| Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University | |
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| 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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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] A. L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.[3]
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]
HAU has six colleges in the main campus at Hisar:
There are two additional Colleges of Agriculture at Kaul (near Kurukshetra) and Bawal (near Rewari).
In addition to the colleges, the university campus has the following facilities:
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.
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.
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.
The university has research facilities spread throughout the state of Haryana.[1]
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]
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.
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.
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]
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