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Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, Guntur

The Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) was established on 12th June 1964 at Hyderabad. The University was formally inaugurated on 20th March 1965 by Late Shri. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India. Another significant milestone was the inauguration of the building programme of the university by Late Smt. Indira Gandhi,the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India on 23rd June 1966. The University was renamed as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University on 7th November 1996 in honour and memory of an outstanding parliamentarian Acharya Nayukulu Gogineni Ranga, who rendered remarkable selfless service for the cause of farmers and is regarded as an outstanding educationist, kisan leader and freedom fighter. HISTORICAL MILESTONE Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU) was established under the name of Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) on the 12th of June 1964 through the APAU Act 1963. Later, it was renamed as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University on the 7th of November, 1996 in honour and memory of the noted Parliamentarian and Kisan Leader, Acharya N. G. Ranga. At the verge of completion of Golden Jubilee Year of the ANGRAU, it has given birth to a new State Agricultural University namely Prof. Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University with the bifurcation of the state of Andhra Pradesh as per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act 2014. The ANGRAU at LAM, Guntur is serving the students and the farmers of 13 districts of new State of Andhra Pradesh with renewed interest and dedication. Genesis of ANGRAU in service of the farmers 1926: The Royal Commission emphasized the need for a strong research base for agricultural development in the country... 1949: The Radhakrishnan Commission (1949) on University Education led to the establishment of Rural Universities for the overall development of agriculture and rural life in the country... 1955: First Joint Indo-American Team studied the status and future needs of agricultural education in the country... 1960: Second Joint Indo-American Team (1960) headed by Dr. M. S. Randhawa, the then Vice-President of Indian Council of Agricultural Research recommended specifically the establishment of Farm Universities and spelt out the basic objectives of these Universities as Institutional Autonomy, inclusion of Agriculture, Veterinary / Animal Husbandry and Home Science, Integration of Teaching, Research and Extension... 1963: The Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) Act enacted... June 12th 1964: Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) was established at Hyderabad with Shri. O. Pulla Reddi, I.C.S. (Retired) was the first founder Vice-Chancellor of the University... June 1964: Re-affilitation of Colleges of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, Hyderabad (estt. in 1961, affiliated to Osmania University), Agricultural College, Bapatla (estt. in 1945, affiliated to Andhra University), Sri Venkateswara Agricultural College, Tirupati and Andhra Veterinary College, Tirupati (estt. in 1961, affiliated to Sri Venkateswara University)... 20th March 1965: Formal inauguration of APAU by Late Shri. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India... 1964-66: The report of the Second National Education Commission headed by Dr. D.S. Kothari, Chairman of the University Grants Commission stressed the need for establishing at least one Agricultural University in each Indian State... 23, June 1966: Inauguration of the Administrative building of the university by Late Smt. Indira Gandhi, the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India... July, 1966: Transfer of 41 Agricultural Research Stations, functioning under the Department of Agriculture... May, 1967: Transfer of Four Research Stations of the Animal Husbandry Department... 7th November 1996: Renaming of University as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University in honour and memory of an outstanding parliamentarian Acharya Nayukulu Gogineni Ranga... 15th July 2005: Establishment of Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University (SVVU) bifurcating ANGRAU by Act 18 of 2005... 26th June 2007: Establishment of Andhra Pradesh Horticultural University (APHU) bifurcating ANGRAU by the Act 30 of 2007... 2nd June 2014 As per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act 2014, ANGRAU is now... serving the students and the farmers of 13 districts of new State of Andhra Pradesh with renewed interest and dedication...

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    A STUDY ON MENTAL HEALTH STATUS OF INSTITUTIONALIZED CHILDREN RESIDING IN GUNTUR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, 2018) SHUBHASRI DEVI, KOTTA; UMA DEVI, L
    Institutional care is considered as an appropriate measure for providing care to orphan and destitute children in India. Numerous Government and Nongovernment organizations, trusts, and private individuals across the country provide institutional care to those children whose family is either unable to provide them with adequate care due to poverty, illness etc., or there are no immediate family members to take care of them as they are orphans. Mental health is important for individuals, especially children. The consequences of poor mental health in childhood extend into adulthood, increasing the likelihood of low educational achievement, criminality and violence, adult mental disorder, unhealthy lifestyles and the risk of ill health. There appears to be only few research studies conducted on mental health status of institutionalized children in India and particularly in Andhra Pradesh. Further there are no research studies done comparing the mental health status of children residing in institutions run by Government and Non-government bodies. To plan any policies or interventions to improve mental health status of the institutionalized children residing in Government and Non-government institutions, more empirical research is required. Hence the present study is taken up. The present study was carried out in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh to study the mental health status of institutionalized children. An Ex-post facto research design was adopted for conducting the study. Systematic random sampling procedure was used to select 60 girls between the age group of 10-15 years. After screening the children based on the criteria that they should have stayed in the institution for at least 2 years by purposive sampling. Out of which 30 from Government and 30 from Non-government institution were selected. The independent variables for the study were age (years), age at the time of institutionalization, class, Duration/years of stay in Institution, Quality of xvi institutional environment. The mental health status of children is considered as the dependent variable. The personal information of the child was collected through an interview schedule developed for the study and the general information of the institution was collected using the schedule prepared. The data related to quality of institutional environment was collected using OVC (Orphans and Vulnerable Children wellbeing Tool) developed by Shannon et al. (2009), which comprised of 10 dimensions, namely Food and Nutrition, Shelter, Protection, Family, Health, Spirituality, Mental Health, Education, Economic Opportunities and Community Cohesion. The mental health status of the children was assessed using Mental Health Battery (MHB) developed by Singh and Sen Gupta (2005).The 6 dimensions of Mental Health Battery are Emotional stability, Over-all adjustment, Autonomy, Security-Insecurity, Self-Concept and Intelligence. The data on general profile of institutionalized children revealed that majority of the children were in the age of thirteen and fourteen years. Most of the institutionalized children were found to be as paternal orphans. Children who were staying since 8 years were more in number in both Government and Nongovernment institutions. It was observed that majority of the children were admitted in the institutions by their own mothers. The academic performance was good in children residing in Non-government institution compared to those residing in Government institution. Significant difference was found in perceptions related to quality of institutional environment between the Government and Non-government institutions. It was found that children residing in Non-government institution had better perceptions about their institutional environment than children of Government institution. The present study focused on understanding the differences in mental health status of Government and Non-government institutionalized children. The results of the present study showed that there was a significant difference between Government and Non-government institutionalized children on mental health. Children from Non-government institution had better score on Emotional stability and Intelligence dimensions whereas children from Government institution scored high on self-concept dimension. It was found that there was no significant difference between Government and Non-government institutionalized children in terms of Over-all adjustment, Autonomy and Security-Insecurity. Finally it was concluded that there was a significant difference between Government institution and Non- Government institution children in terms of over -all mental health status favoring Non- government Institutionalized children. Hence measures should be taken to improve the institutional environment to enhance the mental health status of institutionalized children in general and Government institutions in particular.