Sir, I am coming. Thank you sir. Good afternoon sir. Good afternoon sir. Thank you sir. So, how are you? I am good sir. Thank you. You are from the north of Haryana? Yes sir. Delhi? Yes sir. So, shifted to Delhi or? Yes, I shifted to Delhi. For two years. Sir, it's been more than 10 years. Okay, your father is in business. What business? Sir, he is into trading of building materials. Trading for building materials. Where? Sir, in Delhi NCR. Are you only? No sir, in Delhi NCR we have offices in Kunli and Gurgaon area. Kunli and Gurgaon. You are only going to Ayatollah? Yes sir. Training is over? Sir, I am under training. I joined training in January this year. After FC? Yes sir. I did FC in 2019. And after that I took extraordinary leave. Okay. After X Open, was it okay to leave? Yes sir. Tell me your experience with FC? Sir, it was very enriching. The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration. It is a very beautiful campus. And the faculty and the course curriculum was very diverse. And we had enriching experiences. Which hostel is there? Sir, in Silverwood. Silverwood? Silverwood. What are the hostels like? Tops and Delhi hostels. What are the hostels like? Sir, Happy Valley Hostel is near the main campus. The academic and mass campus. And down from there, there are Ganga hostel, Narmada. Sir, Mahanadi? Sir, Mahanadi is outside the main campus area. Outside the main campus? Yes. Silverwood is in front of the gate. So when we go from Silverwood to the Happy Valley Sports Complex. Outside the Lavasana campus. So on that way the Mahanadi is there. Okay. If it is a trekking, which area did you go? Sir, we went to Bali Pass trek. It is in Sankri range of Uttarkashi district. So we started from Janki 30. It's the base for Yamunotri. From there we submitted the pass. And then descended to Sankri range. Railways. What do you know about railways? Sir, railways is the national transporter of our country. It contributes around 2% to Indian economy. And it transports around 23 course passengers daily. And it transports around 1.2 billion freight annually. Okay. And you have taken over my largest consumer? Yes, sir. How much? So I am not aware of the excessive. Is it? Sir, it is the largest consumer of laser as well. But I am not aware of the largest. How does the largest consumer of laser? It is land number one of electricity. Okay. And what are the plans? Net zero missiles? Yes, sir. Whatever plans? Sir, the railway is targeting net zero carbon emissions by 2030. For that, we are undergoing electrification of all rats. The target is to achieve 100% electrification by 2023. But that electricity electrification also will generate carbon? Yes, sir. Yes, sir, since the source of generation of electricity is primarily coal. So there will be not absolute reduction of carbon emissions. But from railway operations, we can reduce the emissions of carbon. So what are the plans for adding solar energy? Yes, sir. Sir, the railways has been working on adding its renewable energy sources as well. We have solar roof panels on most of the railways. At stations, we are adding solar panels. And also we are using energy efficient lighting and other appliances on railways. So what is the plan for solar energy by 2030? How much gigawatt will add? So, sir, I am not aware if there is any particular target. Never seen an instrument like that. No, sir. He said today is the holiday. I think that there is an instrument like that. I don't know. Sajjan Kumar, have you heard his name? He has been famous or been famous? Sir, if I am not wrong, it is pertaining to the recent incident which happened during the journey from Delhi to Patna. Sajjan Kumar. I am sorry, sir. He is a politician. Yes, sir. I have heard his name. Why not contact him? Sir, I am not able to recall it. Some riots in Delhi? Cigarettes? Sorry, sir.  Yes. Tell me, why are all the candidates on their passes which are easier to construct, which are post effective? And which are better? Sir, I think flyover is more preferable than underpasses because when we do underground construction, so it leads to firstly leading cost adds to the additional leading cost. So it becomes more costly. And secondly, it may destabilize any infrastructure which is on the ground. So that safety of the already existing infrastructure is also to be considered. And what are the issues which come up? Sir. Other issues? Sir, the stability of the soil which is there in the strata. So the geological profile and secondly. Stability that will be given for the flyovers also? Yes. Sir, one more thing is that the area of the road, the right of way is limited. So in limited area we can, we prefer to construct flyovers. Flyovers or underpasses? Underpasses do not need land. Because that you can do that. The flyover you have to have some good space. Displacing some amenities and housing and other