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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 Femily Studies × Author: Tiwari, Sneha × End date: 2014 × Start date: 2012 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Impact of home and school environment on the educational aspiration of adolescents.
    (CCSHAU, 2013) Tiwari, Sneha; Chandrakala Singh
    Aspirations begin to be shaped ear ly in c hildís life, but are modif ied by exper ience and the enviro nme nt. Aspiration means a stro ng desire to achieve something high or gre at. Academic achievement has become an index of a childís future. Socially , the child is the product of environme nt. two enviro nme nts home and sc hool share an inf lue ntial space in individual's life and there exists a unique combination between the two. This pape r examine s the inf lue nce of academic achievement, home and sc hool environme nt o n the educatio nal aspiratio n of adolescents. The study was conducted in Hisar city of Hary ana state where two governme nt and two private (high fee structured) schools were selected. The sample compr ised of 160 adolescents (80 girls and 80 boys) taken equally f rom each school. Adolescents were assessed for their educational aspiratio n by educational aspiratio n scale (form P). The results revealed that major ity of pr ivate sc hool adolescents had above average educational aspiratio n and high academic achievement while government school adolescents had below average aspiratio n with low academic achievement. Signif icant dif ferences were observed in educational aspiratio n, home and sc hool enviro nme nt ac ross ty pe of school and ge nde r . Educational aspiratio n was signif icantly associated with academic ac hievement, socio personal variables, home and school enviro nme nt of adolescents.