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NABARD Grade B Syllabus 2022

• Test of Reasoning
• English Language
• Computer Knowledge
• General Awareness
• Quantitative Aptitude
• Economic & Social Issues (with focus on Rural India)
• Agriculture & Rural Development (with focus on Rural India)

NABARD Grade B Syllabus: Phase I

Subject	Syllabus
Reasoning	Coding Decoding Direction Sense Test Analogy Data Sufficiency Clocks and Calendars Statement Conclusions Venn Diagrams Statement Arguments
English Language	Comprehension Jumbled Sentence Sentence Improvement Cloze Test Idioms and Phrases Synonyms and Antonyms One word substitution
Computer Knowledge	Microsoft Office Computer Network Computer Fundamentals Input and Output Devices Components of Computer Computer Storage Devices Internet OSI Model
General Awareness	Financial news Economic News Banking News Polity Books and Authors Important Days
Quantitative Aptitude	Average Percentage Profit and loss Number System Speed, Distance and Time Simple and Compound Interest Ratio and Proportion Partnership Data Interpretation Number Series Time and Work Probability
Economic and Social Issue	Nature of Indian Economy Globalization Economic Reforms Privatization, Inflation Economic Underdevelopment Social Infrastructure Education, Social Justice Human Development Education Social Justice Social structure in India Demographic trends
Agriculture and Rural Development	Soil Erosion and Water Conservation Water resource Farm & Agri Engineering Plantation & Horticulture Animal Husbandry Fisheries, Forestry Agriculture Extensions Ecology & Climatic Changes Present Scenario of Indian Agriculture

NABARD Grade B Syllabus: Phase II

• Essay writing, comprehension
• report writing
• paragraph writing
• Letter writing

• Nature of Indian Economy:
  1. Structural and Institutional features
  2. Economic underdevelopment
  3. Opening up the Indian Economy
  4. Globalization
  5. Economic Reforms in India
  6. Privatization. Inflation
  7. Trends in Inflation & their Impact on National Economy and Individual Income. Employment Generation in India
  8. Rural and Urban
  9. Measurement of Poverty
  10. Poverty Alleviation Programmes of the Government.
• Population Trends:
  1. Population Growth and Economic Development
  2. Population Policy in India.
• Agriculture:
  1. Characteristics / Status
  2. Technical and Institutional changes in Indian Agriculture
  3. Agricultural performance
  4. Issues in Food Security in India
  5. Non-Institutional and Institutional Agencies in rural credit.
• Industry:
  1. Industrial and Labour Policy
  2. Industrial performance
  3. Regional Imbalance in India's Industrial Development
  4. Public Sector Enterprises.
• Rural banking and financial institutions in India:
  1. Reforms in the Banking/ Financial sector.
• Globalization of Economy:
  1. Role of International Funding Institutions
  2. IMF & World Bank
  3. WTO
  4. Regional Economic Co-operation.
• Social Structure in India:
  1. Multiculturalism
  2. Demographic trends
  3. Urbanisation and Migration
  4. Gender Issues Joint family system
  5. Social Infrastructure
  6. Education
  7. Health and Environment.
• Education:
  1. Status & System of Education
  2. Socio-Economic Problems associated with Illiteracy
  3. Educational relevance and Page 8 of 25 educational wastage
  4. Educational Policy for India.
• Social Justice:
  1. Problems of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes
  2. socio-economic programs for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes and other backward classes.
• Positive Discrimination in favor of the underprivileged:
  1. Social Movements
  2. Indian Political Systems
  3. Human Development.
• Current Economic & Social Issue

