 3 4 5 in construction how Mason uses it?

M3:
In project management how delays can be prevented?
What are tools used to check if project is on time
What is milestone
How will you complete a project on time in such a pandemic situation when labour isn't available
as much as you require?
What is crashing
How would you choose an activity to crash if i give you 3 activities
What financial management you would do if an accident happens on site
What is ground improvement
Tell us few methods of ground improvement
How will you resolve a situation in which there is a railway embankment slope which is about to
fail?
What is soil reinforcement with example

Date 25th March,2021

Branch Civil Engineering
Panel TCA Anant
Duration 25-30 min

Chairperson
So Mr. you graduated from x college.
[Link] were you doing during last two years(graduated in 2018).
What was your [Link] project.
What were the findings.
favourite subjects.(Geotech , Railways, RCC )

M1:
Tell me about railway sleepers, cement, wires, grade.
Why we don’t use RO on larger scale.
Why we use UV and what are its drawbacks. (he wanted to hear something that I didn’t know)
Chairman: NGT has recently requested people to not use RO in their homes. Why ?

M2:
Tell me about Warning signs.
Gave me a warning sign post (imagine a flag ) and asked me the failure criteria, forces, point of
failure, bending torsion.
Raft foundation(my project was on Raft foundation). my findings were average so asked me
what did you do?
as these things you already know. Quoted IS code and scope of study and compared it with
isolated footing and Timoshenko flexible plate theory.
Machine foundation. (asked me whether I know about it and I told him I had general idea)
Yaw, sway, bending about which axis. Criteria of failure, designing consideration etc.

M3:
Retaining Wall types, failure criteria, difference between buttress and counter-fort. draw them.
Concrete acceptance criteria, definitions of words I said, like standard deviation, constant etc.
Standard deviation on field, when it is modified?
Have you worked on field or any work experience?

Date: 12/03/2021
Session: Forenoon
Chairman: BB Vyas
Duration of interview: 25-30min
Last person to enter

Chairman
1. Read my DAF and asked what else I want to do (as I have done many things in college) on a
lighter note.
2. What are the geological characteristics required for a reservoir.
3. What are wet docks and what are its advantages and disadvantages.
4. What is LSM.
5. What is e-governance and relate it with civil engineering.
6. What are wind excited oscillations (as my college was in coastal State)

Member 1
1. Read DAF and asked about my city, for what it is famous and places to visit around it.
2. What is your [Link] project.
3. What are Geo-grids.
4. Other than reinforcement for what it can be used
5. What are other Geo-synthetics and their uses
6. Can we use Geo-synthetics in reservoir and in what form can we use it in reservoir
7. What are other methods of soil stabilisation
8. Why do we do soil stabilisation
9. Is soil stabilisation method depend on soil or we can use any method on any soil
10. Why highway is called highway

Member 2
1. Asked about my [Link] project
2. What are different finite element methods (as my BTP is based on that)
3. What is section factor
4. What do you mean by fire resistance
5. How can we make a building fire resistant
6. What are active and passive measures of fire resistance
7. Which is better for earthquake design-T-beam or rectangular beam

Member 3
1. What is great Triangulation Survey
2. How many times had we done it
3. What is MSL
4. What is RL
5. Can MSL be at 0m
6. What is AH (related to highway)
7. What do you mean by slope failure
8. What is infinite slope
9. What is sheet pile
10. What is diaphragm wall
11. Can we made it with rcc or pcc or both
12. Define energy dissipators and where they can be used and name some of them

Date 10/03/2021
Chairman: TC ANANT SIR
Duration: 25-30 mins

CHAIRMAN:
What was your [Link]. project, Your role and conclusion.

M1:
What is strand jack system and hydraulic system for lifting devices
Reaction turbines types working principle, guide vane, governer?
What is open flow and pipe flow?
What is orifice, manometer, venturimeter?
What is thixotropic and give one example?
Different type of numbers in fluid( Reynold,mach...)

M2:
what is steam curing,
How will you design M20 concrete.( Chairman asked me to explain what is M20)
Code for design mix?
What does IS 456 include.
How many no. of samples you will test for concrete.
what is STP in solid waste management?
Composting?
What is regular and special maintenance?
Soil reinforcement?
Your role as a supervisor on the site.

M3:
what is amphibious (not sure) building?
How plastering will done bottom to top or reverse. If slab is not completely constructed in a day
then at which location you will prefer to leave it and why.
How much coal ash is generated in india?
What is flyash and bottom ash?
Fly ash mission by govt?
Can we use fly ash in dam?
What is geometrical standard deviation?
What is check dam?

ESE 2021 interview

Varun Kumar
Background: 2019 pass out civil engineering from amity university
Currently working in NHAI through GATE 2021 score
Sujata Mehta maam board

Chairperson:
1. Introduce yourself to the board
2. What do you think about asset monetization being carried out by NHAI
3. By charging high toll fee for using highways and expressways, so you think we are stopping
the poor from using these facilities? Do you think charging high toll is justified?

Member 1
1. What is BOD of wastewater?
2. Tell me about various waste management process used?
3. How composting is carried out?
4. How to deal with plastic waste? Won't landfilling pollute the soil?
5. How to reduce noise pollution along roads and highways? Have you seen any such
measures in Delhi?
6. What kind of plantation is generally carried out along medians of National Highways?
What is centre-centre spacing of tree plantation along NH?
7. What is centre-centre spacing of electric poles in urban areas?
8. Different type of steel used in steel construction?
9. Types of steel used in steel truss, rafter etc.?
10. Which among steel and rcc column is better?
11. Difference between flexible and rigid pavement?
Where flexible pavement is preferred and where rigid pavement is preferred?
12. If you want to construct a highway which pavement you will prefer and why?

Member 2
1. What is the use of various water resource structures?
For how many months india receives rainfall?
2. What are different type of faliures of earth dams?
3. What is field capacity?

Member 3

😅
1. What is encroachment safety ratio( or something like that.... I don't remember the exact
term )
2. What is time of concentration? How to estimate it? What are different components of it?
3. What are different types of drain inlets used in highways?
4. What type of flow occurs in storm water drain?
5. If discharge in drain increases with each drain opening then why a constant section is
adopted for drain? Can we vary the section?

Date : 28/02/2022
Interview Duration: 25mins
Chairman: Smirta Nagraj Mam
Background: JEC jabalpur 2019 Batch, undergoing training in IOCL.

Chairman :-
1. Iocl vs ESE
2. tell One thing in recent civil Engineering that you liked most
3. in future what material will replace cement if not then what you will do to reduce pollution
related to cement
4. fav subjects

Member 1 :-
1. What material can be used to make multi storey building.
2. what foundation to be used for multi-storey building
3. How to determine BC of soil
4. friction angle is same or diff for Drained and undrained conditions in triaxial test.
5. What is Dampers
6. Different types of cements
7. diff b/w OPC and PPC
8. Why we use PPC now a days
9. stripping time of slab
10. what is single stacking and double stacking system related to Enviro.
11. What is Asphaltic Concrete

Member 2 :—
1. Diff bw PCC and RCC
2. How will you design the 20m slab
3. what will be the thickness of that slab
4. what is batching
5. tell me 4 factors that you will do to reduce environmental degradation as a civil engineer.

Member 3 :—
1. What is the Elasticity of non linear elastic material.
2. what is tangent and secant modulus
3. what is initial tangent modulus
4. which modulus is greater initial tangent or tangent
5. what is your fav subjects
6. What is mohr circle
ESE 2021 Interview Transcript
Civil Engineering
Date : 02/03/2022
Interview Duration: 25mins
Chairman: M Sathyavathi Mam
Background: Final Semester [Link] Transportation Engg

I was the 1st person to be interviewed.

Started at 10:00AM after DV and other formalities.
It was an unusual Interview in that, there were no technical questions related to what we study
in GATE/ESE Preparation. Mostly Policy related questions.

Chairman :-

1. Reads my complete DAF Page (Birth Place, Degree, Hobbies etc)

2. Tell what is your [Link] Project
3. How is your [Link] Project going to help the soceity?
4. India's Traffic situation is probably the worst in the world, Tell me how we can improve?
5. About Vehicular Noise, tell how can we reduce this?

Member 1 :-

1. Which are the major pollutants released from Vehicular emissions?

2. How can we prevent these?

Member 2 :—

[Link] [Link] related technical questions.

[Link] was your UG Elective?
3. Consider a floor of a residential building, are all reduced levels of floor same?

Member 3 :—

[Link] you are assigned a role of Operation and Maintenance of a building, What things will
you do before a Rainy season.
2. How is classification of Concrete done based on it's strength?

Date-02/03/2022 (Afternoon Session)

M. Sathyavathi ma'am
Hobbies- Solving Soduko, Photography
Working profile- IOCL marketing division

Chairperson- (Read the DAF details to members)

1. Why there is 3 year gap after graduation?
2. Why ESE not IOCL?
3. About your Btech project?
4. In IOCL are you in training or have you allotted job location?
5. Where you visited or learned in your training period?

Member 1
[Link] precautions taking while cleaning sewers?
2. What is DPC and why we provide it?
3. Difference between exterior wall and interior wall?
4. If any cutting is provided in interior wall weather it vertical or horizontal?
5. Wall provide in bathroom or partition wall can we remove that wall?

Member-2
1. Fevt. Subject (SOM &RCC)?

😒
2. Stress strain curve with all point in MS?
3. Why we get yield point (not able to answer with detail )

😑
4. Elastic region, Elastic limit, principle stress, what is stress, strain,shear stress, shear strain,
E,G,K ki definition (disappointed with E definition and he say are yarr tumhare fev. Subject
se nahi bta PA rhe ho achhe se )?
5. write the Moment, inertia, stress, E equation?

Member-3
1. If petrol on water surface like in sea methods to remove that (in answering process I said
Bioremediation)?
2. You say bioremediation what is that and how you apply that(not able to explain exactly)?
3. Secondary treatment methods?
4. Difference between TF and ASP?
5. Why called activated sluge?
6. F/M ratio ko explain kro?
7. Formula for F/M ratio ( I said not remember ma'am is like exactly formula kon yad rkhta h)?
8. MLVSS full form. (Syd glt bta diya tha)?

Review- CP is satisfied member-1 is also satisfied M2 thoda disappointed tha M3 chill lg rha tha.

Date- 28/02/2022
Session-Morning
Panel-M Sathyavathi Mam
Background- 2019 passout, NIT kurukshetra
My interview started at 12:10 pm

CHAIRMAN-
1. started reading my Daf.
2. madam asked what you are doing after graduating in 2019?
3. whom you are financially dependent?
4. asked about my [Link] project.
[Link] my [Link] project was study of rain garden so all panel member started discussion
about it and asking about how it is different than rain water harvesting?
6. suddenly M2 started asking but madam interrupted and said we will ask one by one.
7. then madam asked about conclusion of project and said about you can give better
recommendations at [Link] level.
8. madam asked about what you have done in survey camp as it was mentioned in daf and then
madam passed to member 1.

MEMBER-1
1. started asked about construction and expansion joint?
2. where construction joint in beam is provided at beam column junction or other position in
beam?
3. asked about curing in concrete?
4. which bags used in curing (ans-jute bags).
5. ponding in slab means?
6. no. of seismic zones and which zone is critical.
7. as zone 5 is critical they asked about its locations and passed to member 2
NOTE:- In the middle of interview somewhere M1 told me that you are not looking enough
sincere for interview that you came with beard as i have trimmed at 1 number.
but i tackled it by saying that some people say you look like child without beard and all people
started laughing and things came back to normal.

MEMBER-2
1. started guiding me about my [Link] project and after 2-3 minutes asked one question from it.
2. as my survey camp on contour so asked why contour is drawn.
[Link] is contour?
4. on which side of hill we do farming and name of farming?
5. as M2 was taking more time so chairman interrupted and said can we shift to another
member and madam shifted to member 3.

MEMBER-3
1. What is urban flooding and possible causes( from [Link] project)?
2. other methods we can use to stop urban flooding except rain garden?
3. software we use to detect urban flooding?
4. formula to estimate urban flooding?

Suggestions-
1. panel was very friendly and coordinating do not scare and do not make hurry while listening
questions.
2. Listen carefully.
3. you can use any language but try to speak in english as much as you can but can speak in
hindi also in middle of interview by taking permission after you struck.
4. try to prepare [Link] project and any other technical information what you have written in daf
properly if you are fresher and not done any job.
5. dont get nervous if you do not answer 2-3 questions wait for qustions which you know.

Date : 02/03/2022
Interview Duration: 30mins
Chairman: Smirta Nagraj Mam
Background: Mtech, Geotechnical engineering,2nd semester, graduated in 2019.

Chairman :-
1. Flooding problems in Mumbai and it's solution.(as my parents currently stay there)
2. About Mtech project ( project not decided yet, so she asked on which topic you will do your
project)
3. Questions relating to geotechnical aspects of landfill design.
4. Have you visited any landfill?

Member 1 :-
1. Continued asking on landfills like what is waste sorting,etc.
Aked about after how many years we can use landfill area for development of facilities like
park,etc. He said that a table is there depending on the type of waste dumped, if you can recall
that table?
2. About black cotton soils and foundation suitable in this soil
3. Morphology of soil
4. Soil found in gujrat and Kerala and foundation suitable in those soils.
5. Pile and well foundation.
6. About lintel
7. About cistern,traps.
8. Questions relating to building construction. He asked some terms I haven't even heard of.

Member 2 :—
1. Active and passive earth pressure. Definition as well as force analysis.
2. What is pressure bulb.?
3. Till what depth it is significant?
4. Stress concentration
5. What are reinforced retaining structures?
6. Rainwater harvesting.
7. Difference between geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics?
8. Some more questions on retaining walls I can't remember.

Member 3 :—
1. Exit gradient
2. Critical exit gradient
3. Flownet and when/how it is drawn.
4. Earth dam failure due to piping.
5. Arching effect
6. Btech project.( Difference between bishop and morgenstern-price method)
7. Shifted to RCC and some questions about probability distribution curve in concrete testing.

Date - 3/3/22
Interview duration- 20 - 25mins
Afternoon session( 2nd candidate )
M. Sathyavathy mam panel
Why girls don’t opt for civil Engineering??
Why u chose civil Engineering?
Hobbies?
Type of dance?
After graduation, what were you doing???
Joining details of HPCL
Hpcl vs ESE
New technologies in construction sector??
Explain them.

M1
Explain BTech project
Characteristics of leather effluent
Which form of chromium ion is toxic
Value of BOD , chloride content, total solids in leather effluent
Which code is used
Favourite subject (rcc railway)
Cant defiency
It’s significance
Types of signals in railways

M2
Name different Treatment processes
What is the design criteria of grit chamber, skimming tank?
Types of biological treatments
Explain ASP
Why is it called activated sludge
F/m ratio
SVI definition and how to find in lab?
Value of f/m for ASP

M3
Steps to clean an underground tank?
What is CPVC
Why we use galvanised iron pipes
It’s limitations
What is sosham??
What is gola???

Review - panel was very polite and encouraging. Be honest. It’s was more like a conversation.

Smita Nagraj Ma'am panel

Duration: 20-25 mins

Chairperson:
1. What career option do most of graduates in Civil engg take? Told her 3 career paths.
2. Which path are you taking?
3. Are you planning to appear for Civil Services Examination
4. Nowadays Civil Engg has lost it's touch, where do you see the scope of this branch in the
next 10-20 years?

M1:
1. Pole in Mohr Circle
2. Why is Mohr circle symmetric about centre
3. C&D plant
4. If you apply shear stress on RCC wall what will happen?

M2:
1. Retaining wall
2. Soil Anchors
3. Difference between construction of flat slabs and RCC sloping roofs
4. Material applied below footing
5. Footing anchors used in delhi
6. Shear box test and triaxial test
7. Types of contract
8. Difference b/w item rate and %age rate contract

M3:
1. Why do water supply pipes burst
2. WBS
3. CSR
4. What is cover in construction site
5. Classification of doors
6. Grey water
7. Cavitation
8. Sanitation
9. Shoring
4-5 more terms were asked which I had never heard before.

Smita Nagraj ma’am panel

Duration:25-30 mins
Chairman:
1. Why did leave nhai and join iocl ?
2. What are the difficulties in construction?
3. What is role in NHAI?
[Link] IOCL what division your in?
M1:

1. how can u reach more height by providing gradient ?

2. what is lintel?
3. Different types of traps?
4. Where we will be using it?
[Link] in some dams upstream is convex?
[Link] is siphon action?
7. Where it is used in irrigation?
[Link] is oil trap?
9. What are different types of water treatment processes?
M2:
1. What is cube testing?
2. How many samples we collect?
3. Whether night driving or day driving safe in hilly areas without sign boards?
[Link] is soft storey?
M3:
1. Why only 3 samples in cube testing?
2. Do u know about r2 in graph plot?
3. What are different types soil stabilisation?
4. What is pvd?
5. What type of principal used in pvd?
6. What is smear effect?
[Link] horizontal consolidation is more than vertical consolidation?

Date: 03/03/2022 (Afternoon)

Panel: Dr Manoj Soni
Background: [Link] IITD , [Link] IITD (Structural Engineering) 2020 Passout
Hobby: Watching News related to world affairs

Chair Person:
1. Is this your first professional interview? - No, I have appeared for IOCL and BARC.
2. Have you selected in those interviews? - Yes, I get selected in both of the interviews.
3. What is status of them, You already joined or about to join.
4. What will you do if you don't get selected in ESE?
5. Have you heard about 9/11?
6. What were the other incidents that happened on 9/11 other than twin tower attack?
7. As the structural engineer, Tell me what are the reasons for the collapse of twin tower?
8. Suppose there was no explosive and negligible fuel in the aircraft than what could happen?
9. If structure is going to collapse then what are the reasons behind it?
10. If you are posted in there, How will you design the structure to prevent such incidents?
11. What practice or codal provision will you use to design such structure?
12. Do you know any structure in India who has implemented that code?

Member 1:
1. What factors will you consider in design of Airport?
2. How will you design drainage in airport?
3. How much rainfall intensity will you consider for designing?
4. If design is done based on past data, how many years will you consider?
5. From where did you get those data?
6. What type of test do you perform on soil during investigation?
7. What are the various instrument used?
8. What is difference between permeability and percolation?
9. What are different types of valves?
10. What is difference between air inlet and air relief valve?

Member 2:
1. What is difference between drilling and drifting in tunnel?
2. Have you heard about TBM, what is it?
3. Which is better drilling, drifting or TBM?
4. When we use drilling and when we use TBM?
5. What is cost of TBM?
6. What is alternative of TBM in low budget project?
7. What factors will you consider in designing of bridge?
8. Why wind load is critical for bridge?
9. What material will you use in pile foundation of Bridge?
10. Difference between RCC bridge and PSC bridge?
11. Under what circumstances will you use either of them?
12. Structural difference between various types of tunneling (Exact terms I don't remember)

Member-3
No Questions as I am the last candidate and Time is already 5:20

Asked 4-5 terms related to bridge structure and Tunneling which I have never heard.

ESE 2021 transcript

Smita nagaraj ma'am panel
Date:03/03/2022,
Afternoon session
Duration:30-35min
Chairman: You are selected as assistant engineer in cgpsc,so why you want to leave comfort
zone for ese?
[Link] is your preference of department in ese?
[Link] often see lot of seepage in old government buildings,what is the reason?
[Link] water cannot be metered,what could be the causes and remedial measures?
[Link] of success of public health engineering department and shortcomings.

Member1:
[Link] is cavity found in gas pipelines and the reason behind it?
[Link] maximum spacing of piles in is code has been specified?
[Link] percentage of earth pressure is carried by geogrids in retaining wall?
[Link] compaction is difficult in sand?
[Link] we measure relative density of sand?
[Link] is density same in case of dry and saturated same?

Member 2:
[Link] iron is present in soil,what will be the properties of this soil?
[Link] we have to carry water from a low level to high level ,commonly used?
[Link] is measurement book?
[Link] is inventory management?
[Link] and how rate analysis is done?
[Link] is steel measurement done
[Link] of doors
[Link] how much steel and concrete would have been used in the construction of this room?
[Link] rubble masonry and ashlar masonary
[Link] of shear on masonary wall

Memeber 3:
[Link] between PERT and CPM?
[Link] is optimum duration
[Link] crashing curve
[Link] between rate analysis and SOR?
[Link] of contracts
[Link] building
[Link] combinations according to IS 456
[Link] used in kitchen,and location of these
[Link] distribution network,function of ferrule?
[Link] is single and double stacking system?
[Link] strength.

Some other terms related to environment and construction management,that i had heard for the
first time.

Date-03/03/2022.
Morning session
Currently undergoing training at IOCL
Chairperson-Soni sir
M1,M2-Male.M3-Female

Ch-
[Link] are from village, what is the population?
[Link] hobbies are playing and watching [Link] you still watch the cricket?What do you do?
[Link] a civil engineer what is the advantage you take from others while bowling?
[Link] is Bernoulli principal?
[Link] is the length of bat, wicket?
[Link] is the length of pitch?
[Link] many time you have travelled by air?
[Link] do you see the yellow mark?
[Link] is white mark portion called?
[Link] of Runway?
[Link] is the material used in runway?
[Link] is harbour?
[Link] is dock?
[Link] the place called where ship gets maintaince?
[Link] does aeroplane gets navigation?
[Link] is light house?
[Link] are in Iocl,In which division are you in?What are the product of Iocl?
[Link] does finished product supplied to market?

M1.
[Link] is Archimedes principal?
[Link] is drainage gallery?
[Link] is pheriatic line?
[Link] component of earthen dam
[Link] is the property of parabola

M2.
[Link] is your favourite subject?
[Link] do you calculate stress at any point in soil
[Link] is the formula given by Bossensq for stress calculation?
[Link] your top soil is [Link] to you increase its bearing capacity?

M3.
[Link] the water is supplied to your house?
[Link] you have a 3 floor building and a tank on [Link] should be the Pump power in hp?
[Link] are the type of pump?

Ese 2021
Panel- manoj soni
Date - 03/03 afternoon
Background- delhite, iitr mtech geotechnical

Chairman
1- you are a delhite, how do you see delhi as a city.
2- which city in the world will you prefer to live your whole life if given a choice.
3- tell me 5 applications of geotechnical engineering
4. We have many highways under construction, what is the goetechnical aspect of providing
trees on highways.
5- cp has old buildings, we have constructed tunnel underground, how do you find the strength
of the soil and foundation.
6- what is the unit of bearing capacity.

Member 1-
1. What is famous in roorkee.
2. When was civil engg department established in iitr.
3. Have you heard of __. It is famous in Roorkee for civil engineering aspect.
4. What is shotcreting.
5. Where do we use and why?
6. What is grouting.
7. Where do we use grouting.
8. What is slope stabilization.

Member 2-
1. What is aqueduct
2. How to you design the aqueduct
3. How do you take width and depth of aqueduct part
4. Difference between barrage and a dam
5. How to provide safety against water in soil in embankment and for foundation
6. Something he asked for which i said sheet pile wall.
7. How to decide depth of sheet pile wall
8. Write the formula of hydraulic gradient
9. I said hydraulic gradient.

M3 ( madam thi,mask k andar kya keh gyi aadha samjh nhi aya)
1- factors affecting permeability
2. Factors not affecting permeability
3. What is ICT
4. Prime minister said something lately, what that in regard of ICT
5. Draw a canal crosss section
6. What is cutting and what is filling, show in that diagram
7. Why do we try to make cutting equal to filling
8. Whta is there is only cutting, will that become uneconomical
9. What is the importance of river bank
10. How do you decide canal alignment
11. What is ____? ( I said sorry ma'am not heard of it)
12. Some questions on canal bank, lining vegative cover like that.
Chairman- khatam tata goodbye.

Date : 04/03/2022
Interview Duration: 25mins
Chairman: Smirta Nagraj Mam
Background: BTech 2020 passout , AMU
currently pursuing MTech Environmental engineering 1st. year

CHAIRPERSON :-
1. What are you doing now (as I had not mentioned about MTech in my DAF)
2."I observe a lot of noise from upstairs , so how can it be prevented"
I answered sound insulation medium and cavity walls
3. What are cavity walls and insulation walls, how are they made.
4 . You mentioned abestos, what is the problem with using asbestos
5. What have you planned for your MTech thesis project
(Told about air quality modelling)
6. Which pollutant you will monitor (told about AQI ) and how can it help in pollution abatement
7. Why Delhi has frequent problem of pollution, measures to cater the same
8. How solid waste is treated at AMU ,Major sources of pollutants from Aligarh city.

MEMBER 1 :
[Link] you give me an example of major structure which do not require earthquake
consideration.
[Link] seismic waves cannot travel in liquid medium
3. Real example of carbon sequestration .
[Link] of asbestos.
5. Why do we limit value of skin friction resistance in pile foundation in Sandy soil
5. Difference between bulk modulus and modulus of rigidity

MEMBER 2 :
1. What is lintel?
2. Provisions for lintel embedment value
3. What is Sill level
4. What is dado and skirting
5. What are types of tender
6. Why after decreasing time beyond optimum time project cost increases even though
manpower and materials requirements remains the same
7. Consideration to be taken while doing work in cold wheather conditions
8. Pointing to the main door, which type of door it is ?
Member 3 :—
1. What is a sound vibration and condition in which it becomes dangerous for a structure
2. How vibrations are minimised in a bridges and flyovers? (Told Elastomeric bearings)
3. Compositon of Elastomeric bearings
4. Pointing to two windows , what is the main difference between them ,in terms of its
classification
5. What is aspect ratio in slab and what will be the effect if we provide same reforcement in 1
way slab as we provide for 2 way slab.

ESE 2021
Panel- Manoj soni
Date - 03/03 afternoon
Background- Delhite, IITR Mtech geotechnical

Chairman
1- you are a delhite, how do you see delhi as a city.
2- which city in the world will you prefer to live your whole life if given a choice.
3- tell me 5 applications of geotechnical engineering
4. We have many highways under construction, what is the geotechnical aspect of providing
trees on highways.
5- cp has old buildings, we have constructed tunnel underground, how do you find the strength
of the soil and foundation.
6- what is the unit of bearing capacity.

Member 1-
1. What is famous in roorkee.
2. When was civil engg department established in iitr.
3. Have you heard of __. It is famous in Roorkee for civil engineering aspect.
4. What is shotcreting.
5. Where do we use and why?
6. What is grouting.
7. Where do we use grouting.
8. What is slope stabilization.

Member 2-
1. What is aqueduct
2. How to you design the aqueduct
3. How do you take width and depth of aqueduct part
4. Difference between barrage and a dam
5. How to provide safety against water in soil in embankment and for foundation
6. Something he asked for which i said sheet pile wall.
7. How to decide depth of sheet pile wall
8. Write the formula of hydraulic gradient
9. I said hydraulic gradient.

M3 ( madam thi,mask k andar kya keh gyi aadha samjh nhi aya)
1- factors affecting permeability
2. Factors not affecting permeability
3. What is ICT
4. Prime minister said something lately, what that in regard of ICT
5. Draw a canal cross section
6. What is cutting and what is filling, show in that diagram
7. Why do we try to make cutting equal to filling
8. What is there is only cutting, will that become uneconomical
9. What is the importance of river bank
10. How do you decide canal alignment
11. What is ____? ( I said sorry ma'am not heard of it)
12. Some questions on canal bank, lining vegitative cover like that.
Chairman- khatam tata goodbye.

ESE 2021 interview

Panel : Chairperson +3 members
Chairperson- Sujata mehta
1 female , 2 males in tech members
Date - 02/03/2022 ,time 11.26 am
Duration - 24 minutes
Background -NIT KKR civil, IITR envt Mtech + IOCL

Chairperson -
So introduce yourself to the board members.
So what is your work profile in IOCL.?
So you are from Gurgaon , recently there was a news of building of 6floors collapsing. How did
this happen and why it happens even if there are so many checks during approval(something
like this was asked)?
Continued on the same..

M1
What are the different shapes of sewers?
What are the characteristics of egg shaped sewers?
When it is prefered?
When combined sewers are used?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using it?
How will you take care of Storm discharge?
What do we do in the primary treatment of sewage treatment plants?
What is oil skimmer?
Suppose today is 31st December and there is lot of oil next morning how will you take care of
that ?(couldn't ans)
M2 (female)
(speaking slowly and less words used )
What are the different types of soil found in India ?
So black cotton soil should not be used according to you?
Okay tell me what are the different types of foundation used for construction?
You are currently in Prayagraj , what are the rivers flowing there?

M3
So you have won in tennis some competition?
Tell me about dimensions of tennis court?
Convert In metres
Suppose you have to make an infrastructure so which city you'd prefer Gurgaon or Kurukshetra
considering only environmental factors?
Tell me only environmental factors.
Okay leave .
What are the difficulties in making an infrastructure in Gurgaon?
Won't noise pollution be there
How will you overcome that
What measures u would take...and some more uncomfortable discussions in same domain

Chairperson
So is there any fav subject of yours which has not been asked from you?
( Said soil has been asked and RCC is also one of my fav sub)

M1 -
What is neutral axis?(wasn't impressed so told SOM wali too)
Draw stress distribution of a RC beam.
chairperson -Thankyou

Second shift
Board sathyavaty mam
Timing 25 30 minutes

Chairperson:
(read whole resume)
What were you doing after 2018
Why you didn't join any of those jobs
Why ES when you can join Aen post in your state having more blah blah nd ol in your local
area
What is sustainable design
What is green building
What is difference between sustainable and green concept
M1
What is doda something I haven't heard of
What is dpc
Thickness and constituents
Purpose of dpc
Additional materials applied over it
Can you provide dpc in a 50 year old load bearing structure
Rainwater harvesting

M2
Btech project? (carbon fibre reinforced self compacting concrete)
Advantages of SCC
Advantage of carbon fibre
Carbon used was organic or inorganic
What is orthographic projection
Types of brick bonds
What is king closer nd queen closer

M3
What is a future city
What is smart city
What is climate change
How much is the average earth temperature
One simple calculative problem of carbon emission kinda we solve in environment

M2 again
You taught mathematics which topic u find difficult

Date- 3rd march

Chairman
-read out daf
-what were you doing in the gap
-what have you learnt in training
-Full form rti and cgs
-what is sor
-if rate of certain item is not given in sor then how you will find out
-which type of market

Member 1
-SOR is given for which city
-how will you find cost in other cities
-what is cost index
-cpvc
-how to find slope of bathroom floor
-min and max steel for beam column
-cover for steel and column

Member 2
-S curve and its significance
-Advance surveying terms
-principal of bukinghum pie therom
-triangulation survey and its type
-flood routing and its significance
-types of flood routing
-explain muskinghum method
-water treatment plant both conventional and advance
-Advance treatment method for boiler feed water
-Zeolite method

Member 3
-More like a conversation like how to set advance solid waste management techniques
-design population and solid waste generated per capital per day
-composition of waste
-percentage of OM in solid waste as per indian scenario
-Do you think land filling is a good method
-leachates
-major gas released
-treatment method for leachates

Date 28/02/2022
afternoon session
sujata mehta mam
btech completed in 2020
mtech final sem from construction technology and management worked in L&T also

chairmen
why ese not L&T
why mtech ?
what is your thesis ? (precast technology )
what is your worked conclusion and result in project
what is 3D printing ?
what is precast ?
why houses not made through precast basically what are the challenges?

member 1
what is green building ?
provisions of green building?
what is rating?
which authority gives the rating?
what is griha and its full form
what is sustainable management?
how you ensure sustainable management as a engineer?

member 2
how precast is cost effective ?
you can make this upsc bhawawn with precast?
what is breakeven point in precast/
comparison of precast and cast in situ?
time reduce in precast
how to check reinforcement in slab ?

member 3
btech project ( muncipal solid waste management of indore city )
what is hazardous waste ?
what is nuclear waste ?
activated sludge process principal
what is noise pollution
measures to curb noise pollution ( I said concept of silent disco)
what are cpcb guidelines for this noise pollution ?

