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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 × End date: 2007 × Start date: 2007 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Stimulating programme for delayed motor skills of 3-4 years old rural children
    (CCSHAU, 2007) Chaudhary, Neha; Balda, Shanti
    The present study was conducted in Hisar-1 block of district Hisar. From Hisar-1 block, two villages i.e., Kaimri and Mangali were selected at random. One hundred children in the age range of 3-4 years were selected randomly through aganwadies from each village. Selected children were assessed for their motor motor skills development with the help of observation checklist and Berry’s Development Test of Visual Motor Integration (VMI) (1989). Maternal involvement in stimulation of motor skills of the children were assessed though a self prepared questionnaire-cum-interview schedule. On the basis of assessment at pre-testing stage, fifty children each from the two villages with lowest scores were identified as below average children. These children were operationally defined as children with delayed motor skills. Children from Kaimri village acted as control group children and children from Mangali village acted as experimental group children. Mothers of these children were also interviewed to assess the involvement level in motor skills development activities of their children. Stimulating programme was provided to experimental group children by involving their mothers for a period of one month on alternate days. Post-testing of children and mothers was done after a gap of one month to examine the impact of stimulating programme. After implementation of stimulating programme there was significant increase in scores of experimental group children. These results clearly indicated the impact of stimulating activity programme on experimental group children. Stimulating programme improved the motor skills of these children. Gain in scores of experimental group children were significantly higher than those of control group children. Maternal involvement in motor skills development activities also improved significantly in experimental groups.
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    Child labour in handloom industries in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2007) Saini, Chandni; Balda, Shanti
    India has been identified as the world capital of child labour. The total estimate of child labour in India is about 17 million out of which 2 million are engaged in hazardous occupations like carpet industry, glass works, fire works and chemical industries. Child labour exists not because children are more capable workers but because they can be hired for less money. Child labour has been operationalized as working children less than 14 years of age, working outside the family, individually or with parents in different occupations either paid or unpaid to supplement family income. Many studies have been conducted on the phenomena of child labour but in II Haryana where, 1,28,000 main child, whereas 26,000 are marginal child workers. Hence present study has been undertaken to know the nature and cause of child labour, working conditions and welfare facilities and impact of working conditions and welfare facilities on development of child labourers. Also to know the parents perception towards child labour in handloom industries. The study has been conducted in handloom industries of Panipat district of Haryana state. Study revealed that majority of child labourers were in the age group ranging between 11+-14 years, belonged to scheduled and backward castes, hailed from nuclear family. Most of the parents of child labourer’s were labour in handloom industries and majority of them were living below poverty line. Regarding nature of work, children were engaged in dyeing (35%), pitloom (32%), powerloom (13%) and packing (20%) section in handloom industries. Miserable conditions of child workers depicted from the fact that children started working at an early age. Regarding working hours, 85 per cent were working above the prescribed hour that is 10-12 hours per day. These children had not facilities for eduction, there is not proper medical facilities at their work place. Significant association was found between income of the family, educational level, age and health status of child labourers. Result revealed that effect of labour work on health status of children as nearly 69 per cent children had poor health status (grade-I and grade-II). Children faced many health problems due to their occupation and more working hours such as suffocation and coughing. Majority of children had no awareness about Child Labour Act and Right of Children. Regarding perception of parents towards child labour, majority of parents perceived that their children are deprived of educational opportunities, looked down by others, deprived of play opportunities and are exploited in industries.
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    Evaluation of insecticidal activity of bacillus thuringiensis isolates S6 and cloning of cry1C gene in escherichia coli
    (CCSHAU, 2007) Shanker, Shardul; Kamla Chaudhary
    The increased public concerns of the potential adverse environmental effects of the extensive use of chemical insecticides, together with slow momentum of discovering second and third generation insecticides, has stimulated research worldover to screen native Bt population its bioefficacy against target insect pests. During the present investigation, studies were under taken to optimize conditions for production of biomass of Bt S6 using low cost substrates. Experiments were conducted to evaluate its bioefficacy against Helicoverpa armigera under field conditions. Attempts were also made to clone cry 1C of isolate S6 in E.coil. To reduce the cost of production medium, agro-byproducts can be used as the major ingredients for large scale production of B. thuringiensis biomass. Maximum biomass of Bt S6 (cfu) was produced when potato extract at a concentration of 13 % was used as carbon source. Although tryptone and peptone were found to be best nitrogen sources but because of high cost other low cost nitrogen sources were evaluated for biomass production. It was observed that cotton seed meal at 0.75 % level could be used for Bt S6 biomass production (7x109). The Bt S6 biomass produced in OPM was comparable to standard LB medium. B. thuringiensis isolate S6 at 1x109 cells/ml showed maximum insect mortality of 95-100 % against H .armigera under laboratory conditions after 96 h of treatment. However, under field conditions, insect mortality of about 76 % was observed in cotton when Bt culture was used at a concentration of 1x109 cells/ml. At lower cell concentration (1x108 cells/ml), insect mortality of about 73% was observed in cotton. The Optimum temperature for biomass production was found to be 350c. There was a significant decrease in the biomass production with increase or decrease in temp. The optimum pH of the medium for biomass production was found to be 6.00. To detect the presence of cry1C gene in Bt isolate S6, total genomic DNA was amplified by PCR using cry 1C gene specific primers. The PCR product of 1.5 kb size was amplified by using S6 DNA as template and cloned in E.coli. Four plasmid DNA samples out of 8 showed amplification with cry1C specific primers. However, the size of cry 1C gene is about 3.8 kb, suggesting that the cry 1C insert is a partial clone only.
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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.