Panchayath Development Officer Syllabus : www.kpsc.kar.nic.in Karnataka Public Service Commission
Panchayath Development Officer Syllabus
General Knowledge
a. Constitution of India
b. Indian History and culture, with particular reference to Karnataka
c. General and Economic Geography of India, with particular reference to Karnataka
d. Current events
e. every day science and such matters of every day observation
General English
a. English grammar,
b. vocabulary,
c. spelling,
d. synonyms,
e. antonyms,
f. power to understand and comprehend English language and ability to discriminate between correct and incorrect usage,
Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Knowledge
1. Constitution Amendment to Article 73 and 74
2. History of Karnataka Panchayat Raj
3. Constitution of Grama Panchayats, Powers and duties of Grama Panchayat Adhyaksha and Upadhyaksha
4. Duties of Gram Panchayat
5. Financial Resources of Gram panchayat
6. Staff of Grama Panchayats and duties
7. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and Scheme
8. Total Sanitation Campaign
9. Government Housing Schemes ( Ashraya, Ambedkar, Indira Avas Yojane)
Computer Literacy: Area Concept Specific item
A. Computer Concepts Parts of a Computer, Peripherals and their function Computer Applications Security Internet Basics Storage, processor, display, mouse, ports, CD Drive, rpinter and scanner Email, Packaged Applications, Customized Applications Passwords, Virus, Backup Accessing the Internet Search Engines
B. MS Excel Basic Operations and handling text Opening and saving, entering and editing data, copying and moving data,insertving and deleting rows and columns, merging cells Addition, subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Average, decimals, currency, Handling Numbers: Simple arithmetic operations and formatting Handling Dates Page Formatting, Setup and Printing percentage Formatting and creating series Selecting Print area, setting Margins and adjusting size
C. MS Word Basic Operations Text Formatting Page Formatting, Setup and Printing Enhancing documents Opening and saving, copying and moving, finding and replacing Using Formatting Toolbar for Bold, Italics, text orientation, selecting fontsize, colour, tupe and styles Bullets and Paragraphs Margins and Page Breaks Inserting objects, hyperlinks and tables
D. MS Powerpoint Basic Operations Slide Layouts, Master Slide Enhancing slides Printing Slides and Handouts Opening, entering and formatting text in different parts of a slide and saving Creating and applying a Master layout, changing theme and background Inserting objects, Animation and Creating a Slide Show Adjusting number of slides per page, printing with borders
E. Applications of Computer in Government MS office, Word (operations in letter typing etc). Excel (report formatting futures etc). Power Point Presentations, Outlook express or email handlings, MS Access or Database basic concepts, emails etc.,
F. General knowledge of computer industry (like manufacturingcompanies, available main software, Famous Net Applications, Free email providers etc) .
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