Council of Scientific & Industrial Research
Human Resource Development Group

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an ensemble of 37 state-of-the art institutes, is amongst the foremost scientific and industrial research organizations. Over the years, this unique organization has helped India usher in a scientific milieu, creating and nurturing talent in a wide variety of S&T domains, spawned many organizations, many disciplines and most importantly has served as a nursery and training ground for most of India's talented scientists and technologists. CSIR annually publishes over 3800 papers in science journals and holds over 3000 patents.

“CSIR-Nehru Science Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme” has been instituted to identify promising young researchers with innovative ideas and provide them with training and research opportunities in niche areas of basic science, engineering, medicine and agriculture. The scheme aims at facilitating their transition from mentored to independent research career. CSIR intends to offer one hundred (100) such fellowships every year to promising fresh PhD holders for working in CSIR laboratories with state-of-art R&D facilities.

Eligibility:

PhD degree holders within three years of award of PhD degree, or those who have submitted PhD theses. Applicants who are about to submit thesis are also eligible to apply, but their selection will be subject to the condition that they would have submitted thesis before the expiry of the validity of the award offer. Applicants should have research publications in high impact SCI journals.
Though CSIR Nehru Science Postdoctoral Research Fellowship is open to Indian nationals, Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) and Overseas Citizen of India (OCI), a certain number (up to 20%) of fellowships may be offered to foreign nationals.

• Maximum Age Limit: 32 years, relaxable upto 5 years in case of SC/ST/OBC/Physically handicapped and women candidates.
• Tenure: Two years and extendable for maximum one more year based on outstanding performance and recommendation from the Director of the CSIR lab where working.
• Remuneration: CSIR Nehru Science Postdoctoral Fellows will be paid a consolidated fellowship of Indian Rs. 35,000/- per month plus House Rent Allowance (HRA) as admissible and a contingency grant of Rs. 3.0 lakh per annum. 25% of the contingency grant can be used for domestic and international travel including per diem expenses.

(PRESS NOTE)
CIVIL SERVICES (MAIN) EXAMINATION, 2007

The results of the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2007 was declared vide Press Note dated 26th June, 2008 recommending 638 candidates in order of merit for appointment to IAS, IFS, IPS and Central Services Group “A” and Group “B”.

The Commission, in accordance with the Rule 16(4) & (5) of the Civil Services Examination Rules, has also maintained a consolidated Reserve List in order of merit below the last recommended candidate under the respective category.

As now sought by Department of Personnel & Training, the Commission hereby recommends 96 candidates, which includes 65 General, 30 Other Backward Classes and 01 Scheduled Caste, to fill up the remaining posts based on Civil Services Examination, 2007. A list of these candidates is enclosed. Department of Personnel & Training, Govt. of India would be communicating directly with the recommended candidates.

The candidature of one (01) candidate bearing Roll No.161308 is provisional.

The list of these 96 candidates would also be available on the UPSC website i.e. http://www.upsc.gov.in
 

(PRESS NOTE)
CIVIL SERVICES (MAIN) EXAMINATION, 2006

The results of the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2006 was declared vide Press Note dated 14th May, 2007 recommending 474 candidates in order of merit for appointment to IAS, IFS, IPS and Central Services Group “A” and Group “B”.

The Commission, in accordance with the Rule 16(4) & (5) of the Civil Services Examination Rules, has also maintained a consolidated Reserve List in order of merit below the last recommended candidate under the respective category.

As now sought by Department of Personnel & Training, the Commission hereby recommends 57 candidates, which includes 42General, 13 Other Backward Classes and 02 Scheduled Castes, to fill up the remaining posts based on Civil Services Examination, 2006. A list of these candidates is enclosed. Department of Personnel & Training, Govt. of India would be communicating directly with the recommended candidates.

