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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: Jyoti × Start date: 1986 ×
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    Internet use pattern among college students: Gender analysis
    (CCSHAU, 2014) Jyoti; Batra, Asha
    The present study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana State was selected purposively. Simple random sampling was applied to select 100 boys and 100 girls students. The findings revealed that majority of male respondents accessed computer as compare to female and they accessed computer from more than 2 years. One third of male and half female respondents accessed internet connection on their computer. Male respondents used BSNL internet connection and female respondents used Vodafone internet connection and both male and female respondents liked wireless internet connection. Majority of male respondents were the independent decision maker in purchase of internet and spend more money on internet as compare to female respondents. Male respondents were most frequent users of internet for e-learning, assignment preparation, research purpose, job seeking and internet banking. Female respondents used internet most frequently for educational, chatting, e-mail services, different social networking sites and online shopping.