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Department Of Local Self Government, Rajasthan 
राजस्थान नगर पालिका (प्रशासनिक एवं तकनिकी) व (अधीनस्थ एवं मंत्रालयिक) सेवा चयन आयोग

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Last date: February, 03rd, 2016 (12:00 Mid Night)

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1. General & OBC (Creamylayer)  - ₹ 500/_
2. Rajasthan's OBC (Non-Creamylayer) & SBC - ₹ 400/_
3. Rajasthan's ST,SC & all PH - ₹ 250/_

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Scheme of Examinations:

Examination Mode           : Online (Objective Type One Paper)

Total No. of Questions     : 120

Time duration of Exam.  : 2 Hours

Ratio of Questions             : 30% from Part-A (Non-technical) & 70% from Part-B (Technical)

Exam date : in APRIL, 2016.

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Syllabus of Examination for the Assistant Engineer  (SWM /Civil/Electrical/Mechanical)  

PART - A

1. Hindi

2. English
*  Tenses/Sequence of Tenses.
* Voice : Active and Passive.
* Narration : Direct and Indirect.
* Transformation of Sentences : Assertive to Negative, Interrogative, Exclamatory and vice-versa.
* Use of Articles and Determiners.
* Use of Prepositions.
* Translation of Simple (Ordinary/Common) Sentences from Hindi to English and vice-versa.
*  Correction of sentences including subject, Verb, Agreement, Degrees of Adjectives, connectives and words wrongly used.
* Glossary of official, Technical Terms (with their Hindi Versions).
 * Synonyms.
* Antonyms.
* One word substitution.
* Forming new words by using prefixes and suffixes.
* Confusable words.
* Comprehension of a given passage.
*  Knowledge of writing letters : Official, Demi Official, Circulars and Notices, Tenders.
Paper - 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 organization.
(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.

Reasoning & Mental Ability

Logical Reasoning (Deductive, Inductive, Abductive):
* Statement and Assumptions, Statement and Argument, Statements and of Action. * *Analytical Reasoning.
 Mental Ability :
*  Number series, Letter series, Odd man out, Coding Conclusion, Courses Decoding, Problems relating to Relations, Shapes and their sub sections.
Basic Numeracy :
*  Elementary knowledge of Mathematical and Sta tistical Analysis.
* Number System, Order of Magnitude, Ratio and Proportion, Percentage, Simple and Compound  Interest, Data Analysis (Tables, Bar diagram, Line graph, Piechart).

Syllabus  of  Competitive Examination for the Assistant Engineer

PART - B 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, 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, economical considerations of fixing spans culverts.

PART-B ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

1. Electrical Circuits: Circuit components, KCL and KVL, network graphs, Methods of circuit analysis, Nodal and Mesh analysis, Analysis of D.C. and A.C. networks. Network theorems: Basic network theorems and applications. Network Functions: Driving point and transfer functions, poles and zeros of network functions. Response of networks to standard input signals. Two-port networks, Elementary network synthesis, different type of network parameters, signal flow graphs, Fourier series, Laplace transforms and their applications. Frequency response, Resonant circuits and applications. Threephase balanced and unbalanced networks. Steady state response with sinusoidal input. Transient response: Transient analysis of RL, RC and RLC circuits.
2. Field Theory: Electrostatic and Magnetostatics : Electrostatics and electrical fields, Magnetostatics and magnetic fields, Field in conductors and in magnetic materials, field in dielectrics, Maxwell's equations and time varying fields. Electromagnetic wave equations. Plane wave propagation in conducting and dielectric media.
3. Electrical Materials: Classification of materials on the basis of permanent magnetic dipoles, Electrical and electronic behaviour of materials, classification on the basis of conductivity. Behaviour of dielectrics in static and alternating fields. Phenomenon of polarization. Super conductivity. Applications of magnetic, conducting, dielectric and insulating materials.
4. Electrical Measurement and Instrumentation: General principles of measurement : Unit and dimensions. Standards error analysis, Basic methods of measurement, Measurement of circuit parameters by bridge methods. Measuring Instrument: Indicating Instruments, Integrating Instruments, Recording instruments. Measurement of voltage, current, power, power factor, energy, resistance, inductance, capacitance and frequency. Transducers : strain gauge, LVDT, resistance thermometers, thermisters, piezoelectric. Measurement of non-electrical quantities (Pressure, temperature, flow rate, displacement, velocity, acceleration, strain etc.) Digital measurements: Digital voltmeters, frequency counter, distortion meter. Telemetry and data transmission: Data recording and display, Data acquisition.
5. Electronics and Communication: Solid state (semi conductor devices) : Diodes, Zener diodes. Transistors (Bipolar, BJT, JFET, MOSFET). Biasing and their applications. Analysis of electronic circuits, equivalent circuit. Rectifier, filter and voltage regulators. Single stage and multistage amplifiers-gain and frequency response. Multivibrators, flip-flops and their applications. Digital Electronics: Switching circuits and Boolean algebra and logic gates. Memories sample and hold circuits, A/D and D/A converters. Logic circuits including DTL, TTL, ECL, MOS, CMOS, digital IC's (circuits).
Communication: generation and detection of AM and FM noise behaviour of AM and FM systems.
6. Microprocessor systems and computer: Microprocessor architectures, Instruction set and simple assembly language programming, interfacing memory and I/O devices. Applications of microprocessors. Basic layout of digital computers, input-output devices, memory organisations, algorithms, flowcharts.
7. Power Electronics: Power semiconductor devices, Thyristor, triac, GTO, MOSFET. Static characteristics and triggering circuits. A.C. to D.C. Converters, choppers. Controlled and uncontrolled power rectifiers, Bridge converters.
8. Control System: Open and closed loop systems. Block diagrams and signal flow graphs. Response analysis time domain, frequency domain; steady state error analysis. Root locus technique, bode plots, Routh-Hurwitz, and Nyquist criteria of stability. State space analysis of linear systems.
9. Electrical Machines: Construction, Principles of operation, equivalent circuits, basic characteristics and applications of Distribution and Power transformers. Single phase induction motors. Threephase induction motors. Alternators, Synchronous motors.
10. Power systems: Generation: thermal generation, Hydro generation, Nuclear Generation. Nonconventional energy sources. Transmission and Distribution. Transmission line parameters  resistance, Inductance and capacitance calculation, Performance of short, medium and long lines. Neutral earthing. Underground Cables. Corona, its effect and remedial measures. Basic idea of power system stability. Line insulators, introduction to HVDC transmission. Switchgear & protection: theories of arc extinction. Comparative merits of minimum oil, bulk oil, air blast, SF6 circuit breakers. Causes and consequences of dangerous currents. Currents limiting reactors. Busbar arrangements. Requirements of protective relays. Protection of lines, transformers, synchronous generators and busbars. Symmetrical components s and their applications.

