Few forestry issues

1. Loss of forest through diversion, encroachment and Degradation including desertification soil
erosion.
2. Declining forest productivity through over use beyond sustainable limits.
3. Inadequate investment in a forestation and Forest protection, management and development-
inability to fully implement full multiple use/protected area management.
4. Inadequate rule energy sources and lack of viable alternative energy for Rural communities.
5. Hi cattle population with low productivity In rural areas and inadequate for their production
resulting in very high grazing pressure on forest areas.
6. Lack of capacity of the people living in and around forced to implement SFM.
7. Forest fire and shifting cultivation
8. Inadequate regeneration and enrichment planting to restock/rehabilitate degraded forest.
9. Inadequate distribution of protected areas for full re-presentation of biodiversity and
ecosystem.
10. Ever increasing biotic pressures on forests.
11. Inadequate extension support to farmers for Agro/farm forestry-lack of appropriate Agro
forestry production models and other extension services.
12. Over reliance on rules and procedure of forestry organisations rather than on productivity
and efficiency.
13. Inadequate and non-prioritised Forest research and extension in bringing knowledge and
technology to the field
14. Inefficient forest industry in terms of scale of operations, equipment, technology,
management, shortage of ROMaterial, protection, etc.
15. Inadequate infrastructure and institutional support for marketing and distribution of wood
and NWFP.
16. Inadequate database and information system for resource utilisation and management
planning.
17. Lack of effective national and state land use policy planning And rationalisation of priorities.
18. Breakdown of linkages between technical forestry issues and financial planning.
19. Forestry education is not abreast with the latest developments in the forestry sector.
20. Lack of viable economic/social alternative for rural poor and tribal people.

Key global challenges

1. Address poverty and force governance by promoting Forest ownership and access rights.
2. Enhance the role of forest as engine of economic growth and development.
3. Protect vital local and global environmental services and values.
4. Assist countries to integrate their global forest agenda into their own national strategy and
policies and to harness the development opportunities available.

Forestry sector opportunities

1. 24% to 33% forest cover
2. Livelihood and poverty eradication
3. Carbon credits
4. Herbal medicines
5. Eco tourism

Peepal belongs to family of Fig ie ficus. Generally act as keystone species supporting various food
chains and food webs. Eg Peepal Fruits eaten by birds get disposed and form seedlings from
droppings. Roots harbours fungi that are nitrogen fixers. Also they are mostly evergreen and throws
fresh flush of leaves frequently. Insect virus birds also gather on it as lots of insects feed on the
leaves. Squirrel etc nest in the stem cavities. Root zone has its special microbial population And
leads to many a symbiotic association.

Forest
1. Tell me about forest classification
2. Share of these forest in total forest cover.
3. What are the features of tropical rainforest.
4. Why is Amazon forest considered as lungs of earth.
5. How will you make a Plant disease resistant?
6. Why trees shed their leaves in spring ?
7. Name some species that shed their leaves?
8. Why there are small seeds and large seeds?
9. What are the reasons for Amazon forest fire?
10. What is the difference between western and eastern Himalayas vegetation?
11. Tell me different types of forest in the country?
12. Have you ever been to forests?
13. What is the rain fall in evergreen forest and deciduous forest?
14. Where all mangrove Forest are located in the country?
15. Tell me five stakeholders of forest according to you?
16. What is the difference between Island forest and mainland forest?
17. What is greenhouse?
18. What is a plant?
19. What is photosynthesis?
20. What are orchids?
21. What is bonsai ?
22. What is the defence mechanism in plants?
23. Is eucalyptus a hybrid forest tree?
24. Name some bio indicators pieces
25. What kind of forest do you say in Alpine areas?
26. What are the advantages of mangroves? Which mangrove species are found all over India?
Are you familiar with Heriteria tree? Peculiarities of Sundarbans national Park?
27. How to identify different plant types?
28. Can we Monetise forests?
29. Are you aware of the differences between forest and jungles?
30. What are urban Forests?
31. What are ecotones? What is Edge effect?
32. Do you know about red tide and why is it in misnomer?
33. Where are the rainforest found in India?
34. How do you define environment? How did you define ecosystem? How do you define
ecology?
35. Where sal is found in India? Is it both equatorial and moist deciduous?
36. What is the difference between protected forest in protected area?
37. What are the types of Forest? What is tropical and temperate forest?
38. Why do have Shola forest found in Nilgiris And its peculiarities?
39. Why Andaman and Nicobar does have so many types of Forest?
40. What are the endemic species? Tell some examples.
 41. Difference between algae mosses and family? How can you identify by looking at them?
42. Differentiate between Vascular and non vascular plants?
43. What is the need of forest? Why don’t you cut every thing and build houses everywhere?
44. What is fern?. Tell me something about ferns. Where do they grow?
45. What are orchids?
46. What are epiphytes?
47. Is rubber produced in forest?
48. When we grow rubber plantation in forest?
49. What do you understand by co-evolution?
50. Is there a concept to commercial forestry in India?
51. Is there a concept of private forest in India?
52. Can we grow and cut anything on our private Forest?
53. Can grasslands be counted as a part of green cover?
54. Classify Indian Forest into two categories.

Forest Conservation
1. How can we ensure that private sector also participate in forest Conservation? How do you
convince the government to give reserve forest to private sector for conservation?
2. What is a protected area?
3. Differentiate between wildlife century, national Park, and Tiger reserve?
4. Tell me to other categories of legally define Forest other than the above ones?
5. Your visit to national Park and wildlife century? Particular difference in your experience?
6. What is research branch of forestry called?
7. What is the other name of tree outside forest?
8. Why is chinkara sacred to Bishnoi community?
9. Judicial activism in environment and forest conservation.
10. Why so many forest fires? How can you reduce them?
11. Do you think locals are responsible for forest fires? How would you deal with them?
12. Any new technology you can bring in force conservation?
13. Impact of mining on forest?
14. What are the reasons behind deforestations?
15. Despite all such pressures how we are able to improve on forest cover?
16. Why do we have reserve Forest in different parts of the country?
17. Pond conservation in forests?
18. How to re-plantation in unforested area?
19. Can Blockchain technology be used in Forest management?
20. As a forester what steps will you take in drought prone regions?
21. As forest officer what steps will you take to stop illegal mining? But miners are paid very
high, how will you ensure that they wean away from illegal activity?
22. Which species to grow in degraded land?
23. Imagine you are in Kashmir. What are the challenges faced by forest in Kashmir?
24. Where can you find the Chambal ravines and how they are formed?
25. What are coral reefs and the species which are found in mangrooves?
26. Number of wildlife sanctuaries and national parks in India.
27. What is the difference between wildlife sanctuaries and national Parks from legal point of
view? Under which act are they covered?
28. What is landscaping and urban forestry?
29. Is urban forestry possible? Why it is needed?
30. What is Ujjawala scheme? How it is contributing Forest conservation?
31. What is desertification? What are the reasons for that?
 32. What do you understand by integrated watershed management?
33. How to solve the problem of desertification?
34. Give some context about development versus environmental challenge. What do you
suggest?
35. Is it the responsibility of only the forest department to look after environment?
36. Is government only responsible for Forest conservation?
37. Any PPP model on forest conservation?
38. Role of NGOs?
39. Friction areas between NGOs and government?
40. What is the difference between tropical moist and tropical dry Forest?
41. The other factor except Precipitation to distinguish?

Forest Management
1. What is your opinion about the current forest management in India?
2. What changes you will make in forest management of India if you enter the services?
3. What should be a priority native versus exotic species in afforestation?
4. What is the role of technocrats in forest development ?
5. Development index on the basis of which you can take decision whether or not to divert
forest land for nonforest purposes?
6. Is taungya system okay as it focuses on monoculture ?
7. What methods are there for estimating forest wealth? What is ground truthing ?
8. What is the plantation and what types are we growing? Why multiple plantations in the same
area?
9. Tell me about a case that change the face of Indian forest governance?
10. What do you understand by forest management?
11. How administration in forest areas take place?
12. What is compost and how is it prepared?
13. What are all the factors that you will consider in managing a forest?
14. What are the major stakeholders in the area with very high forest density?
15. Other than scientific studies, what else is necessary for a forestation activities. How
traditional knowledge system are becoming important in forest management?
16. Forest assessment and processes.

