Punjab Department of Water Supply and Sanitation Exam Syllabus & Test Pattern

Jan 31, 2024   By Sadaf

Punjab DWSS Syllabus – As the Punjab DWSS Recruitment 2024 Notification is released recently, candidates who are interested and eligible for the PBDWSS Jobs must apply for the desired. The DWSS Punjab Recruitment board officials are going to find the talented aspirants through the written exam. So the applicants should get ready for the written examination, so only they could clear the written test to get the desired Punjab DWSS Job. Here we have given the entire details about the  Punjab DWSS Exam Pattern and syllabus topics to be prepared for the written. So aspirants who need a reference about the test pattern and syllabus of the DWSS Punjab Recruitment Exam then go through this page.

DWSS Punjab Exam Pattern & Syllabus 

Candidates who have applied for the DWSS Punjab Recruitment must get the notification about the announcement of the written exam date. But to get the study materials for the exam, you have to make an effort on your own to find the exam related details. But after landing on our page, you don’t need to make further attempts to collect the Punjab DWSS Syllabus & Exam Pattern details, because in the below section we have updated the complete information about the Punjab DWSS Recruitment Exam 2024

Department of Water Supply and Sanitation Punjab Recruitment 2024 Exam

Organization NameDepartment of Water Supply and Sanitation, Punjab
Post NameCommunity Development Specialist (CDS), Information Education and Communication (IEC) Specialist, Block Resource Coordinator (BRC) cum
Community Facilitator (CF)
 Category Syllabus
Exam DateUpdated Soon
Job LocationPunjab
Official Websitewww.pbdwss.gov.in

Punjab DWSS Exam Pattern Detail

PBDWSS Community Development Specialist (CDS) And IEC Specialist Exam Pattern

CategorySubject NameMarks
Part – ABasic Knowledge(Punjabi, Mathematics, internet browsing, Email and MS Office, English)25
Part – BKnowledge of Community Mobilization, Water, and Sanitation sector60

Punjab DWSS Block Resource Coordinator (BRC) cum Community Facilitator (CF) Exam Pattern

CategorySubject NameMarks
Part – ABasic knowledge (Punjabi, Mathematics, internet browsing, Email and MS Office)25
Part – BKnowledge of Community Mobilization, Water, and Sanitation sector60

Punjab Department of Water Supply and Sanitation Exam Syllabus  

Punjab DWSS Syllabus – Community Development Specialist (CDS) & IEC Specialist

Part A: Basic knowledge 

  • Punjabi: Punjabi syllabus for Matric as prescribed by Punjab School Education Board (PSEB)
  • Mathematics: Mathematics syllabus for class 10 as prescribed by (PSEB)
  • Basic Knowledge of internet browsing, Email, and MS Office
  • English: Syllabus for Matric as prescribed by Punjab School Education Board (PSEB)

Punjab DWSS Syllabus – Block Resource Coordinator (BRC) cum Community Facilitator (CF)

Part A: Basic Knowledge

  • Punjabi: Punjabi syllabus for Matric as prescribed by Punjab School
    Education Board (PSEB)
  • Mathematics: Mathematics syllabus for class 10 as prescribed by (PSEB)
  • Basic Knowledge of internet browsing, Email, and MS Office

Part B Syllabus for  IEC, CDS, and BRC

Knowledge of Community Mobilization, Water, and Sanitation

Water Supply

  • Types of sources of drinking water
  • Ill effects of contaminated water
  • Definition of safe, potable drinking water and its Importance in everyday life.

Water quality

  • Judicious and safe use of water
  • Water quality issues related to water and use of FTK’s & H2S vials.
  • Quality parameters to be tested for drinking water.
  • Sampling process for collection of water samples for testing of heavy metals, basic parameters, bacteriological contamination &pesticides.
  • Vector-borne diseases.
  • Waterborne diseases.
  • Disinfection of water by chlorination etc
  • Basic Knowledge about water treatment technologies such as RO Plants, Arsenic-cum–Iron removal plants.

Decentralization in Rural Water & Sanitation Sector

  • Knowledge about PRIs, its various functions as per the Panchayati Raj Act
  • Community management
  • Community participation
  • Participatory Rural Appraisal [PRA] techniques
  • Social Audit in water supply schemes
  • Community mobilization

Gender Mainstreaming and inclusion in the Water &Sanitation sector

  • Awareness of Menstrual Hygiene
  • Role of Women in Water and Sanitation
  • Poshan Abhiyan – stunting, wasting under-nutrition, anemia (among young children, women and adolescent girls) and reducing low birth weight
  • Inclusion of poor and other disadvantaged sections of the community

Service Delivery

  • Importance and benefits of longer hours of water supply
  • Disinfection of Water supply
  • Benefits of 24×7 Water Supply

IEC Activities

  • Various types of IEC activities
  • Interpersonal communication.
  • Mid media.
  • Reminder Media.
  • Mass Media.
  • Social media
  • Various types of Stakeholders- Primary, Secondary and Tertiary.
  • School IEC

Sanitation

  • Definition of safe Sanitation and its importance in day to day life,
  • Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) – Gramin
  • Introduction, definition, goals, and objectives,
  • Benefits of toilet construction and its usages
  • Ill effects of Open Defecation
  • Oral fecal route.
  • Importance of handwashing before meals and after defecation
  • Impact of poor sanitation on Women and Children
  • Health benefits of safe sanitation

Toilet Construction

  • Various types of toilets
  • Benefits of leach pit toilets
  • Benefits of bath-cum-toilets
  • Construction details of leach pit toilet and septic tank toilets.
  • Importance of soakage pit for septic tank toilets
  • WC Pan definition and types. Benefits of rural Pan
  • P Trap definition and its benefits
  • Maintenance of Toilets

Open Defecation Free Environment Definition and benefits.

Triggering Tools And Techniques

  • Interpersonal communication, Focus group discussion.
  • Community-led total sanitation campaign (CLTS). Triggering and formation of Nigrani Committees, the importance of morning nigrani.
  • Wash (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene) awareness.
  • School awareness camps.
  • Other IEC tools.