Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University is a public funded agricultural university located at Hisar in the Indian state of

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. It is the biggest

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in Asia. The university has of land (around at main campus, at outstations). It is named after India's fifth Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. It was initially a

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Punjab Agricultural University The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) is a public funded agricultural university located in Ludhiana district of Punjab. It is a state agricultural university in India. It was established in 1962 and is the nation's third-oldest agricultur ...

at Hisar. It was established as a university by Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, ratified 2 February 1970 and was named as Haryana Agricultural University. So basically it is considered as the first established university of state Haryana. On 31 October 1991, it was renamed as Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University. A. L. Fletcher was the first

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of the university. The university publishes the largest number of

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among agricultural universities in India. It won the

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's Award for the Best Institute in 1997 and in 2017. It contributed significantly to

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and

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in India. Golden Jubilee Year celebrations started in the university on 2 February 2019 and ended on 1 February 2020 marking the 50 glorious years of service towards mankind.

History

According to the data maintained by the Government of India's Department of Statistics, the HAU's Department of Agronomy was established in 1930 and department of Entomology was founded in 1956 in Punjab Agricultural University.Establishment details and start dated, page 205
In February 1948, the Punjab College of Veterinary Sciences was opened at Railway Road Hisar in a rented building which was shared with the Govt College Hisar from 1950 onward. In 1961, the Punjab College of Veterinary Sciences later moved to the Government Livestock Farm, Hisar and it eventually came under the

(PAU) as a

when PAU was established in 1962. In 1962, the College of Agriculture was established. In 1964, the College of Basic Sciences and Humanities was established. In 1966, the College of Animal Sciences was established. In 1966, when Haryana was formed, it was declared as an autonomous institution. On 2 February 1970, it was ratified and established as a university by Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, and was named as Haryana Agricultural University, with A. L. Fletcher as its first

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. The four constituent colleges of HAU located at Hisar, namely, College of Agriculture, College of Basic Sciences, College of Animal Sciences and College of Veterinary Sciences became a part of Haryana Agricultural University. In 1971, A regional campus of the university was opened at

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in 1971. In 1972, the College of Sports and in 1973 the College of Home Science were established. In 1973, College of Home Sciences was added. On 31 October 1991, the HAU was renamed as ''Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University''. In 1992, the College of Agricultural Engineering was established. In 2010, College of Veterinary Sciences and College of Animal Sciences were separated from the university and became a part of the newly formed

Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences (LUVAS) is a university located in Hisar, Haryana. It is named after the freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai. History The College of Veterinary Sciences was shifted to Hisar from Lah ...

(LUVAS).

Campus

It is located about 5 km from the

Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, was founded in 1995. The jurisdiction of the university extends to the courses being run in the areas of science, technology, engineering, pharmacy and management. Guru Jambheshwar ...

; 4 km from the

Blue Bird Lake Blue Bird Lake, Hisar is a resident and endangered migratory bird wetland habitat, lake and recreation area in the town of Hisar, in the Hisar district of Haryana State, India.National Highway 9, (old NH 10) 1 km from the town center & main market area; 100 meter from

Mahabir Stadium Mahavir Stadium, built in 1972, is a multipurpose sports complex located in Hisar city of Haryana, India. It has second largest capacity in Haryana, after the Shah Satnam Ji Cricket Stadium in Sirsa which has a higher capacity of 35,000 specta ...

; 1 km from Hisar Junction railway station, 6 km from the

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; 167 km from the

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; 180 km from the New Delhi railway station; and 235 km from the

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. The main campus of CCS HAU has four gates, Gate No-1 near

