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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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Author: Dahiya, Kanta × End date: 1989 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    A Study of Socio-Economic and Psychological Problems of Old Women in A village Community of Haryana
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1984) Dahiya, Kanta; Singh, Raj
    With the average span 0£ life considerably lengthened. l the problems of old age have now assumed social important, no less for the young, they too are, heading for old age. Annihilation of distances, the opening up of the village to urban influences, the breaking up of the joint family system and the attitude of older people and of younger generation towards old age - all these accentuate the problems of the ., elderly. Getting old today is, therefore, not so easy as it was 50 years ago. Aging and ageo represent a curious phenomenon in human life. The problems of old are net new, but they presented few problems in earlier societies than they have presented to us today. Human beings desire to live long, but wish to avoid the consequences of aging.