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The Indian Forest Service (Probationers' Final Examination) Regulations, 1968
UNION OF INDIA
India
India
The Indian Forest Service (Probationers' Final Examination) Regulations, 1968
Rule THE-INDIAN-FOREST-SERVICE-PROBATIONERS-FINAL-EXAMINATION-REGULATIONS-1968 of 1968
- Published on 1 April 1968
- Commenced on 1 April 1968
- [This is the version of this document from 1 April 1968.]
- [Note: The original publication document is not available and this content could not be verified.]
1. Short title and commencement.
2. Definitions.
3. Final Examination.
4. [ Subjects and Syllabus for. [Substituted by D.P. & A.R. Notification No. 7/5/72-A1S (IV), dated 1st March, 1974 (w.e.f dated 6th April, 1974).]
- (A) Written and Practical Examinations, and (B) Exercises. - The subjects for written and practical examinations and exercises shall be as mentioned below namely :]| Group | Subjects | Paper | Theory | Practical | Total | Total of Group | |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| First Year | |||||||
| Forestry I (General) | 1. | Land Management and Soil Conservation | 15 | 15 | 25 | ||
| 2. | Range Management | 10 | ... | 10 | |||
| Forestry II (Core) | 3. | Silviculture | I | 25 | ... | 25 | 25 |
| Silviculture | II | 25 | ... | 25 | 85 | ||
| 4. | Mensuration | I | 20 | ... | 20 | ||
| Mensuration | II | 20 | ... | 20 | |||
| Mensuration | III | 20 | ... | 20 | |||
| Earth Sciences | 5. | Geology | 15 | 10 | 25 | 55 | |
| 6. | Soil Sciences | 20 | 10 | 30 | |||
| Physical Science | 7. | Surveying | 25 | 25 | 50 | 85 | |
| 8. | Engineering | I | 35 | ... | 35 | ||
| Biological Sciences | 9. | Botany | I | 20 | 20 | 40 | 40 |
| Forest Utilisation | 10. | Forest Utilisation | I | 35 | ... | 35 | 55 |
| Forest Utilisation | II | 20 | ... | 20 | |||
| Total | 305 | 65 | 370 | ||||
| Second Year | 20 | ... | 20 | 45 | |||
| Forestry I (General) | 1. | Wild Life Management | 10 | ... | 10 | ||
| 2. | Environmental Conservation | 15 | ... | 15 | |||
| 3. | World Forestry | 25 | ... | 25 | 200 | ||
| Forestry II (Core) | 4. | Silviculture | III | 25 | ... | 25 | |
| SilvicultureViva Vocein Silv. | IV | 30 | ... | 30 | |||
| 5. | Forest Management | 30 | ... | 30 | |||
| 6. | Working Plans | 60 | ... | 60 | |||
| 7. | Forest Economics and Valuation | 30 | ... | 30 | |||
| Forestry III | 8. | Forest Production | 15 | ... | 15 | 50 | |
| 9. | Forest Policy and Law | 15 | ... | 15 | |||
| 10. | Social Forestry | 10 | ... | 10 | |||
| 11. | Tribal Welfare | 10 | ... | 10 | |||
| Physical Science | 12. | Engineering | II | 35 | ... | 35 | 45 |
| 13. | Forest Machinery | 10 | .... | 10 | |||
| Biological Science | 14. | Botany | II | 20 | 20 | 40 | 90 |
| 15. | Zoology and Entomology | 20 | 10 | 30 | |||
| 16. | Mycology and Pathology | 15 | 5 | 20 | |||
| Forest Utilisation | 17. | Forest Utilisation | III | 30 | 10 | 40 | 70 |
| Forest Utilisation | IV | 30 | ... | 30 | |||
| Electives | 18. | GeneticsorStatisticsorEcologyorAdvancedForest BiometryorAdvanced Forest Economics and Valuationor Wildlife Management | 25 | ... | 25 | 25 | |
| Total | 420 | 105 | 525 |
| Sl. No. | Subjects | First Year | Second Year | Total |
| 1. | Study and practical work on tour | 90 | 60 | 150 |
| 2. | Botanical collections during tours | 12 | 8 | 20 |
| 3. | Engineering Plates | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| 4. | Survey Plates | 5 | ... | 5 |
| 5. | Road Alignment | ... | 15 | 15 |
| Total | 112 | 93 | 205 | |
| Grand total for examination exercises | 482 | 618 | 1100 |
5. [ Qualifying tests. [Substituted by D.P. and A.P. Notification No. 7/5/72-AIS (IV), dated 1st March, 1974.]
| (i) | First aid | 10 |
| (ii) | Weapon Training | 10 |
| (iii) | Equitation Training | 10 |
| (iv) | Regional language | 20 |
| (v) | Hindi | 20 |
| (vi) | Use and Maintenance of mechanised equipment | 20 |
| (vii) | Swimming | 10 |
| Cadre | Regional Language |
| Assam-Meghalaya | Khasi or Garo |
| Nagaland | [Nagamese in Roman Script Mizo] [Substituted by G.S.R. 640 (E), dated 27th July, 1988.] |
| Union Territories |
6. Minimum pass marks for examinations and standards of qualifying tests.
- Every probationer shall obtain in each group of subject a minimum of 50% and in the maximum aggregate 55% of the total number of marks at the written and practical examinations and exercises in the first year final examination and the second year final examination under Regulation 4 and to pass the qualifying tests conducted by the President under Regulation 5 by such standards as he may prescribe.7. [ Award of the Associate of Indian Forest College diploma. [Inserted by Notification No. 11041/2/85-AIS (III), dated 19th September, 1986.]
