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Get UpdatesOdisha Public Service Commission, better known as OPSC conducts the Civil Services Examination for entry-level appointments pertaining to recruitment to the various civil services of Odisha that fall under the Odisha Civil Services (Group-A & Group-B categories). There are three stages in the selection procedure of OPSC Civil Services - prelims, mains, and personality test. Candidates must clear one stage of the exam in order to appear for the subsequent stage. Candidates who qualify for the OPSC Civil Services personality test are considered for recruitment.
| Full Exam Name | Odisha Public Service Commission Civil Services Exam |
| Short Exam Name | OPSC Civil Service Exam |
| Conducting Body | Odisha Public Service Commission |
| Exam Level | State Level Exam |
| Languages | English |
| Mode of Application | Offline / Online |
| Application Fee (General) | 300 Rs [Online] |
| Mode of Exam | Offline |
| Mode of Counselling | Offline |
| Number of Seats | 399 Seats |
Past Dates and Events
17 Jan, 2024 - 16 Feb, 2024
Application | Mode: Online
29 Dec, 2023
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The Odisha Public Service Commission, the exam conducting body of the Odisha Civil Services Examination has formulated the eligibility criteria of the exam. Following are the eligibility criteria that all aspirants need to meet to fill the application form of OPSC exam-
Other Eligibility Parameters-
Mode of Application : Offline and Online
Mode of Payment : Bank Challan
To appear for the OPSC Preliminary exam, aspirants need to fill the online application form available on the official website. After the result declaration of the Preliminary examination, the qualified test takers will be required to submit the printout/hard copy of online application form, along with the photocopies of the other documents mentioned by the conducting authority on or before the stipulated date to be notified later, for consideration of their eligibility for the Main exam.
Documents to be submitted along with the online application form of OPSC exam-
| Category | Quota | Mode | Gender | Amount |
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| General | Online | Female, Male, Transgender | ₹ 300 |
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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Comprehension |
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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 |
Data interpretation (class-X level) |
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| Charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency |
Comprehension of a given passage |
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Precis writing |
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Translation from English to Odia |
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Grammar, usage, and vocabulary |
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Short essay |
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Expansion of an idea |
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Comprehension of a given passage |
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Precis writing |
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Translation from English to Odia |
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Grammar, usage, and vocabulary |
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Short essay |
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Expansion of an idea |
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History of modern India and Indian culture |
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| The history of modern India will cover the following: History of India since 1857, important personalities who shaped the freedom movements in Odisha and India, social reform movements |
| Indian culture will cover the following: Indian culture from ancient times to modern times, temple architecture of Odisha. Socio-cultural developments in Odisha |
Geography of India |
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| Physical, economic and social geography of India |
| Odisha’s physiography and drainage system, Odisha’s natural resources-water, forest, and minerals |
Indian polity |
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| Constitution of India, political system of India, government and politics in Odisha, Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) in Odisha |
Current national issues and topics of social relevance |
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| Demography and human resource development, behavioural and social issues and social welfare problems: Child labour, gender inequality, adult literacy, rehabilitation of the handicapped and other deprived segments of society, drug abuse, public health |
| Behavioural and social issues and social welfare problems: Education and unemployment |
Legal and environmental issues |
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| Human rights, corruption in public life, communal harmony, protection of minorities, internal security and related issues, environment and ecological issues; ecological preservation, conservation of natural resources and national heritage |
| Role of national institutions, their relevance, and need for change |
India and the world |
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| Foreign affairs, external security and related matters, nuclear policy, Indians abroad |
Indian economy |
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| Planning, economic development, economic reforms and development of the corporate sector in India, economic and trade issues, foreign trade, role and functions of IMF, World Bank and WTO, Reserve Bank of India-its role and functions |
| Odishan economy: Development during the post reform period |
| Regional disparity |
International affairs and institutions |
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| Important events in world affairs, international institutions like UN, ILO, EU, SAARC, WHO, ICJ |
Developments in the field of science and technology, communications, and space |
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| The developments in the field of science and technology, communications, and space and also on basic ideas of computer |
Statistical analysis, graphs, and diagrams |
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| Information presented in graphical, statistical or diagrammatic form and to point out deficiencies, limitations or inconsistencies therein |
| Techniques of counting and elementary probability |
Cropping patterns in different agro-climatic zones of the country |
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| Crop diversification |
| Impact of high yielding and short-duration varieties on shifts in cropping patterns |
| Concepts of multiple cropping, multistorey, relay and intercropping, and their importance in relation to food production |
| Package of practices of cereals, pulses, oil seeds, fibers, sugar, tuber, and fodder crops grown during kharif and rabi seasons in different regions of the country |
| Organic farming-principles and practices |
Water |
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| Use efficiency in relation to crop production, criteria for scheduling irrigation, ways and means of reducing runoff losses of irrigation water |
| Drip and sprinkler irrigation |
| Drainage of waterlogged soils, quality of irrigation water, effect of industrial effluents on soil and water pollution |
Weeds |
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| Their characteristics, dissemination and association with various crops; their multiplication; cultural, biological, and chemical control of weeds |
Important features, scope, and propagation of various types of forestry plantations |
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| Such as extension, social forestry, agroforestry, and natural forests |
Soil-physical, chemical, and biological properties |
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| Processes and factors of soil formation |
| Modern classification of Indian soils |
| 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 and its evaluation for judicious fertilizer use |
| Integrated nutrient management |
| Losses of nitrogen in soil, nitrogen-use efficiency in submerged rice soils, nitrogen fixation in soils |
| Fixation of phosphorus and potassium in soils and the scope for their efficient use |
| Problem soils and their management |
Soil conservation planning on watershed basis |
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| Erosion and runoff management in hilly, foot hills, and valley lands; processes and factors affecting them |
| Dryland agriculture and its problems |
| Technology for stabilizing agricultural production in rainfed areas |
Ecology and its relevance to man |
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| Biodiversity-natural resources, their sustainable management, and conservation |
| Physical and social environment as factors of crop distribution and production |
| Climatic elements as factors of crop growth |
| Impact of changing environment on cropping pattern as indicators of environments |
| Environmental pollution and associated hazards to crops, animals, and humans |
Farm management |
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| Scope, importance, and characteristics, farm planning, and budgeting |
| Economics of different types of farming systems and factors affecting it |
| Marketing and pricing of agricultural inputs and outputs, price fluctuation and their cost; role of cooperatives in agricultural economy |
| Agriculture export zone |
| World Trade Organization, general agreement on trade and tariff, intellectual property rights in relation to agriculture |
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 |
| Farm mechanization and its role in agricultural production and rural employment |
| Training programmes for extension workers |
| Institution village linkage programme |
Cell theory, structure, organelles, and their function |
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| Cell division, nucleic acids structure and function, gene structure and function |
| Laws of heredity, their significance in plant breeding |
| Chromosome structure, Chromosomal aberrations, linkage and cross-over, and their significance in recombination breeding |
| Polyploidy-euploid and aneuploids |
| Induction of mutation-micro-and macro-mutation, and their role in crop improvement |
| Variation, components of variation, heritability, sterility, and incompatibility 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 and evolution of crop plants, centre of origin, law of homologous series |
| Plant biodiversity-crop genetic resources conservation and utilization |
| Application of principles of plant breeding to the improvement of major field crops |
| Pureline, pedigree, mass and recurrent selections |
| Combining ability, its significance in plant breeding |
| Hybrid vigour and its exploitation, backcross method of breeding, breeding for disease and pest resistance, role of interspecific and intergeneric hybridization |
| Role of biotechnology in plant breeding-tissue culture and molecular approach |
| Improved varieties, hybrids, composites of various crop plants |
Seed technology, its importance |
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| Different kinds of seeds |
| Seed production and processing techniques |
| Role of public and private sectors in seed production, processing and marketing in India |
Plant physiology and its significance in agriculture |
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| Imbibition, surface tension, diffusion and osmosis |
| Absorption and translocation of water, transpiration, and water economy |
| Enzymes and plant pigments; 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 |
| Auxins, hormones, and other plant regulators and their mode of action and importance in agriculture |
| Physiology of seed development and germination; dormancy |
Climatic requirement and cultivation of major fruits, vegetable crops, and flower, and ornamental plants |
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| Dryland and high-tech horticulture |
| Handling and marketing problems of fruit and vegetables |
| Methods of preservation of important fruits and vegetable products, processing techniques, and equipment |
| Role of fruits and vegetables in human nutrition |
| Landscaping-design and layout of lawns and gardens |
Diseases and pests of field crops, vegetables, orchard, and plantation crops of India |
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| Causes and classification of plant pests and diseases |
| Principles of control of plant pests and diseases |
| Biological control of pests and diseases |
| Integrated pest and disease management |
| Epidemiology and forecasting of diseases and pest |
| Pesticides, their formulations, and mode of action |
| Compatibility with rhizoidal inoculants |
| Microbial toxins |
| Storage pests and diseases of cereals, oilseeds, and pulses and their control |
| Commercial cultivation of mushroom and bee keeping |
Food production and consumption trends in India |
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| National and international food policies |
| Production, procurement, distribution and processing constraints |
| Relation of food production to national dietary pattern |
| Protein-calorie malnutrition |
Surveying |
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| Chain survey, compass survey, plain table survey, computation of area, levelling, contour survey, land levelling, design, methods, earth work computation, land grading, land shaping, layout of fields, irrigation and drainage systems planning |
Fluid mechanics and irrigation |
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| Hydraulics of flow, open channel flow, steady and unsteady, uniform and non uniform, laminar and turbulent, Reynold’s number, Froude number, critical depth, hydraulic jump, Chezy’s and Manning’s formula |
| Soil-water-plant relationship, soil moisture types and its measurement, movement of water in soil, evaporation, transpiration, evapotranspiration, water requirement of crops, field capacity, wilting point, available soil moisture |
| Consumptive use-methods of estimation, irrigation efficiencies, irrigation scheduling, irrigation methods gravity and pressure irrigation systems, and their adaptability, micro irrigation system, measurements of irrigation water |
| Irrigation planning and farm water management, earthen channel, lined channel, lining materials, culverts, inverted siphons, underground pipe irrigation management, participatory irrigation management, irrigation pumps types and suitability |
| Selection of pumps installation of pumps, care and maintenance of pumps |
Drainage |
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| Water logging problems in crops, drainage coefficient, role of drainage in cropped area, drainage investigation and selection, open drains on farm, field surface drainage, subsurface drainage systems, pipe drainage interceptor drain, mole drain |
| Tube well drainage, biodrainage, saturated hydraulic conductivity, salinity, control and drainage water-utilization |
Groundwater and surface hydrology; wells and pumps |
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| Hydrologic cycle measurement of rainfall, evaporation, infiltration, estimation of runoff, factors affecting runoff, computation of volume of runoff and peak flow, unit hydrograph |
| Occurrence of ground water and its; movement, aquifer types, well screens, gravel packing, radius of influence, transmissibility, basin-wide ground water development, groundwater recharge, artificial recharge, ground water investigation, well hydraulics |
| Types of shallow and deep tube wells, their method of construction, design of tube wells and open wells, multiple well systems, boring and deepening of open wells, sealing of brackish and saline aquifer horizons, well development |
| Draw down-yield relationship |
Soil conservations and watershed management |
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| Soil erosion, types, factors affecting different kinds of corrosion, methods to control soil corrosion-biological control measures, contour farming, strip cropping, mixed cropping, inter cropping, mulching |
| Mechanical control measures-their suitability for different conditions-design of contour ditches, contour bunds, graded bunds, bench terraces, contour stone wall-gully control structures vegetative control method-brush dams, loose rock dam, drop spillway |
| Chute spillway and drop inlet spillway, universal soil loss equation, vegetated waterways-its design |
| Watershed concept, land capacity classification, objectives of watershed management-selection of priority areas, management of natural resources, water harvesting, farm pond, percolation pond, runoff, farming systems, catchment area treatments |
| Watershed-based soil and water conservation, integrated watershed development, role of remote sensing and GIS in watershed planning, development and evaluation |
Farm structures |
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| Building materials, bearing capacity of soil, factor of safety, types of masonry foundations, basement and superstructure, types of roofs, building plan and estimation, planning of farmstead and farm residence, farm fencing, farm gates, farm roads |
| Dairy farm, poultry house and equipments, silo, feed storage structure, grain storage structure, storage structure for semi-perishables, threshing floor, drying floors, storage structure for fertilizer and seeds |
Farm power and machinery |
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| Agricultural mechanization and its scope |
| Sources of farm power |
| History of tractor development |
| Thermodynamic-cycles, thermal efficiency, classification, construction, and working principles of internal combustion (IC) engines, fuels, ignition, lubrication, cooling, governing system of IC engines |
| Different types of tractors and power tillers, their manufacturers in India and their specifications, power transmission, ground drive, power take off (PTO), differential and control systems |
| Operation and maintenance of farm machinery, farm tractor and engines |
| Traction theory, mechanics of farm tractor chassis, weight transfer, human factors in tractor design |
| Different methods of locating CG of tractor |
| Primary and secondary tillage equipments |
| Sowing planting, inter culture, spraying, dusting, harvesting, and threshing equipments |
| Mowers and combines |
| Earthmoving and land development machinery like scrapers, draglines, bulldozers, and power buckets |
| Dynamometers their types and principles of Prony brake dynamometer used for power measurement, cost estimation for hiring of tractors |
| Ergonomics of man-machine-system |
| Haulage of agricultural and forest produce, land clearing |
Energy |
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| Energy requirements in agricultural, different renewable energy sources, energy from the sun and wind, biomass gasification, producer gas and biogas for running IC engines and for electric power generation |
| Energy efficient cooking stoves and alternate cooking fuels, use of electricity for agriculture and agro industrial application |
Agricultural process engineering |
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| Post harvest technology of crops and its scope, unit operations in processing of cereals, oil seeds and pulses |
| Working principles of equipments for milling, mixing, cleaning, grading, drying, and storage of cereals, pulses, and oil seeds, moisture content determination, physical properties, psychometry , energy and material balance, solvent extraction |
| Process flowchart, properties of fruits and vegetables, food texture and theology, process parameters and equipment for sorting, washing, handling, peeling, slicing, blanching, mixing, and handling, chilling, packaging, transportation |
| Storage and preservation technology, properties of dairy and food products |
| Process flow chart for product manufacturing |
| Working principles of equipments for receiving, pasteurization, sterilization, homogenization, filling and packaging, butter manufacturing, evaporation, drying, freezing, juice extraction, filtration, thermal processing |
| Material handling equipments-belt and screw conveyors, bucket elevators, their capacity, and power requirement |
| Application for computer techniques in design optimization |
| Waste and byproduct utilization of rice husk, rice bran, plant residues, and coir pith |
Electronics and instrumentation |
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| Electronic devices and their characteristics, study of rectifiers, amplifiers, oscillators, operational amplifiers, multivibrators, digital circuit, sequential and combinational systems |
| Introduction to microprocessor |
| Programming of microprocessors and data acquisition and control of agricultural engineering processes |
| Generalized instrumentation system |
| Absolute and secondary measurements |
| Accuracy, precision, sensitivity and errors in measurements |
| Primary sensors and transducers, measuring instruments for current, voltage, electrical power flow, pressure, temperature, humidity, strain, force, torque and energy |
Animal nutrition |
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| Energy sources, energy, metabolism and requirements for maintenance and production of milk, meat, egg, and wool |
| Evaluation of feeds as source of energy |
| Trends in protein nutrition: Sources, protein metabolism and synthesis, protein quantity and quality in relation to requirements. Energy protein ratios in ration |
| Minerals in animal diet: Sources, functions, requirements, and their relationship of the basic mineral nutrients including trace elements |
| Vitamins, hormones, and growth stimulating, substances: Sources, functions, requirements, and inter-relationship with minerals |
| Advances in ruminant nutrition-dairy cattle: Nutrients and their metabolism with reference to milk production and its composition. Nutrient requirements for calves, heifers, dry, and milking cows and buffaloes. Limitations of various feeding systems |
| Advances in non-ruminant nutrition-poultry: Nutrients and their metabolism with reference to poultry for meat and egg production. Nutrient requirements and feed formulation for layers and broilers at different ages |
| Advances in non-ruminant nutrition-swine: Nutrients and their metabolism with special reference to growth and quality of meat production. Nutrient requirement and feed formulation for piglets, growing and finishing pigs |
| Advances in applied animal nutrition: A critical review and evaluation of feeding experiments, digestibility and balance studies. Feeding standards and measures of food energy. Nutritional requirements for growth, maintenance, and production |
| Advances in applied animal nutrition: Balanced rations |
Animal physiology |
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| Growth and animal production: Prenatal and postnatal growth, maturation, growth curves, measures of growth, factors affecting growth, conformation, body composition, meat quality |
| Milk production and reproduction: Current status of hormonal control of mammary development, milk secretion and milk ejection. Male and Female reproductive organs, their components and functions. Repeat breeding. Pregnancy diagnosis |
| Milk production and reproduction: Prolapse of reproductive organs. Digestive organs and their functions |
| Environmental physiology: Physiological relations and their regulation; mechanisms of adaptation, environmental factors and regulatory mechanism involved in animal behaviour. Methods of controlling climatic stress |
| Semen quality: Preservation and artificial insemination-components of semen and 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 of semen. Composition of diluents, sperm concentration, transport of diluted semen. Deep freezing techniques of semen. Detection of estrus and time of insemination for better conception |
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 a specialized farming, economic dairy farming. Starting of a dairy farm. Capital and land requirement |
| Commercial dairy farming: Organization of the dairy farm. Procurement of inputs. Opportunities in dairy farming, factors determining the efficiency of dairy animal, herd recording, budgeting, cost of milk production; pricing policy; personnel management |
| Commercial dairy farming: Developing practical and economic ration for dairy cattle; supply of greens throughout the year, feeds and fodder requirements of dairy farm. Feeding regimes for dry and young stock and bulls, heifers, and milch animals |
| Commercial dairy farming: New trends in feeding young and adult stock; feeding records. Age estimation through dentition |
| Commercial meat, egg, and wool production: Development of practical and economic rations for sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, and poultry. Supply of dry and green fodders, feeding regimens for young and mature stock |
| Commercial meat, egg, and wool production: New trends in management for enhancing production. Capital and land requirements. Socioeconomic concept |
Genetics and animal breeding |
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| Mendelian inheritance; deviations to Mendelian laws |
| Expression of genes; linkage and crossing over; sex determination, sex influenced and sex limited characters; blood groups and polymorphism; chromosome aberrations; gene and its structure; DNA as a genetic material; genetic code and protein synthesis |
| Recombinant DNA technology, mutations and types of mutations, methods for detecting mutations and rate of mutation |
| Population genetics applied to animal breeding: Quantitative and qualitative traits, Hardy-Weinberg law; population vs. individual; gene and genotype frequency, forces changing gene frequency; random drift and small populations; theory of path coefficient |
| Population genetics applied to animal breeding: Inbreeding; methods of estimating inbreeding coefficient, systems of inbreeding; effective population size, breeding value, estimation of breeding value, dominance and epistatic interactions |
| Population genetics applied to animal breeding: Partitioning of variation; genotype and environment correlation, genotype X environment interaction; role of multiple measurements, resemblance between relatives |
| Breeding systems: Heritability, repeatability, genetic and phenotypic correlations, their methods of estimation and precision of estimates; aids to selection and their relative merits; individual, pedigree, family and within family selection |
| Breeding systems: Progeny testing; methods of selection; construction of selection indices and their uses; comparative evaluation of genetic gains through various selection methods; indirect selection and correlated response; inbreeding, upgrading |
| Breeding systems: Cross-breeding and synthesis of breeds; crossing of inbred lines for commercial production; selection for general and specific combining ability; open nucleus breeding system, synthetic population |
Health and hygiene |
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| Histology and histological techniques: Methods of preparation and processing of tissues for histological examination. Microscopy-bright field microscope and electron microscope. Cytology: Structure of cell, organelles and inclusions |
| Histology and histological techniques: Cytology-cell division: Cell types, tissues, and their classification, embryonic and adult tissues. Comparative histology of organs-vascular, nervous, digestive, respiratory, musculoskeletal and urogenital systems |
| Histology and histological techniques: Comparative histology of organs-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-twin and twinning, organogenesis |
| Embryology: Teratology-germ layer derivatives, endodermal, mesodermal, and ectodermal derivatives |
| Bovine anatomy-regional anatomy: Paranasal sinuses of ox-surface anatomy of salivary glands. Regional anatomy of intraorbital, maxillary, mandibular alveolar, mental and coronal nerve block-regional anatomy of paravertebral nerves, pudendal nerve, median |
| Bovine anatomy-regional anatomy: Ulnar and radial nerves-tibial, fibular and digital nerves, cranial nerves, structures involved in epidural anaesthesia, superficial lymph nodes, surface anatomy of visceral organs of thoracic |
| Bovine anatomy-regional anatomy: Ulnar and radial nerves-abdominal and pelvic cavities, comparative features of locomotor apparatus and their application in the biomechanics of mammalian body |
| Anatomy of fowls: Musculo-skeletal system-functional anatomy in relation to respiration and flying, digestion, and egg production |
| Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration, excretion, endocrine glands in health and disease: (a) Blood constituents-properties and functions, blood cell formation, haemoglobin synthesis and chemistry, plasma protein production |
| Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration, excretion, endocrine glands in health and disease: (a) Blood constituents-classification, and properties; coagulation of blood; haemorrhagic disorders-anticoagulants, blood groups, blood volume |
| Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration, excretion, endocrine glands in health and disease: (a) Blood constituents-haemorrhagic disorders: Plasma expanders, buffer systems in blood |
| Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration, excretion, endocrine glands in health and disease: (a) Blood constituents-biochemical tests and their significance in disease diagnosis, (b) circulation: Physiology of heart, cardiac cycle |
| Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration, excretion, endocrine glands in health and disease: (b) Circulation-heart sounds, heart beat, electrocardiograms, work and efficiency of heart, effect of ions on heart function |
| Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration, excretion, endocrine glands in health and disease: (b) Circulation-functions of cardiac muscle, nervous and chemical regulation of heart, effect of temperature and stress on heart |
| Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration, excretion, endocrine glands in health and disease: (b) Circulation-blood pressure and hypertension, osmotic regulation, arterial pulse, vasomotor regulation of circulation, shock |
| Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration, excretion, endocrine glands in health and disease: (b) Circulation-coronary and pulmonary circulation, blood-brain barrier, (c) respiration: Mechanism of respiration, transport and exchange of gases |
| Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration, excretion, endocrine glands in health and disease: (c) Respiration-neural control of respiration, chemoreceptors, hypoxia, respiration in birds, (d) excretion: Structure and function of kidney |
| Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration, excretion, endocrine glands in health and disease: (d) Excretion-formation of urine, methods of studying renal function, renal regulation of acid-base balance |
| Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration, excretion, endocrine glands in health and disease: (d) Excretion-physiological constituents of urine, renal failure, passive venous congestion |
| Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration, excretion, endocrine glands in health and disease: (d) Excretion-urinary excretion in chicken, sweat glands and their function, biochemical tests for urinary dysfunction |
| Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration, excretion, endocrine glands in health and disease: (e) Endocrine glands-functional disorders, their symptoms, and diagnosis, synthesis of hormones, mechanism, and control of secretion |
| Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration, excretion, endocrine glands in health and disease: (e) Endocrine glands-hormonal receptors, classification and function |
| General knowledge of pharmacology and therapeutics of drugs: Cellular level of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. Drugs acting on fluids and electrolyte balance. Drugs acting on Autonomic nervous system |
| General knowledge of pharmacology and therapeutics of drugs: Modern concepts of anaesthesia and dissociative anaesthetics. Autacoids. Antimicrobials and principles of chemotherapy in microbial infections. Use of hormones in therapeutics |
| General knowledge of pharmacology and therapeutics of drugs: Chemotherapy of parasitic infections. Drugs and their residues in the edible tissues of animals. Chemotherapy of neoplastic diseases |
| Veterinary hygiene with reference to water, air, and habitation: Assessment of pollution of water, air and soil. Importance of climate in animal health. Effect of environment on animal function and performance |
| Veterinary hygiene with reference to water, air and habitation: Relationship between industrialization and animal agriculture. Animal housing requirements for specific categories of domestic animals, viz. Pregnant cows, milking cows |
| Veterinary hygiene with reference to water, air and habitation: Animal housing requirements for specific categories of domestic animals, viz. broiler birds, and sows-stress, strain and productivity in relation to animal habitation |
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: Principles, 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 |
| Veterinary jurisprudence: Rules and Regulations of animal quarantine. Prevention of animal diseases. State rules for prevention of animal and animal product borne diseases, SP CA, veterolegal cases-certificates |
