West Bengal Forest Service Exam

For W.B.S.F.S. – 172

Here is the details of vacancies on the basis of category.

Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent in Science or Engineering of any recognized University or Institute with at least one of the following subjects :

Agriculture, Botany, Chemistry, Computer Application, Computer Science, Engineering (Agricultural, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical), Forestry, Geology, Horticulture, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Veterinary Science, Zoology and Environmental Science.

 For WBSFS :

Bachelor’s Degree in Science or Engineering of any recognized Indian University or Institute with at least one of the following subjects :

Agriculture, Botany, Chemistry, Computer Application, Computer Science, Engineering (Agricultural, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical), Forestry, Geology, Horticulture, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Veterina

Physical Requirements :

A candidate must have the following minimum standard of physical fitness.

1. Minimum standard of height and chest girth for a candidate shall be as under :-

1. NOTE : The following minimum standard of height may be allowed to candidates belonging to the categories of Scheduled Tribes community and races such as Nepali, Garhwali, Gorkha.

Male candidates 152 cm

Female candidates 145 cm

Walking Test :

Male candidates shall be required to pass a physical fitness test covering a distance of 25 kilometres, within 4 hours on foot and the female candidates shall be required to cover a distance of 16 kilometres, within 4 hours on foot.

Health Certificate :-

 The candidates shall have to undergo the medical examination to be conducted by a Medical Board. The Medical Board shall issue a health certificate and shall also certify that such candidates are fit to undertake strenuous outdoor work in the Forest Department.

Not below 21 years but not more than 36 years

West Bengal Sub-ordinate Forest Service:

Not below 21 years but not more than 39 years

 Upper age limit is relaxable by 5 years for SC & ST Candidates and by 3 years for BC candidates (Non Creamy Layer) of West Bengal.

Note: SC/ST candidates of West Bengal are not required to pay any fee

The Preliminary Examination will consist of only one paper of “General Studies and Arithmetic”. The question paper will be of an objective type consisting of 200 multiple choice questions. The paper will carry 200 marks and will be of 2½ hours duration. The standard of the paper will be of the level of knowledge as expected of a graduate of a recognized Indian University or Institute. The paper will include questions covering the following fields of knowledge :

• English Composition … … 20 marks,
• General Science … … 25 marks,
• Current Events of National and International Importance … … 25 marks,
• History of India … … 25 marks
• World Geography … … 25 marks,
• Indian Polity and Economy … … 20 marks,
• Indian National Movement … … 20 marks,
• General Mental Ability … … 20 marks,
• Arithmetic … … 20 marks,

NOTE :- The Preliminary examination is meant to serve as a screening test only for the purpose of selection of candidates for the Main examination. The marks obtained in this examination by the candidates will not be considered for Final Selection. Only those candidates who will be declared qualified at the Preliminary examination in a year will be eligible for admission to the West Bengal Forest Service (Main) and West Bengal Subordinate Forest Service (Main) Examination of that year.

(a) Compulsory Subjects;   (b) Optional Subjects

(a) Compulsory Subjects : There shall be three compulsory subjects as stated below :-

Paper – I : English Essay, Precis Writing and Composition;

Paper – II : Bengali/Hindi/Urdu/Nepali /Santhali(Essay, Precis Writing and Composition);

Paper – III: General Studies

(b) Optional Subject (s) : Candidates shall take up any two subjects*(for WBFS) / one subject (for WBSFS) from the following list of subjects :- i) Agriculture, ii) Botany, iii) Chemistry, iv) Computer Application / Computer Science v) Engineering (Agricultural, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical) vi) Forestry, vii) Geology, viii) Horticulture, ix) Mathematics, x) Physics, xi) Statistics, xii) Veterinary Science, xiii) Zoology and xiv) Environmental Science,

* Consult restriction of choice of Optional Subjects ( for WBFS candidates only)

Agriculture Botany (Plant cytology, genetics, breeding and physiology, morphology of crop plants). Agriculture Entomology and Plant Pathology. Agriculture Chemistry and Soil Science .

