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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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    Priority areas assessment for soil erosion control in watershed using geospatial technology in Shivalik foothills (Haryana)
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, 2022-12) Antil, Sundeep Kumar; Sidhpuria, M. S
    Geospatial technologies are widely used for thematic mapping and information on status of land use land cover, morphometric analysis of watershed parameters, prediction of soil loss and several other information. The priority areas were assessed and delineated in the Shivalik foothill using the Sentinel 2A, SRTM, Erdas Imagine and ArcGIS 10.7.1 image processing software. The delineated watersheds were designated as WS1, WS2, WS3, WS4, WS5, WS6 WS7, WS8, WS9 and WS10 and further analysed for land use and land cover attributes, morphometric parameters i.e. basic parameters of watersheds, drainage network and geometry and drainage textural analysis of selected watersheds. Soil loss under different watersheds was estimated through integration of RUSLE with geospatial technology and all six parameters of the RUSLE were calculated. The 98.07% area of the selected watersheds was under 0-5 t ha-1yr-1 followed by 1.45% area with 5-10 t ha-1yr-1. The rest of the categories i.e. 10-20, 20-40 and more than 40 t ha-1yr-1 covered 0.26%, 0.13% and 0.08% of the total area, respectively. The estimated soil loss was reclassified in GIS environment in range of 0-5, 5-10, 10-20, 20-40 and >40 t ha-1yr-1 and assigned the severity class and priority class as slight, moderate, high, very high and severe and 5,4,3,2,1 respectively to the selected watershed.