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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 × End date: 1982 × Start date: 1981 ×
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    Socio Economic Determinants of Credit Needs and Its Flow in Rural Hissar
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1982) Sharma, S. K.; Singh, Raj
    Consequent on the impact of green revolution in the country and on the general awareness of its forming community of the possibilities of increased inc owe through modern techniques in agriculture, agricultural credit has assumed a vitally important factor in our national agricultural policy and programmes. According to estimate 5 of the national Commission on Agriculture (1976), the total credit requirements of all the farmers in the country would be Rs 16,549 Crores and that of small and marginal farmers the credit requirement for short, medium and long term purpose would be Rs 4, 690 Crores by the year 1985. The situation is further aggravated by the fact that 21.67 per cent Framers Representing medium and large groups have more 7.5 acres of land while the rest 26.33 per cent work as land less laborers who are also the non-cultivating owners. The small and marginal farmers cultivate 29.8 per cent of the total cultivated area of India and they represent 62.9 per cent of the cultivated holding of the country.
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    A Study of Role Conflict in Working Women
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1981) Dhillon, Satnam Kaur; Puniya, Ram Kumar
    Social roles and role expectations, which are experienced by men and women in concrete social situations as binding norms, are dependent on the culture of the society, in question, which itself is again the result of historical. processes often reaching far back into the past. Similar is the case with family and sex roles of every human society irrespective of the degree of technical development. The players of the roles are mostly neither aware of the cultural nor of the historical dimension of what they feel as correct behavior. In case or the older roles, the role expectations appear to be more obvious, natural and universally valid~ Hale and female roles are not defined by different. cultures differently and are by no means determined by the physiological differentiation or the sexes as such (Mies, 1980) •
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    Problems of Old Men in Haryana
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1981) Singh, A. K. P. J.; Singh, T. R.
    Explicit interest in aging and aged has increased markedly among scientists during the past three decades Emergence of research on the aged has first to be viewed as a social problem and then as a social scientific problem. When social scientists initially focused their attention on the aged they viewed will concern and occasionally will alarm the demographic trends and societal arrangements which seemed to militate against, 1£ not to prevent and hinder the social integration of older persons. adaptation in late life was Viewed as quite problematic. However early literature on aging as a social problem identifies most of the contemporary issues in the social scientific study of aging s cultural and social as distinct from the biological age as a basis for the allocation of social roles and resources, the basis of social integration and adaptation in the later years of life and the special methodological problems of studying time dependent processes over life consisting of age as an explanatory variable, cohort analysis and the measurement of environments