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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: Nirmala × End date: 2014 × Start date: 2014 ×
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    Impact of Preschool Programme on Language Development of Preschoolers
    (CCSHAU, 2014) Nirmala; Chandrakala Singh
    The present investigation was carried out in rural and urban areas of district Hisar to assess the impact of preschool programme on language development of preschoolers. A total number of 120 preschoolers of age group 4 to 5 years were taken. Two villages namely Kaimari and Mangali were taken as rural location and for urban the Hisar city was selected for collection of data, out of which 60 children were from urban and 60 form rural areas. Reynell Developmental Language Scale (RDLS, 1985) was used to test the language development of children. Socioeconomic status was assessed with self structured interview schedule. Self developed Language stimulation environment checklist was used to judge the language stimulation environment of preschools which included availability of material in preschools and teacher interaction with preschoolers. Preschool programme evaluation sheet by Verna Hilderbrand (1981) was used to examine the quality of preschool programme. Results revealed that comparison over location shown that urban children surpassed their counterpart in all components of language development. Association of language development with preschool programme and language stimulation environment of preschools depicted the influence on verbal comprehension A, verbal comprehension B and expressive language of preschoolers in both locations. The study further revealed that the language development of preschoolers were significantly associated with personal and socio-economic variables.