(Syllabus) Karnataka PSC: Panchayath Development Officer Post

Karnataka Public Service Commission

Syllabus For Panchayath Development Officer Post

General Knowledge

  • Constitution of India
  • Indian History and culture, with particular reference to Karnataka
  • General and Economic Geography of India, with particular reference to Karnataka
  • Current events
  • Every day science and such matters of every day observation

General English

  • English grammar,
  • Vocabulary,
  • Spelling,
  • Synonyms,
  • Antonyms,
  • 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
Handling Numbers: Simple arithmetic operations and formatting
Handling Dates
Page Formatting, Setup and Printing		 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, percentage
Formatting and creating series
Selecting Print area, setting Margins and adjusting size
C. MS Word Basic Operations
Text Format
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 font size, 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 manufacturing companies, available main software, Famous Net Applications, Free email providers etc).

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