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Designation : Forest Ranger

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Forest Ranger Exam Syllabus :
Paper - I :
Section A :
Soil and Water Conservation :
** 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

Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing :
** 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.

Section B :
Irrigation and Drainage :
** 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.

Agricultural Structures :
** 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.

Paper – II :
Section A :
Farm Power and Machinery :
** 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.

Agro-energy :
** 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.

Section B :
Agricultural Process Engineering :
** 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.

Instrumentation and computer applications in Agricultural Engineering :
** Electronic devices and their characteristics - rectifiers, amplifiers, oscillators, multi vibrators.
** Digital circuits — 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 — 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.