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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: Food and Nutrition × Author: Manju Devi × End date: 2014 × Start date: 2012 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Assessment of nutritional status of adolescent boys and girls of Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2013) Manju Devi; Kawatra, Asha
    The present study was conducted in Hisar,Bhiwani and Panchkula district of Haryana state to assess the nutritional status of the urban-school going adolescents and impart nutrition education to the Selected adolescents and their mothers. Three hundred adolescents of 13-15 years age (50 boys and 50 girls) from three district i.e. Hisar, Bhiwani and Panchkula district of Haryana state were selected randomaly. Nutritional status of total 300 adolescents were assessed through dietary intake, anthropometric measurements and clinical assessment. Thirty adolescents and their mothers from Hisar city were selected for imparting nutrition education. Nutrition education was imparted to the adolescents and their mothers with the help of audio visual aids on weekly basis for one month and knowledge gained after one month was assessed. Impact of nutrition education was studied for changes in dietary intake and anthropometric measurements.The results of the study revealed that all of the adolescents were in the age group of 13-15 years from Hisar, Bhiwani and Panchkula. Most of the adolescents belonged to general caste. Daily mean intake of most of the food groups i.e. cereals, roots & tubers, fruits, milk & milk products, fats & oils, sugar & jiggery, green leafy vegetables and other vegetables was significantly lower than that RDI in adolescent boys as well as adolescent girls from all three districts. Daily mean intake of most of the nutrients (energy, protein, fat, calcium, thiamine, ascorbic acid, iron and β-carotene) by adolescents was significantly lower than RDA. Energy balance of adolescents was negative as they had less intake and high expenditure Significant increase in knowledge scores regarding importance of balanced diet and other important aspects were observed after receiving nutrition education to selected adolescents and their mothers. Anthropometric measurements of the respondents from all the three cities showed non-significant differences in all the parameters of adolescent. Significant change in food and nutrient intake of adolescent was observed after receiving nutrition education. Non-significant change in weight and body mass index of adolescent respondents was also observed after one month of nutrition education.