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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU, is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. It is a leader in agricultural research in India and contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 70s. It has a very large campus and has several research centres throughout the state. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997. HAU was initially a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. After the formation of Haryana in 1966, it became an autonomous institution on February 2, 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, later ratified as Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970, passed by the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1970. A. L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.

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Subject: Child Development × Author: Arora, Rita × End date: 1989 × Start date: 1982 × Type: Thesis ×
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    A comparative Study of the Impact of Selected Factors on Level of Aspiration of Rural and Urban Young Adolescents of 13-14 years of Age
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1986) Arora, Rita; Aggarwal, Suman
    Adolescence is a very special time with special challenges. This ta the period then the body changes from that of a child to that of an adult. This age is characterized by strong desire to leave childhood behind and play an independent role. In this quest, adolescents chalk out ambitious plans for future life. They frequently seem to reach a criterion of excellence in doing so they set for themselves a level of aspiration the standard they hope to attain. Aspiration overemphasizes the desire to improve or to raise above one's present status. The level of aspiration is best explained Mas a frame of reference involving Self esteem or alternatively as a standard with reference to witch an individual experiences, success or failure", (James Drever/ 1968).Thus, when a person is involved in a task. he sets for himself a new standard to conquer it that may be called level of aspiration. Level of aspiration may be affected by performance. where expectations and performance are found to differ.