Date: 4th March 2022

Session: Afternoon
Panel: Smt. Sujata Mehta

CH:-
1. Give your educational introduction.
2. Tell us about your [Link] Project (Solid Waste Management).
3. What are the problems faced during Solid Waste Management that reduces the efficiency
greatly?
4. Which cities in India have good Solid Waste Management?
5. What are the key features that separate them from other cities?
6. In what ways can the waste be reused?

M1:- (old,seemed to be a professor of IIT)

1. Tell me your favourite subjects. (Said Structural Analysis, Strength of Materials, Soil
Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics)
2. How can you find the Pi-terms in dimensional analysis.
3. Do you require the concept of rank of matrix to find the pi-terms?
4. How is river modelled for testing in lab?
5. What material is used in lab for model testing?
6. What are the processes used in recycling of solid waste?
7. Which of these processes have been adopted in your city?
8. Can sludge be used in agriculture?
9. What is the concept used to convert sludge into biofeed?
10. Tell disadvantages of vermicomposting.
11. How will you select the site for the Waste Management Plant?
12. What are the requirements for the location of landfill?
13. Do you know about the JARGON table for selection of landfill?

M2:-(relatively young)
1. What is the system of Water Supply in you state? (Gujarat)
2. Is there a scarcity of water in Gujarat?
3. How can odour be removed from sewage?
4. What are different types of filters?
5. Which filter has most efficiency for odour removal?
6. What chemicals are used for removal of algae?

A few more questions on Environment which i don't remember.

M3:- (female member)

1. What are culverts?
2. Different types of culverts.
3. What are different types of foundation?
4. When is shallow foundation and deep foundation used?
5. What is tropic survey?
6. What is Astronomy?
7. What is Astronomy used for?
8. What is siphonic action?
9. How is the initial pressure provided to overcome summit height in a siphon?
10. Where is siphon used?
11. What are different types of valves and where are they provided?

CH:- Any subject you would like to be asked questions on? (Said Structural Analysis)

M1 asked 2-3 basic questions on indeterminacy as a formality

CH: Good. Thank you.

No questions on hobby.

Date: 04/03/2022 ( Forenoon)

Chairman: M Satyavathi Ma'am
Background: 2019 passout. Brief stint with online Ed Tech platforms( Chegg etc)

Chairman: Read out the DAF almost completely.

- asked about gap
- how much did they pay you monthly ( Ed tech platform)
- what was your role exactly
- did they pay you in foreign currency or indian currency
- asked about college society membership(innovation & incubation club )
- any interesting idea you came across
- what if you're posted in chennai
- will be able to cope up with the env there

M1
- asked a purely mathematical question based on integration (pen & paper was allowed)
regarding coal consumption of some country
- what is loudness
- what's the formula to calculate it
- frequency range for normal human hearing
- reference pressure value
- CPCB limits for noise level in residential area
- how do you measure sound level

M2
- difference bw internal wall & external wall
- thickness values of both
- pointed towards the floor & asked about type of tile used
- can we use the same in bathrooms
- why
- precautions you'd take before plastering a wall
- how would you accommodate ducts(plumbing or electrical) in a wall
- vertically or horizontally
-why

M3
- suppose a column shows visible buckling, what you do as an engineer to correct the column
- can you use all the methods you mentioned simultaneously
-why
- difference bw shear wall & partition wall
- what's coincidental draft
- why do u need to take max of thefinalltwo values
Discussed at length about this concept
- what's peak factor
- it's value
- now you're already accounting for unseen factors by using peak factors, why do we then use
the concept of coincidental draft.
finally seemed convinced with the explanation
- how would you design a rural water supply scheme & an urban one
- will the domestic water demand be same
-why
- asked about values for LIG & HiG communities
- name the code with year/ latest revision
- what would you do next

Ch: That's it. You may leave now.

Hello everyone i thought i should share my interview transcript as now is the right time ...i didn't
share it before because i thought it would get lost in the chat...

Chairman (Manoj Soni sir)

Some general questions about my state just to calm my nerves ?
What are u doing after btech ?
Iit madras some general talk on this
Meaning of sudhanshu? (It is related to moon)
How will you construct a building on moon/ challenges compared to earth? (The answer i gave I
believe was one of the deciding factors for a good score)
Your hobbies all indoors? He then said don't u like to go out? ( I just accepted my flaws there/
but told them I'm working on this)
Favourite football club
Player

Member 1 (all questions were from my mtech only so you can skip this part if it isn't related to u
guys)
Project of mtech
Project related questions
Is 11384 (was working related to this is code)
Abaqus modeling (software on which i was working on)
Steps involved
Meshing
Model support conditions and specifications
Basis of is 11384
Convergence of your model

Member 2 (knew about my state apparently more than me 😅)

Lakes in j&k?
Asked about Artificial lake in j&k ?
How is it constructed?
River tawi origination?
Problems faced in river side structures?
Liquefaction prevention?(was impressed with this answer)
Dam construction cement and concrete grade?
Some questions was related to uplift (couldn't recall)

Member 3 (covered a lot of topic ... couldn't answer 2-3 questions of her)
What is Gis?
What is Qgis?
New technologies in civil engineering (do prepare this question well these questions do fetch
marks)
Prime minister's gift to farmers( i didn't want to name revoked farm laws cause its wasn't my
domain so i just named a csir project/policy related to weather prediction that apparently PM
had some role in it)
What is a Disaster?
Any disaster in 2021?
2 Uses of surge tank ?
Water hammer?
Turbine classification?
Reaction and impulse turbine?
Software related to pert and cpm?

The thing i learnt from my previous attempt was that no matter what happens don't loose
confidence. If you don't know politely say sorry sir i will look in to this topic.

Panel - Smita Nagaraj

Chairman
Where are you working currently?
When did you join?
Now a days lot of accidents are happening on the highways. What are some issues related to
design of road due to which these accidents are happening?
What was your work in your previous job?
What are some parameters in which contractor can misuse ?
What is tender excess?

Member 1
What is difference between dpr and estimate?
How will you measure GSB quantity using NHAI method?
What is the minimum lane road for which NHAI takes up project?
What will be the width of 4 lane highway?

Member 2
Do you know prestress concrete?
How many types of prestress concrete are there?
How are pretensioned and post tensioned concrete are made?
How many types of losses in prestressed?
Are the losses of same type in post tensioned as well?
What are railways sleepers, pretensioned or post? Why are they ?
What is transition curve?
What is the use of transition curve?
What is the radius of transition curve ? How does it vary along the curve?

🥲
How many transition curve will be there for a section of road?
What is reverse curve? (heard it as rivers curve )
How many transition curves will be in reverse curve?
What is centrifugal ratio?
What is centrifugal ratio of road and railways?

Member 3
What is reduced level?
Can a station have more than one reduced level?
What are some equipments used for surveying?
Height of measuring staff?
Least count of staff?
Difference between surveying and levelling ?
What is true bearing and magnetic bearing?
How will you measure angle between two lines using a compass?

DOI 28/11/2022
Panel: Smita Nagraj Mam
Chairman: What are new technologies related to civil engineering?
How can you stop pollution in industry and in construction area any new technology?

Member 1: Position of live load for maximum negative bending moment in 5 span continuous
beam?
Bending moment at ends?
IS code value for this negative bending moment?
Shear stirrup for dynamic loading design?
Design criteria of stirrup as per IS 13920?
Width of column criteria as per IS 13920?
Depth of footing at ends?
Critical section for shear, bending moment and two way shear?
What is the criteria so that having posible two way shear?
Other name of two way shear?
Column positions for unixial, biaxial and axial loading?
What is deep beam?
Deep beam design criteria?

Member 2: Some government say yamuna is polluted other say it is not what we can say?
Any agency for its data?
Test for river pollution?
What for inorganic and toxic pollutants?
Types of tiles?
Tests for tiles and its criteria?
What type of tile is it on the floor?

Member 3: New technology related to construction and highway engineering?

Any technology of road without aggregates?
Test for soil at about 1km of depth?
Formwork and shuttering removal time?
Suppose PM wants to inaugurate a day earlier how would you remove formwork if wanted to be
removed one day earlier?
High performance concrete.
Under reamed piles use?
Protection to save loose soil from collapsing while pouring concrete?

😁
Some questions i forgot hope it helps..

Date 29/11/2022 (Forenoon session)

Chairman-Smita Nagraj Ma'am
Duration-Around 30 min.

Chairman
1. Why one should go for arbitration?
2. What are the clauses for escalation included in contract?
3. What are the materials for which generally escalation happens?
4. What happens in case due to some fault of contractor, prices of materials go up, then how it
would be managed in contract?

Some similar contracts related questions.

Member 1
1. For what four things escalation happens?
2. Rolling, limiting and exceptional gradients for NH
[Link] between viaduct and bridge
4. Why in some cases bridge is made of steel whereas in some cases it is made of concrete?
5. On what basis one decides if there should be a flyover at a road crossing or not.

Member 2
[Link] of activities in Water treatment plant
[Link] aeration is done
3. What impurities are removed from aeration
4. What coagulant is used
5 What alum does
6 Why colloidal particles do not settle down
7 What are colloidal particles
8 What disinfectant is used
9 What chlorine does
10 Can ozone be used as disinfectant
11 Can ultraviolet rays be used as disinfectant
12 What are ultraviolet rays
13 Why does water loses its taste after boiling
14 What ie permanenet hardness in water
15 Why does sodium not cause hardness

Member 3
[Link] Intz tank is named so
2. Where was first intz tank constructed
3 Different parts of intz tank
4 Where are ring beams in intz tank
5 What are stresses in top dome of intz tank
6 Is there hoop tension in cylindrical portion of intz tank
7 Why reinforcements are provided in both faces of cylindrical portion of intz tank
8 What are dynamic forces acting on intz tank
9 How wind force will be calculated on it
10 How earthquake force will be calculated on it
11 What are the minimum dimensions of beam and column specified for intz tank as per codal
provision
12 What is the minimum diameter of bar used for column in RCC
13 What is the minimum and maximum percentage of reinforcement for beams as per IS code?
14 What is difference between box and slab culvert?
15 What method will you use to analyse box culvert?
16 What are provisons of reinforcement percent in deep beam?

Date 29/11/2022
Panel Smita Nagraj Ma’am
Duration : 30 minutes
Chairman Ma’am:
Are you relaxed, is this your first interview and where are you working currently.
2. These days we talk a lot about sustainability whether sustainability related to environment or
related to cost or other things so can you tell what civil engineers can de or doing for
sustainability.
3. Why a lot of projects on India are getting delayed and thus causing a lot of problems can you
tell some reasons to avoid delaying of projects and how to mitigate them
( had a lot discussion in this )
Member 1.
Are you comfortable with design?
( should have said no)
1 what is T beam?
2. What is criteria that you will say it is T beam( wanted to hear monolithic action only)
3. What is other point to say a beam is T beam?
4. How do you design a T beam?
5. What is stress strain curve for concrete is called? Technical term
6. What is value is stress stain curve at top?
7. How do you arrive at 0.45fck?
8. 1/1.5 is .667 how did you get.45?
9. What is the value of steel strength taken for design?
10. How to get .87 fy ?
11. What is development length?
12. What is its purpose?
13. What is its value in terms of dia?
14. How will you provide the reinforcement for beam and column joint for earthquake design
according to is 13920?
[Link] a T beam is provided?

Member 2.
1. What properties are similar to fly ash and cement?
2 constituents of fly ash, what is major constituent and what is its percentage?
3. Where do we get fly ash from?
4 how it is collected from top?
5 where is fly ash used beside cement?
6. What is difference between fly ash and bottom ash?
7. Where bottom ash is used?
8. How will you decide which stone wares or ceramics to use if you have large variety of price
range is available
9. Tell me the different parts in this door( asked each parts of door by holding in hands )
10. What is name of this door ( technical name)

Member 3
1. can you tell what are black spots?
2 what all may be reason for back spots in sharp turn?
[Link] measures you will take to avoid accidents?
4 beside sight distance what is other reason for accident?
5. How will you increase setback distance?
6. How many black spots are identified in India by NHAI?
7. How will you construct pile for bridge in river water?
8. What other method beside coffer dam?
9. What measure you will take if soil is loose for holding the excavation of pile if even bentonite
slurry can’t hold the excavation?
10. What survey method is opted for measuring the depth of river?

Had work profile but they didn’t ask any thing related to that

Date 29/11/2022
Panel Raj shukla sir
Duration 20 min.
Chairperson:
What are you doing nowadays.
I told about Nhai
What do u do in nhai
They asked about different department.
Why these days only nitin gadkari is doing remarkable job??
Why only promises being made and not executed.....
Member 1.
Draw balanced cantilever beam.
Tension and compression in cantelever beam.
What do we do to ensure the safety of cantilever beam related to props.
What is NH, SH, MDR
distinction of the above
Formation width.
Member 2
Difference between asphalt and bitumen
Test of aggregates.
Test of bitumen
Softening point test?
Tensile test of bitumen?
CBR test ?
Asphaltic concrete?
Member 3
About btech project
Processes of municipal waste water treatment
Landfilling
What do we do with the sludge
Some question about methane gas

Member 1( Mr. Shukla)

How many IITs are there and should there be more number of IITs in the country?
Asked some questions on DAF- achievement section?
What is innovation and how it is a necessary tool for technology?
Is innovation more feasible in democratic country or a country like North Korea?
Take north India and south India and tell where innovation is more feasible?
Russia was better than US in many aspects before world War but now it's military,
semiconductor important, etc is suffering How according to you the silicon Valley as an
innovation boosted US and u agree whether Russia is lagging in innovation?
Member 2
Asked about native place's altitude and reason for floods some years ago?
What are different subsurface failures in dams or embankments?
What is difference between khosla and blighs theory? Where khosla studied from?
What is piping explain?
What is extreme altitudes of Delhi? (Range approx)
What if a city is to be build on flat plane or hilly plane and which one is suitable and why?
How will u control drainage if city is built on slopy or hilly part of delhi?
Member 3
What was your project in college?
Asked a lot about the project and mainly how it will help in practical situations( mine was on
hydraulic behaviour of plastic clays)
How will you waterproof your foundation?
Member 4
What was your elective?
I said maths then he asked how partial differential equations help in civil?
Fin..

DOI - 29/11/2022 Afternoon

Panel - Raj Shukla sir

Chairmen
1. You worked in TCE(company)?
2. How was the experience?
3. What did you learn?
4. What was your salary?
5. What are your favorite fields in civil engineering?
6. Why we give importance to soil?
7. Why soil is different everywhere?
8. What are Story-rich video games(hobby)?

M1
1. You heard Morbi bridge collapsed? What kind of bridge it was?
2. Why did it fail?
3. Explain load path in suspended bridge?
4. What will be load these each member carry?
5. What kind of load tower carries?
6. How will you design the building?
7. What different codes will you use for designing?
8. What about steel?

M2
1. What are different types of staircases?
2. How do you design a staircase?
2. What are loads you will consider in designing?
3. Why staircase is so important in the building?
4. What are loads for overcrowding?

M3
1. What structures you designed on in your company?
2. How did you design it?
3. What was your [Link] project?
4. How much is distance between Sangli and Kolhapur(project related)?
5. How did you identify the blackspots?
6. How many blackspots did you identify?
5. Explain one hotspot corrective measures you provided.
6. Why did you not provide signals?
7. What should be minimum traffic volume required to provide a signal?

Chairman - Thank you. Your interview is over.

As I was leaving, M1(again) - was this your first time ese interview? Yes.

Smita nagraj panel

Date: 29/11/22

CP- you are from Rajasthan and you have worked in HPCL so why you left job
2. Why do you want to join CPWD instead of HPCL
3. What do you see in state govt building ( have some random answer like life and other stuff)
4. Do you not see any cracks in those building
5. Why UPSC bhavan such not have any cracks
6. What value you bring in CPWD.

M1
1. You are supposed to have choice in cpwd that you can choice your nature of job (1 design 2
estimate 3 maintenance) what will you choose.( I choose design)
2. Design process of construction of a building
3. what is sub soil exploration and how you will do it
4. If suppose SPT no. Is 8 then what will be your type of foundation then he elaborate this
question as I am not able answer it( finally give answer deep foundation)
5. Then what is well foundation
6. Construction of well foundation
7. Problem of well foundation
8. Suppose as structural designer you have to given a column of size 40*90 but due to space
limit you can give only 40*60 then what will you do
9. Some other ques also been asked but i am not able to recall

M2
1. Type of slab
2. Corridor slab is which type
3. Room slab is of which type
4. 5 spanContinuous slab live load placement
5. Torsional reinforcement of slab
6. 13920 beam column joint specification
7. What is Beam design moment(100knm hog or 50 knm sag)
8. Wastage of material in the beam as less material required for 50knm what will you do (hint
given redistribution of stress)
9. What is redistribution and how will you do it

M3
1. What is tunnel engineering ( i pass this and told never studied)
2. What is the rainfall data recorded for design of dam
3. Return period of dam
4. Design data and return period for earthen dam and minor dam
5. What is yield
6. What is runoff
7. What are losses
8. Where IMD is situated
9. What is seepage water, infiltered water, percolated water
10. What is the use of S Curve

Raj Shukla panel

30/11/2022
After noon session

Chairperson
1. You are brilliant student then why private colleges for btech?
2. Can student from private college compete with IITs students?
[Link] you know what is technocracy?
China recent 2 presidents have been engineers ....is that the reason for their growth?
4. China ahead or America in current scenario and why?
5. Name the Indian PM who was engineer?
6. Would you like to see any engineer PM of our country? Do you think it is possible? If yes how
it is possible?

Member 1.-
1. Gujrat morbi incident reason
2. Part of suspension bridge and loads associated with it
3. Type of stone masonry
5. what are type of ashlar masonry
6. He asked about 3 types of stone i couldn't hear like through type stone etc.
7. What is Dpc
8. What are specifications of dpc
[Link] are materials used for dpc
10. Draw section for DPC
11. What is foundation provided if rock is there
12. What is the depth of foundation is provided if it is provided on rock
13. What is king closure
14. Where it is used draw diagram

Member 2.
1. So you did teaching , what you taught ( i said maths)
2. What us use of partial differential equations
3. What is degree of partial differential equations
4. What is taylor expansion?
5. What was your btech project
(Asked everything about btech project... every single details with reason)

Member 3
1. You have mentioned mhrd scholarship from where you are doing masters
2. Subject in masters
3. Ine subject i told optimization techniques which was maths additional subject
4. What is optimisation..... explain analytically
5. What are methods of optimization
6. What is simplex and Big M method
7. How will you optimise resources for prestess bars
8. What are constraints?

Date - 30 Nov, 2022

Panel : Ms. Smita Nagraj Mam
Background: Did MTech in Water Resources Engineering, Selected as SDO in Water
Conservation Department
Duration: 40Min
CH:
What are you doing currently?
Isn't it good? (Current Job)
Suppose you are at a district place and you have to provide water to villages, How will you
provide it, Tell me Every Step from Source? (Took 2-3 minutes)
Tell me something about Water Conservation Department?
Have you seen any structures?
How Check Dams are designed?
What is Jalyukta Shivar Yojna?
Maharashtra Govt. always comes with new idea. Any new Scheme regarding Water Supply ?
(Told Marathwada Water Grid)
What is Purpose?
How water will be lifted?

M1:
Do you know Bridges?
Width of 2 lane Bridge?
What is Kerb?
How the Longitudinal Girders designed?
Forces Acting on Bridges?
How Live Load Calculated on Bridges?
What are Standard Loadings adopted on Bridges?
Difference between piers and Abutments?
Forces Acting on Piers?
How will you design Abutments?
Which Foundation is Provided for Bridges?
Have you seen Sinking of Wells?
How it is done?
How the reinforcement provided in Design of Bridges?
Which is your favourite Subject?
Difference between Shallow and Deep Foundations?
Asked Condition wheather and How Bearing Correction Factor Applied?
What is Dilatancy Correction?
Types of Correction used in SPT Test?
What is Overburden Correction?
What are different types of Deep Foundations?
What are Different types of Piles?
How Friction Piles are Designed?

M2:
You have to design tunnel, How will you select the Site?
How tunnel designed on Soft Soil?
What is Needle Beam Method?
Suppose there is a Dam, Water level in u/s is such that it has not exceeded Maximum Water
level but Stored Water causing damage to Structure then what measures you will be taken?
What is Spillway?
How Erosion of River or Lake prevented?
Black Cotton Soil is predominant in Maharashtra, How will you design pavement on this Soil?

Male Chairperson Panel (Not sure if he was Raj Shukla Sir because his face didn't match what
Google or UPSC site displays)
1/12/2022
Chairman
Goodmorning have a seat and remove the mask if you don't have any covid symptoms
Introduce yourself in one minute
Challenges in your teaching job
How do you deal with them?
Dissatisfaction in any front regarding the level of students? (Said that yes but I take it as a
challenge and bridge the gaps with relevant change in my teaching methodology)
How to deal with that?
How to make building earthquake resistant?

M1:
Yeh AQI kya hai?
What all pollutants in it?
Who does the measurements and mathematical working to reach the final value?
What's the AQI today?
Why so high AQI?
Why photochemical smog? Any other Smog also? How it affects the visibility? Why near India
Gate so much pollution?
Why AQI shoots up during winter nights? Inversion?

M2:
Wind kya hai? Dampeners for wind?
Relevant IS code for wind?
At what height basic wind speed measured?
Relevant corrections for converting it to Design Wind speed?
Bina kharcha kare low cost solutions batao to make short height buildings Seismic proof for
winds and earthquake
Basic wind speed of Delhi?
Zones for winds and earthquakes?
Passive and active system for seismic proofing of buildings.

M3:
What all are checked for fire proofing of buildings?
Roads mei which value is IRC based on for flexible pavement measurement?
How CBR is measured?
Minimum CBR recommended by IRC?
Suppose soil is poor having CBR value of 2, what would you do?
You worked for a Building project, for which department was it being constructed ? National
Building Code prescribes minimum height for floors of an office building any idea?
Which ductile designing code used there? Tell the detailing of column beam joint?
How to make a load bearing structure earthquake resistant?
Retrofitting of an existing structure for earthquake?
How to convert traffic loads to simplify our calculations for MSA (I told about standard axle
loads, VDF and its calculations but somehow he wasn't convinced)

Chairman:
We asked you what we wanted to hear now tell me if you want to enlighten us about any new
innovation being used in Civil Engineering ( I talked about the recent Waste to Energy plants
being constructed in Delhi to get rid of the municipal solid waste problem and reduce the need
of landfills)

This is all I can remember as of now.

Shukla Sir's panel is chill, especially Shukla Sir himself barring ek professor who asked me a lot
about winds and it's relevant IS codes which I couldn't recall very well that time, he was a bit
disappointed. Last mei ek topic of Civil Engineering khud uthaane ko bolte hai, so prepare one
for yourself according to your comfort (although I'm not sure if the panel is doing the same with
all)

All the Best!

Panel-Smita Nagaraj
Interview -2 Dec

Chairman-
1. Whet are you doing these days?
2. Where do you stay ?
3. Difference between planned city and unplanned city.
[Link] me something about silchar.
5. What is sewage treatment plant.?
6. Source of water supply in silchar.
[Link] is the capacity of your college sewage system.
8. How waste water is utilised.
[Link] is ur best subject.
few more questions related to water supply and waste water.

Member 1
1. Difference between soil erosion and slope failure.
2. Measures to stablize soil failure and erosion.
3. few questions from survey.
4. Dimension of retaining wall.
5. How to increase bond when we have to build a new structure over an old existing building.

Member -2
1. Design of ioslated footing.
2. Dimension of footing.
3 .In which criteria depth will be maximum.
[Link] of retaining wall.
5. Water table correction for footing.
6. Few more practical questions.

member 3

1. Significance of streter phelps equation.

2. Initial Do deficit and mechanism involved in self purification
3. Do sat of water
4. whose Do is more Sea water or river water.
5. sewrage appratus
[Link] type of manholes.
[Link] is deep manhole.
8. which material is used in sewage pipe.
9. Type of RCC pipe.
10. Few more questions related to envi. engg

ESE-2022
Date of PT: 01-12-2022
Panel: Smita Nagaraj Mam

CH: Why did you left pvt. Job for govt. job?
CH: What is this govt. job’s exposure every other candidate is talking about? All the govt. works
is taking care by pvt. Firms. DPR, estimates, design, drawings & even project management is
done by Pvt. Firms. Govt. people only sits on their desks and put sign on some papers. Is this
even exposure?
CH: Why you left pvt. Firm? Every other candidate says salary, pride for family, etc. What was
your reason apart from that?
CH: What is the biggest project you handle in your current organisation and previous
organisation? Just tell me the names only. (I said residential flats in current organisation and
design of metro station in previous organisation)
CH: See. You are exposed to lots of things in pvt. Firms. How can you say govt. gives you same
level of exposure?
CH: Are you selected in pvt. Firm through campus placement?
CH: Have you analysed that interview? What is pvt. Firms look into a candidate?
CH: People having zero practical knowledge are coming to govt. job & perform checking of pvt.
Firm’s work. Are they fit for those roles?
CH: Do you believe people having very good theoretical knowledge (fresh graduates) have
same level of practical knowledge (site problems)?
CH: Can you suggest something to solve this problem?
CH: What was the exact work you did in metro design?
CH: Are you an expert in design? Lets evaluate that.
M1: What is the detailing of beam-column?
M1: What is the minimum size of column?
M1: Suppose you get a drawing of any column reinforcement. How can you say that this much
reinforcement will take care the load effectively without using any software?
M1: Minimum & Maximum reinforcement criteria is very elementary, tell me some solid answer.
M1: What is the minimum size of beam?
M1: So you have design the substructure of Metro. Is it a cast-in-situ or precast pile?

M2: Just visualise us how will you cast that in site. What are the steps involved? (I told step by
step process and he has questions for every steps)
M2: Sometimes it is seen that pile hole collapses. How can we say whether its collapse or not?
M2: How can you rectify this problem?
M2: (back to his first question) Suppose 28 days are over for curing. Now visualise us how will
you cast pilecap?
M2: What will be the code used for coastal structure?
M2: Is there any codal limits for coastal structures?
M2: Minimum cement content, grade of concrete is very elementary. Is there any other thing?
M2: How will you protect coastal bank?
M2: Have you seen the stones near Marine drive? What is the name of that shape?
M2: How to place that on real site (step by step)?
M2: Is there any codes for those stones?
M2: Tell me the codal procedure to design those stones?

M3: How much water is there in ocean?

M3: How much salt is there in sea water?
M3: Can we use sea water for curing?
M3: What is the name of reaction (Corrosion)?
M3: Tell me the mechanism of corrosion in concrete?
M3: Can we use sea water for curing for any other material & why?
M3: Can we use sea water for drinking?
M3: What are the limits for water used for curing? Is it written in any code? Tell me the name of
that code?
M3: Is there any code for coastal structure built very near to sea?
M3: What are the parameters one keep into mind to design structures near to sea?
M3: How Mumbai Municipality dispose their sewer?
M3: What are the different methods of disposing sewers?
M3: What are the one main factor to keep into mind to dispose sewer into the sea?
M3: Which tide is more critical for disposing sewer: High or Low? Why?
M3: If with same parameters, one buildings is built in Mumbai and one building is built in Delhi.
Which one is more durable? Why?
M3: What is the direction of wind during day & Night in places like Mumbai (near the ocean)?
M3: Why Mumbai gets flooded during rainy season?
M3: Do you know about RL? What is the RL for Mumbai?
M3: What is the RL for Delhi?
M3: What is urban flooding?
M3: What are the factors

M3: What are the factors contribute to Urban flooding?

M3: How to rectify that?
M3: What is the one main reason for places like Dadar gets flooded during Monsoon?

Chairperson:

1. What are u doing right now?

3. So you are from Varanasi, as right now there is a lot of influx of people due to newly built
temple, what are the major civil engineering challenges and how would u deal with them?
4. Have u seen any water treatment plant?
5. From where your hometown gets drinking water from?
6. How would carry it from there and supply it to the houses?
7. How would you know that water has been disinfected properly and is safe for supplying?
8. There is major problem of water lowering of water table in punjab, how as a civil engineer
would u deal with that?
9. (Shows a biseri bottle), there is major criticism of this packaged water, are u aware of that?
10. There is also a criticism that it removes the required minerals, so whats your take on that?

Technical 1:

So you have done MTech in structure... How many types of live loads are there?
(*Shocked to hear that live load has types)...
In my answer I said somewhere 'earthquake load'
Then the entire conversation went to rapid fire round about earthquake designing, from zone
factor values, R, I, Sa/g to calculation of base shear to force distribution (even the formulas)

Technical 2:

1. What is the height of a office building?

**Okay u are not sure,
2 what is the dimension of a office building(or maybe room, not sure)?
**Okay u are not aware of the values
3. What gate width would you provide in a office,?
**Okay u don't know any practical values
4. What is the name of the code which specifies all these dimensions?
**Okay u are not aware
5. Have u ever heard of National building code?
6. Suppose you saw a design of roof of this room, and u find out that it's failing, what would you
do?
7. How would you provide r/f at the corners?
8. What other subjects you like?
*Said geotech and environment
9. Have you heard of Environmental impact assessment?
10. How would you do EIA in a forest?
**Okay u are not aware
11. What are the studies/tests you would do in a EIA?
**Okay u are not aware
12. How would you get a NOC for a project?
**Okay u don't know the field procedure
13. What is the maximum(*or min, not sure) period to get NOC for EIA?
**Okay u are not able to recall
14. So what do you know in Environment then?

🥲
15. Okay so water and waste water treatment, but that's different from environment na?
*Chairperson signalled him to stop (stop the humiliation infact )

Technical 3:

1. So you said waste water treatment, what is a tertiary treatment?

*Feeling humiliated, Didn't wanted to say I don't know, I asked him, Is sludge digestion tertiary?
*he smiled and said no its secondary
2. So is sludge digestion aerobic or anaerobic?
3. In anaerobic digestion, some people say there are 2 steps, some say 3 steps, how many
steps are there? Do you know?
4. How after hydrolysis, acid comes?
5. Why do we prefer anaerobic digestion?
6. What is the percentage of methane in the gases?
7. Do you know the calorific value of methane?
*From here started I Don't know streak
8. Govt is promoting gobar gas plants now a days, Have you seen any?
**Okay u haven't
9. Gobar gas plants has a major operational trouble, what is that?
**No don't say I dont know, the answer lies in the previous answer you have given, relate to that
**Then I said its diificult to maintain the pH, bacteria gets upset...from there contd..
10. How would u maintain the pH?
11. What should be the range?
**Okay u are not sure
12. Have you heard of expansion joints?
13. Why they are provided?
14. Have u seen them anywhere? (*In CC pavements)
15. What is the gap between them?
(*I said we calculate the length based on strength, he interrupted)
16. No I want to know the general spacing? (*I said 45-50m)
17. Do we provide anything in that space?
18. Give some examples of those filler materials?
19. What other joints you see in the pavements?