The list of these 57 candidates would also be available on the UPSC website i.e. http://www.upsc.gov.in

Punjab National Bank Exam Question Paper

1. Nav Krishi is a programme by—
(1) Door Darshan
(2) All India Radio
(3) NIC
(4) ICRISAT
(5) MANAGE

2. One Acre is equal to…………..hectare.
(1) 0.0541
(2) 0.8032
(3) 0.1082
(4) 0.2514
(5) 0.4047

The Government has approved the proposal for introduction of Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) in place of Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination. The CSAT is expected to come into effect from Civil Services Examination, 2011 would be transparent. This will enable screening of candidates having a right aptitude for Civil Services.

In CSAT, one of optional subjects, which a candidate could have chosen out of 23 optionals, is being replaced with a common paper on aptitude test. The syllabus of CSAT is being worked out by the UPSC. The CSAT is aimed at providing a greater degree of level - playing field to candidates of different backgrounds.

Select your Query Method; ie by Form No or by Roll No

Table of Contents

• CHAPTER 1
  Introduction to Maps
• CHAPTER 2
  Map Scale
• CHAPTER 3
  Latitude, Longitude and Time
• CHAPTER 4
  Map Projections
• CHAPTER 5
  Topographical Maps
• CHAPTER
  Introduction To Aerial Photographs
• CHAPTER 7
  Introduction To Remote Sensing
• CHAPTER 8
  Weather Instruments, Maps and Charts

VERBAL COMPREHENSION

Directions: Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.

1. According to this passage the zodiac is a________
a. Collection of sun signs
b. Constellation
c. Star
d. Planet

2. The zodiacal light can be seen only on_____
a. Moonless nights
b. Starry Nights
c. Moonless evenings
d. Alternate days

1. Passing gravy through a ________removes lumps.
a. Mixture
b. Sieve
c. Tap
d. Cap

2. The politician’s poor behaviour was overlooked because of his ________.
a. Selfishness
b. Reluctance
c. Resistance
d. Charisma

Mechanical Engineering

An engine operates between temperature limits of 900˚K and T2, and another between T2 and 400˚K. For both to be equally efficient , T2 will be equal to:

• 600˚K
• 650˚K
• 625˚K
• 700˚K

40% of the incident radiant energy on the surface of a thermally transparent body is reflected back. If the transmissivity of the body be 0.15, then the emissivity of surface is:

• 0.45
• 0.40
• 0.55
• 0.60

The property of a material by virtue of which it can be beaten or rolled into plates is called:

• ductility
• malleability
• plasticity
• elasticity

Electrical Engineering

Twelve identical wires of resistance 6Ω each are arranged to form the edges of a cube. The effective resistance between the opposite corners of the cube is:

• 6Ω
• 8Ω
• 5Ω
• 4.5Ω

A d.c shunt motor runs at 200 V supply, if the armature current is 20 A and resistance of the armature is 0.5 ohm, the back e.m.f developed will be:

• 210 V
• 190 V
• 200 V
• 180 V

A 0-25 A ammeter has guaranteed accuracy of 1% of full scale reading. The current measured by this instrument is 5 A. The limiting error in percentage is:

• 5
• 2
• 2.5
• 1

Civil Engineering

A cantilever beam curved in plan and subjected to lateral loads will develop at any section:

• bending moment and shearing force
• twisting moment and shearing force
• bending moment and twisting moment
• bending moment, twisting moment & shearing force.

The force of attraction between the individual particles of soil which keeps the soil particles bound together is known as:

• Compaction
• Friction
• Cohesion
• Dilatancy

The dimensions of pressure gradient in a fluid flow are:

• M L-1 T 2
• M L-2 T -2
• M L-3 T -2
• M-1 L-3 T -2

Control & Instrumentation Engineering

1 The D flip-flop and T flip flops are respectively used as:

The Union Public Service Commission will be conducting Interviews/Personality Test for the INDIAN ECONOMIC SERVICE / INDIAN STATISTICAL SERVICE EXAMINATION, 2009 from 9th August, 2010 to 11th August, 2010. Summon letters for the P.T./Interview to all the eligible candidates have been issued. In case any candidate does not receive the call letter, he/she may immediately contact the Union Public Service Commission on Telephone No. 011-23387402, 011-23098591 (Extn. 4341) or send fax messages on FAX No. 011- 23387310 on the working days.

