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Get UpdatesMizoram Public Service Commission, better known as MPSC conducts the MPSC exam annually to select candidates for various posts pertaining to government jobs in Mizoram. Candidates must fulfill the eligibility criteria in order to appear for the exam. MPSC is conducted in three stages - Prelims, Mains and Personal Interview. Candidates are required to qualify in all stages of exam in order to get recruited to various posts released by the exam conducting body. Also, the final merit list is prepared on the basis of marks secured in mains exam and personal interview.
| Full Exam Name | Mizoram Civil Services Exam |
| Short Exam Name | Mizoram MCS |
| Conducting Body | Mizoram Public Service Commission |
| Frequency of Conduct | Once a year |
| Exam Level | State Level Exam |
| Languages | English |
| Mode of Application | Offline |
| Application Fee (General) | 300 Rs [Offline] |
| Mode of Exam | Offline |
| Mode of Counselling | Offline |
Past Dates and Events
12 Mar, 2024 - 12 Apr, 2024
Application | Mode: Online
12 Mar, 2024
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Mizoram Civil Services Eligibility Criteria
Mizoram Public Service Commission has prescribed the official eligibility criteria of Mizoram Civil Services (Combined Competitive) examinations. As per the MPSC eligibility criteria, an aspirant should be-
Concepts (CCC) of National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT) or Diploma in Computer Application/Certificate in Computer Application from institutions recognized by Mizoram State Council of Technical Education is necessary.
A regular degree from any of the Universities incorporated by an Act of the Parliament or State Legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be deemed Universities or Foreign Universities approved by the Central Government is a must.
The final year degree candidates can also apply for the MCS exam provided they can produce proof of passing the requisite examination in the personal interview; as failing to do the same will lead to disqualification/cancellation of the candidature.
Mode of Application : Offline
Mode of Payment : Other
The application process of MCS exam will be administered by Mizoram PSC.
The offline MCS application forms will be available in the office of Mizoram Public Service Commission, New Secretariat Complex, Aizawl and the Offices of Deputy Commissioners Lunglei, Saiha, Champhai, Kolasib, Serchhip, Lawngtlai and Mamit during the working hours.
The mode of payment of MCS application fee is offline and payable via IPO and applicants are supposed to pay a cash amount of Rs. 300 (Rs. 150 for SC/ST/OBC) or by depositing into the Treasury under the Head- 0051-PSC, 102-State PSC (Examination Fee. etc) or by uncrossed Indian Postal Order (IPO) drawn in favour of Secretary, Mizoram Public Service Commission.
| Category | Quota | Mode | Gender | Amount |
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| General | Offline | Male, Female, Transgender | ₹ 300 | |
| ST, SC, OBC | Offline | Male, Female, Transgender | ₹ 150 |
Current events of national and international importance |
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History of India and Indian national movement |
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Indian and world geography |
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| Physical, social, economic geography of India and the world |
Indian polity and governance |
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| Constitution, political system, panchayati raj, public policy, rights issues, etc |
Economic and social development |
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| Sustainable development, poverty, inclusion, demographics, social sector initiatives, etc |
General issues on environmental ecology, biodiversity, and climate change |
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General science |
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General awareness on Mizoram society, its culture, and heritage |
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English language comprehension skills (class X level) |
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Interpersonal skills including communication skills |
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Logical reasoning and analytical ability |
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Decision-making and problem-solving |
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General mental ability |
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Basic numeracy (class-X level) |
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| Numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc |
Data interpretation (class-X level) |
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| Charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency, etc |
Comprehension of given passages |
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Precis writing |
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Usage and vocabulary |
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Letter writing |
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Indian culture |
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| Will cover salient aspects of art forms, literature, and architecture from ancient to modern times |
| Mizoram heritage and culture |
Modern Indian history |
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| From about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present significant events, personalities, issues |
| The freedom struggle-its various stages and important contributors/ contributions from different parts of the country |
| Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country |
| History of the world will include events from 18th century such as industrial revolution, world wars, redrawal of national boundaries, colonization, decolonization |
| Political philosophies like communism, capitalism, socialism, etc-their forms and effect on the society |
Salient features of Indian society, diversity of India |
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| Role of women and women’s organization, population and associated issues, poverty, and developmental issues, urbanization, their problems, and their remedies |
| Effects of globalization on indian society |
| Social empowerment, communalism, regionalism, and secularism |
Salient features of world’s physical geography |
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| Distribution of key natural resources across the world (including south Asia and the Indian subcontinent); factors responsible for the location of primary, secondary, and tertiary sector industries in various parts of the world (including India) |
| Important geophysical phenomena such as earthquakes, tsunami, volcanic activity, cyclone etc |
| Geographical features and their location changes in critical geographical features (including water bodies and ice caps) and in flora and fauna and the effects of such changes |
Indian constitution-historical underpinnings, evolution, features, amendments, significant provisions, and basic structure |
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| Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States, issues and challenges pertaining to the federal structure, devolution of powers and finances up to local levels and challenges therein |
| Separation of powers between various organs dispute redressal mechanisms and institutions |
| Comparison of the indian constitutional scheme with that of other countries |
| Parliament and state legislatures-structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers, and privileges, and issues arising out of these |
| Structure, organization, and functioning of the executive and the judiciary |
| Ministries and departments of the government; pressure groups and formal/ informal associations and their role in the polity |
| Salient features of the representation of people’s act |
| Appointment to various constitutional posts, powers, functions, and responsibilities of various constitutional bodies |
| Statutory, regulatory, and various quasi-judicial bodies |
| Governance and politics in Mizoram since 1947 |
Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation |
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| Development processes and the development industry-the role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups and associations, donors, charities, institutional and other stakeholders |
| Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the centre and states and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions, and bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections |
| Issues relating to development and management of social sector/ services relating to health, education, human resources |
| Issues relating to poverty and hunger |
Important aspects of governance |
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| Transparency and accountability, e-governance-applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency and accountability and institutional, and other measures |
| Role of civil services in a democracy |
India and its neighborhood relations |
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| Bilateral, regional, and global groupings and agreements involving India and/ or affecting India’s interests |
| Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora |
| Important International institutions, agencies, and fora-their structure, mandate |
Indian economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment |
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| Inclusive growth and issues arising from it |
| Government budgeting |
| Major crops-cropping patterns in various parts of the country, different types of irrigation and irrigation systems storage, transport and marketing of agricultural produce and issues and related constraints; e-technology in the aid of farmers |
| Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices; public distribution system-objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks and food security; technology missions; economics of animal-rearing |
| Food processing and related industries in India-scope and significance, location, upstream and downstream requirements, supply chain management |
| Land reforms in india |
| Effects of liberalization on the economy, changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth |
| Infrastructure: Energy, ports, roads, airports, railways, etc |
| Investment models |
Science and technology developments and their applications, and effects in everyday life |
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| Achievements of Indians in science and technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology |
| Awareness in the fields of IT, space, computers, robotics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and issues relating to intellectual property rights |
Conservation, environmental pollution, and degradation, environmental impact assessment |
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| Disaster and disaster management |
Linkages between development and spread of extremism |
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| Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security |
| Challenges to internal security through communication networks, role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges, basics of cyber security; money-laundering and its prevention |
| Security challenges and their management in border areas-linkages of organized crime with terrorism |
| Various security forces and agencies and their mandate |
Ethics and human Interface |
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| Essence, determinants, and consequences of ethics in human actions; dimensions of ethics; ethics in private and public relationships |
| Human values-lessons from the lives and teachings of great leaders, reformers, and administrators; role of family, society, and educational institutions in inculcating values |
Attitude |
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| Content, structure, function; its influence and relation with thought and behaviour; moral and political attitudes; social influence and persuasion |
| Aptitude and foundational values for civil service, integrity, impartiality, and non partisanship, objectivity, dedication to public service, empathy, tolerance and compassion towards the weaker sections |
| Emotional intelligence-concepts, and their utilities and application in administration and governance |
| Contributions of moral thinkers and philosophers from India, and world |
Public/ civil service values and ethics in public administration |
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| Status and problems; ethical concerns and dilemmas in government and private institutions; laws, rules, regulations, and conscience as sources of ethical guidance; accountability and ethical governance |
| Strengthening of ethical and moral values in governance; ethical issues in international relations and funding; corporate governance |
| Probity in governance: Concept of public service; philosophical basis of governance and probity; information sharing and transparency in government, right to information, codes of ethics, codes of conduct, citizen’s charters, work culture |
| Probity in governance: Quality of service delivery, utilization of public funds, challenges of corruption |
Case studies on above issues |
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Ecology and its relevance to man |
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| Natural resources, their sustainable management, and conservation |
| Physical and social environment as factors of crop distribution, and production |
| Agro ecology; cropping pattern as indicators of environments |
| Environmental pollution and associated hazards to crops, animals, and humans |
| Climate change-international conventions and global initiatives |
| Greenhouse effect and global warming |
| Advance tools for ecosystem analysis-remote sensing (RS) and geographic information systems (GIS) |
Cropping patterns in different agro-climatic zones of the country |
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| Impact of high yielding and short-duration varieties on shifts in cropping patterns |
| Concepts of various cropping and farming systems |
| Organic and Precision Farming |
| Package of practices for production of important cereals, pulses, oil seeds, fibers, sugar, commercial, and fodder crops |
| Weeds, their characteristics, dissemination and association with various crops; their multiplications; cultural, biological, and chemical control of weeds |
Farm management |
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| Scope, importance, and characteristics, farm planning |
| Optimum resource use and budgeting |
| Economics of different types of farming systems |
| Marketing management-strategies for development, market intelligence |
| Price fluctuations and their cost; role of cooperatives in agricultural economy; types and systems of farming and factors affecting them |
| Agricultural Price Policy |
| Crop insurance |
Agricultural extension |
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| Its importance and role, methods of evaluation of extension programmes, socioeconomic survey and status of big, small, and marginal farmers and landless agricultural labourers |
| Training programmes for extension workers |
| Role of Krishi Vigyan Kendra’s (KVK) in dissemination of agricultural technologies |
| Non government organization (NGO) and self help group approach for rural development |
Important features and scope of various types of forestry plantations such as social forestry, agroforestry, and natural forests |
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| Propagation of forest plants |
| Forest products |
| Agro-forestry and value addition |
| Conservation of forest flora and fauna |
Soil-physical, chemical, and biological properties |
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| Processes and factors of soil formation |
| Soils of India |
| Mineral and organic constituents of soils and their role in maintaining soil productivity |
| Essential plant nutrients and other beneficial elements in soils and plants |
| Principles of soil fertility, soil testing, and fertilizer recommendations, integrated nutrient management biofertilizers |
| Losses of nitrogen in soil, nitrogen-use efficiency in submerged rice soils, nitrogen fixation in soils |
| Efficient Phosphorus and Potassium use |
| Problem soils and their reclamation |
| Soil factors affecting greenhouse gas emission |
Soil conservation, integrated watershed management |
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| Soil erosion and its management |
| Dry land agriculture and its problems |
| Technology for stabilizing agriculture production in rainfed areas |
Water-use efficiency in relation to crop production |
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| Criteria for scheduling irrigations, ways, and means of reducing runoff losses of irrigation water |
| Rainwater harvesting |
| Drip and sprinkler irrigation |
| Drainage of waterlogged soils, quality of irrigation water, effect of industrial effluents on soil and water pollution |
| Irrigation projects in India |
Cell structure, function, and cell cycle |
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| Synthesis, structure, and function of genetic material |
| Laws of heredity |
| Chromosome structure, Chromosomal aberrations, linkage and cross-over, and their significance in recombination breeding |
| Polyploidy, euploids, and aneuploids |
| Mutation-their role in crop improvement |
| Heritability, sterility, and incompatibility, classification and their application in crop improvement |
| Cytoplasmic inheritance, sex-linked, sex-influenced, and sex-limited characters |
History of plant breeding |
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| Modes of reproduction, selfing, and crossing techniques |
| Origin, evolution, and domestication of crop plants, center of origin, law of homologous series, crop genetic resources-conservation and utilization |
| Application of principles of plant breeding, improvement of crop plants |
| Molecular markers and their application in plant improvement |
| Pure-line selection, Pedigree, mass and recurrent selections, combining ability, its significance in plant breeding |
| Heterosis and its exploitation |
| Somatic hybridization |
| Breeding for disease and pest resistance |
| Role of interspecific and intergeneric hybridization |
| Role of genetic engineering and biotechnology in crop improvement |
| Genetically modified crop plants |
Seed production and processing technologies |
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| Seed certification, seed testing, and storage |
| DNA fingerprinting and Seed registration |
| Role of public and private sectors in seed production, and marketing |
| Intellectual property rights (IPR) issues, WTO issues, and its impact on agriculture |
| Principles of Plant Physiology with reference to plant nutrition, absorption, translocation and metabolism of nutrients |
| Soil-Water-Plant relationship |
Enzymes and plant pigments |
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| Photosynthesis-modern concepts and factors affecting the process, aerobic and anaerobic respiration; C₃, C₄, and CAM mechanisms |
| Carbohydrate, protein, and fat metabolism |
| Growth and development; photoperiodism and vernalization |
| Plant growth substances and their role in crop production |
| Physiology of seed development and germination; dormancy |
| Stress physiology-draught, salt, and water stress |
Major fruits, plantation crops, vegetables, spices, and flower crops |
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| Package practices of major horticultural crops |
| Protected cultivation and high tech horticulture |
| Post-harvest technology and value addition of fruits and vegetables |
| Landscaping and commercial floriculture |
| Medicinal and Aromatic plants |
| Role of fruits and vegetables in human nutrition |
Diagnosis of pests and diseases of field crops, vegetables, orchard and plantation crops, and their economic importance |
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| Classification of pests and diseases and their management |
| Integrated pest and Diseases management |
| Storage pests and their management |
| Biological control of pests and diseases |
| Epidemiology and forecasting of major crop pests and diseases |
| Plant quarantine measures |
| Pesticides, their formulation, and modes of action |
Food production and consumption trends in India |
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| Food security and growing population-vision 2020 |
| Reasons for grain surplus |
| National and international food policies |
| Production, procurement, distribution constraints |
| Availability of food grains, per capita expenditure on food |
| Trends in Poverty, Public Distribution System and Below Poverty Line population, Targeted Public Distribution System (PDS), policy implementation in context to globalization |
Processing constraints |
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| Relation of food production to National Dietary Guidelines and food consumption pattern |
| Food based dietary approaches to eliminate hunger |
| Nutrient deficiency-micronutrient deficiency: Protein energy malnutrition or protein calorie malnutrition (PEM or PCM), micro nutrient deficiency and HRD in context of work capacity of women and children |
| Food grain productivity and Food security |
Animal nutrition |
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| Partitioning of food energy within the animal |
| Direct and indirect calorimetry |
| Carbon-nitrogen balance and comparative slaughter methods |
| Systems for expressing energy value of foods in ruminants, pigs, and poultry |
| Energy requirements for maintenance, growth, pregnancy, lactation, egg, wool, and meat production |
| Latest advances in protein nutrition |
| Energy protein inter-relationships |
| Evaluation of protein quality |
| Use of npn compounds in ruminant diets |
| Protein requirements for maintenance, growth, pregnancy, lactation, egg, wool, and meat production |
| Major and trace minerals-their sources, physiological functions, and deficiency symptoms |
| Toxic minerals |
| Mineral interactions |
| Role of fat-soluble and water-soluble vitamins in the body, their sources, and deficiency symptoms |
| Feed additives-methane inhibitors, probiotics, enzymes, antibiotics, hormones, oligosaccharides, antioxidants, emulsifiers, mould inhibitors, buffers etc |
| Use and abuse of growth promoters like hormones and antibiotics-latest concepts |
Conservation of fodders |
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| Storage of feeds and feed ingredients |
| Recent advances in feed technology and feed processing |
| Antinutritional and toxic factors present in livestock feeds |
| Feed analysis and quality control |
| Digestibility trials-direct, indirect, and indicator methods |
| Predicting feed intake in grazing animals |
| Advances in ruminant nutrition |
| Nutrient requirements |
| Balanced rations |
| Feeding of calves, pregnant, work animals, and breeding bulls |
| Strategies for feeding milch animals during different stages of lactation cycle |
| Effect of feeding on milk composition |
| Feeding of goats for meat and milk production |
| Feeding of sheep for meat and wool production |
| Swine nutrition |
| Nutrition requirements |
| Creep, starter, grower, and finisher rations |
| Feeding of pigs for lean meat production |
| Low cost rations for swine |
| Poultry nutrition |
| Special features of poultry nutrition |
| Nutrient requirements for meat and egg production |
| Formulation of rations for different classes of layers and broilers |
Animal physiology |
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| Blood constituents: Properties and functions, blood cell formation, haemoglobin synthesis and chemistry, plasma proteins production, classification, and properties, coagulation of blood; haemorrhagic disorders-anticoagulants, blood groups, blood volume |
| Blood constituents: Plasma expanders, buffer systems in blood. Biochemical tests and their significance in disease diagnosis |
| Circulation: Physiology of heart, cardiac cycle, heart sounds, heartbeat, electrocardiograms. Work and efficiency of heart-effect of ions on heart function, metabolism of cardiac muscle, nervous and chemical regulation of heart |
| Circulation: Effect of temperature and stress on heart, blood pressure and hypertension, osmotic regulation, arterial pulse, vasomotor regulation of circulation, shock. Coronary and pulmonary circulation |
| Circulation: Blood-brain barrier cerebrospinal fluid-circulation in birds |
| Respiration: Mechanism of respiration, transport and exchange of gases-neural control of respiration, chemoreceptors, hypoxia, respiration in birds |
| Excretion: Structure and function of kidney, formation of urine, methods of studying renal function, renal regulation of acid-base balance: Physiological constituents of urine, renal failure-passive venous congestion, urinary secretion in chicken |
| Excretion: Renal regulation of acid-base balance-sweat glands and their function. Biochemical test for urinary dysfunction |
| Endocrine glands: Functional disorders, their symptoms, and diagnosis. Synthesis of hormones, mechanism, and control of secretion-hormonal receptors classification and function |
| Growth and animal production: Prenatal and postnatal growth, maturation, growth curves, measures of growth, factors affecting growth, conformation, body composition, meat quality |
| Physiology of milk production, reproduction, and digestion: Current status of hormonal control of mammary development, milk secretion, and milk ejection. Male and female reproductive organs, their components, and functions |
| Reproduction, and digestion: Digestive organs and their functions |
| Environmental physiology: Physiological relations and their regulation; mechanisms of adaptation, environmental factors and regulatory mechanisms involved in animal behaviour, climatology-various parameters and their importance. Animal ecology |
| Environmental physiology: Physiology of behaviour. Effect of stress on health and production |
| Importance of climate in animal health: Effect of environment on animal function and performance relationship between industrialization and animal agriculture. Stress, strain, and productivity in relation to animal habitation |
Animal reproduction |
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| Semen quality: Preservation and artificial insemination, components of semen, composition of spermatozoa, chemical and physical properties of ejaculated semen, factors affecting semen in vivo and in vitro. Factors affecting semen production and quality |
| Semen quality: Preservation, composition of diluents, sperm concentration, transport of diluted semen. Deep freezing techniques in cows, sheep, goats, swine, and poultry. Detection of estrus and time of insemination for better conception |
| Semen quality: Anoestrus and repeat breeding. Multiple ovulation and embryo transfer technology (MOET). Dystocia and obstetrical operations |
Livestock production and management |
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| Commercial dairy farming: Comparison of dairy farming in India with advanced countries. Dairying under mixed farming and as specialized farming, economic dairy farming. Starting of a dairy farm, capital, and land requirement |
| Commercial dairy farming: Organization of the dairy farm. Opportunities in dairy farming, factors determining the efficiency of dairy animal. Heard recording, budgeting cost of milk production, pricing policy; personnel management |
| Commercial dairy farming: Developing practical and economic rations for dairy cattle; supply of greens throughout the year, feed and fodder requirements of dairy farm. Feeding regimes for young stock and bulls, heifers and breeding animals |
| Commercial dairy farming: New trends in feeding young and adult stock; feeding records |
| Commercial meat, egg, and wool production: Development of practical and economic rations for sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, and poultry. Supply of greens, fodder, feeding regimes for young and mature stock. New trends in enhancing production and management |
| Commercial meat, egg, and wool production: Capital and land requirements and socioeconomic concept |
| Feeding and management of animals under drought, flood, and other natural calamities |
| Animal housing requirements for specific categories of domestic animals viz. pregnant cows and sows, milking cows, broiler birds |
Genetics and animal breeding |
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| History of animal genetics |
| Mitosis and meiosis: Mendelian inheritance; deviations to Mendelian genetics; expression of genes; linkage and crossing over; sex determination, sex influenced and sex limited characters; blood groups and polymorphism; chromosome aberrations |
| Mitosis and meiosis: Cytoplasmic inheritance |
| Gene and its structure; DNA as a genetic material; genetic code and protein synthesis; recombinant dna technology |
| Mutations, types of mutations, methods for detecting mutations and mutation rate |
| Transgenesis |
Population Genetics applied to Animal Breeding |
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| Quantitative vs. qualitative traits; Hardy-Weinberg law; population vs. individual; gene and genotypic frequency; forces changing gene frequency; random drift and small populations; theory of path coefficient |
| Inbreeding, methods of estimating inbreeding coefficient, systems of inbreeding; effective population size; breeding value, estimation of breeding value, dominance and epistatic deviation; partitioning of variation |
| Genotype X environment correlation and genotype environment interaction; role of multiple measurements; resemblance between relatives |
| Breeding systems: Breeds of livestock and poultry. Heritability, repeatability and genetic and phenotypic correlations, their methods of estimation and precision of estimates; aids to selection and their relative merits; individual, pedigree |
| Breeding systems: Family and within family selection; pregnancy testing; methods of selection; construction of selection indices and their uses; comparative evaluation of genetic gains through various selection methods |
| Breeding systems: Indirect selection and correlated response; inbreeding, outbreeding, upgrading, cross-breeding and synthesis of breeds; crossing of inbred lines for commercial production; selection for general and specific combining ability |
| Breeding systems: Breeding for threshold characters. Sire index |
Extension |
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| Basic philosophy, objectives, concept, and principles of extension |
| Different methods adopted to educate farmers under rural conditions |
| Generation of technology, its transfer, and feedback |
| Problems and constraints in transfer of technology |
| Animal husbandry programmes for rural development |
Anatomy and Pharmacology |
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| Histology and histological techniques: Paraffin embedding technique of tissue processing and HE staining-freezing microtomy, microscopy bright field microscope and electron microscope. Cytology-structure of cell organelles and inclusions |
| Histology and histological techniques: Cell division-cell types, tissues and their classification, embryonic and adult tissues, comparative histology of organs-vascular. Nervous, digestive, respiratory |
| Histology and histological techniques: Musculoskeletal and urogenital systems-endocrine glands, integuments, sense organs |
| Embryology: Embryology of vertebrates with special reference to aves and domestic mammals gametogenesis-fertilization, germ layers, foetal membranes and placentation, types of placenta in domestic mammals, teratology, twins and twinning, organogenesis |
| Embryology: Germ layer derivatives-endodermal, mesodermal, and ectodermal derivatives |
| Bovine anatomy: Regional anatomy-paranasal sinuses of OX, surface anatomy of salivary glands. Regional anatomy of infraorbital, maxillary, mandibular alveolar, mental and cornnal nerve block. Regional anatomy of paravertebral nerves, pudendal nerve |
| Bovine anatomy: Median ulnar and radial nerves-tibial, fibular and digital nerves-cranial nerves, structures involved in epidural anesthesia, superficial lymph nodes, surface anatomy of visceral organs of thoracic |
| Bovine anatomy: Abdominal and pelvic cavities-comparative features of locomotor apparatus and their application in the biomechanics of mammalian body |
| Anatomy of fowl: Musculo-skeletal system, functional anatomy in relation to respiration and flying, digestion, and egg production |
Pharmacology and therapeutics drugs |
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| Cellular level of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics |
| Drugs acting on fluids and electrolyte balance |
| Drugs acting on autonomic nervous system |
| Modern concepts of anesthesia and dissociative anaesthetics |
| Autacoids |
| Antimicrobials and principles of chemotherapy in microbial infections |
| Use of hormones in therapeutics-chemotherapy of parasitic infections |
| Drug and economic concerns in the edible tissues of animals-chemotherapy of neoplastic diseases |
| Toxicity due to insecticides, plants, metals, non-metals, zootoxins, and mycotoxins |
Animal diseases |
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| Etiology, epidemiology pathogenesis, symptoms, post-mortem lesions, diagnosis, and control of infectious diseases of cattle, sheep and goat, horses, pigs, and poultry |
| Etiology, epidemiology, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment of production diseases of cattle, horse, pig, and poultry |
| Deficiency diseases of domestic animals and birds |
| Diagnosis and treatment of non-specific conditions like impaction, bloat, diarrhoea, indigestion, dehydration, stroke, poisoning |
Diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders |
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| Principles and methods of immunization of animals against specific diseases-hard immunity, disease free zones, ‘zero’ disease concept, chemoprophylaxis |
| Anesthesia: Local, regional, and general-preanesthetic medication |
