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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 OF CHILDREN RESIDING IN GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION AND SOS MODEL INSTITUTION IN GUNTUR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, 2018) MANEESHA, SAMUDRALA; UMA DEVI, L
    Children are the pillars of the nation. The growth of a child depends on his/her family. But in few cases children are placed in institutions. Institutionalized Children are infants and young children who are raised in institutions. Maintenance of mental health appears to be most crucial to the maintenance of the other aspects of the human health. It has been noted that the body responds to the way individuals think, feel and act, which is often referred to the “mind/body connection. When there is a breakdown in mental health, the physical health, as well as the social health tends to suffer more. Although many studies were found on mental health status of children residing in institutions and non-institutions but very few studies were done on comparisons within the institutionalized children. Hence the present study was proposed to study the mental health status of children residing in Government and SOS model institutions. The present study focuses on knowing the mental health status of children residing in Government institution and SOS model institution in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. The present study was conducted on 120 subjects, 60 each from Government and SOS model institutions. The study was Ex-post facto designed and the sample was collected by purposive random sampling method. The present study was carried out in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. General profile of respondents was collected by using general information schedule. Mental Health Status of institutionalized children was measured by using Mental Health Battery (MHB) developed by ArunKumar Singh and Alpana Sen Gupta (2005). Results on general profile of children revealed that most of the sample age ranged between 13 and 14 years. Most of the institutionalized children were found to be as paternal orphans and maternal orphans in both the institutions. Children who were staying since 7 years were more in number in both Government (67%) and SOS model institutions (40%). Children were admitted into the institutions mostly by mothers in both the Government institution and SOS model institution. It was found that majority xiv (90%) of the children from SOS model institution secured more than 75% marks whereas less than half of the children (47%) in Government institution secured more than 75% marks in their academics. Regarding Mental Health Status, it was observed that majority of children residing in both the Government and SOS model institutions had average levels of emotional stability and self-concept. In Government institution, more than half of the children scored average in the dimensions like over-all adjustment (63%), autonomy (60%) and half (50%) of the children scored average in the dimension of intelligence. In SOS model institution, majority of the children scored high in the dimensions like over-all adjustment (73%), autonomy (92%), security-insecurity (80%) and majority (88%) of the children were having medium level of intelligence. Majority of children from both the institutions were having good mental health status. It was found that there was a significant difference between Government and SOS model institutionalized children in the dimensions of mental health like over-all adjustment, autonomy, security-insecurity, intelligence and no significant difference was found between Government and SOS model institution children in the dimensions of mental health like emotional stability and self-concept. Significant difference was observed between Government institution and SOS model institution in-terms of overall mental health status favoring children residing in SOS model institution. Hence there is a need to address these differences by providing better psychological environment to enhance the mental health status of institutionalized children.