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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: Priyanka Rani × Start date: 2011 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Impact of social media on the lifestyle of rural youth
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2023-05) Priyanka Rani; Tyagi, Rashmi
    Rural youth frequently engage in multifaceted activities and technology through the use of numerous social media platforms. Social media has different effects on young people's lives on both ends; the benefits of social media for today's youth include keeping them informed of global events and allowing them to network and stay in touch with friends. And other times these effects are bad for the user including suicide, anxiety, depression, physical, emotional, mental, and psychological problems, as well as a lack of confidence. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to access the nature and extent of use of social media and its impact on well-being and lifestyle of rural youth. The study was conducted in rural area of 2 cultural zones of Haryana state. Further, two villages namely Newal and Kunjpura from Karnal district and Khedar and Bhaini Badshahpur from Hisar district were taken randomly. A sample of 180 rural youth was selected randomly from rural areas of each district to make a total sample of 360 rural youths. Results of overall general well-being portray that majority of the respondents (>70%) showed high level of general well-being in aspects like cultural and religious wellbeing, active life-style, positivity, family relation and environmental adjustment. Results depict that majority of the respondents had medium level of life-style in aspects i.e. health conscious, family and academic oriented. The majority of respondents used WhatsApp and YouTube, which ranked first and second in the results for use of various social networking sites, respectively. Majority of respondents (>90%) had knowledge of social media. Results elucidated that socio-economic variables such as age, sex, marital status, education, land holding, annual income occupation were found significantly associated with adoption of social media. Results regarding impact of social media on health indicated that majority of the respondents considered ill effect of social media on health. Aspects of mental health such as distraction and stress got 1st and 2nd rank respectively in terms of effect of social media. With regards to impact of social media on physical health the findings elucidated that laziness and eye pain were placed 1st and 2nd rank respectively.