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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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    Changing Agrarian structure in haryana - a studay in social change
    (College Of Agriculture Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, 1980) Punia, Ram Kumar; Sharma, M. L
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    Changing Agrarian Structure in Haryana - A Study in Social Change
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1980) Punia, Ram Kumar; Sharma, M. L.
    The study is aimed at discerning the change in social structure of rural Society of Haryana as a result of hetero genetic and orthodontic variables like land reforms, new' agricultural technology. government development efforts for removal of poverty and caste jajmani relations and occupation respectively. Study is conducted in nine villages of Haryana state selected from different agro-climatic zones in proportion to the area of each me. From each village ten per cent of the households are selected with simple random sampling procedure which results a sample of 521 households. Respondent schedules for various categories interested in land and other occupational groups are Constructed pretested and administered personally to selected respondents. Data was computerized for two way classification tables and chi square analysis.