PSSSB Veterinary Inspector Syllabus 2026: Subject Wise Topics & Exam Pattern

PSSSB Veterinary Inspector Syllabus 2026 – Overview

The Punjab Subordinate Services Selection Board (PSSSB) has released the detailed syllabus for the Veterinary Inspector (Group-C) recruitment under Advertisement No. 10 of 2026. This syllabus is crucial for candidates aiming to secure one of the 150 vacancies. The written exam comprises 150 objective-type questions carrying 150 marks, divided into a qualifying Punjabi language section (Part A) and a merit-determining section (Part B) covering veterinary science and general aptitude. Below is the complete subject-wise syllabus and exam pattern to help you prepare effectively.

Organization Overview

The Punjab Subordinate Services Selection Board (PSSSB) is a state government body responsible for recruiting candidates for various Group-C and Group-D posts in Punjab. The board conducts transparent and merit-based selection processes to fill vacancies across departments.

Exam Pattern

Subject-wise Syllabus

Part A: Punjabi Language Syllabus (Qualifying – 50 Marks)

This section is at the Matriculation level and tests language proficiency and Punjab-related knowledge. Key topics include:

• Idioms and Proverbs
• Types of words, Prefixes/Suffixes
• Antonyms and Synonyms
• Change of number and gender
• Punctuation and correct sentences
• Correct Punjabi form of English words
• Biographies of Sikh Gurus: Guru Nanak Dev Ji to Guru Gobind Singh Ji
• Punjab History and Culture
• Correct forms of numbers, months, days

Part B: Section 1 – Subject-Specific Syllabus (70 Marks)

The veterinary science section comprises 22 detailed topics:

1. Elementary Animal Husbandry

• Routine management practices for various categories of livestock (calves, heifers, pregnant and lactating animals, etc.) and sick animals
• Introduction to methods of castration
• Milking techniques
• Common breeds of cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig, horse, and poultry
• Animal production systems
• Principles of housing for farm animals
• Record keeping and responsibilities of the veterinary inspector/ para-veterinarian
• Waste management, Identification techniques in animals, Biosecurity methods at livestock farm
• Clean milk production concept, significance, and factors affecting clean milk production
• Sanitation and hygiene practices; Routine farm practices, including wallowing, watering, and bathing

2. Elementary Livestock Handling

• Dentition, Farrier practices and shoeing, Hoof trimming in bovine
• Prevention of cruelty to animals, preparing animals for show/animal fair
• An overview of animal behaviour, Common tools used for animal control
• Methods of restraint and handling of animals

3. Elementary Animal Nutrition

• Common feeds and fodders
• Scientific feeding and feeding schedule for different categories of livestock
• Colostrum feeding – how, when, and why to feed colostrum to calves
• Feeding practice of cow & buffalo – Ration balancing
• Anti-nutritional factors
• Feed additives
• Hay and Silage making, Precautions in the storage of feed and fodder
• Principles of animal nutrition
• Digestive systems, including rumination
• Nutritional importance of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water

4. Basic Computer Applications

• Internet and World Wide Web, E-mail, and internet services
• Computer viruses, antivirus
• Practice in farm data recording
• Knowledge about computer accessories
• Use of computers in handling and presenting veterinary and livestock data
• Working in the Windows operating system
• Working with MS Word, Spreadsheets using MS Excel, graphics, and MS PowerPoint

5. Elementary Anatomy and Physiology of Animals

• Body cavities (Thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic) and their related organs
• Basic physiological parameters of domestic animals
• Introduction to anatomy and physiology of the musculoskeletal, digestive, cardiovascular, respiratory, nervous, excretory, male and female reproductive, and endocrine systems
• Mammary glands of domestic animals

6. Elementary Pharmacology

• Common antiseptics and disinfectants
• Weights and measures
• Pharmacy calculations
• Classification of important drugs
• Important Indigenous and allopathic drugs
• Introduction to Pharmacology, Nature and sources of drugs
• Routes of drug administration; Dosage forms
• Pharmaceutical processes; Handling of hazardous substances