ISFR
1. Have you heard of latest forest resource assessment report?
2. What does ISFR talks about ecosystem services?
3. How much our total forest cover has changed?
4. Why do you think it has increased?
5. Have you heard of remote sensing? What does it’s being used for?
6. What is the difference between tree and forest cover?
7. Forest cover needs to be increased to 33%. But land in our country is limited. How do you
think we will increase it?
8. Figures on forest cover in India and the target?
9. What strategy is to reach 33% target cover?
10. Can the awareness regarding the value of forest can really help in reaching the target?
11. What is the forest cover of India? Despite of increase in pressure and population wise forest
cover increasing? How tribals contribute in Forest conservation?
 12. Do you know about the forest man of India?
13. What are the methods of determining increase in forest cover?

Forest Resources
1. Can you think of two medicinal plants being commercially exploited from the himalayan
region ?
2. Forest products with GI tag? Tell us some benefits that accrued to Nilambur teak and
sandalwood after GI tag?
3. Do you know about GI? Who Issues GI in India? At global level who is responsible? Other
IPR available?
4. How can we improve the sale of medicinal plants?
5. What will you do to increase the productivity of forest?
6. What is the raw material for the paper?
7. Name a few trees from which pulp is extracted?
8. Which trees provide wood for matchsticks?
9. Charcoal and prosperous juliflora speciality.
10. Nitrogen cycle and carbon cycle
11. What is medicine usage of Siwan grass found in Bikaner?
12. How would you differentiate between medicinal and aromatic plants?
13. What are the Forest-based industries? What is plyboard?
14. Role of AYUSH in India and what can force do for it?
15. Ten medicinal plants?
16. What is the purpose of Neem coated urea?
17. Why major forest produce are called so? How do we coal minor forest produce by what
other name?
18. What is the relationship between coconut farming and forestry? Why can’t the forest
department do it?
19. What is living fossil?
20. relationship between the forest and Ayush medicine? Governments new regulation about it?
21. What do you understand by food chain?
22. Do you think of Forest products of export potential? And should we promote that?
23. What is the total contribution of forestry in GDP?
24. Name three economically important species of tree?

Forest and Technology

1. How biotechnology can help in forestry?
2. Use of biotechnology in Forest conservation and wildlife management?
3. What is the difference between GIS and GPS?
4. Remote sensing and GIS
5. application in forestry
6. How to use nanotechnology in forest?
7. How is technology harmful to forest?
8. Which satellite is used in the detection of forest fires?
9. MODIS versus LIDAR? Which one is the latest?
10. Research forest in India what is your view on it?
11. What are the technologies used in forest management?
12. What is normalised difference vegetation index?

Forest Issues
 1. How to escape forest fragmentation problems?
2. Tell us something about congress grass?
3. What are the current problems in forestry?
4. Something new I can bring about to fight these problems and follow-up questions On that?
5. Impact of dam construction on forest areas? What is waterlogging and what is salinity? Yes
6. How are you will control soil erosion?
7. What are the issues in eucalyptus plantation?
8. How is technology harmful to forest?
9. Odisha places where illegal activities can take place for examples illicit liquor, naxals,
poaching. How to tackle that?
10. what has led to the attitudinal changes that earlier we didi trophy hunting and now we have
made killing animals an offence and a talking about their conservation?
11. Why there is so much fire in Uttarakhand Forest?
12. What are the exotic species?
13. Give an example of how exotic species are spoiling the environment?
14. Is there any other example of competition between native species and exotic spaces?
15. Is mining good for environment?
16. What is sustainable mining?
17. What are the invasive alien species in ocean and their management?
18. What are invasive spaces? Name some invasive species found in forest.
19. What are the reasons for forest fires? Some question about fire line.
20. Do you know any recent case study is a forest fires and its in-depth reasons.
21. We produce lots of invasive spaces. Is that good? Should we continue that?
22. What are their effects on ecology?
23. What do you understand by encroachment?
24. How would you control and manage forest fires?
25. What are the negative and positive impact of forest fires?

Biodiversity
1. What is biodiversity?
2. What are it’s various components?
3. Which one do you think is most important?
4. What is biodiversity hotspot?
5. How do you conserve biodiversity?
6. What is species diversity? Why is it important
7. What is genetic diversity and the gene pool?
8. Why biodiversity is more in equatorial region?
9. What are the types of biodiversity and what do you mean by beta diversity?
10. What is the difference between biodiversity hotspot in bio reserves?
11. Where biodiversity is more-agriculture or forestry? And among trees or animals?
12. What is biodiversity, types of biodiversity? What are the conservation methods? Explain.
13. How biodiversity is linked to culture?
14. How language can get extinct due to biodiversity decline?
15. What is Sunderland? What are biodiversity hotspots? Threat to biodiversity hotspot?

Ecosystem
 1. What is an ecosystem?
2. What is environmental science and studies?
3. What are you ecosystem services? Can you give me an example?
4. The difference between cold desert and hot desert ecosystem?
5. Where are corals and lagoons found in India?
6. Where is the rann of kutch and why is it famous?
7. What is the importance of desert ecosystem?
8. Should there be deserts?
9. How to increase water level in Godavary basin and any other other basin in your state?
10. What type of tree plantation near Narmada? How do you clean Narmada?
11. What are the grassland ecosystems?
12. What are the Shola grasslands?
13. Difference between western eastern Ghat is? Where do they meet? Species of western
eastern Ghat? Highest peaks in India
14. Technological solution for watershed management?
15. What is an ecosystem? What are the components of ecosystem?
16. What are the types of ecosystem? Can you give examples of transition ecosystem?
17. What is the role of water in forest and role of forest for water. What is the forest role in
rainfall?
18. What are corals? What is coral bleaching?
19. Explain any one ecosystem.
20. What are the ecosystem services?
21. What is river ecosystem and its ecosystem services? How can you conserve river if you
posted as a DFO?
22. What are the types of species used in dryland cultivation?
23. What are the living root bridges?
24. How trees helps in improving soil health?
25. What is the reason that the Sundarbans are internationally acclaimed?
26. What are sholas? How the shola were formed?
27. What are the services that if forest provide?
28. What is tropical Grasslands? Does India have any?

Ecotourism
1. What do you know of ecotourism? What is the benefit of visiting sanctuaries , tribal areas?
2. Can you give example? Have you visited any question?
3. Have you visited national parks for wildlife sanctuaries ?
4. What kind of jobs get created by ecotourism?
5. It seems that ecotourism is indeed the cause of man animal conflict? Isn’t it so?
6. Why is it important to include tribals in eco tourism and how it helps?
7. Benefits of including tribals in eco tourism?
8. Doesn’t ecotourism comes in conflict with forest conservation?
9. How ecotourism helps in forest conservation? No one goes to forest to see trees, show
ecotourism which is present is only related to wildlife.
10. Should tourism be allowed in forest areas?
11. How communities get benefit from tourism?
12. Ecotourism in mangrove
13. What is the difference between tourism and ecotourism?
14. Impact of ecotourism and sustainability issues. An opinion about the same or negative and
positive expects.
Conservation
1. What is sand dune stabilisation technique? How is it done?
2. Do you think that we should develop projects in the himalayan region given that they are
young mountains and dynamic in nature?
3. What could be the benefits of according living entity status to River Ganges?
4. What is your take on genetically modified crops, should we have them?
5. How can we make GM crops more viable in India?
6. What do you know about eco task force? Where it has been formed? What is its purpose?
7. What is special about golden rice? In which vitamin it is fortified?
8. What is the water crisis in India? What is the solution for water crisis in India?
9. What is the watershed management?
10. What is the purpose of zoos?
11. Despite of being successful preservation of forest over hundred years, suddenly why is it
required to have community involvement?
12. What are the conventional energy and non-conventional energy sources mark? Give some
examples.
13. Why do we need alternate sources?
14. Green revolution in India brought many benefits in agriculture. Why we have not seen a
green revolution for Forestry?
15. What are the eco-sensitive zones?
16. What is peoples participation forest management?
17. Indicators suggesting the impact of climate change on himalayan ecosystem. Few follow-up
questions on that.
18. You take on development model of the himalayan state.
19. What would you do to solve the problem of waterlog soil?
20. Asked about my take on indigenous varieties versus GM group debate.
21. Concerns about GM group.
22. National highways and plantation? Does it really happen?
23. Elephant corridors
24. How will you involve people in conservation?
25. Do you know any example where forest department and local community have come
together to preserve forest or wildlife?
26. UN decade of 2021-2030 has been declared as decade of ecosystem restoration. How are
you can be used to achieve this goal?
27. There is a barren land, year to grow plantation, there, what steps you will take?
28. What is the difference between joint forest management and social forestry management?
29. Mission related to himalayan ecosystem

