Section A: Syllabus for Preliminary Examination
General Knowledge and General Science including General Knowledge of
Rajasthan – its Geography, Economy and culture:
1. Current affairs: - Current events of State, National and
International importance. National & International agencies and their
activities. Games & Sports at State, National and International levels
2. History & Culture: - Land Marks in the political and
cultural history of India. Major monuments and literary works. Renaissance,
struggle for freedom and national integration. History & Culture of
Rajasthan with special reference to:-
(a) The
medieval background.
(b)
Socio-economic life and organisation.
(c) Freedom
movement and political awakening.
(d)
Political integration.
(e) Dialects
and Literature.
(f) Music,
Dance & theatre.
(g)
Religious beliefs, cults, saints, poets, Warrior-saints, Lok Devtas & Lok
Deviyan.
(h)
Handicrafts.
(i) Fairs
and Festivals, Customs, Dresses, Ornaments with special reference to Folk &
tribal aspects thereof.
3. General Science: - General Science will cover General
appreciation and understanding of Science including matters of everyday
observations and experiences. Candidates are supposed to be familiar with
matters such as electronics tele-communications, Satellites and elements of computers
(both Hard & Soft Wares), research labs including CSIR managed national
labs and institutes. Environment & pollution etc.
4. Economic Developments with special reference to
Rajasthan: - Food and Commercial Crops of Rajasthan, Agriculture based
Industries, Major irrigation and River Valley Projects, Projects for the
development of the desert and waste lands. Indira Gandhi Canal Project, growth
and location of industries, Industrial raw materials. Mineral based industries,
Small scale and Cottage industries, export items Rajasthani handicrafts, Tribes
and their economy. Cooperative movement. Tourism Development in Rajasthan. Various
five years Plans: Objectives and progress. Major economic problems of Rajasthan
and obstacles for economic development . Current budget of Rajasthan and
Central Government. Economic Reforms in India and their impact. Commercial banks
and other financial institutions in Rajasthan
5. Geography
and Natural Resources:-
(I) Broad –
physical features of the world important places, rivers, mountains, continents,
oceans.
(II) Ecology
and wild – life of India.
(III) Rajasthan's Physiography: Climate, vegetation and soil regions. Broad
physical divisions of Rajasthan . Human resources: problems of population,
unemployment, poverty, Drought, famine and desertification in Rajasthan.
Natural resources of Rajasthan . Mines and Minerals, forests, Land water.
Animals' resources. Wild-life and conservation . Energy problems and
conventional and non-conventional sources of Energy.
Section B: Optional Paper (Preliminary Examination)
CIVIL ENGINEERING:
(Each
portion to have roughly equal weight age)
A. ENGINEERING MATERIALS & CONSTRUCTION TECHONOLOGY
Selection of site for the construction of various types of buildings:
Planning and orientation of buildings. Bonds in masonry. Damp proof course.
Scaffolding, underpinning and ranking. Floors. Staircases. Roofs. Doors and
Windows. Requirements of fire protection. Ventilation and air conditioning and
acoustics. Building and highway materials and their IS codal provisions.
Stones, Bricks, timber, Lime, Cement, Mortar, Plain and reinforced Cement
Concrete, Bitumen, Asphalt.
B. SURVEYING
Generally adopted Scales, Chain and Compass surveying ; Leveling ;
temporary and permanent adjustments of levels and Theodolite. Use of
Theodolite, tacheometry, Trigonometrical and Triangulation survey. Traversing
and Traverse Adjustment, Contours and contouring, Simple Circular Compound and
Transition Curves and their setting out, Theory of erros and survey adjustment.
Computations of areas and volumes.
C. SOIL/ GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEEING
Classification of soil as per I.S. code, Field identification tests for
soils; water content, specific gravity, voids ratio, porosity, degree
saturation; unit weight, density index etc. and their inter – relationship,
determinations of various properties of soils as noted above as well as grain
size distribution, consistency limits etc.
Soil permeability and its determination in the laboratory and field;
Darcy's law, Flow nets, its Characteristics and uses.