, Gate No-2 and Gate No-3 behind Campus School and next to Giri Centre respectively both on the MDR107 Balsamand road, and Gate No-4 on NH52 Rajgarh road. The development plan of the university is based on the concept of a Central Campus Core around which academic buildings for various colleges, schools and departments, residential, recreational and common facilities such as Faculty House and Club, Farmers' Hostel, Students' Hostel, Hospital, Shopping Centre etc., are built. The buildings comprising the Core are Gandhi Bhawan, Nehru Library, Indira Gandhi Auditorium and the Administration Building, situated on three sides of great Plazza, the greater part of which is four feet above ground level. The main campus of the university is situated at Hisar at a distance of162 km North-West of Delhi on National Highway No.10 and is 2 km from the railway station and 3 km from the Bus Stand. University is spread over an area of 7219 Acres at Hisar and 1426 Acres at outstations. Area at Hisar under farms is 6483 Acres and under buildings and roads is 736 Acres. HAU has a central campus core formed by Fletcher Bhawan, Gandhi Bhawan (built 1975–1978), Indira Gandhi Auditorium (built 1982–1985) and Nehru Library, around which the other buildings and facilities are built. The university has a total land of ( at the main campus at Hisar, Dr. Ramdhan Singh Seed Production Farm at Hisar, and at outstations).CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, INDIA

Facilities

Spread over an area of 298 hectares, the university has four constituent colleges viz. College of Agriculture, College of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, College of Basic Sciences & Humanities and College of Home Science. Each college building is a complete institution in itself having large number of lecture rooms, laboratories, auditorium, seminar rooms, audio-visual Laboratories, computer facilities etc. To accommodate administrative staff, the university has an administrative block known as Fletcher Bhawan. Directorate of Extension Education along with the Directorate of Publications is housed in a double storeyed spacious building named Gandhi Bhawan. Adjacent to Gandhi Bhawan is the Dean, Postgraduate Studies Block housing Dean PGS staff. In addition to the colleges, the university campus has the following facilities: * Fletcher Bhawan, the administrative block * Nehru Library, a collection of over 375,000 books and 2500+ journals on a floor area of .Nehru Library on the March: Serving the Academia
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Bhawan, serving as the Directorate of Extension Education * HAU Campus Hospital, a 50-bed

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for the university community. * Government High School at HAU opened in 1980 * HAU Faculty Club * HAU Faculty House * HAU Farmers' Hostel and Kisan Ashram for visiting farmers * Residential Buildings (970 at Hisar and 242 at outstations) for staff and faculty * Shopping Centre with

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s etc. * HAU Community centre complex * Academy of Agricultural Research and Education Management (AAREM) * HAU Counselling and Placement Cell which provides students the opportunity to interact with National and International organisations for facilitating the job opportunities and other activities related to their career advancement.

Organisation and administration

Governance

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is the main

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body responsible for the management of the university. The

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is the

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of the university and the Honorary Chairman of the Board of Management. The

is the working chairman of the board, and is the principal executive and academic head of the university. Official members include the secretaries of agriculture, finance and community development of the

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. Non-official members are also nominated by the Government of Haryana. Director of

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and Director of

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of the

act as Technical Advisors whereas the

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is the Secretary of the Board. The Office of the Registrar is responsible for academics, employees and faculty related affairs of the university. The Office of the

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is responsible for finance, investment, budget and expenditure related affairs of the university and Directorate of Students Welfare is responsible for housing, boarding and welfare of the students and for various non-academic activities. 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.

Colleges

HAU has four colleges in the main campus at Hisar: * College of Agriculture (CoA) * College of

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and Technology * College of

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s &

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* Indira Chakravarty College of

Home Science Home economics, also called domestic science or family and consumer sciences, is a subject concerning human development, personal and family finances, consumer issues, housing and interior design, nutrition and food preparation, as well as texti ...

*College of Fisheries Science (CoF)

Research stations

There are two additional research stations and colleges of Agriculture.

