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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: Pinki × End date: 2015 × Start date: 2015 ×
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    Attitude of adolescents towards Modernization”, submitted for the degree of Master of Science
    (CCSHAU, 2015) Pinki; Sangwan, Santosh
    The present study was undertaken in Hisar district of Haryana state. The objective of the study was to identify the factors affecting the attitude of adolescents towards modernization. Two senior secondary schools of Hisar city and two senior secondary schools of Aryanagar and Dabra village one each from Hisar block I and Block II were selected as per the demand of study. A sample of 100 rural and 100 urban respondents including males and females of 16-18 year age studying in 11th and 12th standard were taken, thus to make a total sample of 200 adolescents. A significant difference was revealed between mean scores of modernization among adolescents boys and girls in level of modernization. As the mean scores of girls were higher they were more modernize than the boys. The results revealed significant difference between mean scores of modernization among rural and urban adolescents which indicated that rural and urban adolescents differ in their level of modernization. All the aspects of attitude of modernization except marriage were found to be positively and significantly correlated with socio-economic variables. Further results revealed that all the aspects of attitude of modernization except parent-child relationship, were found to be positively and significantly correlated with family environment of adolescent.