B O T A N Y

Physiology, Plant Geography and dispersal of Plants, Morphology, Anatomy, Embryology and taxonomy of Angiosperm, Plant Pathology, Evolution , Cytology, Genetics and Plant Breeding, Economic Botany, Origin and Importance of Cultivated plants

C H E M I S T R Y

Physical and Organic (including Photochemistry), Inorganic and Industrial.

C O M P U T E R   S C I E N C E / C O M P U T E R   A P P L I C A T I O N

Digital computer fundamental, Discrete mathematics, Numerical methods, Resource management techniques, Operating system, Data and file structures, C programming, Object oriented programming, Relation data base management system. MC and Assembly language programming, System software,, Design and analysis of algorithms, Computer system architecture, PC maintenance and trouble shooting, Software engineering, Computer networks, Computer graphics, Visual programming, Internet and Java programming.

A G R I C U L T U R A L    E N G I N E E R I N G

Soil and Water Conservation , Investigation and planning in River Valley Projects, Irrigation and drainage., Building materials, Farm power and machinery, Electricity and rural electrification power generation and transmission.

 Transport phenomena (Under steady State condition), Thermodynamics, Reaction Engineering, Transportation, Materials, Instrumentation and Process control.

C I V I L   E N G I N E E R I N G

Building materials and properties and strength of materials, Structural Engineering, Building-construction, water supply and sanitary engineering, Roads and bridges.

C O M P U T E R   E N G I N E E R I N G

Number system, Data representation, Programming, Elements of high level programming language PASCAL/C, Use of data structure, Fundamental of computer architecture, Processor design, Control unit design, Memory organisation, System organisation, Microprocessors, Architecture and instruction set of microprocessors, Assembly language programming, Microprocessors based system design, Personal computers and their typical use.

M E C H A N I C A L   E N G I N E E R I N G

Strength of Materials, Applied Thermodynamics, Theory of machine and Machine Designs, Production Engineering, Fluid mechanics and Water power.

E L E C T R I C A L    E N G I N E E R I N G

Network Statics, Magnetics, Measurement, Electronics, Electrical Machines Control systems, Industrial Electronics, Electrical Machines ( Heavy Current), Synchronous Machines, Special Machines, Power Systems and Protection, Utilizations, Economic and other aspects of different systems of rail, traction, Communication System (light current), Microwaves, D.C. Amplifiers.

E L E C T R O N I C S    E N G I N E E R I N G

Physical Electronics, Electronics Circuits, Operational Amplifiers and Analog computers, Control System, Digital Electronics, Instrumentation and Measurement, Principles of Communication, Electromagnetic fields and Antennas, Microprocessor fundamentals. ,

F O R E S T R Y

Silviculture – General, Silviculture – systems, Silviculture of trees, Agroforestry, Social Forestry, Joint Forest Management and Tribology Forest Soil, Soil Conservation and Watershed management, Environmental Conservation and Biodiversity (including pollution), Tree Improvement and Page 7 of 8 seed Technology, Forest Management and Management Systems, Forest Working Plan, Forest Mensuration and Remote Sensing, Survey and Forest Engineering, Forest Ecology, Ethno Botany, Forest Resources Utilization, Forest Protection and Wildlife Biology, Forest Economics and Legislation.

G E O L O G Y

General Geology, Structural Geology and Geotectonic, Stratigraphy, Paleontology, Crystallography and Mineralogy, Petrology Economic Geology.

H O R T I C U L T U R E

Principals of fruit and vegetable production, Principles of Horticulture, Post harvest technology of Horticulture crop, plant propagation and Nursery Management, Regulation of growth and bearing in fruit crop, Production technology of tropical, sub-tropical and temperate fruit crop, Production technology of vegetable, tuber, plantation, spice, ornamentals, medicinal, aromatic and indoor plants, Breeding of vegetable crops, Garden design, Nursery layout and management, Elementary Statistics, Experimental design and computer application.

M A T H E M A T I C S

Algebra, Analytical Geometry of Two and Three Dimensions, Vector Algebra and Vector Calculus, Differential Calculus, Integral Calculus, Differential Equation, Linear Programming, Probability and Statistics, Statics and Dynamics, Hydrostatics.

