Syllabus of Technical Assistant (Prabidhik Sahayak)

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(A) Service-related

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Section-1: - Regarding Administrative Work

1. Right to Employment Act, 2075 and Rules on Right to Employment, 2075,

2. Prime Minister's Employment Program Operation Guideline, 2075, Remuneration for Work-Based Community Project Operation and Management Procedure, 2076, and Transformation Initiative for Youth Employment Project (Operation and Management) Procedure, 2076,

3. The concept of cash for work,

4. Local-level budgeting process, expenditure management, and audit and grievance management,

5. Social mobilization, public hearings, social audit, and grievance management, and

6. Conduct and discipline and good governance.

Section-2: - Technical work-related

The following are the contents of the program as determined by the Public Service Commission for the post of Local Service Engineering Service, Civil Group Fifth Level Sub-Engineer:

1. Surveying

1.1 General

• • Principle and types of surveying
  • Units, scales, and maps
  • Field books and Level books

1.2 Levelling

• • Principles and methods of levelling
  • Levelling instruments and accessories

1.3 Plane Tabling

• • Equipment required
  • Methods of plane tabling
  • Two and three-point problems

1.4 Theodolite and Traverse surveying

• • Basic difference between different theodolites
  • Temporary adjustments of theodolites
  • Fundamental lines and desired relations
  • Tacheometry: stadia method
  • Trigonometrical levelling
  • Checks in closed traverse

1.5 Contouring

• • Characteristics of contour lines
  • Method of locating contours
  • Contour plotting

1.6 Setting Out: Small buildings and Simple curves

2. Construction Materials

2.1 Stone

• • Formation and availability of stones in Nepal
  • Methods of laying and construction with various stones 2.2 Cement
  • Different types of cement: Ingredients, properties, and manufacture
  • Storage and transport
  • Admixtures

2.2 Clay and Clay Products

• • Brick: type, manufacture, laying, bonds

2.3 Paints and Varnishes: Type and selection; preparation techniques and use

2.4 Bitumen: Type, selection and use

3. Mechanics of Materials and Structures

3.1 Mechanics of Materials

• • Internal effects of loading
  • Ultimate strength and working stress of materials

3.2 Mechanics of Beams

• • Relation between shear force and bending moment
  • Shear and bending moment diagrams for statically determinate beams under various types of loading

3.3 Simple Strut Theory

4. Hydraulics

4.1 General

• • Properties of fluid: mass, weight, specific weight, density, specific volume, specific gravity, viscosity
  • Pressure and Pascal's law

4.2 Hydro-Kinematics and Hydro-Dynamics

• • Energy of flowing liquid: elevation energy, Kinetic energy, potential energy, internal energy

4.3 Measurement of Discharge

• • Weirs and notches
  • Discharge formulas

4.4 Flows: Characteristics of pipe flow and open channel flow

5. Soil Mechanics

5.1  General

• • Soil types and classification
  • Three-phase system of soil
  • Unit Weight of soil mass: bulk density, saturated density, submerged density, and dry density
  • The interrelationship between specific gravity, void ratio, porosity, degree of saturation, percentage of air voids air content and density index

5.2 Soil Water Relation

• • Terzaghi's principle of effective stress
  • Darcy's law
  • Factors affecting permeability

5.3 Compaction of soil

• • Factors affecting soil compaction
  • Optimum moisture content
  • Relation between dry density and moisture content

5.4 Shear Strength of Soils

• • Mohr-Coulomb failure theory
  • Cohesion and angle of internal friction

5.5 Earth Pressures

• • Active and passive earth pressures
  • Lateral earth pressure theory
  • Rankine's earth pressure theory

5.6 Foundation Engineering

• • Terzaghi's general bearing capacity formulas and their application

6. Structures

6.1 R.C. Sections in Bending

• • Under reinforced, over reinforced and balanced sections
  • Analysis of single and double reinforced rectangular sections

6.2 2 Shear and Bond for R.C. Sections

• • Shear resistance of an R.C. section
  • Types of Shear reinforcement and their design
  • Determination of anchorage length

6.3 Design and Working System of R.C. Structures

• Singly and doubly reinforced rectangular beams
• Simple one-way and two-way slabs
• Axially loaded short and long columns

7. Building Construction Technology

7.1 Foundations

• • Subsoil exploration
  • Type and suitability of different foundations: Shallow, deep
  • Shoring and dewatering
  • Design of simple brick or stone masonry foundations