Forestry Core concepts

1. What are the long rotation and Short rotation trees?
2. How to convert a long rotation tree to short rotation tree?
3. What is selective felling?
4. How do you decide if a tree is commercially exploitable or not?
5. What does a fast rate of growth for trees mean?
6. If such a trees grown in an area what might be the associated problems?
7. Name a few fast growing trees?
8. What is Ethno botany ?
9. Difference between Ayurveda and Unani system of medicine?
 10. What is social forestry and Agro forestry?
11. What is working plan and forest management?
12. What is the plantation forestry?
13. Define High Forests?
14. What is silviculture?
15. What is farm forestry and agroforestry. Which species you will choose for agroforestry?
16. What is urban forestry and the species chosen for urban forestry ?
17. Species chosen for planting nearby highways?
18. Who is called the father of forestry and his country?
19. What is living fossil?
20. What are the minor Forest produces and any PSU working to promote them?
21. Differentiate between habitant and niche ?
22. What plans could utilise in agroforestry In your Region?
23. What What are the high forest?
24. what factor do we need to take care while forming an herbarium?
25. What are the high forest?
26. What is coppicing?
27. What is Pollarding?
28. What is the difference between coppicing and pollarding?
29. What is the working plan?
30. What do you understand by layering?
31. What is ethanobotanist ?
32. What is ecological succession? What are its different types?
33. Difference between hardwood And softwood?
34. Difference between vesicles and sports?
35. Difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms?
36. Difference between algae and lichens?
37. Difference between bacteria and parasites?
38. Difference between pteridophytes and angiosperms?
39. What are your favourite branches and forestry?
40. Tell me the types of silviculture system?
41. What is shelterwood system?
42. Have you heard of taungya system? why it is devised? It is still in practice somewhere?
43. Tell me about tree improvement
44. What is shifting cultivation?
45. is it allowed in protected areas? is it allowed outside protected areas?
46. Is shifting cultivation allowed in reserve forest?
47. What is seed hedging?
48. What is seed production area and forestry?
49. What is participatory rural appraisal?
50. What is ecological succession?
51. What is the primary community in desert vegetation? How to make agriculture sustainable?
52. What are the types of nurseries? How it is created and factors considered .
53. What are the vegetative propagation methods?
54. What do you mean by high forest, even aged, and uneven aged?
55. What is selection system and where it is used?
56. What are bacteria nodules and what element do they fix? And what are this family of plants
called?
57. How do you differentiate between good wood and bad mood?
58. What are the plant issues that make a wood good or bad?
59. How do you measure volume of a timber, half girth, quarter girth formula?
60. What is DBH?
 61. What is CWR?
62. How forest maps are made and cross questioning on it.
63. What is point sampling?
64. What is increment? And how it increases or decreases?
65. What is the sal regeneration period and technique? What is shelterwood and its concept?
66. What do you understand by compartment?
67. You have a vernier caliper and on measuring diameter consecutively, it gives three different
reading, what would you do?
68. Felling cycle images in the cultural point of discussion over it.

Agriculture and its Impact

1. What was the Green Revolution what was its impact?
2. What is intercropping and mixed farming? Yes
3. What activities were actually carried out under green revolution?
4. What is composite farming?
5. Can an program like green revolution be carried out in forest as well?
6. What are transgenic plants? What are the positive and negative effects of using them.
7. Is golden rice transgenic?
8. How are you will solve agrarian distress?
9. What is the role of forest in agriculture?
10. What are the issues in monoculture cropping ?
11. What is rainwater harvesting ?
12. Tell some of the bad effects of green Revolution ?
13. What is modern agriculture ? Nowadays everywhere, we use the modern agriculture what
do you understand by it?
14. Is the relationship between forest and agriculture
15. What is zero budget natural farming? Tell me different components of it.
16. What is Jivamrit and it’s composition, what is bijamrit and its composition? What is the
source of manure in this farming system?
17. Is the system adopted in your village? Why not? What measures can be taken to popularise
it in rural areas?
18. Are you aware of zero budget natural farming?
19. What is Parampara Gat Krishi Vikas Yojana?
20. What is panchgavya?
21. Prime Minister fasal bima Yojana.
22. Are insurance companies accepting claims on PMFBY in case of crop damage by animals?

Pollution
1. What are some pollution issues in urban areas?
2. What is fly ash ? Please comment on recent fly ash usage policy.
3. You have been in Delhi for so long. Can you tell me what will you do to reduce the air
pollution in Delhi?
4. Don’t you think planting of trees is also necessary?
5. As a forest officer what measures would suggest to reduce the mining pollution on
environment?
6. Which pollutant comes from thermal power plants?
7. How the pollutants from thermal power plants are harmful for aquatic ecosystem?
 8. What is PM 2.5 and PM 10?
9. Environmental impact of mining and pollution caused? Yeah
10. Impact of noise pollution on wild life?
11. What is pollution?
12. What is the status of air-quality in Delhi ?reasons for it? What can be done about it?
13. En alternate crocs be promoted to reduce stubble burning in the Delhi NCR region?
14. How to address the problem of eutrophication in lakes ?
15. What are the sources of water pollution?
16. Is there any law regarding pollutants released by industry?
17. Have you heard about combined effluent treatment plant?
18. What are the indicators of the clean city and which city are clean?
19. Do you know what is the parali pollution issue? What would you suggest solutions?
20. What is the difference between aerosols and smog and smoke?
21. What is bioremediation?
22. How to tackle plastic pollution in soil?
23. What steps you suggest to control air pollution?
24. Why are we Indians hypocrites, on one hand we worship and then pollute rivers and nature?
25. How will you bring behavioural changes with respect to this environmental consciousness
among people?
26. How are different polluting industries are classified in India?
27. Name some red and white categories industries?
28. What can be done to reduce pollution from paper and pulp industry?
29. What is phytoremediation? What happens to plant when they absorb heavy metals?
30. What are the indicators of drinking water? Tell the numbers?
31. How air pollution is calculated? What are the parameters in air quality index?
32. What do you understand by biological oxygen demand?
33. What are the pollutants major from the omission of a vehicle?
34. Please tell us the BS4 emission norms are various pollutants.
35. Tell me about the plastic melons and how we can control them.
36. How will you assess the quality of water? Limit of BOD in drinking water?
37. There is a concern about dwindling number of birds and it is said that insecticides and
pesticides are one of the important causes for it. How do you think they hamper the bird population?
38. What is biomagnification and bioaccumulation?
39. You talked about plastic pollution and ban. He Talked on it for a minute and then asked me
about ocean related problems of plastic pollution. And how to tackle them?
40. What are the sources of Ganga pollution?
41. Why need India We don’t have underground mining and there is more surface mining?
42. You are from coastal reason, tell me what is the impact of ports on coastal environment and
marine ecology? What should have been done to reduce the effect?
43. Has there been any incidences of industrial pollution?
44. What are micro plastic and how it is causing an issue?
45. How would you test the purity of a water sample?
46. Plastic waste, and how to address this problem?
47. Development due to cement industry can be there but its problems are also many. Tell us
some .
48. Can you solve silicosis by forestry?
49. Pollution is a big problem, how can CPCD and SPCB coordinate better?
50. How can you handle the industrial pollution in urban areas?