- Every probationer who is successful at the final examination by obtaining the minimum pass marks at the written and practical examinations and exercises and passes the qualifying tests as prescribed under Regulation 6 shall be awarded a diploma as "Associate of the Indian Forest College".]First Schedule[See Regulations 4 and 5]Part I – Syllabus for the Indian Forest Service Probationers' Final Examination
I. Written and Practical Examinations in First Year1. Land Management and Soil Conservation
Introduction. - Soil conservation, definition, scope, rule in national economy, land use pattern; historical review problems, programmes and achievements.Erosion. - Definition and extent of erosion; principles or mechanics or soil erosions; agencies of erosion, wind and water, gravity geological versus accelerated erosion; water erosion, types-splash, sheet, rill and gully; Wind erosion types of soil movements siltation, suspension gravity, factors effecting wind erosion, prediction equation.Hydrological Cycle. - Hydrological cycle and its importance; rainfall, characteristics, their measurement, intensity, duration frequency, dropsize distribution, infiltration, percolation; evaporation and transpiration; runoff, definition, measurement of runoff; calculation of runoff, peak rates of runoff, time of concentration, water resources of India and world.Soil and Water Conservation Measures. - General principles of erosion, control and land reclamation; contour cultivation, contour trenching design and layout; bunding and terracing, design, construction, maintenance; erosion control and water conservation structures like spillways, their types, design, construction and maintenance; gully control, principles of planning, safety of works, use, design and maintenance of check dams; stream bank control; torrent control, control measures in catchment and in channel, landslide, definition, extent, cansatini factors and control measures; wind erosion control, wind breaks, shelterbelts, sand dunes fixation.Soil Conservation Planning. - Government policy and legislation, need for public cooperation, multiple land use; soil conservation planning in the field; unit of planning; watershed, sub-watershed, micro-catchment, village farm; watershed management, watershed workplan, priority determination in watershed management; soil survey and capability map, preparation and problem; collection of basic information for soil conservation planning pertaining to soil, climate, landuse, crop yields, agronomic practices, engineering and forestry practices, population needs and customs, cattle census and allied details; proposed treatment dealing with watershed management practices, agronomic and forest practices, land treatment, structural measures, miscellaneous specifications, phasing of project work, provision for cost estimate, cost benefit ratio and general evaluation.Agronomic practices in soil conservation. - Contour farming, cover crops and lagumes; strip cropping; mixed and rotational cropping; composting; green manuring and mulch farming; terracing and dry land farming.Practicals. - Designing of spillways and checkdams in hilly areas; stream gauging and reservoir survey; watershed management exercise.2. Range Management
Cattle resources of India and world; fodder requirements of India; fodder resources - quantitative and qualitative; range lands or grasslands (definition); grassland types of the country and their distribution; ecological status of Indian grasslands; principles of grassland management, basic requirements of animals, plants and land, carrying capacity - definition, method of calculation, importance, conditional classification - different standard methods, work done in India, USDA (Soil Conservation Service), USDA (Forest Service), CAZRI condition classification system etc.Soil and Water Conservation Measures. - Erosion control in grasslands, contour Turrows, contour trenching, gully control; moisture conservation, basin listing, water spreading, irrigation.Grazing Management. - Controlled grazing, continuous controlled grazing, rotational grazing, deferred grazing, deferred rotational grazing.Grassland Management and Improvement - Closures. - Legal, voluntary, complete, partial/seasonal; method of effecting range protection - type of fencing with cost - stone wall fencing, barbed wire fencing, cattle proof trenches; effect of closure on forage yield, forage quality, palatability, nutritive value, forage vigour on soil and water resources; Seeding and planting, seed production, seed rates/seed weight, method of cultivation of important species, broadcast sowing, pellet sowing, seed, fertilizer rolls and aerial sowing, controlled burning, uniform grazing-entry points, weed control; need for weed control, methods of weed control-mechanical, chemical, effect of weed control; fertilizer application-dosages, methods, results in term of yield (forage) income and expenditure.Utilisation. - Silage, definition, method of preparation, storage and feeding, time of harvesting, hay, definition, methods of preparation and storage; hay banks.Tree and shrub feeds.Forest grazing. - Assessment of fodder resources, carrying capacity of forest areas, selection and introduction of shade tolerant, grasses/shrubs as under growth.Practicals. - Measurement, yield determination, botanical composition, basal area, grassland improvement plan, visit to Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi.Excursion3. Silviculture
4. Forest Measuration
5. Geology
6. Soil Science
7. Forest Surveying
8. Forest Engineering I
