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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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  • ThesisItemOpen Access
    Evaluation and quantification of fish food organisms and aquatic weeds of Ottu reservoir in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-09) Mehta, Pragya; Gajender Singh
    The study was carried out in Ottu reservoir which is situated in Sirsa city of Haryana, India. Evaluation and quantification of fish food organisms and aquatic weeds of Ottu reservoir were monitored from March 2021 to June 2021. The evaluation of the planktonic population revealed that there were 36 genera of plankton recorded. Out of this 19 genera of phytoplankton belongs to class Bacillariophyceae (3 genera), Cyanophyceae (3 genera), Chlorophyceae (11 genera), Euglenophyceae (2 genera) and 17 genera of zooplankton belongs to class Copepoda (9 genera), Rotifera (2 genera), Cladocera (4 genera), and Protozoa (2 genera). In various months maximum, 123 species of phytoplankton were observed in site 2 and site 4 and Chlorophyceae found as dominant group while in zooplankton in various month site 4 showed maximum 391species of zooplankton and Cladocera group found as the dominant group. The highest quantity of plankton was observed in April while the minimum quantity was observed in March. Shannon and Weaver's diversity index for plankton found maximum in site 1(3.35) and minimum in site 4 (3.25). In site 1 and site 2 significant difference (P<0.05) was observed for the phytoplanktons groups present every month from March to June. However, a non-significant difference was observed in site 3 and site 4.Whilst the zooplankton group present in site 1, site 2, site 3, and site 4 from March to June was also found significant. A total of 7 species of aquatic weeds recorded 4species (Eicchornia crassipes, Lamnea minor, Pistia stratiotes and Nympahea alba) belongs to free floating aquatic weeds, 2 species (Ceratophyllum demersum , Hydrilla verticelleta) belongs to submerged aquatic weeds and 1 species (Typha latifolia) belongs to Emergent aquatic weeds. A total of 17 benthic species of benthos identified belongs to 2 phylum viz. annelida (3 species) and mollusca (14 species) and in mollusca 2 class viz. gastropoda and bivalve recorded. Maximum benthic fauna recorded in June.
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    Fish biodiversity and physico-chemical parameters of Ottu reservoir in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-09-15) Chandan Singh; Gupta, R. K.
    In the present study, 36 fish species have been recorded from Ottu reservoir which belongs to 26 genera, 12 families and 5 orders. The Cyprinidae family was predominant among the 12 families. The IUCN conservation status of fishes at Ottu reservoir have shown that the most of the species i.e. 61.11% felled under Least Concern (LC) category (22 species) followed by 13.88% under Near Threatened (NT) group (five species) as well as Not Evaluated (NE) group (five species) and the two species found as vulnerable (VU) and one as endangered (EN) i.e. Tor putitora. The study on various physico-chemical properties of Ottu reservoir have shown that the water quality of Ottu reservoir was polluted due to increasing level of organic and inorganic compound which is discharge from the industrial effluents. The most of the water parameters ranged under normal as per optimum value for aquaculture. However, some of them were ranged higher than their optimum value i.e. alkalinity, ammonia, TDS, hardness chloride and salinity indicated that the level of pollution in Ottu reservoir. From the above point of view, it could be concluded that the water of Ottu reservoir need to be treated before its utilization for drinking and should be improved for aquaculture purposes. The soil texture of Ottu reservoir found that 43.33% clay, 21.67% silt and 25% sand which could be fallen under class of clay loamy soil. The soil pH of Ottu reservoir was generally neutral which is ranged from slightly acidic (pH= 6.5) to slightly alkaline (pH= 8) at different sites of Ottu reservoir. The present study gives enlightening information on fish bio-diversity and assists on understanding the water nature of Ottu reservoir. The fish-biodiversity of Ottu reservoir was narrow which indicated the enrichment in fish diversity through improving their water qualities and need to be conserved the vulnerable and endangered fishes of Ottu reservoir through suitable conservation strategies.