PANCHAYATH DEVELOPMENT OFFICER (PDO) KPSC

KPSC conduct PDO exams every year, here I will provide complete details about the examination, syllabus, selection procedure, salary , educational qualification etc ..

so prepare well and get ready for PDO exam

PAY SCALE:-

 

20000-500-21000-600-24600-700-28800-800-33600-900-36300

AGE LIMIT:- 

 As per above rules candidates must have attained the age of 18 years and not attained the age of 40 years in case of a person belonging to the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes or Cat-I, and 38 years in the case of other category and 35 in the case of General Merit Candidates, on the last date fixed for the receipt of Applications.

Qualification:- 

 As per this rules Candidate is a holder of a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent of a recognised University established by law.

METHOD OF SELECTION:-

Candidate should obtained 35% marks in Computer Literacy (qualifying examination). Based on the basis of marks obtained in the written examination and qualified in the Computer Literacy, candidates shall be selected. Candidates who have not qualified in the Computer Literacy shall not be considered. In the Competitive Examination total marks obtained out of 120 marks in Part-II Paper shall be considered

SYLLABUS FOR WRITTEN EXAMINATION:- 

The Written Examination shall consist of 5 papers, It shall carry 120 marks. It shall be objective type with multiple choice and 3 hours duration.

a)Paper-I:- i) Computer Literacy (qualifying examination only)

b)Paper-II :-

ii) General Kannada                                                 - 30 marks

iii) General Knowledge                                            - 30 marks

iv) Rural Development and Panchayath Raj              -30 marks

v)General English                                                    -30 marks

Complete SYLLABUS:

General Knowledge

a. Constitution of India

b. Indian History and culture, with particular reference to Karnataka

c. General and Economic Geography of India, with particular reference to

Karnataka

d. Current events

e. every day science and such matters of every day observation

General English

a. English grammar,

b. vocabulary,

c. spelling,

d. synonyms,

e. antonyms,

f. 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:

1)Computer Concepts :

i)Parts of a Computer, Peripherals and their function(Storage, processor, display, mouse, ports, CD Drive, rpinter and scanner )

ii)Computer Applications (Email, Packaged Applications, Customized Applications )

iii)Security (Accessing the Internet )

iv)Internet Basics (Search Engines )

2)MS Excel :

i)Basic Operations and handling text (Opening and saving, entering and editing data, copying and moving data, insertving and deleting rows an columns, merging cells . Addition, subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Average, decimals, currency, )

 

ii)Handling Numbers Simple arithmetic operations and formatting(percentage , Formatting and creating series )

iii)Handling Dates ,Page Formatting, Setup and Printing (Selecting Print area, setting Margins and adjusting size)

3)MS Word :

i)Basic Operations (Opening and saving, copying and moving, finding and replacing )

ii)Text Formatting (Using Formatting Toolbar for Bold, Italics, text orientation, selecting font size, colour, tupe and styles )

iii)Page Formatting, Printing(Bullets and Paragraphs Margins and Page Breaks Inserting objects, hyperlinks and tables )

iv)Enhancing documents

4)MS Powerpoint :

i)Basic Operations (Opening, entering and formatting text

in different parts of a slide and saving )

ii)Slide Layouts, Master Slide

iii)Enhancing slides (Creating and applying a Master layout,

changing theme and background )

iv)Printing Slides and Handouts (Inserting objects, Animation

Creating a Slide Show and Adjusting number of slides per page,

printing with borders )

5)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., General knowledge of computer industry .