Building materials - Stones. - Classification, characteristics, quarrying and dressing, natural bed; bricks and tiles - suitable earth, method of manufacture, characteristics of good bricks and tiles, standard size, lime stone and surkhi - sources and classification, burning of lime stone, storing and uses of lime, bulking of sand; cement - properties, types, storing uses; mortars - definition, kinds, proportions, mixing, laying, curing, quantities needed for masonry and brick work; concrete - lime and cement concrete, essentials of good concrete, proportions, mixing, laying and curing of concrete, water-cement ratio and consistency, quantities of ingredients needed; reinforced cement concrete - principles and advantages, location of reinforcements in simple supported beams T-beams, beams, slabs, lintels, balanced cantilevered beams and slabs, columns and their bases, formwork or shuttering; finishing - proportions of lime and cement plasters, method of application and curing, pointing, proportion of ingredients, method of pointing, kinds of pointing, white washing, colour washing and distempering; timber characteristics of a good structural timber, paints and varnishes - characteristics, methods of painting timber and steel structures, wood ceiling, tarring.Building construction. - Selection of site for a forest building or forest colony, preparation of site; foundation - objects, causes of failure and precautions, foundation bed, safe bearing capacities of soils, safe loads on masonry and foundation beds, footing, width of foundation beds, thickness of concrete bed, depth of foundation bed by Rankine's rule, improving bearing power of soft soils, methods of securing safe foundations on soft soils, setting out of buildings, excavation of trenches, plinth courses precautions against termites, damp proof courses; super structure - thickness of walls, scaffoldings stone versus brick, methods of constructing mud, brick, masonry C.G.I. and wooden walls, bonds in brick work-kinds, difference between English and Flemish bonds, details of English bond at comers, junctions and intersection of 1 brick and ½ brick walls, construction of different kinds of masonry walls. Ashlar, Ashlerfaced, random and coursed rubble and dry rubble masonry and dry stone revetments; sills, lintels and arches - kinds of sills and intels and their construction, position of reinforcements in RCC lintels, uses of arches in building and their classification, names of parts, principles of construction and centerings; carpentry - principles of jointing, types of joints, lengthening, bearing and framing joints, common types of joints used in wooden floors, door leaves, roof trusses, roofs - types - sloping and flat roof, sloping roofs - single, double or purlin and trussed roofs, roof slopes, nature of stresses in roof members - wall bearing - wind filling gable and hipped roofs flat the jack arch roof, terraced and RCC flat roofs; roof coverings - thatching, country tiles roofings, Allahabad tiling, Mongalore tiling C.G.D. and sheeting, salting, flashings gutters, hips and valleys, ceilings; floors - trench and basement filling, earth floor, stone floor, tile floor, concrete and wooden floor, doors and windows, fan light, ventilator, clerestory types and sizes normally used, fittings - the frame work, types - ledged and braced batten doors, pancelled, glazed, ventilated and wire gauge doors, swing doors, of and dormer windows, sky light stairs - the stair case, types of stairs, straight, dog - legged, open wall, Newal, bifurcated and geometrical stairs, location and design of stair cases, fire places and chimneys-location, essential parts and common sizes of fire - places, chimney stack, the smokeless chullah and cooking range, lighting conductors - principle materials used, earth connections, estimating - principles and essential parts, project report, specifications, units of measurements, procedure and proformas for detailed measurements and bill of quantities for buildings, taking out quantities for simple buildings, abstracts of cost, plinth area and cube rate estimates, analysis of rates, measurement book; drawings-plan, section and elevation of small building.Strength of materials. - Introduction to stress and strain-Hook's law, Poisson ratio, elastic limit - elastic constants and their mutual relationship, ultimate strength, factor of safety and working stresses, application to timber; bending moments and shear force-definition, BM and SF diagrams, cases of simply supported beams and cantilevers carrying concentrated and uniformly distributed loads.Practicals. - Location of reinforcements in RCC lintels, beams and slabs, columns and weather shades; foundations of buildings, standard foundations and design by Rankine's formula; bonds in brickwork, English bond at comers, junctions and intersections of one and one timber joints in roof trusses and timber stairs; doors and windows different types; plan, section and elevation of a small building with gable roof half brick walls; hipped roof; preparation of a building estimate; BM and SF diagrams - cases of simply supported beams and cantilevers, carrying concentrated/uniformly distributed loads.9. Botany I
10. Utilisation
1. Study and practical work during tours
2. Botanical collections during each tour
Collection and submission of complete botanical specimens of not less than 30 plants properly dried, mounted and labelled at the end of each of the tours mentioned in 1 above.3. Engineering Plates
Brick bonds, foundations; plan's elevations and cross-sections of two simple buildings, sketch plans of buildings, bridges, lime kiln etc. made during the tours in a graph note book.4. Surveying Plates
Drawing work. - lettering, chain survey, prismatic compass and chain survey, plan table and chain survey, topographic survey.III. Written and Practical Examination in Second Year1. Wildlife Management
Introduction. - Concept of wildlife and history of wildlife management; relationship with the allied subject.Wildlife values and conflicts. - Values-aesthetic, economic, scientific, ecological, religious, recreational; conflicts-landuse priorities, crop destruction, disease carriers.Biological and ecological base of management. - Distribution and behaviour of animals as affected by various environmental factors and adaptations, concepts of niche, habitat and ecosystem, environmental gradients; zoogeo-graphic regions of world with special reference to wildlife in India; fundamental requirements of wildlife - food - concepts of food chains, food webs, pyramid of numbers, water pinch period, shelter - territory, home range, edge effect, factors affecting animal populations - concepts of age and sex structure, mortality and natility, density and saturation point, gregariousness and flocking, breeding potential, biological pressure, environmental