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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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    Role of women in rural development - a case study of haryana
    (College Of Basic Sciences And Humanities Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, 1986) Kaur, Satnam; Punia, R. K
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    Role of Women in Rural Development - A Case Study of Haryana
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1986) Kaur, Satnam; Punia, R. K
    Rural development is the top most priority of the age and hence a matter of global concern. lt is mainly because it is in the rural areas that most of the population of the world resides and rural people constitute the largest reservoir of human resources. The rural areas provide employment to a Large portion of the world population through agricultural and allied activities. Industry, the ether rain source of employment, is itself dependent on agriculture for its raw materials. But still the rural people Those mainstay is Agriculture and allied activities, are lagging behind the Socio economic and cultural development which has taken place in the cities . The present condition of the rural poor is desecrate Majorly of there are victims of vicious circle of poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition and insanitary living conditions . Hence, the development of the rural areas is of Very importance and it is vital to the survival of the developing world and of the world as a whole Little meaning of rural development is likely to vary across Geographic , cultures and ecologist. In the context of Developed Countries the focus of rural development is on reservation of ecological integrity efficient and appropriate land use healthy living conditions aesthetically pleasing Environment effective social. economic and Governmental institutions improved human welfare in terms of a minimal economic and social level of existence physical Structures and landscaped of pleasing design apprehensiveness that is an entire Lang of physical, biological and human factors in rural region But in the context of World countries, a more comprehensive concept Of rural development has been suggested by World Bank (1975), defining rural development as a strategy The signed to improve the economic and social life of People in rural settlement and in particular it focuses on the rural poor, comprising the small farmers, tenants and the landless