Paper-1
1. Fundamentals of Environment: Concept of environment hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere and biosphere; impact of man and environment; period of hunting and food gathering: period of plant and animal domestication; period of science, technology and industrialization.
2. Ecosystem: Concept, components, food chain and food web, energy flow and productivity in ecosystem, nutrient cycle in ecosystem, types of ecosystem (forest, grassland, desert, aquatic, marine) and their problems, ecological imbalance.
3. Natural Resources and their management: Water, land, forest, minerals, soil, agriculture, wildlife and energy resources status and their proper management/conservation; non-conventional resources.
4. Environmental Pollution: Cause, effect and prevention of air, water, soil, thermal, noise and marine pollution, and hazardous wastes : socio-economic consequences of pollution in urban, industrial and rural areas of India.
Paper-2
1. Global Environmental Problems : Green house effect, acid rain, E-nino, Ozone layer depletion, deforestation, desertification, salinization, habitat and diversity loss. chemical and radiation hazards (Chernobyl disaster, Bhopal tragedy etc.) and their management. Environment Laws: Environment Protection Act; Ar (Prevention & Control of Pollution)Act; Water (Prevention and control of Pollution) Act; Wildlife Protection Act; Forest Conservation Act.
2. Environment and Public Health: Major water, food and air-borne diseases of menand animals, civic sense and personal hygiene issues, health hazards in agricultural pest control, heavy metal toxicity.
3. Environmental Monitoring and Impact Assessment : Bioindicators and Monitoring; environmental impact assessment and management, safe limits of the key environmental pollutants.
4. Waste Management and Bioremediation: Treatment of waste water, solid waste management, management of persistent organic pollutants. Silent valley project, the Ganga action plain, cost effective abatement technology.
5. The Environment Protection Laws and Human Rights: Sustainable development environmental policies, environmental ethics, human rights issues relating to environment human population growth and lifestyle, HIV/AIDS, Mission LiFE