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Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa

In the imperial Gazetteer of India 1878, Pusa was recorded as a government estate of about 1350 acres in Darbhanba. It was acquired by East India Company for running a stud farm to supply better breed of horses mainly for the army. Frequent incidence of glanders disease (swelling of glands), mostly affecting the valuable imported bloodstock made the civil veterinary department to shift the entire stock out of Pusa. A British tobacco concern Beg Sutherland & co. got the estate on lease but it also left in 1897 abandoning the government estate of Pusa. Lord Mayo, The Viceroy and Governor General, had been repeatedly trying to get through his proposal for setting up a directorate general of Agriculture that would take care of the soil and its productivity, formulate newer techniques of cultivation, improve the quality of seeds and livestock and also arrange for imparting agricultural education. The government of India had invited a British expert. Dr. J. A. Voelcker who had submitted as report on the development of Indian agriculture. As a follow-up action, three experts in different fields were appointed for the first time during 1885 to 1895 namely, agricultural chemist (Dr. J. W. Leafer), cryptogamic botanist (Dr. R. A. Butler) and entomologist (Dr. H. Maxwell Lefroy) with headquarters at Dehradun (U.P.) in the forest Research Institute complex. Surprisingly, until now Pusa, which was destined to become the centre of agricultural revolution in the country, was lying as before an abandoned government estate. In 1898. Lord Curzon took over as the viceroy. A widely traveled person and an administrator, he salvaged out the earlier proposal and got London’s approval for the appointment of the inspector General of Agriculture to which the first incumbent Mr. J. Mollison (Dy. Director of Agriculture, Bombay) joined in 1901 with headquarters at Nagpur The then government of Bengal had mooted in 1902 a proposal to the centre for setting up a model cattle farm for improving the dilapidated condition of the livestock at Pusa estate where plenty of land, water and feed would be available, and with Mr. Mollison’s support this was accepted in principle. Around Pusa, there were many British planters and also an indigo research centre Dalsing Sarai (near Pusa). Mr. Mollison’s visits to this mini British kingdom and his strong recommendations. In favour of Pusa as the most ideal place for the Bengal government project obviously caught the attention for the viceroy.

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Subject: Family Resource Management × Author: DANDASENA, SASMITA × End date: 2024 × Start date: 2020 × Type: Thesis ×
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    ERGONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF WORK ENVIRONMENT OF COMPUTER USERS AND IT’S IMPACT ON THEIR HEALTH
    (DRPCAU, PUSA, 2021) DANDASENA, SASMITA; Kala, Shishir
    In today’s world majority of the people are using computer and it has made our life very much easier. As the whole world is passing through the COVID-19 pandemic, almost all the works are done though online using computer or laptop. It is estimated that at least 75 per cent of the works are done through the use of computer, but the people are unaware about the health consequences of the computer use. Working with computer may cause poor eyesight problems, musculoskeletal disorders, arthritis in fingers and computer stress injuries, which are caused by bad posture adopted by the users and sitting in one position for a prolonged period of time. Health problems of the computer users are mainly associated with the duration of computer use, improper computer workplace and the various environmental factors like positioning of computer screen, keyboard and mouse. In the coming year the figure of people working with computer is considerably increasing. So it is very much crucially important to identify the problems of computer use and to resolve soon rather than in an effort to eradicate the problems. The present study was conducted in Dr.Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Uma Pandey College and Block Office of Pusa Block, Samastipur, Bihar as there were a lot of active computer users. This research was carried out to identify the musculoskeletal health problems and other computer related health problems. Therefore considering all the points the following objectives have been undertaken to study: to know the socio-economic and working profile of the computer users, to explore the anthropometric measurements and work environment of the computer users, to find out musculoskeletal disorders and other related problems of the computer users and to determine the effect of computer usage on health of the users. Results from the study showed that half of the respondents were male and another half were female, among them majority of the users (48.33%) belonged to age group 20-30 years and (43.33%) belonged to age group 30-40 years. The results also revealed that majority of the respondents were post-graduate (75%) having monthly income more than RS. 20,000. More than 50 per cent of the Respondents (53.33%) were using spectacles and 66.67 per cent had placed their computer at an angle 450-600. Majority of the computer users were working at average level of nature of work and 23.33 per cent of them had worked in poor level of nature of work. Respondents had faced neck pain (86.67%), eye pain (83.33%), lower back (51.67%), shoulder pain (40%), headache (36.67%), upper leg and lower leg (36.67%). Field experiment through Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) tool showed that 75 per cent of the computer users had medium risks and changes in their postures required soon. Computer users had also experienced vision problems like eye watering (73.33%), double vision (70%), eye strain (55%), dry eyes (50%), difficulty in focusing (46.66%) and burning sensation (46.66%), while working with computer. Variables like age, income, gender, education and work environment of the computer users were significant relation with the difficulty in eyes of the respondents and work environment of the users was inversely proportional to the difficulty in eyes of the respondents. It was concluded that the work of the computer users was sedentary type which gradually develops chronic illness because of the bad postures adopted by the computer users, while performing their work on computer.