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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University 
Motto कृषिरेव महालक्ष्मीः (Sanskrit for Agriculture is the Greatest Wealth) Established 1970 Type Public Chancellor Jagannath Pahadia Governor of Haryana Vice-Chancellor Dr. Khokhar Location Hisar, Haryana, India Campus Urban 29.15 km² Affiliations UGC Website www.hau.ernet.in Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU, is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is named after India's seventh prime minister, Choudhary Charan Singh. It is a leader in agricultural research in India and contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 1970s. It has a very large campus and has several research centres throughout the state. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997.[1]
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History
HAU was initially a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. After the formation of Haryana in 1966, it became an autonomous institution on February 2, 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, later ratified as Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970, passed by the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1970.[2] Sh A.L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.[3]
Campus
HAU has a sprawling campus that is scenic and is visited by local people for morning and evening walks. There is a central campus core formed by Fletcher Bhawan, Gandhi Bhawan, Nehru Library and Indira Gandhi Auditorium, around which the other buildings and facilities are built. The university has a total land of 29.15 km² (12.91 km² at the main campus at Hisar, 10.68 km² Seed Production Farm at Hisar, and 5.56 km² at outstations).[4]
Colleges
HAU has FIVE colleges in the main campus at Hisar:
- College of Agriculture
- College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology
- College of Animal Sciences
- College of Basic Sciences & Humanities
- Indira Chakravarty College of Home Science
There IS additional College of Agriculture at Kaul (near Kurukshetra).
Facilities
In addition to the colleges, the university campus has the following facilities:
- Nehru Library, a collection of 300,000 books and 700 journals on a floor area of 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2).[5]
- Fletcher Bhawan, the administrative block.
- Gandhi Bhawan, serving as the Directorate of Extension Education.
- Indira Gandhi Auditorium.
- Giri Centre, acting as the students' activity and welfare center; has badminton courts, squash courts, a synthetic track, an Olympic-size swimming pool, and a large indoor gymnasium.
- Campus Hospital, a 50-bed hospital for the university community.
- Campus school for the children of the faculty.
- Faculty Club and Faculty House.
- Farmers' Hostel and Kisan Ashram for visiting farmers.
- Extensive Hostel facilities for students enrolled in the university.
- Residential Buildings (970 at Hisar and 242 at outstations) for staff and faculty.
- Shopping Centre with grocery shops, banks, post office, book stores etc.
Directorate of Students' Welfare
Directorate of Students’ Welfare arranges housing, sports and welfare for the students. This directorate provides students’counselling, assists in the placement of graduates of the University and organizes the alumni activities. It also supervises the extra-curricular activities of the students such as Music Club, Dramatics Club, Literary Club, Graphic Art Club, Mountaineering Club HAUMC website, National Cadet Corps (NCC), National Social Service (NSS) and Sports.
Laboratories
The university has laboratories that provide facilities like DNA sequencing, UV trans-illuminator, PCR, FT-IR, gene gun, gene pulser, electron microscope, plasma spectrometer, X-ray diffraction, chromatography etc. Screen house, green house and transgenic green house are also available to researchers.
Experimental farms
The university has an experimental farm of 9.94 km² at the main campus, and ten experimental farms at regional research stations, a total area of 5.68 km². These farms have both canal and tubewell irrigation facilities. Recently, the Government of Haryana has provided additional land of 16.08 km² to the university exclusively for seed production.
Regional centres
The university has research facilities spread throughout the state of Haryana.[1]
- Eight Krishi Vigyan Kendras (Agricultural Science Centres) situated at Devigarh (Kaithal), Kurukshetra, Bhopani (Faridabad), Jagdishpur (Sonepat), Sadalpur (Hisar) Jind, Ujha (Panipat)and Damla (Yamunanagar)
- Twelve Krishi Gyan Kendras (Agricultural Knowledge Centres) at Karnal, Rohtak, Jind, Ambala, Sirsa, Gurgaon, Sonipat, Bhiwani,Panchkula , Palwal (Faridabad), Hisar and Mahendragarh
- Regional Research Stations at Bawal (Rewari), Rohtak, Uchani (Karnal), Kaul (Kaithal), Buria (Yamunanagar), Ambala and Balsamand (Hisar)
- A Training Institute at Nilokheri Karnal.
