Special Sessions of Sankalp IAS Forum,Mumbai,Pune
UPSC CSE Personality Test /Interview training programme.
Please send DAF on shreesankalpfoundation@gmail.com,
Prog will start from 2nd week of January 2019,in Mumbai,Pune, under panel of senior IAS,IPS,IRS officers.
After Last five years astoundingly successful batch of personality test that gave us AjayKumar as IAS in his second attempt that too while working in CARE,Mumbai, and as much as 10 out of 15 candidates getting ranks from Sankalp, and all 15 getting more than 60% marks in Personality Tests, we now announce the launch of this years batch.
Mumbai ,Pune & Its metropolitan region along with the vast underdeveloped hinterland- Marathwada, Vidharbha,has always been the focal point of questions in administration. The inter religious fabrics,diaspora and dilemmas of development, paradoxes & controversies,SEZ's & tribal issues along with biodiversity and its allied problems are to be studied in Sankalp.
As like last year the sessions will see an array of Visits-discussion-cum- interactive sessions by renowned speakers in this field (mostly from activists & Bureaucracy). This sessions will be mostly held on weekends or in late evenings on weekdays.Last year saw sessions by Nitin Kareer,IAS, Shreedhanr Vagal,IPS, Nipun Vinayak,IAS, Kiran Gitte,IAS, Ganesh Bade,IRS, Sagar Doiphode,IAS, Prasad akkanaru,IPS, And CSA Activist, political leaders, NGO activists and industrialists. A visit to learn from ground level activites was also praised by candidates.Being in small groups and from as diverse educational institutions as IIT,IIM,Arts,Sciences commerce colleges & TISS and from various states has given a very holistic view-point of looking at things. This is far more important than when a huge group learns from same culture candidates. Sankalp has nurtured this diversity and inter-faith,inter-cultural ,Inter-gender understanding of issues and hence understanding of issues by candidates.
During this Mock Interview Programme number of Special sessions are organized for the benefit of aspirants called for interview by the UPSC. Among them a few are:
1. Session on Hobbies & Intrests:
In the application aspirants mention about their hobbies. Many questions are asked by Board Members on these particular issues Sankalp's hobby sessions are conducted by expert faculty who discusses with the aspirants on the hobbies they have mentioned in their application forms from different angles so that the aspirants are equipped to face any question and give convincing reply on this aspect.
2. National & International Issues:
Contemporary issues related to Social, Economic & Environmental Matters are discussed in a lecture & question answer session,
3. Understanding The System:
Visiting the Institutions in and around Mumbai ,reaching & Listening the grass root,and Sessions with senior IAS & IPS officers,and many officers from allied services..
4. VISIT TO A PLACE FOR GROUD REALITY CHECK:
For a better understanding of indias social fabrics, a visit to tribal area and a place of national importance has been organized.
5. Current Affairs:
Since Current Affairs are an important matter for the interview, to sharpen the information and knowledge among the aspirants, Sankalp during the interviewguidance programme organizes seminar/lecture programmes on Current Affairs. Eminent persons/social activists in their lectures on Current Affairs topics analyses the issues objectively and also keep the aspirants informed being discussed from different angles.
6. Mock panel interview.