20. Where else have u seen expansion joints?(*I said boundary walls)
21. Suppose you have a 200m wall, how many joints would u provide?
**Okay u don't know
22. Would you provide expansion joint in a compound wall?
**Okay u are not sure
23. What is the difference between bitumen and cutback bitumen?
24. What is the difference between bitumen and tar?
(*In tar part, i said distructive distillation of crude oil)
25. Are u sure that it's crude oil?
**I smiled and said I'm not sure, he smiled back, he looked at nagraj mam, nodded then nagraj
mam smiled (*kinda smirk smile)
Your interview is over, you can go

Panel-Smita Nagaraj
Interview -2 Dec

Chairman-

1. Whet are you doing these days?

2. Where do you stay ?
3. Difference between planned city and unplanned city.
[Link] me something about silchar.
5. What is sewage treatment plant.?
6. Source of water supply in silchar.
[Link] is the capacity of your college sewage system.
8. How waste water is utilised.
[Link] is ur best subject. (I told soil mechanics)- She said why soil mechanics ,it was in 1st or
2nd sem.
few more questions related to water supply and waste water.

Member 1
1. Difference between soil erosion and slope failure.
2. Measures to stablize soil failure and erosion.
3. few questions from survey.
4. Dimension of retaining wall.
5. How to increase bond when we have to build a new structure over an old existing building.

Member -2
1. Design of ioslated footing.
2. Dimension of footing.
3 .In which criteria depth will be maximum.
[Link] of retaining wall.
5. Water table correction for footing.
6. Few more practical questions.

member 3

1. Significance of streter phelps equation.

2. Initial Do deficit and mechanism involved in self purification
3. Do sat of water
4. whose Do is more Sea water or river water.
5. sewrage appratus
[Link] type of manholes.
[Link] is deep manhole.
8. which material is used in sewage pipe.
9. Type of RCC pipe.
10. Few more questions related to envi. engg

Date 29/11, morning

Chairman: Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla
Questions
C: You were part of NCC? How did it benefit you?
C: What is the most important quality of a leader according to you?
C: What quality should a technical leader have?
C: According to you what is more important, ethics or national interest?
Me: National Interest
C: So you believe in Saam daam Dand bhed?
C: Can you share some examples (I said about India's relations with gulf nations and Russia)
C: Gave some examples of the hypocrisy of china and USA and asked why should India not be
like them?
M1: You studied in Navodaya, how was the water demand met?
M1: What was the capacity of the tank?
M1: what was the stage(Here my answer was probably wrong so he was asking cross
questions)
M1: Smart building
M1: Difference between smart building and intelligent building
M1: Green building
M2: What were you doing for the past 3 years? (I said was helping family with farming)
M2: what type of crop do you sow?
M2: Difference between crop period and base period?
M2: type of roots
M2: Duty?
M2: where do we measure duty?
M2: what do we call duty at reservoir?
M2: Permanent wilting point and ultimate wilting point?
M3: Gate rank is good, why no Mtech?
M3: Electives(I said CPM PERT)
M3: Some complex question related to float
M3: project
M3: can you explain the theory behind your project?
M3: some general questions on project like what you did? Any experiment? Simulation?
Review: Chairman asked general opinion based questions. Also, the TV was on and he was
watching TV during some questions(even his own). Read DAF, most of my interview was based
on DAF. I might have missed some questions.

Chairman : Raj Shulka

Date:05-12-2022
Ch: your opinion on kota being a caoching factory?
-Why coaching has become important?
-Can 12 student can crack competitive exam without coaching? Reasons?
-Should we close all schools and open only coaching institutes?
-Now teachers teach more comprehensively in coaching than in schools. Why?
-Why kota has become a hub for coaching institutes and what is its effect on children?
(and more similar questions on coachings)
M1: Importance of mathematics in civil engineering?
-Write equation of beam in mathematical form.
-What is its degree and order?
-What is EI and its effect on beam?
-What is rigidity in truss member context and why?
-Draw Stress strain curve of concrete ans steel with values?
-What is difference between abrasion and attrition?
-What is difference between aggregates in road construction and RCC construction?
-What is difference between mastic asphalt, DBM, BC, SDBC?
-What are tests to be conducted on Bitumen?
-What is flash and fire point of bitumen?
-Difference between tar and bitumen?
M2: What is civil engineering? (he wanted an elaborate answer)
-How does civil engineering contribute to social lufe if people?(had a discussion on it)
-Difference between compaction and consolidation?
(more related questions)
-How is design of hospital different from normal building?
-What is bio medical waste?its different types and their disposal?
-Difference between ETP and STP?
-How much sewage waste is treated in India?
-Name of body who makes the norms of effluent discharge?

M3: what is high rise building?

-What additional forces will act on it?
-What additional safety features it must have?
-How to make it seismic resistant?
-Highest building constructed in India?
-If burj khalifa to be built in India what codal provisions should it follow?
-If a hospital built in India of 200 bed, 400cr cost. what cost should hospital charge to make
recover that cost per bed?
-What is survey?
- How alignment of road is decided un hilly areas?
-difficulty of survey in hilly areas?
-How alignment is transferred from a map to ground in hilly areas?

Panel:- Lt. Raj shukla

Date :- 05/12/2022
Afternoon session

Chairperson...

What is geotechnical engineering?

Once visited a place in punjab, power cut was for 9 hrs...what would u say as a engineer?
There is no power for running geyser in fully solar based building due to clouds...what would
you say as a engineer?
No of road plans are there but then also not executed fastly ...what would u say?

Member 1

Subjects of Masters
Taylors series?
It is infinite series then how will u get a solution?
What are the recent techniques used for foundation engineering?
Any software in resent use for foundation engineering?
Layers of landfill liner?
Practical examples of quick sand ?

Member 2

What is the role of geotech engineer in highway design?

What should be properties of subgrade?
Which test will you perform?
How to check compaction during highway construction in field?
What are the foundations used for bridges with cases?

Member 3

River in ur district?
Length of bridge over that river?
Which foundation is there in that bridge?
How will you determine scour depth? (Told about lacey scour depth formula)
Who is lacey ? How can you apply that formula over there?
What is RQD?
Which value will give maximum value of RQD?
What silica fume will do in concrete? ([Link] project)
What should be features of concrete pavement?
Design of formwork?

ESE PT (05/12/22, Afternoon)

- Entry started at 12:50 PM

- Mobile phone etc deposit
- Document Verification process in waiting hall (Smooth and fast)
- 3 panels were there today
- Interviews started from 2:00 PM
- 1 Chairperson and 3 Members inside the room

Panel: Smita Nagraj Ma'am

Duration - 25 minutes
My background:
Dual degree from BITS PILANI, BE (Hons) Civil and MSc (Hons) Chemistry,
Final year One semester Internship at CRRI Delhi on Slope Stability and a Thesis on
Nanochemistry for MSc Degree
Work experience: Assistant Highway Engineer at a Private Consultant Firm in New Delhi
(College Placement), Left the job in 2019

Chairperson

1) You have worked in a Highway consultant firm, why did u leave your job?
(Gave two reasons:
Told lack of technical work for me, more focused on report and presentations and management,
coordination and timely delivery of reports
Told that my goals were IAS and Indian Railways, so thought of preparing for ESE first)

😂
*She smiled and said u are in a ladder ( career wise, moving step by step) & now u have to
prepare for civil services as both of your goals are there now
2) Role of consultants in highway projects? (basically wanted to know how the project is done
from start to end, Tenders, Consultant, DPR, Bids, Contractors bid etc etc)
3) Boss name, company turnover, is it a big or small company, how many departments and
people were there?
4) Cyrus Mistry accident, road accidents, what is the fault and reasons, how to make it better?
5) Highway Design, QCBS (Quality & Cost Based Selection) in bidding
• Mostly everything from Work Experience and Job profile

Member 1

1) Two questions about Canal system (don't remember exactly what)

( Said I am not aware of it)
2) Slope Protection Methods
3) There is a water supply pipeline going from authority to consumer, now the consumer says
that he is not getting the amount of water that he is paying for, how will u check the issue?
(Something like that)
4) What is Piping?
5) Spillway and energy dissipation?

Member 2

1) So u have done MSc in Chemistry, how does this dual degree program work?
2) Use of Chemistry in Civil Engineering? Latest advancements?
( Told about Nanochemistry and nanotechnology in civil engineering with some examples in
different areas like nanoparticles in concrete, self healing asphalt, nanosensors in structure
health monitoring, nanobubble tech to improve DO and bring back dead water bodies in life etc
etc, so discussion went that way, he wanted to know about a particular nano compound, couldn't
tell the name, but told the concept)
3) IOT in Civil Engineering?
4) Hardness of water and permissible limit?
5) If drinking water from supply is salty, what compound is the reason?
• Mostly everything from Chemistry and its application in civil engineering

Member 3
1) Continued from Smita Ma'am discussion on QCBS in bidding, and DPR etc (Job profile)
2) Indonesia earthquake recently in news...Why it occurred? What was the one special thing
that caused so much damage?
( Said didn't follow that news in depth so don't know about that special thing, then he told it was
liquefaction, so the next question was-)
3) What is liquefaction?
4) How to protect buildings from Earthquakes, both the new construction and the already
constructed ones?
5) Then something about Nominal cover in M50 slabs (don't remember exactly)

- Thats all, you can go. Thank you!

* Everyone was very cordial, polite and supportive. Nice experience 🙂

Name - Aditya Sharma
Panel - Rajiv Nayan chobey
Panel head- ( first he made me comfortable, had a friendly chat)
Asked me for the intro
Then one qn which I cannot recall

Member 1- asked me about dam, i didn't get the qn, something about side of the dam
- what is river
- why river flows
- types of river
- in which river canal should be formed
Some other qns about river
About steel truss.

Member 2- theory of failure

- test about steel
- difference between tension, shear and torsion
- what is modulus of elasticity
- how modulus of elasticity is measured of steel and concrete
- modulus of resilience
- and one two qn about som

Member 3- asked me about jaipur

Asked about elastic curve of mild steel and asked me to elaborate it

Chairman- asked me to tell something about civil eng

Date:06-Dec(Morning Shift)
Chairperson: [Link] Sir
Duration:25-30mints

First he made me comfortable,had friendly chat.

1- Introduce yourself
2-You had training or directly joined office in MES(as I have joined MES as JE last month)
3-Interlinking of Rivers.
4-Is this project feasible or govt. is just wasting a lot of money in it?

M1(Female):
1-You are from uttarakhand so tell me about panch prayags and the rivers.
2-Rivers on which Tehri Dam is constructed.
3-Why people migrating from hilly areas to cities?
4-Is water scarcity one of the problems?
5-What is the major source of water supply in your district?
6-Have you seen spring?
7-Irrigation system used.
8-Alingment of road in hilly area?
9-Geological investigation of Rocks?
10-Geological investigation of Dams?
11-What is permeability?
12-Factors affecting permeability?
13-Diff. between permeability and seepage?
One more question she asked i haven't heart about it.
M2(Male):
Your Favourite subjects (SOM and Soil Mechanics)
1- Tests done on materials.
2-Torsion test.
3- Difference between Torsion and Shear.
4-What is statically determinate and indeterminate structure with example
5-Draw a cantilever beam with udl and draw BMD.
6-Add a point load at free end and now draw BMD.
7-In propped cantilever where will we provide the reinforcement.
8-How to find dry density of compacted road?
9-Draw compaction curve and show Optimum moisture content.
10-What is Optimum moisture content?
11-Why Dry density decreases after omc?
12-On roads soil is compacted dry of optimum or wet and why?
13-Which one is greater Bulk density or Dry density?
14-If Yb is 2g/cc and w/c is 20% then what will be Yd?
15-How to get Yd of sand on field?
16-How to get Yd of clay on field?
17-Explain core cutter method.
18-How to get w/c of soil in field?
19-Which one is more appropriate torsion balance method or calcium carbide method?
20-Range of Yd if Standard proctor test and Modified Proctor test done on soil.

M3(Male):
1- What is quick sand ?
2- Practical example of quick sand.
3- Rain water meets river and remains in it for long time then what is the use of water
harvesting?

Chairperson: We give this opportunity to every candidate to tell something about civil
[Link] you want to share some thing about civil engineering with us (as you may think
we haven't touched some topic which you are interested in)

Thank you your interview is over you may go .

ESE PT 5th Dec, 2022 (Afternoon)

Panel - Smita Nagaraj Ma'am
Duration ~30 minutes (Give or take)
Chairperson

Q1- You have interest in music I see. And such extensive extra curriculars. So tell me how
would you design an auditorium and a stadium being a structural engineer.
Q2- Have you performed in front of live audience (DAF related)
Q3- India has very vast difference in temperature all the way from north to south, how would you
tackle the problem as structural engineer.
Q4- Any old technique that was used.
Q5- Where does Alwar get its water from?

Some other follow up questions were there, I can't remember properly.

Member 1

Q1- You're from Alwar, what is the avg rainfall there?

Q2- Is there shortage of water?
Q3- What will be the criteria to design a dam.
Q4- Do we allow tension in dams? What do we do to tackle that?
Q5- What are gravity dams? Some examples in Rajasthan.
Q6- Loads acting on Concrete gravity dam.
Q7- Can we use waste materials in dam construction?
Q8- What is full form of CPWD? What's the complete process of tendering?
(Interrupted in between, asked about estimation and costing)
Q9- Do we only see the lowest bid?
(I said company profile, credibility, turnover and previous works also)
Q10- what if 2 companies have equal credibility and turnover and one has lowest bid, so would
we hand over the tender to the company with lowest bid?

Member 2

Q1- You have steel bar of 20mm having 2.5kg/m weight. What would be the weight of 40mm
bar?
(I fumbled here a bit and wrote the formula, he asked me to just answer. I stumbled here but he
said you have written the formula, just tell me the answer)
Q2- What is M20.
Q3- Types of bridges? Design criteria? Loads acting on bridge? Standard vehicular loads?
Q4- bridge incident in Gujarat? What type of bridge was it? Tell me in detail.
Q5- Any similar incident in your area? ( I didn't know, he told me the answer but I still don't
know)
Q6- Asked me about curing? How do we cure the slab?
Q7- Earthquake resistant structure? Specifications? Beam column joint? Soft story?
Q8- If we provide slab of M50, what strength would we provide the cover blocks?
One or two more questions were asked that I can't recall.

Member 3

Q1- How do we measure flow? River flow?

Q2- How can we measure spring flow?
(Suppose a villager was asked to measure flow from spring, how will he measure it)
Q3- why do we do curing? Explain in detail.
Q4- What could be done to protect a bridge if a strong river flow is attacking it.
(I couldn't understand him properly)
Q5- What is earthen dam? What to do if flow goes over it?
Q6- What are river training works?
Q7- What is spillway? Types of it?
Q8- Do we know about Rajendra Singh? What is his contribution?
(Waterman of India, he's from Alwar)
Q9- Types of pump? Handpump is what kind of pump? Is it centrifugal?
Q10- What would be more difficult to pump? Raw water or sewage?
Q11- How to pump sewage?
Q12- What is vacuum? Absolute or gauge?
Q13- Where would the absolute pressure be zero? ( I wrote the relation b/w absolute, atm and
gauge pressure, he laughingly said I know what you're writing there, it won't help. Socho beta)
Then he asked from where do we measure? Would it be zero there? Then he guided me to the
answer. Said, "Aaj seekh k hi jao, atmosphere k end pe absolute pleasure zero hoga."

The panel was very cordial and helps you getting comfortable.

Chairman (Smita Nagraj)

-what are you doing these days?
-How does it feel to get a job after so long?
-You live near airport, what are the structures you saw there?
-what's difference between rumway and highway pavement with respect to design?
-why are so many road accidents these days? What are the basic design faults that can be
avoided?
-have you seen some traditional water harvesting structures in Rajasthan? (Homestate)

M1
-Continuing ma'am harvesting structure question..how does stepwell gets it water?
-tell highway cross section elements.
-tests conducted on soil before making structure over that.
-how do we measure consolidation parameters?
-shear strength parameters? Are they constant for a soil?
-what are the advantages of triaxial tests over direct shear test.
-probable reason for failure of a earthen dam.
-what is piping? How will you avoid it.
-agreegate specifications for runway.

M2
-difference between cross regulators and head regulators. Main components of them and
functions.
-what is spillway and type of it.
- canal escapes. Canal falls.
- as an irrigation engineer, how will you enhance earnings of a farmer with no change in
irrigation facilities ?
-Primary tests conducted on aggregates.

M3
-Do you know Rajender Singh?
-How do you design curves? What are the parameters to be taken care of?
-What will happen if superelevation provided beyond limit? What if I provide very high
superelevation and permit very high speed on it?
-What work are you doing in NHAI?
- Divisions of NHAI.
-Tendering modes of NHAI?
-what do you know about bharatmala?
-NHAI formula for superelevation?
-Concrete code. RCC code.
-on what factors does clear cover depends?
-if you forget to provide minimum clear cover, what can you do afterwards?
-what are the advancements made in concrete over last 20 years?

ESE 2022 Interview

Panel- Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla sir
Date of interview -07th Dec 2022, forenoon session
Background- Hobby: Playing and watching cricket
Previously Worked in IOCL & Brahmaputra Board
Presently working in NHAI

Chairperson
1. So your hobby is playing cricket, tell about the difference in indian cricket teams playing
presently and 20 yrs back.
2. So why we are not performing well at the international level tournament.
3. England cricket team won t20 world cup, how their team different from our team?
4. What is special about Sachin Tendulkar?
5. About surya kumar yadav batting skills?
6. What cricket teaches us in life?
7. Which one you will choose talent or hard work?
8. Any example who was as talented as sachin and not successful
M1
1. Tell me about solid waste disposal
2. How we can do better in this area?
3. Do any city is opting these methods?
4. What can we do with the exiting landfill ares to prevent the contamination?
5. What is engineered landfill ?
6. How will you identify the sample of 3 bottles which contain drinking water in one , wastewater
in other and sewage water in another?
7. What the are the different parameters and its limit for drinking water.

M2
1. Tell about new development in RCC
2. Where we use light wt concrete, nano concrete ?
3. How we design pavement?
4. Latest irc 37 code published in the year ?
5. Procedure to design flexible pavement as per irc 37?
6. What is comercial vehicle?

M3
1. What are you doing in Brahmaputra Board....on which river?
2. Have you seen MG Setu bridge on ganges between Hajipur and patna. What is its length.
3. Why it failed, is it because of engineering design failure or operation and maintenance failure
4. What type of vehicle load allowed on a bridge ?
5. What you will do with the engineer who designed it if you are the CM of Bihar and you know
he is the one who designed it wrong?
6. What are the constituent of concrete?
7. Have you visited ever the cement manufacturing plant?
8. Have you visited the steel manufacturing plant where reinforcement are made?
9. Cement manufacturing raw materials? Can you get these in delhi?
10. Size of Coarse aggregate and fine aggregate
11. What is the use of gypsum?
12. How is the setting is prevented when you are carrying concrete in transit mixer for long
duration?
13. What is the amount of water that you will keep on mixing in transit mixer?

Date 7 dec forenoon

Panal - chobey sir (chill)
Time 20-30 min

Ch.
1. Can remove your mask
2. Told not to worry, he told 'we don't expect to answer all the questions. We are just like your
friends. I'f you are unable to hear or understand questions feel free to ask again.
3. Introduction( sir sub se puch rahe aye)
4. Type of architecture in building (i said no)

M.1
1. Favorite subject - geotech and som
2. Type of soil and there classification and size
3. Type of compaction and there lab tests
4. What is deviator stress
5. What is confined pressure( values also asked in lab)
[Link] and dynamic load and something I don't remember
[Link] of triaxial, why it is done, where UU is used,
8. Unconfined compression test? Why it is done?
9 . How to find dynamic module of elasticity of soil

M2.
1. Asked favourite subject again( geotech and som)
2. Propped Cantilever with point load on roller- BMD and reinforcement
3. S.S. BMD and reinforcement
4. What is BM
5. What is bearing capacity ( I thought it for som but it was for geotech)
[Link] what factors bearing capacity depends
7. Type of footing
8. Type of pile
9. Foundation in tajmahal ( I told raft but it is well foundation)
10. Famous thing in my home town ( sawai madhopur)
11 difference between marble and Kota stone. Which have higher abrasive resistance

M3 (ma'am genarally asking about irrigation, geology, rocks)

1. I am from IIT BHU so asked about ganga, prayagraj, sangam , river that meet here, can you
see it meeting all three river.( I told about 3 river she told hopefully you atleast know the name of
river. Many does not know)
2. what type of thing need to be done before dam formation
( I started by EIA intensionally)
3. What is EIA other that it's full form
4. Which project required EIA
5. Example of environmental impact on the project i mentioned ( power plant, mining)
6. What is landslide. What is soil mass. Does landslide occurs for in landslide only
7. How to road alignment Is decided. The road at hilly side. (I told something about utility factor )
they wanted about survey. Then I told about type of survey

Ch.
You told every thing what we asked.
Now you tell me something you want to tell about civil engineering.( I think important questions
will be asked for all candidates)
Chairman - Smitha Nagaraj
Interview - 7th December forenoon
( Done internship in KLIP (lift irrigation))
Ch:
1:Are you working?
2: About state Psc notification and process
3: Asked to explain about my internship briefly ( Major questions are from this area)
4: Challenges in pump house maintenance
5: Air locks in pumps, and how can you avoid?
And 5-6 questions about internship
M1-
1:Tankbund area?
2: How you will calculate evaporation loses in Tankbund?
3: Any other major loses?
4: equipment used for infiltration and methods?
5: electives in Btech
6: when you provide expansion joint and why you provide?
7: Any joints for flexural pavements?
M2:
1:CPM PERT full forms
2: softwares used for Project Management
3:Sleepers fabrication
4: concrete strength for pre tensioning and post tensioning
5:What is high strength concrete
6: other alternative ways for lifting water?
M3:
1:outlet usage in canal system?
2: how river regime get affected at up stream and downstream when water pumped
3:Rigid module
4: pumps in series and parallel
5: how you provide seismic resistance to a structure
Asked some terms related to hydrology which I didn't remember
Again 5-6 questions about my internship

Interview date 6th dec, 22

Panel - Raj shukla sir
(Forenoon session)

Chairperson

1. So u r from ...
2. Where r u staying currently
3. u chose to go for ese only why ?
4. What is geopolitics, is technology important for geopolitics?
5. Can u relate with present scenario going on in the world.
(I gave the example of russia - Ukraine war here)
6. Is quality important or quantity then follow on question was india is
giving a large quantity of engineers but not quality why ?
7. Have y heard about vietnam - USA war/conflict in history (i said no)
8. Do u know about Taiwan, Taiwan controls 80 % of semiconductor chip market in world, why
India can not produce it ?
9. Have u heard about FAM ( it was something about Foxcon project in India)
( I didn't know about this so said sorry)

Member 1

😅
1. What's ur favourite subject ? ( I said soil mechanics) then he said i will not ask from this
because its ur favourite
2. What are class 1, class 2, class 3, class 4 structures ?
3. PSC structures are of which class? (I don't know, but i siad either under class 1
or 2 )
4. Why u said under class 1 or 2, what's the reason ?
5. What is the grade of steel used in psc
6. And which type of bars are used in psc
7. What are the losses in psc structures

Member 2

1. you r from M.P. so which soil is found in M.P.

2. Is Black cotton soil suitable for construction purpose ?
3. Why not, what are the issues with it.
4. What are the tests for measuring swelling of soil
5. Have u studied design of pavement ?
6. What are the parameters required for design of flexible pavement.
7. What is standard axle load value.
8. Why we require standard axle load.

Member 3

1. How estimation is done.

2. I have to construct a room, take example of this room how u will estimate the cost of this.
Then he switched to brick masonary in the middle
3. What is the brick wall thickness generally provided for outer walls
4. What is difference between English and Flemish bond.
5. how many storey building can be construct from brick masonary maximum.
6. Out of total building construction in India, how much percentage is rcc and how much is
brick/ stone building construction, do u know?
 7. There is around 70 percent construction of brick/ stone, then why brick or stone
construction is not taught to students.
8. Why we do not use brick masonary construction for high rise building.
9. Can we use this for multi storey building, what are the solutions?

*Chairperson sir is chill and makes student feel comfortable from the starting*

8th December, AFTERNOON

Background: 2021 pass out, west Bengal, football.
Chairperson: (smita ma'am)
[Link] are the structural elements are there in a football stadium to protect the ground from
crowd?
2. Recent bridge collapse in kolkata.. And its reason?
3. In Which case there will be more vibrations effect underground metro or over the ground
metro?
4. What are the parameters to be maintained for safety of a existing bridge? i. e related to
maintenance

M1:
1. Length of howrah Bridge?
[Link] which parameters the span of a bridge depends?
3. What is rolling and exceptional gradient? And its values ( I couldn't ans the values )
4. How to reduce the cost of highway construction by 5 to 10% without compromising the
strength and quality of it?

M2:
1. Continue to previous qsn In which case we provide more gradient railway or roadways? And
why?
2. Min. Dia of longitudinal bar in columns? Which code?
3. Rcc code?
4. What are the Different mode of transportation? ( I said waterway airway roadways and
railways)

😶
5. Which of them is most energy efficient?
6. Something related to earth rotation and position but I couldn't understand the qsn
7. No of EQ zones in india?
8. What are the earthquake waves?
9. Reason if Indonesian earthquake recent?
10. What is liquefaction?
11. Why liquefaction happens in indonesia not in Himalayan regions?
12: depth of foundation of bridge depends on which parameters? ( i said about bearing capacity
and type of soil and depth of hard soil strata)
13. How that depth related to discharge of river?
14. What is scour depth? And its formula?
M3:
[Link] is void ratio?
2. What is porosity?
3. What is piping failure?
4. If we provide downstream pile then piping chance will reduce or increase?
5. And also its effect on uplift pressure?
6. What is f in that scour depth formula?
7. How to find the dia of particles.? i.e any test regarding that?
8. How to design that Q discharge?

ESE 22...(afternoon)
Panel: Shri chobey sir
DoI: 06/12/2022( 25 -30 min)
Working as Je in cpwd

Chairman:
made us comfortable, advised to again ask the question if not heard, and be honest.
1) introduce urself in 1 min
2) gave a scenario that suppose u r handling project of 100 crore after becoming aee in cpwd,
L1 contractor has got contract after tender, but u got to know that ur boss has taken bribe for
passing tender, and again demanding more money from him... Now contractor comes to u for
awarding the contract and also offers u bribe for that... What will u do? (Had discussion on
clauses as per contract)

M1:
1) annual rainfall of india
2) what is need of rainwater harvesting
3) what is bernoulli equation
4) how to estimate discharge of river, velocity in river
5) what is 'c' in chezy equation
6) how it incorporate friction losses
7) difference between ocf and pipe flow culvert and bridge difference

M2:
1) type of culvert
2) cushion need over pipe culvert in road
3) give steps how to design water tank
4) how to design staircase, for what load
5 ) for what purpose rolling loads are used?
6) design of culvert

M3:
1) what is difference between rainwater harvesting done in maharashtra and delhi.
2) how to treat sewage water for purification
3) what all steps taken for rejuvenating rain water harvesting system at ur site
4) various techniques for rainwater harvesting, what u used on site
4) what is green building
5 ) how can we transform normal building into green building... Examples

Chairman: told 1 topic to discuss with him

( told recent innovation technology used in cpwd)
2) told u r free now.. Ur interview is over.

Panel:- Smita Nagraj

Date :- 09/12/2022
Morning session
Hobbies: playing football, Dancing & Video editing
Duration: 30-35 minutes

Chairperson:
1.) What are you doing nowadays?
2.) What form of dance do you perform?
3.) What kind of videos do you edit?
4.) What do you do with the videos after editing?
5.) You are from IIT Kanpur yet your percentage in BTech is very less as compared to 10th,
12th. Why so ? Were you not much interested in academics?
(I told about extra curricular activities and hindi medium background till 12th)
6.)when did you realise that you need to improve your academic performance and how did you
do manage it?
7.) Tell me, after your selection what kind of work would you love to do as a civil engineer?
(I told her about Dam construction)
8.) Have you ever seen any dam ?
9.) What's is its capacity?
10.) For what purposes this dam is used)
11.) What is power capacity of hydro power plant on this dam ?
12.) When you visited it did you notice how maintenance of the dam is done there?
13.) What type of dam is it?
14.) On which river is this dam located?
15.) Is this river perennial or not?

Member 1:

1.) What are the reasons of failure of a dam? ( I told about overturning, sliding, uplift pressure,
piping and failure due to crushing of toe )
2.) What is the condition under which there will be crushing of toe of dam?
3.) What is piping?
4.) How do you stop piping?
(I told about Cutt off wall & protective filter)
5.) If you provide cut off wall on d/s then how will it affect uplift pressure ?
6.) If we reduce the water level on u/s then from where dam will fail whether u/s or d/s?
7.) Does piping occur below dam or it can occur inside of dam also?
8.) What are the possible cases of failure of an earthen dam ?
9.) What do we do to stop this?

Member 2:

1.) What is difference b/w VR( virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality) ?
2.) how are both different from each other?
3.) What is metaverse? You must have heard of it.
4.) What is sci-fi with reference to a movie?
5.) Why do we call it science friction ?
6.) Have you ever seen a dam in a movie? Which dam and in which movie? ( I told about hover
dam in san Andreas movie)
7.) What type of dam hover dam is ?
8.) In which dam we will require more volume of concrete? an arch dam or gravity dam?
9.) If in an arch dam we require less volume of concrete then why don't we make all dams as an
arch dam?
10.) what are the mechanisms of load transfer in an arch dam ?
11.) What is an inverted staff and when do we use it?
12.) What is Height of instrument?
13.) How is balance work done during a canal construction?
14.) What are the tests we should perform in a concrete pipe before using it for water supply?
(He asked me about 2-3 more non-technical terms which I had never heard of )

Member 3:

1.) What is creep strain?

2.) what if load is not a sustained load and it's being applied and removed, will still there be
creep strain?
3.) what do we call such type of loads ?
( I answered it is called cyclic loading, then member 1 interrupted in the middle of it while
looking at Smita ma'am and asked 4.) What is the name of failure related to such loads? )
5.) What is shrinkage?
6.) What percentage of shrinkage will be there in a RCC beam ?
7.) Suppose we have a steel bar of 20mm dia with strength of 2.5kg/m then what will be the
strength for 40mm bar ? ( I answered it very quickly because this was a repeated question :p)

8.) What is maximum % of r/f we can provide in a beam?

9.) What is maximum size of aggregate used in RCC? (I said 20mm)

10.) kaha likha hua hai ye? jaha se dekh ke hum pata lagate hai ye sab?
 Me: IS Code
He: kaunsa wala?
Me: sir, IS-456

11.) What can be the causes of failure of a RCC structure?

(I was keep on answering all possible reasons of failure like crushing of concrete, deflection of
members, load being greater than the design load, exposure conditions, earthquake loading and
what not yet he was not satisfied and spent like 5-6 minutes on it. I didn't know what he was
expecting me to answer, in middle he said " nervous mat ho, aur socho thoda". I finally came up
with "failure due to differential settlement of foundation because of lesser bearing strength of soil
below" and he moved to the next question

12.) Suppose you were given a work(related to construction) and you have made a mistake in
doing it then what is the first thing you will do?

Me: Sir, if it is possible then I will try to undo the mistake so that it doesn't cause any risk in later
stage of project.

M3: what if you have an option that your mistake can go unnoticed by your superiors ?

me: I will still inform them.

Chaimain - Raj Shukla sir

Date -9/12/22
Morning
Chairman-
So you play table tennis and listen hindi songs .
Who is ur favourite singer?
Do you listen old song ?
Who is your favourite old singer ?
Why Kishore Kumar is your favourite singer ?
How was he versatile ?
Any song u remember sung by him ?
What is mathematics?
What is diffrence between mathematics and engineering?
People say engineering is art how it is ?
What is the use of mathematics in engineering ?

