S NO DAF QUESTIONS

1. What is the meaning of your name?

2. Does your name reflect your personality?

3. Do you know the day on which your birth date falls?

Can you say what are the things which happened in the year of
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your birth?
5. Who is your role model? Why?

6. Do you subscribe to all the views of your role model?

7. Why the sex ratio is low in your district?

8. What is the meaning of your district name?

9. What is the meaning of your state name?

10. Name some of the waterfalls you visited in your state

11. The reason behind the high range of poverty in the state

12. Any improvement in the lifestyle after bifurcation

Why such a high malnutrition rate in the state despite lots of
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central sector schemes?
14. Tell me about the unique cave paintings in your state
Tell me about some of the dynasties that ruled your region
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(Ancient)
16. Explain the Santhal rebellion

17. Tell me about Birsa Munda

18. Make aware of the Jharkhand Area Autonomous Council

19. Reasons for the Naxals and Maoists in Jharkhand?

Steps were taken by the government to reduce the Separatist
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movement across the state
21. Tell me about Salwa Judum

22. Parasnath Hill and explain its roots in Jainism

 Despite having a huge tranche of minerals. How is the industry
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sector developed dismally low?
24. Explain about the religion? What is religion for you?
There are a large number of tribal languages in the state. What
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are the government measures taken to protect those?
26. Why is urbanization low in the state?

27. Suggest some measures to boost the development in the state.

28. How to eradicate witchcraft-related crimes in the state?

29. Explain about the khanij kshetra Kalyan Yojana

From coal mining to air pollution, Jharkhand has been facing
30. various environmental issues for years. Suggest me some
solution to keep the economy and environment sustain together
31. Tell me some folk dances of the state
Fluoride in groundwater presents a public health problem in
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Jharkhand. What are the reasons behind this?
33. Tell me about M.S Dhoni

34. Tell me some prominent sportspersons in your state

35. Why Did you choose Anthropology?

36. What is Anthropology?

37. What Is Your Opinion on Uniform Civil code?

38. What is the necessity of marriage?

39. What do You mean by Sanskritization?

40. Is religion a boon or bane to human society

How to include isolated tribes in mainstream society? Do you
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have any suggestions?
42. Does regionalism undermine the spirit of Nationalism?

43. Tell me the contribution of tribal culture to Indian civilization.

Ambedkar ideology on caste system or Gandhi ideology on the
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caste system. In which do you believe?
45. Impact of globalization in Indian villages
What is your opinion on living- in a relationship? Do you think
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India is moving towards westernization?
47. What is the need for Anthropology in today’s world?
Why can complete AI be used to mine instead of manual
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laborers?
49. Tell me about the administration of tribal areas
Do you think the creamy layer needed to be implemented to
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SCs and STs?
51. Do you think only toppers can clear civil services?

52. What is your opinion on underemployment?

53. What is mining engineering?

54. What is your final engineering project?

55. What is rat hole mining?

56. What recent policy changes happened in the mining sector?

57. Why did you not take a career in your core area?

58. How do you know mining is profitable in a particular region?

59. Do you think Kolar has lost its gold?

What can be done to improve the social status of the mining
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peoples?
61. What is your contribution to NSS?

62. What did you learn in NSS?

63. What is the height of stumps used in cricket?

64. Do you know the recently changed LBW law?

65. Do you think marketing is affecting the spirit of cricket?

Are you a bowler/batsman/all-rounder? If you are a batsman,
66. Are you an offensive or defensive player? If you are a bowler,
Are you a spinner or fast bowler?
67. Who is your role model in cricket? Why?
Why has women’s cricket in India not gained adequate
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attention?
69. If you are a sports secretary, what would you do?

70. Why only cricket is gaining so much attention in India?

There is an allegation that IPL has no cricketing value but
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playing only for money. How do you see this?
72. What is your opinion on legalizing betting?

73. What is your learning on mentoring?

74. What topic do you follow on Quora?

75. Do you think social media is a boon or bane?

76. How to reduce fake news?

What are the measures taken by the government to tackle fake
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news?
78. What is your opinion on the internet as a fundamental right?

79. What is ten-pin bowling?

80. What is the weight of the ball?

81. When does this hobby inculcate in you?

Can India achieve its INDC target of increasing the share of
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non-fossil fuels to 40%?
Do you think current measures taken to eliminate the Naxal
83. threat are enough?

Why are the four districts of Chhattisgarh the core areas of

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Naxalism?
Could you tell me the difference between captive mining and
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commercial mining?
Is CERT-In enough to tackle the cyber-attacks by non-state
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actors?
Do you think India is moving away from NAM while getting
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closer to Quad?
88. How does AI can be used for social empowerment?
 India’s elderly will be around 20% of the total population in
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2050. What is your suggestion to improve their social security?
Do you think the National Digital Health Mission can be a game-
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changer in public health security?
91. What is your opinion on Farm laws?
Can the PM-Wani scheme reduce the digital divide across
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India?
Is boosting vaccination itself enough to tackle the pandemic or
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WASH strategy is needed?
What do you think are the reasons for vaccine hesitancy in
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India?
95. What is your viewpoint on Labour code bills?
How do you see the increase in domestic violence during
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COVID-19?
Do you think that migrant workers were not thought about while
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announcing the national lockdown?
What is the role of Traditional medicine in the COVID-19
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pandemic?
99. What is One health concept?
Why is there a recurring Indo-china border dispute? What
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should be the solution for it?
Do you think that elected representatives are undermined in
101. The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi
(Amendment) Act, 2021?
102. What do you think is better, Paper ballot or EVM?
NITI Aayog was created for cooperative federalism. Do you
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think it serves its purpose?
104. GST compensation to states. Speak for 3 minutes about this.

