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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: Human Development and family studies × Author: Manizia, L. × End date: 2021 × Start date: 2020 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Knowledge and attitude of young adults towards gender-based violence
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2021-07) Manizia, L.; Mishra, Ragini
    Gender-based violence is a plague that can be fought through education and spreading awareness among the largest emerging population in the world. Young people can play positive roles in building peace and promoting recovery and development, or simply support their families and communities during and after violence. Prevention is the only way to stop violence before it even occurs and knowledge and awareness is the key to fight against any kind of violence. The weapon of knowledge and right approach/attitude of young people can make a difference in the current situation of gender-based violence. So, investment must be done to spread knowledge and awareness among young population in supporting the next generation of youth to lead fulfilled and productive lives free of violence. A dire need was felt for identification and understanding of what kind of attitude and knowledge is being carried by our young adults because future situations, prevention and eradication of gender-based violence depend on their knowledge and attitude. Therefore, the descriptive research was proposed, aimed to assess knowledge and attitude of young adults towards genderbased violence. A total number of 240 male and female young adults were selected as sample of the research through Population Proportion sampling method from two colleges of G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology. To achieve the research objective, a tool namely Knowledge Test on Gender-based violence (K-GBV) and Attitude Scale on Gender-based violence (A-GBV) was developed and thereafter reliability and validity of the tool was calculated before its application. Due to Covid-19 pandemic situation, researcher collected the data through online mode. The Knowledge Test on Gender-based violence (K-GBV) and Attitude Scale on Gender-based violence (AGBV) were converted in FourEyes forms, the link which was later sent to the respondents through emails and WhatsApp application. The information received from selected respondents was further utilized for coding and analysis. Suitable statistical methods i.e. frequency, percentage, p value, Mean and standard Deviation were applied on collected data to derive the research results. After analysis and comparing the data, the finding of research reflected that high level of knowledge and favorable/disagreement attitude towards gender-based violence was quite evident among majority of young adults. As far as gender was concerned, high level of knowledge and favorable/disagreement attitude was higher among female respondents as compared to male. It was found that majority of young adults between the age group of 22-25 years portrayed high level of knowledge a as compared to young adults between the age-range of 18-21 years. The percentage of high level of knowledge was also higher among young adults belonging to home science College and middle; high income families. Majority of young adults who have to graduate fathers, post-graduate mothers and parents working in government and private sector portrayed high level of knowledge in reference to gender-based violence. Majority of young adults (male and female; young adults belonging to age group 22-25 years, College of Home Science, all family income groups) portrayed strong disagreement on conducts of selected aspects of attitude scale on Gender-based violence, domestic violence, eve-teasing, early and forced marriages: marry-your-rapist, acid attacks, human trafficking, sexual violence, killing as gender-based violence. Majority of young adults (male and female; young adults belonging to age group 22-25 years, College of Home Science, all family income groups) agreed that patriarchal society, lack of focus on training for self-defenses, unreported cases of violence against women, lack of education on gender equality, lack of focus on reproductive health education and building healthy relationship and less focus on human values in education system as the root cause of gender-based violence. Majority of young adults (male and female; young adults belonging to age group 22-25 years, College of Home Science, all family income groups) agreed that eve teasing, cyber-sex trafficking, acid attack, dowry death, honor killing, sexual violence, physical violence, early and forced marriages and domestic violence should be considered as a criminal offence and death penalty, public humiliation, imprisonments and boycotting from the society should be the punishments given to the perpetrator. A significant association was found between knowledge and attitude of young adults towards gender-based violence and selected independent variable.