M1
What is diffrence between partial differential equation and linear differential equation?
What is use of mathematics in engineering ?
What is reinforced concrete corbell ?
Draw SFD and BMD and deflected shape for ssb having point load at mid ?
How to decide span of a bridge ?
M2
So you are doing [Link] from NIT Warangal
From which specialisation?( Structure )
What is deep beam ?
What is diffrence between design criteria of simple beam and deep beam ?
How to provide torsion reinforcement in beam ?
Draw detailing of torsion reinforcement for rectangular beam ?

M3
So you are working as tutor also ?
What is your work profile ?
Which last two problem u got from students ?
Okay, i have one doubt .clear that
Draw SSB having UVL and draw SFD And BMD ?
What is gantry girder ?
Which Type of loading is used in gantry girder?
What load we take to design gantry girder ?
Draw gantry girder ? And asked about gantry girder components ?
Which type of loading we use in bridge engineering?
How to decide no. of piers in a bridge ?
How to design span of bridge ?ESE CE Interview Transcripts:
Name:XYZ
Anant sir panel
Last person to enter
Around 5:10pm
Duration 15mins
Date: 08/03/2021

Chairman: read about my btech and mtech clg name and asked where are these college
M1:
tell me about flood routing
Which method we used
Difference between them
Practically which method is good
Define CV
Interrupted saying i did not prepare hydrology
Few questions related to practical based I was unable to hear then he switched to rcc.
Asked about few questions about two way slabs
M2:
Explain his questions in Hindi
Like why we laid pipe in zigzag manner
For water supply to 10storey building which method you will use and how will ensure about the
pressure
About central water commission
How will you save water in home
And in your area
Technical term abot water saving
M3:
difference between slope and deflection method, moment area method and conjugate beam
method
Difference between moment and couple
If the moment you calculate at 1section from one should side from other side what will be the
moment

Last question what did you do after 2017

I gave my answer in Hindi..so they asked me questions in Hindi

No questions from DAF, Mtech, Current affairs, Famous personalities

Interview happened with Face shield face mask hand gloves. During interview they will say if
you are not comfortable with mask you can remove that
Glass panel was there among everone
mask and faceshields are provided by UPSC

Full payment of Travel allowance was there, for IRCTC air tickets.

Only pen and documents you have to carry into reception..they will provide place to put your
belongings

Chairman sir is helpful and said jane do na sir bachi ko itna practical based questions ata nahi
hai and everyone smiled..

They gave sandwich tea coffee water

Interview order is according to Who registered first (First come first service)

Be careful about the chair, It has wheels and it is rotating.. you have to control it :)
They said if you don't understand questions then asked [Link] first understand the question
clearly before answering.

Name: ABC
Date: 08/03/2021
Chairman TC ANANT SIR
Morning session

Chairman ne sirf service aur profile puchi bas

2 cash crops,2 Zaid crops
Wheat base period
Can dam analysis be done by STAAD PRO
2 west flowing rivers
No of river basin in India
Name them
What is problem by taking excessive water from GWT
How can problem be solved
What is MDM method used for
What is your city famous for
What can you predict based on SCI-FI movies innovations in civil engineering future
What sci-fi movies you watch
what is DPR and CPR
Which states Narmada flows

This is all I can remember

Name: XYZ
Date:-08/03/2021
Chairman:- Anant Sir
Afternoon Session

Chairman
[Link] no Job?
[Link] me about results of [Link] Project

Member 1
[Link] your project

😢
[Link] Engineering importance of your project
(IIT ke hoke aisa project karte ho )
[Link] and Longitude of Delhi
[Link] Sensor
[Link] of Spillways
[Link] of Concentration and use of Dicken's formula
[Link] for rainfall of duration 2Tc and Tc
[Link] bw Pier and Abutment
[Link] of Consolidation
[Link] in detail
[Link] excess PWP develops
[Link] and Consolidation diff.
[Link] possible reasons for Differential Settlement and about Pisa Tower
[Link] life Field test for Soil
[Link] and where is it used and it's significance
[Link] Software used in designing buildings
[Link] is Subcritical Flow and real life examples

Member 2:-
[Link] bw Subgrade and SubBase
[Link] of Subgrade and SubBase
[Link] before making Flexible Pavement
[Link] test
[Link] test in extra detail
[Link] Bond and Flemish Bond
[Link] Bricks and Nominal bricks diff
[Link] load test in details
[Link] Reamed Pile and where is it used
[Link] of Failure in Foundation and which types of test

Member 3:-
[Link]-GIS method in details
[Link] to find capacity of Reservoirs
[Link] is famous from your hometown

Name: ABC
Chairman- Anant sir
Duration 25 to 30 min
Date: 09/03/2021
afternoon session

First two members asked questions related to [Link] and metro as i have done [Link] in
structure and working in upmrc.
M1-Design of water tank
Detail reinforcement of circular tank
Force acting on water tank
M2 type of pile used in metro
How underground station constructed
Length of agra metro project
Type of section used for elevated section and different type of section used by dmrc
M3 i think he was from water resource or hydrology
He asked qns from FM irrigation and hydrology
Notch and weir
Flood routing
Pan coefficient
Base period and crop period

Name: ABC
Date: 09/03/2021
afternoon session
Panel -Bharat Bhusan Vyas
Entry
Chairperson- Is college se ho ,2019 Passout ho shi hai
Chairperson - Kya kr rhe avi
Fire kaise lgta hai building me
Fire proof building kaise bnate hai
Fire Extinguisher kaise kam krta hai
Divyang Logo ke liye bharat sarkar ne scheme nikal hai btao
Ek aur koi scheme pucha
Mjhe dono ni pta tha
( Aap log itne bde post pe ja rhe ho ye sb janna chahiye)
cement ke type btao
Pozzolana kya hota hai
Kya cement aur sand ke jagah fly ash use kr skte hai
Grades of cement

Technical Member 1-
Elective subject koun sa tha
(Maine Dam wala subject bol dia)
Dam ke type
Arch dam kyo use krte hai
Dam ka foundation kaise decide krte hai
Dam ke liye soil investigation hoga ki ni?
Koun sa test krenge soil investigation me

Member 2 -
Koi road yojna pucha jante ho ni pta tha mjhe
Monorail jante ho?
Mass Rapid Transit system
Building code jante ho
Bituminous road ke upper layer ke liye kya test krte hai
Marshal test kaise krte hai
LL 40% PL 26% then soil type

Member 3 -
What is new version of Is 800 ( Means year)
What new amendments have been added
Types of steel section
Difference between plastic and slender section
Why Mp value is more than My value

INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE #1
Mine was on 8th march, I am here to tell you about order,
Basically it is first come first basis type in your slot (morning session and evening session), so
mine was afternoon session ab there were 12 candidates to be interviewed, as expected there
were 2 panels.
After checking at gates if you were ahead at waiting line then you get earlier entry and u will
directed to reach at a place where baggage and mobile wallet have to be submitted, so the
person who entered first gets lower number tag like no. 11th alloted to the first guy because 10
were already interviewed in morning batch, and this tag number is for seat seat no. In dv room
in increasing order, and u r allowed to take your certificates folder, a pen and watch (if you you
are having one) only to that seat, here after biometric n some signs, they check your 10th,
12th,degree,degree transcript, caste certificate, 2 passport size photo, and any other relevant
document. (Here, safety kit offered, and wear mask and glovs from kit and a face sheet. During
dv you may take off these except mask, but at the time of interview you have to wear facesheild
and gloves back, told to take mask at chin tough) . And the 11th number candidate taken from
dv place to the chairmen's office, at ouside office you have to wait for five more minutes until the
bell rings, a guy opens the door for you, he will close the door also.

Name-Ankit Yadav
Date - 10/03/2021, Afternoon session
Chairperson- BB Vyas

what are the major 5 projects of NHAI in INDIA?(Since I m currently working in NHAI)
what is the need of NHAI?
why speed and delay studies are done?
methods of speed delay studies?
what is home interview method?
what is grand challenge mechanism in Bharatmala pariyojna?
why traffic volume studies are done?
what are the different methods of tunneling ?
what is pilot tunnel?
what is industrial corridor?
what is defence corridor?
how it is different from industrial corridor?

Member 1

Do u know abt FRC?

In what form Fibres are used in the concrete?
Do u know abt any stretch of projects u mentioned where FRC is being used?
what are hanger bars?
Are hanger bars used in Bridge deck?
How load is transferred by deck in arch bridge?
what are the major forces which are generated in arch?
what are the structural elements in building which are designed for fatigue?
how the rupture of pressure vessels occurs?
what is the pattern of cracks?

Member 2

What is castigilano’s theorem?

what are causes and preventive measures for piping in earthen dam?
what are the causes of slope failure?
what are the different method for preventing slope failure?
How is soil nailing done?
what exactly is the mechanism by which soil nailing prevents slope failure?
what are the practical conditions where slope failure due to sudden drawdown occurs?

Member 3

why Firozabad is famous for? ( glass making)

what are different consituent used for glass manufacturing?
Different types of glasses?
Jo bathroom mn andha sheesha hota he use kya kehte hn aur kese banta he?
Have u seen the manufacturing of plastic bottle?
how plastic is affecting the environment?
what are the major alternatives?
Have u seen any canal?
What sections are generally provided in canal?
How velocity is controlled in canal?

P.S. The approach in which questions were asked was quite practical , I have written the crux of
questions.

And the order of the interview was roll no. Wise in their respective panel.

Date- 9/3/21
Civil engineering
Chairman - T C ANANT
Duration- 30 min
Btech - 2017 pass-out

ASKED ABOUT BIRTHPLACE , SCHOOLING AND COLLEGE.

didn't you get placement from NIT MEGHALAYA?
Water body there - BADA PANI is a place between Guwahati and Shillong .
About UMIUM DAM ?
What are the source of water in bada pani ?
What is your favourite subject

Member 1
Which different consultancies required to construct a building?
What is the slope of roof we provide in Shillong?
Have you seen a canal? Where?
Designing of canal ?
Have you heard optimisation in canal length ?
What is STP ( SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT)
How it works ?
Structural drawing and architectural drawing.
minimum wages of a labour as per govt rule? Tell me exact amount.
You have been a coordinator in ur college? Tell me what are the things you need to coordinate
while constructing a building.
Draw reinforcement in a 2 way slab .
Minimum spacing between reinforcement
Shillong in which earthquake zone ?
How will you provide reinforcement in 2 way slab for earthquake (in same drawing which I hv
already drown)

Member 2
You have been captain of cricket team,
What things you will consider while choosing playing eleven ?
What is Magnus effect?
What is the concept of swing and reverse swing ? How is it related to fluid mechanics?
What is doosra , Harbhajan singh uses that very well.

Member 3
Unwins formula?
Time lag ?
Drainage density?
Stream density?
Difference between them?
Which case have more peak ? Greater drainage density or less?
Which case peak will get earlier ? More density or less?
How do we separate base flow .
What is piezometric head?
Water hammer?
Surge tank?
Super critical flow and where it occurs?
Hydraulic jump?
Why we use spillway in dam
Types of canal? Ridge canal , contour canal
What is heaving in soil
What is normal consolidated soil , over consolidated soil?

Last candidate. Was called around 4 pm. Went in at 4.10pm approx.

Date: 10/03/2021
Panel: BB Vyas Sir.
Duration: 20-25 mins

No questions from hobbies, current affairs or DAF.

Chairman: General Civil Engineering, shear flow, torsion, normal questions bht hi basic.

M1: Earthquake Engineering based questions, Liquefaction, Tunnelling, all practical based
questions.

M2: couldn't answer much from him. Asked many terms that I hadn't heard of.

M3: Questions from Mathematics based Structural engineering. Like differential equations.
Fire resistance of building.
Some terms in PSC I didn't know.

Chairman again: Strengths and Weakness.

PS: Some bonus points. Personal observations.

1. They had a list of questions already prepared from what I noticed. I don't know if other
candidates felt so or not. Questions pehle se soch k rakkhe the unhone.

2. They were sitting quite far away. And there was no glass shield in this panel. Chairman had
his own table. Others were sitting on just chairs. And we have a table and chair given for us.

Panel: TC Ananth sir

Date: 10th March morning
Last one to enter
Timing= 20-25min (12:35pm-1 1pm)

[Link] river issue ( I from Karnataka)

[Link] wall
3. Fire safety design ( have experience of 2.5 years)
4. Safety measures in high rise buildings ( worked in 21 storey building)
5. Dead storage & it's % approx.
6. Live storage
7. How will you calculate wave pressure in dam
8. Column layout, provide stirrups reinforcement, hook length
9. Grade of concrete used in your site
10. Bunching of reinforcement
11. Penstock
12. Low speed and high speed turbine
13. Roles and responsibilities of your jobs
14. Quality control of concrete
15. Slump used in your site
16. Slump used in general construction like one storey or two story building without pump
17. How to Design a hydraulic structures at a place where no record is available of anything
earlier
18. Torque and bending moment
19. how to design rcc mix

These are the some questions which I can remember now..

They also asked some new/application based questions, I haven't heard such names before.

Tc anant.

Cavity wall
Load bearing and non bearing wall
What you did in last 3 yr
What is nss(DAF)
What you did there.
Footing of staircase
How to test tank during construction

🤔
Type of earthquake accelerations
"Film creation, telescope.!!
What do you do?"(DAF)
Influent effluent flow in river
Why s curve flat an infinity
How to separate a continuous storm
Type of cracks in buildings
Pacific ring of fire
Where horizontal crack comes
How cement sampling done
Example if brittle plastic ductile materials
Field test of aquifer permeability
How to do cost estimates
What precautions during construction a building near railway line.
Why welded lines?
What is base flow
Weight and specific gravity of cement bag
Where vertical acceleration is important?
What are diversion headwork

Why divide wall provided (avoid toppling)

M1- No, in terms of silt.
Me- don't know sir.
Where provided?
Where spillway provided
Why.

How will you counter any tilt in pile.

Which pile is suitable at which place

One was structure,RCC,eq specialist.

One knows fluid,hyd,irrig.
One knows transport,soil etc.

Chairman- B B Vyas sir

Duration- 20 min
Chairman- Asked about tunnelling, About technical textile, Civil Ethics

M1- Soil Mechanics basic questions

M2- diff between Ductility of structures and substances. How to test ductility of structures. Civil
engg lab tests
M3- Soil and climate characteristics of coastal areas.. remedies for it, foundation
Job related questions

Rest all questions DAF related they asked.

Manas Tripathi
Interview on - 12-03-2021
Entered - 2:25 pm
Exit - 2:50 pm
Board - T C A Anant sir

Chairperson
Read the DAF, pointed out my college and job
1. what was you your job profile?
2. why did you leave your job?

M1.

[Link] is this MHRD scholarship?

I replied that I am 4th sem student of Mtech program env at iitd.
Here chairman interrupted and pointed out that he missed this, and clarified that after the job i
had joined mtech and then asked my thesis topic.
Now M1 continues..
2. What are your fav sub?
I replied geotech and env. (my mtech in env)
[Link] was your thesis elaborate?
3. how is this useful?
[Link] will you decide fine to industries?
5. Suppose if the damage done by industry is 25 crore should the fine be 25 only?
6. who should be responsible(pay) for rehabilitation?
7. How is you thesis different from EIA?
8. How can you determine the width of a river without going on the other side and doing just
chain surveying?
10. What is BOD and COD and difference between them?
11. For industries which is more important BOD or COD?
11. Do you have interest in other subjects like fm, irrigation or hydraulics?
12. what is Unit fhydrograph and its assumptions?

Transfers to other members

M2
1. What are different types of pollution?
2. What are different noise pollutions?
3. What are different effects of noise pollution on humans?
4. Can you tell any other effects on human?
5. suppose you have to construct a school, how would you select site?
6. what is bearing capacity?
7. what is toughness index?
8. what is void ratio?
9. what all services you would provide in school?
[Link] is flexible pavement?
[Link] of flexible pavement?
12. what is use of subgrade?
13. what is other name of surface layer ?
14. what is corrosion and various ways in which it can occur ?
15. suppose you have to prevent corrosion of reinforcement kept at site, how would you do that
?

Transfers to M3

M3
1. Do you still play chess?
2. what is castling?
3. Min no. of moves for pawn to reach to rook of opposite end?
4. How to obtain fhydrograph of different duration?
5. how you determine valuation of a building?
6. what is depreciation?
7. how do you calculate depreciation?
8. two buildings having same life but different conditions at end of some period would
depreciation be same ?
9. How would you calculate depreciation in this situation?
10. What is T beam?
11. why is it used?
12. what is L beam?
13. Show reinforcement details of the T beam.
14. show reinforcement in the flanges.
15. How development length is calculated, what is the formula?
16. How development length is related to dia of reinforcement, approx value?
17. show details of reinforcement in flat slab and its connection with the column
18. what is thin cylinder theory?
19. What is thick cylinder theory?
20. what is net safe bearing capacity?
21. suppose you have to design a 8 meter beam how would you decide depth of beam?

ok thank you.

Date: 09/03/2021
Board: TCA Anant sir
Duration: somewhere around 25-30 mins
Afternoon session

I was the first person to be interviewed after lunch. Anant sir's panel was running a bit late.
Other panel had already started interviews at 1340 hrs, whereas my turn came at 1410 hrs. I
was led to the interview by a friendly person who advised to remove my mask and shield for

🤦‍♂️
some time just before the interview as he had seen people fainting due to the heat and anxiety
in the past .

Chairman started out by reading my DAF out loud. He read the name of my college, when did I
graduate, and read the 3 position of responsibilities that I had mentioned in my extra-curricular.

Chairman:
1. What did you do after your graduation in 2019?
2. So you must have got MTech in the desired college on the basis of your GATE rank?
Clarified that I am undergoing training at IOCL.
3. Where is your training location? Is it Dehradun?
4. When did the training start and when will it end?

Over to member 1:
1. Nowadays, overhead bridges do not have the conventional retaining wall at the ends. They
are now using small panels joined together, what is the principle on which this mechanism
works?
2. Okay, so you mentioned about roofs... tell me what are the ways to reduce seepage and heat
transfer through roofs in residential buildings.
3. Difference between OPC and PPC
4. Why does concrete deteriorate under sea water
5. What kind of cement can you use under sea water
6. What is the %age salt present in sea water
7. Can we use solar panels for heating purposes?
8. What are the different type of solar panels
9. Suppose you are AEE, and are sent to the site for completion of some work, what is the first
thing you will do?
I gave some ans, but he kept on insisting on 2 words, 'you' and the 'contractor'.
I again gave some ans.
Again he started explaining me in detail that the design has been done, site had been cleared,
contractor is finalised, now what is the first thing you will do.

Now Chairman intervened and said that let me make it simple for you, first of all you have to
construct the basement and foundation. But by now I had realised that the M1 was not asking
about this. He was looking for something else. So M1 still neglected the chairman and said " Vo
sab to theek h, but sabse pehle kya karoge"

After grilling for about 5 mins, he finally gave up. I still don't know what he was trying to get out
from me.

Over to Member 2:
You have a good educational background and an excellent GATE rank, I have high expectations
from you.
1. Shear centre
2. Specific Energy and Specific Force
3. Basic difference between Rigid and flexible pavements
4. Flexural strength of M20 concrete
5. Tell me about some of the schemes run by the government on Pan-India basis in which there
is significant Civil Engineering work involved.

Over to Member 3:
1. History of IIT Roorkee
2. Solani aqueduct, What is Solani
3. Upper ganga Canal system
4. Where is Madhya ganga canal system
5. Why are there so many Cross drainage structures between Haridwar and Roorkee
6. What was the previous name of Water Resource department in your college
7. From which barrage does Upper ganga canal originate
8. What is the apex body for Hydrology in India
9. What is CWPRS and where is it located
10. What is the difference between LSM and WSM
11. Drawings are really important for engineers. Tell me the number of drawings that you have to
study at any construction site and their names as well.
12. What are the different type of Cross drainage structures that you know of.

TCA anant sir is pretty cool. He interrupted multiple times in between my answers to ask
questions out of curiosity. He was always smiling and kept the environment of the room friendly.

I felt that 2 of the members, specifically member 1 and 3 were senior IES officers themselves,
because they asked a lot of practical questions and from multiple disciplines.

😅
While member 2 was more like a senior professor from a reputed college. His personality had
some strictness, which reminded me of my college professors

Name: Amit Sharma

Date : 11/03/2021
Interview duration: 25 minutes
Panel: T C Anant

Chairman asked about soil characteristics of my hometown and nearby areas and some general
questions about my background
Also asked me my favourite subjects

M1: asked basic questions about fluid mechanics

M2: asked practical questions about hydraulic pumps

(He got stuck on one question that I ended up not answering)

M3: asked questions about strength of material, gave me a problem to draw sfd, BMD,
Then asked about gravity dams, asked follow up questions, about embankment etc

Apart from member 2 everyone was cool

My interview started on 2:15 pm

One more thing, if you rely on made easy question answer booklet then you are in for a big
surprise.
They asked me a question that was from given in made easy booklet, and I gave as it is answer
but they were not impressed, asked more details.

they ask you to speak loudly so they can hear, but won't do the same, I had to ask them to
repeat the question and stress on terms they were using.

If you can ask them to speak loudly without being rude or appearing oversmart, then that will
really help.

Detailed transcript is attached below

10/3/2021
Afternoon session
TC Anant sir

Chairperson questions
[Link] me about your work in Mumbai railway and Nhai.
[Link] me about project of Nhai.
[Link] and destination of river Narmada.

Member 1
[Link] flexible pavement and function of each layer.
[Link] between National highway and expressway.
3 about tie and dowel bars.
[Link] to design wearing course based on loading.
[Link] of toll collection.

Member 2
[Link] diagram of water closet.
[Link] of traps
[Link] and dry area.

Member 3
[Link] river in the world
[Link] forest in the world.
[Link] of river Ganga and Narmada.
[Link] is viscosity,use of viscosity in practical life.
[Link] of viscometer.
[Link] water evaporates first sea or fresh water.
[Link] to construct roads in cold climate.
[Link] to construct structures near sea.

Name: Ravi lakad

Date :15/03/2021
Duration :25-30min

Chairperson: Smita mam (kuch yad he ke bhul gye engineering ka)

C: 1 .for recycling of the waste. For drinking what would you prefer?
2. Desalination ya recycled waste ?
[Link] subject
4 why soil as fav
5 What do you thing as tough subject and why?

M:1
1 we have to construct an embankment on soft clay how will u proceed?
2 consolidation
3 why it takes too much time
4 long dia pile
5 micro pile

M2
[Link] theorem
[Link] will you use it in civil engineering
3 value of π and who invent it

M3
1. WTP in between how will you measure discharge
2. Aerobic and anaerobic digestion
[Link] tank

16/03/2021
Afternoon session
BBV panel
Hobbies cricket, basketball

Total practical questions and situational based question.

Duration :30 minutes

CH: UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES BASED QUESTIONS how to maintain them etc

M1:- construction management question and again geology based questions.
M2: why you want left previous job as pay scale is more than ESE and other practical question
like slope stability etc difference between rock and soil
M3:- histrionic questions like height building in last 50 years in increasing order to till date
Why Taj mahal height comparison with other monument height. Why we don't generallly
compare other monument with taj

Interview Date: 18/03/2021

Afternoon session
Panel: Smita Nagarajan Mam
1st Interview of the session

Duration: 25-30 mins

Chairperson:
Why did you leave L&T?
What is your Job profile with Town Planning Department?
Why there is a perception about town planning department that something they permit at first
and them come to demolish?
Problems faced at Job and how did you rectify them?
Eco sensitive Zone

M1:
Do you know about IS 1888 and SP7 for EWS housing? standard?
What is the minimum size of room?
What is the minimum Height?
What is the height of that door? (pointing towards entrance door)
Fire safety Provisions in a high rise buildings?
Refuge area
Wet riser?
Pressure and location of wet riser?

M2:
What is the Work profile with L&T?
Specifications of Ballast?
Cu,Cc Values for Ballast?
Significant contribution made to your Job?
Methods to determine bearing capacity?
Sub ballast depth
Use of Geotextiles in Railway Lines?
Type of Foundation would be considered as a railway embankment?

M3
What is your role as Covid Warrior?
What are the average life of structure?
FSI/FAR
Built-up area
Permissible Values in your area
Salvage Value
Scrap Value
Will cost of demolition will be higher than scrap Value?
Book Value?

Prince kumar Mall

Interview date ~16/03/2020
Duration of interview~20 to 22minutes
Chairperson ~Smita Nagraj

Chairperson ~ So you are from Kushinagar

Ch~ Anything special about it (Told her about buddha and airport project )
Ch~what is green building
Ch~What is AutoCAD and others software used
(In between I told mam that I have difficulty in breathing so is it okk if I remove my mask in
between interview for some time. Then she asked about my health )

After that other technical member

Technical member 1
[Link] about green building again
[Link] water harvesting
[Link] sustainable building (I don't get it what he was trying to ask)
[Link] and Dam
[Link] and why it is provided
[Link] about stilling Basin and apron
[Link] is drag and lift

Technical member 2
1. EDM
2. total station
3. Gps and how it works

Technical member 3
[Link] cantilever beam
[Link] bmd and sfd for point load at midpoint
[Link] and torsion in shaft

This is at most I can remember

Ese 2020
Panel :- vyas sir
Civil Engineering

Chairman:
1. Where are u from? I said Bhilwara Rajasthan
2. Ohhh Bhilwara... Why it is so famous?. ( Actually he was in Bhilwara for a long period, he
knows my area)
Ans: for textile industry
3. So then how industrial roof is designed?
4. How industrial girders are designed?
5. What type of industrial roofs are provided in Bhilwara Ricco area?
6. Scarcity of water in Bhilwara because trains were used to transport water... I said yes then
what is the depth of water table in your area?
7. Have u seen handpump?.. then what is the cost of a handpump?
8. Last question, difference in between centrifugal pump and submersible pump?

Member 1
1. Why we have more focus on treatment of waste water?
2. how grit chamber and PST are designed? Give me range of HLR and OLR?
3. What is the foundation of Burz khalifa?.. ( maine sab pile and raft bataya and ki depth 3 to 4
m boli.. then unhone kaha you are an engineer tell me the exact depth.
More questions. But I don't remember

Member 2
1. what we are different type of c/s in steel?
2. How will you classify plastic compact semi compact? They wanted exact values of b/tf and all
other constants?
3. Which type of steel is used in burj khalifa?
4. What is the formula for girder depth?
5. Gross buckling and local buckling?...
(2-3 more questions. From steel which I didn't even understand so I told them sorry sir)

Member 3
1. Have you studied the latest notification of EIA?
2. What are the major impact of cement industries?
3. Have you done triaxial test?
4. Which is the longest test on the soil?

Name: HADOLE CHIRANJIVEE PRAKASH

Branch: CIVIL ENGINEERING
Date: 18/03/2021 (afternoon)
Panel: Smita Nagraj Madam
Time: 20-25 minutes

Educational Qualification:
[Link] (Structural Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering)

Chair Person:
1. What is manholes and it’s purpose
2. Why there are many deaths because of people falling in manhole.
3. Can you give any advanced technological solution to it.
4. What is septic tank, it’s working, problems associated with it.
5. For small village will you go for underground sewage system.

Member 1:
1. What is liquefaction.
2. Soil Conditions for liquefaction.
3. What will you do if you have to construct structure on soil prone to liquefaction.
4. IS codes for earthquake design.
5. Response spectrum in 1893
6. Questions on fire analysis of RC building related to [Link] thesis
7. What is critical damping

Member 2:
1. Base isolation
2. Buildings in India in which base isolation provided.
3. What you will do to protect building from blast.
4. Terrorists park vehicle with bomb in basement of building, then it will lead to collapse of
whole structure. What will you do to ensure evacuation of people before complete collapse of
building.
5. Factors to be considered in planning of building to make it blast resistant.
6. If truck full of RDX approaches to building at high speed, how will you ensure safety of
building. (Civil engineering aspect)
7. Have you studied SOM (yes sir)
8. Okay. Tell the basis on which timber is classified. (He was asking about classification based
on elastic modulus, could not answer)
9. How to measure moisture content of timber.

Member 3:
1. Basic principles of planning
2. What is plinth, why it is provided.
3. What is plinth beam
4. We do not provide plinth beam in every structure. why so.
5. Have you heard about soling
6. What is plinth filling, layers of plinth filling. It’s Purpose.
7. Why plinth is provided above ground level (apart from seepage)
8. What is BOQ and CSR
9. What is there in specification of items.
10. What is the number in bracket at end of every specification signify.
11. Thickness of stone compound wall.

18/03/2021
Afternoon session
Panel: Smita Nagarajan Mam

Chairperson:
1 What are you doing? ( I said Mtech in environment from IIT Delhi)
2 is there any research going in IIT Delhi for stubble burning ?
3 Stubble burning solutions
4 Your field of interest in environmental engineering?
5 About my Mtech thesis and applications ?
6 why are you not going for research work ?
7 use of your project in ESE departments and some more questions related to my project?
8 have you seen any green building?
9 one best aspect about green building
10 IIT Delhi's initiative for energy efficient buildings

M1
1 Btech project
2 favourite subject ( i said soil n environment)
3 consistency index is used for which type of soils?
4 liquid plastic limit test
5 type of sampling?
8 disturbed undisturbed samples?
5 CBR test, triaxial test
6 proctor n modified proctor test
7 slope stabilisation techniques
8 Difference between angle of repose and and friction angle?
9 Geosynthetics
10 group index method
11 soil classification

M2
1 quantity of delhi' solid waste generation
2 Delhi's landfill sites?
3 have you heard about accident in Gazhipur landfill site
4 height of Okhla landfill site?
5 problem of solid waste management in delhi n solutions?
7 type of treatments ?
8 biodegradable wastes n examples?
9 when we will do incineration n composting?
10 waste to energy plant
11 what is RDf?
12 RDf manufacturing process?
13 bioremediation n biomethanation ?
14 vermiculture composting?
15 leachate problem ?

M3
1 about Namami Gange project?
2 civil engineering aspects in Namami Gange
3 riverfront structure development kya hota hai?
4 industrial effluent monitoring in Namami gange ?
5 Permissible limits of BOD, COD, SS ?
6 toxic metals treatment issues of leather industry in Kanpur
7 About CNG and vehicular pollution
8 government policies about CNG
9 nanoparticles pollution treatment
10 some ethics based questions related to pollution and govt policies
11Arches construction n load transfer mechanism

Board BBvyas sir (17/03/21)

Chairman
1. What were u doing during last 3 years
2. About job profile
3. What are the tests we do on rocks in field
4. asked about some type of concrete I have never heard of it
5. what is industrial corridor
6. What is economic corridor and how it is different from conventional road projects
7. What are some distinct features of economic corridor from civil engineering point of view
8. What is stiffened length

M1:
1. What was the topic of your paper presentation.. explain in brief
2. What is plagerism, how it is checked, what are software used, is it a crime
3. What is the role of civil engineer in skill India initiative by PM of India, ( I answered but sir was
expecting some pan India level application)
4. What is the redundant member, why is it provided and does it carry any force,
5. What is load reversal.

M2:
1. What are the cases of load reversal, explain.
2. Tell the advantages of symmetric structure in analysis, design and construction.
3. If wind flows in some direction such that compression is on top face and tension on other.
Now due to some other direction of wind load reverse and top is in tension and bottom in
compression then, tell me what is the role of concrete in this beam will it take any stress, which
type of beam u will design.
4. How to give supports in STAAD pro
5. STAAD pro is designed based on finite element method or stiffness matrix method

M3:
[Link] are the advantages of walking ..and how can u find an average size of step using
persons height.
2. Before 10-15 years there was a shortage of experienced civil engineers what do u think is the
reason

Chairman- VYAS
TIME-11:21-11:45
date-19/3/21

CP
1. Read DAF and college name and ask some little questions
2. What is meditation and which type of meditation you do?
3. Benefits of meditation
4. What is littoral drift?
5. What are various methods of tunnelling in hard and soft strata?
6. What is unconformity?

