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Bihar PSC Assistant Public Sanitary & Waste Management Officer Exam Pattern

The exam will consist of two compulsory papers:

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Bihar PSC Assistant Public Sanitary & Waste Management Officer Syllabus

General Studies

• Current National Events
•  Indian Constitution
• Important National & International Institutions, Organizations, and fora-their Structures, Mandate,
• Issues of Environmental, Ecology, Biodiversity & Climate changes
• Current International Events
• Salient features or world physical geography
• Physical geography of India
• History of British rules in India and freedom struggle
• Defense and Indian Armed Forces
• Scientific Inventions and use of Science.
• Important aspects of Governance, Transparency & Accountability, e-governance, Role of Civil Services in democracy.
• Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, growth, development, and employment, poverty alleviation, resource mobilization, and inflation.

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Solid and Liquid Waste Management Syllabus

Solid Waste Management

Unit I

• Types of solid wastes: municipal solid waste, industrial wastes, hazardous wastes, bio medical waste, E- waste.
• Evolution of Solid Waste Management – Solid waste: A consequence of life, Waste generation in a technological society, Material flow and waste generation
• The development of solid waste management, integrated solid waste management
• Planning for integrated waste management, operation of solid waste management system.

Unit II

• Municipal Solid Waste Composition, Determination of composition, particle size, heat value, bulk and material density
• Types of materials recovered – Mechanical Properties, biodegradability.

Unit III

• Collection of Solid Waste, Refuse collection systems, Commercial wastes, Transfer stations, Collection of recyclable materials, Litter and street cleanliness, Design of collection system

Unit IV

• Solid waste processing treatment and disposal: Biological Process, Composting, Production of bio fertilizers and energy.
• Thermal Process incineration, gasification, wet oxidation, pyrolysis, palletization and energy production.
• Waste management through Reduce, Recycle and Reuse Kitchen waste management.
• Landfills classification – Types and methods. Design Engineering
• Current issues in Solid Waste Management – Public and private ownership and operations, Role of the solid waste engineering

Liquid waste Management

Unit I

Introduction

• Waste management: an overview, Liquid wastes: Municipal, Domestic and Industrial
  wastewater , Solid wastes : Municipal, Domestic and Industrial solid wastes
• Environmental Engineering and Environmental Systems – an overview: Mass- balance approach to
  problem solving

Unit II

• Wastewater: Water resource and it’s significance
• Water: a remarkable substance of planet earth
• Water pollution: Types, sources and impacts, surface water, ground water pollution
• Wastewater: Domestic black and grey water, industrial and agricultural wastewater

Unit III

• Wastewater Treatment: Flow Sheets: Unit operations and unit processes , Primary treatment, Pre treatment, Screening bar racks, Grit removal, Communication, Flow equalization
• Sedimentation : Design concepts
• Secondary treatment : Chemical unit processes: Precipitation, Coagulation, Disinfection Process design
• Biological unit processes : nature and kinetics of biological growth : Aerobic process – CSTR, Anaerobic Filters, UASB Oxidation ponds Process design.
• Advanced techniques: Membrane filtration, Gas stripping, Ion exchange, Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP)

Unit IV

• Water reuse: Water reclamation and reuse: Water reclamation technologies – process flow diagrams
• Public health and environmental issues in water reuse, Agricultural and landscape irrigation; ground water recharge with reclaimed water – ground water recharge guidelines; Risk assessment for water reuse, industrial water reuse: Cooling tower makeup water

Hazardous Waste Management

Unit l

Introduction – Definition and classification of hazardous waste, Need for hazardous waste management, sources of hazardous wastes, Effects on community terminology and classification, Storage and collection of hazardous wastes, Problems in developing countries, Protection of public health and the environment.

Unit II

• Biomedical and Chemical Wastes
• Biomedical wastes : Types, Management and handling, control of biomedical wastes
• Chemical wastes Sources: Domestic and industrial, inorganic pollutants, Environmental effects, Need for control , Treatment and disposal techniques, Physical, chemical and biological processes, Health and environmental effects.

Unit III:

Physical and Chemical Treatments – Filtration and separation, Chemical precipitation, Solidification and stabilization technique, Chemical oxidation and Reduction, pervaporation, ozonation, evaporation. Remedial actions – Techniques : Containment techniques, ln situ Bio treatment options, Site remediation,
Phytoremediation, Bio filtration

Waste Management Rules, Regulations and its Compliances

Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Clearances, Site authorization and Consent to Establish and Consent to operate From Pollution Control Board of Bihar.