FURTHER DETAILS REGARDING MAIN TOPICS OF
Program No. 11/2019 (Item No.14&15)
TRAINING INSTRUCTOR (SURVEYOR)
SCHEDULED CASTES DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
(CategoryNo.574/2017,575/2017)
Module I
Basic Drawings - Instruments, uses, type and layout of a drawing sheet, lines – lettering – dimensioning, scales, geometrical construction, orthographic projection
Module 2
Surveying
(a) Chain Surveying – Instruments, uses, error due to incorrect chain, chaining on sloping ground, principles, survey stations/lines, field book, cross-staff, obstacles in chaining, symbols
(b) Plane table surveying – Accessories, methods– radiation, intersection, resection, 3 & 2 problems
(c) Compass surveying – Prismatic & surveyor's compass, bearings-types, conversion local attraction, declination, dip, isogonic & agonic lines, meridian
(d) Theodolite surveying – Parts of theodolite, definitions & terms, fundamental lines
(e) Leveling – Definitions, instrument parts, leveling staff types, methods of leveling, hand signals, booking methods, curvature & refraction, sensitiveness of bubble
(f)Tacheometric surveying – instrument, systems, contents, equation, analytic lens
(g) Contours – contour interval, horizontal equivalent, characteristics of contours, methods of locating, interpolation, contour gradient
(h) Traverse computations – checks in traverse, plotting, latitude & departure, transit rule, compass rule
Module 3
Road Engineering – Types of road, parts, camber, superelevation, gradients, types of the curve, technical terms with a simple curve, methods of laying a simple curve.
Module 4
Irrigation - Types, technical terms, duty, delta, base period, Kharif-rabi crop
Module 5
Parts of Building – foundation, basement, walls, doors, windows, arch, lintel, roof, stair, English & Flemish bonds, stone masonry
Estimating - Types, units of measurements, deductions
Rate analysis – Heads, lead, lift, quantities/m3 of different items
Module 6
Building materials – Bricks-types, cement ingredients %, tests, steel bars-weight stone classifications, timber
Module 7
Advanced Survey Instruments
Total station-Definition, parameters measures by TS, Parts of TS, EDM GPS-Technical terms, cartographic projection-types, Field astronomy-technical terms
Module 8
Volume & Area calculations-Simpson's rule, Trapezoidal rule, Units-Metric, and non-metric, conversion
NOTE: - It may be noted that apart from the topics detailed above, questions from other topics prescribed for the educational qualification of the post may also appear in the question paper. There is no undertaking that all the topics above may be covered in the question paper