resistance, internal adjustment factors, biological surplus and extinction threshold, social organisation and behaviour - animal communities, general inter and intra - specific relationship, dominance, predator and pre-relationship, engestive, eliminative and aganistic behaviour, commenselism, mutualism, parasitism, symbiosis.Techniques of field studies of wildlife populations. - Field observations and records; tracks, trails and other animal signs; trapping, capturing and marking; rumen and focal matter analysis.Population estimation. - Censuses and estimates - visual counts (direct counts and indirect counts), use of animal tracks and signs; sample estimates - King's method and its modifications, peliet group counts, use of pug marks; indices - Lincoln's index.Rare and threatened species in India. - Studies of important rare and threatened species of India and steps taken for their preservation.Sanctuaries, national parks and zoological parks. - General concepts of their creation and administration; discussion of some important national parks, sanctuaries and zoological parks of the country.Wildlife legislation. - Wildlife Preservation Act, 1972, Games Act, Shooting Rules, Arms Act; international and national organisations for wildlife conservation.2. Environmental conservation
Introduction, environment. - its definition, components, ecosystems; environmental conservation and management; the nature of natural resources - renewable and non-renewable; the major biotic regions of India and world; man's record on the earth, land, its characteristics, use and problems - agriculture, forestry, livestock, wildlife; water, its uses and problems, resources, the conservation of environments; the problem of population, the outlook; rural and landscaping; pollution aspects - air, water, noise, rural, urban, industrial; pollution monitoring; environmental policy - education, research and coordination in India; environmental legislation in India.3. World forestry
Forest geography of the world-factors influencing the world distribution of forests; historical background and present distribution of world forests.Forest resources and forestry practices in different regions of the world. - North American region; Central American region (Tropical); South American region; Scandanavian region; European region; Mediterranean region; U.S.S.R.; Central Africa (Tropical); South Africa; South East Asia; Eastern Asia (Japan and China); Australia.Regional development of wood based industries in the world.Trade patterns in forest raw materials. - To be given greater importance.World geography. - Physical features; climate, vegetation types; distribution of forests and types.Historical. - Historical phytogeography, evaluation and migration of plants; historical zoo-geography, evolution and migration of animals.World forestry literature (periodicals, journals, etc.) with display.World forest organisation. - Development world agencies and organisations, e.g. SID., D. NIDA and others; world forestry research agencies and organisations, e.g. IUFRO, IUCN, WWF and others; status of world forestry research and education.Congresses, commissions, conferences and conventions relevant to forestry on global basis.4. Silviculture
5. Forest Management
Introduction. - Definition and scope, management of forests and its peculiarities, principles of forest management and their application.Objects of Management. - Purpose and policy, choice of objectives, owner's attitudes and social role of forestry.Sustained Yield. - General definitions, e.g. felling series, rotation felling cycle, cutting series etc., concept and meaning of sustained yield.Rotation. - Definition, kinds of rotation, factors affecting choice of rotation, rotation and conversion periods.The Normal Forest. - Definition and concept, normality in regular forests, normality in irregular forests.The actual growing stock and its increment. - General considerations, distribution of age gradations or classes in regular forests-normal and actual; distribution of age gradations or classes in irregular forests-normal and actual; distribution of age gradations or classes in forests under coppice systems; growth estimation and reduction factors for density, quality, miscellaneous quality and price increment and forest per cent.Yield regulation - General principles of yield calculation; silvicultural systems in relation to yield regulation; methods of yield regulation - yield regulation in regular forests, by area - reduced areas and Hufnegl's modification, by volume and increment methods yield regulation in irregular forests - methods based on growing stock only, Von Mantel's formula and its modifications, methods based on increment only - Biolley's method du controlle, methods based on volume and increment - Austrian method. Hufnegl's, French method of 1883 and its modification, method based on number of trees in various age classes and time taken to pass from one age class to the next - Brandis' method, Hufnegl's method, Smythies safeguarding formula.Application and control of the different methods of yield regulation in forest management in Indian Forestry.Multiple Uses of Forestry.6. Working plan
Introduction - Definition, object, scope, sphere, necessity for revisions, division of forests into various units, maps, concepts of national, regional and local plans, project formulation, evaluation and appraisal.Preparation of a Working Plan - Preliminary working plan report; field work - stock mapping, checking of maps, compartment description, collection of statistical data, collection of other data, evaluation of management alternatives.Office work - Collection of data for Part I and analysis, writing of Part I and II, Management of information systems for working plans.Control of Working Plan.Working Plan exercise will be conducted in any suitable sal or other forest covering as many types as possible. Each trainee will be required to write up a working plan for an area not less than 1,000 hectares.7. Forest Economics and valuation
