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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: Home Science × End date: 2008 × Start date: 2008 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Extent and causes of school dropouts : A gender perspective
    (CCSHAU, 2008) Rajni; Goel, Rita
    Education is essential for economic development and eradicating poverty. Of the number of school going children in the age group 6 to 13 years in rural areas, 7.8% are out of school. Dropout can occur either when a pupil is compelled to leave school due to inadequate schooling provision or when he quits the school even if there is provision for his education. The estimated number of out of school children is 1.3 crore. The majority of out of school children are girls and children belonging to SCs and STs in rural areas.The present study was conducted with the following specific objectives: To assess the extent of dropouts at various levels of school education, To identify the causes of dropouts and To ascertain the activities/ jobs in which the dropouts are engaged. The study was conducted in Haryana state by selecting two districts namely Hisar and Sonipat, four blocks Hisar-I, Hansi-I, Sonipat and Gohana and four villages Dabra, Umra, Juan and Rabhra were selected randomly. A sample of 100 parents of school dropouts was interviewed. The data were collected with the help of duly constructed and pre tested interview schedule by the researcher. List of all the drop-outs during last five years (2001-2006) from class 6th to 12th was prepared from the selected schools’ records. From detailed list of dropouts, 25 dropouts and their parents from each of the selected village were drawn randomly. In this way total sample of 100 dropouts were selected for present study. Majority of the respondents (69%) from middle age group belong to high caste. Maximum respondents and their husbands were illiterate. Fifty six per cent respondents having medium educational status from nuclear families and having above five members in the family. Majority of the respondents having both boys and girls children living in pacca houses. Most of the respondents were landless having monthly income less than Rs. 5000/-. Fathers and mothers of most of the dropouts were engaged in agriculture labour. Most of the respondents fall in low category regarding all the psychological variables. More girls left the school in 7th, 9th, 10th, 12th then the boys. Boys dropout rate were high in 6th, 8th and 11th standard. The dropout rate has increased in the year 2004, 2005 and 2006. (Hisar). Girls (40.04%) dropout were high in 10th class, followed by 31.36 per cent in 9th and 24.67 per cent in 11th class (Sonepat). Boys enrolment in schools were high then girls. Majority of the dropouts were in age group 13-16 years. Most of the dropouts were failed in previous class. Sixty five per cent dropouts get assistant from government such as remission of fees, free books/ copies and scholarship. Who left the school once were never readmitted in the school. Lack of proper guidance (97.00%) and proper encouragement at school (91.00%) were the main reasons for dropouts as perceived by the parents. Almost half of the dropped wards (46.00%) were engaged in domestic work followed by 15.00 per cent in self employment and farming (11.00%). Child labour, service and business were also mentioned in the study.
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    Gender analysis of information and communication technology in rural households of Hisar District
    (CCSHAU, 2008) Preeti Singh; Grover, Indu
    Information and communication technology (ICT) is an umbrella term that includes both traditional and modern information and communication technologies. For the present study ICT refers to eight ICTs viz. television, radio, news paper, magazine, telephone, mobile, computer and internet. The study “Gender analysis of information and communication technology in rural households of Hisar District” conducted on a sample of 100 male and 100 female respondents respectively drawn from 4 villages of Hisar district revealed that among male respondents television was possessed by cent per cent (Rank-I), followed by mobile (63.00%, Rank-II), newspaper (61.00%, Rank-III), telephone (59.00%, Rank-IV), radio (55.00%, Rank-V), magazine (37.00%, Rank-VI) and computer (18.00%, Rank-VII) while none possessed internet at home (Rank-VIII). In case of female respondents, television was possessed by cent per cent (Rank-I), followed by radio (65.00%, Rank-II), mobile (57.00%, Rank-III), newspaper (50.00%, Rank-IV) and telephone (45.00%, Rank-V) followed by magazine (34.00%, Rank-VI) and computer (13.00%, Rank-VII) while none possessed internet at home (Rank-VIII). Gender analysis for access to ICTs revealed that cent per cent male respondents had access to television (100.00%, Rank-I) followed by mobile (63.00%, Rank-II) and newspaper (61.00%, Rank-III), telephone (59.00%, Rank-IV), radio (55.00%, Rank-V), magazine (37.00%, Rank-VI) while both computer (Rank-VII) and internet (Rank-VII) was accessed by 24.00 per cent, respectively. Regarding females all had access to television (Rank-I) followed by radio (65.00%, Rank-II), mobile (57.00%, Rank-III), telephone (45.00%, Rank-IV), magazine (34.00%, Rank-V) and newspaper (26.00%, Rank-VI), while 15.00 per cent and 13.00 per cent of female respondents had access to internet (Rank-VII) and computer (Rank-VIII) respectively. Both male and female respondents accessed internet outside home. Gender analysis of overall access and use of ICTs showed significant association of gender with both access to and use of ICTs when tested through χ2 at 5 per cent level of significance. Regarding overall control of ICTs, males had higher control on all the ICTs.Association of socio-economic variables of male and female respondents for those who possessed ICTs, with access, control and use of eight individual ICTs revealed that for access there was significant association of age, size of family and land holding in case of news paper and caste and size of family for mobile. Association for control on ICTs revealed that there was significant association of age and occupation on control of news paper where as for magazine factors effecting control was occupation. Association with use of ICTs showed that there was significant association of education, caste and scientific temper on use of television while for telephone and mobile factors affecting were education, scientific temper and land holding, respectively.
