Company : Sol Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Website : www.courtkutchehry.com INDIAN FOREST SERVICE (PROBATIONERS' FINAL EXAMINATION) REGULATIONS, 1968 CONTENTS 1. Short title and commencement 2. Definitions 3. Final Examination 4. Subjects and Syllabus for (A) Written and Practical examinations and (B) Exercises 5. Qualifying tests 6. Minimum pass marks for examinations and standards of qualifying tests SCHEDULE 1 :- FIRST SCHEDULE SCHEDULE 2 :- Second Schedule INDIAN FOREST SERVICE (PROBATIONERS' FINAL EXAMINATION) REGULATIONS, 1968 In pursuance of rule 8 of the Indian Forest Service (Probation) Rules, 1968, the Central Government, in consultation with the State Governments and the Union Public Service Commission hereby makes the following regulations, namely:- 1. Short title and commencement :- (1)These regulations may be called the Indian Forest Service (Probationer's Final Examination) Regulations, 1968. (2) They shall be deemed to have come into force on 1st April, 1968. 2. Definitions :- (1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, "Schedule" means a Schedule appended to these regulations. (2) All other words and expressions used in these regulations and not defined shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Indian Forest Service (Probation) Rules, 1968. 3. Final Examination :- (1) Every probationer shall, during and at or about the ad of the period of training at the Institute, appear at the Final Examination (i) written and practical examinations. (ii) exercises, and (iii) qualifying tests. (2) The written and practical examinations shall be held as follows :- (i) First year Examination at or about the end of the first year of training at the Institute, and (ii) Second year Examination at or about the end of the second year of training at the Institute. (3) Exercises in field work shall be held during the course of training at the Institute and during tours undertaken according to a phased programme. (4) The Final Examination shall be conducted by the President in the manner laid down in these regulations. (5) The dates on which and the places at which the various examinations and tests shall be held shall be fixed by the Central Government in consultation with the President. 4. Subjects and Syllabus for (A) Written and Practical examinations and (B) Exercises :- The subjects for written and practical examinations and exercises shall be as mentioned below namely :- (A) Written and Practical Examinations The subjects for these examinations and the maximum marks allotted to each of them shall be as follows namely:- Group Subjects Paper Theory Practical Total Total of Group 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 First Year Forestry 1 1. Land Management 15 15 (General) and Soil Conservation 25 2. Range Management 10 10 Forestry 11 3. Silviculture 1 25 25 (Core) Silviculture 11 25 25 4. Mensuration 1 20 20 110 Mensuration 11 20 20 Mensuration III 20 20 Earth 5. Geology 15 10 25 Sciences 6. Soil Science 20 10 30 55 Physical 7. Surveying 25 25 50 Science 8. Engineering 1 35 35 85 Biological 9. Botany 1 20 20 40 40 Sciences Forest Utili 10. Forest Utilisation 1 35 35 sation Forest Utilisation 11 20 20 55 Total 305 65 370 Second Year Forestry 1 1. Wild Life 20 20 45 (General) Management 2. Environmental 10 10 45 Conservation 3. World Forestry 15 15 45 Forestry II 4. Silviculture III 25 25 200 (Core) Silvlicalture IV 25 25 200 Viva Voce in Silv. 30 30 200 5. Forest Management IV 30 30 200 6. Working Plans 60 60 200 7. Forest Economics 30 30 200 & Valuation Forestry III 8. Forest Production 15 15 9. Forest Policy & Law 15 15 50 10. Social Forestry 10 10 11. Tribal Welfare 10 10 Physical 12. Engineering 11 35 35 45 Science 13. Forest Machinery 10 10 Biological 14. Botany II 20 20 40 Science 15. Zoology & Entomology 20 10 30 90 16. Mycology & Pathology 15 5 20 Forest Utili 17. Forest Utilisation III 30 10 40 70 sation Forest Utilisation IV 30 30 Electives 18. Genetics 25 25 25 or Statistics or Ecology or Advanced Forest Biometry or Advanced Forest Economics & Valua tion or Wildlife Management Total 420 105 525 (B) Exercises The Subjects of these exercises and the maximum marks allotted to each of them shall be as follows : SI.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. Engineerng 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 The syllabus for the written and practical examinations and exercises shall be as specified in Part I of the First Schedule. 5. Qualifying tests :- (1) Qualifying tests in the following subjects shall be conducted by the President and the maximum marks allotted to each of them shall be as follows, namely:- (i) First aid \ 10 (ii) Weapon Training 10 (iii) Equitation Training 10 (ii) Regional language 20 (v) Hindi 20 (vi) Use and Maintenance of mechanised equipment 20 (vii) Swimming 10 (2) Every probationer shall be examined in the regional language or one of the regional languages shown in column 2 of the Second Schedule against the 1[cadre to which he is allocated. Where more than one regional language is shown against a 1[cadre the President shall ascertain whether the probationer is already familiar with any of them and thereafter decide in consultation with the State Government (in which one of the regional languages the probationer shall be examined : 3 [Provided that probationers allocated to the following cadres shall be examined in one of the regional languages shown against them only with effect from such date as the Central Government may, by order, specify in this behalf, namely :- Cadre Regional Language Assam-Meghalaya khasi or Garo Nagaland Ao, Angami, Sema or Lotha. Union Territories Mizo.] 1. Subs. by D.P. and A.P. Notification No. 7/5/72-AIS(IV), dated 1st March, 1974. 3. Subs. by D.P. and A.P. Notification No. 12/2/72-AIS(III)-C, dated 13th June, 1973. 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 Rg.4 and to pass the qualifying tests conducted by the President under Rg.5 by such standards as he may prescribe. SCHEDULE 1 FIRST SCHEDULE SCHEDULE 2 Second Schedule \ \ \ \ \[See Rg.5] _________________________________________________________________________________________ State Regional Language _________________________________________________________________________________________ Andhra Pradesh Tegulu or Urdu Assam-Meghalaya Assamese, Bengali, Assamese, Bengali Kashi or \ \ \ \ \ Garo Bihar Hindi Gujarat Gujarati Haryana Hindu Urdu Himachal Pradesh Hindi Jammu and Kashmir Urdu, Kashmiri or Dogri Karnataka Kannada Kerala Malayalam Madbya Pradesh Hindi Maharashtra Marathi Manipur- Tripura Manipuri, Bengali or Hindi Nagaland Nagamese in roman Script Orissa Oriya Punjab Punjab in Gurumukhi script or Hindi Rajasthan Hindi Sikkim Nepali Tamil Nadu Tamil Uttar Pradesh Hindi West Bengal Bengali or Hindi ACMU Anmachal Pradesh Assamese, Hindi, Malayalam, Goa, Mizoram B Marathi, Mizo, Tamil, Urdu Union Territories