Introduction - Definition, role and relevance to forestry; general tools of economic analysis; peculiarities of forest economics; role of forestry in Indian economy.Demand and supply - Theory of consumer behaviour; concepts of demand and supply; concept of elasticity of demand and supply; demand and supply of forest products.The market - Market structures; pricing of forest products; market structure for forest products.Production and costs - Factors of production; law of diminishing returns; long and short run productions function; cost of production.Timber production economics - Factors influencing timber production; timber production and its economic peculiarities,. locational theory and transportation.Wood products economics - Demand, supply and pricing of major forest products; demand, supply and pricing of minor forest products; forecasting techniques.Forest valuation - Concept of interest on capital; present worth, internal and rate of return with practical examples; land expectation value and concept of profit with illustration; stumpage appraisal.Non-wood products - Techniques of evaluating non-market values; general concepts of wildlife economics; application of economic theories to outdoor (forest) recreation.Forestry planning and budgeting - Planning in forestry; project formulation and evaluation; concepts of budgeting with applications to forestry.Operation research techniques - Optimisation methods in forestry; practical application.8. Forest Protection
General consideration - The place of forest protection in Indian forestry; classification of injurious agencies-animals, insects, plants, atmospheric agencies.Prevention - Its importance.Man as a source of injury to forest - Following fires; causes and character of forest fires; five prevention activities; pre-suppression activities in fire control; fire suppression; fire control policy and objectives.Protection against shifting cultivation and faulty land use.Protection against mismanagement; protection against domestic animals and wildlife; protection against injurious plants; protection against atmospheric agencies.9. Forest policy and law
Forest policy - Definition, necessity, scope, range and various considerations; foundations of a stable forest policy; contents of a national forest policy; India's national forest policy; contents of the 1952 forest policy and its correlation with the policy of 1894; need for a revised forest policy for India.Forest law - Legal definitions, application of Penal Code to forests; general principles of criminal law; legal principles of punishment; the Criminal Procedure Code as applied to forestry matters; the Law of Evidence and the Indian Evidence Act as applied to forestry matters; objects of special forest law; the Indian Forest Act; general provisions; detailed study; legal organization of the forest service.Connected laws (dealing with wildlife etc.)Forest administration (including forest cadres, forest manuals etc.)10. Social Forestry
Introduction - Definition, scope, necessity, special significance in the context of energy and small timber requirements of India, environmental pollution and recreation place of social forestry in the national forest policy in India.Farm forestry - Its need and scope on and around agricultural lands; role in rural economy and its effect on agricultural practices; establishment of farm forests, choice of species, planting techniques, maintenance; organization of the programme, role of the forest departments protection.Social forestry - Objectives and scope vis-a-vis farm forestry; raising of trees for fodder, timber, firewood, creation of pasture lands; avenue plantations, canal bank plantations, plantations along railway lines; choice of species, techniques, maintenance; extension approach, organisation of the programme, role of the forest department; protection.Recreation forestry - Needs of the urban population; scope of its application in forests, city forests and concept of integrated town planning and forestry; creation of forest parks in natural forests close to urban centres.Wind breaks, shelterbelts and catchment forest - Scope of creation of wind breaks, shelterbelts; choice of species, techniques, maintenance; scope in the catchment forests of water works, etc.; protection.Organisation, legislation and publicity - Extension, organisation, training and demonstration, public participation and publicity; need for a defined policy, suitable legislation to support the programme.11. Tribal welfare
General - Definition, types, distribution and demography of tribes, racial classification.Concept of races, tribe, family, clan and kinship, principles of social grouping.Cultural traditions, customs, ethos, beliefs and practices of tribals in general, political organisations and social controls.Tribal economy.Details of few important tribes of India, e.g. Bhils, Santhals, Gonds and nomadic tribes.Administration of tribal affairs, constitutional provisions for their welfare and tribal development plans.Approaches towards tribal policies of isolation, assimilation and middle path.Tribals and forests, their symbiotic relationship.Practicals - Case studies of FLCS (forest labourer co-operative societies), Case studies on colonisation of tribal communities.Case studies on exercise of right and concessions by tribals.12. Engineering II
Roads - Introduction - necessity of roads, classification, cross-section, systems of metalling, road gradients; alignment-reconnaissance, obligatory points, alignment of a plain road, alignment of a hill road, preliminary survey, paper location, demarcation; design - road and land width, the shoulders, camber, section on hill sides, gradients, earth work, drainage of plain and hill roads, road curves; superelevation, widening and sighting distance, retaining walls and breast walls-necessity, materials used, forces acting, conditions of stability and thumb rules for design of brick-work, masonry and timber - crib retaining walls; estimating - principles, earthwork by trapezoidal and prismoidal rules, the slope template,the abstract of cost; setting out - use of the field level and boning set for setting out gradients, instrument - levelling instrument, dumpy level, adjustments, difference of levels - back sight, intermediate sight, fore - sight, height of instrument and change part - axes of telescope and