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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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    Women Participation in Rurla Development Programmes : A Case Study in Hisar District
    (College of Agriculture Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, 1988) Laharia, Rachna; Punia, R. K
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    Relative Performance of Moong (vigna Radiata (L) Wilczek) Varieties Growth During Summer Under Varying Quality of Irrigation Water
    (College of Agriculture Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, 1980) JaJarwal, Som Datt; Sharma, H. C.
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    Effect of Phenolic Compounds on Nitrogen Fixation in Cowpea (Vigna Ungulculata (L.) Walp
    (College of Basic Sciences and Humanities Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, 1980) Singh, Mahipal; Swaraj, Km
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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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    Participation of Women In Development Programmes and ITs Impact on Their Socio Economic Improvement and Consumption Patterns
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1993) Gupta, Parul; Vermani, Savita
    The women, contributing about half of the world 's population, has been subjected to discrimination, seggregation and exploitation in the past. Their plight was reinforced by religion and social anmes. The neglect of women was nanifested in almost all walks of life including ca.re, education, employment, food and health and the like. The lack of opportunities given to the women in past to develop their facilities resulted in the low levels of contribution of women in development of society. However, the thinking about women in development had undergone radical change with the spread of education, industrialization and ideas of equality and democracy.
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    Expectations of Male Voters From Female Panchayat Members About Their Role in Panchayats In Hisar District of Haryana
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1998) Sharma, Mamta; Puniya, Ram Kumar
    Today women's upliftment through empowerment has become a policy matter in most of the developing countries of Asia . India has taken a significant step in this direction by enacting 73rd Amendment to the constitution. With the enactment of 73rd constitutional amendment m April, 1993, one third seats in PRI's has been declared as reserved for women. This entry of women in panchayats certainly would affect the expectations of the rural men voters; who for years saw them out side the power structure of the village. Therefore, the present study has been initiated to assess the knowledge of rural male voters about Gram Panchayats, nature of expectations and factors affecting those expectations.
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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)
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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.