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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: Bhardwaj, Shashi × End date: 1982 × Start date: 1981 ×
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    Study on the self employment for rural women under integrated Rural development Programme
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1982) Bhardwaj, Shashi; Singh, T. R.
    One of the most challenging task before our country is to provide adequate opportunities fer gainful employment to all sections of the population. The Planning Commission in 1977-76 assessed that as many as 306 Million, a little less than half of the population, comprised of the unemployed, underemployed, partial employed and remunerative employed persons. As a whole nearly 89 par cent of the female workers in rural areas are dependent on the primary sector - agriculture, livestock, forestry etc., whereas about 3.8 million rural Women are totally unemployed and 17.6 million are partially unemployed. Due to lack of technical qualification, proper guidance and leadership, farm women are gradually receding in the agricultural sector (Mysore Economic Review, 1977). This situation gives a definite direction that for the country's growth and development employment has to be viewed as an indivisible component of development and for proper implementation of any scheme employment and development ha\I e to become catalysts for each other