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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: Phogat, Poonam × End date: 1989 × Start date: 1988 ×
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    A Study on Field Applicability of Package of Practices Pertaining to Drudgery Reducing and Income Generating Technologies in Haryana
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 1988) Phogat, Poonam; Verma, T.
    Women are like a pivot around which the family, the society and the whole community move. These are born and bred to the tradition of work and are a real symbol of dedication patience and sacrifice. Yet life for majority of them is not smooth, calm or peaceful but full of problems and drudgery. The desired change in their life c an be brought out by the use and application of simple scientific technologies and major efforts would have to be made to educate the rural women about the existing resources, ways and means to supplement these to their optimum advantages. for the increase in farm production and better standard of living of the family and the community.
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    A Study on Field Applicability of Package of Practices Pertaining to drudgery reducing and Income generating Technologies in Haryana
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1988) Phogat, Poonam; Verma, T.
    Women are like a pivot around which the family, the society and the whole community move. These are born and bred to the tradition of work and are a real symbol of dedication patience and sacrifice. Yet life for majority of them is not smooth, calm or peaceful but full of problems and drudgery. The desired change in their life c an be brought out by the use and application of simple scientific technologies and major efforts would have to be made to educate the rural women about the existing resources, ways and means to supplement these to their optimum advantages. for the increase in farm production and better standard of living of the family and the community. United Nations Conference on status of women held in Kenya 1985, rightly stressed that t he development of society requires the full participation by all sections of the population and opportunities for full development of potentialities for women should be provided by every nation. Economic independence, basic education, availability of appropriate technologies, control over fertility and health are essential steps to release women's potential to enable them to improve their standard of living.