| Symptoms and surgical interference in fractures and dislocation |
| Hernia, choking abomasal displacement-caesarian operations |
| Rumenotomy-castrations |
| Disease investigation techniques: Materials for laboratory investigation-establishment. Animal health centers disease free zone |
Veterinary public health |
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| Zoonoses: Classification, definition, role of animals and birds in prevalence and transmission of zoonotic diseases-occupational zoonotic diseases |
| Epidemiology: Principle, definition of epidemiological terms, application of epidemiological measures in the study of diseases and disease control. Epidemiological features of air, water, and food borne infections. OIE regulation, WTO |
| Epidemiology: Sanitary and phytosanitary measures |
| Veterinary jurisprudence: Rules and regulations for improvement of animal quality and prevention of animal diseases, state and central rules for prevention of animal and animal product borne diseases, SPCA, veterolegal cases, certificates |
| Veterinary jurisprudence: Materials and methods of collection of samples for veterolegal investigation |
| Veterinary hygiene with reference to water, air and habitation-assessment of pollution of water, air and soil |
Milk and milk products technology |
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| Market milk: Quality, testing, and grading of raw milk. Processing, packaging, storing, distribution, marketing defects, and their control. Preparation of the following milks: Pasteurized, standardized, toned, double toned, sterilized, homogenized |
| Market milk: Reconstituted, recombined and flavored milks. Preparation of cultured milks, cultures, and their management, yoghurt, dahi, lassi, and shrikhand. Preparation of flavoured and sterilized milks. Legal standards |
| Market milk: Sanitation requirement for clean and safe milk and for the milk plant equipment |
| Milk products technology: Selection of raw materials, processing, storing, distributing, and marketing milk products such as cream, butter, ghee, khoa, channa, cheese, condensed, evaporated, dried milk and baby food, ice cream and kulfi; by-products |
| Milk products technology: Selection of raw materials, processing, storing, distributing, and marketing milk products such as whey products, buttermilk, lactose, and casein. Testing, grading, judging milk products-BIS and agmark specifications |
| Milk products technology: Judging milk products-legal standards, quality control nutritive properties. Packaging processing and operational control. Costing of dairy products |
Meat hygiene |
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| Ante mortem care and management of food animals, stunning, slaughter and dressing operations; abattoir requirements and designs; meat inspection procedures and judgment of carcass meat cuts-grading of carcass meat cuts |
| Duties and functions of veterinarians in wholesome meat production |
| Hygienic methods of handling production of meat: Spoilage of meat and control measures, post-slaughter physicochemical changes in meat and factors that influence them, quality improvement methods, adulteration of meat and detection |
| Hygienic methods of handling production of meat: Regulatory provisions in meat trade and industry |
Meat Technology |
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| Physical and chemical characteristics of meat: Meat emulsions, methods of preservation of meat-curing, canning, irradiation, packaging of meat and meat products, processing and formulations |
| By-products: Slaughter house by-products and their utilization, edible and inedible by products, social and economic implications of proper utilization of slaughterhouse by-products-organ products for food and pharmaceuticals |
| Poultry products technology: Chemical composition and nutritive value of poultry meat, pre-slaughter care and management. Slaughtering techniques, inspection, preservation of poultry meat and products. Legal and BIS standards |
| Structure composition and nutritive value of eggs |
| Microbial spoilage |
| Preservation and maintenance |
| Marketing of poultry meat, eggs, and products |
| Value added meat products |
| Rabbit/ fur animal farming-rabbit meat production |
| Disposal and utilization of fur and wool and recycling of waste by products |
| Grading of wool |
Meaning, scope, and development of anthropology |
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| Relationships with other disciplines: Social sciences, behavioural sciences, life sciences, medical sciences, earth sciences, and humanities |
| Main branches of anthropology, their scope, and relevance: (a) Social-cultural anthropology, (b) biological anthropology, (c) archaeological anthropology, (d) linguistic anthropology |
| Human evolution and emergence of man: (a) Biological and cultural factors in human evolution, (b) theories of organic evolution (pre-Darwinian, Darwinian, and post-Darwinian) |
| Human evolution and emergence of man: (c) Synthetic theory of evolution; brief outline of terms and concepts of evolutionary biology (Doll’s rule, Cope’s rule, Gause’s rule, parallelism, convergence, adaptive radiation, and mosaic evolution) |
Characteristics of primates |
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| Evolutionary trend and primate taxonomy; primate adaptations; (arboreal and terrestrial) primate taxonomy; primate behaviour; tertiary and quaternary fossil primates; living major primates; comparative anatomy of man and apes |
| Skeletal changes due to erect posture and its implications |
| Phylogenetic status, characteristics, and geographical distribution of the following: (a) Plio-preleistocene hominids in south and east African-Australopithecines. (b) Homo erectus: Africa (Paranthropus), Europe (homo erectus (Heidelbergensis) |
| Phylogenetic status, characteristics, and geographical distribution of the following: (b) Homo erectus: Asia (homo erectus Javanicus, Homo erectus Pekinensis. (c) Neanderthal man-La-Chapelle-Aux-Saints (classical type), MT. Carmel (progressive type) |
| Phylogenetic status, characteristics, and geographical distribution of the following: (d) Rhodesian man. (e) Homo sapiens: Cro-Magnon, Grimaldi, and Chancelade |
| The biological basis of life: the cell, DNA structure and Replication, Protein synthesis, Gene, Mutation, Chromosomes, and Cell division |
| Principles of prehistoric archaeology |
| Chronology: relative and absolute dating methods |
| Cultural evolution-broad outlines of prehistoric cultures: (i) Paleolithic, (ii) Mesolithic, (iii) Neolithic, (iv) Chalcolithic, (v) Copper-bronze age, (vi) Iron age |
The nature of culture |
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| The concept and characteristics of culture and civilization; ethnocentrism vis-a-vis cultural relativism |
| The nature of society: Concept of society; society and culture; social institution; social groups; and social stratification |
| Marriage: Definition and universality; laws of marriage (endogamy, exogamy, hypergamy, hypogamy, incest taboo); type of marriage (monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, group marriage). Functions of marriage |
| Marriage: Marriage regulations (preferential, prescriptive and proscriptive); marriage payments (bride wealth and dowry) |
| Family: Definition and universality; family, household and domestic groups; functions of family; types of family (from the perspectives of structure, blood relation, marriage, residence and succession); impact of urbanization |
| Family: Industrialization and feminist movements on family |
| Kinship: Consanguinity and affinity; principles and types of descent (unilineal, double, bilateral ambilineal); forms of descent groups (lineage, clan, phratry, moiety and kindred); kinship terminology (descriptive and classificatory); descent |
| Kinship: Filiation and complementary filiation; decent and alliance |
Economic organization |
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| Meaning, scope, and relevance of economic anthropology; formalist and substantivist debate; principles governing production, distribution and exchange (reciprocity, redistribution and market), in communities, subsisting on hunting and gathering, fishing |
| Swiddening, pastoralism, horticulture, and agriculture; globalization and indigenous economic systems |
| Political organization and social control: Band, tribe, chiefdom, kingdom and state; concepts of power, authority and legitimacy; social control, law, and justice in simple societies |
| Religion: Anthropological approaches to the study of religion (evolutionary, psychological and functional); monotheism and polytheism; sacred and profane; myths and rituals |
| Religion: Forms of religion in tribal and peasant societies (animism, animatism, fetishism, naturism, and totemism); religion, magic, and science distinguished; magico-religious functionaries (priest, shaman, medicine man, sorcerer, and witch) |
Anthropological theories |
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| Classical evolutionism (Tylor, Morgan, and Frazer) |
| Diffusionism (British, German, and American) |
| Functionalism (Malinowski); Structural-functionalism (Radcliffe-Brown) |
| Structuralism (Levi-Strauss and E. Leach) |
| Culture and personality (Benedict, Mead, Linton, Kardiner and Cora-Dubois) |
| Neoevolutionism (Childe, White, Steward, Sahlins, and service) |
| Cultural materialism (Harris) |
Research methods in anthropology |
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| Fieldwork tradition in anthropology |
| Distinction between technique, method, and methodology |
| Tools of data collection: observation, interview, schedules, questionnaire, Case study, genealogy, life-history, oral history, secondary sources of information, participatory methods |
| Analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data |
Human genetics |
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| Methods and application: Methods for study of genetic principles in man-family study (pedigree analysis, twin study, foster child, co-twin method, cytogenetic method, chromosomal and karyotype analysis), biochemical methods, immunological methods |
| Methods and application: DNA technology and recombinant technologies |
| Mendelian genetics in man-family study, single factor, multifactor, lethal, sublethal, and polygenic inheritance in man |
| Concept of genetic polymorphism and selection, Mendelian population, Hardy-Weinberg law; causes and changes which bring down frequency-mutation, isolation, migration, selection, inbreeding, and genetic drift |
| Consanguineous and non consanguineous mating, genetic load, genetic effect of consanguineous and cousin marriages |
| Chromosomes and chromosomal aberrations in man, methodology: (i) Numerical and structural aberrations (disorders), (ii) sex chromosomal aberration-klinefelter (XXY), turner (XO), super female (XXX), intersex, and other syndromic disorders |
| Chromosomes and chromosomal aberrations in man, methodology: (iii) Autosomal aberrations-Down syndrome, Patau, Edward, and Cri-Du-Chat syndromes, (iv) genetic imprints in human disease, genetic screening, genetic counseling, human DNA profiling |
| Chromosomes and chromosomal aberrations in man, methodology: (iv) Gene mapping and genome study |
Concept of human growth and development |
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| Stages of growth-prenatal, natal, infant, childhood, adolescence, maturity, senescence |
| Factors affecting growth and development genetic, environmental, biochemical, nutritional, cultural, and socioeconomic |
| Ageing and senescence |
| Theories and observations-biological and chronological longevity |
| Human physique and somatotypes |
| Methodologies for growth studies |
| Relevance of menarche, menopause, and other bioevents to fertility |
| Fertility patterns and differentials |
| Biological and socioecological factors influencing fecundity, fertility, natality, and mortality |
| Applications of anthropology: Anthropology of sports, nutritional anthropology, anthropology in designing of defence and other equipments, forensic anthropology, methods and principles of personal identification and reconstruction |
| Applications of anthropology: Applied human genetics-paternity diagnosis, genetic counseling and eugenics, DNA technology in diseases and medicine, serogenetics and cytogenetics in reproductive biology |
Evolution of the Indian culture and civilization |
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| Prehistoric (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Neolithic-Chalcolithic). Protohistoric (Indus civilization): Pre-Harappan, Harappan, and post-Harappan cultures. Contributions of the tribal cultures to Indian civilization |
| Palaeo: Anthropological evidences from India with special reference to Siwaliks and Narmada basin (Ramapithecus, Sivapithecus, and Narmada man) |
| Ethno-archaeology in India: The concept of ethnoarchaeology; survivals and parallels among the hunting, foraging, fishing, pastoral and peasant communities including arts and crafts producing communities |
Emergence, growth and development in India |
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| Contributions of indian anthropologists to tribal and caste studies |
| Demographic profile of India-ethnic and linguistic elements in the Indian population and their distribution |
| Indian population-factors influencing its structure and growth |
The structure and nature of traditional Indian social system |
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| Varnashrama, Purushartha, Karma, Rina, and rebirth |
| Caste system in India-structure and characteristics, Varna and caste, theories of origin of caste system, dominant caste, caste mobility, future of caste system, jajmani system, tribe-caste continuum |
| Sacred complex and nature-man-spirit complex |
Indian village |
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| Significance of village study in India; Indian village as a social system; traditional and changing patterns of settlement and inter-caste relations; agrarian relations in Indian villages; impact of globalization on Indian villages |
| Linguistic and religious minorities and their social, political, and economic status |
| Indigenous and exogenous processes of socio-cultural change in Indian society: Sanskritization, westernization, modernization; inter-play of little and great traditions; Panchayati raj and social change; media and social change |
Tribal situation in India |
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| Biogenetic variability, linguistic, and socioeconomic characteristics of the tribal populations, and their distribution |
| Problems of the tribal communities: Land alienation, poverty, indebtedness, low literacy, poor educational facilities, unemployment, under-employment, health, and nutrition |
| Developmental projects and their impact on tribal displacement and problems of rehabilitation |
| Development of forest policy and tribals |
| Impact of urbanization and industrialization on tribal populations |
Problems of exploitation and deprivation of scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and other backward classes |
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| Constitutional safeguards for scheduled tribes and scheduled castes |
| Social change and contemporary tribal societies: Impact of modern democratic institutions, development programmes and welfare measures on tribals and weaker sections |
| The concept of ethnicity; ethnic conflicts and political developments; unrest among tribal communities; regionalism and demand for autonomy; pseudo tribalism |
| Social change among the tribes during colonial and post-independent india |
Impact of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and other religions on Indian society tribal societies |
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| Tribe and nation state-a comparative study of tribal communities in India and other countries |
| History of administration of tribal areas, tribal policies, plans, programmes of tribal development and their implementation |
| The concept of PTGs (primitive tribal groups), their distribution, special programmers for their development |
| Role of NGOS in tribal development |
Role of anthropology in tribal and rural development |
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| Contributions of anthropology to the understanding of regionalism, communalism, and ethnic and political movements |
Microbiology and plant pathology |
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| Structure and reproduction/ multiplication of viruses, viroids, bacteriophage, bacteria, fungi, and mycoplasma; applications of microbiology in agriculture, industry, medicine, and in control of soil and water pollution; prion and prion hypothesis |
| Conjugation |
| General account of crop diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, mycoplasma, fungi, and nematodes; modes of infection and dissemination; molecular basis of infection and disease resistance/ defence; physiology of parasitism and control measures |
| Fungal toxins; modeling and disease forecasting; plant quarantine |
Cryptogams and phanerogams |
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| Algae, fungi, lichens, bryophytes, pteridophytes-structure and reproduction from evolutionary viewpoint; distribution of cryptogams in India and their ecological and economic importance |
| Gymnosperms: Concept of progymnosperms; classification and distribution of gymnosperms; salient features of cycadales, ginkgoales, coniferales, and gnetales, their structure, and reproduction; general account of cycadofilicales |
| Gymnosperms: Bennettitales and cordaitales; geological time scale; type of fossils and their study techniques |
Plant systematic |
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| Angiosperms: Systematic, anatomy, embryology, palynology, and phylogeny. Taxonomic hierarchy; international code of botanical nomenclature; numerical taxonomy and chemotaxonomy; evidence from anatomy, embryology, and palynology |
Families of Angiosperms |
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| Origin and evolution of angiosperms; natural, phylogenetic and modern systems of classification comparative account; study of angiospermic families-magnoliaceae, ranunculaceae, brassicaceae, rosaceae, fabaceae, euphorbiaceae, malvaceae |
| Study of angiospermic families-dipterocarpaceae, apiaceae, asclepiadaceae, verbenaceae, solanaceae, rubiaceae, cucurbitaceae, asteraceae, poaceae, arecaceae, liliaceae, musaceae, and orchidaceae |
Plant Development |
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| Development of male and female gametophytes, pollination, fertilization; endosperm-its development and function; patterns of embryo development; polyembryony, apomixis; applications of palynology; experimental embryology including pollen storage |
Economic botany |
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| Domestication and introduction of plants; origin of cultivated plants; Vavilov’s centers of origin; plants as sources for food, fodder, fibers, spices, beverages, edible oils, drugs, narcotics, insecticides, timber, gums, resins and dyes, latex |
| Plants as sources for cellulose, starch and its products; perfumery; importance of ethnobotany in Indian context; energy plantations, botanical gardens, and herbaria |
Morphogenesis |
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| Totipotency, polarity, symmetry, and differentiation; cell, tissue, organ, and protoplast culture; somatic hybrids and cybrids; micropropagation; somaclonal variation and its applications; pollen haploids, embryo rescue methods and their applications |
Plant anatomy |
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| Stomata and their types; glandular and non-glandular trichomes; unusual secondary growth; anatomy of C3 and C4 plants; xylem and phloem differentiation; wood anatomy |
Cell biology |
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| Techniques of cell biology; prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells-structural and ultrastructural details; structure and function of extracellular matrix (cell wall), membranes-cell adhesion, membrane transport and vesicular transport |
| Structure and function of cell organelles (chloroplasts, mitochondria, ER, dictyosomes ribosomes, endosomes, lysosomes, peroxisomes); cytoskeleton and microtubules; nucleus, nucleolus, nuclear pore complex; chromatin and nucleosome |
| Cell signaling and cell receptors; signal transduction mitosis and meiosis; molecular basis of cell cycle; numerical and structural variations in chromosomes and their significance; chromatin organization and packaging of genome |
| Polygene chromosomes; B-chromosomes-structure, behaviour and significance |
Genetics, molecular biology, and evolution |
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| Development of genetics; gene versus allele concepts (pseudoalleles); quantitative genetics and multiple factors; incomplete dominance, polygenic inheritance, multiple alleles; linkage and crossing over; methods of gene mapping |
| Including molecular maps (idea of mapping, function); sex chromosomes and sex-linked inheritance; sex determination and molecular basis of sex differentiation; mutations (biochemical and molecular basis); cytoplasmic inheritance and male sterility |
| Structure of nucleic acids and proteins; genetic code protein synthesis regulation of gene expression; gene silencing; multigene families; organic evolution-evidences, mechanism, and theories |
| Role of rna in origin and evolution |
Ecology |
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| Concept of ecosystem; ecological factors; concepts and dynamics of community; plant succession; concept of biosphere; ecosystems; conservation; pollution and its control (including phytoremediation); plant indicators; environment (protection) act |
| Forest types of India-ecological and economic importance of forests, afforestation, deforestation, and social forestry |
Environment and Conservation |
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| Endangered plants, endemism, IUCN categories, red data books; biodiversity and its conservation; protected area network; convention on biological diversity; farmers’ rights and intellectual property rights; concept of sustainable development |
| Biogeochemical cycles; global warming and climatic change; invasive species; environmental impact assessment; phytogeographical regions of India |
Plant Breeding and Biotechnology |
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| Methods of plant breeding-introduction, selection, and hybridization (pedigree, backcross, mass selection, bulk method); mutation, polyploidy, male sterility, and heterosis breeding; use of apomixis in plant breeding; DNA sequencing |
| Genetic engineering-methods of transfer of genes; transgenic crops and biosafety aspects; development and use of molecular markers in plant breeding; tools and techniques-probe, southern blotting, DNA fingerprinting, PCR and FISH |
Biostatistics |
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| Standard deviation and coefficient of variation (CV); tests of significance (Z-test, t-test, and chi-square tests); probability and distributions (normal, binomial, and Poisson); correlation and regression |
Plant physiology |
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| Water relations, mineral nutrition and ion transport, mineral deficiencies; photosynthesis-photochemical reactions; photophosphorylation and carbon fixation pathways; C₃, C₄, and CAM pathways; mechanism of phloem transport; plant movements |
| Photoperiodism and flowering, vernalization, senescence; growth substances-their chemical nature, role and applications in agri-horticulture; growth indices, growth movements; stress physiology (heat, water, salinity, metal); fruit and seed physiology |
| Dormancy, storage and germination of seed; fruit ripening-its molecular basis and manipulation |
Biochemistry |
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| Respiration (anaerobic and aerobic, including fermentation)-electron transport chain and oxidative phosphorylation; photorespiration; chemiosmotic theory and ATP synthesis; lipid metabolism; nitrogen fixation and nitrogen metabolism; enzymes, coenzymes |
Physiology and biochemistry |
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| Energy transfer and energy conservation; secondary metabolites; pigments as photoreceptors (plastidial pigments and phytochrome) |
Solid state chemistry |
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| Classification of solids, seven crystal systems, elements of symmetry in crystals, space lattice and unit cell, classification of crystals on the basis of bond types, Ionic solids, metallic solids and molecular solids |
| The close packing of spheres, hexagonal close packing, cubic close packing and body centered cubic packing, coordination number and radius ratio effects |
| Bragg’s law of X-ray diffraction, powder pattern method, crystal structure of NaCl, KCl, ZnS, CsCl, and CaF |
| Phase equilibrium: Phases, components, degrees of freedom, phase diagram of one and two component systems, Nernst distribution law, applications of distribution law |
The gaseous state and transport phenomenon |
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| Equation of state for real gases, intermolecular interactions, and critical phenomena and liquefaction of gases; Maxwell’s distribution law of molecular velocities, evaluation of average RMS |
| Most probable velocity and average kinetic energy from Maxwell equation |
| Degrees of freedom, principle of equipartition of energy and molecular basis of heat capacity |
| Thermodynamics: Work, heat, and internal energy; first law of thermodynamics. Second law of thermodynamics; entropy as a state function, entropy changes in various processes, entropy-reversibility, and irreversibility, free energy functions |
| Thermodynamics: Thermodynamic equation of state; Maxwell relations; temperature, volume, and pressure dependence of U, H, A, G, Cp, and Cv, a and a; J-T effect and inversion temperature; criteria for equilibrium |
| Thermodynamics: Relation between equilibrium constant and thermodynamic quantities; Nernst heat theorem, introductory idea of third law of thermodynamics |
Surface chemistry |
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| Stability and origin of charge on colloids, electrokinetic potential |
| Physical and chemical adsorption, various types of adsorption isotherms, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, enzyme catalysis (Michaelis-Menten) equation |
| Electrochemistry: Debye-Hückel theory of strong electrolytes and Debye-Hückel limiting law for various equilibrium and transport properties. Galvanic cells, concentration cells; electrochemical series |
| Electrochemistry: Measurement of EMF of cells and its applications fuel cells and batteries. Processes at electrodes; double layer at the interface; rate of charge transfer, current density; over potential |
| Electrochemistry: Electroanalytical techniques-amperometry, ion selective electrodes and their use |
Chemical kinetics |
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| Differential and integral rate equations for zeroth, first, second, and fractional order reactions; rate equations involving reverse, parallel, consecutive, and chain reactions; branching chain and explosions |
| Effect of temperature and pressure on rate constant; study of fast reactions by stop-flow and relaxation methods; collisions and transition state theories |
| Photochemistry: Absorption of light; decay of excited state by different routes; photochemical reactions between hydrogen and halogens, and their quantum yields |
Atomic structure |
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| Bohr model and its limitations, De Broglie equation, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, quantum mechanical operators and the Schrodinger wave equation (time dependent) |
| Physical significance of wave function and its characteristics (normalized, orthogonal), radial distribution and shapes of s, p, d, and f orbitals |
| Particle in one dimensional box, quantization of electronic energies (qualitative treatment of hydrogen atom) |
| Pauli’s exclusion principle, Hund’s rule of maximum multiplicity, Aufbau principle, electronic configuration of atoms, long form of periodic table including Translawrencium elements |
| Periodicity in properties of the elements such as atomic and ionic radii, ionization potential, electron affinity, electronegativity and hydration energy |
| Nuclear and radiation chemistry: Structure of nucleus (shell model), nuclear forces, nuclear stability-N/P ratio, nuclear binding energy, detection and measurement of radioactivity, artificial transmutation of elements and nuclear reactions |
| Nuclear and radiation chemistry: Nuclear fission and fusion, radioactive isotopes and their applications, radiocarbon dating, units of radioactivity |
Chemical bonding |
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| Ionic bond, characteristics of ionic compounds, lattice energy, Born-Haber cycle; covalent bond and its general characteristics, polarities of bonds in molecules and their dipole moments; valence bond theory (Heitler-London and Pauling-Slater-theories) |
| Hybridization, VSEPR theory and shapes of simple inorganic molecules, molecular orbital theory, bonding, non-bonding molecular orbitals, molecular orbital energy |
| Lever diagrams for homo and heteronuclear diatomic molecules |
| Bond order and bond length and bond strength |
| Sigma and pi-bonds, hydrogen bond |
| Bioinorganic chemistry: Essential and trace elements in biological processes, metalloporphyrins with special reference to haemoglobin and myoglobin, biological role of alkali and alkaline earth metal ions with special reference to Ca2+ |
Chemistry of s- and p-block elements |
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| General properties of s- and p-block elements, chemical reactivity of elements and group trends |
| Chemical behaviour with respect to their hybrids, halides, and oxides |
| Chemistry of transition elements: General characteristics, variable oxidation states, complex formation, colour, magnetic and catalytic properties. Comparative study of 4d and 5d transition elements with 3d analogues with respect to their ionic radii |
| Chemistry of transition elements: Oxidation states and magnetic properties |
Chemistry of lanthanides and actinides |
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| Lanthanide contraction, oxidation states, principles of separation of lanthanides and actinides, magnetic and spectral properties of their compounds |
| Coordination chemistry: Preparation, properties and uses of the following-(a) inorganic compounds: Heavy water, boric acid, diborane, hydrazine, hydroxylamine, potassium dichromate, potassium permanganate, Ce (IV) sulphate, and Ti (III) sulphate |
| Coordination chemistry: Preparation, properties and uses of the following-(b) polymers: Molecular weight of polymers by sedimentation, light scattering, viscosity and osmotic pressure. Number average and weight average molecular weights |
| Coordination chemistry: Preparation, properties and uses of the following-(b) polymers: Elasticity and crystallinity of polymers. (c) Borazines: Silicates and silicones and phosphonitrilic halide polymers |
Delocalised covalent bonding |
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| Aromaticity, anti-aromaticity; annulenes, azulenes, tropolones, kekulene, fulvenes, sydnones |
| Reactions and rearrangements: (a) Pinacol-pinacolone, Hoffmann, Beckmann, Baeyer-Villiger, Favorskii, Fries, Claisen, Cope, Stevens and Wagner-Meerwein rearrangements. (b) Aldol condensation, Claisen condensation, Dieckmann, Perkin, Knoevenagel, Witting |
| Reactions and rearrangements: (b) Clemmensen, Wolff-Kishner, Cannizzaro, and von Richter reactions; Stobbe, benzoin and acyloin condensations; Fischer indole synthesis, Skraup synthesis, Bischler-Napieralski, Sandmeyer |
| Reactions and rearrangements: (b) Reimer-Tiemann and Reformatsky reactions |
Reaction mechanisms |
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| General methods (both kinetic and non-kinetic) of study of mechanism or organic reactions illustrated by examples, use of isotopes, cross-over experiment, intermediate trapping, stereochemistry; energy diagrams of simple organic reactions |
| Transition states and intermediates; energy of activation; thermodynamic control and kinetic control of reactions |
| Reactive intermediates: Generation, geometry, stability and reactions of carbonium and carbonium ions, carbanions, free radicals, carbenes, benzynes, and niternes |
| Substitution reactions: SN1, SN2, SNi, SN1/, SN2/, SNi/, and SRN1 mechanisms; neighbouring group participation; electrophilic and nucleophilic reactions of aromatic compound including simple heterocyclic compounds¡-pyrrole, furan thiophene and indole |
| Elimination reactions: E1, E2, and E1cb mechanism; orientation in E2 reactions-Saytzeff and Hofmann; pyrolytic syn elimination-acetate pyrolysis, Chugaev and Cope eliminations |
| Addition reactions: Electrophilic addition to C=C and C=C; nucleophilic addition to C=O, C=N, conjugated olefins and carbonyls |
Pericyclic reactions |
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| Classification and examples; Woodward Hoffmann rules¡-electrocyclic reactions, cycloaddition reactions [2+2 and 4+2] and sigmatropic shifts [1, 3; 3, 3, and 1, 5] FMO approach |
Preparation and properties of polymers |
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| Organic polymers polythene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, Teflon, nylon, terylene, synthetic and natural rubber |
| Biopolymers; structure of proteins, DNA and RNA |
Synthetic uses of reagents |
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| OsO4, HIO4, CrO3, Pb(OAc)4, SeO2, NBS, B2H6, Na-Liquid NH3, LiA1H4 NaBH4 n-BuLi, MCPBA |
Photochemistry |
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| Photochemical reactions of simple organic compounds, excited and ground states, singlet and triplet states, Norrish-Type I and Type II reactions |
Spectroscopy |
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| Principle and applications in structure elucidation: (i) Rotational-diatomic molecules; isotopic substitution and rotational constants. (ii) Vibrational-diatomic molecules, linear triatomic molecules |