HWC
1. Have you heard of man animal conflicts ? We have rail tracks running in crediting forest areas
and killing animals. What solution do you propose?
2. Prevalent monkey issue an animal culling?
3. How to address man animal conflict?
4. Issues of wildlife management and conflict?
5. Are you okay with railway line passing from forest?
6. Project rhino and rhino conservation efforts
7. Some people living along rivers in Pune out of the opinion of killing that As they spread
diseases. What should we do?
8. Why is it so important to conserve the gene pool of wild varieties?
9. What can be the technological solution for men wildlife conflict?
10. Why elephant migrate?
11. Which pieces you will save from roadkill? Measures to prevent it?
12. Man animal conflict, what will you do as a DFO?
13. What are the animals which are involved in human wildlife conflict in your areas?
14. How will you handle man animal conflict? Will local community listen to your advice?

Species in news
1. Have you heard about LIGER?
2. Tell me something about DUGONG? Is it critically endangered or Endangered?
3. What is the difference between a tiger and a leopard?
4. Why do we need to protect wildlife?
5. What is the difference between FUNGI and bacteria?
6. Is growing pine in Delhi possible?
7. What is the IUCN status of great Indian Bustard? What are their causes of extinction?
8. Captive breeding, in situ, and ex situ breeding?
9. What is shatoosh shawl and from which animal we get it?
10. Difference between a blackbuck and chinkara?
11. What is hibernation and aestivation?. Which animals do hibernation?
12. What is the biggest threat being faced by our wildlife?
13. Where is the focus of conservation only on few bigger animals like tiger?
14. What are the conservation practises of wildlife?
15. Have you heard about mars hunting? Where is it practised? You are a DFO in the area
where mass hunting is practiced. What will you do?
16. Long lecture On migration of elephants, especially after rainy season-specific problems
faced in Northern Odisha due to this? Immediate solution to it. Steps taken by forest department to
deal with it.
17. What is the difference between a Gharial and crocodile?
18. Freshwater dolphins do we have any in India?
19. See cow in the conservation efforts

Project Tiger

1. how many tigers are there in India?

2. Tell me about project Tiger?
3. Why are we so concerned about tigers?
4. Why is it so important to conserve species like tiger while neglecting others?
5. How tiger census works?
 6. What a tiger reserves?
7. Difference between core and buffer zone? Role of DFO management?

Heritage Sites
1. What are heritage sites?
2. Who manages heritage sites in India?
3. World heritage sites from your state and place of residence?
4. What is natural heritage? Don’t give me a dictionary definition, tell me what you think of it.

In news
1. You know about the silent Valley national Park in where is it located?
2. What do you know about the Namami Gange programme? Do you think that it can be
success?
3. What is a amur falcon and. Why was it in News?
4. What are some of the advantage and disadvantage of national Parks?
5. Why census needed?
6. How would you control illegal poaching in wild animals?
7. How would you estimate the number of wild animals?
8. What is the procedure for the vaccination in wild animals?
9. What is zoonosis ?give some example.
10. What is anthropo-zoonosis? Give example.
11. What is the mangrove for future program?
12. Tell us about Namami Gange programme? Success of it? Your suggestion for improvement
question of what is bottoms up approach
13. What is the role of NGOs in Forest conservation?
14. Coordination projects (SHG /MGNREGA/Forest)
15. Why don’t we think about one Forest one product on the lines of ODOP?
16. Have you read about the White Tiger? What does it convey?
17. Indian government’s current Parvat Mala project.

Tribals
1. What can government do for the betterment of tribals?
2. How to boost livelihood opportunities for fringe communities?
3. What are minor forest produce?
4. How can we remove middleman from the process of sale?
5. Is there any tribals in your city? Have you interacted with them? How do they earn their
livelihood?
6. Have you seen the silvicultural system for growing their produce?
7. Why are tribes marginalised?
8. How can you help them?
9. Forest conservation act prohibits using forest land for non-forest purpose. Can you build
infrastructure inside forest for tribals?
10. Should we shift tribals to settlements outside forest areas?
11. You have been to the tribal areas what is the problem there. Don’t they get land for the land
taken by the companies?
12. What is the difference between rehabilitation and resettlement?
 13. Can a FPO be used for tribal development? What is the difference between a FPO and
SHG?
14. What is the tribal development fund of NABARD and umbrella program for natural resource
management UPNRM?
15. Tell me a few tribes from the country.
16. Tell me some few tribes from your home state.
17. Have you heard about joint forest management? What is it?
18. Names of tribes of Andaman and Nicobar?
19. What is the background livelihood of the tribals of her home state.
20. Name few NTFPS?
21. You have mentioned project for rural artisans and you must have heard of skill India. Can
you tell me what kind of skills would you like to impart to the people of rural areas? And why?
22. How you will reduce the conflicts between tribal and forest department?
23. What is joint forest management and the importance of it
24. How to tackle the problem of tribes cultivating in forest lands and conserving forest?
25. What are the issues of forest fringe communities
26. How exactly a forest officer can help tribals? Give an example of value addition to NTFP?
27. How to set up a practical framework to empower Tribals?
28. How exactly a DFO contribute towards tribal welfare?
29. Can joint ventures with private sector helps tribals?
30. Benefit sharing with tribals?
31. How would you preserve the traditional knowledge?
32. Tribal versus forest department.
33. Provisions of schedule Tribes in constitution?
34. What are the states in schedule six of the Constitution?
35. What are some of the schemes for tribal development in India?
36. Any specific scheme in the field of education?
37. Current affair based question-tell me about the recent sentinelese tribe issue in Andaman?
If you are forest officer and what if every tribe demands to remain isolated?
38. What are the circumstances in which tribal and forest department come into conflict?
39. What are the powers of the governor in fifth and sixth schedule?
40. How tribals are administered?
41. What is PESA?
42. What is the difference between fifth schedule and sixth schedule?
43. What are the states where six schedules applicable?
44. What is JFM? What is the principle behind it?
45. What is the use of it for forester and forest dwellers?
46. Do you know any successful model of JFM in the country?
47. Minerals, forest and tribal population of an exist in the same piece of land. How to solve this
challenge?
48. How to bring tribals in mainstream development?
49. How to improve lives of forest Jewellers?
50. Naxalism and mining in forest
51. Do you know about the TRIFED?
52. Have you interacted with any tribals in the forest?
53. What is joint forest management? What is the committee cold, who administers it? What is it
called in case of protected areas? What is the difference between them? What do tribals get out of
it?
54. How the culture of forest dwelling people is different
55. What are the tribe which are present in Nagaland? If I located Nagaland cadre, but two
major challenges will you face?
56. What is the difference between scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest Jewellers?
 57. What is the 2019 Supreme Court ruling on tribals? What is status of implementation?
58. Are there any PVTG in your state? How many?
59. Forest and tribals interference. What are the issues?
60. Some tribals found a novel way for MF peas selling during Covid. Tell the way?
61. Tell me about Traditional, knowledge and community participation.
62. Tradition, knowledge of tribals and documentation status.
63. What is the addition knowledge Digital library?
64. Monologue about tribes and conservation. Efforts of theirs. Asked if we do away with forest
department or not?