things. Yes, sir. Sir, as per my... Sir, as per my understanding, flyovers are more cost effective. Flyovers are more cost effective. Don't call me. What factors are required to have safe roads and better quality roads which are durable? Sir, firstly, the strata of the road, the layers of the roads, they must be in adequate order. Aggregates should be finer at the top and the thicker and larger pieces of aggregate should be at the bottom. So the profile of sub-grade should be... Lot of experiments have been done for good concrete roads. They have used different types of materials. So which material is most suitable for a more durable road? Sir, currently the concrete roads are more durable. However, they are more costly as compared to the bitumen flexible pavements. So the bitumen they have used some rubber also? Yes, sir. In bitumen, at times rubber can also be mixed to reduce the cost. And the durability also? Sir, I am not sure about the durability. About these things? Okay. Expansion of service sector in India. What are the major service sectors which are doing very good? Sir, service sector contributes the maximum to our economy and in the recent times we have seen emerging sectors. For example, the digital technology sector is on boom and the e-commerce sector has been rising, providing various services. Secondly, the tourism sector is also an emerging sector where we can reap the potential of our cultural heritage. Thirdly, there have been various champion sectors in services which have been recognized by the government. In this, hospitality and other sectors are there. Thank you. Sir, what are the components of the Kashi Vishnath corridor project? Sir, the Kashi Vishnath corridor project aims to revamp the area around the Kashi Vishnath temple. There will be several facilities which will be provided to the pilgrims. Firstly, currently there are narrow lanes which connect to the Kashi Vishnath temple. There will be direct connectivity to the main road in the area. Secondly, there will be a library. Thirdly, there will be lodges and accommodation facility will be provided in that corridor. Lastly, the other temples will be renovated. The smaller temples which are present in the vicinity will be renovated and a museum will be created. Who founded BHU? Sir, Pandit Madan Mohan Malveji founded BHU. In 1916, the foundation stone was laid. Tell me something about Malveji. Sir, Pandit Madan Mohan Malveji was a stalwart leader of our national freedom struggle. He was a great educationist. He led the foundation of Banaras Hindu University and was also the propounder of scouting in India. Secondly, he was a good lawyer. He played an important role in the Chori Chora case incident. Thirdly, he was an important politician at that time. He had the International Congress three times. He also played an important role in the foundation of Hindu Mahasabha. You are in IITS. Tell me something, what would you understand about the operating ratio of the IITS? Sir, the operating ratio refers to the ratio of total revenues, the ratio of total working expenses and the total earnings of the railway. So, what is the current operating ratio of the railways? Sir, the current operating ratio in the last financial year it was 97.4% and for the current financial year we have set the target of 96.15%. What is the current status of the bullet rail project? Sir, for the high-speed rail project in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Colorado, we have done the feasibility studies. After that, we have designed all the standards and specifications for the design. We have acquired more than 60% of the land and we have also completed the construction of high-speed railway transport institute in Vadodara. We have also accomplished the project of resettlement action for the displaced persons in that corridor. What is the tribal population in India in terms of population? Sir, we have around 8.4% of total population which are scheduled tribes. So, there is a problem in some states that in many tribal areas there is a problem of forced conversion. By some elements they come in and offer some means or sustenance to the tribal and try and convert there. So, do you think that we need an anti-conversion to prevent such activity? Because until it exploits the vulnerability of the tribal? Sir, it is true that there have been incidences and reports regarding conversion of tribals to other religions. The right to practice religion is one of the fundamental rights and it prohibits forced conversion of any person to any religion. Secondly, sir, for preventing and controlling this phenomena, we need better monitoring and better facilitation at the ground level. In my opinion, sir, we already have the legal provisions to deal with forced conversion, but its implementation is lacking. So, we have to better implement the already existing