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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: Sociology × Author: Devi, Sushila × End date: 1999 × Start date: 1990 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Socio-Economic Status of Female Agricultural Laborers with Special Reference to Scheduled Caste
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 1991) Devi, Sushila; Vermani, Savita
    Women who constitute half of the world's population by virtue of an accident of birth, perform two third of the world's work, receive one-tenth of its income and own less than one hundredth of its property. Since the time immemorial, women are largely employed in agriculture and allied enterprise. Of the total population of 684 million nearly 524 million people Jive in villages in India. Women constitute 47.5 per cent of the rural population. About 75 per cent of rural women belong to the families of small and marginal farmers. A majority of the landless women are from scheduled caste and scheduled tribes. Two-third of them are illiterate and most of the farm manual Labour is provided by them. They daily put in 14-18 hours of productive manual labour.