| Principle and applications in structure elucidation: (ii) Specific frequencies of functional groups in polyatomic molecules. (iii) Raman spectra: Raman effect, Stokes and anti-Stokes lines, and their intensity difference, rules of mutual exclusion |
Electronic |
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| Singlet and triplet states |
| N¡V>¡Vƒá* and ƒá>* transitions; application to conjugated double bonds and conjugated carbonyls Woodward-Fieser rules; charge transfer spectra |
| Nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR): Basic principle; chemical shift and spin interaction and coupling constants |
| Mass spectrometry: Parent peak, base peak, metastable peak, McLafferty rearrangement |
Engineering mechanics, strength of materials, and structural analysis |
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| Engineering mechanics: Units and dimensions, SI units, vectors, concept of force, concept of particle and rigid body. Concurrent, non-concurrent and parallel forces in a plane, moment of force free body diagram, conditions of equilibrium |
| Engineering mechanics: Principle of virtual work, equivalent force system. First and second moment of area, mass moment of inertia. Static friction. Kinematics and kinetics: kinematics in Cartesian coordinates |
| Engineering mechanics: Kinematics and kinetics-motion under uniform and non-uniform acceleration, motion under gravity. Kinetics of particle: Momentum and energy principles, collision of elastic bodies, rotation of rigid bodies |
Strength of materials |
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| Simple stress and strain, elastic constants, axially loaded compression members, shear force, and bending moment, theory of simple bending, shear stress distribution across cross sections, beams of uniform strength |
| Deflection of beams: Macaulay's method, Mohr’s moment area method, conjugate beam method, unit load method. Torsion of shafts, elastic stability of columns, Euler’s, Rankine’s, and Secant formula |
Structural analysis |
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| Castigliano’s theorems I and II, unit load method, of consistent deformation applied to beams and pin jointed trusses |
| Slope-deflection, moment distribution, rolling loads and influences lines: Influences lines for shear force and bending moment at a section of a beam |
| Criteria for maximum shear force and bending moment in beams traversed by a system of moving loads |
| Influences lines for simply supported plane pin jointed trusses |
| Arches: Three hinged, two hinged, and fixed arches, rib shortening, and temperature effects. Matrix methods of analysis: Force method and displacement method of analysis of indeterminate beams and rigid frames |
| Plastic analysis of beams and frames: theory of plastic bending, plastic analysis, statical method, mechanism method |
| Unsymmetrical bending: Moment of inertia, product of inertia, position of neutral axis and principal axes, calculation of bending stresses |
Design of structures: Steel, concrete, and masonry structures |
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| Structural steel design: Structural steel-factors of safety and load factors. Riveted, bolted, and welded joints and connections. Design of tension and compression members, beams of built up section, riveted and welded plate girders, gantry girders |
| Structural steel design: Structural steel-stancheons with battens and lacings |
| Design of concrete and masonry structures: Concept of mix design. Reinforced concrete: Working stress and limit state method of design-recommendations of IS codes. Design of one way and two way slabs, staircase slabs |
| Design of concrete and masonry structures: Simple and continuous beams of rectangular, T and L sections. Compression members under direct load with or without eccentricity. Cantilever and counterfort type retaining walls |
| Water tanks: Design requirements for rectangular and circular tanks resting on ground |
| Prestressed concrete: Methods and systems of prestressing, anchorages, analysis and design of sections for flexure based on working stress, loss of prestress. Design of brick masonry as per IS codes |
Fluid mechanics, open channel flow, and hydraulic machines |
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| Fluid mechanics: Fluid properties and their role in fluid motion, fluid statics including forces acting on plane and curve surfaces |
| Kinematics and dynamics of fluid flow: Velocity and accelerations, stream lines, equation of continuity, irrigational and rotational flow, velocity potential and stream functions. Continuity, momentum, energy equation, Navier stokes equation |
| Kinematics and dynamics of fluid flow: Euler’s equation of motion, application to fluid flow problems, pipe flow, sluice gates, weirs |
| Dimensional analysis and similitude: Buckingham’s Pi-theorem, dimensionless parameters |
| Laminar flow: Laminar flow between parallel, stationary and moving plates, flow through tube |
Boundary layer |
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| Laminar and turbulent boundary layer on a flat plate, laminar sublayer, smooth and rough boundaries, drag and lift |
| Turbulent flow through pipes: characteristics of turbulent flow, velocity distribution and variation of pipe friction factor, hydraulic grade line and total energy line |
| Open channel flow: Uniform and non-uniform flows, momentum and energy correction factors, specific energy, and specific force, critical depth, rapidly varied flow, hydraulic jump, gradually varied flow, classification of surface profiles, control section |
| Open channel flow: Step method of integration of varied flow equation |
Hydraulic machines and hydropower |
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| Hydraulic turbines, types classification, choice of turbines performance parameters, controls, characteristics, specific speed |
| Principles of hydropower development |
Geotechnical engineering |
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| Soil type and structure-gradation and particle size distribution, consistency limits |
| Water in soil-capillary and structural, effective stress and pore water pressure, permeability concept, field and laboratory determination of permeability, seepage pressure, quick sand conditions, shear strength determination, Mohr coulomb concept |
| Compaction of soil-laboratory and field test |
| Compressibility and consolidation concept-consolidation theory, consolidation settlement analysis |
| Earth pressure theory and analysis for retaining walls, application for sheet piles and braced excavation |
| Bearing capacity of soil-approaches for analysis, field tests, settlement analysis, stability of slope of earth walk |
| Subsurface exploration of soils-methods, foundation, type and selection criteria for foundation of structures, design criteria for foundation, analysis of distribution of stress for footings and pile, pile group action, pile load test |
| Ground improvement techniques |
Construction technology, equipment, planning, and management |
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| Construction technology: Engineering materials-physical properties of construction materials with respect to their use in construction-stones, bricks, and tiles; lime, cement, different types of mortars and concrete. Specific use of ferro cement |
| Construction technology: Engineering materials-fiber reinforced CC, high strength concrete. Timber, properties defects-common preservation treatments. Use and selection of materials for specific use like low cost housing, mass housing, high rise buildings |
| Construction: Masonry principles using brick, stone, blocks-construction detailing and strength characteristics. Types of plastering, pointing, flooring, roofing, and construction features. Common repairs in buildings |
| Construction: Principle of functional planning of building for residents and specific use-building code provisions. Basic principles of detailed and approximate estimating-specification writing and rate analysis-principles of valuation of real property |
| Construction: Machinery for earthwork, concreting and their specific uses-factors affecting selection of equipments, operating cost of equipments |
Construction planning and management |
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| Construction activity-schedules, organization for construction industry, quality assurance principles |
| Use basic principle of network-analysis in form of CPM and PERT, their use in construction monitoring, cost optimization and resource allocation |
| Basic principles of economic analysis and methods |
| Project profitability-basic principles of boot approach to financial planning-simple toll fixation criterions |
Surveying and transportation engineering |
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| Surveying: Common methods and instruments for distance and angle measurement for CE work-their use in plane table, traverse survey, levelling work, triangulation, contouring and topographical map. Basic principles of photogrammetry and remote sensing |
Railways engineering |
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| Permanent way: Components, types and their functions, function and design constituents of turn and crossing, necessity of geometric design of track, design of station and yards |
| Highway engineering: Principles of highway alignments-classification and geometrical design elements and standards for Roads. Pavement structure for flexible and rigid pavements-design principles and methodology of pavements |
| Highway engineering: Typical construction methods and standards of materials for stabilized soil, WBM, bituminous works and CC roads. Surface and sub-surface drainage arrangements for roads-culvert structures |
| Highway engineering: Pavement distresses and strengthening by overlays. Traffic surveys and their application in traffic planning-typical design features for channelized, intersection rotary, etc-signal designs, standard traffic signs, and markings |
Hydrology, water resources, and engineering |
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| Hydrology: Hydrological cycle, precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, overland flow, hydrograph, flood frequency analysis, flood routing through a reservoir, channel flow routing-Muskingum method |
| Groundwater flow: Specific yield, storage coefficient, coefficient of permeability, confined and unconfined aquifers, aquifers, aquitards, radial flow into a well under confined and unconfined conditions |
| Water resources engineering: Ground and surface water resources, single and multipurpose projects, storage capacity of reservoirs, reservoir losses, reservoir sedimentation |
Irrigation engineering |
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| Water requirements of crop: Consumptive use, duty and delta, irrigation methods and their efficiencies |
| Canals: Distribution systems for canal irrigation, canal capacity, canal losses, alignment of main and distributary canals, most efficient section, lined canals, their design, regime theory, critical shear stress, bed load |
| Water logging: causes and control, salinity |
| Canal structures: Design of head regulators, canal falls, aqueducts, metering flumes and canal outlets |
| Diversion head work: Principles and design of weirs on permeable and impermeable foundation, Khosla’s theory, energy dissipation |
| Storage works: Types of dams, design, principles of rigid gravity stability analysis |
| Spillways: spillway types, energy dissipation |
| River training: objectives of river training, methods of river training |
Environmental engineering |
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| Water supply: Predicting demand for water, impurities of water and their significance, physical, chemical and bacteriological analysis, waterborne diseases, standards for potable water |
| Intake of water: Water treatment-principles of coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation; slow, rapid, pressure, filters; chlorination, softening, removal of taste, odour, and salinity |
| Sewerage systems: Domestic and industrial wastes, store sewage-separate and combined systems, flow through sewers, design of sewers |
| Sewage characterization: BOD, COD, solids, dissolved oxygen, nitrogen and TOC. Standards of disposal in normal water course and on land |
| Sewage treatment: Working principles, units, chambers, sedimentation tank, trickling filters, oxidation ponds, activated sludge process, septic tank, disposal of sludge, recycling of waste water |
| Solid waste: collection and disposal in rural and urban contexts, management of long-term ill effects |
Environmental pollution |
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| Sustainable development |
| Radioactive wastes and disposal |
| Environmental impact assessment for thermal power plants, mines, river valley projects |
| Air pollution |
| Pollution control acts |
Financial accounting |
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| Accounting as a financial information system; impact of behavioural sciences |
| Accounting standards example accounting for depreciation, inventories, fixed assets, contingencies, foreign exchange transactions, investments and government grants, cash flow statement, funds flow statements, earnings per share |
| Issues of shares; (pro-rata allotment); forfeiture of shares; re-issue of shares; preparation and presentation of company final accounts |
| Amalgamation, absorption, and reconstruction of companies |
Cost accounting |
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| Nature and functions of cost accounting |
| Installation of cost accounting system |
| Cost concepts related to income measurement, profit planning, cost control and decision making |
| Methods of costing: Job costing, process costing, activity based costing. Volume-cost-profit relationship as a tool of profit planning. Preparation of cost sheet |
Taxation |
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| Income tax: definitions; basis of charge; incomes which do not form part of total income |
| Income tax: Simple problems of computation of income (of individuals only) under various heads, that is, salaries, income from house property, profits and gains from business or profession, income of other persons included in assessee’s total income |
| Income tax: Set-off and carry forward of loss. Deductions from gross total income. Salient features/ provisions related to vat and services tax |
Auditing |
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| Audit: meaning, objectives, classification of audit |
| Audit programme: Preparation, advantages, and disadvantages. Internal control, internal check, and internal audit. Appointment, removal, remuneration, powers, and duties of company auditor |
| Audit programme: Audit of non-profit organizations and charitable societies/ trusts/ organizations |
Finance Function |
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| Nature, scope, and objectives of financial management: Risk and return relationship |
| Tools of financial analysis: Ratio analysis, funds-flow, and cash-flow statement |
| Capital budgeting decisions: Process, procedures, and appraisal methods. Risk and uncertainty analysis and methods |
Financing Decisions |
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| Theories of capital structure-net income (NI) approach, net operating income (NOI) approach, MM approach and traditional approach |
| Designing of capital structure: Types of leverages (operating, financial and combined), EBIT-EPS analysis, and other factors |
| Working capital management: Planning of working capital. Determinants of working capital. Components of working capital-cash, inventory, and receivables |
Indian financial system |
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| An overview-the Indian financial system on the eve of planning and in the post 1950 period; structure of Indian financial system and its impact on economic development |
| Money markets: Participants, structure, and instruments. Commercial banks. Reforms in banking sector. Monetary and credit policy of RBI. RBI as a regulator |
| Capital market: Primary and secondary market. Financial market instruments and innovative debt instruments; SEBI as a regulator |
Financial Services |
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| Mutual funds, venture capital, credit rating agencies, insurance, and IRDA |
| Development banks and other non-banking financial institutions: SIDBI; IFCI; NABARD; LIC; EXIM banks-their evolution and growth |
Evolution of organization theory |
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| Classical, neoclassical, and systems approach |
| Nature and concept of organization; external environment of organizations-technological, social, political, economical, and legal; organizational goals-primary and secondary goals, single and multiple goals; management by objectives |
| Organizing: Principles of organization; departmentation; staffing: Nature and importance; process of recruitment and selection |
Modern concepts of organization theory |
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| Organizational design, organizational structure |
| Designing organizational structures-authority and control; line and staff functions, specialization and coordination |
| Types of organization structure-functional |
| Matrix structure, project structure |
| Nature and basis of power, sources of power, power structure, and politics |
| Impact of information technology on organizational design and structure |
Meaning and concept, individual in organizations |
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| Personality, theories, and determinants; perception-meaning and process |
| Motivation: Concepts, theories (Maslow, Herzberg), and applications |
| Leadership-theories and styles |
Management of Conflicts in Organizations |
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| Transactional analysis, organizational effectiveness, management of change |
| Directing: Meaning and nature; communication: Nature and process, barriers to communication |
Meaning, nature, and scope of HRM |
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| Human resource planning, job analysis, job description, job specification, recruitment process, selection process, orientation and placement, training and development process |
Performance appraisal and 360° feedback |
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| Salary and wage administration, job evaluation, employee welfare, promotions, transfers and separations |
| Compensation |
Meaning, nature, importance, and scope of IR |
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| Formation of trade unions, trade union legislation, trade union movement in India |
| Recognition of trade unions, problems of trade unions in India |
| Impact of liberalization on trade union movement |
| Nature of industrial disputes: Strikes and lockouts, causes of disputes, prevention, and settlement of disputes |
Workers participation in management |
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| Philosophy, rationale, present day status and future prospects |
| Salient features of minimum wages act, 1984: Enforcement and objectives of the act; fixation, revision and payment of minimum wages |
| The consumer protection act, 1986: Salient features, definitions of consumer; grievance redressal machinery; RTI and its applications |
Advanced microeconomics |
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| Marshallian and varrasiam approaches to price determination, consumer’s behaviour, alternative distribution theories; Ricardo, Kaldor, Kaleeki, markets structure: Monopolistic competition, duopoly, oligopoly, perfect competition |
| Modern welfare criteria: Pareto Hicks and Scitovsky, Arrow’s impossibility theorem, A.K. Sen’s social welfare function |
Advanced macroeconomics |
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| Approaches to employment income and interest rate determination: Classical, Keynes (IS)-LM) curve |
| Neoclassical synthesis and new classical, theories of interest rate determination and interest rate structure |
Money-banking and finance |
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| Demand for and supply of money: Money multiplier quantity theory of money (Fisher, Pique, and Friedman) and Keynes's theory on demand for money, goals, and instruments of monetary control |
| Demand for and supply of money: Role and functions of commercial banks and credit creation by commercial banks. Role of central bank in controlling money and credit determination of growth rate of money supply |
| Public finance and its role in market economy: Meaning and scope of public finance, public vs. private finance. Sources of government revenue, forms of taxes and subsidies, their incidence and effects |
| Public finance and its role in market economy: Limits to taxation, loans, crowding-out effects and limits to borrowings. Public expenditure and its effects |
International economics |
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| Old and new theories of international trade: (i) Comparative advantage, (ii) terms of trade and offer curve, (iii) product cycle and strategic trade theories, (iv) trade as an engine of growth and theories of underdevelopment in an open economy |
| Forms of protection: tariff and quota |
| Balance of payments adjustment: Alternative approaches-(i) Price versus income, income adjustments under fixed exchange rates, (ii) theories of policy mix, (iii) exchange rate adjustments under capital mobility |
| Balance of payments adjustment: Alternative approaches-(iv) floating rates and their implications for developing countries: Currency boards, (v) trade policy and developing countries |
| Balance of payments adjustment: Alternative approaches-(vi) BOP, adjustments and policy coordination in open economy macro model, (vii) speculative attacks, (viii) trade blocks and monetary unions, (ix) WTO: Trims, trips, domestic measures |
| Balance of payments adjustment: Alternative approaches-(ix) WTO: Different rounds of WTO talks |
Growth and development |
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| Theories of growth: Harrod’s model, Lewis model of development with surplus labour, balanced unbalanced growth, human capitals and economic growth, research and development and economic growth |
| Process of economic development of less developed countries: Theories of economic transition Myrdal and Kuznets, Colin-Clark, Lewis on economic development and structural change: Role of agriculture in economic development of less developed countries |
Economic development and International Trade and Investment, Role of Multinationals |
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| Planning and economic development: changing role of markets and planning, private-public partnership |
| Welfare indicators and measures of growth: Human development indices. The basic needs approach |
| Development and environmental sustainability: Renewable and non-renewable resources, environmental degradation, intergenerational equity development. Environment and economy linkage |
Indian economics in pre-independence era |
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| Land system and its changes, commercialization of agriculture drain theory, laissez faire theory and critique |
| Manufacture and transport: Jute, cotton, railways, money, and credit |
Indian economy after independence: The pre-liberalization era |
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| Contribution of vakil, gadgil and v.k.r.v. rao |
| Agriculture: Land reforms and land tenure system, green revolution, and capital formation in agriculture |
Industry |
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| Trends in composition and growth, role of public and private sector, small scale, and cottage industries |
National and Per capita income |
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| Patterns, trends, aggregate, and sectoral composition and changes therein |
| Broad factors determining national income and distribution, measures of poverty, trends in poverty, and inequality |
New Economic Reform and Agriculture |
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| Agriculture and WTO, food processing, subsidies, agricultural prices and public distribution system, impact of public expenditure on agricultural growth |
New economic policy and industry |
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| Strategy of industrialization, privatization, disinvestments, role of foreign direct investment and multinationals |
New Economic Policy and Trade |
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| Intellectual property rights-implications of TRIPS, TRIMS, GATS, and new EXIM policy |
| New exchange rate regime: partial and full convertibility, capital account convertibility |
New Economic Policy and Public Finance |
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| Fiscal responsibility act, twelfth finance commission and fiscal federalism and fiscal consolidation |
| New economic policy and monetary system |
| Role of rbi under the new regime |
Planning |
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| From central planning to indicative planning, relation between planning and markets for growth and decentralized planning: 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments |
| New economic policy and employment: employment and poverty, rural wages, employment generation, poverty alleviation schemes, new rural, employment guarantee scheme |
Psychological foundation of education |
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| Definition of psychology, relationship between psychology and education, nature, scope, and methods of educational psychology |
| Physiological basis of human/ mental life, functions of the human nervous system and the endocrine system |
| Meaning of development, areas of development, fundamentals of Piagetian development psychology |
| Concept and theories of individual differences, theories of intelligence, creativity |
| Mental health and mental hygiene, personality-Freudian theory of personality |
| Learning; theories, factors affecting learning |
| Theories of learning, transfer of learning |
| Adolescence-psychological characteristics and problems of adolescents |
Philosophical foundation of education |
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| Concept and scope of education, aims of education, functions of education |
| Role of philosophy in education-(a) relationship between education and philosophy, (b) some major schools of philosophy: Idealism, naturalism, realism, and pragmatism-their contribution to present day education |
| Role of philosophy in education-(c) emergence of educational thoughts through the works of great educators-M.K. Gandhi, Rousseau, Froebel, Dewey, and Tagore (relevance of each philosophy in education) |
| Freedom and discipline |
| Components of education and their mutual relationship |
Sociological Foundation of Education |
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| Nature and scope of educational sociology |
| Education as an instrument of social change |
| Social groups |
| Culture-concept and components of culture |
| Current social problems relating to education in India |
Pedagogy |
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| Science of teaching-relations between teaching and learning |
| Factors affecting teaching, levels of teaching, general principles of teaching, maxims of teaching |
| Observations and classroom behaviour: Flanders Interaction analysis, characteristics of good teacher behaviour, difference between traditional and micro-teaching |
| Factors affecting perception, attention and attitude |
| Teaching methods, functions of a teacher |
Development of Education in Ancient and Medieval India |
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| Education in Ancient India: Vedic and Brahmanic Period, Buddhist Education |
| Education in Medieval India |
Development of Education in British India and Independent India |
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| Education in British India, indigenous education in India at the beginning of the 18th century |
| Growth of modern systems of education up to 1947 A.D. |
| The charter act 1813, downward filtration theory, Adam’s report 1829, Macaulay’s minutes 1935, Wood’s education despatch 1854, Hunter commission 1882, Lord Curzon’s policy 1902 (university education commission of 1902) |
| Movement for compulsory education-Gokhale’s Bill 1913 (government of India resolution on educational policy 1913), Sadler commission 1917 (Calcutta university education commission 1917), Hartog committee report 1929 |
| Development of Indian education during the post independence period with special reference to major recommendations of university education commission 1948-49, secondary education commission 1952-53, Kothari education commission 1964-66 |
| National policy on education 1986 and its revised formulation of 1992 |
Issues in India Education |
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| Aims and objectives of elementary education |
| Aims and objectives of secondary education, general and vocational education, role of DIET, NCERT, SCERT, NIEPA, CBSE, etc higher education-general and technical |
| Role of UGC, AIU, AICTE, ICSSR, CSIR, ICAR, NCTE |
| Types of universities and equivalent institutes of higher learning |
Modern Trends in Indian Education |
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| Non-formal education, adult education |
| National adult education programme (NAEP-1978), mass programme for functional literacy (MPFL-1986), national literacy mission (NOM-1988), total literacy campaign (TCL), post literacy campaign (PLC), Jana shikshan nilyan (JSN) |
| Continuing education, uses of mass-media in non-formal and continuing education |
| Population education, sex education, value oriented education, work experience and SUPW, environmental education, women empowerment through education, education of minority communities |
Fundamentals of Educational Research |
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| Concept, meaning, and nature of educational research, types of research |
| Hypothesis-concept and types, characteristics of a good hypothesis |
Conduct of Educational Research |
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| Sampling-concept and sampling designs/ techniques, tools of data collection, report writing |
Statistics in education |
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| Meaning, nature, scope and significance of educational statistics, sources and use of educational statistics |
| Difference between statistics and parameter, significance of statistics |
| Measures of central tendency, measures of variability, normal distribution-normal probability curve |
| Concept of variable, types of data, the need and uses of graphical presentation of data, bivariate distribution |
Evaluation in education |
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| Meaning and nature of educational measurement, evaluation in education |
| General principles of test construction and standardization |
Educational Management |
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| Concept, meaning, nature, need and scope of educational management |
| Types of educational management |
| Concept of financial management, managerial behaviour, educational Planning |
Educational Technology |
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| Concept and scope of educational technology, communication process |
| Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives |
| System approach in instructional system designing, programmed learning |
| Concept and nature of personalized system of instruction |
Educational Guidance |
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| The concept of guidance, vocational guidance, educational guidance, counselling |
Curriculum Construction |
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| Curriculum-concept and nature, curriculum construction, curriculum development, curriculum designs |
Basics and Circuit Theory |
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| Work, power, energy; Ohm’s law; DC circuits; Kirchhoff’s laws; AC circuits, resonance in R-L-circuits |
| Nodal analysis; mesh analysis; network theorems; transient analysis of RL, RC, and RLC circuits; 3 phase circuits; two-port networks |
Electromagnetic theory |
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| Maxwell’ equations; wave propagation in bounded media; boundary conditions; reflection and refraction of plane waves; distributed parameter circuits |
| Transmission line: travelling and standing waves, impedance matching, smith chart |
Electrical machines |
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| D.C. machines: Contraction, working principle, characteristics and application; starting and speed control |
| A.C. machines: Single phase and polyphase induction motors, synchronous motor-construction, working principle and characteristics, starting and speed control; FHP motors and stepper motors, alternators-basics and parallel operation |
| Power and distribution transformers: Design, efficiency and regulation by direct and indirect loading; types of transformer connections, its installation and maintenance |
Electrical Measurements and Instrumentation |
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| Measurement of current, voltage, power, energy, power-factor, resistance, inductance, capacitance, and frequency |
| Multimeters, CRO, digital voltmeter, frequency counter, Q-meter, earth tester, potentiometer |
| Transducers: Thermocouple, thermistors, LVDT, strain gauge, piezoelectric crystal; use of transducers in measurement of non-electrical quantities, data acquisition systems |
Power system |
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| Characteristics and performance of transmission line, Ferranti effect |
| Steady-state performance of overhead transmission lines and cables; per unit quantities; bus admittance and impedance matrices; symmetrical components |
| Load flow studies in newton Raphson method, Gauss-Seidel method; transient on transmission line; optimal load frequency control, automatic voltage control |
| Analysis of symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults; principle of active and reactive power transfer and distribution, reactive power compensation |
Computer aided power systems |
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| Static VAR systems; concept of HVDC transmission: FACTS devices such as SVC and UPFC |