Laws and Policies

1. What do you think Are some policy Lacunae in the current environment and Forest policy of
India ?
2. Name some environmental laws in India?
3. What’s EIA? Different components ,processes.
4. What is a forest offence?
5. What is the wildlife offence?
6. Yeah tell us about the Indian Forest act 1927?
7. Which amendment would you like to do in current forest laws?
8. What are the Forest conservation act?
9. What are the problems in Forest conservation act and why tribals are unhappy with it?
10. Indian Forest act 1894 and its main aim?
11. Tell some forest Policy and Forest legislation That you are aware of.
12. How is Policy different from legislation? Explain with examples.
13. We have a legislation for safeguarding wildlife under WPA 1972 but do we have any
dedicated policy for wildlife?
14. Tell about the forest legislation of India?
15. What are biofuels and the biofuel policy? What are the benefits of ethanol blending?
16. What are the provisions in Constitution which invokes so many writ petition under
environment in courts?
17. What are the major differences between national Forest policy of 1952, 1988?
18. What do you understand by act of 1980?
19. What are the various sites for environmental conservation?
20. What is the purpose of biodiversity act 2002?
21. What steps have government taken to conserve biodiversity?
22. Forest right act in follow-up questions on what can one do and what not.
23. Tell me something about one Forest policy and give a critique about it.
24. EIA procedure and how to safeguard the environment? How it helps?
25. Why we brought Forest conservation act 1980?
26. Conservation is also ensured in Indian Forest act, 1927, then why The new act?
27. What is the difference in the laws which guns mining in the sixth schedule areas and other
areas having coal?
28. Wildlife protection act, 1972. Difference between schedule one, two, three, four.
29. Wildlife protection act, 1972. Difference between schedule one, two, three, four.
30. What should be the criteria for classifying animals these schedules?
31. What is Forest rights act? Has FRA achieved its target?
32. Have you heard about the environmental rights? Tell me what environmental rights are given
by our constitutional legislation?
33. Tell me to international convention that that give the environmental rights and to which India
is a signatory.
 34. What is conservation act. Have you heard about it? Recent amendment/draft? And when did
the draft game?
35. His government’s policy in favour of forest conservation?
36. Issues of CAMPA-tell me the most important.
37. What is the section 5 of environmental protection act, 1986? Tell what is in it?
38. Acts and provisions at national, state and local level for wildlife protection?
39. Asked about few laws which have bearing on forest, conservation and environment.
40. Asked further about the salient features of each of the laws I mentioned.
41. What is the timeline to provide forest clearance under Forest conservation act 1980s?
42. What is the work of WCCB ?
43. Which act governs it?
44. Which section of the act is regarding punishment?
45. Where is its headquarter?
46. What is the punishment for wildlife crime?
47. What is the most difficult aspect in controlling wildlife crime?
48. What are the schedules in WPA ?
49. What are the vermins and your State vermins.
50. Tell me some of the species mentioned in schedule one of the wildlife act, other than tiger,
elephant?
51. Sometimes, the law itself is not allowing people to develop. You can’t build roads put
industries because forest laws are so strict. What will you do in such a case?
52. Being a DFO how will you ensure People’s development despite these knows?
53. Have you heard of CAMPA?
54. Can’t CAMPA be used to develop the people?

SD and Environment
1. How can we manage balance between human population and ecosystem?
2. Why Bhutan is net carbon negative emissions country?
3. Do you think that environment should be preferred over development?
4. What is land reclamation?
5. What is soil reclamation?
6. How do we balanced development and environmental conservation?
7. What is greenhouse effect?
8. What type of radiation Sa responsible for global warming
9. What would happen if all greenhouse gases in the atmosphere vanish al of a sudden ?
10. Which sustainable development goals are directly linked to environment and climate?
11. Sustainable development goals for gender equality?
12. How can we reduce the differences between people and forest?
13. What is coping in EEE?
14. What is a green building?
15. Community a forestation programme. Is it successful or failure? Is government is following
it?
16. Long question on development versus conservation debate. Asked what is my take on it?
17. Coal resources of India are very huge in their mining for development ie environment versus
development. What’s your opinion?

SD and Climate change

 1. What is climate change? Is it real or hype?
2. What is carbon footprint? How can we calculate our carbon footprint?
3. Should India make so much effort in climate change?
4. Recently Gurugram Metropolitan development authority has taken some steps regarding
carbon footprint do you know about them?
5. What is global warming?
6. What is carbon trading?
7. What is climate change name some organisation working towards climate change.
8. Impact of climate change in accessibility of people?
9. What is the relationship between climate change and global warming?
10. Why are we emphasising so much on reducing greenhouse gases emissions?
11. What is CDRI, what is disaster resilient infrastructure, why do we need a global coalition for
that?
12. What should be focus on more mitigation or adaptation? Substantiate with examples.
13. What are the most visible impacts of climate change, not the entire list?
14. Which island is 1st to submerged due to climate crisis?
15. What is climate change?
16. What is forest role in it?
17. What is carbon footprint? How will you calculate your own carbon footprint?
18. What is carbon footprint? How will you calculate your own carbon footprint?
19. What is carbon sequestration and where it can be stored?
20. What is the impact of climate change over Indian marine ecosystem?
21. What is the impact of climate change over agriculture?
22. Tell me different solution for building climate change resilient agriculture?
23. What is climate change? What is a wetland? What is the effect of climate change on
wetlands?
24. What is the difference between carbon store, carbon sink, and carbon sequestration?
25. If there is a large body of water, will it be carbon story carbon sink?
26. Carbon trading and carbon credits, carbon neutral buildings.
27. What is the impact of climate change on glaciers ?
28. What do you understand by climate change and global morning? Establish a relationship
between them.
29. What is the impact of climate change on mangroves? species find in mangroves?
30. What is the first carbon zero nation?
31. What is global warming? What are the causes other than anthropogenic causes?
32. What is the relative contribution of agriculture sector to global warming? Is the country said
to be significant?
33. What are carbon credit/trading? How can we earn carbon credit?
34. Can they be earned by extraterritorial ways only ?
35. Can you think of a country which has carbon credits?
36. With India selling them? Should India sell them? What are the negatives of selling them?
37. How climate change is affecting different landscape of India?
38. What is albedo?
39. What is black carbon?
40. Difference between black carbon and black suit? Impact of black carbon and climate of
India?
41. What is lapse rate? Its value?
42. What is the impact of climate on vegetation? Why some places are equator areas have ice?
43. Climate change and heat forest and forest climate change. Explain.
SD and Energy
1. What is India per capita energy requirement?
2. How does the USA have such high energy consumption per capita?
3. Which energy generating techniques least least carbon footprint?
4. What can be done to prevent coal crisis in energy sector?
5. What are the alternatives to coal and the issues with the technology?
6. One guy told me that using plastic bottle is more environment friendly as compare to glass,
glass requires more than 400 times energy during manufacturing, is he right or wrong?
7. Rooftop solar how does it work?
8. What is net metering?
9. Green and clean energy?
10. What is the primary energy source for electrical vehicles, which one is the best one?
11. What other than coal can be used for power generation?
12. A large dam is necessary in India?
13. Hydroelectricity contribution, India’s total energy basket?
14. Why waste to energy plants are needed today?
15. Can Nuclear power plants be used as enable sources of energy? Should nuclear power
plant be established everywhere in India? What would be the problem with that?

Conservation
1. What are the examples of environment conservation movements in India?
2. What is the difference between protection and conservation?
3. What is van mahotsav?
4. Name three environmentalists ?
5. How would you make Forest protection a mass movement?
6. Before the naxal movement began, there was a pigeon movement, where did it begin?
7. What is sacred grove? Its usage? Cross questioning on that.
8. What is Pani Panchayat? It’s work in India?
9. Tell me something about Aamir Khan’s Paani foundation?
10. Who is the Waterman of India?
11. What is national Green corps?
12. What is a green building? Is UPSC building a green building?
13. Can you make a existing building green? How ?

Educational Background

1. Tell me about the academic background in one minute?

2. What have you done after graduation?
3. Have you applied for other exams?
4. How will your knowledge be beneficial in forest services?
5. You graduated in 2015 what you have been doing since then?
6. Yeah have you done anything in Last few years since you have not done any work after that?
Is it okay to just study and not work?
7. Why haven’t you applied for placements?
8. Your subject role and its importance and environment studies.
9. Tell me about your educational background?
10. How will you manage water resources being a civil engineer? Are dams damaging ecology?
 11. Asked me in which place I did my high school and where I did my graduation?

Optional Subject
1. What is your optional subject?
2. Forestry seems to be very easy know? Everyone seems to be taking it.
3. How will you use knowledge of your graduation subject in forestry?
4. How will you deal with the situation by using your analytical skills can you found a dead
elephant without tusk ?