provisions of Indian Penal Code. So, it is an implementation. Okay, you are a civil engineer in Europe from Delhi. We always hear a lot of talk about the failing of Yamuna. Yamuna means hearing for the last 20 to 25 years, but no visible action is there. Why it is, why such a scenario? I mean, as an engineer, if you are required to give two concrete suggestions to actually deal with it, what will be the suggestion? Sir, to clean river Yamuna, the first and foremost suggestion would be to tap the point and non-point sources from where undistarched waste and water is being discharged into the river Yamuna. Secondly, the ecological flow of the river, minimum ecological flow has to be maintained so that the river can self purify and rejuvenate itself. Okay, so recently Delhi government had introduced something related to management of Yamuna floodplains. Is that a scheme or a policy? So, sir, I have little information about it. Okay. Why floodplain management is important for maintaining ecological flow? Sir, the floodplains are very important to the ecology of rivers. Firstly, any encroachment on floodplains, they lead to pollution of the river and as well disturbs the ecology and biodiversity in the river. So, that's why the floodplain management is important. And secondly, the river water during high water flow times, it may lead to denundration of the floodplains, which also needs to be managed properly so that any flooding situation does not happen in the low-lying areas nearby the river. I am sure. You have been, I worked at some zones, no? Yes, sir. You have been to northern Delhi? Oh, northern Delhi. So, you are going to be in Mahapur? Lucknow, sir. Lucknow, RASO? No, sir. Indian Delhi Institute of Transport Management. Are you going to RASO? I am not yet, sir. Sir, what do they do? RDSO? Sir, RDSO is a railway design and standards organization. They design the specifications and laid on the standards for the use of technologies and machines or other, any equipments which may be used in the railway operations. Recently, they have come up with something, signaling, to do with signaling or pass trains. Are you aware of that? Are you also aware of the paper? Oh, sorry, sir. Regular intervals on these tracks, they are fitted with the same signals. So, the accelerators can be prepared. Especially, where the high speed trains come, so many of them are there now. Okay, tell me the role of private relation. What extent private relation has already been there and what mission is there now? Sir, the currently government has taken multiple steps to increase the private participation in railways. Firstly, we have launched a private freight terminal policy, where we encourage the private entities to manage and operate their own private freight terminals. Secondly, we have vacant leasing policies, schemes, whereby we lease the wagons to the private entities and they can operate them for their purposes. Thirdly, we have also launched a policy for private entities to engage in passenger operations. So, there was an initiative to invite private participation in 109 passenger trains. However, we have received limited response from the private sector, because firstly in the passenger section, we have not been able to successfully engage any private entity. There are only two Tejas trains which are being operated by IRCTC only. Secondly, in private freight terminals, we have received a reasonable good response. We have freight terminals which are being operated by Adani and other PSUs. They are also managing their freight terminals. Thirdly, sir, the wagon leasing schemes. We need a better flexibility so that we can allow the private sector to have customized wagons so that they can suit to their requirements. How many railcoach factories do we have? Sir, railcoach factories, we have one in Bareli, one in Kapoorthala, in Punjab. The oldest one and the most important one. It is in Chennai. What is it called? Sir, it is called Integrated Coach Factory. ICF? Yes, sir. Why is it called Kapoorthala? It is not called Integrated Coach Factory. Why? What is the integration in all of this? Sorry, sir, I am not aware about it. Radhavan is very new and so many others. So, it is Rai Paredi, sorry. Rai Paredi. Yes. Okay, Dilway, what is this freight equalization in this country? Now we don't have, right? Where there used to have. Many people, they say Orissa and all are lagged behind because of this freight equalization in the earlier years. Sir, I am not sure. Yes, sir. You want to guess? Sir, if you permit, I can check. Sir, I think it would have been related to the equalization of the freight traffic in different divisions and zones. In terms of freight and the charge, you see, iron ore going from Orissa to somewhere down south, say Kanyakumari side. The freight charge will be uniform throughout the country. So, the location is not