| Veterinary jurisprudence: Veterolegal cases-materials and methods of collection of samples for veterolegal investigation |
| Extension: Basic philosophy, objectives, concept and principles of extension. Different methods adopted to educate farmers under rural conditions. Generation of technology, its transfer and feedback. Constraints in transfer of technology |
| Extension: Animal husbandry programmes for rural development |
Animal diseases |
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| Pathogenesis, symptoms, postmortem lesions, diagnosis and control of infectious diseases of cattle, pigs, poultry, horses, sheep and goats |
| Etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment of production diseases of cattle, pig and poultry |
| Deficiency diseases of domestic animals and birds |
| Diagnosis and treatment of nonspecific condition like impaction, bloat, diarrhoea, indigestion, dehydration, stroke, poisoning |
| Diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders |
| Principles and methods of immunisation of animals against specific diseases-herd immunity-disease free zones-'zero' disease concept-chemoprophylaxis |
| Anaesthesia: Local, regional, and general-pre-anaesthetic medication, symptoms and surgical interference in fractures and dislocation, hernia, choke, abomasal displacement Caesarian operations, rumenotomy, castrations |
| Anaesthesia: Surgical manipulations of luxation of patella and urinary obstructions |
| Disease investigation techniques: Collection of materials for laboratory investigation, establishment of animal health centers, procedure of despatching materials for lab investigation |
Milk and milk products technology |
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| Milk technology: Organization of rural milk procurement, collection and transport of raw milk. Quality, testing, and grading raw milk, quality storage, grades of whole milk, skimmed milk and cream |
| Milk technology: Processing, packaging, storing, distributing, and marketing of milk. Defects and their control, nutritive properties of the following types of milk: Pasteurized, standardized, toned, double toned, sterilized, homogenized, reconstituted |
| Milk technology: Nutritive properties of the following types of milk-recombined and flavoured milk. Preparation of milk cultures and their management, yogurt, dahi, lassi and shrikhand. Preparation of flavoured and sterilized milk |
| Milk technology: Legal standards, sanitation requirement for clean and safe milk and milk plant equipments |
| Milk products technology: Selection of raw materials, assembling, production, processing, storing, distributing and marketing of milk products such as butter, ghee, khoa, chenna, cheese; condensed, evaporated, dried milk and baby food; ice cream and kulfi |
| Milk products technology: Distributing and marketing of milk products such as by products; whey products, buttermilk, lactose and casein. Testing, grading, judging of milk products-BIS and Agmark specifications, legal standards |
| Milk products technology: Quality control and nutritive properties, packaging, processing, and operational costs |
Meat hygiene and technology |
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| Meat hygiene: 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 |
| Meat hygiene: Duties and functions of veterinarians in wholesome meat production. Hygienic methods of handling meat-spoilage of meat and control measures, post slaughter physicochemical changes in meat and factors that influence them |
| Meat hygiene: Hygienic methods of handling meat-quality improvement methods, adulteration of meat and detection, regulatory provisions in meat trade and industry |
| Meat Technology: Physical and chemical characteristics of meat-meat emulsions-methods of preservation of meat-curing, canning, irradiation, packaging of meat and meat products; meat products and their 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 |
| Poultry products technology: Structure, composition, and nutritive value of eggs. Microbial spoilage. Preservation and maintenance. Marketing of poultry meat, eggs, and products |
| Rabbit/ fur animal farming: Care and management of rabbits. Disposal and utilization of fur and wool and recycling of waste by-products |
Meaning and scope of anthropology |
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| Relationship with other disciplines: History, sociology, geology, economics, political science, psychology, life science, and medical science |
| Main branches of anthropology, their scope, and relevance: (a) Social/ cultural anthropology, (b) physical/ biological anthropology, (c) archaeological anthropology |
| Living primates: Order primate and classification of primates, comparative morphology, anatomy, and phylogeny of man and apes. Primate locomotion: Terrestrial and arboreal adaptation. Skeletal changes due to assumption of erect posture |
| Fossil evidences of human evolution (phylogenetic status, characteristics and distribution): (a) Pre-Pleistocene fossil primates (Oreopithecus), (b) south and east African hominids: Plesianthropus/ Australopithecus Africanus, Paranthropus |
| Fossil evidences of human evolution (phylogenetic status, characteristics and distribution): (b) south and east African hominids-Australopithecus, (c) Paranthropus-Homo erectus, homo erectus Javanicus, homo erectus Pekinensis, (d) homo Heidelbergensis |
| Fossil evidences of human evolution (phylogenetic status, characteristics and distribution): (e) Neanderthal man-La-Chapelle Aux saints (classical type), (e) Mt. Carmelites types (progressive type), (f) Rhodesian man |
| Fossil evidences of human evolution (phylogenetic status, characteristics and distribution): (g) Home sapiens-Cro-Magnon, Grimaldi, Chanceleade |
| Organic evolution: Theories of evolution in historical perspective, pre-Darwinian, Darwinian and post Darwinian period (Neo Darwinism). Modern synthetic theory of evolution. Brief outline of terms and concepts of evolutionary biology: Parallelism |
| Organic evolution: Brief outline of terms and concepts of evolutionary biology-convergence, adaptive radiation, mosaic evolution |
| Human race: Concept of race and racism. Biological perspective of race. Different factors responsible for race formation and racial criteria. Role of heredity and environment in determining racial traits |
| Human race: Major races of the world, their distribution and characteristics. Race crossing in man |
Concept, scope, and major branches of human genetics |
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| Methods for study of genetic principles in human heredity |
| Pedigree study, family study, twin study, cytogenetic method, and biometry |
| Mendelian population |
| Concept of gene pool and gene frequencies |
| Hardy Weinberg equilibrium |
| The factors, which influence gene and genotype frequencies-mutation, isolation, migration, admixture, selection, genetic drift, inbreeding, and social selection |
| Consanguineous and non-consanguineous marriage |
| Effect of consanguineous marriages |
| Mendelian genetics in man: Autosomal inheritance, sex linked and sex limited inheritance. Inheritance of abnormal traits like hemophilia, thalassemia and colour blindness, sickle cell anemia, albinism, achondroplasia, hairy pinna |
| Mendelian genetics in man: Inheritance of abnormal traits like baldness, and cleft palate |
| Lethal and sublethal sub lethal genes: Multifactorial and polygenic inheritance in man. Sex chromosomal aberrations: Klinefelter, Turner, Super Female, and inter sex |
| Autosomal aberration: Down syndrome, Edward and Cri-du-chat syndromes. Chromosome structure and normal human karyotype |
| Population variation in genetic markers: ABO, Rh blood groups |
| Genetic counseling: Diagnosis of genetic diseases in man. Mode of inheritance and risk recurrence. Prenatal diagnosis of genetic disease, indication for prenatal diagnosis. Techniques for prenatal diagnosis. Genetic disease and gene therapy |
| Genetic counseling: Gene mapping and genome study |
Concept of human growth and development |
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| Stages of growth-prenatal, natal, infant, childhood, adolescent, and maturity |
| Factors affecting growth and development-genetic, environmental, hormonal, nutritional, cultural, and socio-economic |
| Ageing and senescence |
| Theories and observations-biological and chronological longevity |
| Human physique and somatotypes |
| Methods for growth studies |
Concept of reproductive biology, demography, and population study |
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| Reproductive physiology of male and female |
| Biological aspects of human fertility |
| Relevance of menarche, menopause, and other bioevents to fertility |
| Fertility patterns and differentials |
| Demographic theories-biological, social, and cultural |
| Demographic methods-census, registration system, sample survey methods |
| Population structures and population dynamics |
| Demographic rates and ratios, life table-structure and utility |
| Biological and socio-ecological factors influencing fecundity, fertility, natality, and mortality |
| Methods of studying population growth |
| Biological consequences of population control and family welfare |
Application of physical/ biological anthropology |
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| Applied human genetics-paternity diagnosis, genetic counseling, and eugenics |
| Methods and principles of personal identification and reconstruction |
| Application of statistical principles in human genetics and physical anthropology |
| Serogenetics and cytogenetics in reproductive biology |
| DNA technology-prevention and cure of diseases |
| Anthropometry in designing of defense and other equipments |
| Nutritional anthropometry, forensic anthropology, anthropo genetics in medicine |
| Anthropology of sports |
Cultural evolution |
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| Broad outlines of prehistoric cultures in Europe and India: (a) Paleolithic, (b) Mesolithic, (c) Neolithic, (d) Chalcolithic, (e) Copper-Bronze age, (f) Iron age |
Family |
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| Definition and types of family, household |
| Impact of urbanization, industrialization, education, and feminist movements |
| Universality of family-a critique |
| Kinship: Definition of kinship, incest, and exogamy. Principles of descent, types and functions. Unilineal, bilateral, and double descent. Descent, filiations, and complementary filiations. Kinship terminology and alliance theory |
| Marriage: Definition and types, mode of acquiring mates. Regulation of marriage-preferential and prescriptive. Marriage, prestation, dowry, and bride price |
| Religion: Definitions and functions of religion. Anthropological approaches to the study of religion-evolutionary, psychological, and functional. Magic, witchcraft and sorcery; definitions. Functions of key functionaries: Priest, Shaman |
| Religion: Functions of key functionaries-medicine man and sorcerers |
| Primitive economy: (a) Economic anthropology-modes of subsistence; hunting gathering, fishing, pastoralism, horticulture. (b) Exchange: Gifts, barter, trade, ceremonial exchange, and market economy |
| Types of political organizations: Band, tribe, chiefdom, state, concept of power, authority and legitimacy, social control, law and justice in tribal societies |
| Social structure and social organization, role analysis and social network |
| Institutions and groups |
| Social stratification, principles and forms: Status and class, social mobility |
Culture: Definition and nature, paradoxes of culture |
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| Approaches to the study of culture and society-classical evolutionism, neoevolutionism, cultural ecology, historical particularism and diffusionism, structural-functionalism, culture and personality, transactionalism, symbolism |
| Cognitive approach and new ethnography, post structuralism and post-modernism |
Concepts of development |
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| Concepts of planning and planned development |
| Concept of participatory development |
| Anthropology and resettlement |
| Culture ecology and sustainable development |
| Explanation in anthropological perspectives |
| Types of comparative methods in social and cultural anthropology |
| Positivistic approaches |
Basic techniques of data collection |
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| Interview and observation, participant and non participant, schedules, questionnaire, case study methods, extended case study methods, life histories, genealogical method, participatory rapid rural appraisal (PRA), focused group discussion (FGD) |
| Analysis, interpretation and presentation of data |
Relevance in understanding of contemporary society |
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| Dynamics of ethnicity at rural, tribal, urban, and international levels |
| Ethnic conflicts and political developments |
| Concept of ethnic boundaries |
| Ethnicity and concept of nation state |
Concepts and methods of ecological anthropology |
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| Adaptation-social and cultural |
| Deterministic theories-a critique |
| Resources-biological, nonbiological, and sustainable development |
| Biological application-climatic, environmental, nutritional, and genetic |
Tribal situation in India |
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| Biogenetic variability, linguistic, and socio-economic characteristics of the tribal populations and their distribution |
| Problems of the tribal communities-land alienation, poverty, indebtedness, low literacy, unemployment, malnutrition |
| Development impact of projects-problems and issues of tribal rehabilitation and resettlement |
| Forest policy and tribals |
| Impact of urbanization and industrialisation on tribal and rural populations |
Demographic profile of India |
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| Ethnic and linguistic elements in the indian population and their distribution |
The basic structure and nature of traditional Indian social system-a critique |
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| Varnashrama, Purushartha, Karma, rebirth |
| Theories on the origin of caste system, Jajmani system, structural basis of inequality in traditional Indian society |
| Impact of Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, and Christianity on Indian society |
Emergence, growth, and development of anthropology in India |
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| Contributions of the 19th century and early 20th century scholars and administrators |
| Contributions of indian anthropologists to tribal and caste studies |
Salient characteristic features of Indian society |
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| Approaches to the study of Indian society and culture |
| Village studies in India, changing village India |
| Linguistics and religious minorities-social, political, and economic status |
Problems of exploitation and deprivation of scheduled castes/ scheduled tribes and other backward classes |
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| Protective legislations for scheduled tribes and scheduled castes |
| Social change and contemporary tribal societies: Impact of modern democratic institutions, PESA act, impact of development programmes and welfare measures on tribals and weaker sections |
| Emergence of ethnicity, tribal movements, and quest for identity |
Social change and development among the tribes during colonial and post-Independent India |
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History of administration of tribal areas |
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| Tribal policies, plans, programmes of tribal development and their implementation |
| Role of NGOs |
| Role of anthropology in tribal and rural development |
| Contributions of anthropology to the understanding of regionalism, communalism, ethnic, and political movements |
Microbiology and plant pathology |
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| Structure and reproduction of viruses and bacteria; plasmids and their significance; gene transfer in bacteria (transformation, transduction, conjugation); applications of microbes in agriculture, industry, medicine and pollution control |
| General account of infection, phyto immunology |
| Important plant diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, mycoplasma and fungi, mode of infection and dissemination |
| Molecular basis of infection and disease resistance/ defence; physiology of parasitism; fungal toxins |
Cryptogams and gymnosperms |
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| Study of structure and reproduction of algae, fungi, bryophytes, pteridophytes and gymnosperms from evolutionary viewpoint, their distribution in India and their economic potential |
Angiosperms |
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| Comparative account of various systems of angiosperm classification; study of angiosperm families-Magnoliaceae, Ranunculaceae, Brassicaceae (Cruciferae), Rosaceae, Leguminosae, Euphorbiaceae, Malvaceae, Dipterocarpaceae, Apiaceae (Umbelliferae), |
| Study of angiosperm families-Asclepiadaceae, Verbenaceae, Solanaceae, Rubiaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Asteraceae (composite), Poaceae (Gramineae), Arecaceae (Palmae), Liliaceae, Musaceae, Orchidaceae |
Anatomy, embryology, and biostatistics |
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| Anatomy: Structure and function of primary and secondary tissues, mechanical tissue system, conducting tissue system, vascular tissue system, stomata and their types; anomalous secondary growth; anatomy of C₃ and C₄ plants |
| Embryology: Development of male and female gametophytes; pollination; fertilization; endosperm and its function; embryo and patterns of embryo development; polyembryony and apomixis; applications of palynology |
| Biostatistic: Central tendency, dispersion, estimation and hypothesis testing, significance of standard error, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson), t-test, f-test, chi-square test, correlation, and regression |
Plant utility and exploitation |
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| Origin of cultivated plants, Vavilov's centres of origin |
| Plants as sources for food, fodder, fibres, spices, beverages, drugs, narcotics, insecticides, timber, gums, resins and dyes, latex, cellulose starch and their products; perfumery; importance of ethnobotany in Indian context; energy plantation |
| Botanical gardens and herbaria |
Plant tissue culture |
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| Totipotency, requirements for plant tissue culture, cell, tissue, organ culture, polarity, symmetry and differentiation, cell, tissue and organ culture; protoplast isolation and culture; somatic hybrids and cybrids |
Cell biology |
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| Techniques of cell biology, prokaryotic, and eukaryotic cells-structural and ultrastructural details, structure and function of extracellular matrix or ECM (cell wall) and membranes-cell adhesion, membrane transport and vesicular transport |
| Structure and function of cell organelles (chloroplasts, mitochondria, ER, ribosomes, endosomes, lysosomes, peroxisomes, hydrogenosome), nucleus, nucleolus, nuclear pore complex |
| Chromatin and nucleosome; cell signalling and cell receptors; signal transduction (G-1 proteins, etc); mitosis and meiosis; molecular basis of cell cycle; numerical and structural variations in chromosomes and their significance |
| Study of polytene, lampbrush and 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, 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 |
| Mutation (biochemical and molecular basis), cytoplasmic inheritance and cytoplasmic genes (including genetics of male sterility), prions and prion hypothesis; structure and synthesis of nucleic acids and proteins |
| Genetic code and regulation of gene expression |
| Multigene families, organic evolution-evidences, mechanism and theories; role of RNA in origin and evolution |
Plant breeding and plant biotechnology |
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| Methods of plant breeding-introduction, selection and hybridization (pedigree, backcross, mass selection, bulk method), male sterility and heterosis breeding, use of apomixis in plant breeding; use of molecular markers in plant breeding |
| Direct gene transfer methods-particle gun bombardment, electroporation, chemical methods, agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer, biology of “Crown gall” and “Hairy root” diseases, Ti and Ri plasmids, T-DNA organization and transfer |
| Screening of transgenic plants, role of selectable markers and reporter genes, application of plant transformation for crop improvement-development of insect-, herbicide-, virus-, fungus- resistant transgenic plants |
Plant physiology and biochemistry |
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| Water relations, mineral nutrition and ion transport, mineral deficiencies |
| Photosynthesis-photochemical reactions, photophosphorylation and carbon pathways C₃, C₄, and CAM pathways; photorespiration; respiration-anaerobic and aerobic, including fermentation; electron transport chain and oxidative phosphorylation |
| Chemiosmotic theory and ATP synthesis; nitrogen fixation and nitrogen metabolism; enzymes, coenzymes, energy transfer and energy conservation; importance of secondary metabolites |
Growth, development and stress physiology |
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| Photomorphogenesis, pigments as photoreceptors (plastidial pigments and phytochrome); photoperiodism and flowering, vernalization, senescence; growth substances-their chemical nature, role and applications in agri-horticulture |
| Kinetic of growth, growth movements; dormancy, storage and germination of seed; fruit ripening-its molecular basis and manipulation; fruit and seed physiology; stress physiology (heat, water, salinity, metal) |
Plant ecology and plant geography |
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| Ecological factors; concepts and dynamics of community; plant succession; concepts of biosphere; ecosystems and their conservation; pollution and its control (including phytoremediation) |
| Forest types of India-afforestation, deforestation and social forestry; endangered plants, endemism and Red Data books; biodiversity; convention of biological diversity, sovereign rights and intellectual property rights; biogeochemical cycles |
| Global warming; forests of Odisha |
Atomic structure |
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| Quantum theory, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Schrödinger wave equation (time independent) |
| Interpretation of wave function, particle in one-dimensional box, quantum numbers, hydrogen atom, wave functions |
| Shapes of s, p, d, and f orbitals |
Chemical bonding |
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| Ionic bond, characteristics of ionic compounds, factors affecting stability 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 (VBT), concept of resonance and resonance energy |
| Molecular orbital theory (MOT); bonding in homonuclear diatomic molecules: H U H to Ne , MOT treatment of NO, CO, HF, CN, CNU , BeH, and CO |
| Comparison of VBT and MOT, bond order, bond strength, bond length, dipole moment |
Solid state |
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| Forms of solids, law of constancy of interfacial angles, crystal systems and crystal classes (crystallographic groups) |
| Designation of crystal faces, lattice structures and unit cell |
| Laws of rational indices |
| Bragg's law |
| X-ray diffraction by crystals |
| Close packing, radius-ratio rules, calculation of some limiting radius-ratio values |
| Structures of NaCl, ZnS, CsCl, CaF , CdI, and rutile |
| Defects in crystals, stoichiometric and nonstoichiometric defects, impurity defects, semiconductors |
| Elementary study of liquid crystals |
The gaseous state |
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| Equation of state for real gases, intermolecular interactions, liquefaction of gases and critical phenomena, Maxwell's distribution of speeds, intermolecular collisions, collisions on the wall and effusion |
Thermodynamics and statistical thermodynamics |
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| First law of thermodynamics, and heat absorbed in different types of processes; calorimetry, energy and enthalpy changes in various processes and their temperature dependence |
| Second law of thermodynamics; entropy as a state function, entropy changes in various processes, entropy-reversibility and irreversibility |
| Nernst heat theorem and third law of thermodynamics |
| Micro and macro states; canonical ensemble and canonical partition function; electronic, rotational and vibrational partition functions and thermodynamic quantities; chemical equilibrium in ideal gas reactions |
Phase equilibria and solutions |
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| Phase equilibria in pure substances; phase diagram for a pure substance; phase equilibria in binary systems, partially miscible liquids-upper and lower critical solution temperatures; partial molar quantities, their significance and determination |
| Excess thermodynamic functions and their determination |
Electrochemistry |
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| Debye-Huckel theory of strong electrolytes and Debye-Huckel limiting law for various equilibrium and transport properties |
| Galvanic cells, concentration cells; electrochemical series, 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; overpotential; electroanalytical techniques-voltameter, polarography, amperometry, cyclic-voltammetry, ion-selective electrodes and their use |
Chemical kinetics |
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| Concentration dependence of rate of reaction; differential and integral rate equations for zeroth, first, second, and fractional order reactions |
| Rate equations involving reverse, parallel, consecutive and chain reactions; effect of temperature and pressure on rate constant |
| Study of fast reactions by stop-flow and relaxation methods |
| Collisions and transition state theories |
Photochemistry |
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| Absorption of light; decay of excited state by different routes; photochemical reactions between hydrogen and halogens and their quantum yields |
Surface phenomena and catalysis |
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| Absorption from gases and solutions on solid adsorbents, adsorption isotherms,-Langmuir, Gibbs and Freundlich isotherms; determination of surface area, characteristics and mechanism of reaction on heterogeneous catalysts |
Bio-inorganic chemistry |
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| Metal ions in biological systems and their role in ion-transport across the membranes (molecular mechanism), ionophores, photosynthesis-PSI, PSII; nitrogen fixation, oxygen-uptake proteins, cytochromes, and ferredoxins |
Coordination chemistry |
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| Electronic configurations; introduction to theories of bonding in transition metal complexes |
| Valence bond theory, crystal field theory and its modifications; applications of theories in the explanation of magnetism and electronic spectra of metal complexes |
| Isomerism in coordination compounds |
| IUPAC nomenclature of coordination compounds; stereochemistry of complexes with 4 and 6 coordination numbers; Chelate effect and polynuclear complexes; trans-effect and its theories; kinetics of substitution reactions in square-planar complexes |
| Thermodynamic and kinetic stability of complexes |
| Synthesis and structures of metal carbonyls; carboxylate anions, carbonyl hydrides and metal nitrosyl compounds |
| Complexes with aromatic systems, synthesis, structure and bonding in metal-olefin complexes, alkyne-complexes and cyclopentadienyl complexes; coordinative unsaturation, oxidative addition reactions, insertion reactions |
| Fluxional molecules and their characterization |
| Compounds with metal-metal bonds and metal atom clusters |
General chemistry of ‘f’ block elements |
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| Lanthanides and actinides; separation, oxidation states, magnetic, and spectral properties; lanthanide contraction |
Non-aqueous solvents |
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| Reactions in liquid NH₃, HF, SO, and HSO₄ |
| Failure of solvent system concept, coordination model of non-aqueous solvents |
| Some highly acidic media, fluorosulphuric acid, and super acids |
Delocalised covalent bonding |
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| Aromaticity, anti-aromaticity; homoaromaticity, non-aromaticity, annulenes, azulenes, tropolones, kekulene, fulvenes, sydnones |
Reaction mechanisms |
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| General methods (both kinetic and non-kinetic) of study of mechanism of 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 |
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| Generation, geometry, stability and reactions of carbocations, carbanions, free radicals, carbenes, benzynes, nitrenes and enamines |
Substitution reactions |
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| SN1, SN2, SNi, SN’1/, SN’2/, SNi’/, and SRN1 mechanisms; neighbouring group participation; electrophilic and nucleophilic reactions of aromatic compound including simple heterocyclic compounds-pyrrole, furan, thiophene, indole |
Elimination reactions |
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| E1, E2, and E1CB mechanism; orientation in E2 reactions-Saytzeff and Hofmann; pyrolytic syn elimination-acetate pyrolysis, Chugaev and Cope eliminations |
Addition reactions |
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| Electrophilic addition to C= and CUC, nucleophilic addition to >C=O, -C=N, conjugated olefins and carbonyls |
Rearrangements |
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| Pinacol-pinacolone, Hoffmann, Beckmann, Baeyer-Villiger, Favorskii, Fries, Claisen, Cope, Stevens and Wagner-Meerwein rearrangements |
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 |
Chemistry and mechanism of reactions |
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| Aldol condensation (including directed aldol condensation), Claisen condensation, Dieckmann, Perkin, Knoevenagel, Wittig, Clemmensen, Wolff-Kishner, Cannizzaro and Von Richter reactions; Stobbe, benzoin and acyloin condensations; Fischer indole synthesis |
| Skraup synthesis, Bischler-Napieralski, Sandmeyer, Reimer-Tiemann and Reformatsky reactions |
Polymeric systems |
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| Physical chemistry of polymers: Polymer solutions and their thermodynamic properties; number and weight average molecular weights of polymers. Determination of molecular weights by sedimentation, light scattering, osmotic pressure, viscosity |
| Physical chemistry of polymers: End group analysis methods |
| Preparation and properties of polymers: Organic polymers-polyethylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, Teflon, nylon, terylene, synthetic and natural rubber. Inorganic polymers-phosphonitrilic halides, borazines, silicones, and silicates |
| Biopolymers: Basic bonding in proteins, DNA, and RNA |
Synthetic uses of reagents |
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| OsO₄, HIO₄, CrO₃, Pb(OAc)₄, SeO, NBS, B H₆, 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 Norrish-type II reactions, photo fries, di-U-methane rearrangements |
Principles of spectroscopy and applications in structure elucidation |
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| Rotational spectra-diatomic molecules; isotopic substitution and rotational constants |
| Vibrational spectra-diatomic molecules, linear triatomic molecules, specific frequencies of functional groups in polyatomic molecules |
| Electronic spectra: Singlet and triplet states. n› U * and U U * transitions; application to conjugated double bonds and conjugated carbonyls-Woodward-Fieser rules |
| Nuclear magnetic resonance: Isochronous and anisochronous protons; chemical shift and coupling constants; application of H NMR to simple organic molecules |
| Mass spectra: Parent peak, base peak, daughter peak, metastable peak, fragmentation of simple organic molecules, U-cleavage, McLafferty rearrangement |
| Electron spin resonance: Inorganic complexes and free radicals |
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 and Varignon's theorem, free body diagram |
| Engineering mechanics: Conditions of equilibrium, principle of virtual work, equivalent force system. First and second moment of area, mass moment of inertia. Static friction, inclined plane and bearings |
| Engineering mechanics: Kinematics and kinetics-kinematics in Cartesian coordinates, motion under uniform and nonuniform acceleration, motion under gravity. Kinetics of particle: Momentum and energy principles, D'Alembert’s principle |
| Engineering mechanics: Kinematics and kinetics-collision of elastic bodies, rotation of rigid bodies, simple harmonic motion, flywheel |
| Strength of materials: 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, leaf spring |
| Strength of materials: Strain energy in direct stress, bending, and shear. Deflection of beams-Macaulay's method, Mohr’s moment area method, conjugate beam method, unit load method. Torsion of shafts, transmission of power, close coiled helical springs |