District and City

1. Which species you will plant in your area?

2. Where is your district? What are some of your neighbouring districts?
3. What kind of trees are found in your district?
4. Have you been to any forest In your city? What is your perception of forest?
5. How is Forest management done? Is the system is same for all kinds of forest
6. What is the significance of your district?
7. Well-known politician from your district and his major contribution?
8. What are the problems of your district?
9. How will you check water table declining? Any government schemes regarding that.
10. Why farmers are not opting for micro irrigation?
11. I have come to your please can you please roam me around - interviewer .
12. Tell us about forest in and around your area?
13. What is the historical importance about your city and district
14. How long have you been staying in Karan place of residence? What were you doing there
for so long ?
15. Tell me three most important things about your city?
16. As a forest officer which things you want to change in your district?
17. 10 tree species found in your city?
18. Tell us about the flora and fauna in the vicinity of river basin is in your state and city.
19. Difference between the ecosystem, vegetation and forest department, of your places of
residence?
20. Give me a broad overview of your district. forest cover of your district?
21. Forest cover of the district surrounding my home please
22. How will you start a forestation in your home district?
23. Which groups do you suggest people of your district to grow?
24. What will be their broader impact to national food security?

State
1. What kind of forest are there in your state as per champion classification?
2. Name species of each Type?
3. Types of protected areas in your state?
4. Names of national parks in your state?
5. Actual geographical areas of forest cover in Rajasthan, not in percentage terms.
6. What is the forest issue that is of utmost relevance currently in your state?
7. What are the famous ecologically important physiographic reasons of your State?
 8. What is the forest cover of your state?
9. How many wildlife sanctuaries are there in Rajasthan. name few of them.
10. What is the difference between the WLS in your state?
11. Any community in your state famous for conservation?
12. Which is the animal that they protect ?
13. Are you aware of the recent controversy going on in PAN in your city or state?
14. Any famous fauna in your state and its habitat.
15. Recent measures taken by the government for wildlife conservation in your state.
16. What are the state animal, tree, flower , bird?
17. Religious importance of your state birds trees and flowers?
18. State forest types community and conservation reserves and any biosphere reserves in the
state.
19. What kind of species will you choose for increasing forest cover in your state?
20. Leaders activities who promoted tree plantation in your state?
21. What is the cropping pattern in your region?
22. What are the constitutional makers from your state?
23. What is the ecosystem of important PAN in your state?
24. What is your state doing to tackle the problem of desertification?
25. Tell me 3 tree, two scrubs, 1 herb in your area and their usage.
26. What are the geographical divisions of your state?
27. What steps would you take to increase forest cover in your state?
28. What is the potential of agroforestry in your state? As a, DF or what will be your priority in
the division?
29. Tell us about the vulture conservation programme in Haryana.
30. What is the problem of depleting groundwater in your state. Reasons and the steps taken by
government in this regard.
31. How would you increase forest cover in agriculture state like Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan?
32. Did you talk to any DFO or foresters about reality of IFSC career in your state?
33. What kind of silviculture system would you choose to manage agroforestry in your state?

Hobbies
1. Have you travel to any forest?
2. Problems associated with the areas and trees available there?
3. What is the biodiversity of the place you visited?
4. Where have you travelled?
5. What’s remarkable difference between the places you have visited?
6. You do trekking, mountaineering and marathon running. How these things make you different from
other candidates and more suitable for I FS?
7. Why do I feel peace when I go to forest?
8. Any favourite player or personality from the sector in which you mentioned your hobby and the
qualities that can be learnt from them which would help you in administration or effective forest
governance
9. Tell me about your extra curricular activities?
10. Where have you trekked? What was the differences in these places that you have trekked?
11. Kedarkantha in Uttarakhand? Vegetation in middle Himalayas? Bugyal and their importance.
12. Hobby visiting hills —— Which hills have you visited? Have you been to Aravalli? Where is it?
What is the difference between Aravalli of Rajasthan and Haryana? Why is it degraded which
authorities check these things there who is the owner of Aravalli?
13. Why do you like to travel to forest areas?
IFS
1. Why do you want to be in Forest services?
2. When you spoke about the forest service, you spoke about job diversity. What is the job
diversity in for service in your perception?
3. Have you personally experienced it or all of it is based on hearsay?
4. Between civils and IFS what will be your priority?
5. Have you given the CSE exam? What will you choose if you get both?
6. How will you convince the board that you will not leave IFS for other civil services?
7. Why I FS? Why such a cadre preference?
8. Why bureaucracy after corporate sector?
9. How comfortable will you be with the pay cut?
10. Why civil servants is to be more ethical than other citizens? There is another statement by
Gandhiji about earth being enough for our needs. But not for agreed. You agree?
11. What is the hierarchy in Indian Forest services?
12. What is a Job hierarchy in Forest services?
13. You could have done well in your field, then why IFS?
What excites you most about the forest service? Thanks

Work Responsibilities

1. What is the job of the DFO?

2. Which skill you will see if you want to devolve your staff when you are a DFO?
3. How as a DFO will you help in increasing the income of tribals?
4. Suppose you are DFO of a hilly terrain, how would you ensure livelihood of the people with
non accessibility ?
5. How will you raise awareness regarding environment while working as DFO?
6. What will you do to increase the water availability in hinterlands?
7. How do you do plantation with the help of tribals. Consider yourself a DFO and give five
pointers.
8. What is the role of a forest officer other than tribal welfare, conservation and timber
cultivation?
9. What is the role of a forest officer other than tribal welfare, conservation and timber
cultivation?
10. Tell me things which you know about forest apart from whatever you have read in the books.
11. As a DFO you are posted away from human population where you see only animals trees
and no one to talk. Why this boring job you want to enter?
12. What are the roles and responsibility of IFS officer?
13. Difference in the role of DFO and DM with respect to development?
14. What is the role of a DFO?
15. Difference between DFO wildlife and social forestry?
16. What are the lacunas in current forest department?
17. How can technology help a forest officer?
18. Roles and responsibilities of DFO?
19. Don’t you think wild animal becomes less While due to human presence? What would you
like to do the most when posted?
20. If your posted somewhere in north India, would you still like to take IFS?
21. Mention two qualities which makes you fit for four services
Geology optional
1. Relationship between geology and forestry?
2. Environmental geology
3. Substantiate that India has a rich geological history.
4. What did Indians get out of the rich geology
5. As he opted for geology as an optional tell me why your state has these diverse kind of rocks.
6. Your optional is geology. What are geological hazards?
7. What are the geological division of India and elaborate them?
8. Why geology?
9. What is the geological significance of cuddapah rock system?
10. What is the use of geology and forestry?
11. You are studied geology, how the hydro thermal ores formed?

Agriculture Optional
1. In three lines stress on the importance of agriculture.
2. Why is it called primary sector?
3. Why do we need a APMC?
4. Why then we need eNAM?
5. What are FPO?
6. How is SFCC difference from FPO?
7. What is ATMA scheme and is abbreviation?
8. What are the stages in hybrid seed production?
9. What is the difference between GM seed and hybrid seed?
10. What is back cross?
11. Why farmer distress?
12. What is the purpose of Faisal bima Yojana?
13. What is the what is PMRKVY?
14. One major disease, creating a big havoc in north India in wheat. What is the disease and
why it is a problem ?
15. What is your opinion on the Green Revolution?
16. Difference between bryophytes and pteridophytes? Tell me the theory, foolish and other
than Darwin’s.
17. What is the relationship between forestry in agriculture?
18. What is the cropping pattern of your village?
19. Most of the agriculture crops were derived from the wild forest relatives. Tell me the exact
number of wild relatives of domestic crop species.