M1
1. How you reached UPSC?
2. Which mode you used to reach here?
3. From which station to which station you used metro?
4. Which lines of metro you used?
5. Is there any difference of quality in these lines?
6. Which line is opened lately?
7. What is RRTS
8. Which are planned routes of RRTS in Delhi NCR
9. On which RRTS route currently work is going on
10. Which mode u will prefer for travel out of metro and bus and why?
11. Which is nearest metro station from your home and It is how much km?

M2
1. What type of survey you will do while starting a construction project
2. How will you do quality check of a completed project
3. Why tyres are provided in vehicles.
4. Any other thing which is used in place of tyres?
5. What is difference between tyres and chain system in vehicles and give two examples of
chain system
6. Draw diagram of chain system of movement.
7. you use seat belt while driving ( I said I don’t know driving)
8. Wheel transfers load as point load or UDL
9. On what factors contact area depends
10. How will you check that any govt scheme is implemented properly on ground( like 100%
electrification). Which type of survey you will do for it
11. Types of contract

M3
1. What are skyscrapers?
2. What is minimum height of a building to call it as skyscraper?
3. What is type of cladding in high rise buildings
4. Design difference in skyscrapers and low rise buildings
5. Which type of instrument you used on survey camp for levelling
6. One more question on type of levelling
7. What is nanotech
8. Types of nanotech materials used in civil engg
Chairperson - Smita Nagaraj
Duration - 20-25 min
Date - 17-03-2021

No question from hobbies and current affairs

Chairperson

1. You are already doing job in NHAI , getting such a good salary , why do you want to come
here?
2. What is your current profile in NHAI?
3. You have worked for 2-3 months now, what is it you didn't like working there?
4. Being an IIT graduate that's a small problem, something else?
5. No. of project currently being executed by NHAI?
6. Which one of these has highest cost?
7. What is its length?

Member 1
1. You are working at HQ, recently minister thrashed about delay in NHAI new building, what is
the actual reason?
2. Name the layers present in flexible pavement?
3. How do you design flexible pavement?
4. Layers of rigid pavement?
5. What is ESWL?
6. How do you use ESWL in bridge design?

Member 2
1. What are your favourite subjects?
2. What is 3D consolidation?
3. Any example of 3D consolidation?
4. How a layman can identify whether it is NH , SH ?
5. What is Coefficient of consolidation?
6. What is the formula to determine it?
7. What are the methods to determine coefficient of consolidation?
8. How do you find pre-consolidation pressure?
9. Can you draw a graph of it?

Member 3
1. While laying a brick, what is the most important thing to keep in mind?
2. While constructing a wall, any type like brick, stone etc. What is the most important thing to
keep in mind?
3. There is a test you missed which include aggregates also, what is it?
4. What are different tests of bitumen?
5. What is Marshall mix design?
6. What are different quantities we find in Marshall mix?

Interview Date : 19/03/2021 (Forenoon)

Timing : 20-25 mins

Chairman (BB VYAS) :-

1. How will you reduce the air pollution due to industries.
2. What type of rock in Jabalpur
3. What other two names of marble rock.
4. What is rock stressing and rock coupling
5. Flexible and rigid pavements
6. What is LSM, what is the conditions to use LSM

Member 1 :-
1. What is road end management
2. What are famous civil Engineering structures (i told many including sea link)
3. Do the actual ground assessment with facts and figures of Bandra-vorli sea link, if that project
is giving benefit or not.
4. What is closing error , explain in paper
5. How will you do traversing
6. What sports you play (I told cricket, VB and BB) , ok you not play tennis par dekha to hoga hi.
7. What is the material of frame of the tennis racket
8. Govt. launched one scheme in which they said that make the buildings which are accessible
to all, then what is "accessible to all" means here?
9. Tell me types of lifts (lift matlab building wali)
10. What is the difference in the lifts of residential and hospital buildings
11. How will you design accessible to all buildings
12. What have you seen in railways/airports which make them accessible to all.

Member 2 :-
1. What is self healing concrete
2. What is bacterial concrete, is both are inter related
3. What is ferro cement
4. What is the minimum height of a building to be called as skyscraper
5. What is used to make skyscrapers steel, concrete or both
6. Which has better fire resistance steel or concrete and why

Member 3 :-
1. Difference between Kota stone and marble
2. Marble is which type of rock?
3. Ingredients of marble
4. Which has more strength processed marble or initial marble rock
5. How initial rock is converted into marbles
6. Example of igneous rock
7. What wall made of rocks is called
8. Tell me who said this quote "Give me blood , I will give you freedom".
9. In which situation he said that quote
10. And he said that in India or outside India ?

BB Vyash
16/03/2021
Afternoon session,
Duration ~ 25min
Hobbies: Repairing machines, Watching movies, Photography

CP:
Reads DAF

— Asks, what have you been doing after graduation

— You have got this interesting hobby “Understanding and repairing defective machines.”, Tell
me one recent situation where you have repaired a machine.
— What are cranes
— Tell me 10 machines in this room
— CP showing his ball pen, is this a machine?
— He asks for One line definition of machine.
— What is difference between tool, equipment and machine
— What is Work Breakdown Structure

M1:
— Continuing on the topic of machines, what are the Types of crane?
— What is the name of moving crane
— Asks about precaution in designing of moving crane
— If you are given a crane, How will you know its load lifting capacity.
— Give me an example of one simple machine
— Lever is not a machine it is a tool.
— How does a machine reduces work?
— How a man of 40kg will lift 160 kg, show using a diagram.
— Name of pulley arrangement used to compound forces
— How will you say that how much load is safe for a machine
— He asks about Efficiency of crane and associated graphs

M2:
— What is a boom length
— Boom length and load lifting capacity relationship
— How will you select an equipment
— No I am saying if you have 3 equipment and you have to select between them
— No, goes straight to point, asks Difference between Renting, Leasing and Buying.
— Difference between wheels of car, Bike and bicycle. (DAF related)
— Again he wanted to talk specifically about spokes and alloy wheels, How does a spoke of a
wheel work, in tension or compression
— M2 insists me to draw and look further, I draw a figure and explain how spokes being slender
member would buckle.
— Difference between bending and buckling
— What is the meaning of Earth quake resistant design?
— What did you do in your earth quake resistant model?

M3:
— Precautions while building near an already constructed building.
— In terms of safety
— Are retaining walls only way to prevent failure in case of excavation.
— What types of foundation you will provide for a building wall close to the property line.
— Difference between raft and stripped raft.
— What is a long span structures
— Log span not in terms of building.
— Different methods of providing long span
— Any other way than truss and domes
— Any other way, when the building is of rectangular shape.
— Have you heard of shell structure.
— What are deep foundation,
— Classification of piles

Chairperson : [Link]
BACKGROUND: Working in Capgemini as Senior Analyst from last 6 month and
Completed B.E in 2020
HOBBIES: Volleyball, Mountaineering
Date: 12/03/2021 Time: 25 Minutes

CP:
1. Tell me about your work profile.
2. How do you end up being a software engineer.
3. Have you heard about IT act , name the act and tell about it.
4. What are the restriction on social media.
5. Types of Dam
6. Various program used in civil engineering.
7. Various clearance that are needed to be taken before any project.
8. What do you think which is better approach project design completion
execution by one company or different company.

M1:
1. How do you use autocad and staadpro in your company.
2. How to calculate ductility of structures.
3. What is material inconsistency and structural inconsistency.
4. Some questions on earthquake.
5. Few more questions I can’t recall now

M2:
1. What is the name of instrument used below snowboots.
2. What is 2 point and 3 point climbing.
3. Do you know about laterite soil.
4. Which equation is used to draw flownet.
5. How to solve laplace equation.
6. Is there any difference between Horizontal and vertical permeability.
7. In his time there was some problem related to water in Bengal and it
was fomous in his time also.
8. Do you know about Marine soil.
9. Why it has flocculated structure.

M3:
1. Define gravity dam.
2. Do you know about piping.
3. Have you also heard about drainage gallery.
4. Tell me about the name of scientist who provided filter at toe, how it
works and various specification related to it.
5. All the instrument are mounted on a platform present in lab, what is the
name of that platform.
6. What is floor to floor ht.
7. What is quick sand condition.
These are 90% of question which I remember.

TC Anant
Chairman- Manoj, you completed your [Link] in 2017,
After which You did your [Link] from IIT Delhi, in water resources engineering, And as you have
mentioned Now you are working in UPMRC, where are you recently posted?
you have mentioned your [Link] project on scouring analysis of Indian railways bridges, brief
me about your Mtech project

What was your Btech project?

Transfer to M1

M1-
Tell me about bridge pier and abutments what are these?
What kind of forces acted on bridge piers ?
What kind of forces on abutments?
How pier and abutments is designed?
Have you ever seen construction of well foundation at site?
Which kind of foundation for pier and abutments is provided?
In place of Well foundation what other types of foundation is provided in bridges?
How do you know about which kind of piling will be provided?
Will always be their Rocky strata below the river bed?
In case of sandy strata which kind of pile will you provide?
In clay which kind of pile?
What do you mean by rest pressure? Does no force act on the wall?
What is active and passive pressure ?
Give me example of passive pressure?
For the given porosity in sand and clay which will have more water holding capacity and why?

M2-
You have done your [Link] in water resources,
What was elective courses in your [Link] course that you studied?
Did you read about climate change or impact of climate change?
How climate change is affecting in farming sector?
How can we tackle with it?
Tell me some specific solutions for the farmers, as climate change effects has been observed
from last 2-3 decades
In South India there is problem of water scarcity and at the same time there is some intensive or
high flood r also occurs what should be done?
Do you aware of developed site and undeveloped site, suppose you are incharge of a
undeveloped site that is to be developed what things would you consider?
(Requested to specify the context or for what purpose the undeveloped area to be developed
like for industry set up? For residential or for other....)
What things do you consider to be done first as a civil Engineer?

Transferred to M3
So as you mentioned in your daf about Quora article.
What is Quora?
Which kind of articles?
As you stated your [Link] Project on fly ash cement replacement
Tell me which property of concrete will enhance?
Tell me some other properties benefit of fly ash
Fly ash doesn't have binding properties then why we use it ?
How is it react with cement?
Tell me about design mix?
Basic parameters and steps that how to prepare design mix?
How would you determine standard deviations for target mean?
Do we know standard deviations before testing of samples?
Can we calculate standard deviations from 3 samples?
How many sample We take at the time of testing?
How you would select water content in design mix?
What are the 'parameters' and what are the 'variable' in design mix?
Suppose for a project that is to be executed in 2 years, is designed mix concrete condition will
be same or it will change?

Transferred to Chairman:
Thank you Manoj, you can go!!

Name-Ghevar singh
Chairperson- Smita Nagrajan maam
Date- 22/3/21

1. Problems in constructing fort now a days?(As I'm from Rajasthan)

2. what is Famous of Allahabad? (Btech from NIT ALLAHABAD)
3. And which rivers meets at Sangam?
4. Sangam ke baad isko Ganga kyon kahte hai, Yamuna kyon nahi?
5. Aapne technical jawab diya hai. Koi aur reason pata hai?

M1
1. What are components of concrete?
2. Why not desert sand used in construction
3. Long column effect
4. Short column effect( dono pahli baar sune the)
5. Forrest mein highway kaise?
6. What are disadvantages of prefabricated structural member.

M2
1. What is Pozzolona?
2. Positive of Pozzolona
3. OPC Poori strength kab le leta hai?
4. RHPC
5. How monolithic in Pre-fabricated?
6. Adv. Of it?
7. What is prestressing?

M3
1. How you prevent animals when road is passing through forest?
2. One of your idea is fencing . Matlab Aap animals ko kaid karna chahte ho.
(4-5 aisi terms poochi jo pahli baar suni thi)

additional questions
1. If I have less time for curing then what would I do? (steam curing)
2. What are other cases when we prefer this curing? (Precast members...)
3. If temp is below zero degree then how concreting is done?
(I've answered isolation..bla bla But last mein woh khud bole ki garam paani daal do)
4. Hot climate concreting?
5. If I have limited water then how to cure concrete?

Board - Bharat Bhushan Vyas

Date 08/03/2021
ESE 2020

C - What is meaning of your name ?

C- DCE VS DTU (Difference between state and central university college name)
C - What is difference between Technology and Engineering
C - What is DL and LL
C - What is difference between weir and barrage
C - What is ROR project ?
C - What is Indus water treaty
C - About recent government policy on electricity in haryana, Rajasthan
C - Effective length of beam

M1 - If you are chief engineer how would you start construction (geotechnical side)
M1 - What is soil exploration
M1 - What is difference between Representative and Undisturbed sample
M1 - Plate load test, SPT Test, Vane shear and UCS test
M1 - Pumping in pumping out test
M1 - Constant head and variable head permeability (which soil is suitable and how to perform)
M1 - Can you make structure from soil only
M1 - Have you heard of earthen dam (which type of soil you will use)
M1 - How will you measure GWT depth

M2 - What is two way and one way slab

M2 - Made a T beam asked questions on it
M2 - What is composite girder which is used beneath highway
M2 - What is Euler Bernoulli beam model vs timoshenko beam model
M2 - What is load factor across the whole world
M2 - Can you guess whether it should be same or difference because engineer studying in India
has to work in America in some stage of life
M2 - Why do we give load factor
M2 - Why don't we use WSM if safety is only criteria
M2 - What is ULM WSM LSM
M2 - Questions on ULM
M2 - What is shape factor
M2 - Does large Shape factor is good or bad
M2 - Difference between Warping and torsion
M2 - What is simple theory of bending
M2 - Flat slabs
M2 - Why do we study simple theory of bending
M2 - Difference between material ductility and structural ductility
M2 - Which section we use for plastic analysis
M2 - Difference between plastic hinges and mechanical hinges

M3 - Asked about electives

M3 - So you have studied Solid waste management
M3 - Municipal or Industrial
M3 - Asked about bhalswa landfill
M3 - How is dumping there
M3 - What should be the ideal process
M3 - Can you tell anyway to economical recover some money
M3 - What are soil type material
M3 - Why flyash known as soil type material
M3 - Can you make building on heap of flyash

C - How can you reuse glass material in engineering purpose

Interview (23/03/2021)
chairman': T.C.A. Anant
Duration: 20-25min

Chairman:(3-4min)
College name
Work experience: about project and my role in the project
Achievements: from DAF asked what these achievements were and little bit of details

Member 1:(8-10 min)

Practical problem on slab,
Site related technical, sand drains, soil stabilization, liquid limit in detail. Keep on guiding to get
the answer from his perspective

Member 2:(5-6min)
Worked in irrigation project..I said yes.
Okay....tell me what is suction head.
Max theoretical value of suction head.
Few questions on Hydrology duty delta isobar, rainfall depth methods
Then asked some random terminology...( didn't heard about it...said sorry)
Few more terminology ( some of them never heard of )

Member 3(5-6min)
All questions starts from DAF only then asked few I continuation to the answers
Work experience
QMS Discussion
Risk Management
Field test
Few more site related terminology

Conclusion: majority of questions have some relation to the information filled in DAF and after
that started asking the practical problems. As I've a work experience so majority of questions
start from that part only

11/03/2021
Chairperson: BBV
Civil

C:
1. Do saal se kya kar rahe the?
2. Kya padhe 2 saal me?
3. What is shear strength of soil?
4. Explain all the terms contributing to shear strength.
5. Reinforced concrete suna hai ye reinforced soil kya hota hai?
6. What is rock stress?
Many questions related to rock, geology, geography. Couldn't answer hence dont remember

M1:
1. FEM
2. Numerical methods
3. Water flow ho raha soil me ek jagah se dusri jagah. Batao iske kaise represent karenge
mathematically? (Laplace eqaution)
5. Write it down?
6. Iska boundary condtion batao?
7. What is GSF and PSF?
8. Where it happens?
9. What is PSF then?
10. Soil in Mumbai
11. Black cotton soil found in Mumbai?

M2:
1. Land slide kaise hota hai?
2. Shear ke term me explain karo?
3. What facotrs contribute to land slide? Role of water in it?
4. Abhi ek land slide hua woh kya hai? (Chamoli flash floods)
5. Explain it in shear terms. (Told it was glaicial lake outburst)
6. What is heave?
7. What is Bentonite?

M3:
1. What is dynamic modulus of Elasticity?
2. Rate of loading on strength of concrete?
3. Mild steel and stainless steel?
4. Why stainless steel is famous?

Chairman
TCA anant sir
24 march 2021
time -12.30-12.57
25 min.+
all members had paper which consisted of questions

Chairman
you have mentioned you secured AIR 219 IN ESE 2019
you were allotted any department ??
yes sir
which department?
border road engineering services
I will be joining in April, I have taken extension for joining to prepare for ese 2020, okk
okkk
so you have not done any job??
no sir
What is Btech project u have done??
comparative study of design of circular water tank resting on ground by using is 3370-1967 and
is 3370-2009
is it resting on ground??
yess sir
so what was your conclusion and project summary
over all cost reduction in structure by reduction of steel by design by LSM
okk okkk

Member -1
You have done project on water tank resting on ground
yes sir
what about underground water tanks
how are they designed
gave ans. then
which soil gamma value u will take dry or Saturated..??
why is it so we considering those two situation
will it not be designed for any uplift forces
told about base slab
What are equipment u will be keeping in lab for building construction project
what will you do when project is delayed by 15 days
how to design M30 concrete
how to check whether it is pass of fail
if you casted column and its strength came out to be
32MPa for M30 is it passed of failed.
and few others unable to recall
okk thank you

Member 2
what is crop coefficient
what is evapotranspiration
what is fish ladder
draw its plan diagram
how to hydrometeriological parameters forecasting?
what are geophysical disasters
when tsunami will occur after earthquake what is the condition
which department provides data for forecasting
asked about favourite subject told RCC and SOM
asked about which has more torsional strength is it solid shaft or hollow shaft
how to measure evapotranspiration
and few other questions unable to recall
asked about crop ratio
also

Member 3
soil, do u know problematic soil
yes sir
which are those soils
black cotton etc
tell me some more
black cotton is active why
why montmorilonite causes swelling and shrinkage
what are remedial measures for black cotton soil construction
after this he said good
then asked tell me some problematic soil then, asked what is loess
uniformly graded wind blown silt
asked what is difference between well graded and uniformly graded
told about void ratio
which has less void ratio uniform or well
how to treat loess soil in field
what type of equipment to be use for loess
what is vibratory roller used for??
disturbed and undisturbed soil application.....in field
why to use remoulded soil and some other questions unable to recall

overall I gave all answer except 1-2 never listened type questions
Name: VIKASH YADAV
Panel: BB Vyas sir(afternoon)
Date: 09/03/21
Currently working in AEGCL as Assistant Manager in Guwahati
2017 passout
Approximately 20 minutes duration

Chairman:
He was very much smiling and also wasn't putting any pressure or trying to grill me.
1. What were you doing after passing out?
2. Tell me 5 road signs
3. Why road accidents occur?
4. Why you took civil engineering?
5. If you go back in time would you have taken civil engineering?
6. Why potholes are formed?
7. What will you do to prevent it if you are posted in CES Roads?
8. What is the difference between tax and cess?
9. What are the taxes you pay while buying a car?
10. Tell something about the name plate? Is there anything special in it.
11. Name the codes you will follow to prevent potholes formation at site.

M1:
Asked very tough and practical questions on RCC and prestess concrete initially which i don't
even remember. He was very serious and was trying to grill me a bit.
1. How will you improve the slab of the existing slab in very poor condition?
2. You have two cubes one of 10cm and other of 15cm, which will show higher strength under
UTM?
3. Why cylinder test has lesser strength than cube strength?
4. How much is the strength difference?
5. Why is there a strength difference?

M2:
Was mainly asking some trick questions but wasn't grilling me and was smiling most of the time.
1. What are the test we do on aggregates?
2. Is abrasion and hardness test same? [Link] you sure?
4. After testing mild steel in utm and plotting the stress strain graph, how will you find the proof
stress of mild steel?

M3: (Didn't ask too many questions )

1. What is sensitivity?
2. How to find it?
3. What is area ratio?
4. What is the weight of hammer in SPT test?
5. What is the fundamental difference between SPT and DCPT?
6. Full form of DCPT

Chairman: ok your interview is over good luck.

My feedback: I was comfortable with the chairman questions barring a few which were
completely unexpected like the questions on taxes but he was very much cordial. The other
member asked a mix of questions which few i answered and few i denied. I avoided bluffing and
tried to be honest throughout. Its hard to say whether it was good interview as i didn't know quite
a few answers but since this was my second interview in UPSC i would say it was just better
than average rest only results will tell.

Good Luck to future aspirants.

Panel Smita Nagraj ma'am

Duration 20-25 minutes
Date 16/03/2021

Chairperson-
1. What are the reasons for flood in Bihar and tell me the solution
2. What will be the effect on downstream side if we construct dam in Nepal like China is
constructing Dam over Brahamputra

Memeber 1
1. What was your work at site(I was in job)
2. How to do compaction of soil
3. What are methods for finding Bulk density and water content
3. What is Calcium Carbide method?
4. tell any other method for water content determination which is superior to calcium carbide
method
5. What is engineered backfilling
6. What are tests to be done on the soil that is being borrowed to site for backfilling
6. describe about your project details ( as I was in job )
7. Have you visited RMC batching plant ?
8. What are functioning of RMC batching plant
9. Describe the working of batching plant

Memeber 2.
1. Why did you leave your job
2. What is index property of soil
3. what is undisturbed sample
4. How to make undisturbed sample
5. What are the testings done on undisturbed sample?
6. Tell the limits of Clearance ratio , and Area ratio
7. If soil is having area ratio less than 10% then is this undisturbed?

Memeber 3.
1. So you have worked on the site ?
So tell What are the importance of water in concreting?
2. what are testing done on water that is being used for concreting
3. What is hydration reaction?
4. How water affects the strength of concrete?
5. Role of Admixture
6 Tests to be conducted on concrete on site
7. What OMC
8. What is Proctor density
9. What is Vane shear test and it's usefulness
10. How to do liquid limit test through vane shear test
11. Have you heard about inland water way that was inaugurated by Pm Modi in last year in
Bihar
12. Tell the characteristics of inland water way
13. Which water way passes through Bihar
14. How much waterway is cheaper than Roads way

Branch : Civil Engineering

Duration : 25 minutes
Board name : TCA Annant
Interview date : 11 March 2021 (Forenoon)

Chairman (TCA Annant) :-

Read DAF and college name, year of passing and place of college (Jalandhar).

Then he asked about my past experience :

Ans : I worked as a Quantity surveyor engineer for 2 years in Tender Dept in Riyadh (Saudi
Arab). And as a site Engineer in Gurgaon for 8 months.
So which type of drawings you worked on
Ans : I worked on Structure and Architectural drawings, Although there were other drawings
also in tender documents like Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Fire Fighting etc

M1 :-
Have you worked at site.
Ans : Yes sir, I have worked at site in India in Gurgaon Region.
What was the name of your project.
Ans : I Worked at Indira Gandhi Eye Hospital.
Tell me some special features of Hospital.
Ans : We provide specially designed thick walls and slabs for X-ray rooms which are subjected
to radiations, In hospital building we take care of all the safety norms, since it is a public
building, we provide fire extinguishers, panic bars at all the exit doors to escape corridors.
He asked for some features from civil engineering perspective.
Ans : There was separate STP Tank for Treatment of Sewage. There was basement for Parking,
Then he interrupted asking “how many basements were there”….. I Replied “There were two
basements”
He asked me to draw Process of Sewage treatment.
Ans : I made the layout of Sewage treatment on paper, then I explained the whole process.
How the waste water is collected in a hospital.
Ans : The Sump pits are provided in basement, from there the water is pumped to STP and
treated further.
What is macerator.
Ans : It is a device to grind large waste product into raw sewage.
Where are these used other than sewage.
Ans : Sorry sir, I don’t know.

M2 : -
What is stability of slope and where it is done.
Ans : It is the process of strengthening of soil at slopes, it can be done by soil nailing,
Geo-membranes and Geo-textiles as reinforcements, It is done at the slopes of embankments,
at sides of excavations etc.
What is angle of internal friction
Ans : It represents the internal friction offered by soil
Is there difference b/w angle of repose and angle of internal friction.
Ans : there is not much difference angle of repose gives an approximate idea of angle of
internal friction.
What is negative skin friction.
Ans : it is the downward drag exerted by relative settlement of loose soil deposit surrounding
soil on the piles.

M3 :-
As you have done work as quantity surveyor engineer, Suppose you are working on a project
which is High income group building and all the foundation works, slab and column has been
casted, masonry work has also been done, then what will the next activities that you will
perform, what will be the specification of the materials used.
Ans : Sir, I have done structure work only in India, after that I was transferred to overseas
location at Riyadh Saudi Arab and there I worked in tender department in office, Also I was not
involved in MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing) works it was done by separate team. so I am
not able to answer this question.

He said you are a civil Engineer, you have done your graduation from NIT Jalandhar, so you
should be able to answer this question.

Then I started answering

Sir we will do plastering works, flooring works and all the civil works will be coordinated with
MEP works like fire fighting, plumbing, AC ducts, utilities etc. and finally painting works will be
done…But he said you are mixing everything and I felt it clearly that he was not satisfied with
my answer…

What is full form of EWS, how many income groups are there like high income group
Ans : Economically weaker section. Low income group, Middle income Group, High income
group, Ultra high income group.

Then Chairman asked me to Leave saying “ Thank you Mohit, Your interview is over”

Interview board name - Dr. TC Anant sir

As I enter the room, wish them and sit properly and chairman sir is reading my DAF form, about
my education detail then after 2-3 minute asked me
CP- what are you doing in this gap because I had passed graduation in 2019?
Ans- I told them I am preparing for IES exam from last one and half year
CP- Ok, tell me about your [Link] project and elaborate it
Ans- I told the detail of my project which I have done during my graduation.
CP- Tell me about your favourite subject.
Ans- I told them soil mechanics, SOM, transportation engineering

M1- tell me about 5 natural sources of energy from where we extract

Ans- since my project related to solar energy this q has been asked, I told them about solar,
wind, geothermal, tidal, hydropower
M1-in which form we extract solar energy
Ans- light and heat form and explain PVC cell and thermal equipment
M1-how wind energy is generated and supplied to household
Ans-I told them about wind turbine and I have not much detail about storage and transportation
of wind energy.
M1- how we are extracting geothermal energy
Ans-I have recently read about the Jammu geothermal energy and told about them.
M1-he asked about my hobby which is teaching
Ans- I explain my interest and how I am currently doing now
M1-ok, tell me how you detect the leakage in pipe supply system in your home without flowing
water them
Ans- I have not much detail about this
M1-he asked again about leakage detection in water distribution system in public water system
Ans-I tell them about pressure gradient measurement system and he want me other method
also here, chairman sir interrupted and handed to next sir

M2-since I came from farming background, he asked about the farming of paddy
Ans- I know very well about farming of paddy so I explain
M2- land measurement and why this particular unit you are using
Ans - I have no knowledge about this question
M2- he asked about MSP
Ans- I told them properly
M2- about fertiliser, type of farming of paddy
Ans- I told them about fertiliser which we are using
M2- what is metacentre and its uses
Ans- I told them it is used in floating body to explain its stability and how it is found
M2- for war ship you keep it 2 or 1 meter and why
Ans- I told him 2 meters because it will improve its stability
M2-ok, and for passenger ship
Ans- I tell him 1 meter because it will increase time period which provide comfort to passenger
M2-what is principle of surveying
Ans-I told them about whole to part and measurement of one point from two aspect

M3-tell me about the dam situated near you

Ans- I told them about Jargo dam and Rihand dam
M3-what is height of dam which type it is
Ans-I told them 91 meter and gravity type dam...I have read it because its capacity is highest in
Asia
M3- is there hydropower plant
Ans - yes, it produces approx. 300 MW
M3- tell me 5 company names of cement
Ans- I can answer only 3 at that time
M3- process and ingredient of cement
Ans- I told them about wet and dry process and ingredient
M3- what is rapid hardening cement and low heat cement and its uses and its formation
Ans-I explain both of them
M3-tell me about Abram law and name some plasticizer
Ans- I told them inverse relation and lignosulphate
M3- what is stage hydrograph
Ans- I have no knowledge about this term so I asked permission to explain each term separate
and explain them
M3- he asked me how many max numbers of bar can you place in one line in 300*600 beam in
M20 in 20 mm bar steel
Ans- I am little confused initially but understand it but since he has asked maximum but I am
unable to recall the is code for spacing of bar
M3- ok this is last question, how to measure the diameter of HYSD bar
Ans- sorry sir, I have not knowledge about this

My interview is over and said them thank you all of them and comes out.

Date: 19 march 2021

BRANCH : Civil engineering
Board : TCA Anant
Duration: around 25-30 minutes

Chairperson :
So Mr. you're from Sikar Rajasthan,
You did Btech from so so so college
You are 18 pass out
What did u do in these years
Any Btech project?
(carbon fibre reinforced self compacting concrete)
What was it?

OK passed to M1

M1:
what were your favorite subjects in Btech(SOM, Soil Mechanics, Irrigation engg. Highway)
So lets start from soil mechanics
How will you determine percentage of clay and silt in a soil
What is min. size of sieve and why?
What is size of clay particles
What is this hydrometer analysis based on? Which principle
How will you determine permeability in field? ( variable head constant head)
(Those are lab tests)
How will you determine in field?
What is Darcy’s law
Write the expression
What is difference between seepage velocity and discharge velocity
Which will be more and why
How will you construct a housing society project on landfill site
Why can't you?
Why soil there is porous?
What kind of soil is present there in below landfill
Why organic?
Why volume decrease occurs there?
Have you heard of secondary consolidation
What's it
In what kind of soils this occurs
Draw a curve of soil undergoing consolidation along with curve of loading unloading
Why curve is different for NC soil and OC soil
What is virgin soil
How will you determine pre consolidation pressure?

M2:
So you've lived in Srinagar so tell us about cold weather concreting
You like bike riding? So why
What is a cycling track called as?
What was your Btech project about?
Tell in detail
What is fibre reinforced concrete
Why you used fibres
Why especially carbon fibres any advantages?
How using carbon fibres is different than reinforcement bars
What changes it made to concrete?
What conclusion you drew from that
How much strength increase?
You teach mathematics also?
Explain Pythagorus theorem
Tell us about use of Pythagorus theorem in civil engineering
How a Mason uses it in construction
What is 3 4 5 in construction how Mason uses it?

M3:
In project management how delays can be prevented?
What are tools used to check if project is on time
What is milestone
How will you complete a project on time in such a pandemic situation when labour isn't available
as much as you require?
What is crashing
How would you choose an activity to crash if i give you 3 activities
What financial management you would do if an accident happens on site
What is ground improvement
Tell us few methods of ground improvement
How will you resolve a situation in which there is a railway embankment slope which is about to
fail?
What is soil reinforcement with example

Date 25th March,2021

Branch Civil Engineering
Panel TCA Anant
Duration 25-30 min

Chairperson
So Mr. you graduated from x college.
[Link] were you doing during last two years(graduated in 2018).
What was your [Link] project.
What were the findings.
favourite subjects.(Geotech , Railways, RCC )

M1:
Tell me about railway sleepers, cement, wires, grade.
Why we don’t use RO on larger scale.
Why we use UV and what are its drawbacks. (he wanted to hear something that I didn’t know)
Chairman: NGT has recently requested people to not use RO in their homes. Why ?