Kaul Agriculture Research stations

It is located at

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Bawal Research stations

It is located at Jhabuwa near

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Regional centres

The university has research facilities spread throughout the state of Haryana. * Eight ''Krishi Vigyan Kendras'' (Agricultural Science Centres) situated at

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( Kaithal),

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, Bhopani (

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(

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), Sadalpur ( Hisar)

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, Ujha (

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)and Damla (

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) * Twelve ''Krishi Gyan Kendras'' (Agricultural Knowledge Centres) at

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, Rohtak, Jind,

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, Sonipat,

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, Panchkula, Palwal (

), Hisar and

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* ''Regional Research Stations'' at Bawal (Rewari), Rohtak, Uchani (

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(Hisar) * A ''Training Institute'' at

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. * Six ''Disease Investigation Labs'' at

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and

Associated institutions

* Academy of Agricultural Research and Education Management *

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, a nodal agency of the Department of Science and Technology,

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Directorate

Farm Information and Communication Service

The Farm Information and Communication Service of the Directorate provides audio-visual and mass media support to the various wings, sections and departments of the university. Publication Unit: Like other units, publication unit including Press and Photography is also one of the important units. Monthly magazine Haryana Kheti, based on research evidences and experiences of the subject matter experts is published by the Unit. Other publications like Package of Practices Kharif, Rabi and Horticultural & Vegetable crops, Animal Husbandry and Home Science and other extension literature are published to provide need based, problem oriented information to the farming community. The magazine and other publications are supplied by the publication unit to the subscribers on payment basis. The University Press caters to the printing work of the university as a whole.

Agri-tourism Centre and farmers fair

"Haryana State Farmer's and Agri-tourism Fair", simply called the "Kisan Mela", is an annual fair organised at HAU by this unit. It is largest fair of iots kind in the state. It entails "open house" visits to Agri-tourism Centre as well as at another location within HAU exhibition with stalls of various departments and suppliers of agri products and equipment. This is done to encourage agri-tourism, disseminate information to farmers, facilitate networking of farmers and farm input suppliers, buyers, food processing units, and consumers. This unit also organizes exhibitions, such as Farm Darshan, at state, zonal and district levels in collaboration with other two wings of the Directorate & other departments/colleges.

Haryana Rural Antique Museum

The Haryana Rural Antique Museum in Gandhi Bhawan, established by this unit, exhibits evolution of agriculture and vanishing antiques. Jahaj Kothi Museum, named after George Thomas (soldier), George Thomas, is located inside Firoz Shah Palace Complex and maintained by

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.Jahaj Kothi museum
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, which is an

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site 60 km away, also has a museum developed by the state government.Harappan museum at Rakhigarhi
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Agri Business Incubation Centre (ABIC)

The Agri Business Incubation Centre, CCSHAU was established as a

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with INR11.75 crore funding by the

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to encourage startup value-addition entrepreneurship, training and guidance to the youth.Incubation centre at HAU to push agribusiness startups

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, 15 December 2017.NABARD sanctions Rs 15,787 cr to Haryana

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, 1 May 2018. Its foundation stone was laid on 2 February 2018.Nabard lays foundation stone for agri business centre at Hisar

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, 2 February 2018. To generate employment and to double the farmer's income, ABIC will act as single-window access for consultancy, incubation, initial business proposal development, procurement of resources and finance, risk mitigation, etc.

Agricultural Extension Centres (AEC)

The CCSHAU Directorate of Extension Education started establishing Krishi Gyan Kendra (Agricultural Knowledge Centres) in districts of the state of

from 1966, with funding from

. In 1989, the new extension centres were named as Krishi Vigyan Kendra (Farm Service Centres) and since then one Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) was established in each district of

, to disseminate information and to provide

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in the relevant technologies among farmers, rural youth and rural development agencies. There are a total of 11 KGKs and 19 KVKs (c. 2012). The first Kisan Sewa Kendra (Agricultural Technology Information Centre) was established at the university main campus in 2002, and currently there are a total of three Kisan Sewa Kendra (KSKs) (c. 2012) with

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helpline agricultural services for the farmers. Seeds of various crops, fruits, vegetables,

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s and

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s are provided to farmers at subsidised rates through these centres.