line of collineation, negative readings, reduction of levels, rise and fall system and the collineation or HI system, their relative merits, arithmetical checks, the level book, classification of levelling - simple, compound or differential, profile, cross-sectioning, reciprocal levelling; setting out buttings and embankments, setting out of simple circular curves by the method of ordinates from the long chord, vertical curves; construction, organisation of labour, tools, clearing, economical digging, load and lift, construction of earth stabilized and water-bound macadam roads, cordurcy roads, use of camber template; maintenance - general wear of roads, surface maintenance, improvement of existing roads, renewal of surface, road water-tables and pole drains, road signs., notice boards and guard stones.Bridges - Introduction - Types of forest bridges, the ford, Irish bridge, causeway, road syphon, culverts, timber bridges, cantilever bridges, suspension bridges; selection of site and waterway - selection of site - factors affecting afflux and free board, provision of waterway - factors affecting waterway for culverts and small bridges, scour and its prevention; masonry arched culverts - names of parts, economical spans, thumb rules for design, principles of construction - centering; simple wooden bridges - a typical small wooden bridge, the abutment and piers, the timber bank seat, timber post, pile and masonry abutments and piers - single and double trestle piers-timber crib piers, construction of the super - structures, the through and deck span timber girder bridges, common suspension bridges - parts, stability, principles of construction - towers and anchorages, the roadway.Water supply - Introduction - Sources of supply, springs, streams and rivers, ponds and lakes, dams and reservoirs and wells, types of wells-shallow wells, deep wells and artisan wells, bore wells and tube wells; sinking of wells - selection of site for shallow and deep wells, staining, sinking of masonry lined wells; yield calculations - springs, streams and rivers, ponds lakes and dams, wells, spacing of well; purification of water - principles, clarification and sterilization, cleaning and protection of wells.Design of timber structure - Simple elastic theory of bending - bending and shear stresses in simply supported beams and cantilevers carrying concentrated and uniformly distributed loads, direct and bending stresses; stress diagrams - stress diagrams for roof trusses with and without wind loads; design - timber beams, short timber columns - ties and struts of a framed structure.Practicals - Road design - cross-section of a road in the plains/hills and retaining walls; preparation of road estimate - earthwork calculations; setting out road curves by ordinates; a masonry arch culvert; a simple timber girder bridge; a cantilever bridge; a suspension bridge; stress diagrams for timber trusses - with and without wind load; design of ties and struts of a timber frame.A masonry arch culvert.A simple timber bridge.A cantilever bridge.A suspension bridge.Stress diagrams for timber trusses with and without wind load.Design of ties and struts of a timber frame.13. Forest Machinery
Motor Mechanics - Petrol and diesel engines; 4-stroke and 2-stroke engines; fuel system; ignition system, lubrication system; transmission system; cooling system; fault detection and daily checks.Maintenance and operation of machineries - nursery; plantations; harvesting; transport; fire fighting.14. Botany
1. Magnoliaceae
2. Guttiferae
3. Dipterocarpaceae
4. Malvaceae
5. Stereuliaceae
6. Rutaceae
7. Moliaceae
8. Sapindaceae
9. Anacardiaceae
10. Leguminocae
11. Rosaceae
12. Rhizophoraceae
13. Combretaceae
14. Myrtaceae
15. Lythraceae
Gamopetalae16. Rubiaceae
17. Sapotaceae
18. Ebenaceae
19. Bleaceae
20. Apocynaceae
21. Bignoniaceae
22. Verbenaceae
Apetalae23. Lauraceae
24. Euphorbiaceae
25. Urticaceae
26. Cupuliferae
27. Salicaceae
Monocotyledonss28. Pal-maceae
29. Grasineae
15. Zoology and Entomology
16. Mycology and Pathology
17. Forest Utilisation III
18. Genetics
Introduction - definition, scope, application to plant improvement.Heredity - History; Mendel's laws of heredity; physical basis of heredity - the cell and chromosomes; cell division - mitosis meiosis.Variation - Sources of variation; genetic v/s environmental variation and their estimation.Qualitative and quantitative characters - Single gene and multiple gene determined characters; modification of mendelian ratios; inheritance of quantitative or polygemic characters.Forest tree breeding - Objectives of tree breeding; methods of tree breeding; recent advances in vegetation propagation of tree sp.Selective methods of tree improvement - Seed stands and seed production areas to meet interim need for seeds plus tree selection; seed orchards and their establishment; management of seed orchards; progeny trialsone parent and two parent for estimation of genetic parameters.Hybridization - Objects of hybridization; inter-racial and inter-specific hybridization - exploitation of heterosis; seed orchards for raising hybrid seeds.Breeding for special characters - For improvement of wood characteristics; for incorporating resistance to specific diseases; for incorporating resistance to specific pests; incorporating resistance to specific edaphic and climatic factors.Polyploid and Mutation breeding - Definition conversation of natural polyploid in some important tree genera; experimented indication of polyploids with conclusion and method of treatment; utilization of polyploid in tree improvement mutation - definition, natural and induced mutation; experimental induction of mutation with polyploid and physical and chemical mutagens; utilization of mutants in tree improvement.Practicals - Preparation of slides for studies of chromosomes; vegetative propagation and suse of growth promuters; plus tree selection; seed orchards and their establishment; various methods of hybridization; various types of grafting and budding, controlled pollination, treatment of seed orchards.Or19. Forest Ecology
