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[QUOTE=ijt.Ranjani;315385][B][U]Organisation [/U][/B]: Meghalaya Public Service Commission
[B][U]Announcement [/U][/B]: Syllabus 
[B][U]Designation [/U][/B]: Forest Ranger

[B][U]Download Syllabus [/U][/B]: [URL]http://www.indianjobtalks.com/uploads/75760-Forest-Ranger.pdf[/URL]
[B][U]Home Page [/U][/B]: [URL]http://www.mpsc.nic.in/mpsc/index.jsp[/URL]

[B][U]Forest Ranger Exam Syllabus [/U][/B]:
[B]Paper - I :[/B]
[B]Section A  :[/B]
[B][U]Soil and Water Conservation [/U][/B]:   
**  Scope of soil and water conservation.  
**  Mechanics and types of erosion, their causes.  
**  Rainfall, runoff and sedimentation relationships and their measurement.

**  Soil erosion control measures - biological and engineering including stream bank protection-vegetative barriers, contour buds, contour trenches, contour stone walls, contour ditches, terraces, outlets and grassed waterways.  
**  Gully control structures - temporary and permanent - design of permanent soil conservation structures such as chute, drop and drop inlet spillways.

**  Design of farm ponds and percolation ponds.  
**  Principles of flood control-flood routing.  
**  Watershed Management - investigation, planning and implementation - selection of priority areas and water shed work plan, water harvesting and moisture conservation.

**  Land development - leveling, estimation of earth volumes and costing.  
**  Wind Erosion process - design for shelter belts and wind brakes and their management.  
**  Forest (Conservation) Act

[B][U]Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing [/U][/B]:   
**  Basic characteristics of photographic images, interpretation keys, equipment for interpretation, imagery interpretation for land use, geology, soil and forestry. 
**  Remote sensing - merits and demerits of conventional and remote sensing approaches.

**  Types of satellite images, fundamentals of satellite image interpretation, techniques of visual and digital interpretations for soil, water and land use management.  
**  Use of GIS in planning and development of watersheds, forests including forest cover, water resources etc.

[B][U]Section B [/U][/B]:  
[B][U]Irrigation and Drainage [/U][/B]:  
**  Sources of water for irrigation.  
**  Planning and design of minor irrigation projects. 
**  Techniques of measuring soil moisture - laboratory and in situ, Soil-water plant relationships.

**  Water requirement of crops.  
**  Planning conjunctive use of surface and ground weather.  
**  Measurement of irrigation water, measuring devices - orifices, weirs and flumes. Methods of irrigation - surface, sprinkler and drip, fertilization.

**  Irrigation efficiencies and their estimation.  
**  Design and construction of canals, field channels, underground pipelines, head gates, diversion boxes and structures for road crossing.

**  Occurrence of ground water, hydraulics of wells, types of wells (tube wells and open wells) and their construction.  
**  Well development and testing.  
**  Pumps-types, selection and installation. Rehabilitation of sick and failed wells.

**  Drainage causes of water logging and salt problem.  
**  Methods of drainage of irrigated and unirrigated lands, design of surface, subsurface and vertical drainage systems.  
**  Improvement and utilization of poor quality water.

**  Reclamation of saline and alkali soils.  
**  Economics of irrigation and drainage systems.  
**  Use of waste water for irrigation  standards of waste water for sustained irrigation, feasibility and economics.

[B][U]Agricultural Structures [/U][/B]:   
**  Site selection, design and construction of farmstead - farm house, cattle shed, dairy ban, poultry shed, hog housing, machinery and implement shed, storage structures for food grains, feed and forage.  
**  Design and construction of fences and farm roads. Structures for plant environment - green houses, poly houses and shade houses.

**  Common building materials used in construction - timber, brick, stone, tiles, concrete etc and their properties.  
**  Water supply, drainage and sanitation system.

[B]Paper – II  :[/B]
[B]Section A  :[/B]
[B][U]Farm Power and Machinery[/U][/B] :   
**  Agricultural mechanization and its scope. Sources of farm power - animate and elector-mechanical.  
**  Thermodynamics, construction and working of internal combustion engines. 
**  Fuel, ignition, lubrication, cooling and governing system of IC engines.

**  Different types of tractors and power tillers. Power transmission, ground drive, power take off (p.t.o.) and control systems.  
**  Operation and maintenance of farm machinery for primary and secondary tillage.  
**  Traction theory.

**  Sowing transplanting and inter culture implements and tools.  
**  Plant protection equipment - spraying and dusting.  
**  Harvesting, threshing and combining equipment.

**  Machinery for earth moving and land development - methods and cost estimation.  
**  Ergonomics of man-machine system.  
**  Machinery for horticulture and ago-forestry, feeds and forages.  
**  Haulage of agricultural and forest produce.

[B][U]Agro-energy [/U][/B]:   
**  Energy requirements of agricultural operations and agro-processing.  
**  Selection, installation, safety and maintenance of electric motors for agricultural applications.  
**  Solar (thermal and photovoltoic), wind and bio-gas energy and their utilization in agriculture.

** Classification of biomass for running IC engines and for electric power generation.  
**  Energy efficient cooking stoves and alternate cooking fuels.  
**  Distribution of electricity for agricultural and agro-industrial applications.

[B][U]Section B [/U][/B]:  
[B][U]Agricultural Process Engineering [/U][/B]:   
**  Post harvest technology of crops and its scope.  
**  Engineering properties of agricultural produces and by-products.  
**  Unit operations - cleaning grading, size reduction, densification, concentration, drying/dehydration, evaporation, filtration, freezing and packaging of agricultural produces and by-products.

**  Material handling equipment - belt and screw conveyors, bucket elevators, their capacity and power requirement.  
**  Processing of milk and dairy products - homogenization, cream separation, pasteurization, sterilization, spray and roller drying, butter making, ice cream, cheese and shrikhand manufacture.  
**  Waste and by-product utilization - rice husk, rice bran, sugarcane bagasse, plant residues and coir pith.

[B][U]Instrumentation and computer applications in Agricultural Engineering [/U][/B]:   
**  Electronic devices and their characteristics - rectifiers, amplifiers, oscillators, multi vibrators.  
**  Digital circuits â€” sequential and combination system.  
**  Application of microprocessors in data acquisition and control of agricultural engineering processes- measurement systems for level, flow, strain, force, torque, power, pressure, vacuum and temperature.

**  Computers â€” introduction, input/output devices, central processing unit, memory devices, operating systems, processors, keyboards and printers.  
**  Algorithms, flowchart specification, programme translation and problem analysis in Agricultural Engineering. Multimedia and Audio-Visual aids.[/QUOTE]

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