Deendyal Upadhaya Centre of Excellence for Organic Farming (DUCEOF)

The non-profit Deendyal Upadhaya Centre of Excellence for Organic Farming, attached with the dairy, was established on 139 acres of land on 31 October 2017 to promote and impart the training in the organic farming.Khattar inaugurates swarn jayanti dwar and organic farmign centre at CCSHAU
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, 1 November 2017. The organic produce will be sold in the

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Academics

Academic programmes

The institute offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs. Undergraduate programs award BSc (

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) and

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in various agricultural fields. Postgraduate programmes award MSc,

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and M.B.A. programme.Department of Business Management, CCS Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar
and there is also

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programme.

Admission

Admission to the undergraduate programmes (except BTech 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.2006 Prospectus
75% of positions are offered to residents of Haryana, and the rest 25% are filled through an all-India entrance test organized by the

. The seats for BTech in Agricultural Engineering are filled through HSTES counselling based on result of JEE exam by NTA and

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exam by Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Seats available for Haryana Residents are 41 and for ICAR students are 6 as of 2021.

Laboratories

The university has laboratories that provide facilities like

DNA sequencing DNA sequencing is the process of determining the nucleic acid sequence – the order of nucleotides in DNA. It includes any method or technology that is used to determine the order of the four bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine. T ...

, UV trans-illuminator, PCR,

FT-IR Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) is a technique used to obtain an infrared spectrum of absorption or emission of a solid, liquid, or gas. An FTIR spectrometer simultaneously collects high-resolution spectral data over a wide spectra ...

, gene gun, gene pulser,

electron microscope An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination. As the wavelength of an electron can be up to 100,000 times shorter than that of visible light photons, electron microscopes have a hi ...

, plasma

spectrometer A spectrometer () is a scientific instrument used to separate and measure spectral components of a physical phenomenon. Spectrometer is a broad term often used to describe instruments that measure a continuous variable of a phenomenon where the ...

X-ray diffraction X-ray crystallography is the experimental science determining the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, in which the crystalline structure causes a beam of incident X-rays to diffract into many specific directions. By measuring the angles ...

chromatography In chemical analysis, chromatography is a laboratory technique for the separation of a mixture into its components. The mixture is dissolved in a fluid solvent (gas or liquid) called the ''mobile phase'', which carries it through a system ( ...

etc. Screen house, green house and

transgenic A transgene is a gene that has been transferred naturally, or by any of a number of genetic engineering techniques, from one organism to another. The introduction of a transgene, in a process known as transgenesis, has the potential to change the ...

green house are also available to researchers.

Experimental farms

The university has an experimental farm of > at the main campus, and ten experimental farms at regional research stations, a total area of . These farms have both

canal Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface f ...

and

tubewell A tube well is a type of water well in which a long, -wide, stainless steel tube or pipe is bored underground. The lower end is fitted with a strainer, and a pump lifts water for irrigation. The required depth of the well depends on the dep ...

irrigation facilities. Recently, the

has provided additional land of to the university exclusively for seed production.

Printing Press

There is a full-fledged University Press to cater to the needs of printing of university publications like Haryana Kheti in Hindi and Haryana Farming in English. Besides above, several books in Hindi like Package of Practices for Rabi and Kharif Crops and Preservation, Package of Practices for Kharif Crops in English are printed in HAU Press. Some publications have also been printed on behalf of Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, New Delhi.

Research

The university publishes the largest number of research papers among agricultural universities in India. It has four official publications: ''HAU Journal of Research'', ''Haryana Veterinarian'', ''Haryana Kheti'', and ''Thesis Abstracts''. A Kisan Mela (Farmers' Fair) is organized every year in March to promote the spread of agricultural technology among farmers. HAU has released about 250 varieties of

wheat Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a worldwide staple food. The many species of wheat together make up the genus ''Triticum'' ; the most widely grown is common wheat (''T. aestivum''). The archaeologi ...

barley Barley (''Hordeum vulgare''), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains, particularly in Eurasia as early as 10,000 years ago. Globally 70% of barley p ...