105. What is governance in your point of view? (no book definition)

106. How much infrastructure can lead to development?

107. Make me aware of the recent development in Afghanistan.

How much do you think the Northeast will benefit if India has
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cordial relations with Bangladesh?
109. Recent issues in Myanmar. Speak 2 mins about this.

110. Why did Suez Canal blockage create a major ruckus in global
 trade?

111. How much Indian economy was affected by the pandemic?

112. Is privatization of PSUs benefit the Indian economy?

Do you think India should aim for Net-zero emissions?
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Why do you think EIA created so many tensions?
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115. Do you think river interlinking is taking a way forward?

116. What is urban forestry?

How can Electric vehicles reduce the import dependence of
117. India?

118. Consequences of locust attacks in agriculture?

Are the government schemes to reduce Water pollution
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enough?
120. What is the Virtual water trade?
Why have there been so many protests in recent times across
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India?
How do you see the transgression of the US Navy in India’s
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EEZ?
123. How did Biomedical waste be handled during COVID-19?

124. How far Herd immunity will prevent COVID-19?

125. Is India ready enough to adopt 5G?

126. What is Block chain technology? How can it be helpful?

127. Brief about the dark net.

Why do you think India’s ranking is very low in the recently
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released Gender gap report?
129. Will the local quotas for employment stand the judicial review?

130. What is Quantum computing? Explain its applications.

131. Make me aware of Space-based internet and its developments.

132. What is your opinion on draft education policy?

133. Which country is best model for education system? Why?

134. If you want change in syllabus, what it would be?

135. Do we need to have sex education?

136. Tell us about Montessori method of learning?

Why there is a need for different boards like CBSE, ICSE etc.?
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Which is best?
138. What is the role of teacher?

139. Who is the best teacher?

140. How to initiate change from children to society?

141. How a school should be?

142. Why there is rat race?

143. What education really mean?

144. Who are the tribes who are most backward?

145. Tell us about Andaman and nicobar tribes?

146. Why tribes are having Xenophobia?

What was the approach of British towards tribes, how it is
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different from now?
148. Why tribes are exploited?

149. What is wrong with forest rights act?

150. Define tribes?

151. Do you think tribes are really backward as we think them to be?

152. Do they have scientific temper?

153. How to prevent jhumming?

154. Do they have to be modernised?

 If we educate them, they will modernise automatically, don’t you
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think?
156. How to protect tribal knowledge?

157. How to protect tribal language?

158. How to protect them from refugee influx?

159. What are different races in India?

160. What is ethnicity?

161. What are the different realms in the world?

Why man is said to have originated in Africa and then travelled
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across continent? Why not in other continents?
Tell me the name of the race from the darkest appearance to
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fair ones?
If the man said to have originated in Africa, there should be one
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race only right? Why so many?
165. Do you think Racism exist in India?
Between Casteism and Racism, which can be eliminated first?
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Why and how?
How Latin America is different from Central America in terms of
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Anthropology?
168. Who is your favourite scholar in it? Why?

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Why humans developed more than apes, tigers, or lions?
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What preceded Bipedalism or cognitive development?
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Tell us about the tribes in Andaman.
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Why you chose anthropology as an optional subject?

173. Anthropology is an apology to primitive man. What is your

opinion?
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What do you think about the Aryan invasion?
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How did today’s population pattern emerge in India?
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Who were the original inhabitants of India?
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From where did the first human beings come?
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How Anthropology can be helpful in an administration?
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How Anthropology will impact policymaking?
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What are the important branches of Anthropology?
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How are these branches of Anthropology helpful?

182. Name some thinkers from your optional? What are their Indians’
Contributions?
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Which organization is contributing highest to the CSR?
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What is a race?

How do you separate races? On what physical characteristics

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these
Separations done?
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What is the difference between Anthropology and Sociology?

187. Is there any connection between Archaeology and

Anthropology?
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Will you use only fossils to study Anthropology?
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What are the techniques used in Anthropological studies?
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Talk about mega challenges faced by humankind.
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Tell us some famous tribes in the Northeast.
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Was there any latest accord in the Northeast Based on tribes?

Tribal displacement happens in many developmental projects.

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How
Will you handle or how will you do things differently?
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What is Minor Forest Produce?
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Which surgical practice of Ayurveda do tribes follow?

196. How will you use the medical knowledge in dealing with tribal
issues?
Cultural Relativism is a dear concept for Anthropology.
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So do you see any relevance of it today?
How Anthropology is relevant today?
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199. Tell us about District Mineral Foundation?

200. What are the safety measures needed while mining?

201. Why fire occurs in mining?

202. What should be done to avoid such crisis?

203. How gold is mined, tell me from exploration stage?

204. What is mankading?

205. How to tackle problems of match fixing in cricket?

206. What is the recent Lodha committee recommendation on BCCI

207. Why cricket is famous and not any other sports like that?

208. Who is your favourite cricket player?

209. What is important skills wicket-keeper should possess?

210. What made Dhoni more famous?

211. Which team you like the most? Why?

212. What is your observation of IPL matches?

213. Tell us about the pitch and the ball of this game?

214. What are the different types of spin?

215. You would choose batting or bowling? Why?

216. How the players are recognised in cricket?

217. Who is your favourite coach in cricket?

218. Tell us about Dravid.

219. What is Bio-bubble?