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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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    A Comparative Study on Vocational Interest of Rural And Urban School Going Children
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1985) Chaudhary, Neena; Nath, M
    In Today's Child, We see the Nation's Tomorrow. That is why, Children have been Considered Nation's Top-Most asset, Who metamorphose into agile youth on whose shoulders the Country's Aspirations, responsibilities and destiny rests. being so, no Country can afford to neglect so vital section of Population as to ignore them is to ignore our future hopes. According to the provisional population report of 1981 Census, there are 255 Million Children between 0 and 14 Years, consisting about 38 Percent of the Total Population (UNICEF,1981). In Haryana there are estimated to be 55 Lakh of Children in the Age group of 0-14 Years, which is about 50 Percent of the state's total population. Thus the Importance of promoting Welfare of such a class in Particular, cannot be over emphasized