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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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Author: Kritika × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2015 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    A comparative study of Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Abhiyan at Vaishali district of Bihar
    (Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur, 2018) Kritika; Kumari, Arunima
    Women constitute almost half of the population of the world. Education for women is the best way to improve the health, nutrition and economic status of a household that constitute a micro unit of a nation economy. In this context, it can be argued that lack of women education can be an impediment to the country’s economic development. In India, women achieve far less education that of men. As per the Census report 2011, the literacy rate of women is 65.46 per cent and that of men is 82.14 per cent. There has been a sincere effort to improve the education attainment of women by both government and voluntary Organization. The changes in the policies and infrastructural supports on primary, secondary and higher education reflect the initiatives of the Government of India towards women education. Shri Narender Modi, Honorable Prime Minister of India has given stress on the need of educating and protecting the girl child. When the country is heading towards being the superpower if not in the near future, in the long run. Yeah this is the miserable condition of the daughters in some parts of the country where the girls are not treated equal to boys, not allowed to go to the schools beyond primary classes, deprived of all the facilities which their brothers enjoy with extreme liberty and in some cases the girls are not allowed to take birth and they get killed in the womb of their mothers. Keeping in view the above facts the present study was conducted with the following specific objectives:- 1. To know the socio-economic status and personal characteristics of beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries. 2. To evaluate the performance and benefits of the scheme in context of the beneficiaries 3. To assess the impact of BBBP scheme. 4. To identify the constraints as faced by the beneficiaries. 5. Based on constraints, suggest the strategies for improvement in execution of the BBBP scheme. METHODOLOGY The present study was carried out in the Bihar state. Vaishali district was selected purposefully with having lowest sex ratio. From district Vaishali, Rajapakar and Chehrakalan (two blocks) were selected. From these two blocks, (two villages from each block), four villages were selected such as Bhojpatti, Phulwariya, Mansupur Halaiya and Chehra were selected randomly. A total number of 100 respondents were selected randomly. A schedule was developed to study the socio-economic background of the respondents. The schedule was standardized and validated through pre-testing. The data thus collected were analysed through Karl Pearson’s correlation and multiple regression and interpreted with the help of tables and diagrams. MAJOR FINDINGS The findings revealed that the majority of respondents were young aged and belongs to Schedule Caste. Family income of majority of the respondents was middle .It was found that education of respondent was high in higher secondary and parental education high in primary education. The source of livelihood of majority of them were in agriculture or allied activities. The type of family of majority of them in joint family.The size of family of majority of them in medium category,the number of children in your family of majority of them in more than three.Girl child in your family of majority of them in up to three.Further their social participation was high in self help grop, facility at school for majority of the respondents was recorded in high category.Performance of scheme for majority of the respondents was recorded in high in awareness creation,medium in sensitization programme and low in monitoring and supervision.Impact of scheme for majority of the respondents was recorded in medium category.Status of girl child for majority of the respondents was recorded in medium category. Among all the constraints, having girl child were perceived as highly problematic by most of them. Overall they all showed positive impact of scheme. Out of 15 independent variables undertaken in study thirteen variables namely were Age, Education, Parental education, Source of livelihood, Type of family, Size of family, Total no. of children in your family, Family income, Cosmopolite, Social participation, Facility at school, Performance of scheme, Impact of scheme and were positively and significantly correlated with status of girl child and caste,constraints faced by beneficiaries were negatively and non-significantly.