| Introduction to load dispatch centers (LDC); SCADA systems: Speed control of generators; tie-line control; frequency control; economic dispatch |
Control engineering |
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| Block diagram representation; principles and applications of feedback; concept of stability, time- domain and transform-domain analysis; Routh-Hurwitz criterion; root loci; Nyquist criterion, bode plots |
| Design of lead-lag compensators; state variable representation; principles of discrete control systems |
Electronics |
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| Analog electronics: (a) Characteristics and equivalent circuits of diode, BJT, JFET, and MOSFET; clipping, clamping and rectifier circuits using diodes; biasing and bias stability, FET amplifiers |
| Analog electronics: (b) Single and multi-stage, differential, operational, feedback, and power amplifiers; analysis of amplifier; frequency response of amplifiers, OP AMP circuits; filters; function generation; wave shaping circuits; power supplies |
| Digital electronics: (a) Boolean algebra; minimization of Boolean functions; logic gates; digital IC families; combinational circuits; arithmetic circuits; code converters; multiplexers; decoders. (b) Latches and flip-flops; counters and shift registers |
| Digital electronics: (b) Comparators; timers; multi-vibrators; sample and hold circuits; ADCs and DACs; semiconductor memories; logic implementation using ROM |
Power Electronics and Electrical Drives |
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| Diodes, power transistors, thyristors, triacs, GTOs, MOSFETs, IGBTs-static characteristics and principle of operation; triggering circuits; phase controlled rectifiers; bridge converters-fully controlled and half controlled |
| Principles of choppers, inverters and cyclo-converters; basic concepts of speed control of D.C. and A.C. motors drives; applications of variable speed drives |
Microprocessors and microcomputers |
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| Evolution of microprocessor technology, 8085 CPU; architecture, programming, memory and I/O interfacing, modes of operation; power control; interfacing; typical applications |
| PC organization; CPU, Instruction set, register set, timing diagram, programming, interrupts, memory interfacing, programmable peripheral devices |
Analog and digital communication |
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| Need for modulation; normal amplitude modulation; modulation index; frequency and phase modulation; frequency deviation and modulation index; pulse amplitude modulation; pulse width modulation; pulse position modulation |
| Pulse code modulation; differential pulse code modulation, delta modulation; digital modulation and demodulation schemes; interfacing with power line; description of a typical power line carrier communication system |
Fiber optic systems |
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| Time division multiplexing; frequency division multiplexing; optical properties of materials; refractive index; absorption and emission of light |
| Optical fibers; lasers and opto-electronic materials; fibre optic links |
Energy Management |
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| Introduction to energy problem; power scenario of Mizoram state and India; basics of wind turbine aerodynamics; wind energy conversions systems and their integration into electrical grid |
| Power quality issues solar energy: thermal conversion, photovoltaic conversion |
| Importance of energy management; energy conservation opportunities, energy audit; energy economics; discount rate; payback period; internal rate of return; life cycle costing, electricity act 2003 |
Power system protection |
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| Principles of circuit breaking; arc extinction for D.C. and A.C.; arc interruption theories; duties of switchgear; various types of circuit breakers and their applications to power systems; specifications of an impulse voltage wave |
| Insulation coordinations |
| Principles of over current, differential and distance protection; concept of solid-state relays; computer-aided protection; protection of generators; transformers and transmission lines; application of DSP to protection |
Stability |
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| Dynamics of synchronous generators; small signal stability analysis (low frequency oscillations)-analysis of single machine systems, applications of power system stabilizers; node elimination technique, numerical solution of swing equation |
| Transient stability analysis; dynamic stability analysis; voltage stability analysis, static VAR control of load |
Signals, Systems and Digital Signal Processing |
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| Representation of continuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems |
| Fourier transforms; Laplace transforms; Z-transforms; transfer functions; DFT, FFT processing of analog signals through discrete time systems |
| Frequency domain design of digitals filters; quantization effects in digital filters |
Prescribed text in English literature from the period: 1600-1900 |
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| The Renaissance: Elizabethan and Jacobean drama; metaphysical poetry; the epic and the mock-epic; neoclassicism; satire; the romantic movement; the rise of the novel; the Victorian age |
| William Shakespeare: King lear and the tempest |
| Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s house |
| John Donne: The following poems-(a) Canonization; (b) Death be not proud; (c) The good morrow; (d) On his mistress going to bed; (e) The relic |
| John Milton: Paradise lost, I, II, IV, IX |
| Alexander Pope: The rape of the lock |
| William Wordsworth: The following poems-(a) Ode on intimations of immortality, (b) Tintern Abbey, (c) Three years she grew, (d) She dwelt among untrodden ways, (d) Michael, (e) Resolution and independence, (f) The world is too much with us |
| William Wordsworth: The following poems-(e) Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour, (f) Upon Westminster bridge |
| Alfred Tennyson: In memoriam |
| Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels |
| Henry Fielding: Tom Jones |
| George Eliot: The mill on the floss |
| Jane Austen: Pride and prejudice |
| Charles Dickens: Hard times |
| Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d’Urbervilles |
| Mark Twain: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Prescribed text in English literature from the period: 1900-1990 |
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| Modernism; poets of the thirties; the stream of consciousness novel; absurd drama; colonialism and post-colonialism; Indian writing in English; Marxist, psychoanalytical and feminist approaches to literature; postmodernism |
| William Butler Yeats: The following poems-(a) Easter 1916, (b) The second coming, (c) A prayer for my daughter, (d) Sailing to Byzantium, (e) The tower, (f) Among school children, (g) Leda and the swan, (h) Meru, (i) Lapis lazuli, (j) The second coming |
| William Butler Yeats: The following poems-(k) Byzantium, (l) The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock, (m) Journey of the Magi, (o) Burnt Norton |
| W.H. Auden: The following poems-(a) Partition, (b) Musee des beaux arts, (c) In memory of W.B. Yeats, (d) Lay your sleeping head, my love, (e) The unknown citizen, (f) Consider, (g) Mundus et infans, (h) The shield of Achilles |
| W.H. Auden: The following poems-(j) September 1, 1939, (k) Petition |
| Philip Larkin: The following poems-(a) Next, (b) Please, (c) Deceptions, (d) Afternoons, (e) Days, (f) Mr. Bleaney |
| A.K. Ramanujan: The following poems-(a) Looking for a cousin on a swing, (b) A river, of mothers, (c) Among other things, (d) Love poem for a wife 1, (e) Small-scale reflections on a great house, (f) Obituary |
| John Osborne: Look back in anger |
| Samuel Beckett: Waiting for godot |
| Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim |
| James Joyce: Portrait of the artist as a young man |
| D.H. Lawrence: Sons and lovers |
| E.M. Forster: A passage to India |
| Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway |
| Raja Rao: Kanthapura |
| V.S. Naipaul: A house for Mr. Biswas |
Silviculture |
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| General silvicultural principles; ecological and physiological factors influencing vegetation; natural and artificial regeneration of forests; nursery techniques; seed technology collection, storage, pretreatment and germination |
| Establishment and tendings |
Silvicultural systems |
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| Clear felling, uniform, shelter wood selection, coppice and conversion systems, management of silviculture systems of temperate, subtropical, humid tropical, dry tropical and coastal tropical forests with special reference to plantation silviculture |
| Choice of species, establishment and management of standards, enrichment methods, technical constraints, intensive mechanized methods, aerial seeding, thinning |
Silviculture-Mangrove and Cold desert |
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| Mangrove: Habitat and characteristics, mangrove, plantation-establishment and rehabilitation of degraded mangrove formations; silviculture systems for mangrove; protection of habitats against natural disasters |
| Cold desert: Characteristics, identification, and management of species |
Silviculture of trees |
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| Traditional and recent advances in tropical silvicultural research and practices |
| Silviculture of some of the economically important species in India such as Acacia catechu, Acacia nilotica, Acacia auriculiformis, Albizzia lebbeck, Albizzia procera, Anthocephalus cadamba, Anogeissus latitolia, Azadirachta indica, Bamboo spp |
| Silviculture of some of the economically important species in India such as butea monosperma, cassia siamea, casuarina equisetifolia, cedrus deodara, chukrasia tabularis, dalbergia sisoo, dipterocarpus spp, emblica officinalis, eucalyptus spp |
| Silviculture of some of the economically important species in India such as gmelina arborea, hardwickia binata, lagerstroemia lanceolata, pinus roxburghii, populus spp, pterocarpus marsupium, prosopis juliflora, santalum album, semecarpus anacardium |
| Silviculture of some of the economically important species in India such as shorea robusta, salmalia malabaricum, tectona grandis, terminalia tomentosa, tamarindus indica |
Agroforestry, Social Forestry, Joint Forest Management and Tribology |
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| Agroforestry: Scope and necessity; role in the life of people and domestic animals use, planning especially related to (i) soil and water conservation; (ii) water recharge; availability to crops |
| Agroforestry: Role in the life of people and domestic animals use, planning especially related to (iv) nature and ecosystem preservation including ecological balances through predator relationships |
| Agroforestry: Role in the life of people and domestic animals use, planning especially related to (v) providing opportunities for enhancing biodiversity, medical, and other and fauna. Agroforestry systems under different agro ecological zones |
| Agroforestry: Selection of species and role multipurpose trees and NTFPs, techniques, food fodder and fuel security |
| Research and extension needs, social/ urban forestry: Objectives, scope and necessity; people's participation |
| JFM: Principles of social grouping, stages of tribal NGOs |
| Tribology: Tribal scene in India; tribes, concept of races, principles of social grouping, stages of tribal economy education, cultural tradition, customs, ethos and participation in forestry programmes and in integrated land (vi) nutrient pest-flora of |
Forest soils, soil conservation, and watershed management |
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| Forests soils: Classification, factors affecting soil formation |
| Physical and soil conservation: Definition, causes for erosion; types-wind and water management of eroded soils/ areas, wind breaks, shelterbelts; sand dunes; reclamation of soils, water logged and other waste lands. Role of forests in conserving soils |
| Physical and soil conservation: Maintenance soil organic matter, provision of loppings for green leaf manuring; forest leaf litter and composting; role of microorganisms in ameliorating soils; N and C cycles, VAM |
| Watershed management: Concepts of watershed; role of mini-forests and forest trees in overall resource management, forest hydrology, watershed development in respect of torrent control, river channel stabilization, avalanche and landslide controls |
| Watershed management: Rehabilitation of degraded areas; hilly and mountain areas; watershed management and environmental functions of forests; water-harvesting and conservation; ground water recharge and watershed management |
| Watershed management: Role of integrating forest trees, horticultural crops, field crops, grass and fodders |
Environmental Conservation and Biodiversity |
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| Environment: Components and importance, principles of conservation, impact of deforestation; forest fires and various human activities like mining, construction and development projects, population growth on environment |
| Population: Types, global warming, greenhouse effects, ozone layer depletion, acid rain, impact and control measures, environmental monitoring; concept of sustainable development. Role of trees and forests in environmental conservation |
| Population: Control and prevention of air, water and noise population. Environmental policy and legislation in India. Environmental impact assessment, economics assessment of watershed development vis-á-vis ecological and environmental protection |
Tree-Improvement and Seed Technology |
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| General concept of tree improvement, methods and techniques, variation and its use, provenance, seed source, exotics; quantitative aspects of forest tree improvement, seed production and seed orchards, progeny tests, use of tree improvement in natural |
| Forest and stand improvement, genetic testing programming, selection and breeding for resistance to diseases, insects, and adverse environment; the genetics base, forest genetic resources and gene conservation in situ and ex-situ |
| Cost benefit ratio, economic evaluation |
Forest Management and Management System |
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| Objective and principles; techniques; stand structure and dynamics, sustained yield relation, normal forest, growing stock; regulation of yield; management of forest plantations, commercial forests, forest cover monitoring |
| Approaches viz., (i) site-specific planning, (ii) strategic planning, (iii) approval, sanction and expenditure. (iv) Monitoring, (v) reporting and governance |
| Details of steps involved such as formation of village forest committees, joint forest participatory management |
Forest Working Plan |
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| Forest planning, evaluation, and monitoring tools and approaches for integrated planning; multipurpose development of forest resources and forest industries development |
| Working plans and working schemes, their role in nature conservation, biodiversity and other dimensions; preparation and control |
| Divisional working plans, annual plan of operations |
Forest Mensuration and Remote Sensing |
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| Methods of measuring-diameter, girth, height, and volume of trees; form-factor; volume estimation of stand, current annual increment; mean annual increment, sampling methods and sample plots |
| Yield calculation; yield and stand tables, forest cover monitoring through remote sensing; geographic information systems for management and modeling |
Surveying and Forest Engineering |
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| Forest surveying-different methods of surveying, maps, and map reading |
| Basic principles of forest engineering |
| Building materials and construction |
| Roads and bridges, general principles, objects, types, simple design and construction of timber bridges |
Forest Ecology and Ethnobotany |
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| Forest ecology: Biotic and abiotic components, forest ecosystems; forest community concepts; vegetation concepts, ecological succession and climax, primary productivity, nutrient cycling and water relations |
| Forest ecology: Physiology in stress environments (drought, water logging salinity, and alkalinity). Forest types in India, identification of species, composition and associations; dendrology, taxonomic classification |
| Forest ecology: Principles and establishment of herbaria and arboreta. Conservation of forest ecosystems. Clonal parks. Role of ethnobotany in India systems of medicine; Ayurveda and unani-introduction, nomenclature, habitat |
| Forest ecology: Distribution and botanical features of medicinal and aromatic plants. Factors affecting and toxicity of drug plants and their chemical constituents, |
| Forest resources and utilization: Environmentally sound forest harvesting practices; logging and extraction techniques and principles, transportation systems, storage and sales; non-timber forest products (NTFPs)-definition and scope; gums, resins |
| Forest resources and utilization: Non-timber forest products (NTFPs)-definition and scope; oleoresins, fibers, oil seeds nuts, rubber, canes, bamboos, medicinal plants, charcoal, lac and shellac, katha and Bidi leaves, collection |
| Forest resources and utilization: Processing and disposal need and importance of wood seasoning and preservation; general principles of seasoning, air and kiln seasoning, solar dehumidification, steam heated and electrical kilns |
| Forest resources and utilization: Composite wood; adhesives-manufacture, properties, uses plywood manufacture-properties, uses, fibre boards-manufacture properties, uses; particle boards manufacture; properties, uses |
| Forest resources and utilization: Present status of composite wood industry in India and future expansion plants. Pulp-paper and rayon; present position of supply of raw material to industry, wood substitution, utilization of plantation wood |
| Forest resources and utilization: Problems and possibilities. Anatomical structure of wood, defects and abnormalities of wood, timber identification-general principles |
Forest protection and wildlife biology |
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| Injuries to forest-abiotic and biotic, destructive agencies, insect-pests and disease, effects of air pollution on forests and forest die back |
| Susceptibility of forests to damage, nature of damage, cause, prevention, protective measures and benefits due to chemical and biological control |
| General forest protection against fire, equipment and methods, controlled use of fire, economic and environmental cost; timber salvage operations after natural disasters |
| Role of afforestation and forest regeneration in absorption of CO2 |
| Rotational and controlled grazing, different methods of control against grazing and browsing animals; effect of wild animals on forest regeneration, human impacts; encroachment, poaching, grazing, live fencing, theft, shifting cultivation and control |
Forest Economics and Legislation |
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| Forest economics: Fundamental principles, cost-benefit analyses; estimation of demand and supply; analysis of trends in the national and international market and changes in production and consumption patterns |
| Forest economics: Assessment and projection of market structures; role of private sectors and cooperatives; role of corporate financing. Socioeconomic analysis of forest productivity and attitudes; evaluation of forest goods and service |
| Legislation: History of forest development; Indian forest policy of 1894, 1952, and 1988. People’s involvement, joint forest management, involvement of women; forestry policies and issues related to land use, timber and non-timber products |
| Legislation: Sustainable forest management; industrialization policies; institutional and structural changes. Decentralization and forestry public administration, forest laws, necessity; general principles, Indian forest act 1927 |
| Legislation: Forest conservation act, 1980; wildlife protection act 1972 and their amendments; application of Indian penal code of forestry, scope and objectives of forest inventory |
Geomorphology |
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| Process of landform development; endogenetic and exogenetic forces; origin and evolution of the earth’s crust; fundamentals of geomagnetism; interior of the earth’s; geosynclines; continental drift; isostasy; plate tectonics |
| Recent views on mountain building; vulcanicity; earthquakes and tsunamis; concepts of geomorphic cycles and landscape development; denudation chronology; channel morphology; erosion surfaces; slope development |
| Applied geomorphology: Geohydrology, economic geology, and environment |
Climatology |
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| Temperature and pressure belts of the world; heat budget of the earth; atmospheric circulation; atmospheric stability and instability |
| Planetary and local winds; monsoons and jet streams; air masses and frontogenesis, temperate and tropical cyclones; types and distribution of precipitation; weather and climate; Koppen’s, Thornthwaite’s and Trewartha’s classification of world climates |
| Hydrological cycle; global climatic change and role and response of man in climatic changes, applied climatology and urban climate |
Oceanography |
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| Bottom relief of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans; temperature and salinity of the oceans; heat and salt budgets, ocean deposits; waves, currents and tides; marine resources: Biotic, mineral and energy resources; coral reefs and tools |
| Marine resources: Coral bleaching; sea-level changes; law of the sea and marine pollution |
Biogeography |
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| Genesis of soils; classification and distribution of major soils; soil profile; soil erosion, degradation and conservation; factors influencing world distribution of plants and animals; problems of deforestation and conservation measures |
| Social forestry; agroforestry; wild life; major gene pool centers |
| Principle and concept of ecology; human ecological adaptations; influence of man on ecology and environment; global and regional ecological changes and imbalances; ecosystem their management and conservation; environmental degradation |
| Management, and conservation; biodiversity and sustainable development; environmental policy; environmental hazards and remedial measures; environmental education and legislation |
Perspectives in human Geography |
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| Areal differentiation; regional synthesis; dichotomy and dualism; environmentalism; quantitative revolution and locational analysis; radical, behavioural, human and welfare approaches; languages, religions and secularisation; cultural regions of the world |
| Human development index |
| Models, theories, and laws in human geography: Systems analysis in human geography; malthusian, Marxian and demographic transition models; central place theories of christaller and losch; perroux and boudeville; von Thunen's model of agricultural location |
| Models, theories and laws in human geography: Weber’s model of industrial location; Rostow’s model of stages of growth. Heartland and Rimland theories; laws of international boundaries and frontiers |
Economic geography |
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| World economic development: Measurement and problems; world resources and their distribution; energy crisis; the limits to growth; world agriculture: Typology of agricultural regions; agricultural inputs and productivity; food and nutrition problems |
| World agriculture: Food security; famine-causes, effects, and remedies; world industries: Locational patterns and problems; patterns of world trade |
Population and Settlement Geography |
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| Growth and distribution of world population; demographic attributes; causes and consequences of migration; concepts of over-under-and optimum population; population theories, world population problems and policies, social well-being and quality of life |
| Population as social capital |
| Types and patterns of rural settlements; environmental issues in rural settlements; hierarchy of urban settlements; urban morphology: Concepts of primate city and rank-size rule; functional classification of towns; sphere of urban influence |
| Urban morphology: Rural-urban fringe; satellite towns; problems and remedies of urbanization; Sustainable development of cities |
Regional planning |
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| Concept of a region; types of regions and methods of regionalization; growth centers and growth poles; regional imbalances; regional development strategies; environmental issues in regional planning; planning for sustainable development |
Models, theories, and laws in human geography |
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| System analysis in human geography; Malthusian, Marxian, and demographic transition models; central place theories of Christaller and Losch; Perroux and Boudeville; Von Thunen’s model of agricultural location; Weber’s model of industrial location |
| Rostow's model of stages of growth |
| Heartland and Rimland theories; laws of international boundaries and frontiers |
Physical aspect and Resources |
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| Space relationship of India with neighbouring countries; structure and relief; drainage system and watersheds; physiographic regions; mechanism of Indian monsoons and rainfall patterns, tropical cyclones and western disturbances; floods and droughts |
| Climatic regions; natural vegetation; soil types and their distributions |
| Land, surface, and groundwater, energy, minerals, biotic and marine resources; forest and wildlife resources and their conservation; energy crisis |
Agriculture |
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| Infrastructure: Irrigation, seeds, fertilizers, power; institutional factors: Land holdings, land tenure, and land reforms; cropping pattern, agricultural productivity, agricultural intensity, crop combination, land capability; Agro and social-forestry |
| Green revolution and its socioeconomic and ecological implications; significance of dry farming; livestock resources and white revolution; aqua-culture; sericulture, apiculture, and poultry; agricultural regionalization; agro-climatic zones |
| Agro-ecological regions |
Industry |
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| Evolution of industries; locational factors of cotton, jute, textile, iron, and steel, aluminium, fertilizer, paper, chemical and pharmaceutical, automobile, cottage and agro-based industries |
| Industrial houses and complexes including public sector undertakings; industrial regionalization; new industrial policies; multinationals and liberalization; special economic zones; tourism including eco-tourism |
Transport, communication, and trade |
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| Road, railway, waterway, airway, and pipeline networks and their complementary roles in regional development; growing importance of ports on national and foreign trade; trade balance; trade policy; export processing zones |
| Developments in communication and information technology and their impacts on economy and society; Indian space programme |
Cultural aspect and Settlements |
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| Historical perspective of Indian society; racial, linguistic and ethnic diversities; religious minorities; major tribes, tribal areas, and their problems; cultural regions; growth, distribution and density of population |
| Demographic attributes: Sex-ratio, age structure, literacy rate, work-force, dependency ratio, longevity; migration (interregional, intra-regional, and international) and associated problems; population problems and policies; health indicators |
| Types, patterns, and morphology of rural settlements; urban developments; morphology of Indian cities; functional classification of Indian cities; conurbations and metropolitan regions; urban sprawl; slums and associated problems; town planning |
| Problems of Urbanization and Remedies |
Regional development and planning |
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| Experience of regional planning in India; five year plans; integrated rural development programmes; Panchayati Raj and decentralised planning; command area development; watershed management |
| Planning for backward area, desert, drought prone, hill, tribal area development; multi-level planning; regional planning and development of island territories |
Political aspects |
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| Geographical basis of Indian federalism; state reorganization; emergence of new states; regional consciousness and inter state issues; international boundary of India and related issues; cross border terrorism; India’s role in world affairs |
| Geopolitics of south asia and indian ocean realm |
Contemporary Issues |
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| Ecological issues: Principles of environmental impact assessment and environmental management; population explosion and food security; environmental degradation; deforestation, desertification and soil erosion; problems of agrarian and industrial unrest |
| Ecological issues: Regional disparities in economic development; concept of sustainable growth and development; environmental awareness; linkage of rivers; globalization and Indian economy |
| The solar system, meteorites, origin and interior of the earth and age of earth; volcanoes-causes and products, volcanic belts; earthquakes-causes, effects, seismic zones of India; island arcs, trenches and mid-ocean ridges; continental drifts |
General geology |
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| Seafloor spreading, plate tectonics; isostasy |
| Basic concepts of geomorphology; weathering and soil formations; landforms, slopes, and drainage; geomorphic cycles and their interpretation; morphology and its relation to structures and lithology; coastal geomorphology |
Geomorphology and remote sensing |
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| Applications of geomorphology in mineral prospecting, civil engineering; hydrology and environmental studies; geomorphology of Indian subcontinent |
| Aerial photographs and their interpretation-merits and limitations; the electromagnetic spectrum; orbiting satellites and sensor systems; Indian remote sensing satellites; satellites data products; applications of remote sensing in geology |
| The geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning system (GPS)-its applications |
Hydrogeology |
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| Hydrologic cycle and genetic classification of water; movement of subsurface water; springs; hydrological properties of rocks-porosity, permeability, hydraulic conductivity, specific yield, specific retention, transmissivity and storage coefficient |
| Hydrological properties of rocks-classification of aquifers; water-bearing characteristics of rocks; groundwater chemistry; saline water intrusion; types of wells; drainage basin morphometry; exploration for groundwater; groundwater; artificial recharge |
| Problems and management of groundwater; rainwater harvesting |
| Engineering properties of rocks; geological investigations for dams, tunnels highways, railway and bridges; rock as construction material; landslides causes, prevention and rehabilitation; earthquake-resistant structures |
Structural geology |
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| Principles of geologic mapping and map reading, projection diagrams, stress and strain ellipsoid and stress-strain relationships of elastic, plastic and viscous materials; strain markers in deformed rocks |
| Behaviour of minerals and rocks under deformation conditions; folds and faults classification and mechanics; structural analysis of folds, foliations, lineations, joints, and faults, unconformities |
| Time-relationship between crystallization and deformation |
Paleontology |
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| Species-definition and nomenclature; megafossils and microfossils; modes of preservation of fossils; different kinds of microfossils; application of microfossils in correlation, petroleum exploration, paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic studies |
| Evolutionary trend in hominidae, equidae and proboscidea; Siwalik fauna; Gondwana flora and fauna and its importance; index fossils and their significance |
Principles of Stratigraphy |
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| Fundamental law of stratigraphy; classification of stratigraphy sequences-lithostratigraphic, biostratigraphic, chronostratigraphic, and magnetostratigraphic and their interrelationships; sequences stratigraphic; geological time scale |
Indian stratigraphy |
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| Distribution and classification of Precambrian rocks of India; study of stratigraphic distribution and lithology of phanerozoic rocks of India with reference to fauna, flora, and economic importance |
| Major boundary problems-Cambrian/ Precambrian, Permian/ Triassic, cretaceous/ tertiary, and Pliocene/ Pleistocene; study of climatic conditions, paleogeography and igneous activity in the Indian subcontinent in the geological past |
| Tectonic framework of India; evolution of the Himalayas |
Crystallography and mineralogy |
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| Classification of crystals into systems and classes of symmetry; international system of crystallographic notation; use of projection diagrams to represent crystal symmetry; elements of X-ray crystallography |
Crystallography and mineralogy |
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| Physical and chemical characters of rock forming silicate mineral groups; structural classification of silicates; common minerals of igneous and metamorphic rocks; minerals of the carbonate, phosphate, sulphide and halide groups; clay minerals |