7. Elementary Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health

• Common zoonoses and their management
• Disposal of a cadaver
• Concept of contagious, notifiable diseases and outbreaks
• Introduction to epidemiology, surveillance, and monitoring of common seasonal infectious diseases like Brucellosis, Rabies, Cysticercosis, TB, JD, Anthrax, FMD, Food-borne pathogens, and public health considerations

8. Elementary Poultry Science

• Hatchery routines
• Cleaning of poultry sheds and litter management
• Bio-security
• Feeding and poultry ration
• Introduction to common poultry diseases
• Vaccination
• Poultry types: Layer, Broiler; Common breeds/strains of poultry
• Meat and egg productivity and production, Different housing/rearing systems
• Management of layer and broiler farm; Brooding

9. Elementary Animal Husbandry Extension

• Extension teaching methods
• Extension and training programmes
• Extension in rural welfare
• Qualities of an extension worker
• Duties of a veterinary inspector/ para-veterinarian
• Communication tools and role of media, Set-up of Animal Husbandry Department, Record maintenance at Veterinary Hospital, Government schemes for farmers’ benefits
• Community development and rural sociology
• Principles and objectives of veterinary and animal husbandry extension

10. Elementary Animal Reproduction

• Gestation in domestic animals
• Methods of pregnancy diagnosis
• Abortion in domestic animals
• Female genitalia of cattle, buffalo, and goats, Reproductive cycle, Puberty, Oestrous cycle
• Methods of heat detection, including the fern pattern
• Sexual health and herd health programme
• Care and management of the dam and newborn calf, Introduction to parturient problems in dairy animals
• Parturition and impending signs, Types of infertility in farm animals: causes and remedies

11. Elementary Andrology and Artificial Insemination

• Handling of fresh/frozen semen
• Artificial insemination, including the optimum time of AI
• Diseases transmitted through semen
• Study of male genitalia and gonads
• Puberty, Methods of semen collection and storage

12. Elementary Parasitology

• Introduction to common parasites, i.e., protozoa (Theileria, Babesia, Anaplasma and Trypanosomes), trematodes (Liver flukes, amphistomes and lung flukes), cestodes (Moneizia, Dipylidium caninum, Taeniasis, Hydatid cyst), nematodes (Toxocara, Haemonchus, Lung worm, filarial nematodes etc.) and arthropods (Flies, Ticks, Mites, Fleas and myiasis) in livestock
• Economic importance of parasitic diseases of livestock

13. Procurement, Handling and Testing of Milk

• Milk – definition, its composition, factors affecting the quality of milk and standards
• Milk collection systems and their handling (transportation, reception and storage)
• Platform tests for quality analysis of milk
• History of dairy development in India
• Three-tier structure of dairy cooperative
• An introduction to the Indian dairy industry with special reference to the dairy sector in Punjab
• Cleaning and its importance
• Introduction to common detergents & sanitary agents
• Milk pricing system and its concept
• Important sanitary and hygienic practices for milk handling

14. Basic Livestock Health Management

• Brucellosis, Tuberculosis, Foot and Mouth disease, Rabies, Johne’s disease, Glanders, Theileriosis, Classical swine fever, etc.
• Insecticide toxicities
• Preventive health measures for bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases in various species
• Introduction to common diseases of livestock
• Haemorrhagic Septicaemia

15. Veterinary Hospital Maintenance

• Care and maintenance of surgical, anaesthetic, and other common equipment
• Assisting the veterinary surgeon in post-operative care
• Hospital hygiene, Sterilisation of operation theatre
• Surgical pack and surgical instruments
• Types of suture material, Categorization of biomedical waste, and its disposal as per pollution control board regulations
• Maintenance of case records and log books of scheduled drugs, Basic accounting
• Preparation of bills and maintenance of consumable and non-consumable stock of the hospital
• History taking, Prescription reading and dispensing of drugs, Preparation of animals for surgical operation

16. Elementary Veterinary Medicine

• Preliminary knowledge about indigestion, bloat, constipation, diarrhoea, aspiration pneumonia and urinary incontinence, Mastitis
• Common mineral and vitamin deficiencies, Hoof care
• Introduction to digestive, respiratory, urinary and production systems and their diseases (Milk fever, Ketosis, Haemoglobinuria)

