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Re: meghalaya public service commission question paper
The MPSC (Meghalaya Public Service Commission) Forest Ranger Post Syllabus on which the question paper is based is as follows: Agricultural Engineering Paper – I Section A • Soil and Water Conservation: • Scope of soil and water conservation • Mechanics and types of erosion, their causes • Rainfall, runoff and sedimentation relationships and their measurement • Soil erosion control measures - biological and engineering including stream bank protection-vegetative barriers, contour bunds, contour trenches, contour stone walls, contour ditches, terraces, outlets and grassed waterwyas. • Gully control structures - temporary and permanent - design of permanent soil conservation structures such as chute, drop and drop inlet spillways. • Design of farm ponds and percolation ponds • Principles of flood control-flood routing • Watershed Management - investigation, planning and implementation - selection of priority areas and water shed work plan, water harvesting and moisture conservation • Land development - levelling, estimation of earth volumes and costing • Wind Erosion process - design fo shelter belts and wind brakes and their management • Forest (Conservation) Act Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing: • Basic characteristics of photographic images, interpretation keys, equipment for interpretation, imagery interpretation for land use, geology, soil and forestry. • Remote sensing - merits and demerits of conventional and remote sensing approaches. • Types of satellite images, fundamentals of satellite image interpretation, techniques of visual and digital interpretations for soil, water and land use management. • Use of GIS in planning and development of watersheds, forests including forest cover, water resources etc. |
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