Igneous petrology |
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| Generation and crystallization of magmas; crystallization of albite-anorthite, diopside-anorthite and diopside-wollastonite-silica systems; Bowen’s reaction principle; magmatic differentiation and assimilation |
| Petrogenetic significance of the textures and structures of igneous rocks; petrography and petrogenesis of granite, syenite, diorite, basic and ultrabasic groups, charnockite, anorthosite and alkaline rocks; carbonatites; deccan volcanic province |
Metamorphic petrology |
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| Types and agents of metamorphism; metamorphic grades and zones; phase rule; facies of regional and contact metamorphism; ACF and AKF diagrams; textures and structures of metamorphic rocks; metamorphism of arenaceous, argillaceous and basic rocks |
| Minerals assemblages retrograde metamorphism; metasomatism and granitisation, migmatites, granulite terrains of India |
Sedimentary petrology |
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| Sediments and sedimentary rocks: Processes of formation; diagenesis and lithification; sedimentary rocks of mechanical origin and biochemical origin-their classification, petrography and depositional environment; sedimentary facies and provenance |
| Sediments and sedimentary rocks: Sedimentary structures classification and their significance; heavy minerals and their significance; sedimentary basins of India |
Economic geology |
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| Ore, ore minerals, and gangue, tenor of ore, classification of ore deposits; process of formation of minerals deposits; controls of ore localization; ore textures and structures; metallogenic epochs and provinces |
| Geology of the important Indian deposits of aluminium, chromium, copper, gold, iron, lead zinc, manganese, titanium, uranium, and thorium and industrial minerals; deposits of coal and petroleum in India; national mineral policy |
| Conservation and utilization of mineral resources; marine mineral resources and law of sea |
| Methods of prospecting-geological, geophysical, geochemical, and geobotanical; techniques of sampling; estimation of reserves or ore; methods of exploration and mining metallic ores, industrial minerals, marine mineral resources and building stones |
Mining geology |
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| Mineral beneficiation and ore dressing |
Geochemistry |
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| Cosmic abundance of elements; composition of the planets and meteorites; structure and composition of earth and distribution of elements; trace elements; elements of crystal chemistry-types of chemical bonds, coordination number |
| Isomorphism and polymorphism; elementary thermodynamics |
Environmental geology |
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| Natural hazards-floods, mass wasting, coastal hazards, earthquakes, and volcanic activity and mitigation; environmental impact of urbanization, mining, industrial and radioactive waste disposal, use of fertilizers, dumping of mine waste and fly ash |
| Pollution of ground and surface water, marine pollution; environment protection-legislative measures in India; sea level changes: Causes and impact |
Sources |
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| Archaeological sources: Exploration, excavation, epigraphy, numismatics, monuments |
| Literary sources: Indigenous-primary and secondary; poetry, scientific literature, literature, literature in regional languages, religious literature |
| Foreign account: Greek, Chinese, and Arab writers |
Pre-history and proto-history |
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| Geographical factors; hunting and gathering (Paleolithic and Mesolithic); beginning of agriculture (Neolithic and chalcolithic) |
Indus valley civilization |
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| Origin, date, extent, characteristics-decline, survival and significance, art and architecture |
Megalithic cultures |
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| Distribution of pastoral and farming cultures outside the Indus, Development of community life, Settlements, Development of agriculture, Crafts, Pottery, and Iron industry |
Aryans and Vedic period |
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| Expansion of Aryans in India |
| Vedic period: Religious and philosophic literature; transformation from rig Vedic period to later Vedic period; political, social, and economical life; significance of Vedic age; evolution of monarchy and Varna system |
Period of Mahajanapadas |
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| Formation of states (Mahajanapada): Republics and monarchies; rise of urban centers; trade routes; economic growth; introduction of coinage; spread of Jainism and Buddhism; rise of Magadha and Nandas |
| Iranian and macedonian invasions and their impact |
Mauryan empire |
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| Foundation of the Mauryan empire, Chandragupta, Kautilya, and Arthashastra; Ashoka; concept of Dharma; edicts; polity, administration, economy; art, architecture, and sculpture; external contacts; religion; spread of religion; literature |
| Disintegration of the empire; Sungas and Kanvas |
Post-Mauryan period (Indo-Greeks, Sakas, Kushanas, western Kshatrapas) |
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| Contact with outside world; growth of urban centers, economy, coinage, development of religions, Mahayana, social conditions, art, architecture, culture, literature, and science |
Early state and society in eastern India, Deccan, and south India |
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| Kharavela, the Satavahanas, Tamil states of the Sangam age; administration, economy, land grants, coinage, trade guilds and urban centres; Buddhist centres; Sangam literature and culture; art and architecture |
Guptas, Vakatakas, and Vardhanas |
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| Polity and administration, economic conditions, coinage of the Guptas, land grants, decline of urban centres, Indian feudalism, caste system, position of women, education and educational institutions; Nalanda, Vikramshila, and Vallabhi, literature |
| Scientific literature, art, and architecture |
Regional states during Gupta era |
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| The Kadambas, Pallavas, Chalukyas of Badami; polity and administration, trade guilds, literature; growth of Vaishnava and Saiva religions |
| Tamil Bakthi movement, Shankaracharya; Vedanta; institutions of temple and temple architecture; Palas, Senas, Rashtrakutas, Paramaras, polity and administration; cultural aspects |
| Arab conquest of Sind; Alberuni, the Chalukyas of Kalyana, Cholas, Hoysalas, Pandyas; polity and administration; local government; growth of art and architecture, religious sects, institution of temple and Mathas, Agraharas, education and literature |
| Economy and society |
Themes in early Indian cultural history |
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| Languages and texts, major stages in the evolution of art and architecture, major philosophical thinkers and schools, ideas in science and mathematics |
Early medieval India, 750-1200 |
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| Polity: Major political developments in northern India and the peninsula, origin, and the rise of Rajputs, the Cholas: Administration, village economy, and society, “Indian feudalism”, agrarian economy and urban settlements, trade and commerce |
| Society: The status of the Brahman and the new social order, condition of women, Indian science and technology |
Cultural traditions in India, 750-1200 |
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| Philosophy: Shankaracharya and Vedanta, Ramanuja, and Vishishtadvaita, Madhva, and Brahma-Mimansa, religion: Forms and features of religion, Tamil devotional cult, growth of Bhakti, Islam and its arrival in India, Sufism |
| Literature: Literature in Sanskrit, growth of Tamil literature, literature in the newly developing languages, Kalhana's Rajatarangini, Alberuni's India, art and architecture: Temple architecture, sculpture, painting |
The thirteenth century |
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| Establishment of the Delhi sultanate: The Ghorian invasions-factors behind Ghurian success, economic, social, and cultural consequences, foundation of Delhi sultanate and early Turkish sultans, Consolidation: The rule of Iltutmish and Balban |
The fourteenth century |
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| The Khalji revolution, Alauddin Khilji: Conquests and territorial expansion, agrarian, and economic measures, Muhammad Tughluq: Major projects, agrarian measures, bureaucracy of Muhammad Tughluq |
| Firuz Tughluq: Agrarian measures, achievements in civil engineering and public works, decline of the sultanate, foreign contacts, and Ibn Battuta's account |
Society, culture, and economy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries |
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| Society: Composition of rural society, ruling classes, town dwellers, women, religious classes, caste, and slavery under the sultanate, Bhakti movement, Sufi movement |
| Culture: Persian literature, literature in the regional languages of north India, literature in the languages of South India, sultanate architecture and new structural forms, painting, evolution of a composite culture |
| Economy: Agricultural production, rise of urban economy and non-agricultural production, trade and commerce |
The fifteenth and early sixteenth century-political developments and economy |
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| Rise of provincial dynasties: Bengal, Kashmir (Zainul Abedin), Gujarat, Malwa, Bahmanids, the vijayanagara empire, Lodis, Mughal empire, first phase: Babur, Humayun, the Sur empire: Sher Shah’s administration, Portuguese colonial enterprise |
| Bhakti and sufi movements |
The fifteenth and early sixteenth century-society and culture |
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| Regional cultures specificities, literary traditions, provincial architectural, society, culture, literature, and the arts in Vijayanagara empire |
Akbar |
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| Conquests and consolidation of empire, establishment of Jagir and Mansab systems, Rajput policy, evolution of religious and social outlook, theory of Sulh-i-Kul and religious policy, court patronage of art and technology |
Mughal empire in the seventeenth century |
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| Major administrative policies of Jahangir, Shahjahan, and Aurangzeb, the empire and the zamindars, religious policies of Jahangir, Shahjahan, and Aurangzeb, nature of the mughal state, late seventeenth century crisis and the revolts, the ahom kingdom |
| Shivaji and the early maratha kingdom |
Economy and society, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries |
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| Population agricultural and craft production, towns, commerce with Europe through Dutch, English, and French companies: A trade revolution, Indian mercantile classes, banking, insurance, and credit systems, conditions of peasants, condition of women |
| Evolution of the sikh community and the khalsa panth |
Culture during Mughal empire |
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| Persian histories and other literature, Hindi and religious literatures, Mughal architecture, Mughal painting, provincial architecture and painting, classical music, science and technology |
The eighteenth century |
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| Factors for the decline of the Mughal empire, the regional principalities: Nizam’s Deccan, Bengal, Awadh, Maratha ascendancy under the Peshwas, the Maratha fiscal and financial system, emergence of Afghan power, Battle of Panipat, 1761 |
| State of, political, cultural, and economic, on eve of the British conquest |
European penetration into India |
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| The early European settlements; the Portuguese and the Dutch; the English and the French East India companies; their struggle for supremacy; carnatic wars; Bengal-the conflict between the English and the Nawabs of Bengal; Siraj and the English |
| The Battle of Plassey; significance of Plassey |
British expansion in India |
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| Bengal-Mir Jafar and Mir Kasim; the Battle of Buxar; Mysore; the Marathas; the three Anglo-Maratha wars; the Punjab, annexation and consolidation of the Lushai Hills |
Early structure of the British raj |
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| The early administrative structure; from diarchy to direct control; the regulating act (1773); the Pitt's India act (1784); the charter act (1833); the voice of free trade and the changing character of British colonial rule |
| The english utilitarian and india |
Economic impact of British colonial rule |
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| Land revenue settlements in British India; the permanent settlement; Ryotwari settlement; Mahalwari settlement; economic impact of the revenue arrangements; commercialization of agriculture; rise of landless agrarian labourers |
| Impoverishment of the rural society |
| Dislocation of traditional trade and commerce; deindustrialization; decline of traditional crafts; drain of wealth; economic transformation of India; railroad and communication network including telegraph and postal services |
| Famine and poverty in the rural interior; European business enterprise and its limitations |
Social and cultural developments |
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| The state of indigenous education, its dislocation; orientalist-anglicist controversy, the introduction of western education in India; the rise of press, literature, and public opinion; the rise of modern vernacular literature; progress of science |
| Christian missionary activities in india |
Social and religious reform movements in Bengal and other areas |
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| Ram Mohan Roy, the Brahmo movement; Devendranath Tagore; Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar; the Young Bengal movement; Dayananda Saraswati; the social reform movements in India including Sati, widow remarriage, child marriage etc |
| The contribution of Indian renaissance to the growth of modern India; Islamic revivalism-the Feraizi and Wahabi movements |
Indian response to British rule |
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| Peasant movement and tribal uprisings in the 18th and 19th centuries including the Rangpur Dhing (1783), the Kol rebellion (1832), the Moplah rebellion in Malabar (1841-1920), the Santal Hul (1855), Indigo rebellion (1859-60) |
| Deccan uprising (1875) and the Munda Ulgulan (1899-1900); the great revolt of 1857-origin, character, causes of failure, the consequences; the shift in the character of peasant uprisings in the post-1857 period |
| The peasant movements of the 1920s and 1930s |
Factors leading to the birth of Indian Nationalism |
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| Politics of association; the foundation of the Indian national congress; the safety-valve thesis relating to the birth of the congress; programme and objectives of early congress; the social composition of early congress leadership |
| The moderates and extremists; the partition of Bengal (1905); the Swadeshi movement in Bengal; the economic and political aspects of Swadeshi movement; the beginning of revolutionary extremism in India |
Rise of Gandhi |
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| Character of Gandhian nationalism; Gandhi's popular appeal; Rowlatt Satyagraha; the Khilafat movement; the non-cooperation movement; national politics from the end of the non-cooperation movement to the beginning of the civil disobedience movement |
| The two phases of the civil disobedience movement; Simon commission; the Nehru report; the round table conferences; nationalism and the peasant movements; nationalism and working class movements |
| Women and Indian youth and students in Indian politics (1885-1947); the election of 1937 and the formation of ministries; Cripps mission; the Quit India movement; the Wavell plan; the cabinet mission |
Constitutional developments in the colonial India between 1858 and 1935 and other strands in the national movement |
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| The revolutionaries: Bengal, the Punjab, Maharashtra, UP the Madras presidency, outside India |
| The left; the left within the congress: Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, the congress socialist party; the communist party of India, other left parties |
Politics of separatism |
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| The Muslim league; the Hindu mahasabha; communalism and the politics of partition; transfer of power; independence |
| Consolidation as a nation; Nehru's foreign policy; India and her neighbours (1947-1964); the linguistic reorganization of states (1935-1947); regionalism and regional inequality; integration of princely states; princes in electoral politics |
| The question of national language |
| Caste and ethnicity after 1947; backward castes and tribes in post-colonial electoral politics; dalit movements |
| Economic development and political change; land reforms; the politics of planning and rural reconstruction; ecology and environmental policy in post-colonial India; progress of science |
Enlightenment and modern ideas |
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| Major ideas of enlightenment: Kant, Rousseau, spread of enlightenment in the colonies, rise of socialist ideas (up to Marx); spread of Marxian socialism |
Origins of modern politics |
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| European states system |
| American revolution and the constitution |
| French revolution and aftermath, 1789-1815 |
| American civil war with reference to abraham lincoln and the abolition of slavery |
| British democratic politics, 1815-1850: Parliamentary reformers, free traders, chartists |
Industrialization |
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| English industrial revolution: Causes and impact on society, industrialization in other countries: USA, Germany, Russia, Japan, industrialization and globalization |
Nation-state system |
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| Rise of nationalism in 19th century, nationalism: State-building in Germany and Italy, disintegration of empires in the face of the emergence of nationalities across the world |
Imperialism and colonialism |
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| South and south-East Asia, Latin America, and South Africa, Australia, imperialism and free trade: Rise of neo imperialism |
Revolution and counter-revolution |
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| 19th century European revolutions, the Russian revolution of 1917-1921, fascist counter-revolution, Italy and Germany, the Chinese revolution of 1949 |
World wars |
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| 1st and 2nd World Wars as total wars: Societal implications, World War-I: Causes and consequences, World War-II: Causes and consequences |
The world after World War-II |
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| Emergence of two power blocs, emergence of third world and non-alignment, UNO and the global disputes |
Liberation from Colonial Rule |
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| Latin America-Bolivar, Arab world-Egypt, Africa-apartheid to democracy, South-East Asia-Vietnam |
Factors constraining development: Latin America, Africa |
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Unification of Europe |
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| Post war foundations; NATO and European community, consolidation and expansion of European community, European union |
Disintegration of soviet union and the rise of the unipolar world |
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| Factors leading to the collapse of Soviet communism and Soviet Union, 1985-1991, political changes in east Europe 1989-2001, end of the Cold War and us ascendancy in the world as the lone superpower |
Introduction to Home Management |
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| Meaning and Importance, Basic concepts of management |
| Factors motivating management-goals, values, standards, decision making |
| Management process-meaning and elements of process-planning controlling the plan and evaluation; planning-importance and types of plan |
| Management of resources in the family-types and characteristics; time management; energy management; money management |
| Consumer education-needs and objectives; rights and responsibilities of consumers; consumer protection laws |
Family as economic unit |
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| Family types, functions of family, types of family income, sources of income in family, method of handling income in families |
| Financial management-budgeting, record keeping |
| Savings and Investment |
| Household equipment and electrical appliances-base materials, insulating materials, selection, classification of household equipments |
| Housing-house and its surroundings, physical features, locality, sanitation conditions, principles of house planning |
| Interior decoration |
| Kitchen-principles of kitchen planning, orientation, location, size, shape, colour, ventilation, light, work centres, work triangle |
Introduction to Extension Education |
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| Definition, meaning, importance and scope, principles of extension education, qualities of extension education, role of home science in extension education |
| Extension techniques-selection and uses, individual approach, group approach, mass approach; audio visual aids |
| Rural sociology-rural society in NE India, structure of rural society, role of rural youth programmes and Mahila Mandal |
| Kitchen gardening |
| Community development-meaning, principles, philosophy and objectives; role of community development worker; role of extension work in community development |
| Concepts and functions of communication in home science-meaning of communication in extension education, importance of communication in extension work, new communication technologies |
| Leadership in extension education-meaning, characteristics of a good leadership, role and functions of local leaders in extension work |
Introduction to Family and Child Welfare |
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| Meaning, needs, and importance |
| Central social welfare board (CSWB) and state social welfare board-meaning and scope |
| Different schemes of CSWB: (i) condensed courses of education, (ii) vocational training programme, (iii) awareness generation programme, (iv) family counselling centres, (v) creches |
| Programmes for family welfare at the national level: (i) Rural health services, (ii) family counselling centres, (iii) national policy for the aging |
| Programmes for women’s welfare at the national level: (i) National family welfare programmes since 1951, (ii) child and mother health care programmes, (iii) reproductive and child health (RCH) programmes, (iv) national commission on women |
| Children’s welfare programme at the national level: (i) Childline services, (ii) the juvenile justice act, 2000, (iii) central adoption resource agency (CARA), (iv) national plan for children, 1992, (v) agencies-accredited social health activist (ASHA) |
| Children’s welfare programme at the national level: (v) Agencies-national institute for public cooperation and child development, government of India-unicef grant-in-aid |
| Family and child welfare services at the state level-programmes implemented in Mizoram: (i) Integrated child development services (ICDS), (ii) anganwadis, (iii) destitute home, (iv) protective home, (v) adoption programme, (vi) self help group for women |
Introduction to textile fiber and their general properties |
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| Classification of textile fibers and their properties: (a) Natural fibers-cellulose fibers, protein fibers, mineral fibers, (b) man made fibers-thermoplastic fibers, non-thermoplastic fibers, mineral fibers |
| Fabric construction: (a) Types of yarns, processing of making yarns, (b) weaving-description and working of loom, different types of weave, count of cloth, (c) knitting, (d) braiding, (e) felting |
| Textile finishes: (a) Introduction to finishes, (b) objectives of the application of finishes, (c) types of finishes, (d) dry cleaning |
| Laundry work: (a) Laundry equipment, (b) water-hard and soft water, importance of soft water in laundry work, softening of water, (c) cleansing materials and other reagents, (d) blueing agents, (e) bleaching agents-oxidizing agents and reducing agent |
Introduction to Textile Fibre and their general properties |
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| Laundry work: (f) Stiffening agents, (g) stain removal |
Fashion design-elements of fashion design, principles of design |
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| Dyeing of textiles: (a) Study of different indigenous and chemical dyes, (b) different stages of applying dyes-raw stock dyeing, skein dyeing, piece dyeing, (c) methods of dyeing |
| Printing of textiles: (a) Hand printing-block, stencil, screen, batik, flock, (b) machine printing-discharge, resist, roller. Storage of clothes. Methods of taking body measurements for bodice, arm, and skirt. Fitting of garments |
| Fashion and fashion cycle: (a) Terminology of fashion, (b) components of fashion, (c) principles of fashion, (d) factors affecting fashion, (e) fashion movement, (f) fashion cycle and its stages, (g) theories of fashion adaptation |
| Fashion and fashion cycle: (g) Fashion business and merchandising |
Cardiovascular system |
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| Blood and its composition, Coagulation of blood, Structure and functions of heart, Heart rate, Cardiac cycle, Blood pressure and its Regulation, Circulation of blood |
| Gastrointestinal system-anatomy of gastrointestinal tract, digestion and absorption of food, role of saliva, gastric and pancreatic juice in digestion |
| Reproductive system-structure and functions of male and female reproductive organs, menstrual cycle, parturition, lactation, menopause |
| Excretory system-structure and functions of kidney, formation of urine |
| Respiratory system-structure of lungs, mechanism of respiration and its regulation, oxygen and carbon dioxide transport in blood, respiratory quotient |
| Nervous system-structure of nerve cells, conduction and transmission of nerve impulse, synaptic transmission, central nervous system and peripheral nervous system |
| Muscular system-structure of skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscles, mechanism of muscle contraction, chemical change during muscle contraction |
| Endocrine system-various endocrine glands and their secretions in man, biological role of hormones of different endocrine glands, pheromones |
Child Psychology |
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| Introduction to child psychology-definition and scope |
| Theories of child psychology: Freud-psychosexual theory, piaget cognitive theory, erikson-psychosocial theory |
| Cognitive behaviour-stages of cognitive development, role of cognition in language and language formation |
| Attitudes-attitude formation, attitudes change and cognitive dissonance |
| Self identity-component of one’s identity, self concept, self esteem, self monitoring and self efficacy |
| Persons perception-techniques of communications, attributions, impression formation and management |
| Interpersonal attraction-proximity and emotion, need to affiliation and observable characteristics, similarity, and reciprocal positive evaluation |
Foods |
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| Definition, functions, and food groups |
| Major nutrients-functions, food sources, deficiency diseases, dietary measures for solving these problems |
| Digestion, absorption, and metabolism of food; water and electrolyte balance |
| Balanced diet-(a) factors to be considered while planning a balanced diet (b) meal planning-objectives and factors affecting meal planning, (c) food exchange lists in meal planning, (d) steps in menu planning, (e) food preparation |
| Physiological condition and nutritional requirement of normal adult, adolescents and elderly |
| Food fads and Fallacies, Food selection, Purchase and Storage |
Malnutrition and optimum nutrition |
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| Factors contributing to malnutrition, indication of malnutrition, malnutrition, and infection |
| Diet therapy-meaning, general rule for dietary treatments |
| Definition of obesity, aetiology, assessment, metabolic change |
| Types, complications, treatments, and principles of dietetic management |
| Underweight-aetiology, dietary modifications, ideal weight |
| Diet in diseases of gastrointestinal system and cardiovascular system-diarrhoea, constipation, and peptic ulcer |
| Diet in diseases of liver and kidneys-jaundice, cirrhosis of liver, glomerulonephritis and renal failure |
| Nutritional anaemia, Iron deficiency and Vitamin B12 deficiency |
| Nutrition for Diabetes Mellitus and Cancer patients |
| Food standards, health hazards, and detection of food adulteration |
| Food preservation-principles, methods of food preservation |
| Food borne intoxication, food borne infection, and micro-organisms responsible for food spoilage |
Introduction to Organic Chemistry |
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| Detection of carbon and hydrocarbons-detection of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulphur, and phosphorus in organic substances |
| Hydrocarbons-structural formula, preparation, properties, and uses of methane and ethane |
| Alkyl halides-definition, structural formula, preparation, properties and uses of methyl iodide and ethyl iodide |
| Alcohols-definition, structural formula, preparation, properties and uses of methyl alcohol, ethyl alcohol and glycerol |
| Ketones and aldehydes-definition, structural formula, preparation, properties and uses of acetone and formaldehyde |
| Carboxylic acid-definition, structural formula, preparation, properties and uses of acetic acid, formic acid, oxalic acid |
| Hydroxy acid-definition, structural formula, preparation, properties and uses of tartaric acid and citric acid |
Definition and scope of Biochemistry |
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| Carbohydrates-definition, classification, structure, and properties, biological importance |
| Lipids-definition, classification, properties and functions, classification of amino acids, essential and non-essential amino acids |
| Enzymes-definition and classification of enzymes, definition and types of coenzyme, specificity of enzyme, isozyme, factors affecting enzyme action, enzyme inhibition |
| Intermediary metabolism-gluconeogenesis, glycogenesis, glycolysis, glycogenolysis, elementary knowledge of protein biosynthesis |
| Nucleic acids-composition, structure, replication of DNA, DNA as a genetic material, different types of RNA and their significance |
| Biological oxidation-oxidative phosphorylation, high energy compounds, structure and role of ATP |
Concept of human development, general principles of development |
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| Factors affecting growth and development-(a) genetic inheritance, (b) environmental prerequisites |
| Beginnings of a new life-prenatal influences on the child, biological risks, age of mother, illness, diet and nutrition, stress and emotional strains, environmental hazards |
| Physical Development |
| Social development |
| Emotional Development |
| Personality development |
Prenatal period |
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| Course of prenatal development, overview of birth process and complications, conditions affecting prenatal development |
| Infancy (0-2 years)-definition and highlights of development |
| Early childhood-definition and characteristics of early childhood, developmental task of early childhood |
| Middle childhood (6-12 years)-definition, importance of peer group |
| Adolescence (13-18 years)-definition, heightened emotionality, problems of drugs and alcohol abuse |
| Young adulthood (19-40 years)-definition, responsibilities and adjustment-parenthood marriage, family |
| Middle adulthood (40-65 years)-physical changes, coping with stress in family |
| Late adulthood (65 years and above)-physiological changes, heath problems, and memory changes, retirement |
Introduction to Mother and Child Health Care |
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| Mortality rate of neonatal and infant, child survival rate at neonatal and infant |
| Prenatal Care of Mother |
| Postnatal care of mother |
| Infant Nutrition |
| Pre-school Nutrition and Immunization Schedule for Infants and Children |
| School child |
| Common nutritional problems in public health-low birth weight, protein energy malnutrition, xerophthalmia, iodine deficiency disorders, endemic fluorosis |
Introduction to Early Childhood Education |
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| Objectives, importance of early childhood years in individual development |
| Motor development |
| Language development |
| Child rearing practices |
| Contribution of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore in Early Childhood Education |
| Views of Fröbel, Maria Montessori, and Rousseau on early childhood education |
| Play-importance, types and factors affecting play |
| Organizing a Pre-School |
Constitutional and Constitutionalism |
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| The distinctive features of the constitution |
| Fundamental rights-public interest litigation; legal aid; legal service authority |
| Relationship between fundamental rights, directive principles, and fundamental rights |
Constitutional position of the President and relation with the Council of Ministers |
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| Governor and his powers |
