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| Origination Name | FSSAI |
| Name of Post | Principal Manager, Joint Director, Senior Manager, Senior Manager (IT), Deputy Director and Manager |
| No. of Vacancy | 38 Posts |
| Selection Process | Principal Manager – Interview Joint Director, Senior Manager, Senior Manager (IT), Deputy Director and Manager -Written Exam & Interview |
| Exam Date | — |
| Application Submission Start Date | 16.04.2021 |
| Last Date to Apply Online | 15.05.2021 |
FSSAI Deputy Director Syllabus & Exam Pattern
For Joint Director (Admin & Finance) & Deputy Director (Admin & Finance) :
| Syllabus of written examination | No of questions/ Marks |
| Part A – Ethics and understanding Management/ strategy/ Leadership/ Ethics or integrity related case study/ situational analysis/ Essay | 2 Questions *10 (20 marks) |
| Part B – Food Safety Ecosystem General understanding of food safety ecosystem- National(FSSAI, BIS, Commodity Boards, EIC, AGMARK), Indian Food Safety law, FSSAI roles and functions, Eat Right India and other initiatives of FSSAI | 2 Questions* 10 (20 marks) |
| Part C – Functional/ Technical Knowledge Admin/ Finance Constitutional framework of government, Union Government and Administration, Parliamentary procedures, General Financial Rules, Service rules for central government employees, RTI Act etc. | 4 Questions *15 (60 marks) Out of 06 questions 04 are to be attempted) |
For Joint Director (Technical) & Deputy Director (Technical) :
| Syllabus of written examination | No of questions/ Marks |
| Part A – Ethics and understanding Management/ strategy/ Leadership/ Ethics or integrity related case study/ situational analysis/ Essay | 2 Questions*10 (20 marks) |
| Part B – Food Safety Ecosystem General understanding of food safety ecosystem- National(FSSAI, BIS, Commodity Boards, EIC, AGMARK), Indian Food Safety law, FSSAI roles and functions, Eat Right India and other initiatives of FSSAI | 2 Questions*10 (20 marks) |
| Part C – Functional/ Technical Knowledge Food Science and Technology Food Science and Nutrition: Understanding food hazard, food borne illnesses, water and sanitation, GHP, GAP, HACCP, food allergies, Food Adulteration, Food Nutrition and Food Consciousness, Supplementation, Fortification, Bio-fortification, Genetically Modified Foods, CIB & RC, GEAC, Poor Diet and consequences: Stunting, wasting & anaemia, Life style diseases, Food testing and rapid detection methods, Accuracy and Precision in food testing. Food Safety and Quality: GMP, Auditing and inspections, Food Surveillance, Risk Analysis: Risk Assessment, Risk Communication and Management, Traceability and Recall of Food Products, Popular global cases of recall, Quality control of food at all stages of processing, Safety issues in food packaging materials, Sampling from a lot or process line, Non- destructive food quality evaluation methods, Safety issues of processed foods available in market, Global trends in Food Safety Assurance: Codex, US Food and Drug Administration and Food Safety at European Union, Harmonization of Food Safety Regulations Food Processing and Preservation: Basic principles and methods of Food Preservation: Heat processing, pasteurization, canning, dehydration, freezing, freeze drying, fermentation, microwave, irradiation and chemical additives. Refrigerated and modified atmosphere storage. Aseptic preservation, hurdle technology, alternate-thermal technologies and non thermal processing, New/Novel food additives and preservatives. Safety issues of processed foods available in market. | 4 Questions *15 (60 marks) Out of 06 questions 04 are to be attempted) |
For Senior Manager :
| Syllabus of written examination | No of questions/ Marks |
| Part A – Ethics and understanding Management/ strategy/ Leadership/ Ethics or integrity related case study/ situational analysis/ Essay | 1 (20 marks) |
| Part B – Food Safety Ecosystem General understanding of food safety ecosystem, Indian Food Safety law, FSSAI roles and functions, Eat Right India and other initiatives of FSSAI | 2 Questions *10 (20 marks) |
| Part C – Functional/ Technical Knowledge Communication theories: concept and process; Media laws, ethics and regulations; corporate communication; writing for traditional media (newspapers, magazines, radio, television etc) and new media (website, blogs, twitter, Facebook etc.); Advertising principles and concepts, Media planning, campaign planning; Advertising, Marketing and PR Research; | 3(20X3=60 marks) Section will contain 4 questions |
For Manager :
| Syllabus of written examination | No of questions/ Marks |
| Part A – Ethics and understanding Management/ strategy/ Leadership/ Ethics or integrity related case study/ situational analysis/ Essay | 1 (20 marks) |
| Part B – Food Safety Ecosystem General understanding of food safety ecosystem, Indian Food Safety law, FSSAI roles and functions, Eat Right India and other initiatives of FSSAI | 2 Questions *10 (20 marks) |
| Part C – Functional/ Technical Knowledge Section-1 Communication theories: concept and process; Media laws, ethics and regulations; corporate communication; writing for traditional media (newspapers, magazines, radio, television etc) and new media (website, blogs, twitter, Facebook etc.); Advertising principles and concepts, Media planning, campaign planning; Advertising, Marketing and PR Research; Section-2 Work psychology and organizational behaviour, Community psychology, application of psychology in Mass Media and information technology, psychological problem of social integration, psychology and economic development; Laws on social security, Industrial relations and compensation; | Questions * 20 (60 marks) Section one will contain 5 questions whereas sections 2 will have questions. One question from section 1 will be compulsory. Rest of the 2 questions attempted should be from only one out of the 2 sections. |
For Senior Manager (IT) :
| Subject and Syllabus of written examination | Number of Questions/ Marks |
| PART-A -40% (Aptitude &Understanding) | |
| Management/Strategy/Leadership/Ethics or Integrity related Case Study/ Situational Analysis/ Essay. | 1 question (20 marks) |
| General understanding of Food Safety Eco-system – National and International Food Safety Laws, FSSAI – Roles and functions; Government of India programmes in Food Safety and Nutrition. | 1 question (20 marks) |
| PART B – 60% (Functional/Technical Knowledge) | |
| Development Methodologies: Software Development Lifecycle and various methodologies like Waterfall, Spiral, Prototyping, Incremental, AGILE etc. Software Quality Management | 1 Project Based question with sub- parts (30 marks)
2 questions of 15 marks each out of 3 questions (30 marks) |
| Technology trends: Business Intelligence, Single sign-on techniques. | |
| Cloud Computing: Architecture of laaS, PaaS and SaaS; Virtualization; Cloud security; Amazon Cloud Web Services and National Cloud Services ‘Meghraj’; Cloud Services offered by IBM and Google, Government Community Cloud and knowledge of Government Guidelines on GCC | |
| Software Architecture: Service Oriented Architecture, Web based | |
| Architecture, MVC architecture and its advantages; Knowledge of Docker and other container platforms. | |
| Software Quality Management: Knowledge of Configuration management, Quality assurance and control. Version control etc. | |
| Server-side technologies: Modern tools to build RESTful web services, JQuery and web technologies, Microservices, APIs; web and mobile applications using variety of technologies such as Android, iOS, Java, PHP, CSS, Ajax and .NET | |
| Cyber Security: Knowledge of IT Act, Security Audit, OWASP top ten vulnerabilities like Cross Site Scripting (XSS), SQL injection etc.; security appliance like UTM, IPS etc. | |
| Database: Relational Database Techniques, Open Source Relational Databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL etc. Proprietary database like MSSQL | |
| Knowledge of Web 2.0 Technologies, Integrated website of FSSAI and FSSAI echo system, Online applications and software initiatives | |
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