17. Elements of Wound Care and Management

• Wound causes and classification
• Types of wound dressings
• Basic concepts of abscess, ulcers, haematoma, cyst, tumour, and hernia
• Clinical use of antiseptics, fly repellents, anti-maggot, etc.
• First aid in sick animals, including fracture cases; Management of bloat
• Hoof care

18. Basic Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Techniques

• Blood collection techniques
• Use of anticoagulants; Serum and plasma separation
• Urine collection, preservation and common physical and chemical tests
• Collection, preservation and dispatch of tissues for histopathology, Protocols for necropsy of mammals and poultry birds
• Handling of laboratory equipment, glassware and chemicals
• Cleaning and sterilising of laboratory wares
• Basic microscopy principles

19. Practical On-Farm/Farmer’s Door Training

• Use of audio and visual aids for training farmers
• Organising farmer interactions, Extension programmes, viz. Kisan Mela, Livestock shows, Animal markets and Animal welfare camps
• Handling, management practices of Dairy farm, Stud Farm, Poultry Farm, Piggery Farm, Sheep and Goat farm, Routine farm operations including vaccination, etc.
• Communication with farmers

20. Practical In-Clinics Training

• Sampling of body fluid/tissues
• Medication
• Postoperative management of surgical patients
• Care of pregnant animals
• Handling and dealing with sick animals, Record keeping
• History taking
• Preparation of solutions, lotions, tinctures, ointments, mixtures (carminatives, laxatives, purgatives, febrifuge, etc.), Electuaries etc.
• Vaccination

21. Practical Lab/Hospital Training

• Complete blood count
• Serum and plasma separation
• Preservation of serum, plasma and tissues
• Urine examination
• Preparation of smears for faecal examination
• Handling of laboratory equipment
• Methodology for transporting various samples to laboratory for examination
• Blood smear preparation
• Staining

22. Practical Bull Centre Training

• Preparation of extenders
• Handling of chilled and frozen semen, Storage of semen
• Handling of liquid nitrogen, including its containers
• Artificial insemination
• Record keeping
• Management of breeding bull
• Preparation of a dummy
• Artificial vagina preparation

Part B: Section 2 – General Section Syllabus (30 Marks)

General Knowledge Syllabus

• National and International Current Affairs
• History of Punjab – 14th century onwards
• History of India with special reference to the Indian freedom struggle movement
• Sports
• Cinema and Literature
• Political issues
• Environment issues, Current Affairs
• Science and Technology, Economic issues

Logical Reasoning Syllabus

Verbal reasoning:

• Coding & Decoding
• Analogy
• Classification
• Series
• Direction sense test
• Relations
• Mathematical operations
• Time test
• Odd man out problems

Non-verbal reasoning:

• Series
• Analogy
• Classification

Mental Ability Syllabus

• Number series
• Average
• Problems based on Ages
• Profit & Loss
• Partnership and Mixture
• Basic numerical skills
• Percentage
• Number system
• LCM and HCF
• Ratio and Proportion
• Simple and Compound Interest
• Work and Time
• Time and Distance
• Mensuration
• Data Interpretation

English Syllabus

• Basic Grammar
• Subject and Verb
• Adjectives and Adverbs
• Synonyms & Antonyms
• One Word Substitution
• Fill in the Blanks
• Correction in Sentences
• Idioms and their meanings
• Spell Checks
• Adjectives
• Articles
• Prepositions
• Direct and Indirect Speech
• Active and Passive Voice
• Correction in Sentences, etc.

Selection Process

Selection is based on the written examination followed by document verification. Only candidates who qualify Part A will have their Part B evaluated. Merit is prepared purely on Part B marks, subject to reservation rules.

Preparation Tips

• Focus more on the 70-mark veterinary section using your diploma notes and practical experience.
• Practice previous years’ papers and mock tests for speed and accuracy.
• Strengthen Punjabi to easily clear the qualifying Part A.
• Revise general awareness with special emphasis on Punjab-specific topics.