| Centre, states, and local bodies: (a) Distribution of legislative powers between the union and the states. (b) Local bodies. (c) Administrative relationship among union, state, and local bodies. (d) Eminent domain-state property, community property |
| Legislative powers, privileges, and immunities |
Supreme Court and High Courts |
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| Appointments and transfer |
| Powers, functions, and jurisdiction |
| Services under the union and the states: (a) Recruitment and conditions of services; constitutional safeguards; administrative tribunals. (b) Union public service commission and state public service commission-powers and functions |
| Services under the union and the states: (c) Election commission-powers and functions |
| Emergency provisions |
| Amendment of the constitution |
Principles of natural justice |
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| Emerging trends and judicial approach |
| Delegated legislation and its constitutionality |
| Separation of powers and constitutional governance |
| Judicial review of administrative action |
| Ombudsman: Lokayukta, Lokpal, etc |
Nature and definition of international law |
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| Relationship between international law and municipal law |
| State recognition and state succession |
| Individuals; nationality, statelessness; human rights and procedures available for their enforcement |
Territorial jurisdiction of states, extradition, and asylum |
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| Treaties: formation, application, termination, and reservation |
| United nations: Its principal organs, powers, functions, and reform |
Law of the sea |
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| Inland waters, Territorial sea, Contiguous zone, Continental shelf, Exclusive economic zone, High seas |
| New International economic order and monetary law: WTO, TRIPS, GATT, IMF, World Bank |
| Protection and Improvement of the Human environment: International efforts |
Peaceful settlement of disputes-different modes |
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| Lawful recourse to force: Aggression, self-defense, intervention |
| Fundamental principles of international humanitarian law-international conventional and contemporary developments |
| Legality of the use of nuclear weapons; ban on testing of nuclear weapons; nuclear-non-proliferation treaty, CTBT |
| International terrorism, state sponsored terrorism, hijacking, international criminal court |
| New International economic order and monetary law: WTO, TRIPS, GATT, IMF, World Bank |
| Protection and Improvement of the Human environment: International efforts |
Law of crimes |
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| General principles of criminal liability: Mens rea and actus reus, mens rea in statutory offences |
| Kinds of punishment and emerging trends as to abolition of capital punishment |
| Preparation and Criminal attempt |
| General exceptions |
| Joint and constructive liability |
| Abetment |
| Criminal conspiracy |
| Offences against the state |
| Offences against public tranquility |
| Defamation |
| Offence against Women |
| Offence against human body |
| Offence against Property |
| Prevention of corruption act, 1988 |
| Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 and Subsequent Legislative Development |
| Plea bargaining |
Law of torts |
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| Nature and definition of tort |
| General defenses |
| Joint Tortfeasors |
| Remedies |
| Conspiracy |
| False imprisonment |
| Malicious prosecution |
| Liability based upon fault and strict liability; absolute liability |
| Vicarious liability including state liability |
| Negligence |
| Defamation |
| Nuisance |
| Consumers Protection Act, 1986 |
Law of Contract and Mercantile Law |
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| Nature and formation of contract/ E-contract |
| Factors vitiating free consent |
| Void, voidable, illegal, and unenforceable agreements |
| Performance and discharge of contracts |
| Quasi-contracts |
| Consequences of breach of contract |
| Contract of indemnity, guarantee, and insurance |
| Contract of agency |
| Standard form contracts |
| Sale of Goods and Hire-Purchase |
| Formation and dissolution of partnership |
| Negotiable instruments act, 1881 |
| Arbitration and conciliation act, 1996 |
Contemporary legal developments |
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| Public interest litigation |
| Major statutes concerning environmental law: (a) Environment (protection) act, 1986. (b) Air (protection and control of pollution) act, 1981. (c) Water (protection and control of pollution) act, 1974 |
| Right to information act |
| Trial by media |
| Intellectual property right-concept, types/ prospects |
| Information technology law including cyber laws-concepts, purpose/ prospects |
| Competition law-concepts, purpose/ prospects |
| Alternate dispute resolution-concept, types/ prospect |
Managerial function and process |
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| Concept and foundations of management, evolution of management thoughts; managerial functions-planning, organizing, controlling; decision making; role of manager, managerial skills; management of innovation; managing in a global environment |
| Flexible systems management; social responsibility and managerial ethics; managerial processes on direct and indirect value chain |
Organizational behaviour |
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| Conceptual model of organization behaviour; the individual processes-personality, values and attitude, perception, motivation, learning and reinforcement, work stress and stress management, the dynamics of organization behaviour-power and politics |
Organisational Behaviour |
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| The dynamics of organization behaviour-conflict and negotiation, leadership process and styles, communication |
Organisational process and design |
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| The organizational processes-decision making, job design; classical, neoclassical and contingency approaches to organizational design; organizational theory and design-organizational culture, managing cultural diversity, learning organization |
Organizational process and design |
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| Organizational change and development; knowledge based enterprise-systems and processes; networked and virtual organizations |
Entrepreneurship |
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| Concept of entrepreneurship; theories of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and economic development, factors contributing to entrepreneurship; characteristics of an entrepreneur, entrepreneur vs. manager, types of entrepreneur |
| Creativity and business opportunity; opportunity and competitive advantages, business model and planning |
| Financing an entrepreneurial venture, financing a small business, legal and technical issues in starting a small business, growth strategies and start-up; business failure and turn-around; harvest and exit; entrepreneurship |
| Innovations and Women Entrepreneurship |
Human resource management |
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| HR challenges; HRM functions; the future challenges of HRM; strategic management of human resources; human resource planning; job analysis; job evaluation; recruitment and selection; training and development; promotion and transfer; performance management |
| Compensation management and benefits; employee morale and productivity; management of organizational climate and industrial relations; human resources accounting and audit; human resource information system; international human resource management |
Marketing management |
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| Concept, evolution, and scope; marketing strategy formulation and components of marketing plan; segmenting and targeting the market; positioning and differentiating the market offering; analyzing competition; analyzing consumer markets |
| Industrial buyer behaviour; market research; product strategy; pricing strategies; designing and managing marketing channels; integrated marketing communications; building customer satisfaction, value and retention; services and non-profit marketing |
| Ethics in marketing; consumer protection; internet marketing; retail management |
Accounting for managers |
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| Financial accounting-concept, importance, and scope, generally accepted accounting principles, preparation of financial statements with special reference to analysis of a balance sheet and measurement of business income |
| Preparation of financial statements with special reference to analysis of a inventory valuation and depreciation, financial statement analysis, fund flow analysis, the statement of cash flows; management accounting-concept, need, importance and scope |
| Cost accounting-records and processes, cost ledger and control accounts, reconciliation and integration between financial and cost accounts; overhead cost and control, job and process costing, budget and budgetary control, performance budgeting |
| Zero-base budgeting, relevant costing and costing for decision-making, standard costing and variance analysis, marginal costing and absorption costing |
Financial management |
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| Goals of finance function; concepts of value and return; valuation of bonds and shares; management of working capital: Estimation and financing; management of cash, receivables, inventory and current liabilities; cost of capital; capital budgeting |
| Management of working capital: Financial and operating leverage; design of capital structure: Theories and practices; shareholder value creation: Dividend policy, corporate financial policy and strategy |
| Shareholder value creation: Management of corporate distress and restructuring strategy; capital and money markets: Institutions and instruments; leasing, hire purchase and venture capital; regulation of capital market; risk and return: Portfolio theory |
| Risk and return: CAPM; APT; financial derivatives: Option, futures, swap Recent reforms in financial sector |
Business Statistics |
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| Descriptive statistics-tabular, graphical and numerical methods, introduction to probability, discrete and continuous probability distributions, inferential statistics-sampling distributions, central limit theorem |
| Hypothesis testing for differences between means and proportions, inference about population variances, chi-square and ANOVA, simple correlation and regression, time series and forecasting, index numbers |
Operations research |
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| Overview of operations research, modeling in operations research, applications and scope of operations research, linear programming-graphical and simplex method, duality, sensitivity analysis, transportation-mathematical models |
| Methods of finding initial and optimal solutions, assignment problems-mathematical models, statement of the problems and finding optional solutions |
| Project management-PERT, CPM, steps in PERT, and CPM, crashing, simulation, Markov analysis, decision theory, game theory, queuing theory, simulation |
Production and operations management |
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| Fundamentals of operations management; organizing for production; aggregate production planning, capacity planning, plant design: Process planning, plant size and scale of operations, management of facilities; line balancing |
| Equipment replacement and maintenance; production control; supply chain management-vendor evaluation and audit; statistical process control, flexibility and agility in manufacturing systems; world class manufacturing; project management concepts |
| R and D management, management of service operations; make or buy decision; waste management |
Material and Quality Management |
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| Material management-concept, role, and importance of material management, purchase management, store management, Introduction in to quality management-conceptual framework, strategic quality management, contemporary views |
| TQM-evolutions and issues related to quality control, responsibilities for quality, quality cost concept, quality and productivity, contribution of quality gurus-dancing, juram, cosby, ishikawn and its comparison |
Management information system |
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| Conceptual foundations of information systems; information theory; information resource management; types of information systems; systems development-overview of systems and design; system development management life-cycle |
| Designing for online and distributed environments; implementation and control of project; trends in information technology; managing data resources-organizing data; DSS and RDBMS; enterprise resource planning (ERP), expert systems, e-business architecture |
| E-governance; information systems planning, flexibility in information systems; user involvement; evaluation of information systems |
Government business interface |
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| State participation in business, interaction between government, business and different chambers of commerce and industry in India; government’s policy with regard to small scale industries; government clearances for establishing a new enterprise |
| Public distribution system; government control over price and distribution; consumer protection act (CPA) and the role of voluntary organizations in protecting consumers’ rights; new industrial policy of the government: Liberalization |
| New industrial policy of the government: Deregulation and privatization; Indian planning system; government policy concerning development of backward areas/ regions |
| The responsibilities of the business as well as the government to protect the environment; corporate governance; cyber laws |
Strategic management |
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| Business policy as a field of study; nature and scope of strategic management, strategic intent, vision, objectives and policies; process of strategic planning and implementation; environmental analysis and internal analysis; SWOT analysis |
| Tools and techniques for strategic analysis-impact matrix: The experience curve, BCG matrix, GEC mode, industry analysis, concept of value chain; strategic profile of a firm; framework for analyzing competition; competitive advantage of a firm |
| Generic competitive strategies; growth strategies-expansion, integration and diversification; concept of core competence, strategic flexibility; reinventing strategy; strategy and structure; chief executive and board; turnaround management |
| Management of strategic change; strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions; strategy and corporate evolution in the Indian context |
International business |
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| International business environment: Changing composition of trade in goods and services; India’s foreign trade: Policy and trends; financing of international trade; regional economic cooperation; ftas; internationalisation of service firms |
| International production; operation management in international companies; international taxation; global competitiveness and technological developments; global e-business; designing global organizational structure and control; multicultural management |
| Global business strategy; global marketing strategies; export management; export-import procedures; joint ventures; foreign investment: Foreign direct investment and foreign portfolio investment; cross-border mergers and acquisitions |
| Foreign exchange risk exposure management; world financial markets and international banking; external debt management; country risk analysis |
Linear algebra |
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| Vector spaces over R and C, linear dependence and independence, subspaces, bases, dimension; linear transformations, rank and nullity, matrix of a linear transformation |
| Algebra of matrices; row and column reduction, echelon form, congruence and similarity; rank of a matrix; inverse of a matrix; solution of system of linear equations; Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors, characteristic polynomial, Cayley-Hamilton theorem |
| Symmetric, skew-symmetric, Hermitian, skew-Hermitian, orthogonal and unitary matrices and their Eigenvalues |
Calculus |
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| Real numbers, functions of a real variable, limits, continuity, differentiability, mean-value theorem, Taylor’s theorem with remainders, indeterminate forms, maxima and minima, asymptotes; curve tracing |
| Functions of two or three variables: Limits, continuity, partial derivatives, maxima and minima, Lagrange’s method of multipliers, Jacobian |
Riemann’s definition of definite integrals |
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| Indefinite integrals; infinite and improper integrals; double and triple integrals (evaluation techniques only); areas, surface, and volumes |
Analytic geometry |
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| Cartesian and polar coordinates in three dimensions, second degree equations in three variables, reduction to canonical forms, straight lines, shortest distance between two skew lines; plane, sphere, cone, cylinder, paraboloid, ellipsoid |
| Hyperboloid of one and two sheets and their properties |
Ordinary differential equations |
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| Formulation of differential equations; equations of first order and first degree, integrating factor; orthogonal trajectory; equations of first order but not of first degree, Clairaut’s equation, singular solution |
| Second and higher order linear equations with constant coefficients, complementary function, particular integral and general solution |
| Second order linear equations with variable coefficients, Euler-Cauchy equation; determination of complete solution when one solution is known using method of variation of parameters |
| Laplace and Inverse Laplace transforms and their properties; Laplace transforms of elementary functions |
| Application to initial value problems for 2nd order linear equations with constant coefficients |
Dynamics and statics |
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| Rectilinear motion, simple harmonic motion, motion in a plane, projectiles; constrained motion; work and energy, conservation of energy; Kepler’s laws, orbits under central forces |
Equilibrium of a system of particles |
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| Work and potential energy, friction; common catenary; principle of virtual work; stability of equilibrium, equilibrium of forces in three dimensions |
Vector analysis |
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| Scalar and vector fields, differentiation of vector field of a scalar variable; gradient, divergence and curl in Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates; higher order derivatives; vector identities and vector equations |
| Application to geometry: Curves in space, curvature and torsion; Serret-Frenet formulae |
| Gauss and Stokes’ theorems, Green’s identities |
Algebra |
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| Groups, subgroups, cyclic groups, cosets, Lagrange’s theorem, normal subgroups, quotient groups, homomorphism of groups, basic isomorphism theorems, permutation groups, Cayley’s theorem |
| Rings, subrings, and ideals, homomorphisms of rings; integral domains, principal ideal domains, Euclidean domains and unique factorization domains; fields, quotient fields |
Real analysis |
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| Real number system as an ordered field with least upper bound property; sequences, limit of a sequence, Cauchy sequence, completeness of real line; series and its convergence, absolute and conditional convergence of series of real and complex terms |
| Rearrangement of series |
| Continuity and uniform continuity of functions, properties of continuous functions on compact sets |
| Riemann integral, improper integrals; fundamental theorems of integral calculus |
| Uniform convergence, continuity, differentiability and inerrability for sequences and series of functions; partial derivatives of functions of several (two or three) variables, maxima and minima |
Complex analysis |
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| Analytic functions, Cauchy-Riemann equations, Cauchy’s theorem, Cauchy’s integral formula, power series representation of an analytic function, Taylor’s series; singularities; Laurent’s series; Cauchy’s residue theorem; Contour integration |
Linear programming |
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| Linear programming problems, basic solution, basic feasible solution and optimal solution; graphical method and simplex method of solutions; duality |
| Transportation and assignment problems |
Partial differential equations |
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| Family of surfaces in three dimensions and formulation of partial differential equations; Solution of quasilinear partial differential equations of the first order, Cauchy’s method of characteristics |
| Linear partial differential equations of the second order with constant coefficients, canonical form; equation of a vibrating string, heat equation, Laplace equation and their solutions |
Numerical analysis |
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| Numerical methods: Solution of algebraic and transcendental equations of one variable by bisection, regula-falsi and Newton-Raphson methods; solution of system of linear equations by Gaussian elimination and Gauss-Jordan (direct) |
| Solution of system of linear equations by Gauss-Seidel (iterative) methods |
| Newton’s (forward and backward) interpolation, Lagrange’s interpolation |
| Numerical integration: Trapezoidal rule, Simpson’s rules, Gaussian quadrature formula |
| Numerical solution of ordinary differential equations: Euler and Runga Kutta-methods |
Computer programming |
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| Computer programming: Binary system; arithmetic and logical operations on numbers; octal and hexadecimal systems; conversion to and from decimal systems; algebra of binary numbers |
| Elements of computer systems and concept of memory; basic logic gates and truth tables, Boolean algebra, normal form |
| Representation of unsigned integers, signed integers, and reals, double precision reals and long integers |
| Algorithms and flow charts for solving numerical analysis problems |
Mechanics and fluid dynamics |
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| Generalized coordinates; D'Alembert’s principle and Lagrange’s equations; Hamilton equations; moment of inertia; motion of rigid bodies in two dimensions |
| Equation of continuity; Euler’s equation of motion for inviscid flow; stream-lines, path of a particle; potential flow; two-dimensional and axisymmetric motion; sources and sinks, vortex motion; Navier-Stokes equation for a viscous fluid |
Mechanics |
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| Mechanics of rigid bodies: Equations of equilibrium in space and its application; first and second moments of area; simple problems on friction; kinematics of particles for plane motion; elementary particle dynamics |
| Mechanics of deformable bodies: Generalized Hooke’s law and its application; design problems on axial stress, shear stress and bearing stress; material properties for dynamic loading; bending shear and stresses in beams |
| Mechanics of deformable bodies: Determination of principle stresses and strains-analytical and graphical; compound and combined stresses; biaxial stresses-thin walled pressure vessel; deflection of beam for statically determinate problems |
| Mechanics of deformable bodies: Theories of failure |
Design of Machined Elements |
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| Material behaviour and design factors for dynamic load; design of circular shafts for bending and torsional load only; design of belts and gears for transmission of power |
Engineering materials |
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| Basic concepts on structure of solids; common ferrous and non-ferrous materials and their applications; heat-treatment of steels; non-metals, plastics, composite materials and nano-materials |
Theory of machines |
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| Kinematic and dynamic analysis of plane mechanisms |
| Cams, gears, and epicyclic gear trains, flywheels, governors, balancing of rigid rotors, balancing of single and multi cylinder engines, linear vibration analysis of mechanical systems (single degree of freedom), critical speeds and whirling of shafts |
Conventional Machining |
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| Machine tool engineering-merchant’s force analysis; Taylor’s tool life equation; forming and welding processes; NC and CNC machining processes; jigs and fixtures |
Non-conventional machining |
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| EDM, ECM, ultrasonic, water jet machining; application of lasers and plasmas; energy rate calculations |
Production management |
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| System design: Factory location-simple OR models; plant layout-methods based; applications of engineering economic analysis and break-even analysis for product selection, process selection and capacity planning; predetermined time standards |
| System planning; forecasting methods based on regression and decomposition, design and balancing of multi model and stochastic assembly lines; inventory management-probabilistic inventory models for order time and order quantity determination |
| JIT systems; strategic sourcing; managing inter plant logistics |
Quality control |
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| System operations and control: Scheduling algorithms for job shops; applications of statistical methods for product and process quality control-applications of control charts for mean, range, percent defective, number of defectives and defects per unit |
| System operations and control: Quality cost systems; management of resources, organizations and risks in projects |
| System improvement: Implementation of systems, such as total quality management, developing and managing flexible, lean, and agile organizations |
| Metrology-concept of fits and tolerances; tools and gauges; comparators; inspection of length; position; profile and surface finish |
Thermodynamics |
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| Basic concept of first-law and second law of thermodynamics; concept of entropy and reversibility; availability and unavailability and irreversibility |
Fluid mechanics |
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| Classification and properties of fluids; incompressible and compressible fluids flows; effect of mach number and compressibility; continuity momentum and energy equations; normal and oblique shocks; one dimensional isentropic flow |
| Flow or fluids in duct with frictions that transfer energy |
Gas Dynamics and Turbine |
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| Flow through fans, blowers and compressors; axial and centrifugal flow configuration; design of fans and compressors; single problems compresses and turbine cascade; open and closed cycle gas turbines; work done in the gas turbine; reheat and regenerators |
Heat transfer |
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| Conduction heat transfer-general conduction equation-Laplace, Poisson, and Fourier equations; Fourier law of conduction; one dimensional steady state heat conduction applied to simple wall, solid and hollow cylinder of spheres |
| Convection heat transfer-Newton’s law of convection; free and forced convection; heat transfer during laminar and turbulent flow of an incompressible fluid over a flat plate; concepts of Nusselt number |
| Hydrodynamic and thermal boundary layer their thickness; Prandtl number; analogy between heat and momentum transfer-Reynolds, Colbum, Prandtl analogies; heat transfer during laminar and turbulent flow through horizontal tubes |
| Free convection from horizontal and vertical plates |
| Black body radiation-basic radiation laws such as Stefan-Boltzmann, Planck distribution, Wien’s displacement etc |
| Basic heat exchanger analysis; classification of heat exchangers |
IC engines |
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| Classification, thermodynamic cycles of operation; determination of break power, indicated power, mechanical efficiency, heat balance sheet, interpretation of performance characteristics, petrol, gas and diesel engines |
| Combustion in SI and CI engines, normal and abnormal combustion; effect of working parameters on knocking, reduction of knocking; forms of combustion chamber for SI and CI engines; rating of fuels; additives; emission |
| Different systems of IC engines-fuels; lubricating; cooling and transmission systems |
| Alternate fuels in ic engines |
Steam engineering |
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| Steam generation-modified Rankine cycle analysis; modern steam boilers; steam at critical and supercritical pressures; draught equipment; natural and artificial draught; boiler fuels solid, liquid and gaseous fuels |
| Steam turbines-principle; types; compounding; impulse and reaction turbines; axial thrust |
| Steam nozzles-flow of steam in convergent and divergent nozzle; pressure at throat for maximum discharge with different initial steam conditions such as wet, saturated and superheated, effect of variation of back pressure |
| Supersaturated flow of steam in nozzles, Wilson line |
| Rankine cycle with internal and external irreversibility; reheat factor; reheating and regeneration, methods of governing; back pressure and pass out turbines |
| Steam power plants-combined cycle power generation; heat recovery steam generators (HRSG) fired and unfired, co-generation plants |
Water pumps and turbines |
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| Various types of pumps, reciprocating pump; centrifugal pump; axial flow pump and jet pump |
| Classification of water turbines |
| Impulse turbine (Pelton wheel); inward flow reaction turbine (Francis turbine) and axial flow reaction turbine (Kaplan turbine) |
Refrigeration and air-conditioning |
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| Vapour compression refrigeration cycle-cycle on p-H and T-s diagrams; eco friendly refrigerants-R134a,123; systems like evaporators, condensers, compressor, expansion devices |
| Simple vapour absorption systems |
| Psychrometry-properties; processes; charts; sensible heating and cooling; humidification and dehumidification effective temperature; air-conditioning load calculation; simple duct design |
General medicine |
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| Etiology, clinical features, diagnosis and principles of management (including prevention) of: Tetanus, rabies, AIDS, dengue, kala-azar, Japanese encephalitis |
| Etiology, clinical features, diagnosis, and principles of management of: Ischaemic heart disease, pulmonary embolism. Bronchial asthma. Pleural effusion, tuberculosis, malabsorption syndromes, acid peptic diseases, viral hepatitis, and cirrhosis of liver |
| Etiology, clinical features, diagnosis, and principles of management of: Glomerulonephritis and pyelonephritis, renal failure, nephrotic syndrome, renovascular hypertension, complications of diabetes mellitus, coagulation disorders, leukemia |
| Etiology, clinical features, diagnosis, and principles of management of: Hypo and hyperthyroidism, meningitis and encephalitis |
Pharmacology |
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| Mechanism of action and side effects of the following drugs: Antipyretics and analgesics, antibiotics, antimalaria; anti kala azar, antidiabetics, antihypertensive, antidiuretics, general and cardiac vasodilators, antiviral, antiparasitic, antifungal |
| Mechanism of action and side effects of the following drugs: Immunosuppressant, anticancer |
Dermatology |
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| Psoriasis, allergic dermatitis, scabies, eczema, vitiligo, Steven Johnson syndrome, Lichen planus |
Psychiatry and radio diagnosis |
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| Imaging in medical problems, ultrasound, echocardiogram, CT scan, MRI |
| Anxiety and depressive psychosis and schizophrenia and ect |
Paediatrics |
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| Immunization, baby friendly hospital, congenital cyanotic heart disease, respiratory distress syndrome, bronchopneumonias, kernicterus |
| IMNCI Classification and Management, Pem grading and Management |
| Ari and Diarrhoea of under five and their Management |
Pathology |
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| Inflammation and Repair, Disturbances of Growth and Cancer, Pathogenesis and Histopathology of Rheumatic and Ischemic Heart Disease and Diabetes Mellitus |
| Differentiation between benign, malignant, primary and metastatic malignancies, pathogenesis, and histopathology of bronchogenic carcinoma, carcinoma breast, oral cancer, cancer cervix, leukaemia, etiology |
| Pathogenesis and histopathology of-cirrhosis liver, glomerulonephritis, tuberculosis, acute osteomyelitis |
Community medicine (Preventive and social medicine) |
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| Principles, methods, approach and measurements of epidemiology nutrition, nutritional disease/ disorders and nutrition programmers |
| Health information collection, analysis, and presentation |
| Objectives, components, and critical analysis of national programmes for control/ eradication of: Malaria, Kala-Azar, filaria, and tuberculosis, HIV/ AIDS, STDs, and dengue critical appraisal of health care delivery system |
| Health management and administration: Techniques, tools, programme implementation and evaluation |
| Objective, component, goals and status of reproductive and child health, national rural health mission and millennium development goals, management of hospital and industrial waste |
Human physiology |