Botany Optional

1. How Botany helps in agriculture?

2. Your opinion on organic agriculture.
3. What is sustainable agriculture?
4. What lamark tells about giraffe?
5. Despite spines in acacia, how giraffe eat it ie the modification? How acacia modified to
prevent eating by Zirafe?
6. He’s horticulture and forestry in conflict?
7. Which disease transmitted from domestic animals to wild? How to prevent it?
National Bodies

1. What is the problem of EIA? Please give us some examples where it had created problems?
2. What are the forest institutes in India?
3. Have you heard of LaCONES of CCMB?
4. What are the problems in Forest and environment?
5. What are the functions of ZSI and BSI?
6. Role of NGT?
7. What are the principles of natural justice?
8. NGT presided by whom ie qualification?
9. Three principal of NGT?
10. Biological diversity authority structure, and if it is being miss used to allow
commercialisation of goods?
11. What are the different gases under NAAQI?
12. National Mission on Green India

National Miscellaneous
1. What is the dangerous problem India is facing right now?
2. Name five big environmental and related challenges that we are facing?
3. NAPCC missions and Green India Mission targets?
4. What is the most important issues among various concerns regarding environment?
5. What is the per capita carbon footprint of India? What is per capita emissions of India?
Compare it with USA.
6. Is it fair for developing countries to reduce their green house gas emissions when it
developed country they are so High?
7. Who is the animal trials approving authority in India?
8. Scientific name of national bird, national animal, etc.
9. How is NAPCC related to REDD?
10. Which program of the environmental minister you think is the best? Mentioned Tiger. How is
Tiger is soft power?
11. Which animal do you think would be Managed similarly?
12. Don’t you think wild animals becomes less wild while due to human presence?
13. Climate change programmes taken at government level?
14. What is NCAP and few supplementary question on this.

International Bodies

1. What is IUCN ? What is its role and counter questions.

2. Classification of animals Into EN, CR, VU etc?
3. How is it done?
4. What is the World Bank funding criteria for green infrastructure?
5. What is UNEP and its functions?
6. Tell me Any two, three international institution working for ecology and wildlife?
7. What is conventional biological diversity
International Conventions

1. What do you know of earth submits?

2. Is earth summits only related to development?
3. What is convention of biological diversity CBD?
4. What are the finance mechanisms under koyekta protocol, and Paris agreement and different
international bodies ?
5. What is the concept of Fair and equitable sharing of? Well what steps can be taken to realise
this equitable sharing with locals? Yeah
6. Do you think that international laws/treaties on climate change or environment or interference
on our sovereignty?
7. Is there anything in the Constitution which allows for such interference?
8. Tell me the two major takeaways from the Stockholm conference?
9. What is Paris climate accord?
10. What is REDD plus?
11. Have you heard about the club of Rome?
12. When was limits to growth report released?
13. What do you think about the future of Paris agreement now that the new US administration
is here?
14. What is the current status of ozone layer depletion?
15. Two lines about each UNFCCC, UNCCD,UNEP, CITES,Traffic,IuCn,wwf, Paris agreement.
16. What do you understand by ozone layer depletion and an international agreement on ozone
protection?
17. What is Ramsar convention?
18. Number of Ramsar sites in India. Name two sites.
19. He talked about IPCC and IUCN report, especially about extension. Then asked me what is
species?
20. What is sub species? how many species in the world? Found as well as not found.
21. How many species of birds in India?
22. UNFC/ IPcc/wwF/Earth hour
23. What is CBDR?
24. Have you heard about Kyoto protocol? What is it?
25. How many groups are there?
26. Which reason is belongs to which group?
27. Where is Kyoto?
28. Did Japan withdrew?
29. Why could to could not achieve its target?
30. Do US and China come under this convention?
31. What is Doha agreement? Where is the her?
32. What is two major differences between Kyoto and Paris climate deal?
33. Access and benefit sharing under conventional biological diversity, do you think that really
happens, and some examples if you can provide.
34. Tell me about the international Environmental laws?
35. About Montréal protocol.

International Miscellaneous

1. What is the biggest problem that the world is facing currently ?

 2. Can you tell me three major ecological problems that the world is facing right now?
3. How do developed countries conserve the environment differently from us?
4. When you would be appointed as an IFS officer were different things you would do?
5. What do you mean by small is beautiful?
6. Why is June 5 celebrated as world environment Day?
7. In Which areas developed countries can help developing countries?

Science and Technology

1. What is biomolecule?
2. Elements of biomolecules, in our body, etc.
3. What is noise? What bandwidth can we hear ?
4. GPS and its frequency range.
5. What is Big Bang and the age of universe?
6. What is the Charles Darwin evolutionary theory
7. 3G/4G/5G do the comparison between the three.
8. What is the science behind rainfall?
9. What is DNA? What is RNA? Difference between the two.
10. What is cloud computing?
11. What are infrared rays?
12. Where can you place them in the spectrum?
13. Why we see white light as white?
14. What is the logic behind colours that we are looking?
15. What is diffraction?
16. In simple harmonic motion, what does period depend on?
17. How about period on pole versus equator?
18. Geo-stationary another satellite differences.
19. Kepler laws
20. Minimum distance to launch a satellite.
21. Acceleration due to gravity above earth surface and below surface
22. What is echo? Give example.
23. Technical difference between 5G and 6G?
24. What is electromagnetic spectrum and Details?

Women based issue

1. What do you know of ecofeminism?
2. Can you give us any examples?
3. Shubh home and be employed as forest guards? If so what would be the challenge?
4. Issues with dowry, why is it wrong?
5. What is woman empowerment?
6. Status of women in tribal societies?
7. Tribal women make some product, how would you help tribal women to increase their
income?

Economics
1. Have you gone through economic survey?
 2. Theme of the survey?
3. How can we increase India’s economic growth rate?
4. What can be done for the growth of industry sector?
5. We have a good number of large industry and large number of small industry. Why don’t we
Industry at medium level?
6. How is FDI good for Indian economy?
7. What is quantitative economics? How can it be applied in forestry?
8. How is it different from a traditional concept of demand and supply? Yeah do we see all
forest from the perspective of demand and supply?
9. Why government is doing bank merger?
10. Why NPA problem in banks?
11. When banks have so much NPA, from where they can get fun to give loans?
12. What are the different ways for investment in an economy?
13. How FDI come into India?
14. What were the provisions in the budget to increase FPI?
15. Any provisions related to deposit insurance?
16. Should we categorise nations in lower, middle and upper income groups rather than
developed and developing countries?
17. How do we define developing and developed countries?
18. What is the difference between PPP model and HAM model?

Polity
1. Ever read the Constitution of India?
2. Tell me about DPSP?
3. Few DPSP
4. Differentiate between fundamental rights and DPSP
5. How to enforce fundamental rights ?
6. How different WRITS work?
7. Presidential elections and questions on vote of MLA and MP.
8. What is the role of vice president? tell us something how he is elected and removed?
9. You mentioned soft power, please define it.
10. What were the subjects which were transferred under 42nd constitutional amendment?
11. What is judicial activism? Is it good? Any case where it brought a major change?
What is judicial activism? Is it good? Any case where it brought a major change?

History
1. Do you know about India’s freedom movement?
2. What work round table conferences? How many were held?
3. What is the role of Mahatma Gandhi?
4. Some people say that he was responsible for not saving Bhagat Singh. Is that true?

Current Affairs
1. The government of India has been focusing on north eastern states. So how are the states
related to Bangladesh?
2. What is the intellectual property rights?
3. Why are we unable to use water of Godavari to the fullest? What is lift irrigation project?
Which one has the highest capacity?
 4. What is your opinion on air India privatisation?
5. Is there any regulation over the NGOs?
6. What is the origin of the name Brahmos missile? What is a missile and why it is used
7. When is national voters Day and why? It’s been celebrated on that particular day?
8. What is CPEC? What is OBOR? Use of Chabahar port?
9. Tell us the difference between GSLV and PSLV?
10. Can you tell us about the CRISPAR CAS9?
11. Do you think that globalisation Is under threat today?
12. What should be done then If the threat is real?
13. What is skill India mission? What is the latest changes proposed by the government in this
mission?
14. What is a trade war? Latest development in US China trade war? Is there any leader
scheduled to visit USA for this trade war? Quantum of import and export between US and China?
15. What is the USA shut down?
16. Citizenship, provisions in India and ways to forego it?
17. What should be the policy to educate primary school children’s?
18. What are the recent changes in MSP policy?
19. There is a protest again and natural resource mining going on in the state. Tell the state and
the resource?
20. If female animal was born with fascinating birth defect. Tell us about it?
21. What is the treaty to share water with Pakistan?
22. Elections. Should India Dock paper ballots like USA? Since so much hue and cry regarding
the EVM’s?