M2:
Tell me about Warning signs.
Gave me a warning sign post (imagine a flag ) and asked me the failure criteria, forces, point of
failure, bending torsion.
Raft foundation(my project was on Raft foundation). my findings were average so asked me
what did you do?
as these things you already know. Quoted IS code and scope of study and compared it with
isolated footing and Timoshenko flexible plate theory.
Machine foundation. (asked me whether I know about it and I told him I had general idea)
Yaw, sway, bending about which axis. Criteria of failure, designing consideration etc.

M3:
Retaining Wall types, failure criteria, difference between buttress and counter-fort. draw them.
Concrete acceptance criteria, definitions of words I said, like standard deviation, constant etc.
Standard deviation on field, when it is modified?
Have you worked on field or any work experience?

Date: 12/03/2021
Session: Forenoon
Chairman: BB Vyas
Duration of interview: 25-30min
Last person to enter

Chairman
1. Read my DAF and asked what else I want to do (as I have done many things in college) on a
lighter note.
2. What are the geological characteristics required for a reservoir.
3. What are wet docks and what are its advantages and disadvantages.
4. What is LSM.
5. What is e-governance and relate it with civil engineering.
6. What are wind excited oscillations (as my college was in coastal State)

Member 1
1. Read DAF and asked about my city, for what it is famous and places to visit around it.
2. What is your [Link] project.
3. What are Geo-grids.
4. Other than reinforcement for what it can be used
5. What are other Geo-synthetics and their uses
6. Can we use Geo-synthetics in reservoir and in what form can we use it in reservoir
7. What are other methods of soil stabilisation
8. Why do we do soil stabilisation
9. Is soil stabilisation method depend on soil or we can use any method on any soil
10. Why highway is called highway

Member 2
1. Asked about my [Link] project
2. What are different finite element methods (as my BTP is based on that)
3. What is section factor
4. What do you mean by fire resistance
5. How can we make a building fire resistant
6. What are active and passive measures of fire resistance
7. Which is better for earthquake design-T-beam or rectangular beam

Member 3
1. What is great Triangulation Survey
2. How many times had we done it
3. What is MSL
4. What is RL
5. Can MSL be at 0m
6. What is AH (related to highway)
7. What do you mean by slope failure
8. What is infinite slope
9. What is sheet pile
10. What is diaphragm wall
11. Can we made it with rcc or pcc or both
12. Define energy dissipators and where they can be used and name some of them

Date 10/03/2021
Chairman: TC ANANT SIR
Duration: 25-30 mins

CHAIRMAN:
What was your [Link]. project, Your role and conclusion.

M1:
What is strand jack system and hydraulic system for lifting devices
Reaction turbines types working principle, guide vane, governer?
What is open flow and pipe flow?
What is orifice, manometer, venturimeter?
What is thixotropic and give one example?
Different type of numbers in fluid( Reynold,mach...)

M2:
what is steam curing,
How will you design M20 concrete.( Chairman asked me to explain what is M20)
Code for design mix?
What does IS 456 include.
How many no. of samples you will test for concrete.
what is STP in solid waste management?
Composting?
What is regular and special maintenance?
Soil reinforcement?
Your role as a supervisor on the site.

M3:
what is amphibious (not sure) building?
How plastering will done bottom to top or reverse. If slab is not completely constructed in a day
then at which location you will prefer to leave it and why.
How much coal ash is generated in india?
What is flyash and bottom ash?
Fly ash mission by govt?
Can we use fly ash in dam?
What is geometrical standard deviation?
What is check dam?

ESE 2021 interview

Varun Kumar
Background: 2019 pass out civil engineering from amity university
Currently working in NHAI through GATE 2021 score
Sujata Mehta maam board

Chairperson:
1. Introduce yourself to the board
2. What do you think about asset monetization being carried out by NHAI
3. By charging high toll fee for using highways and expressways, so you think we are stopping
the poor from using these facilities? Do you think charging high toll is justified?

Member 1
1. What is BOD of wastewater?
2. Tell me about various waste management process used?
3. How composting is carried out?
4. How to deal with plastic waste? Won't landfilling pollute the soil?
5. How to reduce noise pollution along roads and highways? Have you seen any such
measures in Delhi?
6. What kind of plantation is generally carried out along medians of National Highways?
What is centre-centre spacing of tree plantation along NH?
7. What is centre-centre spacing of electric poles in urban areas?
8. Different type of steel used in steel construction?
9. Types of steel used in steel truss, rafter etc.?
10. Which among steel and rcc column is better?
11. Difference between flexible and rigid pavement?
Where flexible pavement is preferred and where rigid pavement is preferred?
12. If you want to construct a highway which pavement you will prefer and why?

Member 2
1. What is the use of various water resource structures?
For how many months india receives rainfall?
2. What are different type of faliures of earth dams?
3. What is field capacity?

Member 3

😅
1. What is encroachment safety ratio( or something like that.... I don't remember the exact
term )
2. What is time of concentration? How to estimate it? What are different components of it?
3. What are different types of drain inlets used in highways?
4. What type of flow occurs in storm water drain?
5. If discharge in drain increases with each drain opening then why a constant section is
adopted for drain? Can we vary the section?

Date : 28/02/2022
Interview Duration: 25mins
Chairman: Smirta Nagraj Mam
Background: JEC jabalpur 2019 Batch, undergoing training in IOCL.

Chairman :-
1. Iocl vs ESE
2. tell One thing in recent civil Engineering that you liked most
3. in future what material will replace cement if not then what you will do to reduce pollution
related to cement
4. fav subjects

Member 1 :-
1. What material can be used to make multi storey building.
2. what foundation to be used for multi-storey building
3. How to determine BC of soil
4. friction angle is same or diff for Drained and undrained conditions in triaxial test.
5. What is Dampers
6. Different types of cements
7. diff b/w OPC and PPC
8. Why we use PPC now a days
9. stripping time of slab
 10. what is single stacking and double stacking system related to Enviro.
11. What is Asphaltic Concrete

Member 2 :—
1. Diff bw PCC and RCC
2. How will you design the 20m slab
3. what will be the thickness of that slab
4. what is batching
5. tell me 4 factors that you will do to reduce environmental degradation as a civil engineer.

Member 3 :—
1. What is the Elasticity of non linear elastic material.
2. what is tangent and secant modulus
3. what is initial tangent modulus
4. which modulus is greater initial tangent or tangent
5. what is your fav subjects
6. What is mohr circle

ESE 2021 Interview Transcript

Civil Engineering
Date : 02/03/2022
Interview Duration: 25mins
Chairman: M Sathyavathi Mam
Background: Final Semester [Link] Transportation Engg

I was the 1st person to be interviewed.

Started at 10:00AM after DV and other formalities.
It was an unusual Interview in that, there were no technical questions related to what we study
in GATE/ESE Preparation. Mostly Policy related questions.

Chairman :-

1. Reads my complete DAF Page (Birth Place, Degree, Hobbies etc)

2. Tell what is your [Link] Project
3. How is your [Link] Project going to help the soceity?
4. India's Traffic situation is probably the worst in the world, Tell me how we can improve?
5. About Vehicular Noise, tell how can we reduce this?

Member 1 :-

1. Which are the major pollutants released from Vehicular emissions?

2. How can we prevent these?

Member 2 :—
[Link] [Link] related technical questions.
[Link] was your UG Elective?
3. Consider a floor of a residential building, are all reduced levels of floor same?

Member 3 :—

[Link] you are assigned a role of Operation and Maintenance of a building, What things will
you do before a Rainy season.
2. How is classification of Concrete done based on it's strength?

Date-02/03/2022 (Afternoon Session)

M. Sathyavathi ma'am
Hobbies- Solving Soduko, Photography
Working profile- IOCL marketing division

Chairperson- (Read the DAF details to members)

1. Why there is 3 year gap after graduation?
2. Why ESE not IOCL?
3. About your Btech project?
4. In IOCL are you in training or have you allotted job location?
5. Where you visited or learned in your training period?

Member 1
[Link] precautions taking while cleaning sewers?
2. What is DPC and why we provide it?
3. Difference between exterior wall and interior wall?
4. If any cutting is provided in interior wall weather it vertical or horizontal?
5. Wall provide in bathroom or partition wall can we remove that wall?

Member-2
1. Fevt. Subject (SOM &RCC)?

😒
2. Stress strain curve with all point in MS?
3. Why we get yield point (not able to answer with detail )

😑
4. Elastic region, Elastic limit, principle stress, what is stress, strain,shear stress, shear strain,
E,G,K ki definition (disappointed with E definition and he say are yarr tumhare fev. Subject
se nahi bta PA rhe ho achhe se )?
5. write the Moment, inertia, stress, E equation?

Member-3
1. If petrol on water surface like in sea methods to remove that (in answering process I said
Bioremediation)?
2. You say bioremediation what is that and how you apply that(not able to explain exactly)?
3. Secondary treatment methods?
4. Difference between TF and ASP?
5. Why called activated sluge?
6. F/M ratio ko explain kro?
7. Formula for F/M ratio ( I said not remember ma'am is like exactly formula kon yad rkhta h)?
8. MLVSS full form. (Syd glt bta diya tha)?

Review- CP is satisfied member-1 is also satisfied M2 thoda disappointed tha M3 chill lg rha tha.

Date- 28/02/2022
Session-Morning
Panel-M Sathyavathi Mam
Background- 2019 passout, NIT kurukshetra
My interview started at 12:10 pm

CHAIRMAN-
1. started reading my Daf.
2. madam asked what you are doing after graduating in 2019?
3. whom you are financially dependent?
4. asked about my [Link] project.
[Link] my [Link] project was study of rain garden so all panel member started discussion
about it and asking about how it is different than rain water harvesting?
6. suddenly M2 started asking but madam interrupted and said we will ask one by one.
7. then madam asked about conclusion of project and said about you can give better
recommendations at [Link] level.
8. madam asked about what you have done in survey camp as it was mentioned in daf and then
madam passed to member 1.

MEMBER-1
1. started asked about construction and expansion joint?
2. where construction joint in beam is provided at beam column junction or other position in
beam?
3. asked about curing in concrete?
4. which bags used in curing (ans-jute bags).
5. ponding in slab means?
6. no. of seismic zones and which zone is critical.
7. as zone 5 is critical they asked about its locations and passed to member 2
NOTE:- In the middle of interview somewhere M1 told me that you are not looking enough
sincere for interview that you came with beard as i have trimmed at 1 number.
but i tackled it by saying that some people say you look like child without beard and all people
started laughing and things came back to normal.

MEMBER-2
1. started guiding me about my [Link] project and after 2-3 minutes asked one question from it.
2. as my survey camp on contour so asked why contour is drawn.
[Link] is contour?
4. on which side of hill we do farming and name of farming?
5. as M2 was taking more time so chairman interrupted and said can we shift to another
member and madam shifted to member 3.

MEMBER-3
1. What is urban flooding and possible causes( from [Link] project)?
2. other methods we can use to stop urban flooding except rain garden?
3. software we use to detect urban flooding?
4. formula to estimate urban flooding?

Suggestions-
1. panel was very friendly and coordinating do not scare and do not make hurry while listening
questions.
2. Listen carefully.
3. you can use any language but try to speak in english as much as you can but can speak in
hindi also in middle of interview by taking permission after you struck.
4. try to prepare [Link] project and any other technical information what you have written in daf
properly if you are fresher and not done any job.
5. dont get nervous if you do not answer 2-3 questions wait for qustions which you know.

Date : 02/03/2022
Interview Duration: 30mins
Chairman: Smirta Nagraj Mam
Background: Mtech, Geotechnical engineering,2nd semester, graduated in 2019.

Chairman :-
1. Flooding problems in Mumbai and it's solution.(as my parents currently stay there)
2. About Mtech project ( project not decided yet, so she asked on which topic you will do your
project)
3. Questions relating to geotechnical aspects of landfill design.
4. Have you visited any landfill?

Member 1 :-
1. Continued asking on landfills like what is waste sorting,etc.
Aked about after how many years we can use landfill area for development of facilities like
park,etc. He said that a table is there depending on the type of waste dumped, if you can recall
that table?
2. About black cotton soils and foundation suitable in this soil
3. Morphology of soil
4. Soil found in gujrat and Kerala and foundation suitable in those soils.
5. Pile and well foundation.
6. About lintel
7. About cistern,traps.
8. Questions relating to building construction. He asked some terms I haven't even heard of.

Member 2 :—
1. Active and passive earth pressure. Definition as well as force analysis.
2. What is pressure bulb.?
3. Till what depth it is significant?
4. Stress concentration
5. What are reinforced retaining structures?
6. Rainwater harvesting.
7. Difference between geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics?
8. Some more questions on retaining walls I can't remember.

Member 3 :—
1. Exit gradient
2. Critical exit gradient
3. Flownet and when/how it is drawn.
4. Earth dam failure due to piping.
5. Arching effect
6. Btech project.( Difference between bishop and morgenstern-price method)
7. Shifted to RCC and some questions about probability distribution curve in concrete testing.

Date - 3/3/22
Interview duration- 20 - 25mins
Afternoon session( 2nd candidate )
M. Sathyavathy mam panel
Why girls don’t opt for civil Engineering??
Why u chose civil Engineering?
Hobbies?
Type of dance?
After graduation, what were you doing???
Joining details of HPCL
Hpcl vs ESE
New technologies in construction sector??
Explain them.

M1
Explain BTech project
Characteristics of leather effluent
Which form of chromium ion is toxic
Value of BOD , chloride content, total solids in leather effluent
Which code is used
Favourite subject (rcc railway)
Cant defiency
It’s significance
Types of signals in railways

M2
Name different Treatment processes
What is the design criteria of grit chamber, skimming tank?
Types of biological treatments
Explain ASP
Why is it called activated sludge
F/m ratio
SVI definition and how to find in lab?
Value of f/m for ASP

M3
Steps to clean an underground tank?
What is CPVC
Why we use galvanised iron pipes
It’s limitations
What is sosham??
What is gola???

Review - panel was very polite and encouraging. Be honest. It’s was more like a conversation.

Smita Nagraj Ma'am panel

Duration: 20-25 mins

Chairperson:
1. What career option do most of graduates in Civil engg take? Told her 3 career paths.
2. Which path are you taking?
3. Are you planning to appear for Civil Services Examination
4. Nowadays Civil Engg has lost it's touch, where do you see the scope of this branch in the
next 10-20 years?

M1:
1. Pole in Mohr Circle
2. Why is Mohr circle symmetric about centre
3. C&D plant
4. If you apply shear stress on RCC wall what will happen?

M2:
1. Retaining wall
2. Soil Anchors
3. Difference between construction of flat slabs and RCC sloping roofs
4. Material applied below footing
5. Footing anchors used in delhi
6. Shear box test and triaxial test
7. Types of contract
8. Difference b/w item rate and %age rate contract

M3:
1. Why do water supply pipes burst
2. WBS
3. CSR
4. What is cover in construction site
5. Classification of doors
6. Grey water
7. Cavitation
8. Sanitation
9. Shoring
4-5 more terms were asked which I had never heard before.

Smita Nagraj ma’am panel

Duration:25-30 mins
Chairman:
1. Why did leave nhai and join iocl ?
2. What are the difficulties in construction?
3. What is role in NHAI?
[Link] IOCL what division your in?
M1:

1. how can u reach more height by providing gradient ?

2. what is lintel?
3. Different types of traps?
4. Where we will be using it?
[Link] in some dams upstream is convex?
[Link] is siphon action?
7. Where it is used in irrigation?
[Link] is oil trap?
9. What are different types of water treatment processes?
M2:
1. What is cube testing?
2. How many samples we collect?
3. Whether night driving or day driving safe in hilly areas without sign boards?
[Link] is soft storey?
M3:
1. Why only 3 samples in cube testing?
2. Do u know about r2 in graph plot?
3. What are different types soil stabilisation?
4. What is pvd?
5. What type of principal used in pvd?
6. What is smear effect?
[Link] horizontal consolidation is more than vertical consolidation?

Date: 03/03/2022 (Afternoon)

Panel: Dr Manoj Soni
Background: [Link] IITD , [Link] IITD (Structural Engineering) 2020 Passout
Hobby: Watching News related to world affairs

Chair Person:
1. Is this your first professional interview? - No, I have appeared for IOCL and BARC.
2. Have you selected in those interviews? - Yes, I get selected in both of the interviews.
3. What is status of them, You already joined or about to join.
4. What will you do if you don't get selected in ESE?
5. Have you heard about 9/11?
6. What were the other incidents that happened on 9/11 other than twin tower attack?
7. As the structural engineer, Tell me what are the reasons for the collapse of twin tower?
8. Suppose there was no explosive and negligible fuel in the aircraft than what could happen?
9. If structure is going to collapse then what are the reasons behind it?
10. If you are posted in there, How will you design the structure to prevent such incidents?
11. What practice or codal provision will you use to design such structure?
12. Do you know any structure in India who has implemented that code?

Member 1:
1. What factors will you consider in design of Airport?
2. How will you design drainage in airport?
3. How much rainfall intensity will you consider for designing?
4. If design is done based on past data, how many years will you consider?
5. From where did you get those data?
6. What type of test do you perform on soil during investigation?
7. What are the various instrument used?
8. What is difference between permeability and percolation?
9. What are different types of valves?
10. What is difference between air inlet and air relief valve?

Member 2:
1. What is difference between drilling and drifting in tunnel?
2. Have you heard about TBM, what is it?
3. Which is better drilling, drifting or TBM?
4. When we use drilling and when we use TBM?
5. What is cost of TBM?
6. What is alternative of TBM in low budget project?
7. What factors will you consider in designing of bridge?
8. Why wind load is critical for bridge?
9. What material will you use in pile foundation of Bridge?
10. Difference between RCC bridge and PSC bridge?
11. Under what circumstances will you use either of them?
12. Structural difference between various types of tunneling (Exact terms I don't remember)

Member-3
No Questions as I am the last candidate and Time is already 5:20

Asked 4-5 terms related to bridge structure and Tunneling which I have never heard.

ESE 2021 transcript

Smita nagaraj ma'am panel
Date:03/03/2022,
Afternoon session
Duration:30-35min

Chairman: You are selected as assistant engineer in cgpsc,so why you want to leave comfort
zone for ese?
[Link] is your preference of department in ese?
[Link] often see lot of seepage in old government buildings,what is the reason?
[Link] water cannot be metered,what could be the causes and remedial measures?
[Link] of success of public health engineering department and shortcomings.

Member1:
[Link] is cavity found in gas pipelines and the reason behind it?
[Link] maximum spacing of piles in is code has been specified?
[Link] percentage of earth pressure is carried by geogrids in retaining wall?
[Link] compaction is difficult in sand?
[Link] we measure relative density of sand?
[Link] is density same in case of dry and saturated same?

Member 2:
[Link] iron is present in soil,what will be the properties of this soil?
[Link] we have to carry water from a low level to high level ,commonly used?
[Link] is measurement book?
[Link] is inventory management?
[Link] and how rate analysis is done?
[Link] is steel measurement done
[Link] of doors
[Link] how much steel and concrete would have been used in the construction of this room?
[Link] rubble masonry and ashlar masonary
[Link] of shear on masonary wall

Memeber 3:
[Link] between PERT and CPM?
[Link] is optimum duration
[Link] crashing curve
[Link] between rate analysis and SOR?
[Link] of contracts
[Link] building
[Link] combinations according to IS 456
[Link] used in kitchen,and location of these
[Link] distribution network,function of ferrule?
[Link] is single and double stacking system?
[Link] strength.

Some other terms related to environment and construction management,that i had heard for the
first time.

Date-03/03/2022.
Morning session
Currently undergoing training at IOCL
Chairperson-Soni sir
M1,M2-Male.M3-Female

Ch-
[Link] are from village, what is the population?
[Link] hobbies are playing and watching [Link] you still watch the cricket?What do you do?
[Link] a civil engineer what is the advantage you take from others while bowling?
[Link] is Bernoulli principal?
[Link] is the length of bat, wicket?
[Link] is the length of pitch?
[Link] many time you have travelled by air?
[Link] do you see the yellow mark?
[Link] is white mark portion called?
[Link] of Runway?
[Link] is the material used in runway?
[Link] is harbour?
[Link] is dock?
[Link] the place called where ship gets maintaince?
[Link] does aeroplane gets navigation?
[Link] is light house?
[Link] are in Iocl,In which division are you in?What are the product of Iocl?
[Link] does finished product supplied to market?

M1.
[Link] is Archimedes principal?
[Link] is drainage gallery?
[Link] is pheriatic line?
[Link] component of earthen dam
[Link] is the property of parabola

M2.
[Link] is your favourite subject?
[Link] do you calculate stress at any point in soil
[Link] is the formula given by Bossensq for stress calculation?
[Link] your top soil is [Link] to you increase its bearing capacity?

M3.
[Link] the water is supplied to your house?
[Link] you have a 3 floor building and a tank on [Link] should be the Pump power in hp?
[Link] are the type of pump?

Ese 2021
Panel- manoj soni
Date - 03/03 afternoon
Background- delhite, iitr mtech geotechnical

Chairman
1- you are a delhite, how do you see delhi as a city.
2- which city in the world will you prefer to live your whole life if given a choice.
3- tell me 5 applications of geotechnical engineering
4. We have many highways under construction, what is the goetechnical aspect of providing
trees on highways.
5- cp has old buildings, we have constructed tunnel underground, how do you find the strength
of the soil and foundation.
6- what is the unit of bearing capacity.

Member 1-
1. What is famous in roorkee.
2. When was civil engg department established in iitr.
3. Have you heard of __. It is famous in Roorkee for civil engineering aspect.
4. What is shotcreting.
5. Where do we use and why?
6. What is grouting.
7. Where do we use grouting.
8. What is slope stabilization.

Member 2-
1. What is aqueduct
2. How to you design the aqueduct
3. How do you take width and depth of aqueduct part
4. Difference between barrage and a dam
5. How to provide safety against water in soil in embankment and for foundation
6. Something he asked for which i said sheet pile wall.
7. How to decide depth of sheet pile wall
8. Write the formula of hydraulic gradient
9. I said hydraulic gradient.

M3 ( madam thi,mask k andar kya keh gyi aadha samjh nhi aya)
1- factors affecting permeability
2. Factors not affecting permeability
3. What is ICT
4. Prime minister said something lately, what that in regard of ICT
5. Draw a canal crosss section
6. What is cutting and what is filling, show in that diagram
7. Why do we try to make cutting equal to filling
8. Whta is there is only cutting, will that become uneconomical
9. What is the importance of river bank
10. How do you decide canal alignment
11. What is ____? ( I said sorry ma'am not heard of it)
12. Some questions on canal bank, lining vegative cover like that.
Chairman- khatam tata goodbye.

Date : 04/03/2022
Interview Duration: 25mins
Chairman: Smirta Nagraj Mam
Background: BTech 2020 passout , AMU
currently pursuing MTech Environmental engineering 1st. year

CHAIRPERSON :-
1. What are you doing now (as I had not mentioned about MTech in my DAF)
2."I observe a lot of noise from upstairs , so how can it be prevented"
I answered sound insulation medium and cavity walls
3. What are cavity walls and insulation walls, how are they made.
4 . You mentioned abestos, what is the problem with using asbestos
5. What have you planned for your MTech thesis project
(Told about air quality modelling)
6. Which pollutant you will monitor (told about AQI ) and how can it help in pollution abatement
7. Why Delhi has frequent problem of pollution, measures to cater the same
8. How solid waste is treated at AMU ,Major sources of pollutants from Aligarh city.

MEMBER 1 :
[Link] you give me an example of major structure which do not require earthquake
consideration.
[Link] seismic waves cannot travel in liquid medium
3. Real example of carbon sequestration .
[Link] of asbestos.
5. Why do we limit value of skin friction resistance in pile foundation in Sandy soil
5. Difference between bulk modulus and modulus of rigidity

MEMBER 2 :
1. What is lintel?
2. Provisions for lintel embedment value
3. What is Sill level
4. What is dado and skirting
5. What are types of tender
6. Why after decreasing time beyond optimum time project cost increases even though
manpower and materials requirements remains the same
7. Consideration to be taken while doing work in cold wheather conditions
8. Pointing to the main door, which type of door it is ?

Member 3 :—
1. What is a sound vibration and condition in which it becomes dangerous for a structure
2. How vibrations are minimised in a bridges and flyovers? (Told Elastomeric bearings)
3. Compositon of Elastomeric bearings
4. Pointing to two windows , what is the main difference between them ,in terms of its
classification
5. What is aspect ratio in slab and what will be the effect if we provide same reforcement in 1
way slab as we provide for 2 way slab.

ESE 2021
Panel- Manoj soni
Date - 03/03 afternoon
Background- Delhite, IITR Mtech geotechnical

Chairman
1- you are a delhite, how do you see delhi as a city.
2- which city in the world will you prefer to live your whole life if given a choice.
3- tell me 5 applications of geotechnical engineering
4. We have many highways under construction, what is the geotechnical aspect of providing
trees on highways.
5- cp has old buildings, we have constructed tunnel underground, how do you find the strength
of the soil and foundation.
6- what is the unit of bearing capacity.

Member 1-
1. What is famous in roorkee.
2. When was civil engg department established in iitr.
3. Have you heard of __. It is famous in Roorkee for civil engineering aspect.
4. What is shotcreting.
5. Where do we use and why?
6. What is grouting.
7. Where do we use grouting.
8. What is slope stabilization.

Member 2-
1. What is aqueduct
2. How to you design the aqueduct
3. How do you take width and depth of aqueduct part
4. Difference between barrage and a dam
5. How to provide safety against water in soil in embankment and for foundation
6. Something he asked for which i said sheet pile wall.
7. How to decide depth of sheet pile wall
8. Write the formula of hydraulic gradient
9. I said hydraulic gradient.

M3 ( madam thi,mask k andar kya keh gyi aadha samjh nhi aya)
1- factors affecting permeability
2. Factors not affecting permeability
3. What is ICT
4. Prime minister said something lately, what that in regard of ICT
5. Draw a canal cross section
6. What is cutting and what is filling, show in that diagram
7. Why do we try to make cutting equal to filling
8. What is there is only cutting, will that become uneconomical
9. What is the importance of river bank
10. How do you decide canal alignment
11. What is ____? ( I said sorry ma'am not heard of it)
12. Some questions on canal bank, lining vegitative cover like that.
Chairman- khatam tata goodbye.

ESE 2021 interview

Panel : Chairperson +3 members
Chairperson- Sujata mehta
1 female , 2 males in tech members
Date - 02/03/2022 ,time 11.26 am
Duration - 24 minutes
Background -NIT KKR civil, IITR envt Mtech + IOCL

Chairperson -
So introduce yourself to the board members.
So what is your work profile in IOCL.?
So you are from Gurgaon , recently there was a news of building of 6floors collapsing. How did
this happen and why it happens even if there are so many checks during approval(something
like this was asked)?
Continued on the same..

M1
What are the different shapes of sewers?
What are the characteristics of egg shaped sewers?
When it is prefered?
When combined sewers are used?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using it?
How will you take care of Storm discharge?
What do we do in the primary treatment of sewage treatment plants?
What is oil skimmer?
Suppose today is 31st December and there is lot of oil next morning how will you take care of
that ?(couldn't ans)

M2 (female)
(speaking slowly and less words used )
What are the different types of soil found in India ?
So black cotton soil should not be used according to you?
Okay tell me what are the different types of foundation used for construction?
You are currently in Prayagraj , what are the rivers flowing there?

M3
So you have won in tennis some competition?
Tell me about dimensions of tennis court?
Convert In metres
Suppose you have to make an infrastructure so which city you'd prefer Gurgaon or Kurukshetra
considering only environmental factors?
Tell me only environmental factors.
Okay leave .
What are the difficulties in making an infrastructure in Gurgaon?
Won't noise pollution be there
How will you overcome that
What measures u would take...and some more uncomfortable discussions in same domain

Chairperson
So is there any fav subject of yours which has not been asked from you?
( Said soil has been asked and RCC is also one of my fav sub)

M1 -
What is neutral axis?(wasn't impressed so told SOM wali too)
Draw stress distribution of a RC beam.
chairperson -Thankyou

Second shift
Board sathyavaty mam
Timing 25 30 minutes

Chairperson:
(read whole resume)
What were you doing after 2018
Why you didn't join any of those jobs
Why ES when you can join Aen post in your state having more blah blah nd ol in your local
area
What is sustainable design
What is green building
What is difference between sustainable and green concept

M1
What is doda something I haven't heard of
What is dpc
Thickness and constituents
Purpose of dpc
Additional materials applied over it
Can you provide dpc in a 50 year old load bearing structure
Rainwater harvesting

M2
Btech project? (carbon fibre reinforced self compacting concrete)
Advantages of SCC
Advantage of carbon fibre
Carbon used was organic or inorganic
What is orthographic projection
Types of brick bonds
What is king closer nd queen closer

M3
What is a future city
What is smart city
What is climate change
How much is the average earth temperature
One simple calculative problem of carbon emission kinda we solve in environment

M2 again
You taught mathematics which topic u find difficult
Date- 3rd march

Chairman
-read out daf
-what were you doing in the gap
-what have you learnt in training
-Full form rti and cgs
-what is sor
-if rate of certain item is not given in sor then how you will find out
-which type of market

Member 1
-SOR is given for which city
-how will you find cost in other cities
-what is cost index
-cpvc
-how to find slope of bathroom floor
-min and max steel for beam column
-cover for steel and column

Member 2
-S curve and its significance
-Advance surveying terms
-principal of bukinghum pie therom
-triangulation survey and its type
-flood routing and its significance
-types of flood routing
-explain muskinghum method
-water treatment plant both conventional and advance
-Advance treatment method for boiler feed water
-Zeolite method

Member 3
-More like a conversation like how to set advance solid waste management techniques
-design population and solid waste generated per capital per day
-composition of waste
-percentage of OM in solid waste as per indian scenario
-Do you think land filling is a good method
-leachates
-major gas released
-treatment method for leachates

Date 28/02/2022
afternoon session
sujata mehta mam
btech completed in 2020
mtech final sem from construction technology and management worked in L&T also

chairmen
why ese not L&T
why mtech ?
what is your thesis ? (precast technology )
what is your worked conclusion and result in project
what is 3D printing ?
what is precast ?
why houses not made through precast basically what are the challenges?

member 1
what is green building ?
provisions of green building?
what is rating?
which authority gives the rating?
what is griha and its full form
what is sustainable management?
how you ensure sustainable management as a engineer?

member 2
how precast is cost effective ?
you can make this upsc bhawawn with precast?
what is breakeven point in precast/
comparison of precast and cast in situ?
time reduce in precast
how to check reinforcement in slab ?

member 3
btech project ( muncipal solid waste management of indore city )
what is hazardous waste ?
what is nuclear waste ?
activated sludge process principal
what is noise pollution
measures to curb noise pollution ( I said concept of silent disco)
what are cpcb guidelines for this noise pollution ?

Date: 4th March 2022

Session: Afternoon
Panel: Smt. Sujata Mehta

CH:-
1. Give your educational introduction.
2. Tell us about your [Link] Project (Solid Waste Management).
3. What are the problems faced during Solid Waste Management that reduces the efficiency
greatly?
4. Which cities in India have good Solid Waste Management?
5. What are the key features that separate them from other cities?
6. In what ways can the waste be reused?