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| Conduction and transmission of impulse, mechanism of contraction, neuromuscular transmission, reflexes, control of equilibrium, posture and muscle tone, descending pathways, functions of cerebellum, basal ganglia, Physiology of sleep and consciousness |
| Endocrine system: Mechanism of action of hormones, formation, secretion, transport, metabolism, function and regulation of secretion of pancreas and pituitary gland |
| Physiology of reproductive system: menstrual cycle, lactation, pregnancy |
| Blood: Development, regulation and fate of blood cells |
| Cardiovascular, cardiac output, blood pressure, regulation of cardiovascular functions |
General surgery |
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| Clinical Features, Causes, Diagnosis and Principles of Management of Cleft Palate, Harelip |
| Laryngeal tumour, oral, and oesophageal tumours |
| Peripheral arterial diseases, varicose veins, coarctation of aorta tumours of thyroid, adrenal glands abscess, cancer, fibroadenoma, and adenosis of breast |
| Bleeding Peptic Ulcer, Tuberculosis of Bowel, Ulcerative Colitis, Cancer Stomach |
| Renal mass, cancer prostate, haemothorax, stones of gallbladder, kidney, ureter and urinary bladder |
| Management of surgical conditions of rectum, anus, and anal canal, gallbladder and bile ducts splenomegaly, cholecystitis, portal hypertension, liver abscess, peritonitis, carcinoma head of pancreas |
Forensic medicine and toxicology |
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| Forensic examination of injuries and wounds; examination of blood and seminal stains; poisoning, sedative overdose, hanging, drowning, burns, DNA and fingerprint study |
Human anatomy |
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| Applied anatomy including blood and nerve supply of upper and lower limbs and joints of shoulder, hip and knee |
| Gross anatomy, blood supply and lymphatic drainage of tongue, thyroid, mammary gland, stomach, liver, prostate, gonads and uterus, applied anatomy of diaphragm, perineum and inguinal region |
| Clinical anatomy of Kidney, Urinary bladder, Uterine tubes, Vas deferens |
| Embryology: Placenta and placental barrier. Development of heart, gut, kidney, uterus, ovary, testis and their common congenital abnormalities |
| Central and peripheral autonomic nervous system: Gross and clinical anatomy of ventricles of brain, circulation of cerebrospinal fluid; neural pathways and lesions of cutaneous sensations, hearing and vision; cranial nerves |
| Central and peripheral autonomic nervous system: Distribution and clinical significance; components of autonomic nervous system |
Orthopaedics, endoscopy, and laparoscopic surgery |
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| Fractures of spine, colles’ fracture and bone tumours |
| Endoscopy laparoscopic surgery |
Obstetrics and Diagnosis of pregnancy |
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| Labour management, complications of 3rd stage, antepartum and postpartum haemorrhage, resuscitation of the newborn, management of abnormal lie and difficult labour, management of small for date or premature newborn |
| Diagnosis and management of anaemia |
| Preeclampsia and toxaemias of pregnancy |
Gynaecology including Family Planning |
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| Management of post menopausal syndrome |
| Intrauterine devices, pills, tubectomy, and vasectomy |
| Medical termination of pregnancy including legal aspects |
| Cancer cervix |
| Leucorrhoea, pelvic pain, infertility, dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB), amenorrhoea, fibroid and prolapse of uterus |
Biochemistry |
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| Organ function tests-liver, kidney, thyroid, protein synthesis |
| Vitamins and minerals |
| Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) |
| Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) |
| Radio-immunoassays (RIA) |
Microbiology |
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| Humoral and cell mediated immunity |
| Diseases caused by and laboratory diagnosis of-meningococcus, salmonella, shigella, herpes, dengue, polio, HIV/ AIDS, malaria, E. Histolytica, giardia, candida, cryptococcus, aspergillus |
Plato and Aristotle |
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| Idiqs; substance; form and matter; causation; actuality and potentiality rationalism (descates, spinoza, leibniz): Cartesian method and certain knowledge; substance; god; mind-body dualism; determinism and freedom |
Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume) |
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| Theory of knowledge; substance and qualities; self of God; scepticism |
| Kant: Possibility of synthetic a priori judgments; space and time; categories; ideas of reason; antinomies; critique of proofs for the existence of God |
| Moore, Russell, and early Wittgenstein: Defence of common sense,; refutation of idealism; logical atomism; logical constructions; incomplete symbols; picture theory of meaning; saying and showing |
Hegel |
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| Dialectical method; absolute idealism |
| Logical positivism: Verification theory of meaning; rejection of metaphysics; linguistic theory of necessary propositions |
| Later Wittgenstein: Meaning and use; language games; critique of private language |
Phenomenology (Husserl) |
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| Method; theory of essences; avoidance of psychologism |
| Existentialism (Kierkegaard, Sartre, Heidegger): Existence and essence; choice, responsibility and authentic existence; being-in-the world and temporality |
| Quine and strawson: Critique of empiricism; theory of basic particulars and persons |
Charvaka |
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| Theory of knowledge; rejection of transcendent entities |
| Jainism: Theory of reality; saptabhan (ginaya; bondage and liberation) |
Schools of Buddhism |
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| Pratityasamutpada; Ksanikavada, Nairatmyavada |
| Nyaya-Vaisesika: theory of categories; theory of appearance; theory of prama-na; self, liberation; God; proofs for the existence of God; theory of causation; atomistic theory of creation |
Samkhya |
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| Prakriti; purusa; causation; liberation yoga: Citta; citta vrtti; klesas; samadhi; kaivalya |
| Mimamsa: Theory of knowledge |
Schools of Vedanta |
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| Brahman; i-s’vara; a-tman; jagat; ma-ya; avidya; dhya-sa; moksa; aprthaksiddhi; pancavidhabheda |
| Aurobindo: Evolution, involution; integral yoga |
Social and political ideals |
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| Equality, justice, liberty |
| Sovereignty: Austin, Bodin, Laski, Kautilya |
Individual and state |
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| Rights; duties, and accountability |
| Forms of Government: Monarchy; Theocracy and Democracy |
| Political ideologies: Anarchism |
Marxism and socialism |
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| Humanism; Secularism; Multiculturalism |
| Crime and punishment: Corruption, mass violence |
Genocide, capital punishment |
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| Development and social progress |
| Gender discrimination: Female foeticide, land and property rights; empowerment |
| Caste Discrimination: Gandhi and Ambedkar |
Notions of God |
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| Attributes; relation to man and the world (Indian and Western) |
| Proofs for the Existence of God and their Critique (Indian and Western) |
| Problem of evil |
Soul |
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| Immortality; rebirth and liberation |
| Reason, revelation, and faith |
Religious experience |
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| Nature and object (Indian and Western) |
| Religion without god |
| Religion and morality |
Religious pluralism and the problem of absolute truth |
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| Nature of religious language: Analogical |
Mechanics of particles |
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| Mechanics of particles: Laws of motion; conservation of energy and momentum, applications to rotating frames, centripetal and Coriolis accelerations; motion under a central force; conservation of angular momentum, Kepler’s laws; fields and potentials |
| Mechanics of particles: Gravitational field and potential due to spherical bodies, Gauss and Poisson equations, gravitational self-energy; two-body problem; reduced mass; Rutherford scattering; centre of mass and laboratory reference frames |
Mechanics of rigid bodies and of continuous media |
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| Mechanics of rigid bodies: System of particles; centre of mass, angular momentum, equations of motion; conservation theorems for energy, momentum and angular momentum; elastic and inelastic collisions; rigid body; degrees of freedom, Euler’s theorem |
| Mechanics of rigid bodies: Angular velocity, angular momentum, moments of inertia, theorems of parallel and perpendicular axes, equation of motion for rotation; molecular rotations (as rigid bodies); di and triatomic molecules; precessional motion |
| Mechanics of rigid bodies: Top, gyroscope |
| Mechanics of continuous media: Elasticity, Hooke’s law and elastic constants of isotropic solids and their inter-relation; streamline (laminar) flow, viscosity, Poiseuille’s equation, Bernoulli’s equation, Stokes’ law and applications |
Special relativity |
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| Special relativity: Michelson-Morley experiment and its implications; Lorentz transformations-length contraction, time dilation, addition of relativistic velocities, aberration and Doppler effect, mass-energy relation |
| Special relativity: Simple applications to a decay process; four dimensional momentum vector; covariance of equations of physics |
Thermal and statistical physics |
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| Thermodynamics: Laws of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes, entropy; Isothermal, adiabatic, isobaric, isochoric processes, and entropy changes; otto and diesel engines, Gibbs’ phase rule and chemical potential |
| Thermodynamics: Van Der Waals equation of state of a real gas, critical constants; Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of molecular velocities, transport phenomena, equipartition and viral theorems; Dulong-Petit |
| Thermodynamics: Einstein, and Debye theories of specific heat of solids; Maxwell relations and applications; Clausius-Clapeyron equation; adiabatic demagnetisation, Joule-Kelvin effect and liquefaction of gases |
| Statistical Physics: Macro and micro states, statistical distributions, Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distributions, applications to specific heat of gases and blackbody radiation; concept of negative temperatures |
Waves, geometrical optics and interference |
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| Waves: Simple harmonic motion, damped oscillation, forced oscillation, and resonance; beats; stationary waves in a string; pulses and wave packets; phase and group velocities; reflection and refraction from Huygens’ principle |
| Geometrical optics: Laws of reflection and refraction from Fermat’s principle; matrix method thin lens formula, nodal planes, system of two thin lenses, chromatic and in paraxial optics-spherical aberrations |
| Interference: Interference of light-Young’s experiment, Newton’s rings, interference by thin films, Michelson interferometer; multiple beam interference and Fabry-Perot interferometer |
Diffraction, polarization, and modern optics |
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| Diffraction: Fraunhofer diffraction-single slit, double slit, diffraction grating, resolving power; by a circular aperture and the airy pattern; Fresnel diffraction: Half-period zones diffraction and zone plates, circular aperture |
| Polarization and modern optics: Production and detection of linearly and circularly polarized wave plate; optical activity; principles of fiber optics, attenuation; light; double refraction |
| Polarization and modern optics: Quarter pulse dispersion in step index and parabolic index fibers; material dispersion, single mode fibers; lasers-Einstein A and B coefficients; ruby and He-Ne lasers |
| Polarization and modern optics: Characteristics of laser light-spatial and temporal coherence; focusing of laser beams; three-level scheme for laser operation; holography and simple applications |
Electrostatics, magneto statistics, and current electricity |
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| Electrostatics and magnetostatics: Laplace and Poisson equations in electrostatics and their applications; energy of a system of charges, multipole expansion of scalar potential; method of images and its applications |
| Electrostatics and magnetostatics: Potential and field due to a dipole, force and torque on a dipole in an external field; dielectrics, polarization; solutions to boundary-value problems-conducting and dielectric spheres in a uniform electric field |
| Electrostatics and magnetostatics: Magnetic shell, uniformly magnetized sphere; ferromagnetic materials, hysteresis, energy loss |
| Current electricity: Kirchhoff’s laws and their applications; Biot-Savart law, Ampere’s law, Faraday’s law, Lenz’ law; self-and mutual-inductances; mean and RMS values in AC circuits; DC and AC circuits with R, L, and C components |
| Current electricity: Series and parallel resonances; quality factor; principle of transformer |
Electromagnetic waves and blackbody radiation |
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| Electromagnetic waves and blackbody radiation: Displacement current and Maxwell’s equations; wave equations in vacuum, poynting theorem; vector and scalar potentials; electromagnetic field tensor, covariance of Maxwell’s equations |
| Electromagnetic waves and blackbody radiation: Wave equations in isotropic dielectrics, reflection and refraction at the boundary of two dielectrics; Fresnel’s relations; total internal reflection; normal and anomalous dispersion; Rayleigh scattering |
| Electromagnetic waves and blackbody radiation: Blackbody radiation and Planck’s radiation law, Stefan-Boltzmann law, Wien’s displacement law and Rayleigh-Jeans’ law |
Basic quantum mechanics |
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| Wave-particle duality; Schrödinger equation and expectation values; uncertainty principle; solutions of the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation for a free particle (Gaussian wave-packet), particle in a box, particle in a finite well |
Advance quantum mechanics |
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| Linear harmonic oscillator; reflection and transmission by a step potential and by a rectangular barrier; particle in a three dimensional box, density of states, free electron theory of metals; angular momentum, hydrogen atom; spin half particles |
| Properties of pauli spin matrices |
| Atomic physics: Stern-Gerlach experiment, electron spin, fine structure of hydrogen atom; L-S coupling, J-J coupling; spectroscopic notation of atomic states; Zeeman effect; Franck-Condon principle and applications |
Molecular physics |
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| Elementary theory of rotational, vibrational and electronic spectra of diatomic molecules; Raman effect and molecular structure; Laser Raman spectroscopy; importance of neutral hydrogen atom, molecular hydrogen and molecular hydrogen ion in astronomy |
| Fluorescence and phosphorescence; elementary theory and applications of NMR and EPR; elementary ideas about lamb shift and its significance |
Nuclear physics |
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| Basic nuclear properties-size, binding energy, angular momentum, parity, magnetic moment; semi-empirical mass formula and applications, mass parabolas; ground state of deuteron, magnetic moment and non-central forces; Meson theory of nuclear forces |
| Salient features of nuclear forces; shell model of the nucleus-successes and limitations; violation of parity in beta decay; gamma decay and internal conversion; elementary ideas about Mossbauer spectroscopy; Q-value of nuclear reactions |
| Nuclear fission and fusion, energy production in stars; nuclear reactors |
Particle physics |
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| Classification of elementary particles and their interactions; conservation laws; quark structure of hadrons; field quanta of electroweak and strong interactions; elementary ideas about unification of forces; physics of neutrinos |
Solid state physics |
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| Crystalline and amorphous structure of matter; different crystal systems, space groups; methods of determination of crystal structure; X-ray diffraction, scanning and transmission electron microscopies; band theory of solids-conductors |
| Insulators and semiconductors; thermal properties of solids, specific heat, Debye theory; magnetism: Dia, para, and ferromagnetism; elements of superconductivity, Meissner effect, Josephson junctions and applications |
| Elementary ideas about high temperature superconductivity |
Electronics |
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| Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors; p-n-p and n-p-n transistors; amplifiers and oscillators; op-amps; FET, JFET, and MOSFET; digital electronics-Boolean identities, De Morgan’s laws, logic gates and truth tables; simple logic circuits |
| Thermistors, solar cells; fundamentals of microprocessors and digital computers |
Political theory |
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| Meaning and approaches |
| Theories of the state: Liberal, Neo-Liberal, Marxist, Pluralist, Post-Colonial |
| Justice: Conceptions of justice with special reference to Rawl’s theory of justice and its communitarian critiques |
| Equality: Social, political, and economic; relationship between equality and freedom; affirmative action |
| Rights: Meaning and theories; different kinds of rights; concept of human rights |
Democracy |
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| Classical and contemporary theories; different models of democracy-representative, participatory, and deliberative |
| Concept of welfare state-various dimensions |
| Political Ideologies; Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism, Democratic Socialism |
Indian political thought |
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| Kautilya, arthashastra, the theory of government, power and functions of the rulers; Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, M.N. Roy, Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
Western political thought |
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| Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Karl Marx |
Indian government and politics |
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| Indian nationalism: (a) Political strategies of India’s freedom struggle-constitutionalism to mass satyagraha, non-cooperation, civil disobedience, militant and revolutionary movements |
| Indian nationalism: (b) Making of the Indian constitution-ideology and philosophy, legacies of the British rule; sources of the Indian constitution |
Salient Features of the Indian Constitution |
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| The preamble, fundamental rights and duties, directive principles, parliamentary system, amendment procedures, judicial review |
| Principal organs of the union government: Envisaged role and actual working of the executive, legislature, and supreme court |
| Principal organs of the state government: Envisaged role and actual working of the executive, legislature, and high courts |
Grassroots Democracy |
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| Panchayati Raj and municipal government; significance of the 73rd and 74th amendments; grassroot movements |
| Statutory institutions/ commission: Election commission, comptroller and auditor general, finance commission, union public service commission, national commission for women, national human rights commission, national commission for minorities |
| Federalism: Constitutional provisions; changing nature of centre-state relations, inter-state disputes |
Planning and economic development |
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| Liberalization and privatization; role of planning and public sector, poverty alleviation and development |
| Casteism, communalism, and ethnicity in Indian politics |
| Party system: National and regional political parties, ideological and social bases of parties, patterns of coalition politics; pressure groups; trends in electoral behavior |
| Social movements: Women’s movements; students’ movements, peasants, and workers’ movements |
Comparative politics |
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| State in comparative perspective: Characteristics and changing nature of the state in capitalist and socialist economies and advance industrial and developing societies |
| The British political system: Rule of law, conventions, monarchy, and parliamentary government |
| Federal system, separation of powers, the congress, executive, and judicial system in the USA |
| The Swiss government: Federal assembly, Federal council and Federal tribunal, Direct democracy |
| People republic of China: Political development, NPC, president of PRC, state council |
Globalization, new International world order, terrorism |
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| Approaches to the study of international relations: idealist, realist, Marxist, functionalist and systems theories |
Key concepts in International Relations |
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| National interest, collective security, national power, balance of power, and diplomacy |
| Changing international political order: Rise of superpowers; arms control and cold war, disarmament |
United nations |
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| Envisaged role and actual record; specialized UN agencies-aims and functioning; working and future prospects of the UN |
Regionalization of world politics |
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| ASEAN, APEC, NAFTA |
| Contemporary global concerns: Democracy, human rights, environment, nuclear proliferation |
India and the world |
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| Indian foreign policy: Determinants of foreign policy; institutions of policy-making; continuity and change |
| India and the nuclear question: Changing perceptions and policy |
India and the South Asia |
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| India and SAARC countries, role of SAARC in South Asian politics, India’s “look east” policy |
| Impediments to regional cooperation: River water disputes; illegal cross-border migration, ethnic conflicts and insurgencies, border disputes |
India and the UN |
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| Role in UN peacekeeping, demand for permanent seat in the security council |
| Recent developments in Indian Foreign policy: India’s position on the recent crises in Afghanistan and West Asia; vision of a new world order |
Introduction: Psychology as a science |
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| Definitions and perspective |
| Psychology in relation to other social and natural sciences |
| Use of interdisciplinary approach |
Methods of psychology |
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| Characteristics and Components of methods in psychology (induction, deduction, and introspection) |
| Observation, survey, laboratory, and field experiments |
| Clinical and case study |
| Experimental and quasi experimental methods |
| Research methods and quantitative analysis: Major steps in psychological research (problem statement, hypothesis formulation, research design, sampling, tools of data collection, analysis, and interpretation and report writing) |
| Research methods and quantitative analysis: Fundamental versus applied research. Methods of data collection (interview, observation, questionnaire, and case study). Research designs (ex-post facto and experimental) |
| Research methods and quantitative analysis: Application of statistical techniques (t-test, one-way ANOVA correlation and regression and chi-square tests) |
Development of human behaviour |
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| The nature, origin, and development |
| Role of genetic and environmental factors in determining human behaviour |
| Influence of cultural factors and socialization |
| Life span development-the critical periods and their handling, mastery of the developmental tasks |
| Influence of child rearing practices and its impact on the growth and development of the individual |
Attention, sensation, and perception |
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| Attention-factors, influencing attention including set and characteristics of stimulus |
| Sensation-concepts of threshold, absolute and difference thresholds, signal detection and vigilance |
| Definition and concept of perception, biological factors in perception |
| Perceptual organization-influence of past experiences, perceptual defence-factors influencing |
| Space and depth perception, size estimation, and perceptual readiness |
| Learning: Concepts and theories of learning (Pavlov, Skinner, and Piaget). The processes of extinction, discrimination, and generalization. Programmed learning, probability learning, self instructional learning |
| Learning: Concepts, types, and the schedules of reinforcement. Modelling and social learning |
| Memory: Concepts and definition of memory and forgetting, 7+/-2 concept and chunking encoding, storage and retrieval. Factors influencing retention and forgetting. Theories of forgetting (repression, decay, and interference theories) |
| Memory: The concept of reminiscence |
Personality |
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| Concept and definition of personality |
| Theories of personality (psychoanalytical, socio-cognitive, interpersonal, and developmental, humanistic, behaviouristic, trait and type approaches) |
| Measurement of personality (projective tests, pencil-paper test) |
| The indian approach to personality |
| Training for personality development |
| Attitudes, values, and interests: Definitions, concepts of attitudes, values and interests. Components of attitudes, values, and interests. Formation and maintenance of attitudes. Measurement of attitudes, values, and interests |
| Attitudes, values, and interests: Theories of attitudes, and attitudes changes, strategies for fostering values |
| Motivation and emotion: Definition and concepts. Theories and physiological basis of motivation and emotion. Measurement of motivation and emotion motivation and emotion-their effects on behavior |
Thinking and problem solving |
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| Concept formation processes |
| Reasoning and problem solving |
| Creative thinking and fostering creativity |
| Information processing |
| Decision making and judgment |
| Intelligence and aptitude: Concept and definition of Intelligence and aptitude, nature and theories of intelligence. Measurement of intelligence and aptitude, concepts and measurement of emotional and multiple intelligence |
Language and communication |
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| Human language-properties, structure and linguistic hierarchy, language acquisition-predisposition, critical period hypothesis |
| Theories of language development (Skinner, Chomsky), process and types of communication |
| Effective communication and training |
Recent trends |
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| Computer application in the psychological laboratory and psychological testing |
| Artificial intelligence |
| Psycho Cybernetics |
| Study of consciousness-sleep-wake schedules; dreams, stimulus deprivation, meditation, hypnotic/ drug induced states |
| Extrasensory perception |
| Inter sensory perception, simulation studies |
Psychological measurement of individual difference |
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| The nature of individual differences |
| Characteristics and construction of standardized psychological tests |
| Types of psychological tests |
| Use, misuse and limitation of psychological tests |
| Ethical issues in the use of psychological tests |
Well being and mental disorders |
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| Concept of health, positive health, well being and ill health |
| Mental disorders (anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia, and delusional disorders; personality disorders, substance abuse disorders) |
| Causal factors in Mental disorders |
| Assessment and diagnosis: DSM IV and other tool |
| Factors influencing positive health, well being, lifestyle and quality of life |
| Therapeutic approaches: Psychodynamic therapies. Behaviour therapies. Client centered therapy. Cognitive therapies. Indigenous therapies (yoga, Reiki, meditation) biofeedback therapy. Prevention and rehabilitation of the mentally ill |
Work psychology and organizational behaviour |
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| Personnel selection and training |
| Use of psychological tests in the industry |
| Training and human resource development |
| Theories of work motivation |
| Leadership and participatory management |
| Advertising and Marketing, Stress and its Management |
| Community psychology: Definition and concept of community psychology. Role of community psychologists in social change. Use of small groups in social action. Arousing community consciousness and action for handling social problems |
| Community psychology: Group decision making and leadership for social change |
| Rehabilitation psychology: Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention programmes-role of psychologists. Organizing of services for rehabilitation of physically, mentally, and socially challenged persons including old persons |
| Rehabilitation psychology: Rehabilitation of persons suffering from substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, criminal behaviours. Rehabilitation of victims of violence. Rehabilitation of HIV/ AIDS victims |
Application of psychology to educational field |
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| Psychological principles underlying effective teaching-learning process; learning styles gifted, retarded, learning disabled and their training |
| Training for improving memory and better academic achievement |
| Personality development and value education, educational, vocational guidance, and career counseling |
| Use of psychological tests in educational institutions |
Application of psychology to disadvantaged groups |
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| The concepts of disadvantaged, deprivation and socially deprived |
| Social, physical, cultural, and economic consequences of disadvantaged and deprived groups |
| Educating and motivating the disadvantaged towards development |
| Application of psychology in the field of defence: The concept of military psychology, aviation psychology, and psychological warfare, role of military psychologists in the defence. Selection, recruitment, and training of personnel |
| Application of psychology in the field of defence: Facilitating the process of adjustment of personnel to military life-role of counselling. Devising psychological tests for defence personnel. Psychological disorders due to war |
| Application of psychology in the field of defence: Human engineering in defence |
| Application of psychology in information technology and mass media: The present scenario of information technology and the mass media boom and the role of psychologists |
| Application of psychology in information technology and mass media: Selection and training of psychology professionals to work in the field of it and mass media. Distance learning through it and mass media. Entrepreneurship through ecommerce |
| Application of psychology in information technology and mass media: Multilevel marketing. Impact of TV and fostering value through it and mass media. Psychological consequences of recent developments in information technology |
Psychological and the problem of social integration |
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| The concept of social integration |
| The problem of caste, class, religion, and language conflicts and prejudice |
| Nature and manifestation of prejudice between the in-group and out-group |
| Causal factors of such conflicts and prejudices |
| Psychological strategies for handling the conflicts and prejudices |
| Measures to achieve social integration |
Psychology and economic development |
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| Achievement motivation and economic development |
| Characteristics of entrepreneurial behaviour |
| Motivating and training people for entrepreneurship and economic development |
| Women entrepreneurs |
| Consumer rights and consumer courts |
Application of psychology to environment and related fields |
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| Environmental psychology-effects of noise, pollution, and crowding |
| Population psychology-psychological consequences of population explosion and high population density |
| Motivating for small family norms |
| Impact of rapid scientific and technological growth on degradation of environment |
Other applications of psychology |
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| Counselling psychology-group counselling, family and marital counselling, counselling the socially disadvantaged |
| Sports psychology improving performance of sports, personnel, psychology, and understanding of political behaviour |
| Voting behaviours |
| Psychology of corruption and strategies to deal with psychology of terrorism |
Introduction |
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| Meaning, scope, and significance of public administration; Wilson’s vision of public administration; evolution of the discipline and its present status; new public administration; public choice approach; challenges of liberalization, privatization |
| Challenges of globalization; good governance: Concept and application; new public management |
Administrative thought |
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| Scientific management and scientific management movement; classical theory; Weber’s bureaucratic model-its critique and post-Weberian developments; dynamic administration (Mary Parker Follett); human relations school (Elton Mayo and others) |
