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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 of the Effect of Selected Factors on the Aspiration Level of Rural and Urban young Girls in Haryana
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 1990) Daulta, Meena; Nath, N.
    Human being frequently attempt to reach a certain level of excellence according to the hereditary character and surrounding environment. They set certain goals and ambitions to achieve during their Life span and this quest tor something above the other ls the aspiration of an individual. A revel of aspiration is a subjective goal to performance. The serves es a reference point for feelings of success or failure. To the problem solver. performance that exceeds the level of aspiration is successful and that which Calls short of the level or aspiration is failure. A level of aspiration ls fundamentally an operational goal a basis action (Starbucks 1963). The term "level Of aspiration" ls best explained "a frame Of Reference involving self-esteem or alternatively as a standard with reference to which an individual experiment success or failure (Drever 1968) for Hurlock (198). Aspiration "means the coal which" individual sets for herself in e tali(,which has intense personnel significance for her or in which her ego is involved.