HR and Personality
1. Tell us one thing about yourself which we have not come across about you but you would like
to share?
2. Difference between morality and ethics?
3. Can you tell me three places across the globe where you want to stay for the rest of your life?
4. What are the qualities of a leader?
5. Would you like to be a team leader or team member?
6. What is the meaning of your name and your positive traits?
7. What traits in you suit you for Ifs?
8. What are your plans after the interview?
9. What are the attributes required in a Forest Officer and tell us the instances when you
reflected them in your life.
10. Tell me about your strength and weaknesses?
11. Describe yourself
12. Tell us five qualities that make you suitable for IFS?
13. What is the major ethical attribute that forced civil servant should project possessed? Do
you think that government servants be objective? What is the need to be objective?
14. What have you learned in life in all those years?
15. What are the incidences of happiness in your life?
16. Tell me something you don’t know about, I would ask questions from that topic?
17. Tell me something you want to share which you have prepared, and we haven’t asked you?
18. Why should we select you?
19. What are you doing these days? What is your plan B?
20. What is the difference between acquired knowledge and domain knowledge?
21. Who is the leader? Traits.
22. Introduce yourself.
Situation Response Test

1. Your seniors ask you to do something which you don’t find ethical. What will be a course of
action?
2. Supplementary questions on above case study?
3. Say if there is an official who is corrupt, non ethical, how would you deal with them? Would
you try to find out reasons for him doing corruption, talk with him?
4. Suppose you were posted in Gadchiroli as DFO and a group of naxalite call you. What would
you do. few cross questions
5. Suppose smugglers are carrying sandalwood from your area, and you have nobody but two
people with you? What will you do? They are 10 people who are heavily armed.
6. If given a chance what two things do you think should not have happened in independent
India is history? And why?
7. There is a lapsable fund assigned to a project, but project can’t be legally sanctioned. What
would you do if there is a pressure from the senior to take on the project?
8. How would you react When there is pressure from an influential person? How would you
react in the case there is a threat?
9. If you have to construct a road from the tropical evergreen forest of Kerala or Tamil Nadu,
what will you do?
10. Suppose you are a DFO and to Rangers get drunk every night and beat their family
members. Your first course of action? Then what would you do for a prolonged change in their habit?
11. You heard about NGT? NGT told you to map Delhi forest area how will you do that?
12. If you are a forest officer and the government needs minor forest produce from the sacred
groves and people resist to it. What will you do?
13. If you are selected the DFO and posted in Gadchiroli, but different problems you will face
there? What are the different stakeholders involved? How will you balance concerns of all of the
stakeholders?
14. You have to choose between saving a elephant and human, how to go about it?
15. What will you do as a DFO to improve soil health in forest?
16. Should government need to pass a law telling people to do something for conservation
purposes when people have been Conserving nature since centuries through their culture?
17. If you are a DFO, how would you protect the biodiversity hotspot?
18. Monkey menace is a big problem as a DFO. How will you address this? Further discussions
on it
19. Being a DFO, how will you bridge the gap between tribals in administration? Moreover, you
region is also infested with naxals.
20. What measures would you take if we have to relocate the villages which are present in
national park? What is the immediate measure and concern?
21. What are the issues faced by Mangrooves? Send as a D F. How will you resolve them?
22. How will you handle insurgency as a DFO?
23. Development project is to be passed, but there is an elephant corridor, pressure on it to
pass. How will you proceed?
24. Suppose you are a DFO and you went to school. Tell three ways how would you convince
students to decrease their carbon footprint mind that they are the school students?
25. If you go to a jungle and you see the mortal remains of a animal, how would you say whether
it belongs to herbivore or a carnivore?
26. If you visit a wildlife sanctuaries , what areas would you see maximum wildlife?
27. Recently, India attended COP 26 in Glasgow, as force for the next COP you get to represent
India. What will you tell the delegates there?
Miscellaneous
1. There is a concept of think locally and act globally, think globally and act locally, think locally
and think globally, act locally and globally, Which one of the following do you think is best and the
reason?
2. What is the difference between conflict and war?
3. What is the difference between express Highway and national Highway?
4. Hypothetical scenario of forest and environment in 2050? Role of India at that time? Scenario
for us at that time? international agenda for sustainable development in that year?
5. What is the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi when it comes to forest?
6. As your familiar with Delhi, we have various means of transport like Metro, railway, roads,
airways but why we don’t have Inland waterways like USA?
7. Follow-up question-siltation in rivers and how to resolve the problem of siltation?
8. What are the factors which affect monsoon in India?
9. What is malnutrition follow up on that include wasting and stunting?
10. What can be done to reduce malnutrition in India?
11. What is hunger, what is the concept of Zero hunger, name some hotspots of Hunger in the
world, recently released hunger index take us through all of this ?
12. In the security front what is happening in the submarine area, any projects?
13. Your state has done good work in the field of disaster management. What can we learn from
it, tell three points?
14. What is the origin of crops like wheat? And the origin of agriculture theory. Vavilov
15. Since you are a researcher I want to pick your brain on something. What is the level of RND
in India? Why private sector RND is less in India? If RND increases to let’s say 1 to 2%, tell me five
areas in which we should put our money in?
16. How earth formed? What is magma?
17. Have you visited IFS’s website?
18. How would you increase productivity in livestock animal? How to preserve the indigenous
breed of cattle?
19. Where does volcanism Occur? places in India?
20. What are the ISO 9000 and ISO 14,000 standards meant for?
21. Where is the fossil Park in India?
22. Tell something about Ganges?
23. What was the recent controversy about cricket is talking in the private shoe?
24. What is the largest freshwater lake in India?
25. Volunteer for drought relief -what type of work you did? In which region ?
26. Why there is Drought in India?
27. Can’t we use drought resilient varieties in India?
28. There are many countries which have less rainfall than us, they manage with water better.
What can we do to improve our management?
29. Tell us about cyclones. How they are formed? Why we see cyclones on East Coast and not
on west coast of India?
30. How cyclones are formed and named?
31. This Republic Day head of the aircraft and on biofuel. What are the substances that can act
as biofuel. Jatropa is a plant, flower or fruit?
32. What is the landscape? Is human part of this landscape?
33. Relation between cubic feet in cubic metres
34. Civil engineering background -man-made structure to augment ecosystem and conserve
wildlife.
35. Civil engineering background—use of civil Engineering knowledge in watershed
development, especially for retaining soil Moisture.
 36. Types of linear infrastructure, its effect on ecosystem and wildlife. Ways for mitigating these
Ill effects.
37. Civil engineering—being a civil engineer, you know importance of sand as construction
material. But it is also leading to illegal riverbed my name. What are its challenges?
38. What is the contribution of the sector in which you work to pollution? And what solution
have been adopted and some follow-up questions?
39. Some are good and some are poor judgement. Don’t you think leaving your current profile
for I FS is a bad judgement?
40. You are a City person. How will you manage staying in forest areas all alone and secluded?
41. How do I apply your previous job and present job experience on field?
42. How do you define fake news?
43. How to arrive at truth as we are constantly getting news from WhatsApp? Any provision to
punish it?
44. What are the intensity and magnitude scales of earthquake measurement?
45. If you are developing a new urban centre, give parameter is to ensure that the carrying
capacity is not exceeded.
46. Give four arguments that you will give to government to convince it for giving impetus to
exports.
47. What is corporate governance?
48. What’s national security means to you?
49. Just before you enter we were talking about how cold it is in this room because of AC. How
does one catch a cold? Can you give a scientific explanation?
50. When you enter the campus today, how did you feel?
51. How should one assess other people?
52. I will ask you one last question. Don’t think please answer whatever comes to your mind. For
women’s safety, is certainty of punishment more important or severity of punishment?
53. Traditional water storage methods and why water never goes stale in tanks?
54. What is temperature and humidity outside?
55. What is the practical use of median in daily life?