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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: Foods and Nutrition × Author: Katyal, Princy × End date: 2014 × Start date: 2012 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Assessment of nutritional status of School going children (7-9 years) of rohtak district of Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2014) Katyal, Princy; Boora, Pinky
    The nutritional status of school going children from Rohtak district of Haryana was assessed. Two hundred school going children (100 boys and 100 girls, 7-9 years of age) from two villages namely Lakhanmajra and Kahanaur were selected. Information was collected on socio-economic status, dietary habits, food and nutrient intake (24-h recall method n=100), anthropometric measurements, clinical assessment and nutritional knowledge of mothers of school going children. Majority of respondents were from higher category having monthly income of Rs 4,001-8,000. The intake of pulses, milk and milk products, roots and tubers, other vegetables, green leafy vegetables, sugar and jaggery and fats and oils were significantly (P<0.05) lower than RDI. Intake of nutrients was significantly (P<0.05) lower than their respective RDAs. Genderwise comparison showed that intake of energy, protein, fat, calcium, β-Carotene, iron, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin C, folic acid and vitamin B 12 content was significantly (P<0.05) higher by boys than girls. The mean height, weight and triceps skin fold thickness of school going children were significantly (P<0.05) lower than their respective standard values. Out of 200 school going children, 29 per cent were moderately underweight, 24 per cent moderately stunted while 16 per cent children were moderately wasted and 7.5, 10 and 7 per cent were severely underweight, stunted and wasted, respectively. However, clinical deficiency i.e. lack of luster, thinness and sparseness, diffused pigmentation, pale conjunctiva, angular stomatitis, angular scars, cheilosis, spongy and bleeding gums, xerosis, caries, mottled and discolored teeth, scarlet and raw tongue and magenta tongue were found in the respondents. It was found that family type, family income, father’s occupation, mother’s working status and parent’s education had significant (P<0.05) effect on food intake of selected children. Effect of family size, family type, family income and mother’s education were found to be significant (P<0.05) on nutrient intake of the children. Nutrition education was imparted with the help of lectures and visual aids like charts, posters, leaflets and pamphlets to mothers of the school going children. It was found that majority of the mothers had inadequate nutrition knowledge regarding nutrition before imparting nutrition education. Significant (P<0.01) increase in knowledge scores regarding importance of balanced diet and other important aspects was observed after imparting nutrition education to the mothers. There is an urgent need to educate mothers of school going children about the importance of balanced diet and to include nutrientrich recipes based on locally available food stuffs in the children’s diet to improve their nutritional status. Hence it can be concluded that feeding of nutrient rich supplements based on locally available food stuffs can go a long way in improving nutritional status of children.