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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: Rana, Shallu × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2019 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Mental Abilities of Rural children: An Experimental Study
    (CCSHAU,HiSAR, 2019) Rana, Shallu; Sangwan, Sheela
    Mental abilities can be defined as integrated set of abilities covering the verbal, perceptual, quantitative, memory as well as motor aspect (which also covers the domains like dexterity, handedness) (McCarthy, 1972). . Reading and writing abilities are the functional pre-requisites for a child to learn about his environment. Both these skills constitute the basis for learning, and their successful acquisition comprises one of the central keys to scholastic achievement. (Cunningham and Stanovich, 1997). Researchers like Nunes (1999) and Pretorious (2002) have highlighted the strong correlation between reading and academic success. Two environments home and school share an influential space in individual's life and there exists a unique combination between the two. This paper investigates the mental abilities and reading-writing skills of children. The effects of school and home environment were explored. An intervention programme to improve the mental abilities and readingwriting skills of low performing children was imparted. The study was conducted in rural government schools of Hisar and Fatehabad of Haryana state. The results revealed that age, father’s education and occupation, caste category significantly influences the children’s performance. The school environment, socio-personal variables are the strong predictors which influence the reading-writing skills of children. The home environment was found to be significantly correlated with both mental abilities and reading-writing skills of children. The findings suggest that the imparting the intervention programme may enhance the mental abilities and reading writing skills of children.