He/she may contact UPSC Facilitation Counter near Gate “C” of its campus in person or over Telephone Nos. 011-23381125/011- 23385271/011-23098543 on working days between 1000 hrs to 1700 hrs. Detailed Interview Programme showing Roll Nos. of the eligible candidates is also available at the Union Public Service Commission Website at "http://www.upsc.gov.in"

MOBILE PHONES AND OTHER SUCH I.T. GADGETS ARE BANNED IN THE CAMPUS OF U.P.S.C. AND EXAMINATION HALLS.

No.F. 8/5/2010-E-XIII
Union Public Service Commission
Examination-XIII Section

PERSONALITY TEST PROGRAMME FOR THE INDIAN ECONOMIC SERVICE / INDIAN STATISTICAL SERVICE EXAMINATION, 2009

The Personality Test/Interview for the candidates of Indian Economic Service / Indian Statistical Service Examination, 2009 has been scheduled from 09th August, 2010 to 11th August, 2010. The individual candidates have been informed by Summon Letters at their respective addresses. The time for reporting in the Forenoon Session is at 0900 Hrs. and for the Afternoon session is at 1315 Hrs.

The detailed Programme for Personality Test/Interview for individual candidates is as under:-

INDIAN ECONOMIC SERVICE, 2009

Date of Personality Test/Interview Forenoon Session (0900 Hrs.) 09.08.2010 (Monday)

• Time Allowed: 3 Hours
• Maximum Marks: 300

Answer any five questions selecting at least two questions from each section in which Question no. 3 and 4 are compulsory.

Section A

1. What are the main reasons behind the low motivation level of civil servants in India? Analyze the reasons with reference to researches of Maslow and Herzberg. : 60 Marks

2. “Making of personality influences line of thinking of individual, which in turn influences communication skill”. Explain with reference psychological analysis by Chris Argyris. : 60 Marks

Question 3.
(a) Chester Bernard is regarded as the spiritual Father of human organization. Comment. (200 words) : 30 Marks
(b) Rabble hypothesis cannot be totally rejected in present metro society of India. Analyze. (200 words) 30 Marks

Section B

Question 4.
(a) A manager must compare traditional and modern theories of management before deriving his own way. Comment in the light of McGregor’s view. (200 words) 30
(b) Work and worker oriented supervision has its own importance. Explain. (200 words) 30

5. Had Likert analyzed Indian economy, he would have made result oriented economy of India. Do you agree? Put your views. : 60 Marks

6. Crisis management put forward by F.W. Taylor in term of Scientific Management is not much different from Disaster Management. Explain. : 60 Marks

7. Public Administration is now New Public Administration and Management, now, new Public Management. Discuss. : 60 Marks

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• Questions of the Public Administration Test Series are open to all.
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Core Course

Table of Contents

• PROSE
  1. THE LAST LESSON Alphonse Daudet
  2. LOST SPRING Anees Jung
  3. DEEP WATER William Douglas
  4. THE RATTRAP Selma Lagerlof
  5. INDIGO Louis Fischer
  6. POETS AND PANCAKES Asokamitran
  7. THE INTERVIEWPART I Christopher Silvester
  PART II An Interview with Umberto Eco
  8. GOING PLACES A. R. Barton
   
• POETRY
  1. MY MOTHER AT SIXTY-SIX Kamala Das
  2. AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  CLASSROOM IN A SLUM Stephen Spender
  3. KEEPING QUIET Pablo Neruda
  4. A THING OF BEAUTY John Keats
  5. A ROADSIDE STAND Robert Frost
  6. AUNT JENNIFER’S TIGERS Adrienne Rich

