NABARD Syllabus and Exam Pattern for Grade A and B Officers

Precis: 20 Marks

Questions on Precis para: 20 Marks Report/Letter Writing: 20 Marks

• Puzzles (seating arrangement, linear seating arrangement, floor based)
• Syllogism
• Data Sufficiency
• Statement based questions (Verbal Reasoning)
• Inequality
• Miscellaneous Questions
• Input-Output
• Blood Relations

• Data Interpretation
• Quadratic Equations
• Number Series
• Simplification/Approximation
• Data Sufficiency
• Miscellaneous Arithmetic Questions – profit & loss, average, simple and Compound Interest, boat and stream, time and work, area

• Reading Comprehension
• Cloze Test
• Sentence Improvement
• Spotting the errors
• Fill in the blanks
• Sentence Rearrangement

• The questions in this test will be from Current Affairs, Banking, and Economy, Insurance
• In the Current Affairs, questions can be asked from recent appointments, awards, and honors, sports, new schemes, national and international news, latest developments in science and technology

• This Section covers topics from various topics like Networking, Input-Output devices, DBMS, MS Office, Internet, History of Computer & Generations, Shortcuts.

• Structural and Institutional Features
• Economic Underdevelopment
• Opening up the Indian Economy
• Globalization
• Economic Reforms in India
• Privatization

• Trends in Inflation & their Impact on National Economy and Individual Income

• Rural and Urban
• Measurement of Poverty
• Poverty Alleviation Programmes of the Government

• Population Growth and Economic Development
• Population Policy in India

• Characteristics/Status
• Technical and Institutional changes in Indian Agriculture
• Agriculture Performance
• Issues in Food Security in India
• Non-Institutional and  Institutional Agencies in rural credit

• Industrial and Labour Policy
• Industrial Performance
• Regional Imbalance in India’s Industrial Development
• Public Sector Enterprises

• Reforms in the Banking/Financial Sector

• Role of International Funding Institutions
• IMF & World Bank
• WTO
• Regional Economic Co-operation

•  Multiculturalism
• Demographic Trends
• Urbanization and Migration
• Gender Issues Joint Family system
• Social Infrastructure
• Education
• Health and Environment

• Status & System of Education
• Socio-Economic Problems associated with Illiteracy
• Educational relevance and educational wastage.
• Educational Policy for India

• Problems of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes
• Socio-economic programmes for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes and other backward classes

• Social Movements
• Indian Political Systems
• Human Development

• Definition, meaning and its branches
• Agronomy: Definition, meaning, and scope of agronomy
• classification of field crops
• factors affecting crop production
• Agro Climatic Zones
• Cropping Systems: Definition and types of cropping systems
• Problems of dry land- Seed Production, seed processing, seed village
• Meteorology: weather parameters, crop weather advisory
• precision farming
• system of crop intensification
• Organic farming

• Major Soil types
• Soil Fertility
• Fertilizers
• Soil erosion
• Soil conservation
• Watershed management

• Irrigation Management
• Types of Irrigation
• Sources of Irrigation
• Crop-water requirement
• Command area development
• Water conservation techniques
• Micro-Irrigation
• Irrigation pumps
• Major, medium, and minor irrigation

• farm machinery and Power
• Sources of power on the farm-human, animal, mechanical, electrical, wind, solar and Biomass, biofuels
• Water harvesting structures
• Farm Ponds
• Agro Processing
• Controlled and modified storage, perishable food storage, godowns, bins, and grain silos

• Definition, meaning, and its branches
• Agronomic practices and production technology of various plantation and horticulture crops
• Post-harvest management, value and supply chain management of Plantation and Horticulture Crops

• Farm animals and their role in the Indian economy
• Animal husbandry methods in India
• Common terms pertaining to different species of livestock
• Utility classification of breeds of cattle
• Introduction to common feeds and fodders, their classification and utility
• Introduction to the poultry industry in India
• Common terms pertaining to poultry production and management
• the concept of mixed farming and its relevance to socio-economic conditions of farmers in India.
• complimentary and obligatory nature of livestock and poultry production with that of livestock and poultry production with that of agricultural farming

• fisheries resources
• Management and exploitation – freshwater, brackish water, and marine
• Aquaculture- Inland and marine
• Biotechnology
• Post-harvest technology
• Importance of fisheries in India
• Common terms pertaining to fish production

• Basic concepts of Forest and forestry
• Principles of Silviculture, forest mensuration, forest management, and forest economics
• Concepts of social forestry, agroforestry, joint forest management
• Forest Policy and legislation in India, India State of Forest Report 2015
• Recent developments under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate change

• Its importance and role, methods of evaluation of extension programmes
• Role of Krishi Vigyan Kendra’s (KVK) in the dissemination of Agricultural technologies.

• Ecology and its relevance to man, natural resources, sustainable management, and conservation
• Causes of climate change, Green House Gases (GHG), major GHG emitting countries, climate analysis
• Distinguish between adaption and mitigation
• Climate change impact to agriculture and rural livelihoods
• Carbon credit
• IPCC, UNFCCC, CoP meetings
• Funding mechanisms for climate change projects
• Initiatives by Govt of India, NAPCC, SAPCC, INDC.

• Recent trends
• Major challenges in agriculture measures to enhance
• Viability of agriculture
• Factors of production in agriculture
• Agriculture Finance and Marketing
• Impact of Globalization on Indian Agriculture and Issues of Food Security
• Concept and Types of Farm management

• Concept of Rural Area
• Structure of the Indian Rural Economy
• Importance and role of the rural sector in India
• Economic, Social and Demographic characteristics of the Indian rural economy
• Causes of Rural Backwardness
• Rural Population in India
• Occupational structure
• Farmers, Agricultural Laborers, Artisans, Handicrafts, Traders, Forest Dwellers and others in rural India.
• Trends of change in rural population and rural workforce
• Problems and conditions of rural labor
• issues and challenges in Hand-looms
• Panchayati Raj Institutions-Functions and working
• MGNREGA, NRLM- Aajeevika, Rural Drinking water programmes, Swachh Bharat, Rural Housing, PURA, and other rural development programmes.

• Measures of development
• Economic Development Models
• Role of Subsidies
• Importance of savings and investment
• Importance of agriculture
• Terms of trade in agriculture
• Development issues in India

• Basic statistical concepts
• Summarizing of data
• Frequency distribution
• Measures of Central Tendency
• Relative dispersion, Elementary probability
• Relative frequency approach
• sampling, Axiomatic approach
• analysis of frequency distribution
• Correlation, Regression, Sampling Methods
• Time Series Analysis

• Regulation of Banks & Financial institutions in India
• Financial system-features, characteristics, and issues
• Microfinance, its significance, and importance
• Union Budget; Project finance, Infrastructure financing, Sources of capital, Development finance
• Concept of project cycle management
• private and social cost-benefit significance of development finance
• financial inclusion

• Its nature and scope
• The Management Processes
• Planning, Organization, Staffing, Directing and Controlling
• The role of a manager in an organization
• leadership
• human resource development
• communication