• Agriculture:
  1. Definition
  2. meaning and its branches
• Agronomy:
  1. Definition
  2. meaning and scope of agronomy
• Classification of field crops
• Factors affecting crop production
• Agro Climatic Zones
• Cropping Systems:
  1. Definition
  2. types of cropping systems
• Problems of dryland agriculture
• Seed production
• seed processing
• seed village
• Meteorology:
  1. weather parameters
  2. crop-weather advisory
• Precision Farming
• System of Crop Intensification
• Organic farming
• Soil and Water Conservation: Major soil types, soil fertility, fertilizers, soil erosion, soil conservation, watershed management;
• Water Resource:
  1. Irrigation Management:
     1. types of irrigation,
     2. sources of irrigation,
     3. crop-water requirement,
     4. command area development,
     5. water conservation techniques,
     6. micro-irrigation,
     7. irrigation-pumps,
     8. major, medium
     9. minor irrigation.
• Farm and Agri Engineering:
  1. Farm Machinery and Power,
  2. Sources of power on the farm:
     1. human
     2. animal
     3. Mechanical
     4. Electrical
     5. Wind
     6. Solar
     7. Biomass
     8. Biofuels
     9. water harvesting structures
     10. farm ponds
     11. watershed management
     12. Agro-Processing
     13. Controlled and modified storage
     14. perishable food storage
     15. Godowns
     16. Bins
     17. Grain silos.
• Plantation & Horticulture:
  1. Definition
  2. Meaning
  3. Branches
  4. Agronomic practices and production technology of various plantation and horticulture crops
  5. Post-harvest management value and supply chain management of Plantation and Horticulture crops.
• Animal Husbandry:
  1. Farm animals and their role in the Indian economy
  2. Animal husbandry methods in India
  3. common terms pertaining to different species of livestock
  4. Utility classification of breeds of cattle.
  5. Introduction to common feeds and fodders- their classification, and utility.
• Fisheries:
  1. Fisheries resources
  2. Management
  3. exploitation - freshwater, brackishwater, and marine;
  4. Aquaculture- Inland and marine;
  5. biotechnology;
  6. post-harvest technology.
  7. Importance of fisheries in India.
  8. Common terms pertaining to fish production.
• Forestry:
  1. Basic concepts of Forest and Forestry.
  2. Principles of silviculture,
  3. forest mensuration,
  4. forest management,
  5. forest economics.
  6. Concepts of social forestry,
  7. agroforestry,
  8. joint forest management.
  9. Forest policy and legislation in India,
  10. India State of Forest Report 2015.
  11. Recent developments under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
• Agriculture Extension:
  1. Its importance and role,
  2. methods of evaluation of extension programs,
  3. Role of Krishi Vigyan Kendra's (KVK) in the dissemination of Agricultural technologies.
• Ecology and Climate Change:
  1. Ecology and its relevance to man,
  2. natural resources,
  3. their sustainable management,
  4. conservation.
  5. Causes of climate change,
  6. GreenHouse Gases (GHG),
  7. major GHG emitting countries,
  8. climate analysis,
  9. distinguish between adaptation and mitigation,
  10. climate change impact agriculture and rural livelihood,
  11. carbon credit,
  12. IPCC,
  13. UNFCCC,
  14. CoP meetings,
  15. funding mechanisms for climate change projects,
  16. initiatives by Govt of India, NAPCC, SAPCC, INDC
• Present Scenario of Indian Agriculture and Allied activities:
  1. recent trends,
  2. major challenges in agriculture measures to enhance the viability of agriculture.
  3. Factors of Production in agriculture;
  4. Agricultural Finance and Marketing;
  5. Impact of Globalization on Indian Agriculture and issues of Food Security;
  6. 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 Labourers,
• Artisans,
• Handicrafts,
• Traders,
• Forest dwellers/tribes and others in rural India- Trends of change in rural population and rural workforce;
• problems and conditions of rural labor;
• Issues and challenges in Handlooms

Development Economics	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 – Post-2015 Agenda.
Statistics	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.
Finance	Financial system in India; Regulation of Banks & Financial Institutions, Banking and Financial Institutions in India; financial system Microfinance, its significance and importance; Union Budget; Project finance Concept of project cycle management, Private and Social Cost-Benefit significance of development finance, Financial Inclusion: Concept of project cycle management, Private and Social Cost-Benefit significance of development finance, Financial Inclusion
Management	Its nature and scope; The Management Processes; Planning, Organization, Staffing, Directing Controlling; The Role of a Manager in an Organisation. Leadership: The Tasks of a Leader; Leadership Styles; Leadership Theories; A successful Leader versus an effective Leader.

NABARD Grade B Exam Pattern

Phase	Type	Sections	Maximum Marks & No. of Qs	Time
I	Objective	Test of Reasoning	20	120 minutes
		English Language	40
		Computer Knowledge	20
		General Awareness	20
		Quantitative Aptitude	20
		Economic & Social Issues (with focus on Rural India)	40
		Agriculture & Rural Development (with focus on Rural India)	40
TOTAL MARKS:			200	120 minutes

Mains Exam Pattern

There will be three Papers here, both Descriptive as well as Objective. The Exam Pattern for NABARD Grade B Mains exam is as follows

Phase	Paper	Subject	Type	Marks	Time
II	1	General English	Descriptive	100	1.30 hrs
	2	Economic and Social Issues and Agri. and Rural Development (with focus on Rural India)	Objective & Descriptive	100	1.30 hrs
	3	Development Economics, Statistics, Finance & Management	Objective & Descriptive	100	1.30 hrs
TOTAL MARKS:				300	4.30 hrs

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