Recruitment 2023
The recruitment to the post of Patwari is done through an examination conducted by PSSSB as and when required.
Eligiblity Criteria:
- Applicant must hold Graduation Degree in any discipline from a government-approved Institution.
- Required Certificate: Also hold 120 Hours ISO Certified basic computer course certificate.
- Must study Punjab Language as a subject up to Matriculation
- Must qualify Punjabi Compulsory Paper with 50% mark
Syllabus:
- The Exam will be conducted in MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions) format. OMR sheets will be used for answering the questions.
- There will be negative marking. Each question carries 1 mark. For every wrong answer, 1/4th mark would be deducted. The question(s) not attempted will receive no credit or discredit.
- The Tentative syllabus is as follows:
PaperII: Compulsory Punjabi Qualifying paper of matriculation level
➤ Maintenance of a record of crops grown at every harvest
➤ Harvest inspection
➤ Khababa in canal colonies
➤ Classification of crops and cultivated soils
➤ Entries relating of wells.
➤ Entries of owners and tenants.
➤ The patwari should intimate to the gram panchayat concerned, within 15 days of finishing the girdawari, the following changes of cultivating tenancy made by him in khasra girdawari so that the latter should inform the persons concerned about these changes :-
- When there is a change in cultivation from a tenant that the landlord;
- When there is an addition of a tenant to the existing tenant;
- Where there are two or more than two tenants and the name of one or more tenants is removed from entry in the khasra gidwari.
➤ Keeping of the record of rights upto date by punctual record of mutations
➤ The accurate preparation of statistical returns embodying the information derived from the harvest inspections, register of mutations, and record of rights.
➤ Village notebook. For each of the estates in his circle the patwari keep up a vernacular register or note-book which contains the following
- Area statement
- Kharif crop statement
- Rabi crop statement
- Revenue account
- Statement of transfers of rights of owners and occupancy tenants
- Statement of ownership, mortgages and revenue assignments
- Statement of cultivating occupancy
- Statement of rent paid by tenants-at-will
➤ Miscellaneous duties of patwari: It is his business to report at once all serious calamities affecting the land or the crops, and all severe outbreaks of disease among man and beast. He must bring to the notice of inspecting officers encroachments of government lands, the deaths of pensioners and assignees, the emigration or immigration of cultivators, and the unauthorized cultivation of groves held revenue free on condition of the preservation of the trees. He must allow anyone interested to inspect his records, and , if required, give certified extracts from them.