| Strength of materials: Elastic stability of columns, Euler’s Rankine’s and Secant formula. Principal stresses and strains in two dimensions, Mohr’s circle, theories of elastic failure |
| Strength of materials: Thin and thick cylinder-stresses due to internal and external pressure, Lame’s equations |
| Structural analysis: (a) Castigliano’s theorems I and II, unit load method of consistent deformation applied to beams and pin jointed trusses. Slope-deflection, moment distribution |
| Structural analysis: (a) Kani’s method of analysis and column analogy method applied to indeterminate beams and rigid frames. (b) Rolling loads and Influences lines: Influences lines for shear force and bending moment at a section of beam. |
| Structural analysis: (b) Rolling loads and Influences lines-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 |
| Structural analysis: (c) Arches-three hinged, two hinged and fixed arches, rib shortening and temperature effects, influence lines in arches |
| Structural analysis: (d) Matrix methods of analysis-force method and displacement method of analysis of indeterminate beams and rigid frames. (e) Plastic analysis of beams and frames-theory of plastic bending, plastic analysis, statical method |
| Structural analysis: (e) Plastic analysis of beams and frames-mechanism method. (f) Unsymmetrical bending: Moment of inertia, product of inertia, position of neutral axis and principal axes, calculation of bending stresses |
| Structural analysis: (g) SDOF and MDOF, response spectra, nature of earthquake forces, frequency and mode shapes, IS 1893, simple methods of designs. (h) CAD and computer applications in civil engineering: Simple programming in FORTRAN and C++ |
| Structural analysis: (h) CAD and computer applications in civil engineering-awareness on AUTOCAD, STAAD/ SAP. Simple computations on earthworks, road works, analysis of rates, cost estimation |
Design of structures: Steel, concrete, and masonry structures |
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| Structural steel design: (a) Structural steel-factors of safety and load factors. Riveted, bolted, and welded joints and connections. Design of tension and compression member, beams of built up section, riveted and welded plate girders, gantry girders |
| Structural steel design: (a) Structural steel-stanchions with battens and lacings, slab and gusseted column bases. (b) Design of highway and railway bridges: Introduction to railway codes. Through and deck type plate girder, Warren girder, Pratt truss |
| 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: Reinforced concrete-simple and continuous beams of rectangular, T and L sections. Compression members under direct load with or without eccentricity, isolated and combined footings |
| Design of concrete and masonry structures: Cantilever and counterfort type retaining walls. Water tanks: Design requirements for rectangular and circular tanks resting on ground, Intz tank. Prestressed concrete: Methods and systems of prestressing |
| Design of concrete and masonry structures: Prestressed concrete-anchorages, analysis and design of sections for flexure based on working stress, loss of prestress. Design of brick masonry as per IS codes. Design of masonry retaining walls |
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 |
| Fluid mechanics: Kinematics and dynamics of fluid flow-irrotational and rotational flow, velocity potential and stream functions, flownet, methods of drawing flownet, sources and sinks, flow separation, free and forced vortices. Control volume equation |
| Fluid mechanics: Continuity, momentum, energy and moment of momentum equations from control volume equation, Navier-Stokes equation, Euler’s equation of motion, application to fluid flow problems, pipe flow, plane, curved |
| Fluid mechanics: Stationary and moving vanes, sluice gates, weirs, orifice meters and Venturi meters |
| Dimensional analysis and similitude: Buckingham’s pi-theorem, dimensionless parameters, similitude theory, model laws, undistorted, and distorted models |
| Laminar flow: Laminar flow between parallel, stationary and moving plates, flow through circular pipes |
| Boundary layer: 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 |
| Boundary layer: Turbulent flow through pipes-velocity distribution and variation of pipe friction factor, hydraulic grade line and total energy line, siphons, expansion and contractions in pipes, pipe networks, water hammer in pipes and surge tanks |
| Open channel flow: Uniform and non-uniform flows, momentum and energy correction factors, specific energy and specific force, critical depth, resistance equations and variation of roughness coefficient, rapidly varied flow, flow in contractions |
| Open channel flow: Flow at sudden drop, hydraulic jump and its applications, surges and waves, gradually varied flow, classification of surface profiles, control section, step method of integration of varied flow equation, moving surges and hydraulic bore |
| Hydraulic machines and hydropower: Centrifugal pumps-types, characteristics, net positive suction head (NPSH), specific speed. Pumps in parallel. Reciprocating pumps, air vessels, hydraulic ram, efficiency parameters |
| Hydraulic machines and hydropower: Rotary and positive displacement pumps, diaphragm, and jet pumps. Hydraulic turbines, types classification, choice of turbines, performance parameters, controls, characteristics, specific speed |
| Hydraulic machines and hydropower: Principles of hydropower development-type, layouts, and component works. Surge tanks, types and choice. Flow duration curves and dependable flow. Storage and pondage. Pumped storage plants. Special features of mini |
| Hydraulic machines and hydropower: Principles of hydropower development-micro-hydel plants |
Geotechnical engineering |
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| Types of soil, phase relationships, consistency limits, particles size distribution, classifications of soil |
| Capillary water and structural water, effectives trees and pore water pressure, Darcy’s law, factors affecting permeability, determination of permeability, permeability of stratified soil deposits |
| Seepage pressure, quick sand condition, compressibility and consolidation, Terzaghi’s theory of one dimensional consolidation, consolidation test |
| Compaction of soil, field control of compaction |
| Total stress and effective stress parameters, pore pressure coefficients |
| Shear strength of soils, Mohr Coulomb failure theory, shear tests |
| Earth pressure at rest, active and passive pressures, Rankine’s theory, Coulomb’s wedge theory, earth pressure on retaining wall, sheet pile walls, braced excavation |
| Evaluation of bearing capacity, Terzaghi and other important theories, net and gross bearing pressure, IS 6403 |
| Immediate and consolidation settlement, use of IS8002 |
| Stability of slope, total stress and effective stress methods, conventional methods of slices, stability number |
| Subsurface exploration, methods of boring, sampling, penetration tests, pressure meter tests |
| Essential features of foundation, types of foundation, design criteria, choice of type of foundation, stress distribution in soils, Boussinesq’s theory, Newmark’s chart, pressure bulb, contact pressure |
| Applicability of different bearing capacity theories, evaluation of bearing capacity from field tests, allowable bearing capacity, settlement analysis, allowable settlement |
| Proportioning of footing, isolated and combined footings, rafts, buoyancy rafts, pile foundation, types of piles, pile capacity, static and dynamic analysis, design of pile groups, pile load test, settlement of piles, lateral capacity |
| Foundation for bridges |
| Ground improvement techniques-preloading, sand drains, stone column, grouting, soil stabilisation |
Construction technology, equipment, planning, and management |
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| Construction technology: (a) Engineering materials-physical properties of construction materials: Stones, bricks, and tiles; lime, cement, and Surkhi mortars; lime concrete and cement concrete, properties of freshly mixed and hardened concrete |
| Construction technology: (a) Engineering materials-flooring tiles, use of ferro-cement, fibre-reinforced and polymer concrete, high strength concrete and lightweight concrete. Timber: properties and uses; defects in timber |
| Construction technology: (a) Engineering materials-seasoning and preservation of timber. Plastics, rubber and damp proofing materials, termite proofing, materials, for low cost housing. (b) Construction-building components and their functions |
| Construction technology: (b) Construction-brick masonry: Bonds, jointing. Stone masonry. Design of brick masonry walls as per IS codes, factors of safety, serviceability and strength requirements; plastering, pointing. Types of floors and roofs |
| Construction technology: (b) Construction-ventilators, repairs in buildings. Functional planning of building: Building orientation, circulation, grouping of areas, privacy concept and design of energy efficient building |
| Construction technology: (b) Construction-provisions of national building code. Building estimates and specifications; cost of works; valuation |
| Construction equipment: (a) Standard and special types of equipment, preventive maintenance and repair, factors affecting the selection of equipment, economical life, time and motion study, capital and maintenance cost |
| Construction equipment: (b) Concreting equipments-Weigh batcher, mixer, vibration, batching plant, concrete pump. (c) Earth-work equipment: Power shovel hoe, bulldozer, dumper, trailers, and tractors, rollers, sheep foot roller |
| Construction planning and management: (a) Construction activity, schedules, job layout, bar charts, organization of contracting firms, project control and supervision. Cost reduction measures. (b) Network analysis: CPM and PERT analysis, float times |
| Construction planning and management: (b) Network analysis-cashing of activities, contraction of network for cost optimization, up dating, cost analysis and resource allocation. Elements of engineering economics, methods of appraisal, present worth |
| Construction planning and management: (b) Network analysis-annual cost, benefit-cost, incremental analysis. Economy of scale and size. Choosing between alternatives including levels of investments. Project profitability |
Survey and transportation engineering |
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| Survey: Common methods of distance and angle measurements, plane table survey, levelling traverse survey, triangulation survey, corrections, and adjustments, contouring, topographical map. Surveying instruments for above purposes. Tacheometry |
| Survey: Circular and transition curves. Principles of photogrammetry |
| Railways: Permanent way, sleepers, rail fastenings, ballast, points and crossings, design of turnouts, stations and yards, turntables, signals, and interlocking, level-crossing. Construction and maintenance of permanent ways: Superelevation |
| Railways: Construction and maintenance of permanent ways-creep of rail, ruling gradient, track resistance, tractive effort, relaying of track |
| Highway engineering: (a) Principles of highway planning, highway alignments. Geometrical design: Cross section, camber, superelevation, horizontal, and vertical curves. Classification of roads: Low cost roads, flexible pavements, rigid pavements |
| Highway engineering: (a) Design of pavements and their construction, evaluation of pavement failure and strengthening. (b) Drainage of roads: Surface and subsurface drainage. (c) Traffic engineering: Forecasting techniques, origin and destination survey |
| Highway engineering: (c) Traffic engineering-highway capacity. Channelised and unchannelized intersections, rotary design elements, markings, sign, signals, street lighting; traffic surveys. Principle of highway financing |
Hydrology, water resources, and engineering |
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| Hydrology: Hydrological cycle, precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, depression storage, infiltration, overland flow, hydrograph, flood frequency analysis, flood estimation, 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, tube wells, pumping and recuperation tests |
| Groundwater flow: Ground water potential |
| Water resources engineering: Ground and surface water resource, single and multipurpose projects, storage capacity of reservoirs, reservoir losses, reservoir sedimentation, economics of water resources projects |
| Irrigation engineering: (a) Water requirements of crops-consumptive use, quality of water for irrigation, duty and delta, irrigation methods and their efficiencies. (b) Canals: Distribution systems for canal irrigation, canal capacity, canal losses |
| Irrigation engineering: (b) Canals-alignment of main and distributary canals, most efficient section, lined canals, their design, regime theory, critical shear stress, bed load, local and suspended load transport, cost analysis of lined and unlined canals |
| Irrigation engineering: (b) Canals-drainage below lining. (c) Water logging: Causes and control, drainage system design, salinity and its control. (d) Canal structures: Elements of cross regulators, head regulators, canal falls, aqueducts |
| Irrigation engineering: (d) Canal structures-metering flumes, and canal outlets. (e) Diversion head work: Principles and design of weirs on permeable and impermeable foundation, Khosla’s theory. Principles of operation of energy, dissipators |
| Irrigation engineering: (e) Diversion head work-stilling basin, silt excluders. (f) Storage works: Types of dams, design, principles of rigid gravity and earth dams, stability analysis, foundation treatment, joints and galleries, control of seepage |
| Irrigation engineering: (g) Spillways-spillway types, crest gates, energy dissipation. (h) River training: Objectives of river training, methods of river training |
Environmental engineering |
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| Water supply: Estimation of surface and subsurface water resources, predicting demand for water, impurities, of water and their significance, physical, chemical and bacteriological analysis, waterborne diseases, standards for potable water |
| Intake of water: Types of Intakes, pumping and gravity schemes. Water treatment: Principles of coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation; slow; rapid, pressure, filters; chlorination, softening, removal of taste, odour, and salinity |
| Water storage and distribution: Storage and balancing reservoirs-types, location and capacity. Distribution system: Layout, hydraulics of pipelines, pipe fittings, valves including check and pressure reducing valves, meters |
| Water storage and distribution: Distribution system-analysis of distribution systems, leak detection, maintenance of distribution systems, pumping stations and their operations |
| Sewerage systems: Domestic and industrial wastes, storm sewage-separate and combined systems, flow through sewers, design of sewers, sewer appurtenances, manholes, inlets, junctions, syphon, plumbing in buildings |
| Sewage characterisation: BOD, COD, solids, dissolved oxygen, nitrogen and TOC. Standards of disposal in normal water course and on land |
| Sewage treatment: Working principles, units, grit chambers, sedimentation tanks, 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: Sustainable development. Radioactive wastes and disposal. Environmental impact assessment for thermal power plants, mines, river valley projects. Air pollution. Pollution control methods |
Financing accounting |
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| Accounting as a financial information system; impact of behavioural sciences |
| Accounting standards example, accounting for depreciation, inventories, research and development costs, construction contracts, revenue recognition, fixed assets, contingencies, foreign exchange transactions, investments, and government grants |
| Problems of company accounts relating to amalgamation, absorption and reconstruction of companies and valuation of shares and goodwill |
Cost accounting |
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| Nature and functions of cost accounting |
| Job costing |
| Process costing |
| Marginal costing; techniques of segregating semi-variable costs into fixed and variable costs |
| Cost-volume-profit relationship; aid to decision making including pricing decisions, shutdown, etc |
| Techniques of cost control and cost reduction: Budgetary control, flexible budgets. Standard costing and variance analysis, responsibility accounting, investment, profit and cost centres |
Taxation |
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| Definitions |
| Basis of charge |
| Incomes which do not form part of total income |
| Simple problems of computation of income under various heads, i.e. salaries, income from house property, profits and gains from business or profession, capital gains, income of other persons included in assessee's total income |
| Aggregation of income and set off/ carry forward of loss |
| Deductions to be made in computing total income |
Auditing |
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| Audit of cash transactions, expenses, incomes, purchases, and sales |
| Valuation and verification of assets with special reference to fixed assets, stocks and debts |
| Verification of liabilities |
| Audit of limited companies; appointment, removal, powers, duties and liabilities of company auditor, significance of 'true and fair', MAOCARO report (manufacturing and other companies audit report orders) |
| Auditor's report and qualifications therein |
| Special points in the audit of different organisations like clubs, hospitals, colleges, and charitable societies |
Financial analysis and management of working capital |
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| Finance function-nature, scope, and objectives of financial management-risk and return relationship |
| Financial analysis as a diagnostic tool |
| Management of working capital and its components-forecasting working capital needs, inventory, debtors, cash, and credit management |
Investment decisions and cost of capital |
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| Investment decisions: Nature and scope of capital budgeting, various types of decisions including make or buy and lease or buy. Techniques of appraisal and their applications |
| Consideration of risk and uncertainty, analysis of non-financial aspects |
| Rate of return on investments-required rate of return, its measurement, cost of capital, weighted average cost, different weights |
Capital structure and valuation of firms and securities |
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| Capital structure: Leverages, significance of leverages, theories of capital structure with special reference to modigliani and miller approach. Planning the capital structure of a company; EBIT-EPS analysis, cash-flow ability to service debt |
| Capital structure: Capital structure ratios, other methods |
| Concepts of valuation: Valuation of firm's fixed income securities and common stocks |
| Dividend and retention policy: Residual theory of dividend policy. Other models-actual practices |
Raising of finance and financial markets |
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| Raising finance-short term and long term |
| Bank finance-norms and conditions |
| Financial distress-approaching BIFR under sick industrial undertakings act: Concept of sickness, potential sickness, cash loss, erosion of net worth |
| Money markets-the purpose of money markets, money market in india organization and working of capital markets in India |
| Organization, structure and role of financial institutions in India |
| Banks and investing institutions-national and international financial institutions-their norms and types of financial assistance |
| Inter-bank lending, its regulation, supervision and control |
| System of consortium finance-supervision and regulation of banks |
| Monetary and credit policy of reserve bank of India |
Nature and concept of organisation |
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| Organisation goals; primary and secondary goals, single and multiple goals, end-means chain-displacement, succession, expansion and multiplication of goals |
| Formal organisation; type, structure-line and staff, functional matrix, informal organisation-functions and limitations |
Organisation theory |
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| Evolution of organisation theory; classical, neo-classical and system approach-bureaucracy; nature and basis of power, sources of power, power structure, and politics |
Organisation behaviour |
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| Organizational behavior as a dynamic system: Technical, social, and power systems-interrelations and interactions, perception, status system. Theoretical and empirical foundation of theories and models of motivation. Morale and productivity |
| Organizational behavior as a dynamic system: Leadership-theories and styles |
Conflict management |
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| Management of conflicts in organisation-transactional analysis |
| Significance of culture to organisations |
| Limits of rationality-organisational change, adaptation, growth, and development |
| Professional management vs. family management, organisational control, and effectiveness |
Concept of industrial relations |
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| Nature and scope of industrial relations, the socio-economic set-up, need for positive approach-industrial relation in India |
| Workers’ participation in management; philosophy, rationale, present day state of affairs and future prospects |
Manpower planning |
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| Role of personnel department in recruitment, selection, training and development, performance appraisal |
Absenteeism and labour turnover |
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| Meaning of absenteeism and causes of absenteeism in Indian industries, labour turnover-concept, causes and costs, methods of controlling labour turnover |
Salary and wage administration |
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| Determination of wage policy, methods of remuneration, methods of incentives schemes, bonus, wage differentials, employee stock option schemes, (ESOPs), sweat equity, essential features of a good remuneration and incentive scheme |
Types of markets and price determination |
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| Criteria for welfare improvement |
| Micro and macro theories of distribution |
Full employment and Says' Law |
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| Under employment equilibrium-Keynes' theory of employment (and income) determination-critiques of Keynesian theory |
Functions of money |
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| Measurement of price level changes-the quantity theory of money, its variants and critiques thereof-demand for and supply of money-the money multiplier |
| Theories of determination of Interest rate-theories of inflation and control of inflation |
The modern monetary system |
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| Structure of money and financial markets and control banks, non-bank financial intermediaries, discount house, and central bank |
| Money market instruments, bills and bonds |
| Goals and instruments of monetary management in closed and open economies |
| Relation between the central bank and the treasury |
| Proposal for ceiling on growth rate of money |
Public finance and its role in market economy |
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| Allocative efficiency, stabilization, distribution and development |
| Sources of revenue-forms of taxes and subsidies, their incidence and effects; limits to taxation, loans, crowding-out effects, and limits to borrowing |
| Types of budget deficits-public expenditure and its effects |
International economics |
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| Old and new theories of International trade: (a) Comparative advantage, terms of trade and offer curve. (b) Product cycle and strategic trade theories. (c) (i) Trade as an engine of growth, (ii) Forms of protection |
| Old and new theories of International trade: (c) (iii) Balance of payments adjustments-alternative approaches: Price versus income, income adjustments under fixed exchange rates, theories of policy mix, exchange rate adjustments under capital mobility |
| Old and new theories of International trade: (c) (iii) Balance of payments adjustments-alternative approaches-floating rates and their implications for developing countries, (c) (iv) (a) IMF and the World Bank, (b) W.T.O., |
| Old and new theories of International trade: (c) (iv) (c) Trade blocs and monetary unions |
Growth and development |
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| Theories of growth: Classical and neo-classical theories; the Harrod model; economic development under surplus labour; wage-goods as a constraint on growth; relative importance of physical and human capitals in growth; innovations and development |
| Theories of growth: Productivity, its growth and source of changes thereof. Factors determining savings to income ratio and the capital-output ratio |
| Main features of growth: Changes in sectoral compositions of income; changes in occupational distribution; changes in income distribution; changes in savings and investment and in pattern of investment. Case for and against industrialization |
| Main features of growth: Significance of agriculture in developing countries |
| Relation between state, planning and growth, changing roles of market and plans in growth, economic policy and growth |
| Role of foreign capital and technology in growth |
| The significance of multinationals |
| Welfare indicators and measures of growth-human development indices, the basic needs approach |
| Concept of sustainable development; convergence of levels of living of developed and developing countries; meaning of self-reliance in growth and development |
Indian economics in post-independent era |
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| Contributions of Vakil, Gadgil, and Rao |
| National and per capita income; patterns, trends, aggregate and sectoral composition and changes therein |
| Broad factors determining national income and its distribution; measures of poverty |
| Trends in below poverty-line proportion |
Employment |
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| Factors determining employment in short and long periods |
| Role of capital, wage-goods, wage-rate, and technology |
| Measures of unemployment |
| Relation between income, poverty and employment, and issues of distribution and social justice |
| Agriculture: Institutional set-up of land system, size of land holdings and efficiency, Green Revolution and technological changes, agricultural prices and terms of trade, role of public distribution and farm |
| Agriculture: Subsidies on agricultural prices and production. Employment and poverty in agriculture-rural wages, employment schemes growth experience, land reforms. Regional disparities in agricultural growth. Role of agriculture in export |
Industry |
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| Industrial system of India: Trends in composition and growth. Role of public and private sectors, role of small and cottage industries |
| Indian industrial strategy-capital versus consumer goods, wage-goods versus luxuries, capital-intensive versus labour-intensive techniques, sickness and high-cost Industrial policies and their effects |
| Recent moves for liberalisation and their effects on Indian industry |
Money and banking |
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| The monetary institutions of India: Sources of reserve money, techniques of money supply regulation under open economy |
| Functioning of money market in India |
| Budget deficit and money supply |
| Issues in reform of monetary and banking systems |
Index numbers of price levels |
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| Course of price level in post-independence period, sources and causes of inflation, role of monetary and supply factors in price level determination, policies towards control of inflation |
| Effects of inflation under open economy |
Trade, balance of payments, and exchange |
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| Foreign trade of India; composition and direction shifts in trade policy from import substitution to export promotion |
| Impact of liberalisation on pattern of trade |
| India's external borrowings-the debt problem |
| Exchange rate of the rupee; devaluations, depreciations and their effects on balance of payments, convertibility on current and capital accounts, rupee in an open economy |
| Integration of Indian economy with world economy, India and the WTO |
Public finance and fiscal policy |
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| Composition of and trends in India's public revenue and expenditure, role of taxes (direct and indirect) and subsidies, fiscal deficits, public expenditures and their significance, public finance and inflation, debt trap and limiting government's debt |
| Recent fiscal policies and their effects |
Economic planning in India |
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| Strategies for growth and social justice; planning and increasing the growth rate |
| Trends in savings and investment, trends in savings to income and capital, output ratios, productivity, its sources, growth and trends, growth versus distribution, transition from central planning to indicative planning, relation between market and plan |
Concept of education |
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| Education-meaning, nature, scope and process with reference to eastern and western thoughts |
| Education as social process |
| Aims of education-individual and social with reference to eastern and western views |
| Objectives of education at different levels from elementary to higher education, formal, non formal, and informal |
| Education and its agencies |
| Education for training in cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains |
| Education in ancient India-the concept of Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha |
| Education and its features in the Vedic system-Buddhist system and Islamic system with reference to the concept aims, process, and significance |
Philosophical Foundations of Education |
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| Contributions of idealism, naturalism, realism, pragmatism to the present educational system, existentialism, eclecticism |
| Contributions of Gandhi, Tagore, Aurobindo, Vivekananda, Froebel, Herbart to the field of education |
| Contributions of Pandit Utkalmani Gopabandhu Dash and Kabibar Radhanath Ray to the development of education in Odisha |
Sociological foundations of education |
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| Meaning and nature of educational sociology |
| Relationship of sociology and education, education-as social sub-system: Specific characteristics |
| Education and the home, education and the community with special reference to Indian society |
| Education and modernization, education and politics, education and religion, education and culture, education and democracy, socialization of the child, meaning and nature of social change, education as related to social stratification and social mobility |
| Education as related to social equity and equality of educational opportunities |
| Constraints on social change in India (caste, ethnicity, class, language, religion, regionalism) |
| Education of the socially and economically disadvantaged sections of the society with special reference to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, women, and rural population |
Development of modern Indian education |
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| Development of Indian education-during pre independent and post independence period |
| Recommendation of Macaulay’s minutes (1835), Woods Despatch, Sargent plan |
| Hartog, committee, Calcutta university commission, Radhakrishnan commission |
| Secondary Education Commission(1952-54), Indian Education Commission (1964-66), National Education Policy (1968), National Policy on Education 1986 and Programme of Action, 1992 |
Growth and development |
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| Concept of growth, development, and maturation |
| Principles of development, factors affecting development |
| Dimensions of development: Physical, emotional, mental, social, and moral |
| Problems of adolescents |
| Psychology of adult learners |
| Personality: Concept and development. Type and trait theory, psychodynamic approach, humanistic approach, indigenous ideas of self and consciousness: Annamayya, Pranmaya, Monomaya, Vijnanamaya, Anandamaya, Kosa, Atman |
| Defence mechanism: Stress, frustration, conflict, coping with conflict |
Teaching learning process |
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| Learning: Concept and process |
| Theories of learning: Conditioning and cognitive theories with special reference to Thorndike’s connectionism, Skinner’s operant conditioning, contributions of Gagne, Ausubel, Bloom, Piaget, Bruner to learning process. Constructivism in education |
| Transfer of learning, theories of transfer |
| Motivation: Theories, techniques of motivating the learners with special reference to need hierarchy theory (Maslow) and achievement motivation (Atkinson) |
Higher mental or cognitive abilities |
