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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: Rani, Sunita × Start date: 1994 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Persistence behaviour of tdazophos in soil and water systems
    (College of Agriculture Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, 1997) Rani, Sunita; Madan, V. K
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    A Sociological Analysis of Female Infant Mortility in Rural Haryana
    (College of Basic Sciences and Humanities Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, 1996) Rani, Sunita; Vermani, Savita
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    Inter Gender Drudgery in Mustard Cultivation
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1999) Rani, Sunita; Varma, Shashi Kanta
    •Agriculture is the backbone of the Indian economy contributing largest share to the national income "Women constitute about half of the world's population, accounting for 75 o/o of the working hours,contribute up to 30°/o of the official labour force, yet receive only 10 o/o of the income and owe less than I% of the world's property'~ The situation is rather appalling in the developing countries of the total Indian population of 844 million ( 1991 cenSus), nearly 627 million people live in villages. Women constitute. 48.5°/o of the rural population. About 75% of the rural women belong to the families of small and marginal farmers.
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    A Sociological Analysis of Female Infant Mortility in Rural Haryana
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1996) Rani, Sunita; Vermani, Savita
    lnfant mortality is considered to be a very sensitive index of the health status of a commununity . mamly infant is suceptible to all the adverse factors m the environment in a stage when it has no power of resistance A high level of infant mortality signifies waste ages of effon and investment in rearing children Infant mortality rate in India is higher than that m other developed countries~ of that of female in fant mortality is still higher sex ratio in this favour of males The fall m the number of females per 1000 males from 934 m 1981 929 in1991 has evolved widespread concern about the underlying trend in sex~differentlyi monthly and the possible contribution of alligedly widespread female infanticide following ammocen tesis. The girl child mortality (2 .81 %) is more than mare child mortality (2 .63%1) (lrudaya Rajan S; Mishra_ US. Navan eetham K. 1992)