Notification, Eligibility, Scheme & Syllabus
Looking to secure an Assistant Environmental Engineer (AEE) role in the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (AP PCB)?
This comprehensive guide breaks down the complete APPSC AEE PCB Recruitment framework.
Following a critical administrative corrigendum, the APPSC completely restructured the selection parameters—merging the original separate technical papers into a unified Common Subject format.
Discover up-to-date details on eligibility criteria, statewide vacancy structures, salary package parameters, exam blueprint metrics, and the official revised syllabus to optimize your technical preparation.
HIGHLIGHTS
Eligibility
Educational Qualification
Must possess basically a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil (or) Mechanical (or) Chemical (or) Environmental Engineering of a recognized University in India established or incorporated by or under a Central Act, Provincial Act or a State Act or an Institution recognized by the University Grants Commission or qualified in section A and B of AMIE(India) Civil examination.
SCHEME
Syllabus
PAPER-I
1. Major Current Events and Issues pertaining to International, National and State of Andhra Pradesh.
2. General Science and its applications to the day to day life Contemporary developments in Science & Technology and Information Technology.
3. History of India – emphasis will be on broad general understanding of the subject in its social, economic, cultural and political aspects with a focus on AP and Indian National Movement.
4. Geography of India with focus on Andhra Pradesh.
5. Indian polity and Governance: constitutional issues, public policy, reforms and e-Governance initiatives.
6. Indian Economy and planning
7. Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection
8. Disaster management: vulnerability profile, prevention and mitigation strategies, Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in the assessment of Disaster
9. Logical reasoning, analytical ability and logical interpretation.
10. Data Analysis: Tabulation of data Visual representation of data Basic data analysis (Summary Statistics such as mean, median, mode and variance) and Interpretation.
PAPER-II
1. ECOSYSTEMS: Definition, Scope and Importance of ecosystem. Classification, structure and function of an ecosystem, Food chains, food webs and ecological pyramids. Flow of energy, Biogeochemical cycles, Bioaccumulation, Biomagnification, ecosystem value, services and carrying capacity.
2. NATURAL RESOURCES: Classification of Resources: Living and Non-Living resources, water resources: use and over utilization of surface and ground water, floods and droughts, Dams: benefits and problems. Mineral resources: use and exploitation, environmental effects of extracting and using mineral resources, Land resources: Forest resources, Energy resources: growing energy needs, renewable and non renewable energy sources, use of alternate energy sources.
3. BIODIVERSITY AND BIOTIC RESOURCES: Introduction, Definition, genetic, species and ecosystem diversity. Value of biodiversity; consumptive use, productive use, social, ethical, aesthetic and optional values. India as a mega diversity nation, Hot spots of biodiversity. Field visit. Threats to biodiversity: habitat loss, poaching of wildlife, man- wildlife conflicts; conservation of biodiversity: In-Situ and Ex-situ conservation. National Biodiversity act.
4. ENGINEERING MATERIALS: Structure and properties of engineering materials, phase diagrams, heat treatment, stress-strain diagrams for engineering materials.
5. FLUID MECHANICS AND HYDRAULICS: Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids Fluid Properties; Measurement of Pressure Manometers; Fluid Kinematics - Classification of Fluids, Stream function and Velocity potential, Fluid dynamics - Continuity equation, Bernoulli's equations and Impulse momentum equation; Laminar and Turbulent flow through pipes significance of Reynolds number, Hagen Poiseuille's equation, Darcy - Weisbach equation, Friction factor, head losses in pipes, bends and fittings; Dimensional analysis and similarity laws; elementary boundary layer theory.
6. PROCESS CALCULATIONS AND THERMODYNAMICS: Laws of conservation of mass and energy, use of tie components; recycle, bypass and purge calculations; degrees of freedom, First & Second law of thermodynamics and their applications; equations of state and thermodynamic properties of real systems.
7. AIR, WATER, SOIL AND NOISE POLLUTION and CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES: Classification of pollution, causes, effects and control technologies. Air Pollution: Primary and secondary pollutants, Particulate emission control, Control of SOx and NOx, Automobile and Industrial pollution, Ambient air quality standards. Water pollution: Sources and types of pollution, drinking water quality standards, Wastewater Treatment methods: Primary, secondary and Tertiary, Grit chambers, sedimentation tank, trickling filters, oxidation ponds, activated sludge process, septic tank, disposal of sludge, recycling of waste water. Soil Pollution: Sources and types, Impacts of modern agriculture, degradation of soil. Noise Pollution: Sources and Health hazards, standards.
8. SOLID AND INDUSTRIAL WASTE MANAGEMENT: Municipal Solid Waste management, Collection, Segregation and Transport, Solid waste processing technologies, composition and characteristics of e-Waste and its management, Concepts of bioremediation.
9. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS, POLICIES AND LEGISLATIONS: Climate change and impacts on human environment. Ozone depletion and Ozone depleting substances (ODS). Deforestation and desertification. International conventions / Protocols: Earth summit, Kyoto protocol and Montréal Protocol and Paris convention, Indian Environmental Protection Act, Legal aspects Air Act, Water Act, Forest Act, Wild life Act, Municipal solid waste management and handling rules, biomedical waste management and handling rules, hazardous waste management and handling rules.
10. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: EIA structure, methods of baseline data acquisition. Overview on Impacts of air, water, biological and Socio-economical aspects. Strategies for risk assessment, Concepts of Environmental Management Plan (EMP), Concept of Sustainable Development, Population and its explosion, Crazy Consumerism, Environmental Education, Urban Sprawi, Human health, Environmental Ethics, Concept of Green Building, Ecological Foot Print, Life Cycle assessment (LCA), Low carbon life style.
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