used to be removed. Yes. It is far away from Kanyakumari. Yes, sir. Okay, what is zero point? Who was we doing here? There was a function also recently. Mr. Gatkeny had done something. I mean, Mr. Nosa. No. That poor. That's the outside of the radio station. Okay, that's called zero point because from there, they are complete staff. Yes, sir. The radio station is actually there. Okay, civil engineering. And you have been doing it very, very well. Tell me about the signature bridge. You have seen? Yes, sir. What is the signature bridge? Sir, the signature bridge was incepted as a signature mark of the capital of our country. That's why it is named the signature bridge. No, what is the signature mark? It is an asymmetric cable state bridge. And secondly, it has the height of the bridge is around 73 meters. And it is an asymmetric cable state bridge. Suicide point. Yes, sir, unfortunately. How many people claim that? 23. Okay, what kind of cables are used in this? That's very important, no? There will be rest on that? Yes, sir. And what is the life of those cables? Suicide point. You don't know? That will be interesting. Okay, last question. No. Railways and, you know, now we want to encourage the assets of railways. The railways and the tracks. Now in the NMP, is the railways also there? Yes. I do one way. Sir, the railway assets under the monetization pipeline, their share is around 26 percent. Under the monetization? Pipeline, national monetization pipeline. National monetization pipeline, not pricing. Yes, sir. Sir, their share is around 26 percent. Yes. Of the six lakh crores. Sir, what are the things in railways? The different assets which have been listed for monetization are, firstly, five percent of the total passenger trains is there. We have railway stations, 400 railway stations and good sheds, 20 percent of around good sheds are listed and hill railways are there. We are trying to monetize four hill railways and then Konkan railways is there and 2 percent of the tracks. These are the main assets. Thank you. Anshulao, there was a controversy with respect to the appointment of Delhi Police Chief. Yes. Can you tell me about this and what will you say is right? Sir, the current Chief of Delhi Police is Sri Rakesh Astana. He is an IPS of Gujarat Kader and the controversy was related to his appointment timing. Since he was about to superannuate and at that time the government gave an extension of one year to his appointment as a Chief Commissioner of Delhi Police. What is the current state of Delhi Police? Sir, currently, I think there are no ongoing cases. However, his appointment has been challenged in the court but I have little information about the case. So, what is the difference? No ongoing cases and it has been challenged in the court. What is the difference between the two? Sir, the court has not started the hearing yet. So, the case may be filed. Is it challenged in the court? Yes, sir, in a way. So, railway management service, I remember, has been introduced. What is the status right now? Has the functioning of the railway been reversed? Sir, under the notification for Indian Railway Management Service, it was given in December 2019 and after that, there have been several rounds of meetings at the higher level to decide the specific rules and specific guidelines, how it will be implemented. As per the debate, the... No implementation has happened so far. Recruitment has also not happened in the last few years. So, how will this affect the functioning of the railway? Sir, since no recruitment is happening at the group A level in both administrative and the engineering services, there will be a shortage of officers at the entry level in the coming time. So, it is better that we start recruitment as soon as possible so that we can avoid any shortage of staff. Vastu Shastra and civil engineer. Can you provide us some therapy? Sir, Vastu Shastra deals with the Vastu aspects of any infrastructure or any building and it has principles related to astrology. While civil engineering is a... What are certain Vastu Shastra principles which are commonly used in civil engineering? Are there certain principles? Sorry, sir, I am not aware. Is Vastu being taught as a part of civil engineering? Sir, if there are any scientifically proven principles which are beneficial for the safety and serviceability of the structure, they must be included. Bullet range has been in service for 30-40 years now, I think in western countries. So, do you think we should be going for a higher load since we are starting from scratch, we should go for a higher technology rather than a technology which is getting obsolete because higher load will replace bullet range in the coming decades. What do you think? Sir, it is true that Hyperloop is more faster and it is projected to be more comfortable as a technology for