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| Intelligence: Concept, meaning, and measurement of intelligence, special reference to SI, model of intellect (Guilford), triarchic theory (Sternberg), multiple intelligences (Gardner), emotional intelligence (EI), spiritual intelligence (SI) |
| Creativity: It’s nature and process. Characteristics of a creative person, measurement of creativity. Fostering creativity. Thinking, problem solving, reasoning, imagination |
Evaluation in education |
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| Evaluation-concept, types, placement, formative, diagnostic, summative continuous, and comprehensive evaluation |
| Recent trends in evaluation-grading, reporting evaluation results and its interpretation |
| Semester system and question bank |
| Measures of central tendencies: Mean, media, and mode, measures of variability: Range, average deviation quartile deviation and standard deviation |
| Standard score: ‘z’, score, ‘T’ score, “c”score and Stanine score |
| Normal probability curve: Meaning, properties, and uses in interpreting test results |
| Monitoring system for programme evaluation at different levels of education |
Administration, management, and supervision of education |
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| Concept of administration and supervision educational management: Functions and roles of management, interpersonal, informational, decision-making, conflict management, job analysis, work motivation |
| Administrative structure of education in the state and centre |
| Structure and functions of UGC, NAAC, AIU, AICTE, NCTE, ICSSR, ICA, CABE, NCERT, NIEPA, CBSE |
| SCERT, SIET, ELTI, SRC for AE, BSE, CHSE |
| School complex, school improvement planning and institutional planning and management |
| Odisha examination act, 1988 |
| Equality of educational opportunities, universalisation of elementary education |
| DPEP, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, NLM |
| Finance management in education at-primary, secondary, higher, adult and nonformal and technical education |
| Grant in aid system, role of central, state and local bodies in education finance |
| Classification of educational expenditures |
Issues in education |
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| Value and peace oriented education-meaning, nature, objectives, and programmes |
| Population education, adolescent education |
| Adult and non-formal education-need, problems, and strategies |
| Vocationalisation of education-need, importance, and programmes |
| Distance and continuing education-need, importance, and functions |
| Education for all |
| Work-experience, socially useful productive work |
| Environmental education-need, causes of pollution, and preventive measures |
| Health, nutrition, and school hygiene |
Education of children with special needs |
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| Identification of children with special needs |
| Education for mentally challenged, visually impaired, hearing impaired; and orthopedically handicapped children-characteristics, degree of impairment, learning disability, educational programmes, segregation to inclusion |
| Education of gifted and creative children-characteristics and educational programmes |
| Education for socially and economically disadvantaged children of the society with reference to SC, ST, women and rural population |
| Role of teachers in the education of children with special needs |
Educational Technology |
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| Meaning and scope of educational technology |
| Educational technology as system approach to education and its characteristics |
| Components of educational technology-software and hardware multimedia approach in educational technology |
| Designing instructional strategies-lecture, team-teaching, discussion, panel discussion, seminars, symposia and tutorials |
| Communication process-concept of communication, principles, models, and barriers |
| Programmed learning, microteaching, simulated teaching |
Education and national development |
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| Education and modernisation, education and culture, education and religion, education for national integration and international understanding |
| Education for human resource development |
| Education related to social stratification and social mobility |
Teacher education |
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| Objectives, level specificity of teacher education strategies for teacher education-pre service, in-service programmes |
| Staff development programmes-oriental course, refresher course |
| Summer school, linking the programmes to career advancement |
| Teacher as a role model, teaching as a profession, professional ethics |
| Role of teachers organisation for development of primary and secondary education and professional development of teachers |
National system of education |
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| National Policy on Education 1986 and programme of action 1992-aims objectives of education envisaged in the policy |
| Salient features as proposed in NPE for various stages |
| Objectives of vocational education |
| National system of education-need, objective structure, and curriculum |
| Concept of ensuring minimum learning out-comes, measures for achieving minimum learning out-comes in each subject area |
Information communication technology (ICT) |
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| Concept Of computer and types |
| Software, hardware, and its application, operating system, and application software, preparation and delivery of lessons/ lectures by using computer-collection, preparation, presentation, evaluation, reporting |
| Use of internet (www) in professional development-collection and processing of information, presentation, reporting, and evaluation |
Electrical circuits-theory and applications |
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| Circuit components; network graphs; KCL, KVL; circuit analysis methods: Nodal analysis, mesh analysis; basic network theorems and applications; transient analysis: RL, RC, and RLC circuits; sinusoidal steady state analysis |
| Resonant circuits and applications; coupled circuits and applications; balanced 3-phase circuits |
| Two-port networks, driving point and transfer functions; poles and zeros of network functions |
| Elements of networks synthesis |
| Filter-theory: Design and applications |
| Active filters |
| Circuit simulation: Input formats; mathematical modelling; solution of equations; output formats; SPICE |
Signals and systems |
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| Representation of continuous-time and discrete-time signals; LTI systems; convolution; impulse response; time-domain analysis of LTI systems based on convolution and differential/ difference equations |
| Fourier transform, Laplace transform, Z-transform, transfer function |
| Sampling and recovery of signals DFT, FFT processing of analog signals through discrete-time systems |
E.M. theory |
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| Maxwell’s equations, wave propagation in bounded media |
| Boundary conditions, reflection and refraction of plane waves |
| Transmission line: Distributed parameter circuits, travelling and standing waves, impedance matching, Smith chart |
| Waveguides: Parallel plane guide, TE, TM, and TEM waves, rectangular and cylindrical waveguides, resonators |
| Planar transmission lines; stripline, microstripline |
Analog electronics |
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| Characteristics and equivalent circuits (large and small-signal) of diode, BJT, JFET, and MOSFET |
| Diode circuits: Clipping, clamping, rectifier |
| Biasing and bias stability |
| Fet amplifiers |
| Current mirror, amplifiers: Single and multi-stage, differential, operational, feedback and power |
| Analysis of amplifiers; frequency response of amplifiers |
| Op Amp circuits |
| Filters; sinusoidal oscillators: Criterion for oscillation; single-transistor and OP AMP configurations for oscillators |
| Function generators and wave-shaping circuits |
| Power supplies |
Digital electronics |
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| Boolean algebra; minimisation of Boolean functions; logic gates; digital IC families (DTL, TTL, ECL, MOS, CMOS) |
| Combinational circuits: Arithmetic circuits, code converters, multiplexers, and decoders |
| Sequential circuits: Latches and flip-flops, counters, and shift-registers |
| Comparators, timers, multivibrators |
| Sample and hold circuits, ADCs and DACs |
| Semiconductor memories |
| Programmable logic controller |
Energy conversion |
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| Principles of electromechanical energy conversion: Torque and EMF in rotating machines |
| DC machines: Characteristics and performance analysis; starting and speed control of motors |
| Transformers: Principles of operation and analysis; regulation, efficiency; 3-phase transformers, 3-phase induction machines: Characteristics, speed control |
| 3-phase synchronous machines: Characteristics, parallel operations. Reactive power control |
| Special machines: Stepper motors, brushless DC motors, permanent magnet motors single-phase motors; universal motors |
Power electronics and electric drives |
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| Semiconductor power devices: Diode, transistor, thyristor, triac, GTO , MOSFET and IGBT; static characteristics and principles of operation; triggering circuits; bridge converters: Fully-controlled and half-controlled |
| Bridge converters: Principles of choppers and inverters basic concepts of speed control of DC and AC motor drives, applications of variable-speed drives |
Analog communication |
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| Random variables: Continuous, discrete; probability, probability functions |
| Statistical averages; probability models; random signals and noise: White noise, noise equivalent bandwidth; signal transmission with noise; signal to noise ratio |
| Linear CW modulation: Amplitude modulation: DSB, DSB-SC, and SSB |
| Modulators and demodulators; phase and frequency modulation: PM and FM signals; narrowband FM; generation and detection of FM and PM, deemphasis, preemphasis |
| CW modulation system: Superheterodyne receivers, AM receivers, communication receivers, FM receivers, phase locked loop, SSB receiver, signal to noise ratio calculation for AM and FM receivers |
Microwaves and antenna |
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| Electromagnetic radiation, propagation of waves: Ground waves, sky wave, space wave, tropospheric scatter propagation |
| Extraterrestrial communications |
| Antenna: Various types, gain, resistance, band-width, beamwidth, and polarization, effect of ground |
| Antenna coupling; high frequency antennas; microwave antennas; special purpose antennas |
| Microwave services: Klystron, magnetron, TWT, gun diodes, impatt, bipolar and FETs, microwave integrated circuits. Microwave measurements |
Control systems |
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| Elements of control systems; block-diagram representation; open-loop and closed loop systems; principles and applications of feedback |
| LTI systems: Time domain and frequency-domain analysis |
| Stability: Routh hurwitz criterion, root loci, Nyquist’s criterion, bode-plots, design of lead-lag compensators |
| Proportional, PI, PID controllers |
| State-variable method and application |
| Principles of discrete-control systems |
Electrical engineering materials |
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| Electrical/ electronic behaviour of materials: Conductivity; free-electrons and band-theory; intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductor, p-n junction; superconductivity |
| Dielectric behaviour of materials; polarization phenomena; piezoelectric phenomena |
| Magnetic materials: Behaviour and application |
| Photonic materials: Refractive index, absorption and emission of light, optical fibres, lasers and opto-electronic materials |
Microprocessors and microcomputers |
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| 8-bit microprocessor: Architecture, CPU, module design, memory interfacing, I/O, peripheral controllers, application |
| IBM PC architecture: Overview, introduction to DOS, advanced microprocessors |
Measurement and instrumentation |
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| Error analysis; measurement of current, voltage, power, energy, power-factor, resistance, inductance, capacitance and frequency |
| Electronic measuring instruments: Multimeter, CRO, digital voltmeter, frequency counter, Q-meter, spectrum-analyser, distortion-meter |
| Transducers: Thermocouple, thermistor, LVDT, strain-gauge, piezoelectric crystal |
| Use of transducers in measurements of non-electrical quantities |
| Data-acquisition systems |
IC technology |
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| Overview of IC technology |
| Unit-steps used in IC fabrication: Wafer cleaning, photo-lithography, wet and dry etching, oxidation, diffusion, ion-implantation, CVD and LPCVD techniques for deposition of poly-silicon, silicon, silicon nitride and silicon dioxide |
| Unit-steps used in IC fabrication: Metallisation and passivation |
Power systems: analysis and control |
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| Steady-state performance of overhead transmission lines and cables; principles of active and reactive power transfer, distribution system; per-unit quantities; bus admittance and impedance matrices; load flow; economic operation; symmetrical components |
| Analysis of symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults |
| Concept of system stability: Swing curves and equal area criterion |
| Flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS) |
| Computer control and automation: Introduction to energy control centres; various states of a power system; SCADA systems and RTUs |
Power system protection |
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| Principles of over current, differential and distance protection |
| Concept of solid state relays |
| Circuit breakers |
| Load frequency control, reactive power control |
| Line bus, generator, transformer protection; numeric relays and application of DSP to protection |
| Computer aided protection |
Non-conventional energy sources and energy management |
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| Introduction to the energy problem; difficulties with conventional energy sources |
| Wind-energy: Basics of wind turbine aerodynamics; wind-energy conversion systems and their integration into electrical grid |
| Solar-energy: Thermal conversion-photovoltaic conversion |
| Wave-energy |
| Importance of energy management: Energy audit; energy economics: Discount rate, payback period, internal rate of return, life cycle costing |
Digital communication |
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| Pulse code modulation (PCM), differential pulse code modulation (DPCM), delta modulation (DM), Digital modulation and demodulation schemes: Amplitude, phase and frequency keying schemes (ASK, PSK, FSK) |
| Error control coding: Error detection and correction, linear block codes, convolution codes |
| Information measure and source coding |
| Data networks, 7-layer architecture |
Satellite communication, radar, and TV |
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| Satellite communication: General overview and technical characteristics, earth station equipment, satellite link design, CNR of satellite system |
| Radar: Basic principles, pulsed systems: CW Doppler radar, FMCW radar, phased array radars |
| Television systems: Television systems and standards, black and white and colour-TV transmission and receiver systems |
Fibre optic system |
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| Multiplexing: Time division multiplexing, frequency division multiplexing |
| Optical properties of materials: Refractive index absorption and emission of light, optical fibres, lasers and optoelectronic materials fibre optic links |
General fisheries |
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| Role of fisheries and aquaculture in Indian economy and human health |
| Fisheries resources of India |
| Utilization of different aquatic resources for fish production |
| Geographical distribution of fishes in India |
| Fisheries education and research in India |
| Organisational setups in fisheries development at national and international context |
| Frontier research and global scenario in fisheries and aquaculture |
| Growth and development of fisheries and aquaculture during different plan periods in India; fisheries and aquaculture regulatory acts |
| Disaster awareness related to fisheries and aquaculture |
Fishery biology and resource management |
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| Systematics: Classification and taxonomic characteristics of commercially important freshwater, brackish water and marine fishes of orders lamniformes, rajiformes, torpediniformes, cypriniformes, salmoniformes, siluriformes, clupeiformes, anguilliformes |
| Systematics: Perciformes (family Mugilidae, Centropomidae, Serranidae, Terapontidae, Sillaginidae, Carangidae, Gerridae, Leiognathidae, Sciaenidae, Polynemidae, Gobiidae, Scombridae, Scromberomoidae, Thunnidae, Cichlidae, Stromateidae, Trichiuridae) |
| Systematics: Perciformes (Anabantidae, Nemipteridae) and shellfishes of orders Anostraca, Notostraca, Diplostraca, Podocopa, Cladocera, Calanoida, Harpacticoida, Cyclopoida, Caligoida, Thoracica, Acrothoracica, Stomatopoda, Isopoda, Decapoda, Natantia |
| Systematics: Raptantia, Macrura, Anomura, Scaphopoda, Pelecypoda, Gastropoda, Cephalopoda, Penaeidae, Palaemonidae, Pandalidae, Sergestidae, Hippolytidae |
| Anatomy and physiology: Anatomy and physiology of cartilaginous fish (Scoliodon,) bony fishes (carps, murrells, catfish, seebass) with particular reference to their skeletal, digestive, circulatory, respiratory, excretory, reproductive, and nervous system |
| Anatomy and physiology: Anatomy and physiology of shell fishes (prawn, shrimp, crab, squids, cuttlefish, lamellidens, mussels) with particular reference to their skeletal, digestive, circulatory, respiratory, excretory, reproductive, and nervous system |
| Anatomy and physiology: Osmoregulation and migration. Feeding and breeding habits of commercially important finfishes and shellfishes. Age and growth-growth curve, absolute and relative growth, isogonic and heterogonic growth |
| Anatomy and physiology: Walford growth transformation |
| Reproductive biology and endocrinology: Sex ratio, age and size at maturity, maturity stages, gonadosomatic index, fecundity, development of gametes, vitellogenesis structure of sperm and ovum, types of egg |
| Reproductive biology and endocrinology: Spawning and developmental biology of commercially important finfishes and shellfishes (bony fish, prawn, shrimps and crabs) natural breeding. Seasonality, parental care, and mechanism of hatching |
| Reproductive biology and endocrinology: Modes of reproduction, secondary sexual characters and maturation process. Endocrine glands. Pituitary, thyroid, interrennal, corpuscles of eukaryote, ultimobranchial, gonads, hypothalamo-hypophyseal complex |
| Reproductive biology and endocrinology: Hypothalamo-X and Y organ |
| Fisheries resource: Marine and inland capture fishery resources of India. Catch statistics, conservation. Fisheries of major riverine systems, estuaries, reservoirs and lakes of India. Cold water fisheries of India |
| Fisheries resource: Potential marine fishery resources of the exclusive economic zone of India; major exploited marine fisheries of India. Conservation and management of marine fishery resources, socio economic issues. Definition of population dynamics |
| Fisheries resource: Catch per unit effort, catchability coefficient, mortality-determination of total, natural and fishing, recruitment. Concepts of maximum sustainable yield and maximum economic yield. Application remote sensing in fisheries |
| Fisheries resource: Potential fishing zones; estimation of total catch based on catch and effort data. Single census and multiple census methods of stock assessment. Population models. Marking and tagging techniques |
| Fisheries resource: Fisheries regulations (fleet regulation, mesh regulation, closed seasons, catch quota regulation, etc) |
Biochemistry and microbiology |
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| Biochemistry: Cell. Structure and function of biomolecules-amino acids and peptides, enzymes, vitamins, carbohydrate, protein, lipid. Metabolism of carbohydrates-ATP cycles, glycolysis, citric acid cycles, electron transport, oxidative phosphorylation |
| Biochemistry: Oxidation of fatty acids and amino acids. Biosynthesis of carbohydrate, lipid, amino acids and nucleotides. DNA-structure, replication, and transcription. Protein synthesis. Genetic recombination; cloning; buffers; normal solutions |
| Biochemistry: Estimation of protein lipid, carbohydrate, minerals, trimethylamine, volatile base nitrogen, total nitrogen, non protein nitrogen, peroxide value, free fatty acid, thiobarbituric acid value. Spectrophotometry; chromatography |
| Biochemistry: Electrophoresis; immunochemical assay |
| Microbiology: Scope and history of microbiology, microscopes and microscopy-optical and electron, staining techniques, wet mount and hanging drop preparations. Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Morphology, ultra structure, nutrition |
| Microbiology: Growth and reproduction of bacteria, virus, fungi and algae. Control of microorganisms-physical and chemical agents, antibiotics and chemotherapeutics. Bacteriological media. Cultivation and culture characteristics of bacteria |
| Microbiology: Biochemical, serological and molecular tests for identification of bacteria. Host-microbe interaction, process of infections. Immunity-natural and acquired; immunoglobulin-nonspecific and specific |
| Microbiology: Microorganisms in nutrient cycles-nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorous, carbon dioxide, oxygen, iron, and manganese |
Aquatic environment |
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| Inland: Inland water ecosystem. Biological communities; phytoplankton, zooplankton, benthos, algae and macrophytes. Productivity; food chain, food web and nutrient cycles. Classification and distribution of lakes, ponds, streams, reservoirs, estuaries |
| Inland: Mangroves and flood plain. Wetlands, their physico-chemical and biological characteristics in relation to fisheries and aquaculture |
| Marine: Divisions of marine environment. Topographic features of seabottom. Major groups of phytoplankton and zooplankton, their geographical and seasonal variation. Physical properties of seawater-temperature, salinity, density, colour, light penetration |
| Marine: Oceanic phenomenon-waves, tides and currents. Major currents of Indian Ocean, El Nino, tsunami and their effects. Biological communities in rocky, sandy and muddy shores. Boring and fouling organisms. Coral reefs. Oceanographic equipments |
| Aquatic pollution: Organic, inorganic and radioactive pollutants in water bodies and their effects. Bioaccumulation and biomagnifications. Sewage treatment and effluent management |
Social sciences |
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| Economics: Definition, scope, and role of fishery economics. Economics of fish farming, hatcheries, fishing and processing units. Financial agencies. Project planning, formulation, monitoring and evaluation |
| Economics: Growth and development of fisheries and aquaculture during different plan periods. Fish marketing-marine and inland fish marketing channels in India. Export marketing of fish and fishery products. Marketing management and marketing research |
| Economics: Cooperatives-principles and objective; structure and function of fisherman cooperatives in India. Problems and remedial measures for growth of fisheries cooperatives |
| Extension: Concepts, principles, scope and objectives of fisheries extension. Extension machineries in fisheries development of India. Extension teaching methods, classification, relative effectiveness of methods |
| Extension: Factors affecting choice and use of methods; extension administration; organizational structure of Fisheries extension; role of FFDA, BFDA, NATP, ATMA, etc for development of fisheries and aquaculture. Extension programme planning |
| Extension: Participation of organizations and involvement of people in planning. Socio economic conditions of fisher folk of India. National and international extension agencies |
| Fisheries administration and legislation: Organizational set up in fisheries and aquaculture regulatory programmes. Laws of the sea; exclusive economic zone; integrated coastal zone management. Indian Fisheries act-1897 |
| Fisheries administration and legislation: Marine Fisheries regulatory acts of different maritime states of India. State reservoir fishery policy of Odisha. Fisheries related land reforms. Odisha Fisheries act |
| Fishery statistics: Sampling methods-random, stratified, cluster. Measures of central tendency-mean, mode, median; probability. Concept of theoretical distributions, binomial, Poisson, normal and their fitting to fisheries data |
| Fishery statistics: Statistical errors-standard deviation and standard error. Testing of hypothesis- z -test, t-test , chi-square, F-test, nonparametric tests. Correlation-linear and multiple. Regression. Design of experiments |
Aquaculture |
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| Principles of aquaculture: Definition and scope. History of aquaculture and present global scenario |
| Infrastructure: Survey, soil quality in different regions suitable for fish culture; site selection, design and construction of fish farms, hatcheries and raceways. Design and setting of aquaria for ornamental fishes |
| Aquatic environment management: Soil and water management; physicochemical and biological indices. Species diversity and control of unwanted fishes. Insect and weed control in fish ponds. Nutrient management. Bioremediation. Biofertilization |
| Aquatic environment management: Carrying capacity. Sustainability |
| Types of culture: Extensive, semi-intensive and intensive culture; cage, pen, recirculatory, running water, waste water, Bheel and Gheri culture, candidate species for aquaculture (freshwater, brackish water and mariculture) |
| Types of culture: Carps (Indian major carps, exotic carps), air breathing fishes, Mahaseer, Trouts, Seabass, Mullets, milkfish, groupers, freshwater prawn, shrimps, crabs, lobsters, mussels, clams, oysters, cuttlefish and sea weeds |
| Types of culture: Monoculture and composite fish culture. Agricultural crop and livestock integration in aquaculture practices. Ornamental fish culture and pearl culture |
| Fish nutrition: Culture of fish food organisms; feeding habits and nutritional requirements of cultivable shellfishes and finfishes; digestion, assimilation and conversion of feed. Nutritional bioenergetics of fish; fish feed technology. Feed ingredients |
| Fish nutrition: Probiotics, essential amino acids. Feed processing and feed dispersal. Antinutritional factors, stress elements |
| Seed production and hatchery management: Seed production and hatchery management of Indian major carps, exotic carps, air breathing fishes, Mahseer, Trouts, Seabass, Mullets, milkfish, groupers, freshwater prawns, shrimps and crabs |
| Seed production and hatchery management: Broodstock management of fishes and prawns, Hypophysation technique and synthetic agents and their principle in inducing breeding. Chinese circular hatchery and other hatcheries. Bundh and Hapa breeding. Stripping |
| Seed production and hatchery management: Breeding and seed production of common ornamental fishes |
| Genetics and biotechnology: Gene and gene action, gynogenesis, androgenesis, polyploidy, transgenic fish, sex reversal, selective breeding, hybridization. Milt. Cryopreservation of gametes. Genetic characterization (karyotyping, RAPD, PCR, isozymes) |
| Fish health management: Health management in aquaculture; disease development process, defense mechanism in fish and shellfish; parasitic diseases (protozoa, platyhelminthes, nemathelminthes, acanthocephala, crustacea, leeches, mollusca) |
| Fish health management: Common bacterial, fungal and viral diseases of carp, ornamental fish, freshwater prawn and brackish water shrimp. Clinical signs and symptom, treatment and prophylaxis |
| Fish health management: Nutritional and environmental diseases of fish and shellfish and their management. Use of disinfectants, chemicals antibiotics, bioremediators, vaccines and immunostimulants in aquaculture. Quarantine, and health monitoring |
| Fish health management: Principles of fish disease diagnosis for epidemic and endemic diseases |
Harvest and post harvest technology |
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| Fishing crafts and gears: Classification of fishing crafts; dimensions and design of boats; safety and stability of fishing boats; care and maintenance of boats; fishing accessories and deck equipments; types of marine engines; fishing methods of India |
| Fishing crafts and gears: Modern commercial fishing methods-trawling, purse seining, gill netting and long lining. Classification of gears, yarn numbering, construction and types of twine and ropes |
| Fishing crafts and gears: Natural and synthetic material for fishing gears and choice of net materials. Design and fabrication of fishing gears, floats, sinkers, anchors and buoys. Care and preservation of fishing gears |
| Biochemistry of fish: Fish musclechemistry, proximate composition of fish; fish as a source of essential amino acids, N-3 fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. Post mortem changes-rigor mortis, autolysis, microbial putrefaction, lipid autoxidation |
| Biochemistry of fish: Fresh fish spoilage |
| Freezing: Methods of fish preservation; handling and transportation of fresh fish. Methods of chilling-icing, refrigerated sea water and chilled sea water stowage of fresh fish |
| Freezing: Principles of low temperature preservation of fish-freezing and cold storage of fishes and shellfishes; types of freezers-air-blast, contact plate, cryogenic and immersion freezing; refrigeration systems; cold stores-warehousing and cold chain |
| Freezing: Changes associated with frozen fishery products-protein denaturation, lipid oxidation, dehydration, driploss, and their control. Methods of thawing |
| Canning and packaging technology: Types of canning-conventional, high temperature short time, ultra high temperature. Containers used in canning. Steps in canning-raw material, preparatory treatments, precooking, packing, filling, exhausting, seaming |
| Canning and packaging technology: Steps in canning-thermal processing, cooling and storage. Canning of finfish (sardine, mackerel, tuna, seer fish, pomfret, carps, prawns and shrimps) in different filling media |
| Canning and packaging technology: Principles of thermal processing-heat resistance of microorganisms, D-value, and Z-value, heat penetration, graphical method of process calculation, Fₒ value; can defects and spoilage |
| Canning and packaging technology: Packaging materials used for fishery products |
| Cured, value-added products and byproducts: Cured fish-dried, salted, smoked fish, fermented fishery products. Value added fishery products-breaded and battered products, fish finger, fish cutlet, fish wafer, fish soup powder, fish burger |
| Cured, value-added products and byproducts: Value added fishery products-imitation products, paste products (fish sausage, ham, surimi products), fish pickle. Fishery by products-fish meal, fish silage, fish oil, fish protein concentrate, shark fin rays |
| Cured, value-added products and byproducts: Fishery by products-chitin, chitosan, glucosamine hydrochloride, fish maws, fish glue, pearl essence, isinglass, beche-de-mer, fish peptone, ambergris, agar agar, alginic acid, carrageenan, spirulina |
| Quality control: Biochemical, microbiological and organoleptic indices of fresh fish; spoilage microflora associated with fish and fishery products. Food poisoning microbes in fishery products-salmonella, clostridium, staphylococcus, vibrio, listeria |
| Quality control: Food poisoning microbes in fishery products-aspergillus and marine algae. Fish quality control-quality assurance; quality management; hazard analysis critical control points (HACCP); ISO-9000 series |
| Quality control: Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and International Standards (IS) for fish and fishery products; quality specifications for export of Indian fishery products to European Union, USA, and Japan |
Effect of locality factors |
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| Climatic factors: Light, temperature, frost, precipitation, dew, humidity, wind; physiographic factors: Altitude, aspect, topography, microclimate, geology and soil, geology and forests, soil conditions; biotic factors |
Forest classification and distribution |
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| Basis for classification, criteria for delineating forest types in India and Odisha, distribution of forest types |
| Botanical areas: Principal sub-groups, forest types and their distribution: Brief description of groups and types, biodiversity and its preservation, mangrove forest |
Forest regeneration |
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| Natural regeneration: By vegetative parts, by seeds, ecological requirements for natural regeneration, operations to be carried out for natural regeneration: Natural regeneration practice for important species and types-moist Sal forest, teak forest |
