SCHEME AND SYLLABUS FOR THE POST OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROJECT OFFICER IN WOMEN DEVELOPMENT AND CHILD WELFARE SERVICE SCHEME

NOTIFICATION NO. 25/2012
SCHEME AND SYLLABUS FOR THE POST OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
OFFICER IN WOMEN DEVELOPMENT AND CHILD WELFARE SERVICE
SCHEME
PART-A : Written Examination (Objective type):
Paper – 1 : General Studies and
Mental Ability
150 Questions 150 Mts. 150 Marks
Paper – 2 :
Home Science OR
Social Work OR
Sociology
150 Questions 150 Mts. 300 Marks
PART-B : Oral (Interview) Test 50 Marks
Total 500 Marks
SYLLABUS
PAPER – I :GENERAL STUDIES AND MENTAL ABILITY
1. General Science – Contemporary developments in Science and Technology and their
implications including matters of every day observation and experience, as may be expected of
a well-educated person who has not made a special study of any scientific discipline.
2. Current events of national and international importance.
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 Indian National Movement.
4. World Geography and Geography of India with a focus on AP.
5. Indian polity and Economy – including the country’s political system- rural development –
Planning and economic reforms in India.
6. Mental ability – reasoning and inferences.
7. DISASTER MANAGEMENT (Source : CBSE Publications)
1. Concepts in disaster management and vulnerability profile of India / State of A.P.
2. Earth quakes / Cyclones / Tsunami / Floods / Drought – causes and effects.
3. Man made disasters - Prevention strategies.
4. Mitigation strategies / Mitigation measures.


PAPER – II : HOME SCIENCE
Food Science and Nutrition :
Basic Food Group which will provide nutrition, requirement for normal health; body
building goods, energy food and protractive foods – Cereals – Millets – legumes, oil seeds, milk
and milk products, flesh goods, egg, fish, vegetables, fruits – Nutritive value; selection, storage,
Processing and cooking methods, their effect on nutritive value and palatability – evaluation of
food quality – subjective methods of measuring quality of products – Products – preparation of
score cards.
Food poisoning, food allergy – Biological function, food sources and deficiency signs of
carbohydrates, fat, proteins, Vitamins and minerals – Nutritional inter-relationships.
Food and Nutriant requirement in human life cycle – Adulthood Pregnancy – lactation –
infancy – pre – school age, school age, preadolescence and adolescence - nutritionally
vulnerable groups – factors effect in nutrient requirements.
Principles of meal planning – Principle of diet in diseases. Therapautic modification of
normal diet during dietary deficiencies diseases – Anemia, PCM, Vit.A and other common
diseases – Fever Diseases of gastro intestinal tract, obesity, Diabetes – Heart diseases and
Renal diseases.
Assessment of nutritional status of communities and their interpretation – clinical
Biochemical – Antrropometry – Biophysical and Diet surveys.
Child Development :
Factors affecting growth and development of child. Prenatal care preparation for Child
Birth – premature baby – causes postnatal care breast feeding V.S. bottle feeding weaning –
immunization, physical, intellectual and emotional development during infancy toddlerhood –
childhood and adolescence developmental talks – physical and physiocological needs of young
children – Learning types and effects – importance of play – language growth – Habit formation.
Creches and Balwadies – Importance of pre-school education needs and characteristics
of pre-school child – Needs of importance in the growth and development of children.
Population education, Child and family welfare services of State, National and
International Agencies.
Agriculture productivity trends – Demand and supply of food-grain – Agriculture planning
and Government Policy – Credit and Credit institutions in the Agricultural sector – Agricultural
marketing – Storage losses – Rural reconstruction – Community development and Panchayats –
their principles and organizations.
Principles and methods of Extension work – Individual group and mass media. Audio
visual aids in extension work. Programme planning – Execution and evaluation in extension
work. Developing leadership – Organisation of Women in villages.
The Five year Plan of Government of India – Principles of rural reconstruction –
Problems of Indian Villages – Community development – National programmes for rural women
and children ANP, IRDP, SNP Adult Literacy, ICDS – Family Welfare Programme – Social
Welfare Boards, etc.
Problems involved in improving nutritional status of Community, Nutrition intervention
programmes – International agency involved in alleviating malnutrition – UNESCO, UNICEF,
WHO, FAO.
SOCIAL WORK
1. Concent, Scope and nature of Social Work. Definition of the terms Social Welfare, Social
Service, Social Reform and Social Action.
2. A Historical review of Social work in India and abroad. The Philosophy of Social Work and its
relationship to changing Indian Culture. Professional and ethical values of Social Work.
3. Methods of Social Work : Definition, Scope, Principles and Values of case work, Group work
and Community Organisation.


4. Fields of Social Work : Government and voluntary efforts, difference between Government –
Professional – Voluntary work in the various fields of Social Work practice such as :
Youth Welfare
Labour Welfare
Correctional Social Work
Medical and Psychiatric Social Work
Rural and Urban Community Development – Local Self Government
Panchayat Raj
5. Family and Child Welfare : Importance of Family and Child Welfare, Status, Problems of
Women in India and Special Legislation relating to :
Marriage, Dowry, Inheritance and maintenance of Women, Problems of working Women,
Women in need of special care.
6. State Women’s Welfare Department : Organisation, functions and programmes.
7. Family Welfare Planning : Trends in demography and its impact on the nation.
Demographic characteristics of Child Population, emerging Philosophy of Child Welfare
and emphasised in the Children’s character of Rights, Indian Constitution and other legislative
Provision.
Importance of the Family in the development of the personality of the Child, Child rearing
practices in India. Children in need of special care, the disabled, the deserted and disturbed in
the role of professional held and services available.
Child Welfare in the Five Year Plans, Child Welfare Schemes by the State.
Philosophy and Objectives – Organisational structure and functions – a review.
Needs of Children and organizing programmes to imrove health, nutrition, recreational
and educational needs – Problems and needs to handle them.
Role of Voluntary agencies and their contribution, Social Welfare Administration, Semi-
Government agencies and Central Social Welfare Board, State Social Welfare Board – their
structure and functions.


SOCIOLOGY :-
1. Nature of Society, Holism and Atomism, the animal and human society – Language and
human society.
2. Nature and scope of sociology – Methods of Sociology and Social Science – Sociology and
Philosophy.
3. The natural order and the human society, individual and society; theories of society; social
contract theory; organisamic theory and group mind theory. Sociology and Ecology.
4. The Social System – Status and Role, Social stratification and bases, Forms of stratification
– Social differentiation.
5. Social interaction and social processes. Basis of social interaction. Interests and Motivation
– Forms of social processes, associative and dissociative – Accommodation and
Adjustment, Assimilation and Cooperation – Competition and Conflict.
6. Socialisation – Theories of Socialisation – Agencies of Socialisation – Social learning and
imitation, rewards and punishment.
7. Nature and scope of special control means and agencies of social control – Social control
and changing social situation.
8. Poverty and unemployment, social and moral hygiene, Prostitution and Alcoholism.
9. The concept of family – Joint family and its type – Advantages and disadvantages,
breakdown of joint family : causes and trends. Status of woman-child marriage, widow
marriage, divorce, dowry, Sati and social seclusion – law of inheritance.
10. Basic Social Institution – marriage, family at kinship Economic Institutions and division of a
Labour.