- Six Disease Investigation Labs at Rohtak Ambala, Sirsa, Jind, Gurgaon and Karnal.
Associated institutions
- Academy of Agricultural Research and Education Management
- Haryana Space Applications Centre (HARSAC), a nodal agency of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of Haryana, for Remote Sensing and GIS applications.[6]
Administration
The Governor of Haryana is the Chancellor of the university and the Honorary Chairman of the Board of Management. The Vice-Chancellor is the working chairman of the board, and is the principal executive and academic head of the university. The Registrar for Academic and Administrative Affairs, the Comptroller for Finance and the Director of Students' Welfare are the chief administrative assistants of the Vice-Chancellor. The supreme academic authority is the Academic Council, chaired by the Vice-Chancellor. There are Board of Studies headed by Deans, one for each college in the university. There are some Non Statutory Committees to assist the general administration.[7]
Education
Admission to the undergraduate programmes (except B.Sc. Home Science and B. Tech in Agricultural Engineering) is through a Common Entrance Test that includes questions on Physics, Chemistry and Biology/Mathematics/Agriculture. Admission is offered in July in order of merit in two counseling sessions.[2] 75% of positions are offered to residents of Haryana, and the rest 25% are filled through an all-India entrance test organized by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. The seats for B. Tech in Agricultural Engineering are filled through AIEEE and exam by Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
Undergraduate programmes
- B.Sc. (Hons) Agriculture
- B.Tech. (Agricultural Engineering)
- B.Sc. (Hons) Home Science
- B.V.Sc. & A.H. (Bachelor of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry)
Masters programmes
- M.Sc. Agriculture
- M.Sc. Forestry
- M.B.A.[8]
- M. Tech. (Agricultural Engineering)
- M.Sc. (Botany, Zoology, Sociology, Chemistry, Genetics, Fisheries, Plant Physiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology & Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Microbiology or Statistics)
- M.Sc. (Food Science and Technology)
- M.Sc. (Home Science)
- M.V.Sc.
Doctoral programmes
Several departments in the College of Agriculture, College of Home Science, College of Animal Sciences, College of Veterinary Sciences and College of Basic Sciences and Humanities offer Ph.D. programmes.
Research and extension activities
The university publishes the largest number of research papers among agricultural universities in India.[9] It has four official publications: HAU Journal of Research, Haryana Veterinarian, Haryana Kheti, and Thesis Abstracts.[5] A Kisan Mela (Farmers' Fair) is organized every year in March to promote the spread of agricultural technology among farmers. HAU has released several varieties of wheat, rice, millets, forage crops, cash crops like sugarcane, cotton and oilseeds, vegetables and medicinal plants.[10]
References
- ^ a b http://hisar.nic.in/ccshau.htm
- ^ a b 2006 Prospectus (PDF)
- ^ Ch Charan Singh Agricultural University - HAU - Hissar - Haryana Online - India
- ^ CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, INDIA
- ^ a b Nehru Library on the March: Serving the Academia (PDF), Google cache
- ^ -> Haryana Space Applications Centre, Hisar ::
- ^ Administration at CCS HAU
- ^ Department of Business Management, CCS Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar
- ^ Arunachalam, Subbiah (December 2001). "Mapping Agricultural Research in India: A Profile based on CAB Abstracts 1998". Information Today & Tomorrow 20 (4): 9–17. http://www.dsir.gov.in/pubs/itt/itt0104/cabrep.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-03.
- ^ Varieties released by CCS HAU
External links
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