| Natural regeneration: Natural regeneration practice for important species and types-bamboo forest, dry deciduous forest, moist deciduous forest, evergreen forest |
| Artificial regeneration: Factors affecting, choice between artificial and natural regeneration, choice of species, choice between sowing and planting, introduction of exotics: Procedure for artificial regeneration, seed collection and storage |
| Artificial regeneration: Introduction of exotics-nursery operation, planting out, maintenance of plantation, role of in-vitro culture in regeneration |
Tending operations and forest growth |
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| Weeding, cleaning, thinning, thinning types, methods of thinning, factors affecting thinning, thinning in important species, thinning in irregular crops, mixed plantations and coppice crops, improvement felling, girdling, pruning, climber cutting |
| Tree growth: Height growth, growth in diameter, increment, growth in quality, rate of growth, crop growth |
Silviculture of tree species |
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| Definition, objects of study, relation of silviculture with forestry and its branches, silviculture of important tree species such as acacia auriculiformis, acacia nilotica, leucaena leucocephala, sesbania grandiflora, cassia siamea, eucalyptus spc |
| Silviculture of important tree species such as casuarina equisetifolia, shorea robusta, tectona grandis, dalbergia sissoo. Gmelina arborea adina cordifolia. Melia azadirachta, bambusa arundinacea, dendrocalamus strictus terminalia species, albizia lebbeck |
| Silviculture of important tree species such as samanea saman lagerstroemia flos reginae, salmalia malabarica |
Forest management system |
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| Systems of forest management: Clear felling system, uniform shelterwood system, selection system, coppice system: Single coppice and coppice with standard system and coppice with reserve system |
| Choice of silvicultural system: Systems of management in important forest types, working plan preparation and monitoring |
Production forestry |
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| Site productivity, productivity of Indian forests, components of production forestry, evaluation of industrial and commercial demands, management of natural forests for production objectives, plantation of industrial and commercial wood |
| Captive plantations, socio-industrial plantation |
| Involvement of corporate sector in plantation forestry |
Rotation and yield |
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| Rotation, types of rotation: Physical, silvicultural, technical, rotation of maximum volume production; rotation of important species: Teak sal, gambhar, eucalyptus: casuarina, subabul, wattles and bamboo, steps for reducing rotation age |
| Yield; yield regulation, yield from Indian forests, concept of sustained yield: Principle, scope, and limitation |
Forest protection |
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| Forest degradation: Elicit feelings and encroachment, grazing and lopping, forest fires, shifting cultivation, diversion of forest lands |
| Silvicultural feelings, plant diseases, insects, pests, plant parasites and aggressive weeds, protection measures: Control of illicit felling and encroachments, control of grazing and lopping, protection from animals, protection against fires |
| Protection measures: Protection against disease, protection against insect pests, weed control measures |
Forest Influences |
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| Forest and climate: Precipitation, temperature, shelterbelt, and windbreak effect, humidity frost, snow fall, evapotranspiration: Forest and soil-organic matter and recycling of nutrients. Soil composition and structure, soil temperature, soil moisture |
| Forest and climate: Forest and water table, chemical property of soil, biological properties, forest and hydrological cycle: Forest and interception, forest and infiltration, forest and runoff, forest and erosion, forest and flood, forest and water yield |
| Forest and climate: Forest and avalanche, forest and animals; forest and biodiversity conservation, forest recreation, forest and population |
| Plant succession: Stages of succession, climax formation. Watershed management and wasteland development. Carbon sequestration by forest plants; greenhouse effect, global warming |
Forest development in India |
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| Post-independence: Forest development in five-year plan periods, land use forest area, forest cover of the country and the state in particular |
| Environmental conservation: Importance and principles of conservation. Impact of deforestation due to various anthropic activities like mining, construction and developmental projects, forest fire |
Forest policy and legislation |
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| Indian forest policy of 1894, 1952, and 1988, National Commission on Agriculture 1976 report on forestry, constitution of Wasteland Development Board, Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, forest laws, necessity and general principles |
| Indian forest act, 1927, forest conservation act, 1980, wildlife (protection) act, 1948; Odisha forest act, 1972, Odisha timber and other forest produce transit rules, 1980, Odisha forest (grazing of cattle) rules, 1980 |
Forest economics |
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| Fundamental principles of forest economics, estimation of demand and supply, assessment and protection of market structure; role of corporate financing; socioeconomic analysis and attributes of forest productivity |
Wildlife management |
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| Common game animals and birds, wildlife conservation and management, wildlife management principles, national parks and wildlife sanctuaries, project tiger |
Extension forestry |
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| Agroforestry: Concepts, classification, scope, and management; agroforestry systems under different agro ecological zones, selection of species and role of multipurpose trees and non wood forest products |
| Food, folder, and fuelwood security, research and extension needs; farm forestry; social forestry: Objectives, scope, and benefits; joint forest management, tribology |
Forest genetics and tree improvement |
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| Tree improvement, its peculiarity compared to annual crop breeding objectives; causes and kinds of variability, provenance, seed source and exotics; principles and methods of tree breeding, vegetative propagation (macro and micro); progeny testing |
| Seed production areas, seed orchards (clonal and seedlings) and their management; hybridization, polyploidy and mutation breeding |
| Importance of genetic resources conservation and preservation of biodiversity |
Forest mensuration |
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| Methods of measuring diameter, girth, height, and volume of trees; form factor; volume estimation of stand, sampling methods, yield calculation, current annual increment, mean annual increment; sample plots; yield and yield tables |
| Scope and objectives of forest inventory; aerial survey and remote sensing techniques |
Forest surveying and Engineering |
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| Different methods of surveying |
| Leveling, importance of maps in forestry, maps and map reading; basic principles of forest engineering, building materials and construction |
| Roads: Objects, classification, general principles, and construction |
| Bridges: Objects, general principles, types, simple design, and construction of timber bridges |
Wood and its utilization |
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| Wood anatomy of conifers and hardwoods, their physical and mechanical properties |
| Defects of wood, logging, and wood extraction; process of seasoning wood; production of composite and improved wood, wood based industries |
| Uses of natural wood and processed wood |
Non-wood forest products |
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| Definition and scope, gums, resin, oleoresins, fibres, flosses, essential oil yielding plants; tannin dye, oilseeds, nuts, canes, bamboo, bidi leaves, medicinal plants, apiary, sericulture, lac and shellac |
| Collection, processing and disposal of non-wood forest products |
Geomorphology |
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| Origin of the earth, physical conditions of the earth’s interior; continental drift; isostasy; plate tectonics; mountain building; volcanism and earthquakes; weathering and erosion, concepts of geomorphic cycles (Davis and Penck) |
| Landforms associated with fluvial, arid, glacial, coastal and karst region, polycyclic landforms |
Climatology |
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| Temperature and pressure belts of the world; heat budget of the earth; atmospheric circulation; planetary and local winds; monsoons and jet streams; air masses and fronts; temperate and tropical cyclones; types and distribution of precipitation |
| Koppen’s and Thornthwaite’s classification of world climate; hydrological cycle; climatic change |
Oceanography |
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| Bottom topography of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans; temperature and salinity of the oceans; ocean deposits; ocean currents and tides; marine resources and their utilizations, coral reefs |
Biogeography |
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| Genesis of soils; classification and distribution of soils; soil profile; soil erosion and conservation; factors influencing world distribution of plants and animals; problems of deforestation and conservation measures; social forestry, agroforestry |
Environmental geography |
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| Concept and types of environment, environmental degradation and management |
| Ecosystems and their management; energy flow and biogeochemical cycles, global ecological imbalances-problems of pollution, global warming, reduction in biodiversity and depletion of forests |
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; cultural regions of the world, human development indicators |
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; Von-Thunen’s theory of agricultural location |
| World industries-locational patterns and locational theories of Weber; Hoover, Losch and Smith, patterns of world trade |
Population 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; world population problems |
| Races of mankind |
Settlement geography |
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| Type and patterns of rural settlements; hierarchy of urban settlements; Christaller’s central place theory, concept of primate city and rank-size rule; functional classification of towns; sphere of urban influence; rural-urban fringe; satellite town |
| Problems of urbanisation |
Regional planning |
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| Concept of region; types of regions and methods of regionalisation; growth centres and growth poles; regional imbalances; multi-level planning; planning for sustainable development |
| Rostov model of stages of growth |
Physical aspects |
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| Structure and relief; drainage system and watersheds; physiographic regions; mechanism of Indian monsoons; tropical cyclones and western disturbances; floods and droughts; climatic regions; natural vegetation, soil types and their distributions |
Resources |
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| Concept and types of resources, land, water, energy, minerals, and biotic resources, their distribution, utilisation and conservation; energy crisis |
Agriculture |
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| Infrastructure-irrigation, seeds, fertilizers, power; types of crops agricultural productivity, agricultural intensity, crop combination, land capability; agro and social forestry; green revolution-its socioeconomic and ecological implications |
| Significance of dry farming; livestock resources and white revolution; blue revolution; agricultural regionalisation; agro-climatic zones |
Industry |
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| History of industrial development; locational factors of cotton, jute, iron and steel, fertilizer and paper, industries, industrial complexes and industrial regionalisation; new industrial policy; role of multinationals, liberalization, and globalisation |
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; free trade and export promotion zones |
| Developments in communication technology and its impact on economy and society |
Cultural setting |
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| Racial and ethnic diversities; major tribes, tribal areas and their problems; role of language, religion and tradition in the formation of cultural regions; growth, distribution and density of population; demographic attributes-sex-ratio, age structure |
| Demographic attributes-literacy rate, work-force, dependency ratio and longevity; migration (interregional, intra-regional and international) and associated problems, population problems and policies |
Settlements |
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| Types, patterns, and morphology of rural settlements; urban development; census definition of urban areas; morphology of Indian cities; functional classification of Indian cities; conurbations and metropolitan regions; urban sprawl |
| Slums and associated problems; town planning; problems of urbanisation |
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 and tribal area development; multi-level planning; geography and regional planning |
Political aspects |
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| Geographical basis of Indian federalism; state reorganisation; regional consciousness and national integration; international boundary of India and related issues; disputes on sharing of water resources; India and geopolitics of the Indian ocean |
Contemporary Issues |
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| Environmental hazards-landslides, earthquakes, tsunami, cyclones, floods and droughts, epidemics |
| Issues related to environmental pollution; changes in patterns of land use; principles of environmental impact assessment and environmental management; population explosion and food security; environmental degradation |
| Disasters in India and their management |
| Problems of agrarian and industrial unrest; regional disparities in economic development; concept of sustainable growth and development |
General geology and geotectonics |
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| The solar system |
| Meteorites |
| Origin and interior of the earth |
| Radioactivity and age of earth |
| Volcanoes-causes and products, volcanic belts |
| Earthquakes-causes, effects, earthquake belts, seismicity of India, intensity and magnitude, seismogram and seismographs |
| Island arc |
| Mid-oceanic ridges |
| Continental drift |
| Seafloor spreading |
| Plate tectonics |
| Orogeny and epeirogeny |
Geomorphology and remote sensing |
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| Basic concepts of geomorphology |
| Weathering and mass wasting |
| Landforms, slopes, and drainage |
| Geomorphic cycles and their interpretation |
| Morphology and its relation to structures and lithology |
| 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 system and its applications |
Structural geology |
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| Principles of geologic mapping and map reading |
| Study of toposheets |
| Stress and strain ellipsoid and stress-strain relationships of elastic, plastic and viscous materials |
| Behaviour of minerals and rocks under deformation conditions |
| Folds and faults classification and mechanics |
| Foliations, lineations, joints, and unconformities |
| Superposed deformation |
| Primary sedimentary structures and their application |
| Introduction to petrofabrics |
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 |
| Morphology, geological history and evolutionary trend in cephalopods, trilobita, brachiopoda, echinoidea, and anthozoa |
| Stratigraphic utility of Ammonoidea, Trilobita, and Graptoloidea |
| Evolutionary trend in Hominidae, Equidae, and Proboscidea |
| Siwalik fauna |
| Gondwana flora and its importance |
Stratigraphy and geology of India |
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| Standard stratigraphic time scale |
| Principles of stratigraphic correlation |
| Code of stratigraphic nomenclature |
| Distribution and Classification of Precambrian rocks of India |
| Study of Phanerozoic rocks of India with reference to lithology, fauna, flora, and economic importance |
| Major boundary problems-Cambrian/ Precambrian, Cretaceous/ Tertiary |
| Physiographic and tectonic division of India |
| Evolution of the himalayas |
| Geology of Odisha |
Hydrogeology and engineering geology |
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| Hydrologic cycle |
| Vertical distribution of subsurface water |
| Aquifer, aquitard, aquiclude, and aquifuge |
| Classification of aquifers |
| Hydrologic properties of water bearing formation-porosity, permeability, transmissivity and storage coefficient |
| Ground water provinces of India |
| Ground water exploration |
| Quality of groundwater |
| Salt water intrusion |
| Problems and management of groundwater |
| Groundwater recharge |
| Rain water harvesting |
| Engineering properties of rocks |
| Geological investigations for dams, tunnels, and bridges |
| Building stone and road materials-properties and Indian distribution |
| Landslides-causes, Prevention and Rehabilitation |
| Earthquake-resistant structures |
Mineralogy |
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| Classification of crystals into systems and classes |
| International system of crystallographic notation |
| Spherical and stereographic projection |
| X-ray crystallography |
| Twinning |
| Petrological microscope and accessories |
| Double refraction |
| Nicol prism |
| Optical properties of minerals-pleochroism, refractive index, extinction and extinction angle, interference colour, dispersion |
| Classification of silicate structures |
| Occurrence, chemistry, physical and optical characters of feldspar, silica, pyroxene, amphibole, garnet, olivine, and mica groups |
| Occurrence, chemistry, physical, and optical characters of feldspar, silica, pyroxene, amphibole, garnet, olivine and mica groups |
| Minerals of carbonate and sulphide groups |
Igneous and metamorphic petrology |
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| Generation and crystallisation of magma |
| Crystallisation of albite-anorthite, diopside-albite-anorthite and diopside-wollastonite-silica systems |
| 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 rocks, charnockite, anorthosite and alkaline rocks and carbonatites |
| Deccan volcanic province |
| 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 |
| Retrograde metamorphism |
| Metasomatism and granitisation |
| Migmatites |
| Granulite terrains of india |
Sedimentology |
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| Processes of formation of sedimentary rocks |
| Textures and structures of sedimentary rocks and their significance |
| Classification of sedimentary rocks |
| Heavy minerals and their significance |
| Sedimentary facies and provenance |
| Sedimentary environments-fluvial, glacial, lacustrine, and marine |
| Sedimentary basins of india |
Economic geology |
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| Ore minerals and gangue, tenor and grade |
| Classification of mineral deposits |
| Process of Formation of Minerals deposits |
| Controls of ore localisation |
| 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 |
Mining geology |
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| Methods of prospecting-geological, geophysical, geochemical and geobotanical |
| Techniques of sampling |
| Estimation of reserves of ore |
| Methods of exploration and mining of metallic ores, industrial minerals and marine mineral resources |
| Mineral beneficiation and ore dressing |
Geochemistry and environmental geology |
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| Cosmic abundance of elements |
| Geochemical classification of elements |
| Structure and their composition of earth and distribution of elements |
| Trace elements |
| Geochemical cycle |
| Elements of Crystal Chemistry-types of chemical bonds, Coordination number |
| Isomorphism and polymorphism |
| Natural hazards-floods, landslides, coastal erosion, earthquakes and volcanic activity and their mitigation |
| Environmental impact of urbanization, open cast 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 |
Sources of early Indian history |
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Early pastoral and agricultural communities |
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The Indus civilization |
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| Its origins, nature and decline |
Patterns of settlement, economy, social organization, and religion in India (c. 2000 to 500 B.C.) |
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Evolution of society and culture |
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| Evidence of Vedic texts (Samhitas to Sutras) |
Life and teachings of Mahavira and Buddha |
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| Contemporary society |
| Early phase of state formation and urbanization |
Rise of Magadha |
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| The Mauryan empire |
| Ashoka's inscriptions; his dhamma |
| Nature of the Mauryan state |
Post-Mauryan period in India |
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| Political and administrative history |
| Society, economy, culture, and religion |
| Tamilaham and its society: The Sangam texts |
India in the Gupta and post-Gupta periods (to c. 750) |
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| Political history of India; Samanta system and changes in political structure; economy; social structure; culture; religion |
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 technology and mathematics |
Kalinga war |
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| Kharavela-achievements |
Political history of Odisha (c. 4th century A.D.- 7th century A.D.) |
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India, 750-1200 |
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| Polity, society, and economy |
| Major dynasties and political structures in North India |
| Agrarian structures |
| Feudalism in India |
| Rise of Rajputs |
| The imperial Cholas and their contemporaries in South India |
| Village communities in the south |
| Conditions of women |
| Commerce-mercantile groups and guilds; towns |
| Problem of coinage |
| Arab conquest of Sind; the Ghaznavid empire |
| Culture, literature, Kalhana as a historian |
| Styles of temple architecture; sculpture; religious thought and institutions: Sankaracharya's Vedanta |
| Ramanuja |
| Growth of Bhakti, advent of Islam in India; Sufism |
| Indian science |
| Alberuni and his study of Indian science and civilization |
The 13th century |
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| The Ghorian invasions |
| Factors behind Ghorian success, economic, social and cultural consequences; foundation of Delhi sultanate |
| The "Slave" dynasty |
| ILtutmish; Balban; early sultanate architecture |
The 14th century |
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| Alauddin Khilji conquests, agrarian, and economic measures; Muhammad Tughluq's major "projects"; Firoz Tughluq's concessions and public works; decline of the Sultanate; foreign contacts: Ibn Battuta |
Economy society and culture in the 13th and 14th centuries |
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| Caste and slavery under sultanate, technological changes, sultanate architecture, Persian literature: Amir Khusrau, historiography; Ziauddin Barani |
| Evolution of a composite culture, Sufism in north India, Lingayats, Bhakti schools in the south |
The 15th and early 16th century (political history) |
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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 |
| The Portuguese colonial enterprise |
The 15th and early 16th century (society, economy, and culture) |
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| Regional cultures and literatures, provincial architectural styles |
| Society, culture, literature and the arts in Vijayanagara empire |
| Monotheistic movements: Kabir and Nanak |
| Bhakti movements: Chaitanya, Sufism in its pantheistic phase |
Akbar |
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| His conquests and consolidation of empire |
| Establishment of jagir and systems |
| His Rajput policy |
| Evolution of religious and social outlook |
| Theory of sulh-i-kul and religious policy |
| Abul Fazl, thinker and historian |
| Court patronage of art and technology |
Mughal empire during 17th and 18th centuries |
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| Major policies (administrative and religious) of Jahangir, Shahjahan, and Aurangzeb |
| The empire and the zamindars |
| Nature of the mughal state |
| Late 17th century crisis: Revolts |
| Shivaji and the early Maratha kingdom; decline of Mughals |
| Maratha ascendancy under the peshwas |
Economy and society, 16th and 17th centuries |
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| Population |
| Agricultural and craft production |
| Towns; trade and commerce with Europe through Dutch, English and French companies; Indian mercantile classes |
| Banking, insurance, and credit systems |
| Conditions of peasants, famines |
| Condition of women |
Culture during Mughal empire |
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| Persian literature (including historical works) |
| Hindi and religious literatures |
| Mughal architecture |
| Mughal painting |
| Provincial schools of architecture and painting |
| Classical music |
| Science and technology |
| Sawai Jai Singh as astronomer |
| Mystic eclecticism: Dara Shikoh |
| Vaishnav Bhakti |
| Maharashtra dharma |
| Evolution of the Sikh community (Khalsa) |
Medieval Odisha |
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| The Bhaumakaras and the Somavamsha; the imperial Gangas and Suryavamsi Gajapatis; Cult of Jagannatha |
Establishment of British rule in India |
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| Factors behind British success against Indian powers-Mysore, Maratha confederacy and the Punjab as major powers in resistance; policy of subsidiary alliance and doctrine of lapse |
Colonial economy |
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| Drain of wealth and "de-industrialisation", fiscal pressures and revenue settlements (Zamindari, Ryotwari, and Mahalwari settlements); structure of the British Raj up to 1857 (including the acts of 1773 and 1784 and administrative organisation) |
Resistance to colonial rule |
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| Causes, nature, and impact of the revolt of 1857; reorganization of the raj: 1858 and after |
Socio-cultural impact of colonial rule |
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| Official social reform measures (1828-57); orientalist-anglicist controversy; coming of English education and the press; Christian missionary activities; Bengal renaissance; social and religious reform movements in Bengal and other areas |
| Women as focus of social reform |
Economy 1858-1914 |
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| Railways; commercialisation of Indian agriculture; growth of landless labourers and rural indebtedness; famines; India as market for British industry; customs removal, exchange and countervailing excise; limited growth of modern industry |
Early Indian nationalism |
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| Social background; formation of national associations; peasant and tribal uprising during the early nationalist era; foundation of the Indian National Congress; the moderate phase of the congress; growth of extremism; the Indian council act of 1909 |
| Home rule movement; the government of India act of 1919 |
Inter-war economy of India |
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| Industries and problem of protection; agricultural distress; the Great Depression; Ottawa agreements and discriminatory protection; the growth of trade unions; the Kisan Movement; the economic programme of the congress; Karachi Resolution, 1931 |
Nationalism under Gandhi's leadership |
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| Gandhi's career, thought and methods of mass mobilisation; Rowlatt Satyagraha, Khilafat, Non Cooperation Movement, Civil Disobedience Movement, 1940 Satyagraha and Quit India Movement; states people's movement |
Other strands of the national movement |
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| Revolutionary movements since 1905; constitutional politics; Swarajists, liberals, responsive cooperation; ideas of Jawaharlal Nehru, the left (socialists and communists); Subhas Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army |
| Communal strands: Muslim league and Hindu mahasabha; women in the national movement |
Towards freedom |
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| The act of 1935; Congress ministries, 1937-1939; the Pakistan movement; post-1945 upsurge (RIN Mutiny, Telangana uprising); constitutional negotiations and the transfer of power, 15 August 1947 |
First phase of independence (1947-64) |
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| Facing the consequences of partition; Gandhi's murder; economic dislocation; integration of states; the democratic constitution, 1950; agrarian reforms; building an industrial welfare state; planning and industrialisation |
| Foreign policy of non-alignment; relations with neighbors |
Odisha under colonial rule and after |
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| British conquest of Odisha-Khurda rebellion (1817)-Kandha rebellions under Dora Bisoye and Chakra Bisoi, resistance movement under Surendra Sai, Odia movement, nationalist movement, merger of states |
Enlightenment and modern ideas |
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| Renaissance background, major ideas of enlightenment: Kant, Rousseau, spread of enlightenment outside Europe, rise of socialist ideas (to Marx) |
Origins of modern politics |
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| European states system, American revolution and the constitution |
| French revolution and aftermath, 1789-1815 |
| 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, socialist industrialization: Soviet and Chinese |
Nation-state system |
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| Rise of nationalism in 19th century, nationalism: State-building in Germany and Italy, disintegration of empires through the emergence of nationalities |
Imperialism and colonialism |
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| Colonial system (exploitation of new world, trans-Atlantic slave trade, tribute from Asian conquests), types of empire: Of settlement and non-settlement-Latin America, South Africa, Indonesia, Australia |
| Imperialism and free trade: The new 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: Political consequence |
Cold war |
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| Emergence of two blocs, integration of West Europe and US strategy; communist East Europe, emergence of third world and non-alignment, UN and dispute resolution |
Colonial liberation |
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| Latin America-Bolivia, Arab world-Egypt, Africa-Apartheid to democracy, South-East Asia-Vietnam |
Decolonization and underdevelopment |
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| Decolonization: Break up of colonial empires-British, French, Dutch, factors constraining development: Latin America, Africa |
Unification of Europe |
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| Post-war foundations: NATO and European community, consolidation and expansion of European community/ European union |
Soviet disintegration and the unipolar world |
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| Factors in the collapse of Soviet communism and the Soviet Union, 1985-1991, political changes in East Europe 1989-1992, end of the Cold War and US ascendancy in the world, globalization |
Food and nutrition |
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| Study of foods: Importance, composition, nutritive value of cereals, pulses, vegetables and fruits, fleshy foods (meat, fish, poultry, egg), milk and milk products, fats, and oils |
| Study of nutrients: Classification, sources, function, requirement and deficiencies of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins, water, and roughages |
| Utilisation of food: Digestion, absorption, and metabolism of proteins, fat and carbohydrates. Basal metabolism and factors affecting basal metabolism methods of measurement of basal metabolic rate (BMR) |
| Utilisation of food: Total energy requirement and factors affecting requirement |
| Therapeutic nutrition: Therapeutic adoption of normal diets, factors to be considered in planning therapeutic diets. Dietary management in case of diabetes, nephritis, peptic ulcer, hypertension, atherosclerosis, liver cirrhosis, and hepatitis |
| Food spoilage: Causes of food spoilage and food contamination. Food adulteration and food poisoning measuring quality of food, control of food quality (Codex Alimentarius, Bureau of Indian standards (BIS) FPO, Agmark, ISI) |