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    Field applicability of package of practices of home science in rural Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2008) Ritu; Asha Rani
    Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) is a grass root level institute designed and devoted to provide latest technical know-how of agriculture, animal science, home science and allied sciences by the principle of learning by doing in order to make them socially and economically independent. KVKs are functioning since 1974, but till today there is non-availability of home science literature pertaining to different departments of home science. First package of home science was released in 2005. This package included 35 messages related to different departments of home science. The study was conducted by selecting 50 field functionaries and 300 rural women. The effectiveness of package of practices was assessed on the three aspects i.e. title, content and conclusion by employing weighted score, mean score and rank. In overall effectiveness of content, body text achieved first rank. The title and conclusion were ranked as IInd and IIIrd, respectively. Enhancing the nutritive value of food with low cost, care during pregnancy, water purification through Janta water filter, paper pattern for children clothing and surf preparation at household level were the identified crucial messages from F.N., H.D.F.S., F.R.M., C.T. and H.S.E.E., respectively. Field applicability was assessed on two aspects i.e. attributes of innovation and visual assessment. First rank was given to simplicity-complexity, with regard to message of enhancing the nutritive value of food with low cost and surf preparation at household level, respectively. Cultural compatibility was ranked as first with regard to the message of care during pregnancy and water purification through Janta water filter. Triability was ranked as first with regard to field applicability of identified crucial message of clothing and textiles. With regard to visual assessment, it was observed that title was ranked as first with regard to the identified crucial message of foods and nutrition and family resource management. Self explanatory was ranked as first with regard to identified crucial message of care during pregnancy and paper pattern for children clothing. It was manifested that general get up was rated as first in case of surf preparation at household level. Illustrations of scientific information with pictures was ranked as first out of the seven suggested measures to enhance the field applicability of package of practices of home science.
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    Impact assessment of all India coordinated research project (AICRP) in home science on farm women
    (CCSHAU, 2008) Deepti; Seema Rani
    The present investigation was carried out in five villages of Hisar district of Haryana state to assess impact of All India Coordinated Research (AICRP) in Home Science on farm women. The villages adopted under AICRP in Home Science were selected purposively. Thus Gunjar and Bhojraj from Hisar-I and Bherian, Ludas and Shahpur from Hisar-II block were selected for the persent investigation. From selected villages, a random sample of 25 farm women was drawn from each village, thus a total number of 125 farm women from all the five villages formed the sample of the study and 25 non participants were selected from non adopted village. Personal, economic, communication and psychological variables constituted the independent variables. The knowledge, attitude, skill, adoption and entrepreneurial behaviour of the respondents constituted the dependent variables for the study. The data were collected with the help of pre-tested structured interview schedule. The study revealed that irrespective of the experimental and controlled group, most of the respondents were young, married, had farming as main occupation, educated upto middle and high school, belonged to backward caste, nuclear family system having medium to small family size, indicating low social participation. Economic profile showed small herd size, thatched/katcha dwelling for livestock, mixed houses, family income in most of families varies from Rs. 5000-10,000 had 1.0 to 2.5 acres of land. Majority of the respondents had low level of farm assets, medium level of household assets and media ownership. The high to medium level of economic motivation, change proneness and risk orientation was reported in case of experimental group while in controlled group medium level of mass media exposure, economic motivation, change proneness and risk orientation were reported. The knowledge mean scores on various aspects of health and nutrition, clothing and textile, drudgery reduction, income generation, mother and child care practices indicated better scores in the experimental group than the controlled group. The significant ‘t’ values also indicating significant differences in knowledge of two groups. The similar trend was observed in change in attitude. Statistically, significant ‘t’ values of the skill acquisition mean scores indicated significant difference of the experimental and controlled groups in skill acquired for health and nutrition, clothing and textile, drudgery reduction, income generation, mother and child care practices. Most of the respondents were in medium level of adoption followed by low and high level of adoption for various components of health and nutrition, clothing and textile, drudgery reduction, income generation, mother and child care practices. The heavy work load of household, health problems, lack of motivation from family and society, high cost, repayment of loans and electricity problems were the major constraints faced by the respondents in adoption of improved practices. Regarding entrepreneurial behaviour of majority of the respondents on different aspects of communication, goal setting and background history was found in medium level of category followed by low and high. Most of the socio-personal, economic psychological and communication variables were found significantly associated with the knowledge, attitude and skill of the respondents for all the aspects of health and nutrition, drudgery reduction, clothing and textile and income generation except mother and child care.