Basic ecological principles and concepts - definition of ecology and forest ecology, scope and importance of ecology in conservation of natural resources in general, land use, forestry, grassland - management and wildlife, ecology and its relation to other sciences, sub-division of ecology including syn and aut-ecology; basic concepts of plant ecology (forest ecology), concepts of ecosystem habitat and ecological niche, ecosystem components, biogeochemicals cycles; fundamental concepts related to energy in ecological systems, the food chain, trophic structure and ecological pyramids.Forest environment - Environment of the forest - biotic and abiotic components and environment, thereunto relations and importance in forest ecology, effect of inter-action of different environmental factors on the development of vegetation; environmental measurements - measurement of environmental factors (instrumentation) like solar radiation, light intensity, temperature, atmospheric gases, particles and electric properties, etc., limiting factors, principles of limiting factors, combined coning factors, principles of limiting factors of importance as limiting factor, ecological indicators.Forest community (syn-ecology) -Liotic community concept; methods of studying vegetation - life forms, structure and physiognomy, charting and mapping of vegetation, quardrats, transects, etc., methods of rating for frequency, analysis of data with qualitative and quantitative methods (indices, coefficients, formulae, symbols, pattern, etc.), description, classification and ordination of communities, statistical methods and mathematical methods; concept of ecological dominance, competition, tolerance aggression, serial and climax communities, ecotones and concept of edge effects vegetation dynamics (temporal and spatial development of vegetation) - origin and development of vegetation, ecological succession, primary and secondary succession, retrogression, arrested succession and climax, mono and polyslimaxes, mosaic theory; phytogeography - basis of classification vegetation types brief description of the forest types of the world and of India; palaeo-ecology - palaeobotanical satterns in relation to present distribution, lines of evidence fossil woods, dendrochronology-radio carbon dating, peat analysis, pollen analysis, etc.Aut-ecology - Studies on growth requirement of species-seed production and their germination, methods of studying competitive potential, moisture requirements of species, etc.; root development - studies on development of root system in varied habitats.Ecological adaptations and evolution - Adaptations, origin or adaptations, fate of adaptations, the genecological classification, isolation and evolution.Production ecology (forest productivity) - Concept of productivity; biological productivity - production of organic matter (plant biomas), accumulation of organic matter, organic balance sheets; nutrient cycle - uptake of nutrients, nutrient loss, nutrient input, nutrient budget; energy flow, energy accumulation, energy budget; water circulation - interception of precipitation, evaporation and runoff, transpiration, soil moisture, water budgets; methods of assessing forest site quality (forest productivity), direct measurements of forest productivity, vegetation as indicator of site, indicator type and indicator spectra, environmental factors as a measure of productivity, climatic factors and soil factors; site as a dynamic concept.Radiation ecology - Definition - radioactive substances - radiation and environment; nuclear concepts - type of ionizing radiations, units of measurements, . radioisotopes (radionuclides) of ecologicals, importance, comparative radiosensitivity; effects of radiation on individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems; radioactive substances released into the environment and the manner in which ecological communities and population control the distribution of radioactivity, the fallout problem, waste disposal, future radioecological research; use of radioactive tracers in biological sciences ecology, physiology, etc.20. Forest Statistics
Introduction to theory of probability - Introduction to set theory, events, elementary set theory applied to events; addition and multiplication theorems of probability, conditional probability; expectation, random variable random numbers.Standard distributions - Frequency distributions, calculation of moments; binomial, poison, normal and other important probability distribution (negative binomial, rectangular, beta and gamma not in detail), introductory, calculation of their expected values and variances.Theory of estimation and tests of hypothesis - Point estimation and interval estimation, confidence limits, significance; desirable properties of an estimator, maximum Tkelihood point estimation, tests of hypothesis, simple and composite hypothesis, size and power of a test; exact tests on samples from a normal population (E-test, difference of means in paired samples), F-test, Z-test, effect of non-normality.Analysis of variance - Test for homogeneity of variances; a test for difference of means; two way classification (complete blocks); estimation of fixed; estimation effects (model I), estimations of variable treatment effects (components of variances, model II), mixed model (model III).Sampling procedures - Simple random sampling for proportion and percentages, the estimation of sample size; stratified random; systematic sampling; cluster sampling (one and multistage sampling and sub-samples of equal and unequal sizes); ratio and regression estimates; double sampling; sources of error in surveys.Design of experiments - Completely randomised, randomised blocks and latin square design; factorial experiment; compounding split plot designs; masi latin squares, incomplete block design; balanced and partially balanced incomplete block design; lattice squares, incomplete latin squares.Distribution of pairs of variate-Classical regression problem, bivariate normal surface; linear regression as determined from a sample, computation of regression and correlation coefficients, variance regression line; regression when independent variable is not random; functional ratio between variables, subject to error; contingency table, yates correction for continuity; chisquare test of homogeneity.Multiple regression analysis and curve fitting - Equations of multiple regression; the solution of normal equations variance and covariance matrix; residuals.21. Advanced Forests Biometry
