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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 and Communication Managemeng × Author: Bhawana × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Impact of right to education act in Hisar district
    (CCSHAU, 2014) Bhawana; Dahiya, Manju
    Present study was conducted in Hisar District of Haryana state, purposively. Four schools were selected both from rural and urban areas. 25 parents and 25 students were selected from each schools. Further all the appointed teachers in all the four schools were selected randomly. Thus a total sample of 100 parents, 100 students and 50 teachers were selected. A set of 21 independent variables and 3 dependent variables were used in study. The collected data was quantified and interpreted by using suitable statistical tools. Socio personal profile of respondents revealed that, majority of parents were from age group of 25 to 35 years, medium educational status and independent professions as their major family occupation. Majority of the teachers were from 25 to 35 years of age, medium educational status, had motorcycles as a mean of transport, they had attended training and they had spent medium duration (5- 8yrs) in school. Parents had poor social participation and low extension contacts. Whereas teachers had medium communicational profile. The findings also revealed that parents had low awareness about RTE, whereas teachers had high awareness about RTE. Regarding provision for school under RTE, teachers had high awareness. Both parents and teachers had high awareness about provision of midday meal under RTE. Overall Perception, regarding impact of RTE act in parents and students were medium and in teachers were high after RTE. In both areas respondents had cent percent constraints regarding “Parents don’t send their girls to school because of long distance and for security reason”, “Paper work increased after RTE”, “Increase in extra curriculum activities” and “No failure of children irrespective of their performance”. The independent variable, number of children in both parents and teachers had significant association with “Awareness about provision for school under RTE” and family education with “Awareness of provision for students under RTE” and “Awareness about provision of midday meal”. The girls enrollment is higher than the boys in urban schools, but in Dhani Peeranwali no facilities of midday meal was observed at the time of data collection and the data further showed that in all other schools, there were no security guard, peon, no separate toilet facility for staff, no library facility and no other facilities in the schools on the day of the visit of the schools.