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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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Subject: Human Development and family studies × Author: BHAVANI, CH × Start date: 2018 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    DIGITAL GAME ADDICTIONINFLUENCE ON COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIOURAL OUTCOMES OF CHILDREN (9-11 YEARS
    (2021-09-03) BHAVANI, CH; BILQUIS
    Childhood is a time for children to be in school and at play which helps to grow stronger and confident with love and encouragement from their family. It is a critical and important time in which children sought to live free from fears, safe from violence and guarded from abuse and exploitation. Now-a-days gaming behavior is emerged as a common habit among children. It is one of the common leisure activities among children. World Health Organization defines gaming disorder as “a persistent or recurrent behavior pattern of sufficient severity result in significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, work-related and other main areas of functioning”. “Digital game addiction” is a condition that stems from the steady growing passion for digital games and its excessive and uncontrolled usage, which definitely influences their cognition and behavior (Parisod et al. 2014).In past children used to play games in playgrounds but now children addicted to digital gadgets and playing in the mobile. They spend more time on mobile games and it leading to addiction. Digital game addiction shows the bad effects among the children now a days. Addiction to the mobile games lead to consequences like falling school, behavioural problems, health problems, effecting the social relationships and little effect on cognitive abilities. The most often occurring outcomes reportable for digital game addiction are behavioral, perceptual cognitive and physiological outcomes (Connolly et al. 2012). Digital game addiction is being studied extensively as there is a need to know about its effects on behavioural and cognitive skills of children. Hence the present study was taken up to study the digital game addiction- influence on cognitive and behavioural outcomes of children (9-11 years) in Andhra Pradesh. xvi The sample was drawn from the selected schools of Visakhapatnam District, to know the digital game addiction influence on cognitive and behavioural outcomes of the children. The total sample consists of 180 children selected from three schools. 60 children from each school who are in age group of 9-11 years. Out of 180 sample selected, 90 children were boys and 90 were girls. The research design adopted in the present study was Ex-Post facto research design. Data was collected through in depth interviews and administered with the help of Standardized scales and open ended questionnaire from the selected respondents. Digital game Addiction Scale (Altun, M. and Atasoy, M. 2018) is used to measure the level of digital game addiction in children, Malin’s Intelligence Scale for Indian Children (MISIC, 1973) is used to measure level of cognitive development in children, The Revised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) (chorpit, et al. 2000) is used to measure the children anxiety and depression level. The results shown that majority of the children irrespective of their age had high levels of digital game addiction where boys scored higher than girls. The children with low extent of digital game addiction had low levels of anxiety and depression symptoms in boys and girls. The low addicted children scored low on social phobia, panic disorder, major depression, separation anxiety, generalized anxiety and obsessivecompulsive disorders. The children with medium level of digital game addiction had medium levels of anxiety and depression symptoms in boys and girls. The children with high level of digital game addiction had high levels of anxiety and depression symptoms in both genders and scored high on social phobia, major depression, separation anxiety and generalized anxiety. Interestingly nearly half of the boys with low extent of digital game addiction performed low on cognitive skills. Girls with low level of digital game addiction scored high on cognitive skills. Children with medium level of digital game addiction scored average on cognitive skills and high level of digital game addiction scored average to high on cognitive skills irrespective of gender. There was a significance variance among the boys and girls scores on the level of digital game addiction among all age groups. There was a significant association between the level of digital addiction and behavioural outcomes of 9-11 years old children. There was no significant association between the level of digital addiction and cognitive development of 9-11 years old children however children who had high levels of digital game addiction scored high on performance skills than verbal skills irrespective of gender. There was a positive and significant relation observed between age of the child, digital game addiction and cognitive development and behavioural outcomes. Majority of the children spending four hours on Mobile and 61.7 percent were playing mobile games. Nearly 60 percent of the children playing free fire game in mobile. Majority of children playing violent and adventurous type of games in mobile and also children are facing health problems like headache and eye problem. Hence parents should have to check on the level of time spent on digital games and facilitate them in balancing their academic and recreational activities. Children need to be counselled about the ill effects of digital or mobile game addiction and its effect on health, emotional, behavioural and psychological disorders