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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 Extension Education × Author: An Exploratory Study on health Status and Child Rearing Practices of Women labourers engaged in Paddy Cultivation × End date: 1986 × Start date: 1984 × Type: Thesis ×
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    An Exploratory Study on health Status and Child Rearing Practices of Women labourers engaged in Paddy Cultivation
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1986) An Exploratory Study on health Status and Child Rearing Practices of Women labourers engaged in Paddy Cultivation; Verma, T.
    A change in the Rural economy, especially the rising cost of living, declining village industries and change in market structure have led to a situation where under economic pressure women have to involve themselves in occupations which require hard labour with a proportionately lower economic returns. Sides, they have to look after household chores of the family which confront them with problems of adjustment with their multifarious role to achieve greater precision and competence. In India, the traditional Village Community consisted of the cultivators, the artisans and those performing manual services. In each of these, the Women played a distinctive and accepted roles in the process of earning of livelihood for the family. in both production and marketing of products of agricultural and handicrafts. Among the agricultural classes in most parts of the country, particularly among marginal and landless agriculturist, earning livelihood is still a family endeavor with or without division of labour between men and women and children.