rice Rice is the seed of the grass species '' Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima'' (African rice). The name wild rice is usually used for species of the genera '' Zizania'' and '' Porteresia'', both wild and domesticat ...

maize Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn (North American English, North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples of Mexico, indigenous ...

millet Millets () are a highly varied group of small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food. Most species generally referred to as millets belong to the tribe Paniceae, but some millets a ...

forage Forage is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock. Historically, the term ''forage'' has meant only plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture, crop residue, or immature cereal crops, but it is also use ...

crops,

cash crop A cash crop or profit crop is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit. It is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm. The term is used to differentiate marketed crops from staple crop (or "subsistence crop") in subsist ...

s like

sugarcane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of (often hybrid) tall, perennial grass (in the genus '' Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fibrous stalk ...

cotton Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus '' Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor pe ...

and oilseeds, medicinal plants,

vegetable Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the edible flower, flowers, ...

s and

horticulture Horticulture is the branch of agriculture that deals with the art, science, technology, and business of plant cultivation. It includes the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs, sprouts, mushrooms, algae, flowers, seaweeds and no ...

.Varieties released by CCS HAU
Extension department also runs a weather and crop advisory service for the farmers called eMausam.

Student life

Residential life

Directorate of Students Welfare is responsible for providing residential facilities to the students. The university has a total of 14 hostels out of which 12 are located at Hisar. Out of 12 hostels located at Hisar, eight are for males, three for females and one for married students. There are separate for in-service and foreign students. There are two hostels, one each for males and females, at

in Kaithal. The hostels have a total capacity of 1200 students. Aravali hostel is the oldest hostel of the university. Its construction started in 1958. It served as the Administrative Block of the university during the first year of the university. Along with the official buildings, university has 1220 units of residential buildings (970 at Hisar and 242 at outstations) distributed into different categories. The hostel accommodation is sufficient enough to house each of the student on the university roll. University has a two-room set married hostel for married students located in the residential complex. Each hostel has a separate complex housing catering services and indoor games along with modern recreational and communication facilities like TV and Phone. University has a well-furnished Faculty House having facilities at par with the modern guest houses serving housing need of the national as well as international scientists visiting CCS HAU, Hisar. There is a farmers' hostel just close to the Faculty House with same level of facilities for the farmers visiting the university. The Faculty House of the university can provide accommodation to about 72 persons at a time. Similarly, farmers' hostel could accommodate about 76 persons at its full occupancy. In addition to these modern housing accommodations, there is spacious Kisan Ashram catering to the needs of the farmer trainees attending different short-term courses organized by the Directorate of Extension Education from time to time. To serve the community needs of the faculty members, university has a spacious Faculty Club. Similarly, there is a community centre in order to serve the community needs of the supporting staff. />

Medical Services

There is a well-equipped 50-bed hospital on the main campus at Hisar and 3 dispensaries at out-station i.e. College of Flag of the Red Cross

Agriculture, Kaul (Kaithal), Regional Research Stations, Karnal and Bawal. The hospital at main campus has 5 doctors and a dentist. Round-the-clock medical aid is provided to the students, staff and other trainees.

Clubs and societies

Different

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s and

societies A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societ ...

have been formed to organise different

extracurricular activities An extracurricular activity (ECA) or extra academic activity (EAA) or cultural activities is an activity, performed by students, that falls outside the realm of the normal curriculum of school, college or university education. Such activities a ...

inside the university. Dramatics and Music Club is responsible for organising cultural activities. It was formed in 1973. The club presented Haryanvi folk dance in Indian Festival held at

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, Russia in 1986 and have participated in each All India Inter-Agricultural University Youth Festival ( AgriUniFest ) organised by

since its inception in 2000. It has won theatrical events at the festival four times and group songs events six times. Graphic Arts Society and Literary Society are responsible for

arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...

and

literary Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to includ ...

activities. Graphics Art Society was established in 1970. It also offers

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is emplo ...

