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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: Kanika × End date: 2014 × Start date: 2012 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Interior environment assessment of green buildings
    (CCSHAU, 2014) Kanika; Kiran Singh
    A green building is one which uses less water, optimizes energy efficiency, conserves natural resources generate less waste and provides healthier spaces for occupants. As compared to conventional buildings. The study entitled, “Interior Environment Assessment of Green Buildings” was conducted by covering the two districts i.e. Gurgaon and Panchkula for checking the satisfaction level of the occupants of green buildings. It was found that Considering all the IEQ data of green and conventional buildings, green buildings were far better than that of conventional buildings in all the IEQ aspects except the humidity level was found out be higher in green building 1 than the conventional buildings 1 (1.91%) and the noise level in conventional building was less than that of green building 1 during winter afternoon (11.66 dB), evening (1.34 dB) and afternoon of summer as well (5.6 dB). When researcher checked the satisfaction level of the occupants of green buildings the data were found to be highly satisfied and also the results for controlling those aspects were seen to be satisfied too. Researcher had to promote the green and sustainable habitat concept in rural and urban areas. The data regarding the pre and post knowledge of the urban and rural areas respondents were found to be significant after the intervention program.