Table of Contents

• SHORT STORIES – INTRODUCTION
  1. I Sell my Dreams GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
  2. Eveline JAMES JOYCE
  3. A Wedding in Brownsville ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
  4. Tomorrow JOSEPH CONRAD
  5. One Centimetre BI SHU-MIN
• POETRY – INTRODUCTION
  1. A Lecture Upon the Shadow JOHN DONNE
  2. Poems by Milton JOHN MILTON
  3. Poems by Blake WILLIAM BLAKE
  4. Kubla Khan S.T.COLERIDGE
  5. Trees EMILY DICKINSON
  6. The Wild Swans of Coole W.B.YEATS
  7. Time and Time Again A.K.RAMANUJAN
  8. Blood KAMALA DAS
• NON-FICTION – INTRODUCTION
  1. Freedom G.B.SHAW
  2. The Mark on the Wall VIRGINIA WOOLF
  3. Film-making INGMAR BERGMAN
  4. Why the Novel Matters D.H. LAWRENCE
  5. The Argumentative Indian AMARTYA SEN
  6. On Science Fiction ISAAC ASIMOV
• DRAMA - INTRODUCTION
  1. Chandalika RABINDRANATH TAGORE
  2. Broken Images GIRISH KARNAD

Supplementary Reader in English

Table of Contents

• The Third Level Jack Finney
• The Tiger King Kalki
• Journey to the end of the Earth Tishani Doshi
• The Enemy Pearl S. Buck
• Should Wizard hit Mommy John Updike
• On the face of It Susan Hill
• Evans Tries an O-level Colin Dexter
• Memories of Childhood
  • The Cutting of My Long Hair Zitkala-Sa
  • We Too are Human Beings Bama

• Time allowed: 3 Hours
• Maximum marks: 300

1. Answer any one of the following in about 250 words. : (30 Marks)
a) Naxalism and Maoism are social economic problem, so mere military and administrative actions won’t sort out the problems. Analyse the problem and suggest measures.
b) Issue of women empowerment will have far reaching impact on Indian society and culture. Discuss.
c) Internal security of India is no more mere national issue. Examine the statement and work out design to tackle the problem.

2. Answer any two of the following in about 150 words each. (20X2=40 Marks)
a) Should capital punishment be abolished? Put your views.
b) Compare Gandhian and Nehruvian model of education. How do you see present reform in education system of India. Answer with arguments.
c) National Rural Health Mission is not able to maintain its own health. Do you agree? Suggest effective measures.

3. Answer any two of the following in about 100 words each. (15X2=30 Marks)
a) Recognizing live-in relationship, homosexuality and premarital sex may be serious threat to moral values and marriage institution of Indian society. Examine.
b) Caste and community based census will serve purpose of vote bank politics only. Comment.
c) Impact areas of development must be taken into account while executing development schemes. Explain.

4. Write an essay on any one of the following in about 800 words. (200 Marks)
a) Nehru’s model of Politics and Policy- Have we lost?
b) Let Society and Culture go in their own way!
c) Failure of Law Enforcement is root cause of Problems.

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The Union Public Service Commission will hold the National Defence Academy and Naval Academy Examination (II), 2010 at 354 venues located in 41 Centres throughout the country on 22.08.2010 (Sunday). Admission Certificates to candidates have been despatched. Letters of rejection to the candidates stating reason(s) for rejection have also been issued. If any applicant has not received any of the above-mentioned communications, he may contact UPSC Facilitation Counter on Tel No. 011-23385271, 011-23381125 or 011-23098543 during working hours. The candidates can also send fax messages on Fax No.011-23387310. They can get “Venue information” through Interactive Voice Response System by dialing on 011-23387310.