Compaction and consolidation of soil. Quality control, soil stabilization
methods. Boussinesq's methods. Newmark's chart and its uses.
Shear strength parameters and their determination Bearing capacity, local
and general shear failures, design Criteria for shallow foundation, Plate load
test and standerd penetration test. Earth pressures on retaining wall.
Stability of simple slopes. Significant depth of exploration, design features
of undisturbed sampler.
D. STRUCTURAL MECHANICS
Stress and strains, elastic constants, factor of safety, relation among
elastic constants. Bending moment and shear force diagrams for cantilever,
simply supported and overhanging, fixed and continuous beams subjected to
static loads :- concentrated, uniformly distributed and uniformly varying.
Theory of simple bending. Shear Stress, Influence lines.
Deflection of cantilever, simply supported fixed and continuous beams.
Determinate and Indeterminate structures and frames pin jointed, Plane and
space frames.
E. STEEL STRUCTURES
Design of ordinary and plate girder beams, roof trusses welded joints,
axially and eccentrically loaded columns, and Grillage, Gusseted and slab base
foundations. Provisions of IS: 800 and 875. Economic span of bridges.
F. REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES
Provisions of latest IS : 456, design of beams singly and doubly
reinforced, design of shear reinforcement. Design of slabs spanning in two
directions and T-beam slabs. Design of column axially and uniaxially
eccentrically loaded. Design of isolated and combined column footings :
Design of simple RCC cantilever and counterfort retaining walls.
Reinforcement in overhead and underground water tanks.
G. FLUID MECHANICS INCLUDING HYDROLOGY AND IRRIGATION
Hydraulic pressure at a point and its measurement. Total pressure and
centre of pressure on plane and curved immensed surfaces, Buoyancy. conditions
of equilibrium of floating bodies; fluid flow conditions, Bernoulli's,
Navier-Stokes, Reynold's equations, flow through orifices venturimeter, notches
and wires, flow through pipes and open channels, Gradually and rapidly varied
flow, Dimensional analysis, Momentum and angular momentum principles as applied
to fluid in a control volume, applications of jets, Viscous flow, concept of
drag, flow through pipes.
Engineering hydrology; Hydrology of floods and drought reservoirs and dams;
overflow structures, ground water hydrology. Irrigation: canals, Kennedy's
Lacey's theories, Khosla's theories for design of hydraulic structures. Ground
water and well irrigation, water logging.
H. PUBLIC HEALTH ENGINEERING
Per capita requirement of water for urban and rural areas, Forecast of
population. Sources. Water supply standards of purity of public water supplies
with various methods of purification; House drainage system Distribution
network with all the ancillaries: system of drainage. Layout of sewerage
systems. Primary, secondary treatments, trickling filters, lagoons and other
treatment units and their design criteria. Flushing of sewers; sewage
treatment; rural water supply and sanitation.
I. HIGHWAY AND BRIDGES
Principles of highway planning; classification of road land width, building
line, center line, formation width, terrain classification, pavement width,
Camber, longitudinal gradient sight distance, horizontal curve, super
elevation, vertical curve, lateral and vertical clearances.
Flexible pavements. Sub-base, base course and shoulder stone / Kankar brick
soling, WBM courses, shoulders. Granular sub-base, stabilized soil roads cement
/ lime stabilized sub base, sand bitumen base course, crushed cement concrete
base/sub-base course.
Prime and tack coats, surface dressing, open graded premix carpet, semi
dense carpet, build-up spray grout base course, bituminous base binder course.
Asphaltic concrete, seal coats, mixed seal surfacing. Penetration macadam
base/binder course, full and semi groups.
Traffic Engineering : traffic characteristics, road user characteristics,
vehicular characteristics, volume, speed and delay studies origin and
destination study, traffic flow characteristics, traffic capacity and parking
studies, traffic regulation, traffic control devices, Intersection control.
Alignment: traffic engineering, pavem design, paving materials and highway
construction and maintenance of different types of roads. Need for highway
drainage and arboriculture, types of bridges: choice of type of bridge, economic
considerations of fixing spans culverts.