as a co-curricular activity of the university course curriculum for undergraduate students. Many members of this society have won awards at the AgriUniFest. Students of Literary Society have been awarded in

elocution Elocution is the study of formal speaking in pronunciation, grammar, style, and tone as well as the idea and practice of effective speech and its forms. It stems from the idea that while communication is symbolic, sounds are final and compelli ...

extempore ''Ex tempore'' ( Latin for "out of the moment“) is a legal term that means 'at the time'. A judge who hands down a decision in a case soon or straight after hearing it is delivering a decision ''ex tempore''. Another way a judge may deliver a d ...

and

debate Debate is a process that involves formal discourse on a particular topic, often including a moderator and audience. In a debate, arguments are put forward for often opposing viewpoints. Debates have historically occurred in public meetings, a ...

competitions at the AgriUniFest. CCS HAU Mountaineering Club provides

mountaineering Mountaineering or alpinism, is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending tall mountains. Mountaineering-related activities include traditional outdoor climbing, skiing, and traversing via ferratas. Indoor climbing, sport climbing, ...

opportunities to the students of the university. The club was started in the year 1971 and its motto is ''Youth for Adventure''. The club offers

trekking Backpacking is the outdoor recreation of carrying gear on one's back, while hiking for more than a day. It is often an extended journey, and may involve camping outdoors. In North America tenting is common, where simple shelters and mountain h ...

programs, seminars on mountain sports and, basic and advanced courses in

rock climbing Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up, across, or down natural rock formations. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a usually pre-defined route without falling. Rock climbing is a physically a ...

and

skiing Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow. Variations of purpose include basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport. Many types of competitive skiing events are recognized by the International Olympic Committee ( ...

. in 2007, the club organised a motorbike expedition from Hisar to

Khardung La Khardung La () or Khardung Pass is a mountain pass in the Leh district of the Indian union territory of Ladakh. The pass is on the Ladakh Range, north of Leh, and connects the Indus river valley and the Shyok river valley. It also forms the ...

, world's highest motorable pass. The club publishes its own online magazine known as HAUMC Magazine and also operates world's first trekking helpline. The club also organises humanitarian and voluntary activities such as awareness campaigns, environmental campaigns and fundraising events. The base of the club is located at the Giri Centre for Sports Activities of the university.

Other facilities

National Cadet Corps and

National Service Scheme The National Service Scheme (NSS) is an Indian government sector public service program conducted by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports of the Government of India. Popularly known as NSS, the scheme was launched in Gandhiji's Centenary ...

(NSS) are available as credit activities in the university. NSS was established at the university in 1970. Many students of the university have been selected for

Republic Day Parade The Delhi Republic Day parade is the largest and most important of the parades marking the Republic Day celebrations in India. The parade takes place every year on 26 January at Rajpath, New Delhi. It is the main attraction of India's Repu ...

and one student has been selected for International Youth Development Exchange Programme held in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.46 ...

, Japan. Counseling and Placement Centre provides placement opportunities whereas Alumni Association is responsible for handling alumni relations.

Directorate of Student Welfare

Director, Students' Welfare is responsible for making arrangements for housing, boarding and welfare of the students and various co-curricular activities other than the academic work. The Directorate of Students Welfare serves as a hub of students' guidance, counseling and placement activities for all its constituent colleges. Directorate helps CCS HAU graduates to get suitable placement in various nationalized banks, agro-based companies/industries/MNCs/NGOs etc. It facilitates students to pursue their higher education in India and abroad by conducting coaching classes, motivation lectures, mock group discussions, and interview simulations etc. The Directorate of Students' Welfare is also responsible for promotion of all co-curricular activities such as Sports, NCC, NSS, Mountaineering, Graphic Arts, Literary, Music, Dance, Drama, NIS, etc. For promotion of these activities, various trainings are arranged from time to time.

Sports

Directorate of Students Welfare is responsible for non-academic activities of the university.

Sports Authority of India The Sports Authority of India (SAI) is the apex national sports body of India, established in 1982 by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports of Government of India for the development of sports in India. SAI has 2 Sports Academic instituti ...

has established a Sports Training Center at HAU to impart training in

Athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competi ...

Boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...

Judo is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponica, "Judo") ...

and

Table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

Giri Centre for Sports Activities

The Giri Centre, also housing

's (SAI) "Sports Training Centre", for students sports activities is an outstanding feature of this university. Since 2001 it has dedicated "center of excellence" for several sports,""

Amar Ujala ''Amar Ujala'' is a Hindi-language daily newspaper published in India which was founded in 1948. It has 21 editions in six states and two union territories covering 180 districts. It has a circulation of around two million copies. The 2017 In ...

, 27 August 2016 . including the "Center of Excellence for Wrestling" named after

Sakshi Malik Sakshi Malik (born 3 September 1992) is an Indian freestyle wrestler. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won the bronze medal in the 58 kg category, becoming the first Indian female wrestler to win a medal at the Olympics. She is a part of ...

,"साक्षी मलिक के नाम पर बनेगा हकृवि में एक्सीलेंस सेंटर."
Dainik Jagran, 27 August 2016. hockey, boxing and judo."Khel Haryana: SAI's Hisar centre will not Stop."
Focus Haryana news, 11 April 2015. It also has two indoor badminton courts with a

seating capacity Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law. Seating capacity can be used in the description of anything ranging from an automobile tha ...

for 600 spectators, an

Olympic-size swimming pool An Olympic-size swimming pool conforms to regulated dimensions that are large enough for international competition. This type of swimming pool is used in the Olympic Games, where the race course is in length, typically referred to as "long cour ...

, two indoor squash courts, hobby rooms, two multipurpose indoor gymnasium with a reasonable seating capacity. A synthetic athletics and hockey track of international standard has been built. All the sports events of the university are held at Giri Centre. It has a

cricket ground Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by stri ...

, a football ground and an

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competi ...

stadium A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand o ...

with a synthetic track of

international standard international standard is a technical standard developed by one or more international standards organization, standards organizations. International standards are available for consideration and use worldwide. The most prominent such organization ...

. A

first-class match First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is official ...

was played at the cricket stadium here between

Haryana cricket team The Haryana cricket team is a domestic cricket team run by the Haryana Cricket Association, representing the state of Haryana, India. The team participates in the Ranji Trophy, the top tier domestic first-class cricket tournament in India, as w ...

and

Jammu and Kashmir cricket team The Jammu and Kashmir cricket team is a cricket team based in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, run by JKCA. It is in the Elite Group C of the Ranji Trophy. Its main home ground is the Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium in Srinagar, and i ...

on 11 November 1975 during the

Ranji Trophy The Ranji Trophy (also known as Mastercard Ranji Trophy for sponsorship reasons) is a domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between multiple teams representing regional and state cricket associations. Board of Control for Cr ...

tournament.

University Handball Club

Handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the ...

is a particularly popular sport at HAU and the university has its own Handball Club. The club won

Gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have be ...

at the All India Inter Varsity Handball Championship in 1988,

Bronze medal A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receiv ...

at Senior National Handball Championship and are five times winner of Haryana State Handball Championships. The university has organised All India Inter Varsity Handball Championship once in 1988. Three players from the club have represented Indian handball team at international level and almost all the players of Haryana handball team belong to HAU.

Notable people

Notable alumni

Anil Kumar Gupta Anil Kumar Gupta is an Indian scholar in the area of grassroots innovations. He is the founder of the Honey Bee Network. He retired as a full-time professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 2017, where he served for about 36 yea ...

, professor in the Centre for Management in Agriculture at

IIM, Ahmedabad Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad) is the world's number 1 business school, located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The school has been accorded the status of an Institute of National Importance by Ministry of Human Resou ...

, founder of Honey Bee Network, Executive VC of the NIF, (2004)

Padma Shri Padma Shri ( IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conf ...

