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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: Kavita Devi × End date: 2014 ×
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    Promoting environmental education among rural children
    (CCSHAU, 2005) Kavita Devi; C.K. Singh
    The study was conducted in Haryana State, in rural area of Hisar District, list of blocks was prepared and from this list one block was taken randomly. from the selected block two villages i.e. Bhojraj and Dahima were taken purposely. One school from each village was taken randomly. A sample of 60 children of primary and middle grade from each school was taken. Thus a total sample of 120 children was the final sample for the present study. To find out the existing level of awareness of the respondents regarding environmental pollution questionnaire-cum-interview schedule was prepared which was duly pretested on 20 respondents. On the basis of responses obtained, the interview schedule was finalized. Data were collected on the structured interview schedule personally by investigator, thus collected data tabulated and suitably analyzed. It was found that most of the respondent were female and youngest in their families and belonging to the lower caste with five to six members in their families and their parents had labour as their main occupation and low socio-economic status. Most of the families were having inadequate house and public facilities. The knowledge of the parents of the respondents regarding environment at pollution was less and they had low mass media exposure. Most of the respondents had low level of knowledge about environmental pollution. They were less aware about air, soil, flora and fauna and noise pollution but their awareness was better in case of water pollution. It was found that scholastic achievements, family type, family size, parental education, parental occupation, parental religious belief and parental knowledge associated significantly with the environmental awareness of the respondents.
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    Adolescents problems from rural and urban single parent families
    (CCSHAU, 2007) Kavita Devi; Duhan, Krishna
    Present study was carried out with the aim to assess the existing problems of adolescents from single parent families, to compare the adolescents problems and urban single parent families and to delineate the ecological factors affecting adolescents problems. The study was carried out in randomly selected Hisar district of Haryana state. City area of the selected district was taken purposively to have urban respondents. From the selected district two villages were selected randomly. A sample of 120 adolescents (15-19 years) was drawn purposively from the selected senior secondary schools of rural and urban city areas. Data were collected personally with the help of self developed questionnaire on social, economic, emotional and family relationship problems faced by adolescents in single parent families. The results revealed that most of the adolescents were female, belonged to nuclear families and were from low income families. More than half of the respondent’s parents availed benefits of any government scheme. Most of the parents adopted authoritative parental discipline technique. Results revealed that most of the adolescents faced medium and high level of various problems. The rural respondents faced higher level of problems as compared to urban respondents. Comparative analysis of results revealed no significant difference between rural and urban respondents. It was found that female respondents faced higher level of social, emotional and family relationship problems as compared to male respondents. The microsystems variables i.e. sex, landholding, income, adolescent’s relation with grandparents and activities at school were found significantly associated with social, economic and emotional problems of adolescents. The mesosystem variables such as occupation of parents also reported significant association with economic and emotional problems of adolescents. Exosystem variables such as parent’s take benefit of any government scheme, development facilities at school and surrounding community also reported significant association with social and economic problems. The macrosystem of children also influenced their social, economic and emotional problems.