| Malnutrition: Causes and effect of malnutrition on the vulnerable section of the society, effect of malnutrition on national development. Measures to combat malnutrition-national nutrition policy and programmes |
| Malnutrition: Role of ICDS, WHO, UNICEF, NIN, NFI, CFTRI, FTRI, NNMB in combating malnutrition |
Human development and family studies |
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| Basis of human development: How life begins, role of genetic and environment factors affecting human development, stages and factors affecting prenatal growth and development |
| Development of children (0-5 years): Physical and motor development, intellectual development (Piaget’s stages of development) development of emotion |
| Development of children (0-5 years): Speech development, social development, personality development (role of family, school, community, and mass media) |
| Exceptional children: Meaning, classification of exceptional children. Management and care of gifted, mentally and physically challenged and sensory impaired children |
| Adolescent development: Physical and sexual development, social and emotional changes, development of aspiration and achievement, personality development and family relationships |
| Family life cycle: Significance, stages, and developmental task, and problems associated with each stages of family life cycle. Contemporary family problems marital problems, financial, sickness, accidents, dowry, divorce, old age, employed women |
| Family life cycle: Strengthening families through counseling |
Family resource management |
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| Management of family resources: Time management-time demand during life cycle, tools in time management, leisure time, factors to be considered in making time plan. Energy management-relation of energy to stages of family life cycle |
| Management of family resources: Energy cost of household tasks, work simplification techniques |
| Money management: Family income, stages of family life cycle and use of money, budgeting, saving and investing the money for future. Supplementing family income |
| Housing and interior decoration: Selection of site, house layout, floor plans, space distribution with reference to activities, building components and materials |
| Housing and interior decoration: Furnishing-types (furniture, curtains and draperies, wall treatment, floor covering, upholstery, lighting), planning, obtaining information, evaluating cost |
| Housing and interior decoration: Furnishing-principles of interior designing followed in furnishing the house |
Textile and clothing |
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| Textile fibers: Classification of textile fibers, according sources and chemical composition, manufacturing process, physical, chemical and other properties of cotton, wool, silk. Rayon, acrylic, polyester |
| Fiber to fabric: Construction yarn making process, types of yarns, fabric construction techniques, weaving, parts of loom, types of weaves; fabric finishes (textural finishes, functional finishes) different dyeing and printing methods |
| Wardrobe planning, colour combination in textile designing, criteria of selection of clothes for different age groups, climatic conditions and occasions for men, women and children |
Home science extension education |
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| Extension education: Concept, philosophy, objectives, and scope of extension education. Role and qualities of extension worker. Need for home-science extension education |
| Extension education and development: Objectives of home-science extension education, development aspects of extension, extension as a programme and process, field covered, financing, planning and characteristic of extension |
| Programme planning: Meaning, nature, principle, and scope of programme planning, steps of making a programme characteristic of a good programme planning programme implementation and evaluation |
| Communication in extension: Importance, elements of communication, communication process, communication models, scope and purpose of communication, communication channels |
| Community development: Concept, scope, principles, and limitation of community development and community organization, subject matter of community development. Community development programmes-objectives |
| Community development: Principles and types of community development programmes, role of Panchayati Raj, village schools, cooperatives, Mahila Mandals, youth and farmers club, self help groups |
| Community development: Government and non-governmental agencies in extension programmes |
| Teaching and learning in extension: Education, extension teaching methods, classification and selection of appropriate method, feature, advantage and limitation of different methods of teaching (mass, group, individual) audiovisual aids-planning |
| Teaching and learning in extension: Selection and types of visual, audio and audio-visual aids contribution of audio-visual aids in extension teaching |
Constitutional law of India |
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| Preamble and nature of Indian constitution, general ideas on the fundamental rights, right to equality, right to freedom of speech and expression, right to life and personal liberty, right to constitutional remedies |
| Directive principles of state policies and fundamental duties, constitutional position of the president and relation with the council of ministers, governor and his powers, appointment and transfer of judges of the Supreme Court and the High Court |
| Supreme Court and High Courts: Powers and jurisdiction, Union Public Service Commission and State Public Service Commissions: Powers and functions, distribution of legislative powers between the union and the states |
| Administrative relationship between union and the states, emergency provisions, civil servants: Constitutional safeguards, parliamentary privileges, amendment of the constitution, principle of natural justice, judicial review of administrative actions |
International law |
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| Nature and definition of international law relationship between international law and municipal law, individuals, nationality, statelessness; human rights and procedures available for their enforcement, state recognition and state succession |
| Treaties: Formation, application, and termination, United Nations: Its principal organs, powers, and functions: General assembly and security council, concept of human rights universal declaration of human rights, 1948 |
| International covenant on civil and political rights, 1966, international covenant on economic, social, and cultural rights, 1966, International Commission on Human Rights, new international economic order and monetary law: WTO, TRIPS, GATT, IMF |
| New international economic order and monetary law: World bank |
Law of crimes |
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| General principles of criminal liability: Mens rea and actus reus, mens rea in statutory offences, stages of crime: Preparations and criminal attempts, general exceptions, joint and constructive liability, abetment, criminal conspiracy |
| Offences against the state, offences against public tranquility, offences against human body, offences against property, offences against women, defamation, prevention of corruption act, 1988 |
Law of torts |
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| Nature and definition, liability based upon fault and strict liability, vicarious liability, state liability, general defences, joint tortfeasors, negligence, defamation, nuisance, conspiracy, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution |
| Consumer protection act, 1986 |
Law of contracts and mercantile law |
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| Formation of contract, factors vitiating consent, void, voidable, illegal, and unenforceable agreements, performance and discharge of contracts, quasi-contracts, consequences of breach of contract, contract of agency |
| Sale of goods and hire purchase, formation and dissolution of partnership, negotiable instruments act, 1881 negotiable instruments meaning, promissory note, bill of exchange, cheque, crossing of cheques, and dishonor of cheques |
English literature from the period of 1600-2000 |
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| Shakespeare: King Lear or the tempest |
| Marlowe: Dr Faustus |
| John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi |
| John Donne: (a) The good morrow, (b) Canonization, (c) Extasie, (d) A valediction: Forbidding mourning, (e) The sunne rising, (f) Death, be not proud |
| John Milton: Paradise lost Bks I, II |
| Alexander Pope: Rape of the lock |
| William Wordsworth: (a) Daffodils, (b) Tintern Abbey, (c) Ode on intimations of immortality, (d) Three years she grew, (e) She dwelt among untrodden ways, (f) Upon Westminster bridge |
| Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels |
| Jane Austen: Pride and prejudice |
| Charles Dickens: Hard times |
| Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| George Eliot: The mill on the floss |
English literature from the period of 1600-2000 |
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| W.B.Yeats: (a) Easter 1916, (b) The second coming, (c) A prayer for my daughter, (d) Sailing to Byzantium, (e) Among school children, (f) Leda and the swan, (g) The lake isle of Innisfree |
| T. S.Eliot: The waste land or four quartets |
| Indian poets: (i) Kamala Das-(a) My grandmother’s house, (b) The looking glass, (ii) Nissim Ezekiel: (a) Enterprise, (b) Night of the scorpion, (iii) Jayanta Mahapatra: (a) The whore house in a calcutta street, (b) Lost |
| Indian poets: (iv) R.parthasarathy: (a) From trial, (b) From homecoming, (v) A.K. Ramanujam-(a) Love poem for a wife I, (b) A river |
| John Osborne: Look back in anger |
| Samuel Beckett: Waiting for godot |
| Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s house |
| August Strindberg: Father |
| James Joyce: Portrait of the artist as a young man |
| E M Forster: A Passage to India |
| Gopinath Mohanty: The ancestor (translation Arun K Mohanty. published by central Sahitya Akademi) |
| Chinua Achebe: Things fall apart |
| V.S. Naipaul: A house for Mr. Biswas |
History of Hindi language and Nagari lipi |
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| Evolution of Hindi language: Apabhransh, Awahatta, and Arambhik Hindi |
| Development of braj and awadhi as literary language during medieval period |
| Early form of Khari-boli in Siddha-Nath Sahitya, Khusero, Sant Sahitya, Rahim, etc and Dakhini Hindi |
| Development of khari-boli and nagari lipi during 19th century |
| Standardization of Hindi bhasha and Nagari lipi |
| Development of Hindi as national language during freedom movement |
| The development of hindi as a national language of union of india |
| Scientific and technical development of hindi language |
| Development of Hindi as media language |
| Prominent dialects of hindi and their inter-relationship |
| Salient features of nagari lipi and the efforts for its reform and standard form of hindi |
History of Hindi literature |
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| The relevance and importance of hindi literature and tradition of writing history of hindi literature |
| Literary trends of the following four periods of history of Hindi literature: (a) Adikal-Sidh, Nath, and Raso Sahitya. Prominent poets-Chandvardai, Khusero, Vidyapati. (b) Bhaktikal-Sant Kavyadhara, Sufi Kavyadhara |
| Literary trends of the following four periods of history of Hindi literature: (b) Bhaktikal-Krishna Bhakti Dhara, and Ram Bhakti Dhara. Prominent poets-Kabir, Jayasi, Sur, and Tulsi. (c) Ritikal: Ritibaddhakavya and Ritimukta Kavya |
| Literary trends of the following four periods of history of Hindi literature: (c) Ritikal-prominent poets-Keshav, Bihari, Padmakar, and Ghananand. (d) Adhunik Kal-(i) Renaissance, the development of prose, Bharatendu Mandal |
| Literary trends of the following four periods of history of Hindi literature: (d) Adhunik Kal-(ii) Prominent writers: Bharatendu, Bal Krishna Bhatt and Pratap Narain Mishra. (iii) Prominent trends of modern Hindi poetry: Chhayavad, pragativad |
| Literary trends of the following four periods of history of Hindi literature: (d) Adhunik Kal-(iii) Prominent trends of modern Hindi poetry: Prayogvad, Nai Kavita, Navgeet, and contemporary poetry and Janwadi Kavita. Prominent poets: Maithili Sharan Gupta |
| Literary trends of the following four periods of history of Hindi literature: (d) Adhunik Kal-c. Prominent trends of modern Hindi poetry: Prominent poets-Prasad, Nirala, Mahadevi, Dinkar, Agyeya, Muktibodh, Nagarjun |
| Katha sahitya: (a) Upanyas and realism, (b) the origin and development of Hindi novels, (c) Prominent novelists: Premchand, Jainendra, Yashpal, Renu, and Bhism Sahni, (d) the origin and development of Hindi short story |
| Katha sahitya: (e) Prominent short story writers-Premchand, Prasad, Agyeya, Mohan Rakesh, and Mannu Bhandari |
| Drama and theatre: (a) The origin and development of Hindi drama. (b) Prominent dramatists: Bharatendu, Prasad, Laxmi Narayan Mishra, Ram Kumar Verma, Mohan Rakesh. (c) The development of Hindi theatre |
| Criticism: (a) The origin and development of Hindi criticism-Saiddhantik, Vyavaharik, Pragativadi, Manovishleshanavadi, and Nai Alochana. (b) Prominent critics: Ramchandra Shukla, Hajari Prasad Dwivedi, Ram Vilas Sharma, and Nagendra |
| The other forms of Hindi prose-Lalit Nibandh, Rekhachitra, Sansmaran, Yatra-vrittant |
Prescribed texts |
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| Kabir: Kabir Granthawali, Ed, Shyam Sundar Das (first hundred Sakhis) |
| Surdas: Bhramar Geet Sar, Ed. Ramchandra Shukla (first hundred Padas) |
| Tulsidas: Ramcharitmanas (Sundar Kand) Kavitavali (Uttar Kand) |
| Jayasi: Padmawat Ed. Shyam Sundar Das (Sinhal Dweep Khand and Nagamativiyog Khand) |
| Bihari: Bihari Ratnakar Ed. Jagannath Prasad Ratnakar (first 100 Dohas) |
| Prasad: Kamayani (Chinta and Shraddha Sarg) |
| Nirala: Rag-Virag, Ed. Ram Vilas Sharma (Ram Ki Shakti Puja and Kukurmutta) |
| Dinkar: Kurukshetra |
| Agyeya: Aangan Ke Paar Dwar (Asadhya Veena) |
| Muktibodh: Andhere Mein |
| Bharatendu: Andher Nagari |
| Mohan Rakesh: Ashad ka ek din |
| Ramchandra Shukla: Chintamani (part I) (Kavita kya hai, Shraddha aur bhakti) |
| Premchand: Godan, Premchand ki Sarvashreshta Kahaniyan, Ed. Amrit Rai |
| Prasad: Skandagupta |
| Yashpal: Divya |
| Phanishwar Nath Renu: Maila Anchal |
| Mannu Bhandari: Mahabhoj |
| Nibandh Nilaya: Edited by Dr. Satyendra (Bal Krishna Bhatt, Premchand, Gulab Rai, Hajari Prasad Dwivedi, Ram Vilas Sharma, Agyeya, Kuber Nath Rai) |
History of Odia language |
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| Origin and development of Odia language; influence of Austric, Dravidian, Perso-Arabic, and English on Odia language |
| Morphology: Morphemes (free, bound, and complex), derivational and inflectional affixes |
| Syntax: Kinds of sentences and their transformations, structure of sentences |
| Semantics: Different types of change in meaning; euphemism |
| Common errors in spellings, grammatical uses, and construction of sentences |
History Of Odia literature |
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| Historical backgrounds (social, cultural, and political) of Odia literature of different periods |
| Ancient epics, Ornate Kavyas, and Padavalis |
| Typical structural forms of Odia literature (Koili, Chautisa, Poi, Chaupadi, Champu) |
| Impact of renaissance with special reference to poetry, fiction, and essay |
Poetry |
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| Ancient: (a) Sarala Das-Gadaparva from Mahabharata. (b) Jagannath Das-Bhagavata- XI Skandha-Jadu Avadhuta Sambada |
| Medieval: (a) Dinakrushna Das-Rasa Kallola-(chhandas-16 and 34), (b) Upendra Bhanja-Labanyabati (chhandas-1 and 2) |
| Modern: (a) Radhanath Ray-Chilika, (b) Mayadhar Manasinha-Mahanadire Jyotsna Vihar, (c) Satchidananda Routray-Bajiraut, (d) Ramakanta Ratha-Saptama Rutu |
Drama |
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| Manoranjan Das-Klanta Prajapati |
| Bijay Mishra-Tata Niranjana |
Novel |
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| Fakir Mohan Senapati-Chha Mana Atha Guntha |
| Gopinath Mohanty-Danapani |
Short story |
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| Surendra Mohanty-Maralara Mrutyu (first five stories) |
| Manoj Das-Laxmira Abhisara (first five stories) |
Essay |
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| Chittaranjan Das-Taranga O Tadit (first five essays) |
| Chandra Sekhar Rath-Mun Satyadharma Kahuchi (first five essays) |
Description of the origin and development of Persian language |
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Applied grammar, rhetorics, prosody, idioms, and phrases frequently use |
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| Grammar: Ism and its kinds, Ism-e-Ishara, Musharun Elaih, Fail and its kinds, tenses, gardan, singular and plural, Jumle and its kinds |
| Rhetorics: Tajnees, Istiara, Miratun nazeer, laff-o-nashr, Iham, Husn-e-Taleel, Tyajahul-e-Arifana, and Talmeeh |
| Prosody: Bahr-e-Hazaj, Bahr-e-Rajaz, Bahr-e-Ramal, Bahr-e-Mutaquarib, Bahr-e-Kamil, (only Salim Bahren) |
Short essay in persian |
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History of Persian literature in Iran and India |
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| Literary criticism and styles : Trends in classical and modern literature-socio-cultural influences, development of modern literary genres including drama, novel, short story |
Prose |
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| Nizami Aruzi Samarqandi: Chahar Maqala-(i) Dabiri, (ii) Shair |
| Qabus Washmgir: Qabus Nama-(i) Dar-Shinakhtan-e-Haqq-e-Pidar-wa-Madar, (ii) Dar Bishi Justan Az Sukhandani, (iii) Dar Talib Ilmi-wa-Faqih wa Fuqaha |
| Saadi Shirazi : Gulistan-(i) Dar Taseer-e-Sohbat |
| Mohammed Awfi : Jawami Ul Hikayat-(i) First six Hikayat |
| Maulana Abdur Rahman Jami: Intikhab Baharistan-e-Jami-first six Hikayat |
| Dr. Ghulam Sarwar: Sukhan-e-Nau-(i) Fida-e-watan, (ii) Rah-e-Nau, (iii) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, (iv) Guftagu-e-Yak Nafar-e-Iran, (v) Tareekh-e-Adabiyat-e-Iran |
| Maulana Shibli Nomani: Sherul Ajam Part II and III |
| Mulla Husain Waiz Kashifi: Akhlagua-e-Muhsini-(i) Dar Bayan-e-Sakhawat, (ii) Dar Bayan-e-Sabr. (iii) Dar Bayan-e-Adl |
Poetry |
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| Firdausi: Shahnama (i) Rustam-o-Sohrab |
| Umar Khayyam: Rubaiyat (Radif-Alif and Be) |
| Saadi Shirazi: Bostan, Hikayat Dar Tadbeer-e-Padshahan-wa-Takheer Kardan Dar Siyasat |
| Ameer Khusro: Dewan-e-Khusrau (Radif Alif) |
| Maulana Roam: Masnavi Manavi (first half of first volume) |
| Hafiz Shirazi: (Radif Alif) |
| Urfi Shirazi-Quasaid: (i) Har Sokhta Jane Ke Ba Kashmir-Dar Ayad, (ii) Shabe Eid Ke Dar Takyagah-e-Naz-o-Neyam |
| Allama Iqbal: (i) Asrar-e-Khudi |
| Bahar Mashhadi: (i) Sakoot-e-Shab, (ii) Dukhtar-e-Basra |
| Manuchehri: Quasaid-(Radif Laam and Meem) |
| Syed Ashraf Rushti: Bekas Watan |
Significant features of the grammar |
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| With particular stress on the following subjects: (a) Samjna-It, Savarna, Ti, Upadha, Samhita, Vrddhi, Guna, Pratipadika, Sarvanama, (b) Sandhi-AC, Hal, Visarga, (c) Karaka, (d) Samasa |
| With particular stress on the following subjects: (e) Vacijas-Karte, Karmani and Bhave (voice usages) |
Origin and development of Sanskrit language |
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| Classification of Indo-European languages |
| Main characteristics of vedic sanskrit language |
| Prominent features of classical Sanskrit language |
| Contribution of sanskrit to linguistic studies |
General knowledge of literary history of Sanskrit and principal trends of literary criticism |
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| History of Vedic literature (Samhita, Brahmana, Aranyaka and Upanishads) |
| Ramayana, Mahabharata |
| The origin and development of literary genres of: Mahakavya-Asvaghosa, Kalidasa, Bharavi, Magha, Sriharsa, Bhatti, Rupaka (drama )-Bhasa, Kalidasa, Bhavabhuti, Harsa, Visakhadatta, Sudraka, Bhattanarayana, Murari, Katha-Dandin, Subandhu, Bana |
| The origin and development of literary genres of: Mahakavya-Akhyayika-Bana, Campu-Nalacampu, Campu-Ramayan, Khandakavya-Meghaduta and Hamsaduta, Muktaka Kavya. Kathasahitya (fables and fairytales)-Brhatkatha, Kathasaritsagara |
| The origin and development of literary genres of: Katha Sahitya (fables and fairytales)-Panchatantra, Hitopadesa, Vetalapancavimsati, Dvatrimsatputtalika |
Essentials of Indian culture with stress on |
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| Purusharthas, Samskaras, Varnashrama Vyavastha, arts and fine arts, technical sciences, Kautilya’s Arthsastra, Adhikarana-I, Prakarana-I, Adhyaya-II-Vidyasamuddesah-Anviksiki Sthapana; Prakarana-VII, Adhyaya-XI-Gudhapurusotpattih |
Trends of Indian Philosophy |
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| General outlines on: (a) Sankhya, (b) yoga, (c) Nyaya, (d) Vaisesika, (e) Mimamsa, (f) Vedanta, (g) Carvaka, (h) Jaina, (i) Bauddha |
Short essay in Sanskrit |
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Unseen passage |
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General study of the following groups |
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| Group-I: (a) Raghuvamsam-Kalidasa, (b) Kumarasambhavam-Kalidasa, (c) Kiratarjuniyam-Bharavi, (d) Sisupalavadham-Magha, (e) Naisadhiyacaritam-Sriharsa, (f) Kadambari-Banabhatta, (g) Dasakumaracaritam-Dandin, (h) Sivarajyodayam-S.B. Varnekar |
| Group-II: (a) Isavasyopanishad, (b) Kathopanisad-I Ch.-III, Valli-verses 10 to 15, (c) Bhagavadgita, (d) Sundarakanda of Valmiki’s Ramayana |
| Group-III: (a) Svapanavasavadattam-Bhasa, (b) Abhijnanasakuntalam-Kalidasa,(c) Mricchakatikam-Sudraka, (d) Mudraraksasam-Visakhadatta, (e) Uttararamacaritam-Bhavbhuti, (f) Ratnavali-Sriharshavardhana, (g) Venisamharam-Bhattanarayana |
| Group-IV: Short notes in Sanskrit on the following-(a) Buddhacarita-Asvaghosa, (b) Meghaduta-Kalidasa, (c) Nitisatakam-Bhartrhari, (d) Panchatantra, (e) Rajatarangini-Kalhana, (f) Harsacaritam-Banabhatta, (g) Amaruka Satakam-Amaruka |
| Group-IV: Short notes in Sanskrit on the following-(h) Gita Govinda-Jayadeva |
| Group-V: General outlines on-(a) Samkhya Karika, (b) Tarkasamgraha, (c) Vedantasara, (d) Manusmriti |
Selected texts |
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| Group-I: (a) Raghuvamsam-CantoI, verses 1 to 10, (b) Kumarasambhavam-Canto I, verses 1 to 10, (c) Kiratarjuniya-Canto I, Verses 1 to 10 |
| Group-II: (a) Isavasyopanishad-mantras-1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 15, and 18, (b) Bhagavad Gita II chapter-verses 13 to 25, (c) Sundarakandam of Valmiki's Ramayana, canto 15, verses 15 to 30 (Geeta press edition) |
| Group-III: (a) Buddhacarita-Canto-III (1 to 10 verses), (b) Meghaduta-Purva Megha-verses 1 to 10, (c) Nitisatakam-verses 1 to 10 (edited by D.D. Kosambi Bharatiya vidya bhavan publication), (d) Kadambari-Sukanasopadesa (only) |
| Group-IV: (a) Svapnavasavadattam act VI, (b) Abhijnanasakuntalam act IV verses 15 to 30 (M.R. Kale edition), (c) Uttara Ramacharitam act I verses 31 to 47 (M.R. Kale edition) |
| Group-V: (a) Samkhyakarika-Pancavimsatih tattvani, (b) Tarkasamgraha-Padarthanirupanam, (c) Vedantasara-Adhikarinirupanam, (d) Manusmrti-II-Aryavarta, Brahmavarta, Brahmacaridharmah |
Development of Urdu language |
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| Development of Indo-Aryan: (i) Old Indo-Aryan, (ii) middle Indo-Aryan, (iii) new Indo-Aryan |
| Western Hindi and its dialects Brij bhasha Khadi Boli, Haryanavi theories about the origin of Urdu language |
| Dakhani Urdu-origin and development, its significant linguistic features |
| Social and cultural roots of Urdu language-and its distinctive features |
| Script, phonology, morphology, vocabulary |
Genres and their development |
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| Poetry: Ghazal, masnavi, qasida, marsia, rubai jadeed nazm |
| Prose: novel, short story, dastan, drama, inshaiya, khutoot, biography |
| Significant features of: (i) Deccani, Delhi, and Lucknow schools, (ii) Sir Syed movement, romantic movement, progressive movement, modernism, (iii) development of Urdu prose and poetry in Odisha |
| Literary criticism and its development with reference to Hali, Shibli, Kaleemuddin Ahmad, Ehtisham Hussain, Ale-Ahmad Suroor |
| Essay writing (covering literary and imaginative topics) |
Prescribed texts |
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| Mir Amman: Bagho-babar |
| Ghalib: Intikhab-e-Khutoot-e-Ghalib |
| Sir Syed Ahmed Khan-Intekhab-e-Mazameen-e-Sir Syed |
| Prem Chand: Godan |
| Krishan Chander-Ann data |
| Abul Kalam Azad-Ghubar-e-Khatir |
| Mir: Intikhab-e-kalam-e-mir (Ed. Abdul Haq) |
| Mir Hasan: Sahrul bayan |
| Ghalib: Diwan-e-ghalib |
| Iqbal: Bal-e-Jibreel |
| Firaq: Gul-e-naghma |
| Faiz: Dast-e-saba |
| Ali Sardar Jafri-Patthar-ki-Diwar |
Managerial function |
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| Concept and foundations of management, managerial role and functions: Planning, organization, coordination, motivation, staffing, direction, control |
| Analysis of environmental opportunities and threats, formulation of organisational vision, mission and objectives |
| Decision making, concept of good governance-indicators of good governance, role of agencies like transparency international, corporate code of conduct |
Organisational behaviour and design |
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| Classical and neoclassical systems, delegation of authority, design of strategic business units |
| Theories of motivation and their relevance: Hierarchy of need model, factor theory, sources of motivation, achievement, power, money, affiliation, communication: Barriers and gateways |
| Leadership: Characteristics, transformational leader and transactional leader, leader as change agents understanding group behaviour and group dynamics |
| Behaviour in small groups, conflict management, managing change, innovation in organizational design such as networks, knowledge based enterprises-systems and processes |
Quantitative techniques in decision making |
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| Classification of data, averages, dispersion and skewness, product moment, correlation, rank correlation, regression |
| Time series analysis and forecasting techniques, qualitative techniques |
| Elementary concepts of binomial, Poisson and normal distributions |
| Tests of significance 't', 'F' and chi-square |
| Linear programming-problem formulation, product mix, product composition, warehousing and transportation problems |
| Simplex method and graphical solution |
| Basic concepts and models of non-linear programming PERT and CPM, determination of critical path, crashing |
| Decision making under uncertainty |
Management control system |
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| Basic concepts, understanding strategic behaviour |
| Responsibility centres: Cost centres, profit centres, investment centres |
| Strategic planning, preparation of budgets, zero based budget, analysis and evaluation of performance, control system in service organization |
| Modern control methods, controlling global enterprises: Transfer pricing-basis for fixing transfer pricing, management of risk |
Strategic cost management |
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| Cost concepts and classification, cost-volume profit analysis, value chain: Conceptual issues and applications |
| Cost analysis-activity based costing, cost drivers and their measurement |
| Target costing |
| Profit variance analysis, divisional performance vs. managerial performance |
Business environment |
|---|
| Concept and analysis of macro-business environment: Indian and global |
| Analysis of structural dimensions of indian economy |
| Directions of change and impact on business decision |
| Regulatory and promotional policies |
| Liberalization, globalisation, and corporatisation problems and prospects |
Financial management |
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| Goal of finance function |
| Analysis of financial position: Ratio and funds flow analysis. Concepts of value and return. Valuation of bonds and shares |
| Risk and return: Portfolio theory, CAPM and APM. Option pricing. Financial and operating leverage. Design of capital structure; theories and practices |
| Management of working capital: Estimation and financing. Management of cash, receivables and inventory and current liabilities |
| Capital and money markets: Institutions and instruments. Leasing, hire purchase and virtue capital mergers and acquisitions |
| Shareholder value creation: Dividend policy, corporate financial policy and strategy, management of corporate distress and restructuring strategy. Regulation of capital market |
Marketing management |
|---|
| Concept and strategy |
| Analysis of marketing environment and planning process |
| Understanding and selecting target markets: Marketing research, consumer behaviour |
| Segmentation, targeting, and positioning, product management |
| Distribution channels and logistics |
| Public distribution system |
| Marketing communication, brand management |
| Personal selling and management of salesforce |
| Pricing decisions |
| Understanding competitive strategy |
| Design, implementation, and control |
| Services and non-profit marketing |
| Social marketing |
| Creating global competitive advantage: Analysis, formulation, implementation, and control |
| Evaluation of marketing function |
| Ethics in marketing: Consumer protection |
| E-business |
International business |
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| International Business Environment: Changing composition of trade in goods and services |
| Emerging areas of trade |
| Evaluation of international trade policies-instruments of trade policy, institutions of international business GATT/ WTO, trims and trips-labour conditions and environmental issues |
| Trade in services and agri products |
| Role of IMF, World Bank, UNCTAD |
| Regional economic cooperation |
| Export marketing management-overseas market research, export pricing, and finance |
| Management of risk |
| Export-import procedures |
| Role of intermediaries and documentation |
Operation and materials management |
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| Fundamentals of operations management |
| Organising for production |
| Aggregate production planning, capacity planning, plan design: Process planning plant size and scale of operations |
| Management of facilities |
| Equipment replacement and maintenance |
| Production control |
| Supply chain management-vendor evaluation and audit |
| Quality management |
| Role and importance of materials management, material handling, value analysis, quality control, make or buy decision |
| Codification, standardisation of spare parts inventory |
| Inventory control |
| Two bin system |
| Waste management, purchasing process, and procedure |
| International buying |
| Business process reengineering, business process outsourcing |
Management information system |
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| Conceptual foundations of information system |
| Information resource management |
| System development-overview of systems and design |
| System development management life-cycle, designing on-line and distributed environments |
| Implementation and control of project |
| Trends in information technology |
| Managing data resources-organising data |
| Dss and rdbms |
Human resource development |
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| Concept and policies |
| Manpower planning; recruitment, selection, training, development, promotion and transfer |
| Performance measurement, balanced scorecard and other methods, job evaluation, job enrichment |
| Compensation management |
| Employee morale and productivity |
| Management of organisational climate and industrial relations |
| Humans resource accounting and audit |
Abstract algebra |
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| Integers, congruences |
| Groups, subgroup, normal subgroups, permutation groups, homomorphism, isomorphism, counting principles, Sylow’s theorem, Caley’s group |
| Rings, integral domain, field, subring, homomorphism, ideal, principal ideal ring, maximal ideal, polynomial rings, unique factorization theorem |
Linear algebra |
|---|
| Vector space, linear dependence, independence, subspaces, basis, dimension, finite dimensional vector space, linear transformation, rank-nullity theorem |
| Matrices, determinants, eigenvalue, eigenvector, row-column reduction, echelon form, orthogonal, symmetrical, skew-symmetric, unitary, Hermitian matrices |
Analytic geometry |
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| 2D geometry: Straight lines, pairs of lines, circle, system of circles, conic sections |
| 3D geometry: Planes, lines, skew-lines, sphere, intersection of plane and sphere, cone, cylinder, conicoids, tangent plane to conicoids |
Real and Complex analysis |
|---|
| Real analysis: Real number system, order relation, bounds, L.U.B., G.l.B., Cauchy sequence, completeness, compactness, continuity, uniform continuity of functions, Riemann-theory of integration, fundamental theorem of calculus |
| Real analysis: Convergence of sequence and series, uniform convergence |
| Complex analysis: Analytic function, Cauchy Riemann equation, Cauchy integral formula, Taylor, Laurent’s series, singularities, poles, residues, contour integral |
Calculus |
