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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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    IMPACT OF MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE ACT (MGNREGA) SCHEME ON RURAL WOMEN OF SAMASTIPUR DISTRICT OF BIHAR
    (RPCAU, Pusa, 2023) PAL, SHALOO; Shipra, Kumari
    The Present research was carried out in the Samastipur District of Bihar with the objective to evaluate the “Impact of MGNREGA Scheme on rural women in the Samastipur District of Bihar”. Two villages were selected from each of the two Panchayats. Total Four villages and two Panchayats were chosen for the research study. A total, 30 women from each of the village were selected at randomly to form a sample of 120 respondents for the study. To collect the necessary data, the information was gathered through a personal interview. This study applied an ex-post-facto research design. The Collected data were examined using frequency distribution, mean, standard deviation, correlation, and Multiple regression analysis. The study revealed that, the most of respondents (45.83 percent) were belonged to the young age, having Scheduled Caste (52.00 percent) were labour category (69.00 percent), Annual family income (70.00 Per cent) respondents up to Rs.50,000, Nuclear family type (68.33 per cent), Primary school education (41.00 per cent), Medium level of work experience (78.33 percent), Small size of land holding (69.00 percent), Medium Number of working Days is (75.00 per cent). The finding indicates that, the majority of the respondents had improved Socio- economic independence and Women involving in decision making. The most of the respondents had improve nutritional security, infrastructure development, sanitation and waste management, enhanced livelihood security, gaining purchasing power and family economic situation has been improved. The finding indicates that, Independent variable Age (0.185) Family type (0.195) were shows positive correlation, at 5 per cent level of significance and Work experience (0.690) and Number of Employment days (0.320) was also showing positive correlation at 1per cent level of significance with the Impact of MGNREGA Scheme on rural women. The Multiple regression analysis showed that, Work experience contributing significantly, towards the impact of MGNREGA Scheme. The R2 value indicates that the set of variables explained (0.536) indicate that the set of variables explain 53.60 per cent of the total variability towards dependent variable i.e., Impact of MGNREGA Scheme. The MGNREGA beneficiaries’ face many constraints which are affecting their Social, Cultural, Psychological, status. In the study area the most severe constraints under the societal constraints as apparent by the respondents were Gender disparity, psychological constraints as social stigma, further Institutional constraints as perceived by respondents were Lack of adequate facility at work site, and in Cultural constraints as perceived by respondents were lack of decision-making power.