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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: Family Resource Management × Author: Anju Bala × End date: 2018 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Assessing the environmental burden in rural habitat with indoor smoke from solid fuels
    (CCSHAU, 2015) Anju Bala; Kiran Singh
    The present study was undertaken in Hisar district of Haryana state to determine the domestic use of cooking fuels in rural habitat. Assessing the indoor air pollution level as per energy ladder and its effect on respiratory health and installation of MDV chullah and improved hara to combat indoor air pollution The survey of first phase revealed that majority of respondent were in between 20-30 years of age, illiterate, belongs to low caste families, had nuclear families with 3-6 members, and were agriculture labor with monthly income of Rs. 10,001 to 15,000 . Data showed that most of the respondents were using chullah for own food and hara for animal feed with fuel placed on lower rung of energy ladder i.e. crop waste and dung cakes, with total time spent for lunch was (51.6 min) on chullah followed by LPG (29.4 min), hara (15.3 min.) and angithi/bhathi (17.4 min) in Gangwa village. In village Ludas, the total mean time spent for cooking activities was (53.0 min) on chullah followed by LPG (28.4 min), hara (13.7 min.) and angithi/bhathi (15.9 min). While using chullah and hara, respondents faced many health problems of ‘headache’ and ‘irritation in eyes’. Majority of them were also having respiratory problems like ‘phlegm’ (sputum) ‘shortness of breath’ (2.6), ‘cough’ (2.5) and ‘wheezing’ (attacks) with mean score of 2.0, respectively. By using of dung cakes SPM and CO2 values were high in traditional hara in comparison to improved hara. There was significant difference of PEFR value in traditional and MDV chullah and improved hara. SPM and CO2 was found to be in Permissible limits with the use of improved hara and MDV chullah and hence, found to be reducing pollution burden to some extent. More motivational programmes need to be conducted with help of anganwadi workers to promote improved cook stoves for healthy environment and to reduce respiratory problems.