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| Functions of one variable: Limit, continuity, differentiability, mean value theorem, maxima, minima |
| Asymptotes and curvatures: Rectification, area, volume, and surface area of revolution (equations in cartesian and parametric forms only) |
| Functions of several variables: Limit, continuity, differentiability, Jacobians, Euler’s theorem |
| Improper integrals: Convergence, gamma, and beta functions |
| Multiple integrals: Double and triple integrals and their evaluations |
Vector analysis |
|---|
| Dot and vector products, vector, and scalar triple products |
| Differentiation of vector functions, divergence, gradient, curl of vectors (in Cartesian forms only) |
| Green, Gauss, and Stokes theorems and applications |
| Tangent, normal, and binormal of curves in space, Serret-frenet formulas |
Numerical analysis |
|---|
| Interpolation: Lagrange, Newton divided difference forms, forward and backward interpolation polynomials |
| Approximations: Least squares approximations and curve fitting |
| Numerical solution of nonlinear equations: Bisection, Secant, Newton-Raphson and fixed point iteration techniques |
| Numerical differentiation and integration: Differentiation formulas involving differences, Newton-Cotes rules, compound rules, Gauss-Legendre 2 and 3 point rules |
| Numerical solution of IVP: Euler method, Taylor’s method, Runge-Kutta method of order two |
Graph theory |
|---|
| Simple graphs, regular, complete graphs, bipartite graphs, matrix representation of graphs, connected graphs, isomorphic graphs, trees, planar graph, Hamiltonian and Eulerian graphs, vertex colouring of graphs and chromatic number |
Ordinary and partial differential equations |
|---|
| Linear first order ODE |
| Higher order linear differential equations with constant and variable coefficients |
| Series solution of ODE |
| Solution of ODE by Laplace transformation techniques |
| Solution of equations Pdx + Qdy + Rdz=O and dx/P = dy/Q = dz/R |
| Char pits method for partial differential equations |
| Linear second order PDE and solutions |
Computer programming |
|---|
| Flowcharting and algorithms |
| Basics of Fortran language, arithmetic and logical operations, arithmetic and logical statements |
| GO TO and computed GO TO statements, arithmetic and logical IF, IF… THEN….ELSE statements, DO Loops |
| Arrays and subscripted variables |
| Functions, subprograms, and subroutines |
| Programme writing in Fortran |
Mechanics and hydrodynamics |
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| Statics: Law of parallelogram of forces, equilibrium of forces, couple and moments, frictions |
| Dynamics: Laws of motion, D'Alembert's principle, motion of a particle in a plane, projectiles, motion of rigid bodies, moment of inertia |
| Hydrodynamics: Equation of continuity, Euler equation of motion (in Cartesian forms) stream lines, path Line, potential flow, stream functions and potential functions, sources, sinks and image system with respect to plane and circle |
Operations research |
|---|
| Formulation of LPP, graphical solution |
| Simplex method and duality |
| Transportation and assignment problems |
Theory of machines |
|---|
| Kinematic chain |
| Mechanisms and inversions |
| Motor vehicle steering gears |
| Hooke's’ joint |
| Toothed gears |
| Tooth profiles |
| Interference |
| Gear trains |
| Compound gears |
| Differential |
| CAM profiles |
| Displacement, velocity, and acceleration of CAM followers |
| Flywheel and turning moment diagram |
| Governors, stability, sensitivity, isochronism, and hunting |
| Governor effort and power |
| Controlling force and effect of friction |
| Balancing of revolving masses |
| Balancing of single and multi cylinder engines |
| Friction and lubrication |
| Hydrodynamic theory of lubrication |
| Linear free and forced vibration of single and two degree freedom mechanical systems with or without damping |
| Critical speeds and whirling of shafts |
| Vibration of beams |
| Torsional vibration |
Mechanics of solids |
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| Stress and strain for materials in tension, compression, and shear |
| Relation between elastic constants for an isotropic, linear elastic, and homogeneous materials |
| Uniaxial loading |
| Thermal stresses |
| Stress-strain diagrams for ductile and brittle materials |
| Stress and strain in two dimensions, principal planes, Mohr’s circle, strain rosette |
| Bending moment and shear force diagrams |
| Composite beams |
| Bending stresses |
| Shear stress distribution |
| Slope and deflection in beams |
| Torsion of circular shafts |
| Helical springs |
| Combined stresses |
| Theories of failure |
| Thick and thin walled pressure vessels |
| Rotating discs and shrunk fit |
| Struts and columns |
| Energy principles |
| Strain energy due to bending, twisting and axial load |
| Castigliano’s theorem |
| Reciprocal theorem |
| Slope and deflection by energy methods |
Engineering materials |
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| Basic concepts on structure of solids, crystalline materials, defects in crystalline materials, alloys and binary phase diagrams, structure and properties of common engineering materials |
| Iron-carbon equilibrium diagram TTT-diagram |
| Heat treatment of steels |
| Plastics, ceramics, and composite materials, common applications of various materials |
Manufacturing science |
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| Pattern, gating and risering system, casting defects, special casting process, welding: Gas welding, arc welding, resistance welding, thermit welding, tool geometry and nomenclature ASA, ORS and NRS, types of chips, cutting variable |
| Welding: Chip reduction coefficient, merchant’s force diagram, velocity relationship, and Kronenberg relationship |
| Ernest and merchant angle relationship, Lee-shafer relationship-cutting fluid, tool wear, Taylor’s tool life equation, economics of metal machining, jigs and fixtures |
| NC, CNC, ECM, EDM, AJM, USM; LBM, plasma machining, high energy rate forming |
Manufacturing management |
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| Production planning and control, forecasting-moving average, exponential smoothing, operations scheduling; assembly line balancing |
| Product development |
| Break Even analysis, capacity planning |
| PERT and CPM |
| Control operations: Inventory control-ABC analysis. EOQ model. Materials requirement planning. Job design, job standards, work measurement, quality management-quality control |
| Operations research: Linear programming-graphical and simplex methods. Transportation and assignment models. Single server queuing model |
| Value engineering: Value analysis, for cost/ value. Total quality management and forecasting techniques. Project management |
Elements of computation |
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| Computer organisation, flow charting |
| Features of common computer languages-C, FORTRAN, elements of d base and elementary programming |
Thermodynamics |
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| Basic concept |
| Open and closed systems, applications of thermodynamic laws, (zeroth, first, and second laws), gas equations, Clapeyron equation, availability, irreversibility and TDS relations, reciprocating air compressors |
IC engines, fuels, and combustion |
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| Spark ignition and compression ignition engines, four stroke engines and two stroke engines, mechanical, thermal and volumetric efficiency, heat balance |
| Combustion process in SI and CI engines, pre ignition detonation in SI engine, diesel knock in CI engine, choice of engine fuels, octane and cetane ratings |
| Alternate fuels, carburetion and fuel injection, engine emissions and control |
| Solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, stoichiometric air requirements and excess air factor, fuel gas analysis, higher and lower calorific values and their measurements |
Heat transfer, refrigeration, and air conditioning |
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| One and two dimensional heat conduction, heat transfer from extended surfaces, heat transfer by forced and free convection |
| Heat exchangers |
| Fundamentals of diffusive and convective mass transfer, radiation laws, heat exchange between black and non black surfaces, network analysis. heat pump, refrigeration cycles (air refrigeration, vapour compression and absorption refrigeration) and systems |
| Condensers, evaporators and expansion devices and controls |
| Properties and choice of refrigerant, refrigeration systems and components, psychometrics, comfort indices, cooling load calculations, solar refrigeration |
Turbo-machines and power plants |
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| Continuity, momentum, and energy equations |
| Adiabatic and isentropic flow, fanno lines, Rayleigh lines |
| Theory and design of axial flow turbines and compressors, flow through turbomachine blade, cascades, centrifugal compressor |
| Dimensional analysis and modelling |
| Selection of site for steam, hydro, nuclear and stand-by power plants, selection base and peak load power plants, modern high pressure, high duty boilers, draft and dust removal equipment, fuel and cooling water systems, heat balance |
| Station and plant heat rates, operation and maintenance of various power plants, preventive maintenance, economics of power generation |
History of philosophy (western) |
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| Plato: Theory of ideas |
| Aristotle: Form, matter, and causation |
| Descartes: Cartesian method, certain knowledge, God, mind-body dualism |
| Spinoza: Substance, attribute, modes, pantheism |
| Leibnitz: Monads, pre-established harmony |
| Locke: Theory of knowledge, rejection of innate ideas, substance and qualities |
| Berkeley: Immaterialism, God, criticism of representative theory of perception |
| Hume: Theory of knowledge, scepticism, self, causality |
| Kant: Reconciliation of empiricism and rationalism, space, time, categories, possibility of synthetic A Priori judgments, ideas of reason, antinomies, criticism of the proofs for the existence of God |
| Hegel: Dialectical method, absolute idealism |
| Precursors of linguistic analysis: Moore (defense of common sense, refutation of idealism), russell (theory of description) |
| Logical positivism: Theory of verification and rejection of metaphysics |
| Phenomenology: Husserl |
| Existentialism: Kierkegaard, Sartre |
Indian philosophy |
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| Carvaka: Theory of knowledge, materialism |
| Jainism: Theory of reality, Saptabhangi Naya, bondage, and liberation |
| Buddhism: Pratityasamutpada, Ksanikavada, Nairatmyavada, Nirvana, Vijnanavada, Sunyavada |
| Samkhya: Theory of causation, Prakriti, Purusa, theory of evolution |
| Nyaya and Vaisheshika: Theory of Pramana, self, liberation, proofs for the existence of God, categories, theory of causation, atomistic theory of creation |
| Mimamsa: Theory of knowledge and error |
| Vedanta: Sankara and Ramanuja on Brahman, Isvara, Atman, Jiva, Jagat, Maya, Moksa |
Socio-political philosophy |
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| Political ideals: Equality, justice, liberty |
| Individual and state |
| Democracy: Concept and forms |
| Socialism and Marxism |
| Humanism |
| Secularism |
| Human rights |
| Theories of punishment |
| Coexistence and violence, Sarvodaya |
| Gender equality |
| Scientific temper and progress |
| Philosophy of ecology |
Philosophy of religion |
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| Notions of God: Personalistic, impersonalistic, naturalistic |
| Proofs for the existence of God and their criticism |
| Grounds for disbelief in God and their criticisms |
| Problem of evil |
| Religious language, reason, revelation, and mysticism |
| Karma, rebirth, and reincarnation |
| Soul, disembodied existence, and immortality |
Classical mechanics |
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| Particle dynamics: Centre of mass and laboratory coordinates, conservation of linear and angular momentum. The rocket equation. Rutherford scattering, Galilean transformation, inertial and non-inertial frames, rotating frames |
| Particle dynamics: Centrifugal and Coriolis forces, Foucault pendulum |
| System of particles: Holonomic and non-holonomic constraints, degrees of freedom, generalized coordinates and moments. Lagrange's equation and applications to linear harmonic oscillator, simple pendulum and central force problems. Cyclic coordinates |
| System of particles: Hamiltonian Lagrange's equation from Hamilton's principle |
| Rigid body dynamics: Eulerian angles, inertia tensor, principal moments of inertia. Euler's equation of motion of a rigid body, force-free motion of a rigid body. Gyroscope |
Special relativity, waves, and geometrical optics |
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| Special relativity: Michelson-Morley experiment and its implications. Lorentz transformations-length contraction, time dilation, addition of velocities and Doppler effect, mass-energy relation and its simple applications to a decay process |
| Special relativity: Minkowski diagram, four dimensional momentum vector |
| Waves: Simple harmonic motion, damped oscillation, forced oscillation and resonance. Beats. Stationary waves in a string. Pulses and wave packets. Phase and group velocities |
| Geometrical optics: Laws of reflection and refraction from Fermat's principle. Matrix method in paraxial optics-thin lens formula, nodal planes, system of two thin lenses, chromatic and spherical aberrations |
Physical optics |
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| Interference: Interference of light-Young's experiment, Newton's rings, interference by thin films, Michelson interferometer. Multiple beam interference and Fabry-Perot interferometer. Holography and simple applications |
| Diffraction: Fraunhofer diffraction-single slit, double slit, diffraction grating, resolving power. Fresnel diffraction-half-period zones and zones plates. Fresnel integrals |
| Diffraction: Application of Cornu's spiral to the analysis of diffraction at a straight edge and by a long narrow slit. Diffraction by a circular aperture and the Airy pattern |
| Polarisation and modern optics: Production and detection of linearly and circularly polarised light. Double refraction, quarter wave plate. Optical activity. Lasers-Einstein A and B coefficients. Ruby and He-Ne lasers |
| Polarisation and modern optics: Characteristics of laser light-spatial and temporal coherence. Focussing of laser beams. Three-level scheme for laser operation. Principles of fibre optics, pulse dispersion in single mode fibre |
Electricity and magnetism |
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| Electrostatics and magnetostatics: Laplace and Poisson equations in electrostatics and their applications. Energy of a system of charges, multiple expansion of scalar potential. Method of images and its applications. Potential and field due to a dipole |
| Electrostatics and magnetostatics: Force and torque on a dipole in an external field. Dielectrics, polarisation. Solutions to boundary-value, problems-conducting and dielectric spheres in a uniform electric field. Magnetic shell |
| Electrostatics and magnetostatics: 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. LR, CR, and LCR circuits-series and parallel resonance |
| Current Electricity: Quality factor. Principle of transformer |
Electromagnetic theory and black body radiation |
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| Electromagnetic theory: Displacement current and Maxwell's equations. Wave equations in vacuum, Poynting theorem. Vector and scalar potentials. Gauge invariance, Lorentz and Coulomb gauges. Electromagnetic field tensor, covariance of Maxwell's equations |
| Electromagnetic theory: Wave equations in isotropic dielectrics, reflection and refraction at the boundary of two dielectrics. Fresnel's relations. Normal and anomalous dispersion. Rayleigh scattering |
| Blackbody radiation: Blackbody radiation, Wien displacement law and Rayleigh-Jeans law. Planck radiation law, Stefan-Boltzmann law. |
Thermal and statistical physics |
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| Thermodynamics: Laws of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes, entropy. Isothermal, adiabatic, isobaric, isochoric processes and entropy change. 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 virial theorems |
| Thermodynamics: Dulong-Petit, 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: Ensembles-microcanonical, canonical and grand-canonical ensembles. Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law. Gibbs paradox |
Quantum mechanics-I |
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| Inadequacies of classical mechanics-black body radiation spectrum, photoelectric effect, compton effect, stability of atom |
| De-broglie relation, wave-particle duality |
| Schrodinger equation and expectation values |
| Uncertainty principle |
| Solutions of the one-dimensional Schrodinger equation-free particle, Gaussian wave-packet, particle in a box, particle in a finite well, linear harmonic oscillator |
| Reflection and transmission by a potential step, and by a rectangular barrier |
| Use of WKB formula for the life-time calculation in the alpha-decay problem |
Quantum mechanics-II and atomic physics |
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| Quantum mechanics-II: Particle in a three dimensional box, eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of angular momentum operators, spherical harmonics. The hydrogen atom. Half angular momentum and spin |
| 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 |
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 |
| Elementary ideas about mossbauer spectroscopy |
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 a deuteron, magnetic moment and non-central forces |
| Meson theory of nuclear forces |
| Salient features of nuclear forces |
| Shell model of the nucleus-success and limitations |
| Violation of parity in beta decay |
| Gamma decay and internal conversion |
| Q-value of nuclear reactions |
| Nuclear fission and fusion, energy production in stars |
| Nuclear reactors |
Particle physics and solid state physics |
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| Particle physics: Classification of elementary particles and their interactions. Conservation laws. Quark structure of hadrons. Field quanta of electro-weak and strong interactions. Elementary ideas about unification of forces, Planck mass |
| Particle physics: Planck length, Planck time, Planck temperature, and Planck energy |
| Solid state physics: Cubic crystal structure. Band theory of solids-conductors, insulators and semiconductors. 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 |
| RC amplifiers, characteristics of class-A, B, and C amplifiers, push-pull amplifiers, phase-shift oscillators, Hartley 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 |
| Principles of amplitude and frequency modulation and demodulation, super-heterodyne receivers |
| Ionospheric propagation of radio frequency waves |
Political theory |
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| Approaches to the study of political theory: Historical, normative, and empirical |
| Theories of state: Liberal, Marxist, post-colonial |
| State sovereignty: Monistic and pluralistic theories; globalisation and the state |
| Democracy: Democratic theory-classical and contemporary |
| Human rights: Theories of human rights; theories of justice, equality and revolution, political obligation; theories of political culture and political economy |
| Political ideologies: Nature of ideology; liberalism, socialism, Marxism, fascism, and Gandhism |
| Theories of power and hegemony: Pareto, Mosca, Mitchels, C.Wright Mills, Weber and Gramsci |
| Indian political thought: Manu, Kautilya, M.N. Roy, Gandhi, and Ambedkar |
| Western political thought: Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, J S Mill, Hegel and Marx, Lenin, and Mao Zedong |
Indian government and politics |
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| Indian nationalism: Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Dadabhai Naoroji, Tilak, Gandhi, Nehru, Subhas Bose, and Ambedkar |
| Indian freedom struggle: Constitutionalism, revolutionary movements, non cooperation, civil disobedience and quit India, role of women in freedom struggle |
| Constitutional development in the pre-independence era: Morley-Minto reforms; Montagu-Chelmsford reforms; government of India act, 1919 and 1935; and Cripps mission |
| Socioeconomic dimensions of the nationalist movement: The communal question and the demand for partition; backward caste movements, trade union and peasant movements, civil rights movement |
| Salient features of the Indian constitution: The preamble, fundamental rights and duties, directive principles; federalism, parliamentary system; amending procedures; judicial review |
| The executive system: President, prime minister and the council of ministers; governor, chief minister and the state council of ministers. The bureaucracy |
| Parliament: Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and parliamentary committees |
| Judiciary: The Supreme Court and the High Courts; judicial activism |
| Statutory institutions/ commissions-UPSC, Election Commission, Comptroller and Auditor General, Backward Classes Commission, National Commission for Women; National Human Rights Commission; Minorities Commission |
| Party system: Ideology and social base of parties; fragmentation and regionalization; patterns of coalition politics; trends in electoral behaviour; pressure groups |
| Class, caste, backward class, and Dalit movements; tribal people’s movements, gender in Indian politics and women’s movements; ethnicity; communalism, and politics of regionalism |
| Planning and socioeconomic development: Role of the planning commission; sociopolitical dimensions of economic reforms |
| Local governance: Panchayati Raj and municipal government; significance of 73rd and 74th amendments. Women's empowerment |
| State politics in odisha: Social bases of odia nationalism; freedom movement and praja mandal movements, in Odisha; integration of princely states in Odisha; coalition politics, people’s movement and women’s movement |
International Politics |
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| International system: Evolution; the modern state and sovereign state system, concepts of international politics: Power, balance of power, national interest, collective security |
| Theories of international politics: Idealist, realist, systems, decision-making and game theory |
| Determinants of foreign policy: Ideology, domestic compulsions, geopolitics, and global order |
| Origin and decline of Cold War, New World Order |
| Major issues of world politics: Cuban Missile crisis; Vietnam war, oil crisis, collapse of the Soviet Union, Yugoslav crisis, Afghan crisis, Iraq war |
| Non-alignment: Non-aligned movement; its relevance in the post Cold War era |
| Disarmament and arms control; the evolution of the international economic order-from Bretton woods to WTO, the North-South dimension |
| UN and its specialized agencies |
| Regional organizations: ASEAN, EU, SAARC |
| Global concerns: Human rights, ecology, gender justice |
India and the world |
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| Indian foreign policy: Historical origins, determinants; the institutions of policy making; continuity and change |
| The Non-Alignment Movement: India’s contribution to NAM; its contemporary relevance |
| India and the major powers: USA, EU, China, and Russia |
| India and its neighbours: Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal |
| Conflict and co-operation in South and South East Asia: Kashmir, SAARC. ASEAN, India’s nuclear policy: PNE, NPT,CTBT, India and the UN System: India's role in UN peacekeeping and global disarmament |
| India and the international economic order; WTO, IMF, IBRD, globalization |
Introduction |
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| Psychology as a science: 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 |
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| Major steps in psychological research (problem statement, hypothesis formulation, research design, sampling, tools of data collection, analysis and interpretation and report writing) |
| Methods of data collection (interview, observation, questionnaire, and case study) |
| Application of statistical techniques (t-test, one-way ANOVA, correlation, 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 socialisation |
| Influence of child rearing practices and its impact on the growth and development of the individual |
Attention and perception |
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| Attention-determinants of attention including set and characteristics of stimulus |
| Definition and concept of perception, biological, and cultural factors in perception |
| Perceptual organisation-influence of past experiences, perceptual defence space and depth perception, size estimation, and perceptual readiness |
| Learning: Concepts and theories of learning (Pavlov, Skinner) |
| The processes of extinction, discrimination, and generalisation |
| Programmed learning, self instructional learning, concepts, types and the schedules of reinforcement |
| Modelling and social learning, cognitive view of learning |
Memory |
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| 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) |
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 |
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| 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 |
Motivation and emotion |
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| Definition and concepts |
| Theories and physiological basis of motivation and emotion |
| Measurement of motivation and emotion |
| Motivation and emotion-their effects on behaviour |
Personality |
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| Concept and definition of personality |
| Theories of personality (psychoanalytical, humanistic, behaviouristic, trait, and type approaches) |
| Measurement of personality (projective tests, self report measures) |
| The indian approach to personality |
| Training for personality development |
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 |
Attitudes, values, and interests |
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| Definitions, concepts of attitudes, values, and interests |
| Formation and maintenance of attitudes |
| Measurement of attitudes, values, and interests |
| Techniques of attitude change, strategies for fostering values |
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 |
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 |
| Factors influencing positive health, well being, lifestyle and quality of life |
Therapeutic approaches |
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| 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 organisational 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 |
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 counselling |
| Use of psychological tests in educational institutions |
Community psychology |
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| 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 |
| Group decision making and leadership for social change |
Rehabilitation psychology |
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| Primary, secondary, and tertiary; prevention programmes role of psychologists |
| Organising of services for rehabilitation of physically, mentally and socially challenged persons including old persons |
| 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 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 |
Psychology 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 ingroup and outgroup |
| Causal factors of such conflicts and prejudices |
| Psychological strategies for handling the conflicts and prejudices |
| Measures to achieve social integration |
Application of psychology in information technology and mass media |
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| The present scenario of information technology and the mass media boom and the role of psychologists |
| Selection and training of psychology professionals to work in the field of it and mass media |
| Multi level marketing |
| Impact of tv and fostering value through it and mass media |
| Psychological consequences of recent developments in information technology |
Application of psychology in the field of defence |
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| The concept of military psychology, aviation psychology and psychological warfare |
| Role of military psychologists in the defence |
| Selection, recruitment, and training of personnel |
| Facilitating the process of adjustment of personnel to military life-role of counselling |
| Devising psychological tests for defence personnel |
| Psychological disorders due to war |
| Human engineering in defence |
Psychology and economic development |
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| Achievement motivation and economic development |
| Characteristics of entrepreneurial behavior |
| Motivating and training people for entrepreneurship and economic development |
| Women entrepreneurs |
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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| 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 |
Basic concepts |
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| Meaning, scope, and significance of public administration; public and private administration; evolution of the discipline; new public administration; public choice approach; state versus market; new public management perspective; good governance |
Principles and theories of organisation |
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| Hierarchy, unity of command, spa of control, authority and responsibility, coordination, supervision, centralisation and decentralisation, delegation; classical theory, scientific management theory, bureaucratic theory, human relations theory |
| Behavioural approach, systems approach |
Structure of public organisations |
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| Chief executives-types, functions; forms of public organisations-ministries and departments, corporations, companies, boards, commissions; headquarters and field relationship; line and staff |
Administrative behaviour |
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| Leadership, policy formulation, decision making, communication, motivation, morale |
Accountability and control |
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| Concepts; legislative, executive, and judicial control; citizen and administration; civil society, people’s participation, right to information; corruption in administration, machinery for redressal of citizens’ grievances, citizens’ charter |
Administrative law and administrative reforms |
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| Delegated legislation; administrative adjudication; administrative reforms-process, techniques, O and M, work study, work management, information technology |
Comparative public administration and development administration |
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| Comparative public administration-meaning, nature, scope; models-bureaucratic and ecological; development administration-meaning, nature, and scope; bureaucracy and development; development administration and administrative development |
Public policy |
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| Relevance of public policy; process of policy formulation; policy implementation; evaluation |
Personnel administration |
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| Objectives; recruitment, training, position classification, performance appraisal, promotion, pay and service conditions, employer-employee relations, grievance redressal mechanisms, integrity; code of conduct |
Financial administration |
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| Budget-concepts, forms, formulation, execution; performance budgeting; accounts; audit |
Evolution of Indian administration |
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| Ancient period, medieval period, modern period up to 1947 |
Constitutional framework |
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| Preamble, salient features of indian constitution, federalism, fundamental rights, directive principles of state policy |
Central administration in India |
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| President; prime minister, Council of ministers; Central Secretariat; Cabinet Secretariat; Prime Minister’s Office; Ministries and Departments, advisory bodies, boards and commissions, field organisations, Planning Commission, Finance Commission |
| Election commission |
State administration with special reference to Odisha |
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| Governor, chief minister, secretariat, chief secretary, directorate, district administration, block administration |
Local government |
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| Evolution; 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments; rural and urban local governments in Odisha-structures, functions, finances, problems and prospects; major rural and urban development programmes and their management |
Public services |
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| All India services-constitutional provision, role, functions; central services-nature, functions; recruitment, training, promotion, Union Public Service Commission; state services; Odisha Public Service Commission |
