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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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    Socio- Economic Dynamics Of Child Labour In Hissar City
    (Department of Sociology College of Basic Sciences and Humanities College of Agriculture Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, 1980) Sharma, Chander Kanta; Singh, Raj
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    Socio-Economic Dynamics of Child Labor in Hisar City
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1980) Sharma, Chander Kanta; Singh, Raj
    Numerous studies have been conducted which Different different aspects of child labor both in India and abroad.n a.it only a few studies have been conducted which are directly concerned with the Socio-economic dynamics of child labor. Given below is a brief resume of studies on different aspects of child labor in a chronological. order. Dwarkadas (1948) reported that inspire of the children Act, 1939, the employment of children between age group of 6 to 12 prevailed in an amazingly Wide scale in open defiance of the .law and employers make no secret of it. Breckenridge et al(1949)stated that many investigators have found physical defects more prevalent in working than in non working children. The findings of a children Burlan study comparing physical defects present, among new boys and other boys who did not sell, He showed that heart disease was three times more prevalent among new boys than the non-sellers, thirty eight percent of the new boys, as compared with seventeen percent of the non-sellers had aggravated throat conditions, and eleven percent of the new boys, as compared with five percent of the others, bad orthopedic defects.