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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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    Cashless economy: Buying practices of homemakers in Haryana state
    (CCSHAU, 2018) Ekta; Mehta, Manju
    A cashless economy is one in which all transactions are done through plastic cards like credit, debit cards etc. The Government also wants a cashless society. It is beneficial in reducing corruption, reducing cost of printing currency, in reducing cost of cash holding. Electronic transactions history and trail can easily be traced back and this would greatly help the economy in eradication of black money and also provide better convenience to the people. The present study was conducted in two districts i.e. Hisar and Bhiwani of Haryana state with three objectives: (i) to assess the consumer buying practices through cashless economy, (ii) to compare the satisfaction level regarding cashless economy among working and non-working homemakers, (iii) to study constraints faced by consumers in cashless transaction. Two wards each were randomly selected from both district headquarter. In Hisar city ward 16 and ward 20 and in Bhiwani city ward 1 and ward 31 were randomly selected to conduct the study on cashless economy. From each selected wards 50 homemakers having their own bank account were selected purposively through snowball technique. So from each district headquarters 100 homemakers were selected in such a way that 50 were working and 50 were non- working homemakers. Thus, the total number of respondents were 200 homemakers. A presented interview schedule was developed according to the objectives of the study. The results show that maximum number of the respondents (62.0%) belonged to the 36-48 age group, all respondents were married, 98.0% respondents were having nuclear family, 82.0% respondents was medium family education status, 44.5% respondents had high socio economic status, 58.0% respondents had medium level of mass media exposure. All the respondents were buying milk & milk product daily, about one-third (32.5%) respondents were buying fruits and vegetables weekly, all respondents were paying for water and electricity services monthly, majority of respondents i.e. 93.5% buying footwear as per need. Majority of the respondents (90.0%) used cash for the household expenses like fruits & vegetables and both cash and cashless means were used by 77.5% respondents for telephone/ mobile. All the respondents had knowledge about cashless transaction. 98.5% of respondents believed that use of cashless transaction gives satisfaction, majority of the 76.22% respondents used Paytm app, mobile phone was used by 71.5% for cashless transaction, 49.5% respondents had two bank accounts, 48.0% homemakers possessed one credit and debit cards, cheque was used by 51.5% respondents for high value transaction. Advantage of cashless transaction perceived by respondents was ‘fast’, ‘convenient’ and ‘less stress ’secured (rank I WMS-2.88) and perceived disadvantages were ‘someone can steal card and use it’ secured (rank I WMS-2.72). Personal constraints faced by respondents were ‘overspending’ got rank I (WMS-1.86), technical constraints in term of ‘lack of technical knowledge/ Non-tech-savvy of users’ (rank I WMS-2.02), social constraints faced were in terms of ‘lack of trust’ (rank I WMS-1.73). In overall sample, 49.5% respondents had medium level of satisfaction.
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    Biochemical evaluation of drought resistance in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
    (CCSHAU, 2015) Ekta; Singal, H.R.
    The present study was carried out to evaluate drought induced changes in chickpea genotypes and their F3 progeny lines. The chickpea genotypes viz. drought sensitive (HC-1) and drought tolerant (ICC-4958 and RSG-931) were grown under both irrigated and drought conditions and the progeny lines of the crosses viz. HC-1×ICC-4958 and HC-1×RSG-931 were grown under drought condition created by withholding irrigation. The effect of drought stress was observed on oxidative stress, membrane integrity, antioxidative system, osmolytes accumulation and protein profile in relation to changes in plant water status in leaves and roots at 50% flowering and 50% podding stages. The water potential of leaves, osmotic potential and RWC of leaves and roots decreased in all the genotypes. However, the magnitude of reduction in RWC was more in drought sensitive genotype. Similarly, the reactive oxygen species (superoxide radicals and H2O2) and lipid peroxidation (MDA content and LOX activity) increased in response to water deficit and the increase was more in both the tissues (leaves and roots) of sensitive genotype at both the stages (50% flowering and 50% podding). Drought stress resulted in increase in the activities of SOD, POX, GR in all the genotypes, but the increase was more in both the tolerant genotypes. Contrarily, reduction in CAT activity was observed in both the tissues at both the stages in all chickpea genotypes. Likewise, APX activity declined in leaves of both the drought tolerant genotypes only at 50% flowering stage, but in roots its activity increased at both stages. Ascorbic acid and glutathione content were found to be more in both the tissues of all the chickpea genotypes under water limiting condition, however, the percent increase was more in tolerant genotypes. Decline in osmotic potential in both the tissues may be due to accumulation of proline and total soluble sugars. Further, increase in pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase activity and decline in proline oxidase activity observed in leaves and roots of all the chickpea genotypes under stress condition is in agreement with higher proline levels. Decrease in protein content was observed in both the tissues. However, new protein bands appeared under drought stress in all genotypes as revealed by SDS-PAGE. Among the progeny lines of both the crosses, the lines I-6, I-7, I-14, I-16, R-2, R-9 and R- 10 showed better performance in terms of physiological and biochemical parameters as compared to their drought tolerant parent, under drought stress condition and hence, are the promising lines which may be used in plant breeding programmes aimed at developing drought resistant varieties.