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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: Deepika × Start date: 1998 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Academic achievement of adolescents in relation to parental encouragement and school environment
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-02) Deepika; C. K. Singh
    The present study was undertaken in Hisar district of Haryana state.The objective of the study the influence of parental encouragement and school environment on academic achievement of adolescents government and private school. Two types of schools were selected government and private: i.e. two government schools namely Campus School CCS HAU,Hisar and Government high school were selected randomly and two private schools namely Saint Nischhal school and Guru Jambheshwar Senior Secondary School also randomly selected. Thus, the total numbers of selected schools were four. A sample of 120 government and 120 private school adolescents including equal number of males and females of 14-16 year age were taken, thus to make a total sample of 240 adolescents. Agarwal Parental Encouragement Scale developed by Kusum Agarwal (1999) was used to measure the parental encouragement as perceived by the adolescents. School Environment Inventory (SEI) developed by Misra (1983) was used to measure the school environment of the adolescents. Academic achievement of adolescents was assessed from the latest grade sheet collected from the school. The results revealed in total sample half of adolescents from government and private school had average level of academic achievement and received average level of parental encouragement. Maximum number of adolescents belonged to nuclear family and two numbers if siblings. A positive and significant relationship with academic achievement and parental encouragement of adolescents was noticed. All the aspects of school environment had significant relationship with parental encouragement of adolescents. There was significant association between paternal education, maternal education and academic achievement of adolescents. Further significant relationship between academic achievement with parental education and parental occupation of adolescents was found.