Application of statistical techniques in forestry - introduction to statistics; use of electronic data processing machines; sampling techniques; test of significance; regression and correlation analysis; analysis of variance.Forest measurements - Tree and log volume estimation from rules and tables; forest inventory application of sampling with probability proportional to size in forest inventory; use of computers in analysis of inventory data; measuring instruments and procedure for forest measurements.Stand structure and growth - Stand structure, density, site quality and yield tables; stand growth analysis of typical growth models; simulation techniques and application in growth models.Management information system for forest management decisions - Evaluation of information needs for decision making by forest managers, application of operations research techniques for collecting stand information.Remote sensing techniques for forest measurement - Use of aerial photographs for forest measurements; remote sensing techniques using satellite imageries; use of aerial photographs in preparation maps; use of instruments and procedures for preparation of maps.Or22. Advanced Forest Economics and Valuation
Review of economic principles - Theory demand; theory of production; theory of costs and marginal analysis; market structure; theory of distribution; theory of capital; application of economic principles to forest resources management.Analytical tools to decision making to resources management - Optimization models; linear and non-linear programming; game theory; decision theory; application of other operations research techniques to forest resource management; use of electronic data processing machines of resource management decision.Forest products economics - Contribution of forestry to national economy; forest based industries; problems in estimation of demand or tangible and intangible goods from forestry; case studies.Production problems in forestry - Application of production theory to forestry input and output decisions, analysis of financial objectives of forestry production; multiple products analysis; case studies.Analysis of market structure for forestry products - Market structure for forestry products; pricing of forest products; demand and supply of forest products; production, consumption and supply of forest products; case studies.Non-timber products economics - Multiple use; economics of forest recreation; wildlife; forestry and environment; forestry and quality of life.Forestry and international affairs - Broad trends of production and consumption of forestry products; trade patterns for forest products; marketing of forest products international contest.Or23. Wildlife Management
Wildlife management techniques - Field observations; instrumentation; habitat analysis and evaluation; food habit analysis; post mortem techniques; field detection of diseases and conditions; toxidermy; capture and marking techniques; establishment and maintenance of field laboratories and museum.Practice of wildlife management - Concept of wildlife management - definition and importance; history of wildlife management in India, Asia, Africa, Europe, America and Australia; concept of conservation including multiple use of land.Measurement of wildlife population - Need for census; census types and techniques; collection and analysis of census data.Control of food and water - Variety of food, palatability, essential nutrients etc.; food habit studies; availability of water.Habitat management - Habitat analysis, species, composition and indicator plants; techniques of dealing with environment; control of cover.Management of wildlife refuges - Mechanism of use of refuges; species suited to refuge.Management of special area - National parks and sanctuaries; game farms.Control of diseases - Types of diseases; methods of control.Predator control - Inter-predator - relationship; predator-prey relationship; sanitation; food habitat research.Population problem - Declining and dense population, shifting population etc.; corridors for dispersion and migration; introduction of species; population and habitat balance.Control of hunting - Purpose; kinds of control; balancing species and ecosystem.Wildlife management plans - Collection and analysis of essential information; special techniques for use in the preparation of management plan; preparation of method plan.Management of important wildlife species - Endangered species; major wild animal species; important game birds, fish and crocodiles; case studies on selected problem in wildlife management.IV. Exercise in the Second Year1. Study and practical work in tours
2. Botanical collections during each tour
Collection and submission of complete botanical specimens of not less than 30 plants properly dried, mounted and labelled at the end of each of the tours mentioned in 1 above.3. Engineering Plates
Stress diagrams, timber beams, roof trusses, timber bridges, sketch plans of buildings, bridges, lime kiln etc. made during the tour in a graph note-book.4. Forest Road Alignment Exercises
Alignment, mapping and estimation of forest motor road through a hilly country.Part II
Qualifying Tests| State | Regional Language |
| Andhra Pradesh | Telugu or Urdu |
| Assam-Meghalaya | Assamese, Bengali, Kashi or Garo |
| Bihar | Hindi |
| Gujarat | Gujarati |
| Haryana | Hindi or Urdu |
| Himachal Pradesh | Hindi |
| Jammu and Kashmir | Urdu, Kashmiri or Dogri |
| Karnataka | Kannada |
| Kerala | Malayalam |
| Madhya Pradesh | Hindi |
| Maharashtra | Marathi |
| Manipur-Tripura | Manipuri, Bengali or Hindi |
| Nagaland | Nagamese in roman Script |
| Orissa | Oriya |
| Punjab | Punjabi in Gurumukhi script or Hindi |
| Rajasthan | Hindi |
| Sikkim | Nepali |
| Tamil Nadu | Tamil |
| Uttar Pradesh | Hindi |
| West Bengal | Bengali or Hindi |
| ACMU Arunachal Pradesh | Assamese, Hindi, Malayalam |
| Goa, Mizoram | Marathi, Mizo, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati |
| Union Territories |