P H Y S I C S

Mechanics of a single particle, Mechanics of a system of particles, Properties of deformable bodies, Properties of liquids and gases, waves and Oscillations. Electro-acoustics Ultrasonic. Heat Transmission by Conduction, Convection and Radiation. First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, Entropy, Classical Statistics, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac Statistics, Electrostatic and Magneto-static Field. Direct Current Circuits. Electro-magnetic induction. Alternative Current Circuits. Optical Phenomena of Interference, diffraction and polarization. Fundamentals of Atomic and Nuclear Physics. X-ray and Radioactivity. Semi-conductor Physics. Electronics Principles of Radio and Television.

S T A T I S T I C S

Probability, Descriptive Statistics, Numerical, Mathematical Analysis, Theoretical Statistics, Elementary Theory of Estimation, Elementary Theory of Testing Hypothesis, Economic Statistics, Vital Statistics, Application of Statistics of Agriculture, Quality Control, Sample Survey, Official Statistics.

V E T E R I N A R Y   S C I E N C E

Gross anatomy I, II and III, Veterinary Physiology I, II, III and IV. General Veterinary Biochemistry. Biostatistics and computer application, General Livestock Management. Fodder production and grassland management. Sociology and principles of veterinary and A.H. Extension, Physiological chemistry. Introduction to Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. Principles of Genetics and Population Genetics. Animal Housing Sanitation. Livestock Economics, Marketing and Business Management. Histology and Embryology, Principles of Animal nutrition and Breeding (includes avian), evaluation of feed staff and feed technology. General veterinary parasitology, microbiology and pathology. Applied anatomy, Applied nutrition I, II, Veterinary helminthology, Bacteriology, Protozoology, Epidemiology and Mycology, Immunology and Serology, Systemic pathology, Livestock breeding system, General and CNS pharmacology, entomology and aracology, Special Pathology I, II, milk and hygiene and public health, swine or equine or camel, yak production and management, wild and zoo animal health care and management, fish production, Lab animal or rabbit or fur animal care and management and pet animal care, Autonomic and systemic pharmacology, Veterinary and systemic virology, special pathology I and II, Cattle or buffalo or sheep or goat and avian production and management, Milk and Meat and their product technology, abattoir practice and animal by-product technology, clinical bio-chemistry, chemotherapy, zoonosis and human health, environmental hygiene, general surgery and anasthesia, extension techniques, toxicology, gynaecology and obstretrics, regional and clinical surgery, clinical and preventive veterinary medicine, andrology and artificial insemination, lab diagnosis and ambulatory clinics.

Z O O L O G Y

Invertebrata, outline knowledge of social insects and elementary ,knowledge of sericulture, Chordata- pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves and Mamalia, Elementary knowledge of Fisheries, Cytogenetics, Embryology and Histology. Laws Heredity, Linkage and crossing over, Sex-linked inheritance and sex determination and Mutation, Evolution, Adaptation, Ecology, Fertilization, Pathenogenesis, Cleavage and Formation of three germinal layers in rabbit, Development of eye, heart, brain and kidney in chick.

E N V I R O N M E N T A L   S C I E N C E

Fundamentals of Environment, Nature and Natural process, Ecosystem, Population and Environment, Land and water use of Earth, Air Pollution, Energy sources, Environment and Public Health, Waste Management, Environmental policies.

Note : The Standard of the Syllabus of these subjects shall be that of Bachelor’s Degree in Science Or Engineering of recognized Indian University or Institute .

NOTE : Restriction on choice of Optional Subjects ( for WBFS only ) :-

No candidate shall be allowed to take more than one subject from the following groups: i) Agriculture , Agricultural Engineering and Veterinary Science; ii) Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; iii) Computer Application , Computer Science and Computer Engineering; iv) Electrical Engineering and Electronics Engineering; v) Mathematics and Statistics.

(PB-4A) Rs.15,600-42,000/- + Grade Pay of Rs.5,400/- besides D.A., M.A. and H.R.A. admissible as per rules.

For W.B.S.F.S. :

(PB-3) Rs.7,100-37,600/- + Grade Pay of Rs.3,900/- besides D.A., M.A. and H.R.A. admissible as per rules.