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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: Human Development and Family Studies × Author: Anupama × End date: 2014 × Start date: 2010 ×
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    A comparative study of learning competency in preschool boys
    (CCSHAU, 2011) Anupama; Dhanda, Bimla
    The study was conducted in rural and urban areas of district Hisar.Two villages namely Kamari and Mangali were takenas rural location and for urban the Hisar city was selected for collection of data. A total number of 240 children of age group of 2-3, 3-4, 4-5 years were taken, out of which 120 children were from urban and 120 form rural areas. McCarthy scale of cognitive ability by McCarthy (1970) was used to test the cognitive level of children. Socioeconomic status was assessed with self structured interview schedule. Home inventory by Bradley and Caldwell (1984) was used to judge the environmental conditions of children in their home. Results revealed that children had increasing trend for all aspects of learning competency with increase in their age. Comparison over location shown that urban children surpassed their counterpart in all aspects of learning competency. Association of learning with socioeconomic factors depicted the influence on general cognitive index as well as it all aspects in both locations. The study further revealed that aspects of home environment such as learning stimulation language and physical stimulation and acceptance were significantly associated with intellectual abilities of urban children. The total home environment was also found as significantly effective variable for intellectual abilities of rural children.