7.2 Walls

• • Type and thickness of walls
  • Use of scaffolding

7.3 Damp Proofing

• • Source of Dampness
  • Remedial measures for damp proofing

7.4 Concrete Technology

• • Constituents of cement concrete
  • Grading of aggregates
  • Concrete mixes
  • Water cement ratio
  • Factors affecting the strength of concrete
  • Formwork
  • Curing

7.5 Woodwork

• • Frame and shutters of door and window
  • Timber construction of upper floors
  • Design and construction of stairs

7.6 Flooring and Finishing

• • Floor finishes: brick, concrete, flagstone
  • Plastering

8. Water Supply and Sanitation Engineering

8.1 General

• • Objectives of the water supply system
  • Source of water and its selection: gravity and artisan springs, shallow and deep wells; infiltration galleries

8.2 Gravity Water Supply System

• • Design period
  • Determination of daily water demand
  • Determination of storage tank capacity
  • Selection of pipe
  • Pipeline design and hydraulic grade line

8.3 Design of Sewer

• • Quantity of sanitary sewage
  • Maximum, Minimum and self-cleaning velocity

8.4 Excreta Disposal and Unsewered Area

• • Pit latrine
  • Design of septic tank

9. Irrigation Engineering

9.1 General

• • Need for irrigation; advantages of an irrigation
  • Sources of irrigation: water, river & streams, groundwater, and others
  • Methods of irrigation: surface, sub-surface and others

9.2 Irrigation Water Requirement

• • Crop season, principal crops, and crop water requirements
  • Base period & duty

9.3 Irrigation Canals

• • Canal losses and their minimization
  • Irrigation requirements and design discharge of canal permissible velocities for different canals
  • Design of canal-based on Manning's & Lacey's formulae
  • Need and location of escapes
  • Components of the distribution system

10.  Highway Engineering

10.1 General

• • Introduction to transportation systems
  • Historic development of roads
  • Classification of the road in Nepal
  • Basic requirements of road alignment

10.2 Geometric Design

• • Basic design control and criteria for design
  • Elements of cross-section, the typical cross-section for all roads in filling and cutting
  • Camber
  • Determination of radius of horizontal curves
  • Superelevation
  • Sight distances
  • Gradient
  • Use of Nepal Road Standard and subsequent revision in road design

10.3 Drainage System

• • Importance of drainage system and requirements of a good drainage system

10.4 Road Pavement: Pavement structure and its components: subgrade, sub-base, base and surface courses

10.5 Road Machineries

• • Earthmoving and compacting machines

10.6 Road Construction Technology

10.7 Bridge: T-beam bride and Timber bridges

10.8 Road Maintenance and Repair: Type of maintenance works 

10.9 Tracks and Trails

10.10 Airport Engineering: Planning and layout of Heliports; Terminal Building and Control Tower; Drainage System for Airports

11. Estimating and Costing

11.1 General

• • Main items of work
  • Units of measurement and payment of various items of work and material
  • Standard estimate formats of government offices

11.2 Rate Analysis

• • Basic general knowledge on the use of rate analysis norms prepared by the Ministry of Works and Transport and the district rates prescribed by the district development committee

11.3 Specifications

• • Interpretation of specifications

11.4 Valuation

• • Methods of valuation
  • Basic general knowledge of standard formats used by commercial banks and NIDC for valuation

12. Construction Management

12.1 Organization

• • Need for organization
  • Responsibilities of a civil Sub- engineer
  • Relation between Owner, Contractor, and Engineer

12.2 Site Management

• • Preparation of site plan
  • Organizing labor
  • Measures to improve labor efficiency
  • Accident prevention

12.3 Procurement and Contract Procedure

• • Contracts and its types
  • Departmental works and day-work
  • Preparation of tender document
  • Tender procedure
  • Contract agreement
  • Conditions of contract
  • Construction supervision

12.4 Accounts

• • Administrative approval and technical sanction
  • Familiarity with standard account keeping formats used in governmental organizations
  • Muster roll
  • Completion report

12.5 Planning and Control

• • Construction schedule
  • Equipment and materials schedule
  • Construction stages and operations
  • Bar chart

B. Computer Related

1. Computer fundamental
2. Operating System
3. Word processing
4. Electronic spreadsheet
5. Database management system
6. Presentation system