| Functions of the executive (C.I. Barnard); Simon’s decision-making theory; participative management (R. Likert, C.Argyris, D.McGregor) |
Administrative behaviour and organizational patterns |
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| Process and techniques of decision-making; communication; morale; motivation theories-content, process and contemporary; theories of leadership, ministries and departments, corporations, companies, boards and commissions; Ad hoc and advisory bodies |
| Headquarters and field relationships; regulatory authorities; public-private partnerships |
Accountability-control and administrative law |
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| Concepts of accountability and control; legislative, executive, and judicial control over administration; citizen and administration; role of media, interest groups, voluntary organizations; civil society; citizen’s charters; right to information |
| Social audit |
| Administrative law-meaning, scope, and significance; delegated legislation; administrative tribunals |
Comparative public administration and development dynamics |
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| Historical and sociological factors affecting administrative systems; administration and politics in different countries; current status of comparative public administration; ecology and administration; riggsian models and their critique |
| Concept of development; changing profile of development administration; ‘anti-development thesis’; bureaucracy and development; strong state versus the market debate; impact of liberalization on administration in developing countries |
| Women and development-their participation in political leadership |
Personnel administration |
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| Importance of human resource development; recruitment, training, career advancement, position classification, discipline, performance appraisal, promotion, pay and service conditions; employer-employee relations, grievance redressal mechanism |
| Code of conduct; administrative ethics |
Public policy and techniques of administrative improvement |
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| Models of policy-making and their critique; processes of conceptualization, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review and their limitations; state theories and public policy formulation |
| Organization and methods, work study and work management; e-governance and information technology; management aid tools like network analysis, MIS, PERT, CPM |
Financial administration |
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| Monetary and fiscal policies; public borrowings and public debt budgets-types and forms; budgetary process; financial accountability; accounts and audit |
Evolution of Indian administration |
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| Kautilya’s arthashastra; Mughal administration; legacy of British rule in politics and administration-Indianization of public services, revenue administration, district administration, local self-government |
| Philosophical and constitutional framework of government-salient features and value premises; constitutionalism; political culture; bureaucracy and democracy |
Union government and administration |
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| Executive, parliament, judiciary-structure, functions, work processes; recent trends; intergovernmental relations; cabinet secretariat; prime minister’s office; central secretariat; ministries and departments; boards and commissions; attached offices |
| Field organizations; forms of public sector undertakings |
State government and administration |
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| Union-state administrative, legislative and financial relations; role of the finance commission; governor; chief minister; council of ministers; chief secretary; state secretariat; directorates |
| District administration since independence-changing role of the collector; union-state-local relations; imperatives of development management and law and order administration; district administration and democratic decentralization |
Civil services |
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| Constitutional position; structure, recruitment, training and capacity building; good governance initiatives; code of conduct and discipline; staff associations; political rights; grievance redressal mechanism; civil service neutrality |
| Civil service activism |
| Administrative reforms since independence: Major concerns; important committees and commissions; reforms in financial management and human resource development and problems of implementation |
Planning and financial management |
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| Budget as a political instrument; parliamentary control of public expenditure; role of finance ministry; accounting techniques; audit; role of controller general of accounts and comptroller and auditor general of India |
| Machinery of planning; role, composition and functions of the planning commission and the national development council; ‘indicative’ planning; process of plan formulation at union and state levels |
| Constitutional amendments (1992) and Decentralized planning for Economic Development and Social Justice |
Rural and urban local bodies |
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| Institutions and agencies since independence; rural development programmes: Foci and strategies; decentralization and panchayati raj; 73rd constitutional amendment |
| Municipal governance: Main features, structures, finance and problem areas; 74th constitutional amendment; district planning committee; global-local debade |
Law and order administration |
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| British legacy; national police commission; investigative agencies; role of central and state agencies including paramilitary forces in maintenance of law and order and countering insurgency and terrorism; criminalization of politics and administration |
| Police-public relations; reforms in police |
Significant issues in Indian administration |
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| Values in public service; regulatory commissions; national human rights commission; problems of administration in coalition regimes; citizen administration interface; corruption and administration; disaster management |
Sociology-the discipline |
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| Social conditions in Europe for the emergence of sociology, nature and subject matter of sociology, scope and theoretical perspectives of sociology, relations with other social science |
Sociological concepts |
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| Culture: Elements, transmission, diffusion, cultural lag, socialization: Stages, agencies, social control: Functions, types, agencies, social groups: Primary, secondary, reference groups |
Marriage, family, and kinship |
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| Marriage, types of marriage, functions of marriage, family, types of family, functions of family, changing family structure, kinship, types of kinship, rules of descent, lineage |
Social stratification, and mobility |
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| Social stratification, features, determinants, concepts-equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty, and deprivation, theories of social stratification, functionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory |
| Social mobility, open and closed systems, types of mobility, factors and barriers of social mobility |
Sociological Thoughts |
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| Emile Durkheim-division of labour, social fact, religion, and society, Karl Marx-historical materialism, alienation, class struggle, Max Weber-ideal types, social action, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism |
| Talcott Parsons-social system, pattern variables |
| Robert k. Merton- Latent and manifest functions, reference groups |
Research methods |
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| Research design, types of research, variables, hypothesis, sampling, elements and steps of scientific research, techniques of data collection, problem of objectivity and value neutrality |
Economic, political, and religious institutions |
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| Politics: Nation, state, democracy, civil society, sociological theories of power, power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups, and political parties |
| Economies: Features of primitive economy, work and occupation in society, organization of work in industrial/ capitalist society, religion: Types of religious practices-animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults |
| Religion and Science, Contemporary trends in religion |
Social change |
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| Social change, nature, and characteristics, development, progress, theories of social change, evolutionary, functional, conflict, cyclical, factors of social change: Education, science, and technology, social legislation, resistance to social change |
Perspectives on Indian society |
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| Indology: GS. Ghurye’s perspectives on the study of Indian society, Marxist sociology: A R Desai’s view on the relevance of Marxist sociology in India, social background of Indian nationalism |
| Modernization of indian tradition |
| Social reforms |
Rural and Agrarian Sectors |
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| The idea of Indian village and village studies, land tenure system before independence, land reforms after independence, development planning and mixed economy, green revolution, programmes for rural development, community development programme |
| Recent schemes for poverty alleviation |
Tribal Communities in India |
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| Definitional problems, features, geographical distribution, colonial politics and tribes, issues of integration and autonomy, tribal welfare programmes and constitutional safeguards |
Caste and Classes in India |
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| Features of caste system, untouchability-forms and perspectives, chases in the caste system, agrarian class structure, industrial class structure, middle classes in India |
Population Dynamics and Urbanization |
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| Population size, growth, composition and distribution, literacy, density, longevity |
| Components of population growth: Birth, Death, Migration |
| Population policy and family planning |
| Emerging issues: ageing, sex ratios, child and infant mortality, reproductive health |
| Urbanization, factors of urbanization, rural-urban continuum, and contrast |
Social Movements in Modern India |
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| Characteristics and types of social movements, peasant movements, women movements, backward classes movements, ethnic movements |
Religion and society |
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| Religious communities in India, problems of religious minorities, communalism, secularism |
Challenges to Indian Society |
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| Caste conflicts, violence against women, poverty, illiteracy, bonded labour, regionalism, corruption, child labour |
Sample space and events |
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| Probability measure and probability space, random variable as a measurable function, distribution function of a random variable, discrete and continuous-type random variable, probability mass function, probability density function |
| Vector-valued random variable, marginal and conditional distributions, stochastic independence of events and of random variables, expectation and moments of a random variable, conditional expectation, probability generating function |
| Moment generating function, standard discrete and continuous probability distributions |
Statistical, unbiasedness, consistency, efficiency, sufficiency, completeness, ancillary statistics, factorization theorem, exponential family of distribution and its properties |
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| Uniformly minimum variance unbiased (UMVU) estimation, Rao-Blackwell and Lehmann-Scheffé theorems, Cramer-Rao inequality for single parameter |
Estimation by methods of moments |
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| Maximum likelihood, least squares, minimum chi-square and modified minimum chi-square, properties of maximum likelihood and other estimators, asymptotic efficiency, prior and posterior distributions, loss function, risk function, and minimax estimator |
| Bayes estimators |
Non-randomised and randomised tests |
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| Critical function, MP tests, Neyman-Pearson Lemma, UMP tests, monotone likelihood ratio, similar and unbiased tests, UMPU tests for single parameter likelihood ratio test and its asymptotic distribution |
| Confidence bounds and its relation with tests |
Order Statistics |
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| Joint and marginal distribution of order statistics-distribution of range and midrange |
| Kolmogoroff’s test for goodness of fit and its consistency, sign test and its optimality |
| Wilcoxon signed-ranks test and its consistency, Kolmogorov-Smirnov two-sample test, run test, Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test and median test |
Bivariate data |
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| Correlation coefficient and its properties, correlation, correlation ratio, principle of least square, fitting of different curious and fitting of linear regression |
| Partial and multiple correlation in three variables, their measures and related results |
| Theory of attributes independence and association of attributes |
| Measure of association for two way classified data |
An outline of fixed-population and super-population approaches |
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| Distinctive features of finite population sampling, probability sampling designs, simple random sampling with and without replacement, stratified random sampling, systematic sampling and its efficacy , cluster sampling, two-stage and multistage sampling |
| Ratio and regression methods of estimation involving one or more auxiliary variables, two-phase sampling |
Fixed effects model (two-way classification) |
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| Random and mixed effects models (two-way classification with equal observation per cell), CRD, RBD, LSD, and their analyses, incomplete block designs, concepts of orthogonality and balance, BIBD, missing plot technique, factorial experiments and 22 and 32 |
Process and product control |
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| General theory of control charts, different types of control charts for variables and attributes, X, R, s, p, np, and c charts, cumulative sum chart |
| Single, double, multiple and sequential sampling plans for attributes, OC, ASN, AOQ, and ATI curves, concepts of producers and consumers risks, AQL, LTPD, and AOQL, sampling plans for variables, use of Dodge-Roming tables |
Concept of reliability |
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| Failure rate and reliability functions, reliability of series and parallel systems and other simple configurations, renewal density and renewal function, failure models: Exponential, Weibull, normal , lognormal |
| Problems in life testing, censored and truncated experiments for exponential models |
Different types of models in Operations Research |
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| Their construction and general methods of solution, simulation and Monte-Carlo methods formulation of linear programming (LP) problem, simple LP model and its graphical solution, the simplex procedure |
| The two-phase method and the M-technique with artificial variables, the duality theory of LP and its economic interpretation, sensitivity analysis, transportation and assignment problems, rectangular games, two-person zero-sum games |
| Methods of solution (graphical and algebraic) |
Replacement of failing or deteriorating items |
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| Group and individual replacement policies, concept of scientific inventory management and analytical structure of inventory problems, simple models with deterministic and stochastic demand with and without lead time |
| Storage models with particular reference to dam type |
| Homogeneous discrete-time Markov chains, transition probability matrix, classification of states and ergodic theorems, homogeneous continuous-time Markov chains, Poisson process, elements of queuing theory, M/M/1, M/M/K, G/M/1, and M/G/1 queues |
Determination of trend |
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| Seasonal and cyclical components, Box-Jenkins method, tests for stationary series, ARIMA models and determination of orders of autoregressive and moving average components, forecasting |
| Commonly used index numbers-Laspeyres, Paasche’s, and Fisher’s ideal index numbers, chain-base index number, uses and limitations of index numbers, index number of wholesale prices, consumer prices, agricultural production and industrial production |
| Test for index numbers-proportionality, time reversal, factor-reversal, and circular |
Present official statistical system in India relating to population, agriculture, industrial production, trade, and prices |
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| Methods of collection of official statistics, their reliability and limitations, principal publications containing such statistics, various official agencies responsible for data collection and their main functions |
Demographic data from census, registration, NSS, other surveys |
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| Their limitations and uses, definition, construction and uses of vital rates and ratios, measures of fertility, reproduction rates, morbidity rate, standardized death rate, complete and abridged life tables |
| Construction of life tables from vital statistics and census returns, uses of life tables |
Methods of standardization of scales and tests |
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| Z-scores, standard scores, T-scores, percentile scores, intelligence quotient and its measurement and uses, validity and reliability of test scores and its determination, use of factor analysis and path analysis in psychometry |
Principles of classification |
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| Binomial nomenclature; species concepts; taxonomic hierarchy; five Kingdom classification; six kingdom classification; three domains system |
| Classification of non-chordates up to classes with their salient features |
| Locomotion (amoeboid, cell crawling, ciliary, and flagellar) and reproduction in protozoans |
| Origin of Metazoa; metamerism and symmetry in animals |
| Porifera and coelenterata: Corals and coral reefs; canal system in poriferans; polymorphism in Hydrozoa |
Characters and affinities of Ctenophora and Onychophora |
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| Platyhelminthes and Nemathelminthes: excretion and reproduction |
| Annelida: Circulation, reproduction, and excretion; type study-pheretima posthuma |
| Mollusca: Torsion and detorsion in gastropoda; type study-pila globosa |
| Arthropoda: Respiratory and reproductive systems, insect metamorphosis and social organization; type study-palaemon malcolmsonii |
| Echinodermata: Type study-asterias |
Biosystematics of chordates |
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| Protochordates: Salient features and affinities; post-embryonic development of amphioxus |
| Agnatha: classification up to orders |
| Pisces: General characters, types of scales, locomotion, and migration |
| Amphibians: General characters and classification up to order; neoteny and paedogenesis |
| Reptiles: General characters and classification up to order. Status of sphenodon and crocodiles |
| Birds: General characters and classification up to order; affinities; principle and modes of flight; migration |
| Mammals: General characters and classification up to order. Oviparous and ovoviviparous mammals |
Integument in vertebrates and their derivatives |
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| Comparative digestive, urinogenital and respiratory systems; receptor organs; modification of heart |
| Structure and composition of cartilage, bone and ligaments; vertebrae, limb bones and girdles; comparative skulls of vertebrates, dentition in mammals |
Concept of ecology |
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| Concept and types of ecosystem; trophic structure: Food chain and food webs; energy flow; trophic relationships; ecological pyramids; intraspecific and interspecific interactions |
| Biogeochemical cycles |
| Abiotic environment |
| Laws of tolerance and limiting factors; biotic community concept; community developments: Ecological succession; greenhouse effect; global warming |
| Population: Characteristics (mortality, natality, density), growth curves; community: Species richness and species diversity; Sorensen’s and Shannon-Wiener indices; factors affecting species diversity |
| Concepts of biodiversity, conservation values and ethics; conservation of biodiversity: Patterns and processes; loss of biodiversity: Causes and factors; mass extinctions; biodiversity hotspots |
| Conservation of diversity within species; genetics in conservation: Heterozygosity, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, variation within population, variation among populations, loss of genetic variation, demographic bottleneck and inbreeding depression |
| Ecozones and faunal diversity of India; sanctuaries, national parks, protected areas and reserves; wildlife legislations; Important International and national organizations/ programmes/ societies and their roles; national wildlife conservation projects |
Concepts of evolution |
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| Historical development; Lamarckism; Darwinism and the theory of natural selection; evolution in action (malaria and drug resistance, high altitude adaptation, pepper moth); concept of speciation |
| Origin of life: Prebiotic soup theory and RNA world hypothesis; origin of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells (endosymbiotic theory); geological time scale; Cambrian explosion; dinosaurs; phylogeny of horse |
| Human evolution: Hominid fossils and out of Africa theory; zoogeographical realms; continental drift theory and plate tectonic; adaptation: Volant, aquatic and desert; mimicry: Types, colouration, and camouflage |
| Concept of ethnology; types of behavior-innate, imprinting, learned and instinct; altruism and reciprocal altruism; communication: Sonar, infrasound, echolocation and dancing in bees |
| Social organization in animals (parental care, competition and territoriality); evolutionary arms race; genetic and hormonal control of behaviour |
Apiculture |
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| Classifications, structure and composition of hive, culture method and economic importance |
| Lac culture: Cultivation, processing, and economic importance |
| Sericulture: classification, rearing and economic importance |
| Important pharmaceuticals from animal industry |
| Pests; types of pesticides; pest control (natural, chemical, and biological controls); integrated pest management; vermicomposting |
| Aquaculture; fish culture; prawn fishery: Types, species; method and economic importance; oyster culture (edible and pearl) |
| Poultry farming; piggery; cattle farming; leather and wool industry; dairy industry and milk products |
Experimental designs, sampling design and methods |
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| Correlation, regression, analysis of variance |
| Parametric test-t-test, X2 –test, F-test ( one-way and two-way) |
| Historical concept of bioinformatics; basic operating systems; internet for biologists; databases and information retrieval |
| Genome and proteome databases: NCBI, BLAST, and EMBL; internet tools |
Cell theory-tenets and limitations |
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| Structure of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells; cell membrane and membrane transport (simple, facilitated and active transports) |
| Structure, composition, and functions of ribosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, golgi complex, lysosome and peroxisome; endocytosis; phagocytosis |
| Structure and functions of mitochondria; cytoskeletons: Microfilaments, intermediate filaments and microtubules |
| Extracellular matrix; cell-cell interactions, adhesion and junctions; nuclear envelope: Structure and transport of molecules; nucleolus; chromosome structure and karyotyping |
| Stages of cell cycle; regulation of cell cycle through cyclin-CDK complexes; meiosis; types and characteristics of cancer; carcinogens |
Mendelian genetics |
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| Incomplete dominance; codominance; chromosome theory of inheritance; cytoplasmic inheritance; pleiotropism and allelism; epistasis; multiple alleles |
| Linkage, crossing over and recombination of genes; chromosomal sex determination; sex-linked inheritance and non-disjunction; mutation: Causes and types; genetic disorders: Down, klinefelter and Turner syndromes, and haemophilia |
Structure and types of DNA and RNA |
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| Chromosomes: Chromatin (euchromatin and heterochromatin); higher order of chromosome organization-nucleosomes; special types of chromosomes (polytene and lampbrush chromosomes) |
| DNA replication: Semiconservative and mechanism in prokaryotic cells; DNA repair: Nucleotide excision; base excision; mismatch; double strand breakage |
| Gene expression: Central dogma of molecular biology; transcription; genetic code; translation; concept of operon: Lac operon |
Carbohydrates and lipids |
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| Classification and significance; classification, structure, and properties of amino acids and peptides |
| Types, properties, and kinetics of enzymes; inhibition; Michaelis-Menten equation; coenzymes; ribozyme; types and properties of vitamins |
| Glycolysis: Reactions and significance; glycogenesis; glycogenolysis; gluconeogenesis |
| Oxidative phosphorylation: Tricarboxylic cycle; electron transport chain, ATP synthesis; HMP shunt |
| A-oxidation of fatty acids; lipogenesis; urea cycle; ketogenesis; nucleic acids and their metabolism |
Digestion and absorption of food |
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| Extracellular and intracellular digestions; digestion of carbohydrates, proteins and fats; mechanism of respiration (gills and lungs); types of respiration-external, internal, and coetaneous |
| Open and closed circulation; structure of heart: Myogenic and neurogenic; pacemaker; cardiac cycle; blood coagulation; blood groups; structure and function of haemoglobin |
| Structure and function of kidney: Physiology of urine formation; nervous control of micturition; osmoregulation in marine and terrestrial vertebrates; types of nitrogenous wastes (ammonotelic, uricotelic and ureotelic) |
| Types of muscles and ultra structures; muscle proteins; mechanism of muscle contraction; fatigue, isotonic, anisotonic, isometric, and tetanic contractions |
Types and structures of neuron |
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| Resting and action potentials; propagation of nerve impulse; major neurotransmitters; synapse; synaptic transmission |
| Endocrine glands and the functions of their hormones (hypothalamus, pituitary, thyroid, pancreas, adrenal, testis, ovary); classification of hormones; transport of hormones |
| Hormone receptors: G-protein coupled, steroid, insulin |
| Mechanism of action of steroid hormones and peptide hormones; insulin; endocrine disorders: Diabetes mellitus, gigantism, dwarfism and cretinism |
| Biological rhythms: Circadian and circannual, hormonal regulations; insect hormones; pheromones and their effects; hormonal regulation of calcium homeostasis |
Gametogenesis |
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| Spermatogenesis and oogenesis; hormonal regulation of gametogenesis; structure of spermatozoon and ovum |
| Estrous and menstrual cycles: Phases and hormonal regulation; chemical basis of contraception |
| Fertilization in vivo and in vitro; parthenogenesis; types of eggs; patterns of cleavage |
| Blastulation and gastrulation in amphioxus and frog; fate maps; placenta in mammals; extra-embryonic membranes in chick |
| Concept of organizer and induction; morphogenetic fields and gradients; invagination, ingression, involution, and delamination |
| Metamorphosis in insects and amphibians and their hormonal regulation; regeneration in invertebrates and vertebrates |
Concepts and models of ageing |
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| Developmental defects; concept of transgenesis, stem cells and IVF |
| Immunity: Innate and acquired; components of immune system; antigens: Factors, epitopes, haptens; interferons; vaccination |
| Structure and types of antibodies; antigen-antibody interactions; major histocompatibility complex; hypersensitivity |
The Mizoram Civil Services (Combined Competitive) Preliminary Examinations is an offline(paper-based) test and consists of five General Studies Papers (Two General English and three General Studies). The English Papers consist of 100 marks each (100X2= 200 marks) and the General Studies papers consist of 200 marks each (200X3=600 marks). Therefore the total marks allocated to the exam is 800 marks. The mode of the exam is Objective; composed of multiple choice questions. There is a scheme of negative marking in the preliminary MCS exam.
The Combined Services General Competitive Examination is generally conducted when recruitment for a particular post does not have any specific guidelines or when it does not require specific subject knowledge but can be written by any graduate from a recognised university on five Papers as stated above.
The Mizoram Civil Services Main Examinations will be an offline(paper-based) exam. The candidates will be called individually and will be required to confirm their optional subject and preference of post and to submit attested photocopies of the following documents to Direct Recruitment Section of Mizoram Public Service Commission
Mizoram Civil Services Examination admit card will be issued by the Mizoram Public Service Commission (MPSC) admit card will be issued only to the candidates who successfully register for the MCS preliminary examination. It is a mandate for all prospective test takers to carry the MCS admit card for preliminary examination on the day of the test.
| State | City |
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| Mizoram | Aizawl |
Mizoram Public Service Commission will release the MCS answer key of preliminary and mains exam separately after completion of the respective examinations. MCS answer key will be available for all the test sections (Papers). Test takers will be able to check their answers as marked in the exam with the officially MCS answer key released by the conducting authority.
Mizoram Public Service Commission will release the MCS answer key of the main exam after the completion of the test. MCS answer key will be available for all the test sections (Papers). Test takers will be able to check their answers as marked in the exam with the officially MCS answer key released by the conducting authority.
The result of MPSC Combined Exam will be declared after the successful conduction of the exam. The result of MCS will be available in the online mode on the official website of MPSC. Candidates whose name get displayed on the list will qualify for the next rounds of selection. The final shortlisting of candidates will be determined by the candidates' performance in the main exam and the personal interview rounds.
The MPSC Main Exam result will be declared after the exam is successfully conducted. The result of MCS will be available in the online mode on the official website of MPSC. The final shortlisting of candidates will be determined by the candidates' performance in the main exam and the personal interview rounds.
After the result declaration of MCS Main examination, the qualified candidates need to appear for the Personality Test or Interview. This test is to evaluate candidates' intellectual capabilities, mental alertness, social traits and his/her interest in current affairs. The questions asked will be from General interest. For the final selection, the cumulative scores obtained by candidates in all the tests would be considered.
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Hello Student,The tentative date of Mizoram civil service examination conducted by Mizoram Public Service commission is 28 January 2021. It is subject to be changed for any un aviodable situations. For this purpose a prior notice will be showed in Public Service commission office and in the newspapers.
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You first have to complete your graduation now since MCS is a masters degree ie post graduation course and you can pursue it once you finish your graduation. You can choose Bsc or engineering in some field that you like now from a decent college with your 12th board marks or any other competitive entrance exam marks and then can choose the same field for pursuing masters degree (MSC).
Refer to the site below to know more about the same...
https://www.careers360.com/courses/msc-master-of-science
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Hello student as per the eligibility criteria yes applicant must be permanent resident of Mizoram. The minimum age to appear in the examination is 21 year and not exceed the age of 32 years, 5year relaxation for sc st and PwD candidates. Working knowledge of mizo language is mandate.
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You can get old question papers of MCSE from official website of itself, go through the link provided below-
https://mpsc.mizoram.gov.in/page/Old%20Question%20Paper-17-08-21-17-08-22
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