MPSC Town Planner Entrance Examination

I am going to take Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) Town Planner Group-B, in Town Planning & Valuation Department Entrance Examination so please tell me from where I can get detailed information about it.

The MPSC (Maharashtra Public Service Commission) conducts Town Planner, Group-B, in Town Planning & Valuation Department exam. The exam is completed in two steps:
(I) Screening test (II) personality test.

Syllabus:
Section (I) : Planning

01. Theoretical Aspects of Planning: (Marks 05)
A) Theories governing the Urban Land use Planning
B) Public Interest as an Urban land determinant, Health & Safety as an Urban land determinant.
C) Demographic Projections & methods
D) Transportation studies like Origin & Destination.
E) Industrial Location & Impact assessment.
F) Environmental study & EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment)
G) Plan preparation.

02. Perpetration of Regional Plan: (Marks 10)
A) Need & contents of regional plan.
B) Regional Delimitation.
C) Surveys necessary for Regional Plan.
D) Analysis & projection.
E) Alternative plans.
F) Implementation.
G) Necessary steps for starting & ending the process of Regional Planning.
H) Major plans required in the document.
I) Relation with the state plan & Surroundings.

03. Development Plan: (Marks 10)
A) Legal & administrative Processes to start the D.P.
B) Surveys, types, duration, etc.
C) Analysis & projections.
D) Planning alternatives goals & objectives & public participation.
E) Implementation & financial aspects.
F) Necessary steps for ending the D.P.
G) Major plans needed in the documents.
H) Relation with R.P.
I) Contents of D.P. (Section 22)
J) Modifications (section 37) purchase notice (section 49) & appeal (section 47)

04. Town Planning Schemes: (Marks 10)
A) Legal Provisions B) Need for T.P. Schemes
C) Terms & concepts D) Rational behind charging of incremental /betterment contribution
E) Relation with D.P.

05. (A) Layout of Lands: (Marks 03)
(i) Need for layouts (ii) Acts & bylaws (iii) Main planning principles
(iv) Traffic, Circulation, road patterns (v) Landscaping (vi) Amenities & services.
(B) Village Plans: (Marks 02)
(i) Legal provisions (ii) Surveys (iii) Analysis & Projections
(iv) Plans (v) implementation.

06. Development Control: (Marks 10)
(A) D.C. Control Rules (B) Development charge & concepts behind it.
(C) Provisions of appeal (D) Factors to be considered while granting development
permissions.

07. Acts and Rules: (Marks 10)
(A) MRTP Act 66 (with latest amendments & modifications)
(B) LA Act 1894 (C) ULC 1976 (if in existence)
(D) Bombay Provisional Municipal Corporation Act. 1949.
(E) Maharashtra Municipal Council Act, 1965
(F) Grampanchayat Act.(G) MLR Code 1965
(H) Bombay Stamp Act 1958 (I) Constitutional Amendments Regarding Town Planning

Section (II) : Valuation
08. Theoretical Aspects of Valuation (Marks 05)
(A) Definition of Valuation (B) Various purpose of Valuation
(C) Special characteristies of landed property
(D) Supply of landed property & factors affecting it
(E) Demand for landed property & factors affecting it
(F) Interests in landed property.
(G) Market Value (H) Statutory valuation & non-statutory valuations
(I) Capital value (J) Rental Value

09. Valuation of Land & Buildings: (Marks 10)
(A) The direct comparison or comparative method......... (i) Circumstances when to be used.
(ii) Points to be considered.
(B) The contractors method & its weaknesses.
(C) The Profit method ............ (i) Gross Profit (ii) Net Profit (iii) Deductions
(D) The Residual method....... (i) Circumstances when to be used.
(ii) Latent value (iii) Cost of development
(E) The Investment Method..... (i) Investment (ii) Year's Purchase
(iii) Estimation of Gross income, Outgoing & Net income.
(iv) Rates of Interest........
(a) Remunerative Rate of Interest & factors on which it
is dependent
(b) Accumulative rate of interest.
(v) Advantages of Investment in landed property.
(vi) Disadvantages of Investment in landed property.
(vii) Yields & its relationship with price.
(viii) Factors governing investment.

10. Rental Value and its Estimation: (Marks 05)
(A) Rent (B) Demand factors affecting rental value
(C) Supply factors affecting rental value
(D) Methods of estimating rental value
(E) Outgoing (F) Sinking fund (G) Rating

11. Types of Landed property: (Marks 05)
Main types and considerations for valuation. (A) Residential Property
(B) Industrial property
(C) Commercial Property -Goodwill
(D) Agriculture Property
(E) Leasehold Property :Various types of Rent-- Ground
Rent, Rack Rent, Gross Rent, Net Rent, Rising
Rent, Virtual Rent, Premium.
(F) Non-Agricultural Assessment.

12. Valuation Tables: (Marks 05)
(A) Meaning & Utility. (B) Amount of Re.1/- (C) Present value of Re.1/-
(D) Amount of Re. 1/- p.a. (E) Annual Sinking Fund (F) Present value of Re.1/-p.a.
(G) Single rate tables & Dual rate tables. (H) Annuity of Re.1/-

Section (III) : Land Acquisition
13. Acquisition of Land and Buildings: (Marks 10)
(A) Need for compulsory acquisition (B) Procedure of Land Acquisition under L.A. Act 1894.
-295 (C) Functions of Land Acquisition Officer
(D) Factors to be taken into account while estimating the compensation
(E) Factors which are not to be taken into account while estimating the compensation.
(F) Urgency Clause
(G) Withdrawal of acquisition.
(H) Various other Acts in Maharashtra for acquisition & method of estimating compensation
under those Acts.


Detailed information about the screen test pattern and personality test is in the file. Download the file to get the information.

MPSC town planner exam detail

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