Table of Contents

• CHAPTER ONE : ELECTRIC CHARGES AND FIELDS
  1.1 Introduction
  1.2 Electric Charges
  1.3 Conductors and Insulators
  1.4 Charging by Induction
  1.5 Basic Properties of Electric Charge
  1.6 Coulomb’s Law
  1.7 Forces between Multiple Charges
  1.8 Electric Field
  1.9 Electric Field Lines
  1.10 Electric Flux
  1.11 Electric Dipole
  1.12 Dipole in a Uniform External Field
  1.13 Continuous Charge Distribution
  1.14 Gauss’s Law
  1.15 Application of Gauss’s Law
• CHAPTER TWO : ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL AND CAPACITANCE
  2.1 Introduction
  2.2 Electrostatic Potential
  2.3 Potential due to a Point Charge
  2.4 Potential due to an Electric Dipole
  2.5 Potential due to a System of Charges
  2.6 Equipotential Surfaces
  2.7 Potential Energy of a System of Charges
  2.8 Potential Energy in an External Field
  2.9 Electrostatics of Conductors
  2.10 Dielectrics and Polarisation
  2.11 Capacitors and Capacitance
  2.12 The Parallel Plate Capacitor
  2.13 Effect of Dielectric on Capacitance
  2.14 Combination of Capacitors
  2.15 Energy Stored in a Capacitor
  2.16 Van de Graaff Generator
• CHAPTER THREE : CURRENT ELECTRICITY
  3.1 Introduction
  3.2 Electric Current
  3.3 Electric Currents in Conductors
  3.4 Ohm’s law
  3.5 Drift of Electrons and the Origin of Resistivity
  3.6 Limitations of Ohm’s Law
  3.7 Resistivity of various Materials
  3.8 Temperature Dependence of Resistivity
  3.9 Electrical Energy, Power
  3.10 Combination of Resistors — Series and Parallel
  3.11 Cells, emf, Internal Resistance
  3.12 Cells in Series and in Parallel
  3.13 Kirchhoff’s Laws
  3.14 Wheatstone Bridge
  3.15 Meter Bridge
  3.16 Potentiometer
• CHAPTER FOUR : MOVING CHARGES AND MAGNETISM
  4.1 Introduction
  4.2 Magnetic Force
  4.3 Motion in a Magnetic Field
  4.4 Motion in Combined Electric and Magnetic Fields
  4.5 Magnetic Field due to a Current Element, Biot-Savart Law
  4.6 Magnetic Field on the Axis of a Circular Current Loop
  4.7 Ampere’s Circuital Law
  4.8 The Solenoid and the Toroid
  4.9 Force between Two Parallel Currents, the Ampere
  4.10 Torque on Current Loop, Magnetic Dipole
  4.11 The Moving Coil Galvanometer
• CHAPTER FIVE : MAGNETISM AND MATTER
  5.1 Introduction
  5.2 The Bar Magnet
  5.3 Magnetism and Gauss’s Law
  5.4 The Earth’s Magnetism
  5.5 Magnetisation and Magnetic Intensity
  5.6 Magnetic Properties of Materials
  5.7 Permanent Magnets and Electromagnets
• CHAPTER SIX : ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION
  6.1 Introduction
  6.2 The Experiments of Faraday and Henry
  6.3 Magnetic Flux
  6.4 Faraday’s Law of Induction
  6.5 Lenz’s Law and Conservation of Energy
  6.6 Motional Electromotive Force
  6.7 Energy Consideration: A Quantitative Study
  6.8 Eddy Currents
  6.9 Inductance
  6.10 AC Generator
• CHAPTER SEVEN : ALTERNATING CURRENT
  7.1 Introduction
  7.2 AC Voltage Applied to a Resistor
  7.3 Representation of AC Current and Voltage by Rotating Vectors — Phasors
  7.4 AC Voltage Applied to an Inductor
  7.5 AC Voltage Applied to a Capacitor
  7.6 AC Voltage Applied to a Series LCR Circuit
  7.7 Power in AC Circuit: The Power Factor
  7.8 LC Oscillations
  7.9 Transformers
• CHAPTER EIGHT : ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
  8.1 Introduction
  8.2 Displacement Current
  8.3 Electromagnetic Waves
  8.4 Electromagnetic Spectrum
• ANSWERS

Table of Contents

• CHAPTER 1
  Data – Its Source and Compilation
• CHAPTER 2
  Data Processing
• CHAPTER 3
  Graphical Representation of Data
• CHAPTER 4
  Use of Computer in Data Processing and Mapping
• CHAPTER 5
  Field Surveys
• CHAPTER 6
  Spatial Information Technology