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Infrastructure and Support Facilities
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 70s. 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.
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. A. L. Fletcher, the first
Vice-Chancellor of the university, was
instrumental in its initial growth.
The university has
8645 Acres land (around 7219 Acres. at main
campus, 1426 Acres. at
outstations). Since 1970 there has been
significant advances in research, teaching and
extension by creation of a strong infrastructure
at its main campus and at outreach stations.
Besides, the university has also provided a number
of service centres including campus hospital,
community centre, sports complex, guest houses and
residences for its staff.
Campus Core
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 Gandhi
Bhawan is meant for the Directorate of
Extension Education. The Extension Directorate
is the agency through which the university serves
the people and helps to promote the socio-economic
development of the State.
The Nehru
Library is where generations of students and
faculty will seek truth, knowledge and the values
that count for greatness in a nation.
The Indira
Gandhi Auditorium represents the voice of the
people and their rising aspirations.
Facilities
In
addition, CCS HAU also provides a number of
welfare facilities (e.g. a 50 bedded
hospital; a
fully equipped faculty club; a campus school;
community centre complex; staff quarters, guest
houses, etc.)
The Academy
of Agricultural Research and Education Management
(AAREM) is the recent addition in the
university buildings. The building of
Student
Counselling and Placement Cell which will give
students the opportunity to interact with National
and International organisations for facilitating
the job opportunities and other activities related
to their career advancement.
Spread over an area of 298 hectares, the
university has scientifically well planned
spacious buildings to accommodate six
constituent colleges viz. College of
Agriculture, College of Agricultural Engineering &
Technology, College of Veterinary Sciences,
College of Animal Sciences, College of Basic
Sciences & Humanities and College of Home Science.
Each college building is a complete institution in
itself having large number of well-planned lecture
rooms, laboratories, auditorium, seminar rooms,
audio-visual Laboratories, computer facilities
etc.
To accommodate administrative staff, the
University has a spacious administrative block an
architectural marvel located in the heart of the
campus known as Fletcher Bhawan. Directorate of
Extension Education alongwith 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.
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The University has
well planned systematically laid out hostel facilities catering to the needs of undergraduate and
postgraduate students. The hostel accommodation is
sufficient enough to house each of the student on
the University roll. There are separate hostels
for in service and foreign students. 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 alongwith 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.
The University has a
Campus School catering to the basic
educational requirements of the children of the
University staff upto 12th standard, a
well-equipped Campus Hospital having indoor and
outdoor medical facilities. Beautifully planned
shopping complex is another facility in the
well-planned aesthetically designed building
complexes of the University.
Alongwith the official buildings, University has
1220 units of residential buildings (970 at Hisar
and 242 at outstations) distributed into different
categories.
Laboratories
The CCS Haryana Agricultural
University, Hisar has well equipped laboratories
in each area of learning. Modern facilities like
DNA Sequencer, UV-trans illuminator, PCR, FT-IR,
Gene Gun, Gene Pulser, Electron Microscope,
Submarine Electrophoresis Units, Inductivity
coupled Plasma Spectrometer, X-ray differaction,
HPLCs, GLCs etc. are presently available. The
university continued to focus its basic research
efforts and therefore, in addition to required
laboratory support, facilities of screen house,
green house and transgenic green house are also
available.
Experimental Farms
The CCS
Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar has a well
developed experimental farm of 994 hectares at
main campus, Hisar alongwith ten experimental
farms, one with each regional research stations
covering an area of 568 hectares. The farm roads
are interconnected by subroads and provide access
to each of the block. The irrigation system is
well planned on scientific line. The experimental
farms are having advantage of both canal as well
as tubewell irrigation facilities. The canal and
tubewell irrigation systems are well integrated in
order to improve water quality and to avoid
transmission losses thereby increasing water use
efficiency. Adequate number of farm machinery such
as tractors, harrows, seed planters and harvesters
are available for timely completion of farm
operations. The farms are under direct control of
the Director Research who is assisted by farm
managers, technical staff and other farm related
supporting staff.
Keeping pace with the ever-increasing demand for
quality seed, recently, the Government of Haryana
has provided additional land of 1608 hectares to
the University exclusively for seed production.
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