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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: Pradhan, Supriya × End date: 2020 × Start date: 2020 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    A study on awareness towards rights of women consumers of Pusa block, Samastipur, Bihar
    (DRPCAU, Pusa, 2020) Pradhan, Supriya; Bala, Shivani
    Today, the era of advancements in science and technology anyone is facing some huge changes in all aspects of production and consumption patterns as consumer point of view. Consumers are the largest economic group and central point of economic activities. This study was mainly aimed to observed and investigate the socio-economic profile of the women, awareness towards rights, constraints faced by the respondents of a particular area. The study was conducted at Pusa block in Samastipur district of Bihar near by the Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University. For the purpose of the study, 60 sample size was selected purposively and 60 respondents were selected randomly. Some Personal, Demographic Variables and some Socio-Economic Variables were included as the independent variables while their awareness towards 8 different rights was taken as dependent variable for this experiment. Data were collected with the help of a pre-designed structured interview schedule. After collection of data to analyze the correlation among them, appropriate statistical tests and tools were applied and computed i.e. chi square analysis (SPSS), hypothesis analysis, ranking & cumulative frequency. Background profile of the respondents showed that majority of the respondents were of middle age group (58.3%), working (56.7%) and graduated (48.3%), having no occupation (46.7%), maximum (80%) were married, having joint family (66.7%) and belonged to general caste (53.3%). Respondents having personal income (31.7%) were belongs to Rs. 50,001-1,00,000 per month and family income, 40 percent belonged to under Rs. 3,00,000 per month. Surprisingly it was found that almost all the respondents (96.6%) were not having any social participation and were aware to the mass media exposure (76.7%) while they shopping. The study revealed that, cent percent of respondents were aware about 2 rights i.e. right to safety & right to inform. Whereas in right to safety, less no. of respondents had known about the factor i.e. seeing the product levels. On an average, majority of respondents (93.33%) were fully aware about right to choose which is based on different brands price, quality, quantity, & discount rates. Some of the respondents were aware about right to be heard while regarding consumer court the more no. of respondents were aware. Followed by right to seek redressal, an average whole respondents fifty percentage were aware about this. Awareness towards basic needs and healthy environments, some-how the respondents were aware. Most of the respondents were also aware about quality assurance standard marks. The variables viz. education, occupation & caste were found to be significant relation with awareness towards rights. Mass media exposure was also found to be positive & significant relation with awareness towards rights of respondents as a consumer. Variables viz. working status, age, marital status & family type were found non-significant relation with the awareness towards rights of respondents as a consumer. Income of the both family & personal and social participation were also found to be non-significant relation with awareness towards rights.