National Award (management education). * Sanjeev Balyan, Member of Parliament from

Muzaffarnagar Muzaffarnagar is a city under Muzaffarnagar District in the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh. It is situated midway on the Delhi - Haridwar/Dehradun National Highway (NH 58) and is also well connected with the national railway network. It is ...

. *

Jagat Jakhar Jagat Singh Jakhar (born 6 October 1956) was a Haryanvi film actor. He appeared in a dozen Haryanvi films until his death in 2011. He was the main lead of the largest grossing Haryanvi film, '' Chandrawal'' (1984). Early life He was born in a ...

, Haryanvi film actor and main lead of the highest grossing Haryanvi film,

Chandrawal ''Chandrawal'' is a 1984 Haryanvi film. It is the third Haryanavi-language film to be released and the first financially successful one. Written by Late. Shri Devi Shankar Prabhakar, produced by Usha Sharma and directed by Jayant Prabhaker, th ...

. *

Harsh Vardhan Batra Harsh Vardhan Batra is an Indian scientist working in animal biotechnology at the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), of the Indian Ministry of Science and Technology. He is a former director of the Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL), a Def ...

, former director of the Defence Food Research Laboratory

Notable faculty

* Dr. Jai Bhagwan Chaudhary, Ex Vice-Chancellor of CCSHAU and GBPUA&T Pantnagar, recipient of the

award. *

Anthony Leocadia Fletcher Anthony Leocadia Fletcher (9 December 1909 – 14 December 1974) was an Indian civil servant. He was the first vice-chancellor of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University and the founder of Campus School CCS HAU, Hisar. Early l ...

, Indian civil servant, First Vice-Chancellor of HAU. * Megh R. Goyal, considered as father of

irrigation Irrigation (also referred to as watering) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns. Irrigation has been a key aspect of agriculture for over 5,000 years and has been devel ...

engineering in

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. *

Udey Chand Udey Chand (born 25 June 1935) is a retired Indian wrestler and wrestling coach who was the first individual world championship medal winner from independent India. He was awarded the first Arjuna Award in wrestling in 1961, by Go ...

Arjuna Award The Arjuna Award, officially known as Arjuna Awards for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, is the second-highest sporting honour of India, the highest being the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. The award is named after Arjuna, one ...

recipient and first individual world championship medal winner from

independent India Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independe ...

Notable residents

Saina Nehwal Saina Nehwal (; born 17 March 1990) is an Indian professional badminton player. A former world no. 1, she has won 24 international titles, which includes ten Superseries titles. Although she reached the world's 2nd in 2009, it was only in 2015 ...

, World Junior Badminton Championship champion and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna recipient, student of CCS HAU Campus School. *

Yash Tonk Yash Tonk (born 30 October 1971) is an Indian actor from Sonipat District, Haryana. Early life Yash Tonk was brought up at Hisar, Haryana where his father works as Chief Security officer in Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. He studied ...

, Indian actor, finalist of Nach Baliye 2, student of CCS HAU Campus School.

References

External links

* {{authority control Research institutes in Hisar (city) Agricultural universities and colleges in Haryana Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Educational institutions established in 1970 Universities and colleges in Hisar (city) Memorials to Chaudhary Charan Singh Agriculture in Haryana 1970 establishments in Haryana

History

Campus

Facilities

Organisation and administration

Governance

Colleges

Research stations

Kaul Agriculture Research stations

Bawal Research stations

Regional centres

Associated institutions

Directorate

Farm Information and Communication Service

Agri-tourism Centre and farmers fair

Haryana Rural Antique Museum

Agri Business Incubation Centre (ABIC)

Agricultural Extension Centres (AEC)

Deendyal Upadhaya Centre of Excellence for Organic Farming (DUCEOF)

Academics

Academic programmes

Admission

Laboratories

Experimental farms

Printing Press

Research

Student life

Residential life

Medical Services

Clubs and societies

Other facilities

Directorate of Student Welfare

Sports

Giri Centre for Sports Activities

University Handball Club

Notable people

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

Notable residents

See also

References

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