M1:- (old,seemed to be a professor of IIT)

1. Tell me your favourite subjects. (Said Structural Analysis, Strength of Materials, Soil
Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics)
2. How can you find the Pi-terms in dimensional analysis.
3. Do you require the concept of rank of matrix to find the pi-terms?
4. How is river modelled for testing in lab?
5. What material is used in lab for model testing?
6. What are the processes used in recycling of solid waste?
7. Which of these processes have been adopted in your city?
8. Can sludge be used in agriculture?
9. What is the concept used to convert sludge into biofeed?
10. Tell disadvantages of vermicomposting.
11. How will you select the site for the Waste Management Plant?
12. What are the requirements for the location of landfill?
13. Do you know about the JARGON table for selection of landfill?

M2:-(relatively young)
1. What is the system of Water Supply in you state? (Gujarat)
2. Is there a scarcity of water in Gujarat?
3. How can odour be removed from sewage?
4. What are different types of filters?
5. Which filter has most efficiency for odour removal?
6. What chemicals are used for removal of algae?

A few more questions on Environment which i don't remember.

M3:- (female member)

1. What are culverts?
2. Different types of culverts.
3. What are different types of foundation?
4. When is shallow foundation and deep foundation used?
5. What is tropic survey?
6. What is Astronomy?
7. What is Astronomy used for?
8. What is siphonic action?
9. How is the initial pressure provided to overcome summit height in a siphon?
10. Where is siphon used?
11. What are different types of valves and where are they provided?

CH:- Any subject you would like to be asked questions on? (Said Structural Analysis)

M1 asked 2-3 basic questions on indeterminacy as a formality

CH: Good. Thank you.

No questions on hobby.

Date: 04/03/2022 ( Forenoon)

Chairman: M Satyavathi Ma'am
Background: 2019 passout. Brief stint with online Ed Tech platforms( Chegg etc)

Chairman: Read out the DAF almost completely.

- asked about gap
- how much did they pay you monthly ( Ed tech platform)
- what was your role exactly
- did they pay you in foreign currency or indian currency
- asked about college society membership(innovation & incubation club )
- any interesting idea you came across
- what if you're posted in chennai
- will be able to cope up with the env there

M1
- asked a purely mathematical question based on integration (pen & paper was allowed)
regarding coal consumption of some country
- what is loudness
- what's the formula to calculate it
- frequency range for normal human hearing
- reference pressure value
- CPCB limits for noise level in residential area
- how do you measure sound level

M2
- difference bw internal wall & external wall
- thickness values of both
- pointed towards the floor & asked about type of tile used
- can we use the same in bathrooms
- why
- precautions you'd take before plastering a wall
- how would you accommodate ducts(plumbing or electrical) in a wall
- vertically or horizontally
-why

M3
- suppose a column shows visible buckling, what you do as an engineer to correct the column
- can you use all the methods you mentioned simultaneously
-why
- difference bw shear wall & partition wall
- what's coincidental draft
- why do u need to take max of thefinalltwo values
Discussed at length about this concept
- what's peak factor
- it's value
- now you're already accounting for unseen factors by using peak factors, why do we then use
the concept of coincidental draft.
finally seemed convinced with the explanation
- how would you design a rural water supply scheme & an urban one
- will the domestic water demand be same
-why
- asked about values for LIG & HiG communities
- name the code with year/ latest revision
- what would you do next

Ch: That's it. You may leave now.

Hello everyone i thought i should share my interview transcript as now is the right time ...i didn't
share it before because i thought it would get lost in the chat...

Chairman (Manoj Soni sir)

Some general questions about my state just to calm my nerves ?
What are u doing after btech ?
Iit madras some general talk on this
Meaning of sudhanshu? (It is related to moon)
How will you construct a building on moon/ challenges compared to earth? (The answer i gave I
believe was one of the deciding factors for a good score)
Your hobbies all indoors? He then said don't u like to go out? ( I just accepted my flaws there/
but told them I'm working on this)
Favourite football club
Player

Member 1 (all questions were from my mtech only so you can skip this part if it isn't related to u
guys)
Project of mtech
Project related questions
Is 11384 (was working related to this is code)
Abaqus modeling (software on which i was working on)
Steps involved
Meshing
Model support conditions and specifications
Basis of is 11384
Convergence of your model

Member 2 (knew about my state apparently more than me 😅)

Lakes in j&k?
Asked about Artificial lake in j&k ?
How is it constructed?
River tawi origination?
Problems faced in river side structures?
Liquefaction prevention?(was impressed with this answer)
Dam construction cement and concrete grade?
Some questions was related to uplift (couldn't recall)

Member 3 (covered a lot of topic ... couldn't answer 2-3 questions of her)
What is Gis?
What is Qgis?
New technologies in civil engineering (do prepare this question well these questions do fetch
marks)
Prime minister's gift to farmers( i didn't want to name revoked farm laws cause its wasn't my
domain so i just named a csir project/policy related to weather prediction that apparently PM
had some role in it)
What is a Disaster?
Any disaster in 2021?
2 Uses of surge tank ?
Water hammer?
Turbine classification?
Reaction and impulse turbine?
Software related to pert and cpm?

The thing i learnt from my previous attempt was that no matter what happens don't loose
confidence. If you don't know politely say sorry sir i will look in to this topic.

Panel - Smita Nagaraj

Chairman
Where are you working currently?
When did you join?
Now a days lot of accidents are happening on the highways. What are some issues related to
design of road due to which these accidents are happening?
What was your work in your previous job?
What are some parameters in which contractor can misuse ?
What is tender excess?

Member 1
What is difference between dpr and estimate?
How will you measure GSB quantity using NHAI method?
What is the minimum lane road for which NHAI takes up project?
What will be the width of 4 lane highway?

Member 2
Do you know prestress concrete?
How many types of prestress concrete are there?
How are pretensioned and post tensioned concrete are made?
How many types of losses in prestressed?
Are the losses of same type in post tensioned as well?
What are railways sleepers, pretensioned or post? Why are they ?
What is transition curve?
What is the use of transition curve?
What is the radius of transition curve ? How does it vary along the curve?

🥲
How many transition curve will be there for a section of road?
What is reverse curve? (heard it as rivers curve )
How many transition curves will be in reverse curve?
What is centrifugal ratio?
What is centrifugal ratio of road and railways?

Member 3
What is reduced level?
Can a station have more than one reduced level?
What are some equipments used for surveying?
Height of measuring staff?
Least count of staff?
Difference between surveying and levelling ?
What is true bearing and magnetic bearing?
How will you measure angle between two lines using a compass?

DOI 28/11/2022
Panel: Smita Nagraj Mam
Chairman: What are new technologies related to civil engineering?
How can you stop pollution in industry and in construction area any new technology?
Member 1: Position of live load for maximum negative bending moment in 5 span continuous
beam?
Bending moment at ends?
IS code value for this negative bending moment?
Shear stirrup for dynamic loading design?
Design criteria of stirrup as per IS 13920?
Width of column criteria as per IS 13920?
Depth of footing at ends?
Critical section for shear, bending moment and two way shear?
What is the criteria so that having posible two way shear?
Other name of two way shear?
Column positions for unixial, biaxial and axial loading?
What is deep beam?
Deep beam design criteria?

Member 2: Some government say yamuna is polluted other say it is not what we can say?
Any agency for its data?
Test for river pollution?
What for inorganic and toxic pollutants?
Types of tiles?
Tests for tiles and its criteria?
What type of tile is it on the floor?

Member 3: New technology related to construction and highway engineering?

Any technology of road without aggregates?
Test for soil at about 1km of depth?
Formwork and shuttering removal time?
Suppose PM wants to inaugurate a day earlier how would you remove formwork if wanted to be
removed one day earlier?
High performance concrete.
Under reamed piles use?
Protection to save loose soil from collapsing while pouring concrete?

😁
Some questions i forgot hope it helps..

Date 29/11/2022 (Forenoon session)

Chairman-Smita Nagraj Ma'am
Duration-Around 30 min.

Chairman
1. Why one should go for arbitration?
2. What are the clauses for escalation included in contract?
3. What are the materials for which generally escalation happens?
4. What happens in case due to some fault of contractor, prices of materials go up, then how it
would be managed in contract?

Some similar contracts related questions.

Member 1
1. For what four things escalation happens?
2. Rolling, limiting and exceptional gradients for NH
[Link] between viaduct and bridge
4. Why in some cases bridge is made of steel whereas in some cases it is made of concrete?
5. On what basis one decides if there should be a flyover at a road crossing or not.

Member 2
[Link] of activities in Water treatment plant
[Link] aeration is done
3. What impurities are removed from aeration
4. What coagulant is used
5 What alum does
6 Why colloidal particles do not settle down
7 What are colloidal particles
8 What disinfectant is used
9 What chlorine does
10 Can ozone be used as disinfectant
11 Can ultraviolet rays be used as disinfectant
12 What are ultraviolet rays
13 Why does water loses its taste after boiling
14 What ie permanenet hardness in water
15 Why does sodium not cause hardness

Member 3
[Link] Intz tank is named so
2. Where was first intz tank constructed
3 Different parts of intz tank
4 Where are ring beams in intz tank
5 What are stresses in top dome of intz tank
6 Is there hoop tension in cylindrical portion of intz tank
7 Why reinforcements are provided in both faces of cylindrical portion of intz tank
8 What are dynamic forces acting on intz tank
9 How wind force will be calculated on it
10 How earthquake force will be calculated on it
11 What are the minimum dimensions of beam and column specified for intz tank as per codal
provision
12 What is the minimum diameter of bar used for column in RCC
13 What is the minimum and maximum percentage of reinforcement for beams as per IS code?
14 What is difference between box and slab culvert?
15 What method will you use to analyse box culvert?
16 What are provisons of reinforcement percent in deep beam?

Date 29/11/2022
Panel Smita Nagraj Ma’am
Duration : 30 minutes
Chairman Ma’am:
Are you relaxed, is this your first interview and where are you working currently.
2. These days we talk a lot about sustainability whether sustainability related to environment or
related to cost or other things so can you tell what civil engineers can de or doing for
sustainability.
3. Why a lot of projects on India are getting delayed and thus causing a lot of problems can you
tell some reasons to avoid delaying of projects and how to mitigate them
( had a lot discussion in this )
Member 1.
Are you comfortable with design?
( should have said no)
1 what is T beam?
2. What is criteria that you will say it is T beam( wanted to hear monolithic action only)
3. What is other point to say a beam is T beam?
4. How do you design a T beam?
5. What is stress strain curve for concrete is called? Technical term
6. What is value is stress stain curve at top?
7. How do you arrive at 0.45fck?
8. 1/1.5 is .667 how did you get.45?
9. What is the value of steel strength taken for design?
10. How to get .87 fy ?
11. What is development length?
12. What is its purpose?
13. What is its value in terms of dia?
14. How will you provide the reinforcement for beam and column joint for earthquake design
according to is 13920?
[Link] a T beam is provided?

Member 2.
1. What properties are similar to fly ash and cement?
2 constituents of fly ash, what is major constituent and what is its percentage?
3. Where do we get fly ash from?
4 how it is collected from top?
5 where is fly ash used beside cement?
6. What is difference between fly ash and bottom ash?
7. Where bottom ash is used?
8. How will you decide which stone wares or ceramics to use if you have large variety of price
range is available
9. Tell me the different parts in this door( asked each parts of door by holding in hands )
10. What is name of this door ( technical name)

Member 3
1. can you tell what are black spots?
2 what all may be reason for back spots in sharp turn?
[Link] measures you will take to avoid accidents?
4 beside sight distance what is other reason for accident?
5. How will you increase setback distance?
6. How many black spots are identified in India by NHAI?
7. How will you construct pile for bridge in river water?
8. What other method beside coffer dam?
9. What measure you will take if soil is loose for holding the excavation of pile if even bentonite
slurry can’t hold the excavation?
10. What survey method is opted for measuring the depth of river?

Had work profile but they didn’t ask any thing related to that

Date 29/11/2022
Panel Raj shukla sir
Duration 20 min.
Chairperson:
What are you doing nowadays.
I told about Nhai
What do u do in nhai
They asked about different department.
Why these days only nitin gadkari is doing remarkable job??
Why only promises being made and not executed.....
Member 1.
Draw balanced cantilever beam.
Tension and compression in cantelever beam.
What do we do to ensure the safety of cantilever beam related to props.
What is NH, SH, MDR
distinction of the above
Formation width.
Member 2
Difference between asphalt and bitumen
Test of aggregates.
Test of bitumen
Softening point test?
Tensile test of bitumen?
CBR test ?
Asphaltic concrete?
Member 3
About btech project
Processes of municipal waste water treatment
Landfilling
What do we do with the sludge
Some question about methane gas

Member 1( Mr. Shukla)

How many IITs are there and should there be more number of IITs in the country?
Asked some questions on DAF- achievement section?
What is innovation and how it is a necessary tool for technology?
Is innovation more feasible in democratic country or a country like North Korea?
Take north India and south India and tell where innovation is more feasible?
Russia was better than US in many aspects before world War but now it's military,
semiconductor important, etc is suffering How according to you the silicon Valley as an
innovation boosted US and u agree whether Russia is lagging in innovation?
Member 2
Asked about native place's altitude and reason for floods some years ago?
What are different subsurface failures in dams or embankments?
What is difference between khosla and blighs theory? Where khosla studied from?
What is piping explain?
What is extreme altitudes of Delhi? (Range approx)
What if a city is to be build on flat plane or hilly plane and which one is suitable and why?
How will u control drainage if city is built on slopy or hilly part of delhi?
Member 3
What was your project in college?
Asked a lot about the project and mainly how it will help in practical situations( mine was on
hydraulic behaviour of plastic clays)
How will you waterproof your foundation?
Member 4
What was your elective?
I said maths then he asked how partial differential equations help in civil?
Fin..

DOI - 29/11/2022 Afternoon

Panel - Raj Shukla sir

Chairmen
1. You worked in TCE(company)?
2. How was the experience?
3. What did you learn?
4. What was your salary?
5. What are your favorite fields in civil engineering?
6. Why we give importance to soil?
7. Why soil is different everywhere?
8. What are Story-rich video games(hobby)?

M1
1. You heard Morbi bridge collapsed? What kind of bridge it was?
2. Why did it fail?
3. Explain load path in suspended bridge?
4. What will be load these each member carry?
5. What kind of load tower carries?
6. How will you design the building?
7. What different codes will you use for designing?
8. What about steel?

M2
1. What are different types of staircases?
2. How do you design a staircase?
2. What are loads you will consider in designing?
3. Why staircase is so important in the building?
4. What are loads for overcrowding?

M3
1. What structures you designed on in your company?
2. How did you design it?
3. What was your [Link] project?
4. How much is distance between Sangli and Kolhapur(project related)?
5. How did you identify the blackspots?
6. How many blackspots did you identify?
5. Explain one hotspot corrective measures you provided.
6. Why did you not provide signals?
7. What should be minimum traffic volume required to provide a signal?

Chairman - Thank you. Your interview is over.

As I was leaving, M1(again) - was this your first time ese interview? Yes.

Smita nagraj panel

Date: 29/11/22
CP- you are from Rajasthan and you have worked in HPCL so why you left job
2. Why do you want to join CPWD instead of HPCL
3. What do you see in state govt building ( have some random answer like life and other stuff)
4. Do you not see any cracks in those building
5. Why UPSC bhavan such not have any cracks
6. What value you bring in CPWD.

M1
1. You are supposed to have choice in cpwd that you can choice your nature of job (1 design 2
estimate 3 maintenance) what will you choose.( I choose design)
2. Design process of construction of a building
3. what is sub soil exploration and how you will do it
4. If suppose SPT no. Is 8 then what will be your type of foundation then he elaborate this
question as I am not able answer it( finally give answer deep foundation)
5. Then what is well foundation
6. Construction of well foundation
7. Problem of well foundation
8. Suppose as structural designer you have to given a column of size 40*90 but due to space
limit you can give only 40*60 then what will you do
9. Some other ques also been asked but i am not able to recall

M2
1. Type of slab
2. Corridor slab is which type
3. Room slab is of which type
4. 5 spanContinuous slab live load placement
5. Torsional reinforcement of slab
6. 13920 beam column joint specification
7. What is Beam design moment(100knm hog or 50 knm sag)
8. Wastage of material in the beam as less material required for 50knm what will you do (hint
given redistribution of stress)
9. What is redistribution and how will you do it

M3
1. What is tunnel engineering ( i pass this and told never studied)
2. What is the rainfall data recorded for design of dam
3. Return period of dam
4. Design data and return period for earthen dam and minor dam
5. What is yield
6. What is runoff
7. What are losses
8. Where IMD is situated
9. What is seepage water, infiltered water, percolated water
10. What is the use of S Curve
Raj Shukla panel
30/11/2022
After noon session

Chairperson
1. You are brilliant student then why private colleges for btech?
2. Can student from private college compete with IITs students?
[Link] you know what is technocracy?
China recent 2 presidents have been engineers ....is that the reason for their growth?
4. China ahead or America in current scenario and why?
5. Name the Indian PM who was engineer?
6. Would you like to see any engineer PM of our country? Do you think it is possible? If yes how
it is possible?

Member 1.-
1. Gujrat morbi incident reason
2. Part of suspension bridge and loads associated with it
3. Type of stone masonry
5. what are type of ashlar masonry
6. He asked about 3 types of stone i couldn't hear like through type stone etc.
7. What is Dpc
8. What are specifications of dpc
[Link] are materials used for dpc
10. Draw section for DPC
11. What is foundation provided if rock is there
12. What is the depth of foundation is provided if it is provided on rock
13. What is king closure
14. Where it is used draw diagram

Member 2.
1. So you did teaching , what you taught ( i said maths)
2. What us use of partial differential equations
3. What is degree of partial differential equations
4. What is taylor expansion?
5. What was your btech project
(Asked everything about btech project... every single details with reason)

Member 3
1. You have mentioned mhrd scholarship from where you are doing masters
2. Subject in masters
3. Ine subject i told optimization techniques which was maths additional subject
4. What is optimisation..... explain analytically
5. What are methods of optimization
6. What is simplex and Big M method
7. How will you optimise resources for prestess bars
8. What are constraints?

Date - 30 Nov, 2022

Panel : Ms. Smita Nagraj Mam
Background: Did MTech in Water Resources Engineering, Selected as SDO in Water
Conservation Department
Duration: 40Min
CH:
What are you doing currently?
Isn't it good? (Current Job)
Suppose you are at a district place and you have to provide water to villages, How will you
provide it, Tell me Every Step from Source? (Took 2-3 minutes)
Tell me something about Water Conservation Department?
Have you seen any structures?
How Check Dams are designed?
What is Jalyukta Shivar Yojna?
Maharashtra Govt. always comes with new idea. Any new Scheme regarding Water Supply ?
(Told Marathwada Water Grid)
What is Purpose?
How water will be lifted?

M1:
Do you know Bridges?
Width of 2 lane Bridge?
What is Kerb?
How the Longitudinal Girders designed?
Forces Acting on Bridges?
How Live Load Calculated on Bridges?
What are Standard Loadings adopted on Bridges?
Difference between piers and Abutments?
Forces Acting on Piers?
How will you design Abutments?
Which Foundation is Provided for Bridges?
Have you seen Sinking of Wells?
How it is done?
How the reinforcement provided in Design of Bridges?
Which is your favourite Subject?
Difference between Shallow and Deep Foundations?
Asked Condition wheather and How Bearing Correction Factor Applied?
What is Dilatancy Correction?
Types of Correction used in SPT Test?
What is Overburden Correction?
What are different types of Deep Foundations?
What are Different types of Piles?
How Friction Piles are Designed?

M2:
You have to design tunnel, How will you select the Site?
How tunnel designed on Soft Soil?
What is Needle Beam Method?
Suppose there is a Dam, Water level in u/s is such that it has not exceeded Maximum Water
level but Stored Water causing damage to Structure then what measures you will be taken?
What is Spillway?
How Erosion of River or Lake prevented?
Black Cotton Soil is predominant in Maharashtra, How will you design pavement on this Soil?

Male Chairperson Panel (Not sure if he was Raj Shukla Sir because his face didn't match what
Google or UPSC site displays)
1/12/2022

Chairman
Goodmorning have a seat and remove the mask if you don't have any covid symptoms
Introduce yourself in one minute
Challenges in your teaching job
How do you deal with them?
Dissatisfaction in any front regarding the level of students? (Said that yes but I take it as a
challenge and bridge the gaps with relevant change in my teaching methodology)
How to deal with that?
How to make building earthquake resistant?

M1:
Yeh AQI kya hai?
What all pollutants in it?
Who does the measurements and mathematical working to reach the final value?
What's the AQI today?
Why so high AQI?
Why photochemical smog? Any other Smog also? How it affects the visibility? Why near India
Gate so much pollution?
Why AQI shoots up during winter nights? Inversion?

M2:
Wind kya hai? Dampeners for wind?
Relevant IS code for wind?
At what height basic wind speed measured?
Relevant corrections for converting it to Design Wind speed?
Bina kharcha kare low cost solutions batao to make short height buildings Seismic proof for
winds and earthquake
Basic wind speed of Delhi?
Zones for winds and earthquakes?
Passive and active system for seismic proofing of buildings.

M3:
What all are checked for fire proofing of buildings?
Roads mei which value is IRC based on for flexible pavement measurement?
How CBR is measured?
Minimum CBR recommended by IRC?
Suppose soil is poor having CBR value of 2, what would you do?
You worked for a Building project, for which department was it being constructed ? National
Building Code prescribes minimum height for floors of an office building any idea?
Which ductile designing code used there? Tell the detailing of column beam joint?
How to make a load bearing structure earthquake resistant?
Retrofitting of an existing structure for earthquake?
How to convert traffic loads to simplify our calculations for MSA (I told about standard axle
loads, VDF and its calculations but somehow he wasn't convinced)

Chairman:
We asked you what we wanted to hear now tell me if you want to enlighten us about any new
innovation being used in Civil Engineering ( I talked about the recent Waste to Energy plants
being constructed in Delhi to get rid of the municipal solid waste problem and reduce the need
of landfills)

This is all I can remember as of now.

Shukla Sir's panel is chill, especially Shukla Sir himself barring ek professor who asked me a lot
about winds and it's relevant IS codes which I couldn't recall very well that time, he was a bit
disappointed. Last mei ek topic of Civil Engineering khud uthaane ko bolte hai, so prepare one
for yourself according to your comfort (although I'm not sure if the panel is doing the same with
all)

All the Best!

Panel-Smita Nagaraj
Interview -2 Dec

Chairman-
1. Whet are you doing these days?
2. Where do you stay ?
3. Difference between planned city and unplanned city.
[Link] me something about silchar.
5. What is sewage treatment plant.?
6. Source of water supply in silchar.
[Link] is the capacity of your college sewage system.
8. How waste water is utilised.
[Link] is ur best subject.
few more questions related to water supply and waste water.

Member 1
1. Difference between soil erosion and slope failure.
2. Measures to stablize soil failure and erosion.
3. few questions from survey.
4. Dimension of retaining wall.
5. How to increase bond when we have to build a new structure over an old existing building.

Member -2
1. Design of ioslated footing.
2. Dimension of footing.
3 .In which criteria depth will be maximum.
[Link] of retaining wall.
5. Water table correction for footing.
6. Few more practical questions.

member 3

1. Significance of streter phelps equation.

2. Initial Do deficit and mechanism involved in self purification
3. Do sat of water
4. whose Do is more Sea water or river water.
5. sewrage appratus
[Link] type of manholes.
[Link] is deep manhole.
8. which material is used in sewage pipe.
9. Type of RCC pipe.
10. Few more questions related to envi. engg

ESE-2022
Date of PT: 01-12-2022
Panel: Smita Nagaraj Mam

CH: Why did you left pvt. Job for govt. job?
CH: What is this govt. job’s exposure every other candidate is talking about? All the govt. works
is taking care by pvt. Firms. DPR, estimates, design, drawings & even project management is
done by Pvt. Firms. Govt. people only sits on their desks and put sign on some papers. Is this
even exposure?
CH: Why you left pvt. Firm? Every other candidate says salary, pride for family, etc. What was
your reason apart from that?
CH: What is the biggest project you handle in your current organisation and previous
organisation? Just tell me the names only. (I said residential flats in current organisation and
design of metro station in previous organisation)
CH: See. You are exposed to lots of things in pvt. Firms. How can you say govt. gives you same
level of exposure?
CH: Are you selected in pvt. Firm through campus placement?
CH: Have you analysed that interview? What is pvt. Firms look into a candidate?
CH: People having zero practical knowledge are coming to govt. job & perform checking of pvt.
Firm’s work. Are they fit for those roles?
CH: Do you believe people having very good theoretical knowledge (fresh graduates) have
same level of practical knowledge (site problems)?
CH: Can you suggest something to solve this problem?
CH: What was the exact work you did in metro design?
CH: Are you an expert in design? Lets evaluate that.

M1: What is the detailing of beam-column?

M1: What is the minimum size of column?
M1: Suppose you get a drawing of any column reinforcement. How can you say that this much
reinforcement will take care the load effectively without using any software?
M1: Minimum & Maximum reinforcement criteria is very elementary, tell me some solid answer.
M1: What is the minimum size of beam?
M1: So you have design the substructure of Metro. Is it a cast-in-situ or precast pile?

M2: Just visualise us how will you cast that in site. What are the steps involved? (I told step by
step process and he has questions for every steps)
M2: Sometimes it is seen that pile hole collapses. How can we say whether its collapse or not?
M2: How can you rectify this problem?
M2: (back to his first question) Suppose 28 days are over for curing. Now visualise us how will
you cast pilecap?
M2: What will be the code used for coastal structure?
M2: Is there any codal limits for coastal structures?
M2: Minimum cement content, grade of concrete is very elementary. Is there any other thing?
M2: How will you protect coastal bank?
M2: Have you seen the stones near Marine drive? What is the name of that shape?
M2: How to place that on real site (step by step)?
M2: Is there any codes for those stones?
M2: Tell me the codal procedure to design those stones?

M3: How much water is there in ocean?

M3: How much salt is there in sea water?
M3: Can we use sea water for curing?
M3: What is the name of reaction (Corrosion)?
M3: Tell me the mechanism of corrosion in concrete?
M3: Can we use sea water for curing for any other material & why?
M3: Can we use sea water for drinking?
M3: What are the limits for water used for curing? Is it written in any code? Tell me the name of
that code?
M3: Is there any code for coastal structure built very near to sea?
M3: What are the parameters one keep into mind to design structures near to sea?
M3: How Mumbai Municipality dispose their sewer?
M3: What are the different methods of disposing sewers?
M3: What are the one main factor to keep into mind to dispose sewer into the sea?
M3: Which tide is more critical for disposing sewer: High or Low? Why?
M3: If with same parameters, one buildings is built in Mumbai and one building is built in Delhi.
Which one is more durable? Why?
M3: What is the direction of wind during day & Night in places like Mumbai (near the ocean)?
M3: Why Mumbai gets flooded during rainy season?
M3: Do you know about RL? What is the RL for Mumbai?
M3: What is the RL for Delhi?
M3: What is urban flooding?
M3: What are the factors

M3: What are the factors contribute to Urban flooding?

M3: How to rectify that?
M3: What is the one main reason for places like Dadar gets flooded during Monsoon?

Chairperson:

1. What are u doing right now?

3. So you are from Varanasi, as right now there is a lot of influx of people due to newly built
temple, what are the major civil engineering challenges and how would u deal with them?
4. Have u seen any water treatment plant?
5. From where your hometown gets drinking water from?
6. How would carry it from there and supply it to the houses?
7. How would you know that water has been disinfected properly and is safe for supplying?
8. There is major problem of water lowering of water table in punjab, how as a civil engineer
would u deal with that?
9. (Shows a biseri bottle), there is major criticism of this packaged water, are u aware of that?
10. There is also a criticism that it removes the required minerals, so whats your take on that?

Technical 1:

So you have done MTech in structure... How many types of live loads are there?
(*Shocked to hear that live load has types)...
In my answer I said somewhere 'earthquake load'
Then the entire conversation went to rapid fire round about earthquake designing, from zone
factor values, R, I, Sa/g to calculation of base shear to force distribution (even the formulas)

Technical 2:

1. What is the height of a office building?

**Okay u are not sure,
2 what is the dimension of a office building(or maybe room, not sure)?
**Okay u are not aware of the values
3. What gate width would you provide in a office,?
**Okay u don't know any practical values
4. What is the name of the code which specifies all these dimensions?
**Okay u are not aware
5. Have u ever heard of National building code?
6. Suppose you saw a design of roof of this room, and u find out that it's failing, what would you
do?
7. How would you provide r/f at the corners?
8. What other subjects you like?
*Said geotech and environment
9. Have you heard of Environmental impact assessment?
10. How would you do EIA in a forest?
**Okay u are not aware
11. What are the studies/tests you would do in a EIA?
**Okay u are not aware
12. How would you get a NOC for a project?
**Okay u don't know the field procedure
13. What is the maximum(*or min, not sure) period to get NOC for EIA?
**Okay u are not able to recall
14. So what do you know in Environment then?

🥲
15. Okay so water and waste water treatment, but that's different from environment na?
*Chairperson signalled him to stop (stop the humiliation infact )

Technical 3:

1. So you said waste water treatment, what is a tertiary treatment?

*Feeling humiliated, Didn't wanted to say I don't know, I asked him, Is sludge digestion tertiary?
*he smiled and said no its secondary
2. So is sludge digestion aerobic or anaerobic?
3. In anaerobic digestion, some people say there are 2 steps, some say 3 steps, how many
steps are there? Do you know?
4. How after hydrolysis, acid comes?
5. Why do we prefer anaerobic digestion?
6. What is the percentage of methane in the gases?
7. Do you know the calorific value of methane?
*From here started I Don't know streak
8. Govt is promoting gobar gas plants now a days, Have you seen any?
**Okay u haven't
9. Gobar gas plants has a major operational trouble, what is that?
**No don't say I dont know, the answer lies in the previous answer you have given, relate to that
**Then I said its diificult to maintain the pH, bacteria gets upset...from there contd..
10. How would u maintain the pH?
11. What should be the range?
**Okay u are not sure
12. Have you heard of expansion joints?
13. Why they are provided?
14. Have u seen them anywhere? (*In CC pavements)
15. What is the gap between them?
(*I said we calculate the length based on strength, he interrupted)
16. No I want to know the general spacing? (*I said 45-50m)
17. Do we provide anything in that space?
18. Give some examples of those filler materials?
19. What other joints you see in the pavements?

20. Where else have u seen expansion joints?(*I said boundary walls)
21. Suppose you have a 200m wall, how many joints would u provide?
**Okay u don't know
22. Would you provide expansion joint in a compound wall?
**Okay u are not sure
23. What is the difference between bitumen and cutback bitumen?
24. What is the difference between bitumen and tar?
(*In tar part, i said distructive distillation of crude oil)
25. Are u sure that it's crude oil?
**I smiled and said I'm not sure, he smiled back, he looked at nagraj mam, nodded then nagraj
mam smiled (*kinda smirk smile)
Your interview is over, you can go

Panel-Smita Nagaraj
Interview -2 Dec

Chairman-

1. Whet are you doing these days?

2. Where do you stay ?
3. Difference between planned city and unplanned city.
[Link] me something about silchar.
5. What is sewage treatment plant.?
6. Source of water supply in silchar.
[Link] is the capacity of your college sewage system.
8. How waste water is utilised.
[Link] is ur best subject. (I told soil mechanics)- She said why soil mechanics ,it was in 1st or
2nd sem.
few more questions related to water supply and waste water.

Member 1
1. Difference between soil erosion and slope failure.
2. Measures to stablize soil failure and erosion.
3. few questions from survey.
4. Dimension of retaining wall.
5. How to increase bond when we have to build a new structure over an old existing building.

