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Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar

After independence, development of the rural sector was considered the primary concern of the Government of India. In 1949, with the appointment of the Radhakrishnan University Education Commission, imparting of agricultural education through the setting up of rural universities became the focal point. Later, in 1954 an Indo-American team led by Dr. K.R. Damle, the Vice-President of ICAR, was constituted that arrived at the idea of establishing a Rural University on the land-grant pattern of USA. As a consequence a contract between the Government of India, the Technical Cooperation Mission and some land-grant universities of USA, was signed to promote agricultural education in the country. The US universities included the universities of Tennessee, the Ohio State University, the Kansas State University, The University of Illinois, the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Missouri. The task of assisting Uttar Pradesh in establishing an agricultural university was assigned to the University of Illinois which signed a contract in 1959 to establish an agricultural University in the State. Dean, H.W. Hannah, of the University of Illinois prepared a blueprint for a Rural University to be set up at the Tarai State Farm in the district Nainital, UP. In the initial stage the University of Illinois also offered the services of its scientists and teachers. Thus, in 1960, the first agricultural university of India, UP Agricultural University, came into being by an Act of legislation, UP Act XI-V of 1958. The Act was later amended under UP Universities Re-enactment and Amendment Act 1972 and the University was rechristened as Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology keeping in view the contributions of Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant, the then Chief Minister of UP. The University was dedicated to the Nation by the first Prime Minister of India Pt Jawaharlal Nehru on 17 November 1960. The G.B. Pant University is a symbol of successful partnership between India and the United States. The establishment of this university brought about a revolution in agricultural education, research and extension. It paved the way for setting up of 31 other agricultural universities in the country.

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Subject: Family Resource Management × End date: 2016 × Start date: 2016 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Assessment of occupational health hazards among tea factory workers
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2016-06) Gayathri Devi, M.; Vats, Aditi
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    An analytical approach to study health and safety measures among rural elderly in Uttarakhand
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2016-01) Sandhya Rani; Sharma, Promila
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    To study physical qualifications of workers in hospitality and tourism industry in the Kumaun region of Uttarakhand
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2016-03) Mehra, Neha; Sharma, Promila
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    Assessment of occupational health hazards among tea factory workers
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2016-06) Gayathri Devi, M.; Vats, Aditi
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    Musculoskeletal disorders and related health hazards in women working in chikankari industry
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2016-05) Singh, Preeti; Sharma, Promila
    Lucknow is known around the world over for its many fine handicrafts. Some of the most popular names in the list are chikankari, hand-block, textile printing, zari, zardozi, and many others that are practiced by various artisans of Lucknow. Chikankari is considered to be the most popular amongst these and is recognized worldwide. It is a fine art of embroidery made with untwisted yarn with the help of the needle on a fine cloth. Most back pain is caused by bad posture while sitting, even though bad posture may not cause any discomfort, continual poor posture will in the long term cause back pain. As the ladies have to sit in one posture and that to they have to bend forward in order to do their work. Therefore, present investigation aimed to study the demographic profile and medical history of women workers, to study the work schedule and working environment, to measure the physiological cost of work in terms of – musculoskeletal disorder, visual/ postural/grip strength stress, to study work related hazards of the workers and to develop intervention programme and disseminate in selected centres to educate workers on healthy work environment. Simple random sampling technique was used to select Chikankari workers. From the total 146 Chikankari centers, two centers namely Lucknowi Chikan Centre Chowk and S.J. Chikan Vatika Centre Cantt road were selected. A list of workers was prepared from two centers and from total 150 and 170 Chikankari workers respectively, 60 from each centre were randomly selected for descriptive data, while 10% of the workers were selected for experimental group (12workers). It was found from the investigation that Majority 53.30 percent unit I and 51.70 percent unit II based workers performed their work in sitting on floor in cross legged position. Majority 85.83 percent workers reported working hour to be 7-8 hours per day. About 85 percent workers had reported body ache as the main common illness faced by them. Whereas continuous health problem reported by unit II i.e. 30 percent reported skin allergies as health problem. Unit I and Unit II workers reported less space (86.6 per cent) as major work environmental problems. Unit I and Unit II workers reported low wage was given by traders as major economic problems (65 per cent). As per REBA postural analysis, most of the chikankari workers were in the category of AL2 which interprets medium risk level and change was required soon. Back pain was the major musculoskeletal pain/discomfort reported by all units of workers. Muscular grip strength was condensed in performing only embroidery activity. Maximum decline in hand grip strength in both 90o and 180o was in case of unit II workers. Thus, types of Personal protective equipment (hand gloves, finger cots or protectors) were suggested to these workers to reduce health hazards.
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    Ergonomic evaluation of transplantation activity of vegetable production by traditional and hand operated sapling transplanter
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2016-06) Tripathi, Neha; Kwatra, Seema
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    Study of occupational health hazards among flour mill workers of Uttarakhand
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2016-01) Lohani, Dipti; Deepa Vinay
    Flour mill industry is one of the oldest established industries in the country. The majority of units have an average installed capacity of 70 tons per day and only around 10 percent of the mills are above the capacity of 120 tons per day. The flour milling industry in India has grown to become over the years the largest organized sector for utilization of wheat in the country. Workers in the flour mill industry are highly exposed to dust and allergies. Due to dust allergies and repetitive tasks in the mill, fatigue is increased and it also leads to occupational health hazards among workers. Therefore, need was felt to provide flour mill workers simple interventions which can significantly reduce the rate of exposure to dust, allergies and occupational health hazards. Thus, the objectives of the current research was to investigate various activities performed by the workers of flour mill, to assess their allergic disorder caused by dust, and to provide them some personal protective equipment which was being adopted from various institutions. The purposive cum random sampling was used to select 120 respondents who were working in the flour mill and were engaged in different activities such as loading-unloading, packing and cleaning. Descriptive data was collected from 120 workers, 10% of the workers were selected for experimental data using medspiror. All the workers were selected from Guru Nanak Roller Flour Mills Pvt. Ltd. and R.K. Flour Mills, situated in Kichha and Lalpur, district Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand. An allergic disorder questionnaire was being developed. Findings of present research investigation revealed that workers of flour mills were of poor socio-economic status. Most workers were suffering from low back pain and musculoskeletal disorders due to working in the flour mill. Majority 53.33 percent respondents suffered of dust allergy. Majority (91.67%) were highly stressed of their work environment. Mostly workers were using physical coping stress management strategies to lower their fatigued. Experimental data collected with the help of ‘Medspiror’ which is an electronic computerized machine. It was revealed that respiratory parameters such as forced vital capacity peak expiratory flow rate, forced expiratory volume and forced expiratory flow before and during activity were assessed and were found that there is deference in pulmonary functions before activity and after working for eight hours in the flour mill. The workers working for long time were found highly exposed to dust than the workers who had not started work in the morning. To protect the workers from exposure to dust, personal protective equipment such as capron, beak mask and pleated masks were adopted from Department of Clothing and Textiles, Hissar Agriculture University, Hissar. These personal protective equipments were being suggested to the workers of flour mill. Workers tried to work after wearing capron, beak mask and pleated masks and they felt comfortable in doing work when exposed to flour dust.