This book is intended to help students to prepare for the topic ‘Basics of Project Management’, included as part of General Studies and Engineering Aptitude for ESE.

Project Management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques applied to project activities in order to meet the project requirements. It is an organized venture for managing projects, involving scientific application of modern tools and techniques in planning, financing, implementing, monitoring, controlling and coordinating unique activities or takes to produce desirable outputs in accordance with the determined objectives within the constraints of time and cost.

The topics covered under this subject will give a clear-cut picture about project life-cycle and various phases of the project management. The project management tools and techniques are presented in the detailed manner, so that an engineering graduate can understand the applications of various tools and techniques.

The students are also advised to solve the previous ESE Questions so that they can understand the pattern of questions for better preparation.
The concepts and questions are prepared keeping in view the model paper, prelims of ESE 2017 & ESE 2018 by the UPSC for revised pattern of ESE. Suggestions by the readers are invited for the improvement in our future editions.