Member -2
1. Design of ioslated footing.
2. Dimension of footing.
3 .In which criteria depth will be maximum.
[Link] of retaining wall.
5. Water table correction for footing.
6. Few more practical questions.

member 3

1. Significance of streter phelps equation.

2. Initial Do deficit and mechanism involved in self purification
3. Do sat of water
4. whose Do is more Sea water or river water.
5. sewrage appratus
[Link] type of manholes.
[Link] is deep manhole.
8. which material is used in sewage pipe.
9. Type of RCC pipe.
10. Few more questions related to envi. engg

Date 29/11, morning

Chairman: Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla
Questions
C: You were part of NCC? How did it benefit you?
C: What is the most important quality of a leader according to you?
C: What quality should a technical leader have?
C: According to you what is more important, ethics or national interest?
Me: National Interest
C: So you believe in Saam daam Dand bhed?
C: Can you share some examples (I said about India's relations with gulf nations and Russia)
C: Gave some examples of the hypocrisy of china and USA and asked why should India not be
like them?
M1: You studied in Navodaya, how was the water demand met?
M1: What was the capacity of the tank?
M1: what was the stage(Here my answer was probably wrong so he was asking cross
questions)
M1: Smart building
M1: Difference between smart building and intelligent building
M1: Green building
M2: What were you doing for the past 3 years? (I said was helping family with farming)
M2: what type of crop do you sow?
M2: Difference between crop period and base period?
M2: type of roots
M2: Duty?
M2: where do we measure duty?
M2: what do we call duty at reservoir?
M2: Permanent wilting point and ultimate wilting point?
M3: Gate rank is good, why no Mtech?
M3: Electives(I said CPM PERT)
M3: Some complex question related to float
M3: project
M3: can you explain the theory behind your project?
M3: some general questions on project like what you did? Any experiment? Simulation?
Review: Chairman asked general opinion based questions. Also, the TV was on and he was
watching TV during some questions(even his own). Read DAF, most of my interview was based
on DAF. I might have missed some questions.

Chairman : Raj Shulka

Date:05-12-2022
Ch: your opinion on kota being a caoching factory?
-Why coaching has become important?
-Can 12 student can crack competitive exam without coaching? Reasons?
-Should we close all schools and open only coaching institutes?
-Now teachers teach more comprehensively in coaching than in schools. Why?
-Why kota has become a hub for coaching institutes and what is its effect on children?
(and more similar questions on coachings)
M1: Importance of mathematics in civil engineering?
-Write equation of beam in mathematical form.
-What is its degree and order?
-What is EI and its effect on beam?
-What is rigidity in truss member context and why?
-Draw Stress strain curve of concrete ans steel with values?
-What is difference between abrasion and attrition?
-What is difference between aggregates in road construction and RCC construction?
-What is difference between mastic asphalt, DBM, BC, SDBC?
-What are tests to be conducted on Bitumen?
-What is flash and fire point of bitumen?
-Difference between tar and bitumen?
M2: What is civil engineering? (he wanted an elaborate answer)
-How does civil engineering contribute to social lufe if people?(had a discussion on it)
-Difference between compaction and consolidation?
(more related questions)
-How is design of hospital different from normal building?
-What is bio medical waste?its different types and their disposal?
-Difference between ETP and STP?
-How much sewage waste is treated in India?
-Name of body who makes the norms of effluent discharge?

M3: what is high rise building?

-What additional forces will act on it?
-What additional safety features it must have?
-How to make it seismic resistant?
-Highest building constructed in India?
-If burj khalifa to be built in India what codal provisions should it follow?
-If a hospital built in India of 200 bed, 400cr cost. what cost should hospital charge to make
recover that cost per bed?
-What is survey?
- How alignment of road is decided un hilly areas?
-difficulty of survey in hilly areas?
-How alignment is transferred from a map to ground in hilly areas?

Panel:- Lt. Raj shukla

Date :- 05/12/2022
Afternoon session

Chairperson...

What is geotechnical engineering?

Once visited a place in punjab, power cut was for 9 hrs...what would u say as a engineer?
There is no power for running geyser in fully solar based building due to clouds...what would
you say as a engineer?
No of road plans are there but then also not executed fastly ...what would u say?

Member 1

Subjects of Masters
Taylors series?
It is infinite series then how will u get a solution?
What are the recent techniques used for foundation engineering?
Any software in resent use for foundation engineering?
Layers of landfill liner?
Practical examples of quick sand ?

Member 2

What is the role of geotech engineer in highway design?

What should be properties of subgrade?
Which test will you perform?
How to check compaction during highway construction in field?
What are the foundations used for bridges with cases?

Member 3

River in ur district?
Length of bridge over that river?
Which foundation is there in that bridge?
How will you determine scour depth? (Told about lacey scour depth formula)
Who is lacey ? How can you apply that formula over there?
What is RQD?
Which value will give maximum value of RQD?
What silica fume will do in concrete? ([Link] project)
What should be features of concrete pavement?
Design of formwork?

ESE PT (05/12/22, Afternoon)

- Entry started at 12:50 PM

- Mobile phone etc deposit
- Document Verification process in waiting hall (Smooth and fast)
- 3 panels were there today
- Interviews started from 2:00 PM
- 1 Chairperson and 3 Members inside the room

Panel: Smita Nagraj Ma'am

Duration - 25 minutes
My background:
Dual degree from BITS PILANI, BE (Hons) Civil and MSc (Hons) Chemistry,
Final year One semester Internship at CRRI Delhi on Slope Stability and a Thesis on
Nanochemistry for MSc Degree
Work experience: Assistant Highway Engineer at a Private Consultant Firm in New Delhi
(College Placement), Left the job in 2019

Chairperson

1) You have worked in a Highway consultant firm, why did u leave your job?
(Gave two reasons:
Told lack of technical work for me, more focused on report and presentations and management,
coordination and timely delivery of reports
Told that my goals were IAS and Indian Railways, so thought of preparing for ESE first)

😂
*She smiled and said u are in a ladder ( career wise, moving step by step) & now u have to
prepare for civil services as both of your goals are there now
2) Role of consultants in highway projects? (basically wanted to know how the project is done
from start to end, Tenders, Consultant, DPR, Bids, Contractors bid etc etc)
3) Boss name, company turnover, is it a big or small company, how many departments and
people were there?
4) Cyrus Mistry accident, road accidents, what is the fault and reasons, how to make it better?
5) Highway Design, QCBS (Quality & Cost Based Selection) in bidding
• Mostly everything from Work Experience and Job profile

Member 1

1) Two questions about Canal system (don't remember exactly what)

( Said I am not aware of it)
2) Slope Protection Methods
3) There is a water supply pipeline going from authority to consumer, now the consumer says
that he is not getting the amount of water that he is paying for, how will u check the issue?
(Something like that)
4) What is Piping?
5) Spillway and energy dissipation?

Member 2

1) So u have done MSc in Chemistry, how does this dual degree program work?
2) Use of Chemistry in Civil Engineering? Latest advancements?
( Told about Nanochemistry and nanotechnology in civil engineering with some examples in
different areas like nanoparticles in concrete, self healing asphalt, nanosensors in structure
health monitoring, nanobubble tech to improve DO and bring back dead water bodies in life etc
etc, so discussion went that way, he wanted to know about a particular nano compound, couldn't
tell the name, but told the concept)
3) IOT in Civil Engineering?
4) Hardness of water and permissible limit?
5) If drinking water from supply is salty, what compound is the reason?
• Mostly everything from Chemistry and its application in civil engineering
Member 3
1) Continued from Smita Ma'am discussion on QCBS in bidding, and DPR etc (Job profile)
2) Indonesia earthquake recently in news...Why it occurred? What was the one special thing
that caused so much damage?
( Said didn't follow that news in depth so don't know about that special thing, then he told it was
liquefaction, so the next question was-)
3) What is liquefaction?
4) How to protect buildings from Earthquakes, both the new construction and the already
constructed ones?
5) Then something about Nominal cover in M50 slabs (don't remember exactly)

- Thats all, you can go. Thank you!

* Everyone was very cordial, polite and supportive. Nice experience 🙂

Name - Aditya Sharma
Panel - Rajiv Nayan chobey
Panel head- ( first he made me comfortable, had a friendly chat)
Asked me for the intro
Then one qn which I cannot recall

Member 1- asked me about dam, i didn't get the qn, something about side of the dam
- what is river
- why river flows
- types of river
- in which river canal should be formed
Some other qns about river
About steel truss.

Member 2- theory of failure

- test about steel
- difference between tension, shear and torsion
- what is modulus of elasticity
- how modulus of elasticity is measured of steel and concrete
- modulus of resilience
- and one two qn about som

Member 3- asked me about jaipur

Asked about elastic curve of mild steel and asked me to elaborate it

Chairman- asked me to tell something about civil eng

Date:06-Dec(Morning Shift)
Chairperson: [Link] Sir
Duration:25-30mints

First he made me comfortable,had friendly chat.

1- Introduce yourself
2-You had training or directly joined office in MES(as I have joined MES as JE last month)
3-Interlinking of Rivers.
4-Is this project feasible or govt. is just wasting a lot of money in it?

M1(Female):
1-You are from uttarakhand so tell me about panch prayags and the rivers.
2-Rivers on which Tehri Dam is constructed.
3-Why people migrating from hilly areas to cities?
4-Is water scarcity one of the problems?
5-What is the major source of water supply in your district?
6-Have you seen spring?
7-Irrigation system used.
8-Alingment of road in hilly area?
9-Geological investigation of Rocks?
10-Geological investigation of Dams?
11-What is permeability?
12-Factors affecting permeability?
13-Diff. between permeability and seepage?
One more question she asked i haven't heart about it.
M2(Male):
Your Favourite subjects (SOM and Soil Mechanics)
1- Tests done on materials.
2-Torsion test.
3- Difference between Torsion and Shear.
4-What is statically determinate and indeterminate structure with example
5-Draw a cantilever beam with udl and draw BMD.
6-Add a point load at free end and now draw BMD.
7-In propped cantilever where will we provide the reinforcement.
8-How to find dry density of compacted road?
9-Draw compaction curve and show Optimum moisture content.
10-What is Optimum moisture content?
11-Why Dry density decreases after omc?
12-On roads soil is compacted dry of optimum or wet and why?
13-Which one is greater Bulk density or Dry density?
14-If Yb is 2g/cc and w/c is 20% then what will be Yd?
15-How to get Yd of sand on field?
16-How to get Yd of clay on field?
17-Explain core cutter method.
18-How to get w/c of soil in field?
19-Which one is more appropriate torsion balance method or calcium carbide method?
20-Range of Yd if Standard proctor test and Modified Proctor test done on soil.

M3(Male):
1- What is quick sand ?
2- Practical example of quick sand.
3- Rain water meets river and remains in it for long time then what is the use of water
harvesting?

Chairperson: We give this opportunity to every candidate to tell something about civil
[Link] you want to share some thing about civil engineering with us (as you may think
we haven't touched some topic which you are interested in)

Thank you your interview is over you may go .

ESE PT 5th Dec, 2022 (Afternoon)

Panel - Smita Nagaraj Ma'am
Duration ~30 minutes (Give or take)

Chairperson

Q1- You have interest in music I see. And such extensive extra curriculars. So tell me how
would you design an auditorium and a stadium being a structural engineer.
Q2- Have you performed in front of live audience (DAF related)
Q3- India has very vast difference in temperature all the way from north to south, how would you
tackle the problem as structural engineer.
Q4- Any old technique that was used.
Q5- Where does Alwar get its water from?

Some other follow up questions were there, I can't remember properly.

Member 1

Q1- You're from Alwar, what is the avg rainfall there?

Q2- Is there shortage of water?
Q3- What will be the criteria to design a dam.
Q4- Do we allow tension in dams? What do we do to tackle that?
Q5- What are gravity dams? Some examples in Rajasthan.
Q6- Loads acting on Concrete gravity dam.
Q7- Can we use waste materials in dam construction?
Q8- What is full form of CPWD? What's the complete process of tendering?
(Interrupted in between, asked about estimation and costing)
Q9- Do we only see the lowest bid?
(I said company profile, credibility, turnover and previous works also)
Q10- what if 2 companies have equal credibility and turnover and one has lowest bid, so would
we hand over the tender to the company with lowest bid?

Member 2

Q1- You have steel bar of 20mm having 2.5kg/m weight. What would be the weight of 40mm
bar?
(I fumbled here a bit and wrote the formula, he asked me to just answer. I stumbled here but he
said you have written the formula, just tell me the answer)
Q2- What is M20.
Q3- Types of bridges? Design criteria? Loads acting on bridge? Standard vehicular loads?
Q4- bridge incident in Gujarat? What type of bridge was it? Tell me in detail.
Q5- Any similar incident in your area? ( I didn't know, he told me the answer but I still don't
know)
Q6- Asked me about curing? How do we cure the slab?
Q7- Earthquake resistant structure? Specifications? Beam column joint? Soft story?
Q8- If we provide slab of M50, what strength would we provide the cover blocks?

One or two more questions were asked that I can't recall.

Member 3

Q1- How do we measure flow? River flow?

Q2- How can we measure spring flow?
(Suppose a villager was asked to measure flow from spring, how will he measure it)
Q3- why do we do curing? Explain in detail.
Q4- What could be done to protect a bridge if a strong river flow is attacking it.
(I couldn't understand him properly)
Q5- What is earthen dam? What to do if flow goes over it?
Q6- What are river training works?
Q7- What is spillway? Types of it?
Q8- Do we know about Rajendra Singh? What is his contribution?
(Waterman of India, he's from Alwar)
Q9- Types of pump? Handpump is what kind of pump? Is it centrifugal?
Q10- What would be more difficult to pump? Raw water or sewage?
Q11- How to pump sewage?
Q12- What is vacuum? Absolute or gauge?
Q13- Where would the absolute pressure be zero? ( I wrote the relation b/w absolute, atm and
gauge pressure, he laughingly said I know what you're writing there, it won't help. Socho beta)
Then he asked from where do we measure? Would it be zero there? Then he guided me to the
answer. Said, "Aaj seekh k hi jao, atmosphere k end pe absolute pleasure zero hoga."

The panel was very cordial and helps you getting comfortable.
Chairman (Smita Nagraj)
-what are you doing these days?
-How does it feel to get a job after so long?
-You live near airport, what are the structures you saw there?
-what's difference between rumway and highway pavement with respect to design?
-why are so many road accidents these days? What are the basic design faults that can be
avoided?
-have you seen some traditional water harvesting structures in Rajasthan? (Homestate)

M1
-Continuing ma'am harvesting structure question..how does stepwell gets it water?
-tell highway cross section elements.
-tests conducted on soil before making structure over that.
-how do we measure consolidation parameters?
-shear strength parameters? Are they constant for a soil?
-what are the advantages of triaxial tests over direct shear test.
-probable reason for failure of a earthen dam.
-what is piping? How will you avoid it.
-agreegate specifications for runway.

M2
-difference between cross regulators and head regulators. Main components of them and
functions.
-what is spillway and type of it.
- canal escapes. Canal falls.
- as an irrigation engineer, how will you enhance earnings of a farmer with no change in
irrigation facilities ?
-Primary tests conducted on aggregates.

M3
-Do you know Rajender Singh?
-How do you design curves? What are the parameters to be taken care of?
-What will happen if superelevation provided beyond limit? What if I provide very high
superelevation and permit very high speed on it?
-What work are you doing in NHAI?
- Divisions of NHAI.
-Tendering modes of NHAI?
-what do you know about bharatmala?
-NHAI formula for superelevation?
-Concrete code. RCC code.
-on what factors does clear cover depends?
-if you forget to provide minimum clear cover, what can you do afterwards?
-what are the advancements made in concrete over last 20 years?
ESE 2022 Interview
Panel- Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla sir
Date of interview -07th Dec 2022, forenoon session
Background- Hobby: Playing and watching cricket
Previously Worked in IOCL & Brahmaputra Board
Presently working in NHAI

Chairperson
1. So your hobby is playing cricket, tell about the difference in indian cricket teams playing
presently and 20 yrs back.
2. So why we are not performing well at the international level tournament.
3. England cricket team won t20 world cup, how their team different from our team?
4. What is special about Sachin Tendulkar?
5. About surya kumar yadav batting skills?
6. What cricket teaches us in life?
7. Which one you will choose talent or hard work?
8. Any example who was as talented as sachin and not successful

M1
1. Tell me about solid waste disposal
2. How we can do better in this area?
3. Do any city is opting these methods?
4. What can we do with the exiting landfill ares to prevent the contamination?
5. What is engineered landfill ?
6. How will you identify the sample of 3 bottles which contain drinking water in one , wastewater
in other and sewage water in another?
7. What the are the different parameters and its limit for drinking water.

M2
1. Tell about new development in RCC
2. Where we use light wt concrete, nano concrete ?
3. How we design pavement?
4. Latest irc 37 code published in the year ?
5. Procedure to design flexible pavement as per irc 37?
6. What is comercial vehicle?

M3
1. What are you doing in Brahmaputra Board....on which river?
2. Have you seen MG Setu bridge on ganges between Hajipur and patna. What is its length.
3. Why it failed, is it because of engineering design failure or operation and maintenance failure
4. What type of vehicle load allowed on a bridge ?
5. What you will do with the engineer who designed it if you are the CM of Bihar and you know
he is the one who designed it wrong?
6. What are the constituent of concrete?
7. Have you visited ever the cement manufacturing plant?
8. Have you visited the steel manufacturing plant where reinforcement are made?
9. Cement manufacturing raw materials? Can you get these in delhi?
10. Size of Coarse aggregate and fine aggregate
11. What is the use of gypsum?
12. How is the setting is prevented when you are carrying concrete in transit mixer for long
duration?
13. What is the amount of water that you will keep on mixing in transit mixer?

Date 7 dec forenoon

Panal - chobey sir (chill)
Time 20-30 min

Ch.
1. Can remove your mask
2. Told not to worry, he told 'we don't expect to answer all the questions. We are just like your
friends. I'f you are unable to hear or understand questions feel free to ask again.
3. Introduction( sir sub se puch rahe aye)
4. Type of architecture in building (i said no)

M.1
1. Favorite subject - geotech and som
2. Type of soil and there classification and size
3. Type of compaction and there lab tests
4. What is deviator stress
5. What is confined pressure( values also asked in lab)
[Link] and dynamic load and something I don't remember
[Link] of triaxial, why it is done, where UU is used,
8. Unconfined compression test? Why it is done?
9 . How to find dynamic module of elasticity of soil

M2.
1. Asked favourite subject again( geotech and som)
2. Propped Cantilever with point load on roller- BMD and reinforcement
3. S.S. BMD and reinforcement
4. What is BM
5. What is bearing capacity ( I thought it for som but it was for geotech)
[Link] what factors bearing capacity depends
7. Type of footing
8. Type of pile
9. Foundation in tajmahal ( I told raft but it is well foundation)
10. Famous thing in my home town ( sawai madhopur)
11 difference between marble and Kota stone. Which have higher abrasive resistance
M3 (ma'am genarally asking about irrigation, geology, rocks)
1. I am from IIT BHU so asked about ganga, prayagraj, sangam , river that meet here, can you
see it meeting all three river.( I told about 3 river she told hopefully you atleast know the name of
river. Many does not know)
2. what type of thing need to be done before dam formation
( I started by EIA intensionally)
3. What is EIA other that it's full form
4. Which project required EIA
5. Example of environmental impact on the project i mentioned ( power plant, mining)
6. What is landslide. What is soil mass. Does landslide occurs for in landslide only
7. How to road alignment Is decided. The road at hilly side. (I told something about utility factor )
they wanted about survey. Then I told about type of survey

Ch.
You told every thing what we asked.
Now you tell me something you want to tell about civil engineering.( I think important questions
will be asked for all candidates)

Chairman - Smitha Nagaraj

Interview - 7th December forenoon
( Done internship in KLIP (lift irrigation))
Ch:
1:Are you working?
2: About state Psc notification and process
3: Asked to explain about my internship briefly ( Major questions are from this area)
4: Challenges in pump house maintenance
5: Air locks in pumps, and how can you avoid?
And 5-6 questions about internship
M1-
1:Tankbund area?
2: How you will calculate evaporation loses in Tankbund?
3: Any other major loses?
4: equipment used for infiltration and methods?
5: electives in Btech
6: when you provide expansion joint and why you provide?
7: Any joints for flexural pavements?
M2:
1:CPM PERT full forms
2: softwares used for Project Management
3:Sleepers fabrication
4: concrete strength for pre tensioning and post tensioning
5:What is high strength concrete
6: other alternative ways for lifting water?
M3:
1:outlet usage in canal system?
2: how river regime get affected at up stream and downstream when water pumped
3:Rigid module
4: pumps in series and parallel
5: how you provide seismic resistance to a structure
Asked some terms related to hydrology which I didn't remember
Again 5-6 questions about my internship

Interview date 6th dec, 22

Panel - Raj shukla sir
(Forenoon session)

Chairperson

1. So u r from ...
2. Where r u staying currently
3. u chose to go for ese only why ?
4. What is geopolitics, is technology important for geopolitics?
5. Can u relate with present scenario going on in the world.
(I gave the example of russia - Ukraine war here)
6. Is quality important or quantity then follow on question was india is
giving a large quantity of engineers but not quality why ?
7. Have y heard about vietnam - USA war/conflict in history (i said no)
8. Do u know about Taiwan, Taiwan controls 80 % of semiconductor chip market in world, why
India can not produce it ?
9. Have u heard about FAM ( it was something about Foxcon project in India)
( I didn't know about this so said sorry)

Member 1

😅
1. What's ur favourite subject ? ( I said soil mechanics) then he said i will not ask from this
because its ur favourite
2. What are class 1, class 2, class 3, class 4 structures ?
3. PSC structures are of which class? (I don't know, but i siad either under class 1
or 2 )
4. Why u said under class 1 or 2, what's the reason ?
5. What is the grade of steel used in psc
6. And which type of bars are used in psc
7. What are the losses in psc structures

Member 2

1. you r from M.P. so which soil is found in M.P.

2. Is Black cotton soil suitable for construction purpose ?
3. Why not, what are the issues with it.
4. What are the tests for measuring swelling of soil
5. Have u studied design of pavement ?
6. What are the parameters required for design of flexible pavement.
7. What is standard axle load value.
8. Why we require standard axle load.

Member 3

1. How estimation is done.

2. I have to construct a room, take example of this room how u will estimate the cost of this.
Then he switched to brick masonary in the middle
3. What is the brick wall thickness generally provided for outer walls
4. What is difference between English and Flemish bond.
5. how many storey building can be construct from brick masonary maximum.
6. Out of total building construction in India, how much percentage is rcc and how much is
brick/ stone building construction, do u know?
7. There is around 70 percent construction of brick/ stone, then why brick or stone
construction is not taught to students.
8. Why we do not use brick masonary construction for high rise building.
9. Can we use this for multi storey building, what are the solutions?

*Chairperson sir is chill and makes student feel comfortable from the starting*

8th December, AFTERNOON

Background: 2021 pass out, west Bengal, football.
Chairperson: (smita ma'am)
[Link] are the structural elements are there in a football stadium to protect the ground from
crowd?
2. Recent bridge collapse in kolkata.. And its reason?
3. In Which case there will be more vibrations effect underground metro or over the ground
metro?
4. What are the parameters to be maintained for safety of a existing bridge? i. e related to
maintenance

M1:
1. Length of howrah Bridge?
[Link] which parameters the span of a bridge depends?
3. What is rolling and exceptional gradient? And its values ( I couldn't ans the values )
4. How to reduce the cost of highway construction by 5 to 10% without compromising the
strength and quality of it?

M2:
1. Continue to previous qsn In which case we provide more gradient railway or roadways? And
why?
2. Min. Dia of longitudinal bar in columns? Which code?
3. Rcc code?
4. What are the Different mode of transportation? ( I said waterway airway roadways and
railways)

😶
5. Which of them is most energy efficient?
6. Something related to earth rotation and position but I couldn't understand the qsn
7. No of EQ zones in india?
8. What are the earthquake waves?
9. Reason if Indonesian earthquake recent?
10. What is liquefaction?
11. Why liquefaction happens in indonesia not in Himalayan regions?
12: depth of foundation of bridge depends on which parameters? ( i said about bearing capacity
and type of soil and depth of hard soil strata)
13. How that depth related to discharge of river?
14. What is scour depth? And its formula?

M3:
[Link] is void ratio?
2. What is porosity?
3. What is piping failure?
4. If we provide downstream pile then piping chance will reduce or increase?
5. And also its effect on uplift pressure?
6. What is f in that scour depth formula?
7. How to find the dia of particles.? i.e any test regarding that?
8. How to design that Q discharge?

ESE 22...(afternoon)
Panel: Shri chobey sir
DoI: 06/12/2022( 25 -30 min)
Working as Je in cpwd

Chairman:
made us comfortable, advised to again ask the question if not heard, and be honest.
1) introduce urself in 1 min
2) gave a scenario that suppose u r handling project of 100 crore after becoming aee in cpwd,
L1 contractor has got contract after tender, but u got to know that ur boss has taken bribe for
passing tender, and again demanding more money from him... Now contractor comes to u for
awarding the contract and also offers u bribe for that... What will u do? (Had discussion on
clauses as per contract)

M1:
1) annual rainfall of india
2) what is need of rainwater harvesting
3) what is bernoulli equation
4) how to estimate discharge of river, velocity in river
5) what is 'c' in chezy equation
6) how it incorporate friction losses
7) difference between ocf and pipe flow culvert and bridge difference

M2:
1) type of culvert
2) cushion need over pipe culvert in road
3) give steps how to design water tank
4) how to design staircase, for what load
5 ) for what purpose rolling loads are used?
6) design of culvert

M3:
1) what is difference between rainwater harvesting done in maharashtra and delhi.
2) how to treat sewage water for purification
3) what all steps taken for rejuvenating rain water harvesting system at ur site
4) various techniques for rainwater harvesting, what u used on site
4) what is green building
5 ) how can we transform normal building into green building... Examples

Chairman: told 1 topic to discuss with him

( told recent innovation technology used in cpwd)
2) told u r free now.. Ur interview is over.

Panel:- Smita Nagraj

Date :- 09/12/2022
Morning session
Hobbies: playing football, Dancing & Video editing
Duration: 30-35 minutes

Chairperson:
1.) What are you doing nowadays?
2.) What form of dance do you perform?
3.) What kind of videos do you edit?
4.) What do you do with the videos after editing?
5.) You are from IIT Kanpur yet your percentage in BTech is very less as compared to 10th,
12th. Why so ? Were you not much interested in academics?
(I told about extra curricular activities and hindi medium background till 12th)
6.)when did you realise that you need to improve your academic performance and how did you
do manage it?
7.) Tell me, after your selection what kind of work would you love to do as a civil engineer?
(I told her about Dam construction)
8.) Have you ever seen any dam ?
9.) What's is its capacity?
10.) For what purposes this dam is used)
11.) What is power capacity of hydro power plant on this dam ?
12.) When you visited it did you notice how maintenance of the dam is done there?
13.) What type of dam is it?
14.) On which river is this dam located?
15.) Is this river perennial or not?

Member 1:

1.) What are the reasons of failure of a dam? ( I told about overturning, sliding, uplift pressure,
piping and failure due to crushing of toe )
2.) What is the condition under which there will be crushing of toe of dam?
3.) What is piping?
4.) How do you stop piping?
(I told about Cutt off wall & protective filter)
5.) If you provide cut off wall on d/s then how will it affect uplift pressure ?
6.) If we reduce the water level on u/s then from where dam will fail whether u/s or d/s?
7.) Does piping occur below dam or it can occur inside of dam also?
8.) What are the possible cases of failure of an earthen dam ?
9.) What do we do to stop this?

Member 2:

1.) What is difference b/w VR( virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality) ?
2.) how are both different from each other?
3.) What is metaverse? You must have heard of it.
4.) What is sci-fi with reference to a movie?
5.) Why do we call it science friction ?
6.) Have you ever seen a dam in a movie? Which dam and in which movie? ( I told about hover
dam in san Andreas movie)
7.) What type of dam hover dam is ?
8.) In which dam we will require more volume of concrete? an arch dam or gravity dam?
9.) If in an arch dam we require less volume of concrete then why don't we make all dams as an
arch dam?
10.) what are the mechanisms of load transfer in an arch dam ?
11.) What is an inverted staff and when do we use it?
12.) What is Height of instrument?
13.) How is balance work done during a canal construction?
14.) What are the tests we should perform in a concrete pipe before using it for water supply?
(He asked me about 2-3 more non-technical terms which I had never heard of )
Member 3:

1.) What is creep strain?

2.) what if load is not a sustained load and it's being applied and removed, will still there be
creep strain?
3.) what do we call such type of loads ?
( I answered it is called cyclic loading, then member 1 interrupted in the middle of it while
looking at Smita ma'am and asked 4.) What is the name of failure related to such loads? )
5.) What is shrinkage?
6.) What percentage of shrinkage will be there in a RCC beam ?
7.) Suppose we have a steel bar of 20mm dia with strength of 2.5kg/m then what will be the
strength for 40mm bar ? ( I answered it very quickly because this was a repeated question :p)

8.) What is maximum % of r/f we can provide in a beam?

9.) What is maximum size of aggregate used in RCC? (I said 20mm)

10.) kaha likha hua hai ye? jaha se dekh ke hum pata lagate hai ye sab?
Me: IS Code
He: kaunsa wala?
Me: sir, IS-456

11.) What can be the causes of failure of a RCC structure?

(I was keep on answering all possible reasons of failure like crushing of concrete, deflection of
members, load being greater than the design load, exposure conditions, earthquake loading and
what not yet he was not satisfied and spent like 5-6 minutes on it. I didn't know what he was
expecting me to answer, in middle he said " nervous mat ho, aur socho thoda". I finally came up
with "failure due to differential settlement of foundation because of lesser bearing strength of soil
below" and he moved to the next question

12.) Suppose you were given a work(related to construction) and you have made a mistake in
doing it then what is the first thing you will do?

Me: Sir, if it is possible then I will try to undo the mistake so that it doesn't cause any risk in later
stage of project.

M3: what if you have an option that your mistake can go unnoticed by your superiors ?

me: I will still inform them.

Chaimain - Raj Shukla sir

Date -9/12/22
Morning
Chairman-
So you play table tennis and listen hindi songs .
Who is ur favourite singer?
Do you listen old song ?
Who is your favourite old singer ?
Why Kishore Kumar is your favourite singer ?
How was he versatile ?
Any song u remember sung by him ?
What is mathematics?
What is diffrence between mathematics and engineering?
People say engineering is art how it is ?
What is the use of mathematics in engineering ?

M1
What is diffrence between partial differential equation and linear differential equation?
What is use of mathematics in engineering ?
What is reinforced concrete corbell ?
Draw SFD and BMD and deflected shape for ssb having point load at mid ?
How to decide span of a bridge ?

M2
So you are doing [Link] from NIT Warangal
From which specialisation?( Structure )
What is deep beam ?
What is diffrence between design criteria of simple beam and deep beam ?
How to provide torsion reinforcement in beam ?
Draw detailing of torsion reinforcement for rectangular beam ?

M3
So you are working as tutor also ?
What is your work profile ?
Which last two problem u got from students ?
Okay, i have one doubt .clear that
Draw SSB having UVL and draw SFD And BMD ?
What is gantry girder ?
Which Type of loading is used in gantry girder?
What load we take to design gantry girder ?
Draw gantry girder ? And asked about gantry girder components ?
Which type of loading we use in bridge engineering?
How to decide no. of piers in a bridge ?
How to design span of bridge ?