Control of public expenditure |
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| Parliamentary control, Estimates Committee, Public Accounts Committee, Committee on Public Undertakings, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Ministry of Finance |
Machinery of planning |
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| Planning Commission-composition, functions, role; National Development Council; planning process-national planning, state planning, district planning |
Welfare administration |
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| Human rights-National Human Rights Commission; Odisha Human Rights Commission; machinery for welfare administration at the national and state levels, central social welfare board and state social welfare boards |
| Special organizations for the welfare of the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, welfare programmes for women and children |
Major issues in Indian administration |
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| Centre-state relations; political and permanent executive relations; administrative culture and ethics; corruption in indian administration-Lokpal and Lokayuktas; environmental issues-disaster management; criminalisation of politics and administration |
| New economic policy and public undertakings; it and Indian administration |
Sociology-the discipline |
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| Sociology as a science and as an interpretative discipline; impact of Industrial and French Revolution on the emergence of sociology; sociology and its relationship with history, economics, political science, psychology, and anthropology |
Scientific study of social phenomena |
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| Problem of objectivity and value neutrality; issue of measurement in social science; elements of scientific method-concepts, theory and fact, hypothesis; research designs-descriptive, exploratory and experimental, content analysis |
Techniques of data collection and analysis |
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| Participant and Quasi-participant observation; interview, questionnaire and schedule case study, sampling-size, reliability and validity, scaling techniques-social distance and Likert scale |
Pioneering contributions to sociology |
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| Karl Marx: Historical materialism, alienation, and class struggle |
| Emile Durkheim: Division of labour, social fact, religion and society, suicide |
| Max Weber: Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism |
| Talcott Parsons: Social system, pattern variables |
| Robert K. Merton: Latent and manifest functions, anomie, conformity and deviance, reference groups |
Marriage and family |
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| Types and forms of marriage; family-structure and function; personality and socialization; social control; family, lineage, descent and property; changing structure of family and marriage in modern society; divorce and its implications; role conflicts |
Social stratification |
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| Concepts-hierarchy, inequality, and stratification; theories of stratification-Marx, Davis and Moore and Melvin Tumin’s critique; forms and functions; class different conceptions of class; class-in-itself and class-for-itself; caste and class |
| Caste as a class |
Social mobility |
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| Types of mobility-open and closed models; intra-and intergenerational mobility; vertical and horizontal mobility; social mobility and social change |
Economic system |
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| Sociological dimensions of economic life; the impact of economic processes on the larger society; social aspects of division of labour and types of exchange; features of pre-industrial and industrial economic system; industrialisation and social change |
| Social determinants of economic development |
Political system |
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| The nature of power-personal power, community power, power of the elite, class power, organisational power, power of the un-organised masses; authority and legitimacy; pressure groups and political parties; voting behaviour |
| Modes of political participation-democratic and authoritarian forms |
Educational system |
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| Education and culture; equality of educational opportunity; social aspects of mass education; problems of universalisation of primary education; role of community and state intervention in education |
| Education as an instrument of social control and social change; education and modernisation |
Religion |
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| Origins of religious beliefs in pre-modern societies; the sacred and the profane; social functions and dysfunctions of religion; monistic and pluralistic religion; organised and unorganised religions; semitism and anti semitism; religion, sect and cults |
| Magic, religion, and science |
Social change and gender issues |
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| Social construction of gender, equality vs. differences, impact of globalization on women, emergence of feminist thought, gender issues |
Historical moorings of the Indian Society |
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| Traditional Hindu social organisation; socio-cultural dynamics through the ages; impact of Buddhism, Islam, and the west, factors in continuity and change |
Caste system |
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| Origin of the caste system; cultural and structural views about caste; mobility in caste; caste among Muslims and Christians; change and persistence of caste in modern India; issues of equality and social justice; views of Gandhi and Ambedkar on caste |
| Caste on and Indian polity; backward classes movement; Mandal Commission report and issues of social backwardness and social justice; emergence of Dalit consciousness, backward caste movement |
Class structure |
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| Class structure in India, agrarian and industrial class structure; emergence of middle class; emergence of classes among tribes; elite formation in India |
Marriage, family, and kinship |
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| Marriage among different religious and tribal groups, its changing trends and its future; family-its structural and functional aspects-its changing forms; regional variations in kinship systems and its socio-cultural correlates |
| Impact of legislation and socioeconomic change on marriage and family; generation gap |
Agrarian social structure |
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| Peasant society and agrarian systems; land tenure systems-historical perspectives, social consequences of land reforms and green revolution; feudalism-semi-feudalism debates; emerging agrarian class structure; peasant movements |
Industry and society |
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| Path of industrialisation, occupational diversification, trade unions and human relations; market economy and its social consequences; economic reforms liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation |
Political processes |
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| Working of the democratic political system in a traditional society; political parties and their social base; social structural origins of political elites and their orientations; regionalism, pluralism and national unity; decentralisation of power |
| Panchayati Raj and Nagarpalikas and 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments |
Education |
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| Directive principles of state policy and primary education; educational inequality and change; education and social mobility; the role of community and state intervention in education; universalisation of primary education; total literacy campaigns |
| Educational problems of disadvantaged groups |
Religion and society |
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| Size, growth, and regional distribution of different religious groups; educational levels of different groups; problems of religious minorities; communal tensions; secularism; conversions; religious fundamentalism, religious reform movements |
Tribal societies |
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| Distinctive features of tribal communities and their geographical spread; problems of tribal communities-land alienation, health and nutrition, education; tribal development efforts after independence; tribal policy-isolation, assimilation and integration |
| Issues of tribal identity |
Social change and development |
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| Endogenous and exogenous sources of change and resistance to change; processes of change-Sanskritization and modernisation; agents of change-mass media, education and communication; problems of change and modernisation |
| Structural contradictions and breakdowns; migration, determinants and consequences of population growth, population policy and family welfare programmes, child welfare programmes |
Major social issues |
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| Poverty, indebtedness, bonded labour, unemployment, depletion of forests, development related displacement, corruption, alcoholism, AIDS, drug addiction, violence against women, dowry |
| Child labour; maternal and infant mortality rate in Odisha |
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 |
| Convergence of a sequence of random variables in distribution and in probability almost everywhere, their criteria and inter-relations, Borel Cantelli lemma, Chebyshev’s and Khintchine's weak law of large numbers |
| Strong law of large numbers and Kolmogorov’s theorem, Glivenko-Cantelli theorem |
Probability generating function |
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| Characteristic function, inversion theorem, Laplace transform, determination of distribution by its characteristic function, Lindberg and Levy forms of central limit theorem, standard discrete and continuous probability distributions |
| Their inter-relations and limiting cases |
| Bernoulli, Binomial, negative binomial, Poisson, normal, Cauchy, beta, and gamma, exponential family of distributions and their properties |
Linear statistical models |
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| Theory of least squares and analysis of variance, Gauss-Markov theorem, normal equations, least squares estimates and their properties, test of significance and interval estimates based on least squares theory in one-way |
| Two-way and three-way classified data, regression analysis, linear regression, curvilinear regression and orthogonal polynomials, multiple regression, multiple and partial correlations, estimation of variance and covariance components, MINQUE theory |
Multivariate normal distribution |
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| Marginal and conditional distributions, distributions of linear and quadratic functions of multivariate normal, Independence of the distribution of quadratic functions |
| Wishart distribution, Mahalanobis D2 and Hotelling’s T2 statistics and their applications and properties, discriminant analysis, canonical correlations, principal component analysis, elements of factor analysis |
Consistency |
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| Unbiasedness, efficiency, sufficiency, minimal sufficiency, completeness, ancillary statistic, factorization theorem, derivation of sufficient statistics for the exponential family of distribution, uniformly minimum variance unbiased (UMVU) estimation |
| Rao-Blackwell and Lehmann-Scheffe theorems, Cramer-Rao inequality for single and several-parameter family of distributions, minimum variance bound estimator and its properties, Chapman-Robbins inequality, Bhattacharya’s bounds |
| Estimation by methods of moments, maximum likelihood, least squares, minimum chi-square and modified minimum chi-square, properties of maximum likelihood estimator, idea of asymptotic efficiency, loss and risk functions |
| Idea of prior and posterior distributions, Bayes’ and minimax estimators |
Non-randomised and randomised tests |
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| Critical functions, MP tests, Neyman-Pearson lemma, UMP tests, monotone likelihood ratio, generalised Neyman-Pearson lemma, similar regions and unbiased tests, UMPU tests for single and several-parameter families of distributions |
| Likelihood ratio and its large sample properties, chi-square goodness of fit test and its asymptotic distribution |
| Confidence bounds and its relation with tests |
| Kolmogorov’s test for goodness of fit and its consistency, sign test, Wilcoxon signed rank test and their consistency, Kolmogorov-Smirnov two-sample test, run test, Wilcoxon Mann-Whitney U-test and median test, their consistency and asymptotic normality |
| Wald’s SPRT and its properties, OC and ASN functions, Wald’s fundamental identity, application to Binomial, Poisson, and normal distributions only |
An outline of fixed-population and super-population approaches |
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| Distinctive features of finite population sampling, sampling designs, simple random sampling with and without replacement, stratified random sampling, systematic sampling and its efficiency for structural populations, cluster sampling |
| Two-stage and three-stage sampling, ratio, product and regression methods of estimation involving one or more auxiliary variables, two-phase sampling, probability proportional to size sampling with and without replacement |
| The Hansen-Hurwitz and the Horvitz-Thompson estimators, non-negative variance estimation with reference to the Horvitz-Thompson estimator, non-sampling errors, Warner’s randomised response technique |
| Fixed effect model (one-way and two-way classification), random and mixed effect models (one-way and two-way classification), basic principles of design, CRD, RBD, LSD and their analyses and efficiencies, missing plot technique |
| Factorial designs: 2n, 3, and 3₃, confounding in factorial experiments, split-plot, strip-plot and simple lattice designs, incomplete block designs, concepts of orthogonality and balance, BIBD |
Process and product control |
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| General theory of control charts, different types of control charts for variables and attributes, concept of 3s limits, X , R, s, p, np, and c charts, cumulative sum chart, V-mask |
| 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-Romig table |
Concepts of reliability |
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| Maintainability and availability, reliability of series and parallel systems, hazard functions, IFR and DFR distributions survival models (exponential, Weibull, lognormal, Rayleigh, and bathtub), problems in life-testing |
| Censored and truncated experiments for exponential models |
Concept of time series |
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| Additive and multiplicative models, determination of trend, seasonal, cyclical and random components, box-Jenkins method, tests for stationery of 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 price index number |
| Index numbers of agricultural and industrial production, test for index numbers like proportionality test, time-reversal test, factor-reversal test, circular test and dimensional invariance test |
| General linear model, ordinary least squares and generalised least squares methods of estimation, problem of multicollinearity, consequences and solutions of multicollinearity, autocorrelation and its consequences |
| Heteroscedasticity of disturbances and its testing, test for independence of disturbances |
Present official statistical system in India relating to population |
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| Agriculture, industrial production, trade and prices, methods of collection of official statistics, their reliability and limitation and the principal publications containing such statistics |
| Various official agencies responsible for data collection and their main functions |
Different types of models in operational research |
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| Their construction and general methods of solution, simulation and Monte-Carlo methods, the structure and 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, 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 |
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| Storage models with particular reference to dam type |
| Homogeneous discrete-time Markov chains, simple properties of finite Markov chains, transition probability matrix, classification of states and ergodic theorems, homogeneous continuous-time Markov chains, Poisson process, elements of queueing theory |
| M/ M/ 1, G/ M/ 1 and M/ G/ 1 queues |
Demographic data from census |
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| Registration, NSS and other surveys, and their limitations and uses; definition, construction and uses of vital rates and ratios, measures of fertility, reproduction rates, morbidity rate, standardized death rate, Infant mortality rate, nuptiality |
| Complete and abridged life tables, construction of life tables from vital statistics and census returns, uses of life tables, logistic and other population growth curves, fitting of a logistic curve, population projection |
| Stable population Quasi-stable population techniques in estimation of demographic parameters, morbidity and its measurement, standard classification by cause of death, health surveys and use of hospital statistics, health statistics |
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 of test scores and its determination, use of factor analysis and path analysis in psychometry |
Non-chordata |
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| General features: General organization and classification if invertebrates (up to order); origin of metazoa; origin of coelom acoelomate, pseudocoelomate and coelomate, protostomes and deuterostomes; symmetry in animals |
| Protozoa: Locomotion, nutrition and reproduction in protozoa; parasitic protozoa; life history of paramecium, monocystis, plasmodium and trypanosoma |
| Porifera: Canal system; skeleton; reproduction in sponges |
| Coelenterata: Polymorphism in coelenterata; coral and coral reefs; structure and life history of obelia and aurelia |
| Helminthes: Structure and life history of fasciola, taenia, and ascaris; parasitic adaptations |
Non chordata |
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| Annelida: Metamerism; coelom; segmental organs; structure and life history of nereis, earthworm and leech; excretory and nervous system of annelida |
| Arthropoda: Structure and affinities of peripatus; structure and life history of palaemon, scorpion and cockroach; larval forms and parasitism in crustacea; vision in insects; respiration in arthropoda; mouth parts of insects |
| Mollusca: Foot and respiration in mollusca; torsion and detorsion in gastropoda; structure and life history of pila, sepia, unio |
| Echinodermata: Water vascular system; larval forms and their phylogenetic significance; life history of asterias |
Chordata |
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| General features: General organization and classification of chordata up to order; origin of chordata |
| Protochordata: Salient features and affinities of protochordate groups (hemichordata, cephalochordata, and urochordata) |
| Cyclostomes and pisces: Structure and affinities of cyclostomes and dipnoi; lateral line receptors; accessory respiratory structures; scales; migration in fishes; general features of scoliodon and anabas |
| Amphibia: Origin and evolution of amphibia; neoteny; parental care; structural peculiarities and affinities of urodela and apoda |
| Reptiles: Origin of reptiles; adaptive radiation; skull types; poisonous and nonpoisonous snakes of india; mechanism of snake bite; venom composition and mode of action; sphenodon |
| Aves: Origin of birds; flight adaptation; migration; palate; flightless birds |
| Mammals: Origin of mammals; dentition; aquatic mammals; prototheria and metatheria |
| Comparative anatomy: Origin and evolution of aortic arches, heart, brain, kidney, skin and endocrine glands (pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal and gonads) in different vertebrate groups |
Ecology |
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| Concept and components of ecosystem (energy flow, food chain, food web, ecological pyramids and productivity); abiotic factors (soil, light, and temperature); biotic factors; biogeochemical cycles (carbon, nitrogen, and sulphur) |
| Ecological niche; biotic community; concept of population, ecological succession; pollution of air, water and soil, global warming; ozone layer depletion; acid rain |
Biodiversity |
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| Types of biodiversity (á, â and ã); mega biodiversity countries; biodiversity indices; key stone species; biodiversity conservation (in-situ and ex-situ); germplasm conservation; intellectual property rights and patents; biodiversity hotspots in India |
| Resource management; wildlife and its management; endangered species; wildlife in Odisha |
Ethology |
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| Concept and method of studying animal behaviour; role of hypothalamus, hormones and pheromones in regulation of behaviour; physiological basis of behavior; types and mechanism of learning; biochemical basis of memory |
| Social behaviour in insects and primates, biological clock; courtship, mating and parental care; orientation; navigation; homing and migration; tidal, seasonal and circadian systems |
Economic zoology |
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| Apiculture; sericulture; lac culture; induced breeding and carp culture; pearl culture; fresh water prawn culture; insect and rodent pests of crops and stored grains and their control |
| Major infectious and communicable diseases (malaria, tuberculosis, cholera, plague, AIDS), their vectors, pathogens and prevention; helminth parasites in man |
Biostatistics |
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| Methods of sampling; graphical representation of data; measurement of central tendency; standard deviation; standard error; probability distributions (binomial, Poisson, and normal); null hypothesis; tests of significance (x2-, t- and F Test) |
| Simple correlation; regression |
Instrumentation |
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| Basic principles and applications of light microscope and electron microscope (TEM and SEM) electrophoresis; chromatography; colorimetry; autoradiography, flame photometry, GM counter, scintillation counter; immuno electrophoresis and immunoblotting |
Cell biology |
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| Ultrastructure of animal cell; cell cycle; ultra structure and function of cell organelles (plasma membrane, mitochondria, golgi complex, endoplasmic reticulum, ribosome, lysosome and nucleus); organisation of eukaryotic chromosomes |
| Cell division-mitosis and meiosis; spindle and mitotic apparatus; chromosome movement; cancer cells |
Genetics |
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| Gene structure and function; Watson-Crick model; DNA replication; mechanism of gene regulation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes; types of RNA; genetic code and Wobble hypothesis; protein synthesis; molecular basis of mutation |
| Mendel’s laws of inheritance; linkage and linkage maps; crossing over; sex chromosomes; sex determination, sex-linked inheritance; structural rearrangements; interaction of genes; multiple factor inheritance; human genetics-normal and abnormal karyotypes |
| Genes and diseases |
Evolution |
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| Origin of life; evidences and theories of organic evolution (Darwinism, Lamarckism); natural selection; synthetic theory of evolution; Hardy-Weinberg law; genetic drift; mimicry, role of mutation and isolation in evolution |
| Fossilization and dating of fossils; evolution of horse, elephant and camel; ancestry of man |
Systematics |
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| Species concept; principles of classification; biological nomenclature; international code of zoological nomenclature (ICZN); importance of anatomy, cytology, biochemistry, and physiology in taxonomy; molecular taxonomy and numerical taxonomy |
| Theories of distribution of animals; zoogeographical realms of the world |
Molecular biology and biotechnology |
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| Recombinant DNA, restriction endonucleases, cloning technology: Plasmids, cosmids and phagemids as cloning vectors; c-DNA; DNA sequencing, RAPD, RFLP analysis and human genome project; polymerase chain reaction and DNA fingerprinting; signal transduction |
| Biotechnology in the welfare of human race; gene library; production of transgenic animals and genetically modified organisms; application of biotechnology in medicine, waste management and food production |
| Industrial biotechnology and production of biopharmaceuticals; gene therapy and new age medicines |
Biochemistry |
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| Structure of carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids; saturated and unsaturated fatty acids; cholesterol; glycolysis; Krebs cycle; electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation; cyclic AMP, its structure and role |
| Classification of enzymes, enzyme action and kinetics; vitamins; coenzymes; membrane structure and function, pH and buffers, Henderson-Hasselbalch equation; thermodynamics and living processes, ATP and bioenergetics |
Physiology and endocrinology |
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| Composition of blood; pigments of respiration; blood coagulation; blood groups; O and CO transport; cardiac cycle; breathing and its regulation; structure of nephron; urine formation; acid-base balance; structure of neuron |
| Conduction of impulse through the axon and synapse; neurotransmitters; mechanism of vision and hearing; structure and mechanism of contraction of skeletal muscles; digestion and absorption of principal food stuff |
| Function of pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pancreas, and gonads; pheromones in insects and mammals; biosynthesis, regulation of secretion and mechanism of action of steroid and peptide hormones, hormones of G-I tract; neuropeptides |
| Physiology of reproduction and artificial insemination; homeostasis |
Developmental biology |
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| Ultra structure of gametes; gametogenesis; types of eggs; fertilization; cleavage; gastrulation and fate maps of frog and chick; mammalian placenta and its function |
| Organizer concept, organogenesis of central nervous system, heart and kidney in vertebrates; stem cells and mechanism of differentiation; morphogenesis and morphogen, genetic regulation of development; homeotic genes; ageing |
| Cell death and programmed cell death; metamorphosis in frog and insects-cellular, biochemical and physiological features; regeneration; blastogenesis; in-vitro fertilization and embryo transfer |
Microbiology |
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| Structure of prokaryotes, cellular organization of bacteria; bacterial cell wall; classification of bacteria; bacterial transformation, transduction, conjugation, transfection; antibiotics and their mode of action; structure, classification |
| Molecular architecture of virus (TMV, T4 and e-virus); lysogeny and lytic phages; bacterial and viral diseases |
| Immunology: Innate and acquired immunity; antigen antibody interaction; types of antibody; primary and secondary immunity, B and T cells |
| Humoral and cell-mediated immune response; hypersensitivity, autoimmunity and autoimmune diseases, transplantation immunology; vaccines and their preparation; immunobiology of cancer |
OPSC, the state-centric exam conducting authority has formulated the exam pattern of OPSC Civil service preliminary exam 2023.
OPSC Preliminary exam pattern 2023
Components | Details |
Mode of exam | Offline (Paper-Based exam) |
Number of Papers | 2 (Paper- I and Paper-II) |
Name of Papers | General Studies |
Type of Questions | Multiple Choice Questions |
Total marks allotted | 400 (200 marks in each paper) |
Total Duration | 4 hours (2 hours for each paper) |
Scoring Scheme | 33 per cent need to be scored on Paper-II to get paper-I evaluated |
In the preliminary exam, 1/ 4 marks would be deducted for each incorrect response to the multiple-choice questions. there is no penalty against unanswered questions.
OPSC, the exam conducting authority has formulated the exam pattern of OPSC Civil service main exam. The OPSC main exam is a subjective exam and will comprise five compulsory papers, namely,
The mode of the main OPSC examination is strictly offline (paper-based exam) and will consist of four optional papers as well ( Paper VI, VII, VIII and IX) - 1200 marks. Two subjects can be chosen by the test takers from the stipulated list of subjects provided by the authority. Each subject will be composed of two papers and each paper carrying 300 marks each.
Odisha Civil Services Examination admit card will be issued by Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC). It is issued only to the candidates who have successfully registered for the examination. The admit card of OCSE exam is referred to as admission certificate as well. It is a mandate for all prospective test takers to carry the OPSC admit card of preliminary examination on the day of the test.
Odisha Civil Services Examination admit card will be issued by Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC). It will be issued only to candidates who will qualify the OCSE preliminary examination. It is a must for all prospective test takers to carry the OPSC admit card for main examination on the day of the test.
| State | City |
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| Odisha | Balasore |
| Berhampur | |
| Bhubaneswar | |
| Cuttack | |
| Sambalpur |
Odisha Public Service Commission will release the answer key of OPSC preliminary exam after the completion of the exam. Test takers will be able to check their answers as marked in the exam with the officially OPSC 2023 answer key released by the conducting authority. According to the marking scheme, the preliminary exam is composed of two papers; General studies 1 and General studies 2. Each paper of the preliminary exam comprises 200 marks each.
Odisha Public Service Commission will release the answer key of the main examination after the completion of the main exam. OPSC answer key 2023 will be available for all the test booklets. Test takers will be able to check their answers as marked in the exam with the official OPSC 2023 answer key released by the conducting authority. According to the marking scheme, the main exam OPSC 2023 will have two papers; compulsory and optional papers carrying 1400 and 1200 marks respectively.
The exam authority will declare the result of each stage separately. Only those candidates who qualify in the prelims exam are eligible to appear for the main exam. The result of OPSC will be available in the online mode on the official website of OPSC. Candidates whose name get displayed on the list have qualified for the next phase. Candidates should note that the scores for prelims will not be included to calculate the final scores. The final merit of the candidate will be determined by the candidates' performance in the mains exam and the personal interview round.
The result of OPSC 2023 Main Exam will be declared after the exam gets conducted. The result of OPSC 2023 mains will be available in the online mode on the official website of OPSC. Candidates will receive a scorecard which in turn needs to be produced in the interview session. The final merit of the candidate will be determined by the candidates' performance in the main exam and the personal interview round.
After the result declaration of OPSC Main examination, the qualified candidates need to appear for yet another round, namely Personality Test or Interview. The objective of the 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. The weightage/score of this round is 250. For the selection of a candidate, the cumulative scores of all the tests would be considered.
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Hi Bibhas,
NIT MCA Common Entrance Test (NIMCET), is the national level entrance exam conducted every year by one of the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) for taking admissions on merit basis to Master of Computer Applications (MCA) programme.
This exam works across the NITs located in Agartala, Allahabad, Kurukshetra, Calicut, Raipur, Warangal, Surathkal, Durgapur, Trichy, Jamshedpur, Bhopal and Kurukshetra.
The application form of NIMCET 2020 will be released soon through which the candidates can fill the form and appear in the entrance exam. NIMCET admit card will also be released to be downloaded by candidates. The exam will be conducted in offline mode and the result of the same will be declared on the official website of NIMCET 2020.
Total 809 seats are available and duration of exam is 2 hours.
NOTE:- NIMCET scores are used by many other universities and institutes for admissions to the MCA programmes offered by them.
You may refer to the source article for more information about NIMCET 2020 Exam.
I hope this information helps you.
Good Luck!
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