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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: 1997 × Start date: 1994 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Changing Role of Women in th eContext of Modern Technology - A case Study
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1996) Kaur, Kamaljeet; Singh, Raj
    One of the most persistent themes in the social sciences, history and humanities is the impact of technological change on the different aspects of life. The term 'Technology' is used widely to mean the operative knowledge of means of production of goods and services by the society. Specifically it means the systematic use of industrial processes tools and techniques for the production of goods and service by the society.
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    Socio-Economic Study of Girl child Labour
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1995) Mehla, Raj Bala; Vermani, Savita
    The real wealth of a country is not the amount of coins but its people. They are composed of adults and children who form the greatest human resources of a nation. Among these human resources, the children constitute the biggest and most promising future resources. The children of today are the citizens of tomorrow. It has been universally recognized that children are the foundation of a strong and healthy nation.
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    A Sociological Analysis of Female Infant Mortility in Rural Haryana
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1996) Rani, Sunita; Vermani, Savita
    lnfant mortality is considered to be a very sensitive index of the health status of a commununity . mamly infant is suceptible to all the adverse factors m the environment in a stage when it has no power of resistance A high level of infant mortality signifies waste ages of effon and investment in rearing children Infant mortality rate in India is higher than that m other developed countries~ of that of female in fant mortality is still higher sex ratio in this favour of males The fall m the number of females per 1000 males from 934 m 1981 929 in1991 has evolved widespread concern about the underlying trend in sex~differentlyi monthly and the possible contribution of alligedly widespread female infanticide following ammocen tesis. The girl child mortality (2 .81 %) is more than mare child mortality (2 .63%1) (lrudaya Rajan S; Mishra_ US. Navan eetham K. 1992)