PART-B MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

1. Theory of Machines: Kinematic pairs, Kinematic chain, Mechanism and Inversion, Slider-crank chain, Displacement, velocity and acceleration of a point in mechanism and their determination, Coriolis acceleration, Mechanisms for straight line motion. Laws of friction, brakes and dynamometers, types of gears and gears trains. Types of Governors, Governor effort and power, static & dynamic balancing, Longitudinal, transverse and torsional vibration.
2. Strength of Materials: Static stresses in machine parts, Deformation, Unit deformation (Strain), Poisson's ratio, direct stress, shear stress, principal stresses. Compound stresses, torsional stress, stress  strain relationship, bending moment and shear force diagram for beams, Laminated and coil springs, shafts, thick & thin wall pressure vessels, Concept of fatigue, fracture & creep.
3. Material Science: Crystal structure, space lattice, crystalline and amorphous solids, Coordination number, Atomic packing factor, determination of crystal structure, imperfection in crystals, mechanism of plastic deformation, work hardening, recrystalization, Heat treatment of steel, Composition, Properties and applications, Common engineering materials, corrosion, Plastics & their properties.
4. Manufacturing Processes: Moulding and casting methods, Principle of arc and gas welding, Brazing & soldering, Metal forming processes, Basic machining processes and machine tools, Hot & cold working of metals, Mechanism of metal cutting, geometry of single point cutting tool and tool materials.
5. Industrial Engineering and Management : Types of business organization, Principles of management, elements of management, organization charts, elements of costing, Break even analysis, types of budget and budgetary control, Profit & Loss account, balance sheet, motion study, time study, plant layout, material handling, CPM, PERT, Scheduling, dispatching, routing and inventory, Materials management.
6. Thermodynamics: Basic concepts of thermodynamics, Laws of thermodynamics and their application to different flow and non-flow systems, Gas power cycles and vapour power cycles.
7. Heat transfer : Conduction, convection and radiation phenomenon, Combined modes of heat transfer, Critical insulation, Fins, Non-dimensional numbers applied to heat transfer, Thermal boundary layer, Introduction to two phase heat transfer, Heat exchangers.
8. Environmental Engineering : Basic air and refrigeration cycles, Vapour compression refrigeration, Vapour absorption refrigeration, Expansion devices, Refrigerants and their properties, Psychrometric chart and psychrometric processes, Air conditioning for human comfort and comfort chart, Cooling load calculation.
9. Fluid Mechanics and trubomachines : Fluids and their properties, Kinematics and dynamics of fluid flow, dimensional analysis and similitude, Introduction to boundary layer flow, fluid flow through pipes, Flow measurements, Hydraulic pumps and turbines, Air compressors, Gas turbines and steam turbines.
10. Power Generation : SI and CI engines, Combustion phenomenon, Fuels, carburetor and injection system, High pressure modern boilers, Stream plant layout and different accessories, Hydro power plant layout, Introduction to nuclear, MHD and biogas power plants, Economics and sharing of load techniques of different plants.

Note: This syllabus can be download from department website http://cmar-india.org/DetailedNews.aspx?NewsId=23526_news

Reference books & Study material suggestion from this exam point of view:

PART - A

1. For HINDI

Book title :-  "VYAVAHARIK SAMANYA HINDI"
Author :- Dr. Raghav Prakash,
Publication :- PINK CITY PUBLISHERS, JAIPUR
ISBN :- 8187542039
MRP :- ₹ 180/_

2. For ENGLISH
Follow any English book/material of any coaching as MADEEASY, IESMASTER I.e. quiet enough for this exam syllabus point of view.

# For Rajasthan GK portion RBSE (Rajasthan board of secondary education)'s राजस्थान अध्ययन small small four books are enough, which covered in following four books as:
1.राजस्थान अध्ययन भाग - 1 (Class - 9th)

2.राजस्थान अध्ययन भाग - 2 (Class - 10th)

3.राजस्थान अध्ययन भाग - 3 (Class - 11th)

4.राजस्थान अध्ययन भाग - 4 (Class - 12th)
All above four books can be download from RBSE website - http://rajeduboard.rajasthan.gov.in/books/index.htm

Or
Follow any Rajasthan GK's reference book as "Rajasthan AAJTAK", " Rajasthan LAKSHYA" , "DHAROHAR", " DAKSHYA" etc.

 # For Rajasthan current affairs portion
 Read " Moomal "Magazine, which is publishes in every two month by MOOMAL Publication, Jaipur.

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