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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: Extension Education × Author: Ashma × End date: 2023 × Start date: 2020 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Cross-Cultural impact of old age pension on the livelihood chances of Geriatrics in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-02) Ashma; Dahiya, Manju
    Aging is a natural process which worldwide affects all the human beings. The major events in life of an individual includes birth, infancy, adolescence, adulthood and elderly, due to economic wellbeing and better health care facilities, increase the life expectancy of human beings. Global estimates indicate that geriatrics has been increasing steadily. The Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension System is a major source of income for the elderly. The present study focuses on awareness, utilization, prevalence of abuses and impact of old age pension on the livelihood chances of geriatrics in the districts Hisar and Nuh of Haryana State. Total of two hundred geriatrics (25 males and 25 females from four villages) interviewed randomly. The results indicated that in both the districts, half of the geriatrics (50.0%) were 65-70 years of age followed by 32.5 per cent geriatrics were 71-75 years of age and were from backward class and illiterate. In Hisar, awareness was comparatively more than Nuh about all these rights except right to equality, right to freedom of religion and senior citizen without children can claim maintenance from adult relative who will inherit the property after their death. Cent per cent geriatrics were aware and utilizing Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS) in both the districts followed by travel concession and National Programme for Health Care of Elderly (NPHC). In Nuh, old age pension funds were mainly used for basic needs (WMS-2.98) followed by family expenses while in Hisar, majority of the geriatrics used old age pension fund for medicines (WMS-2.85) followed by travel.39.5% of the geriatrics suffered from financial abuses, 31.0 per cent geriatrics suffered from emotional abuses, 19.5 per cent geriatrics suffered from physical abuses and all types of abuses (physical, emotional and sexual) were found more in female than male except financial abuse and maximum abuses caused by daughter-in-laws. Due to post pension the geriatrics got adequate quantity of different food groups with mean scores and standard deviation (30.7 ±27.5 and 41.5±31.8), health facilities (42.5± 36.5 and 58.2±38.3), shelter/sanitation/ water facilities (51.7 ±49.5 and 35.2±44.3), recreational facilities and other amenities with mean score and standard deviation (15.0±17.9 and 24.1±11.8) and significant in both the districts while the geriatrics from Nuh had inadequate quantity of clothes and non significant at 0.05% level of significance. The improved quality index for Nuh was 41.0 per cent and for Hisar was 63.0 per cent hence the quality index of geriatrics for Hisar was better than the Nuh In Nuh, maximum improvement was observed in mobility domain (WMS-2.40) whereas in Hisar maximum improvement was observed in health and nutrition domain (WMS-2.16). Among all the indicators, female geriatrics scored high for health (16.0±10.7) whereas male geriatrics scored high for shelter/ sanitation/ water (17.2±14.9) in Nuh while in Hisar also male geriatrics scored high for health (25.2±15.0) whereas female geriatrics scored high for clothes (20.7±10.4).Majority of the geriatrics (95.0%) faced illiteracy in completing formalities to get pension