transportation. However, there are implementation challenges with Hyperloop as the high-speed railway is already in operation since 30-40 years but Hyperloop is an emerging technology. So, while we have a proposed Hyperloop between Mumbai and Pune, we are doing the feasibility studies so that there is a benefit on the coast which we invest in Hyperloop. You have been awarded for excellence in organizational skills. What are the key organizational skills that someone should have? Sir, the key organizational skills for any organization or any individual in organization are firstly, team management and being a team player and incentivizing the team members to work with their, to the best of their abilities. Secondly, optimum utilization of resources to bring best results in optimum time and coast. Thirdly, time management to efficiently utilize the time and fourthly, the ability to lead and ability to innovate so that new principles and new technologies can be inculcated in the organizational working. Sir, I would like to ask a question. What is the role of artificial intelligence in photography? Sir, with the advent of smartphones and better photographic abilities in smartphones, the role of artificial intelligence has been enhanced. Firstly, in portrait photography, we use computational methods to provide that bokeh effect through artificial intelligence. This is a facial recognition technology which detects the face and blurs the surrounding area to produce the bokeh effect. Last question. I see you have offered for dynamics also among your service preferences and you have not offered for dynamics. Can you justify what does it work? Sir, currently I am very satisfied in my service and aspire to pursue my first choice that is in an administrative service. However, my choice of dynamics is because of the geographical location. I am currently based in Delhi and my family is also living in Delhi. So, it is a trade-off which I may or may not take. I know that it is a group-based service and I have not actually decided whether I will be joining it.


I urge you with every fiber of my being, I swear. Please, make it soft. This is a full list that I got earlier this week of every cousin or second cousin, uncle, aunt, what have you. And it was a whole kind of passed away. And they didn't just pass away. I don't know. Murdered. Murdered. They were murdered. They were murdered by these. Remastered. And if you'll notice, some of these here, you have two years old, four years old, six years old, nine years old, seven years old, two years old. This is all just mine. I know a lot of the names on this list. A few of them I was close to. A lot of them I don't even know. And we'll never have the chance to know. Can you even like comprehend this? Because I literally spent two hours. I got the list in Arabic. And I made it all in English. And I kept reading through it. And I'm like, I don't know. I don't know what to say anymore. I don't know what to do. I can't sit with it and really try to process it. Because if I do, I'm going to crumble. And I don't want to crumble. Because I want to stop and work towards those who are still alive for them to not be added to this list. So I urge you. I urge you with every fiber of my being. I swear. Please. Make it stop. Do whatever you can to actually help make it stop. You need action. Action.


Yemen's Houthis deploy underwater drone for first time, Pentagon. Yemen's Houthi rebels have attempted to use a submersible drone for the first time, but it was destroyed in yet another wave of US-led coalition attacks over the weekend the US Central Command has claimed. The US Navy conducted a series of five strikes, hitting three Houthi cruise missiles, an unmanned surface vessel and one unmanned underwater vessel on February the 17th. CENTCOM announced on X. This is the first observed Houthi employment of an unmanned underwater vessel since attacks began in October 2023. The US military wrote claiming it presented an imminent threat to US Navy ships and commercial vessels in the area. Since the beginning of the Israeli military operation in Gaza, the Houthi militants who are in control of a large portion of Yemen have harassed multiple vessels sailing in the Red Sea. In solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, the Houthis vowed to attack any ships they find to be linked to Israel until the siege of Gaza stops. In response, the US launched an international maritime coalition to patrol the Red Sea called Prosperity Guardian with the stated goal of protecting shipping lanes. Since mid-January, the US and UK have carried out air and sea-launched attacks against multiple underground storage facilities, command and control, missile systems, UAV storage operations sites, radars and helicopters in Yemen in an attempt to degrade Houthi capabilities to attack military vessels and merchant ships.