CCS HAU
| चौधरी चरण सिंह हरियाणा कृषि विश्वविद्यालय | |
Fletcher Bhawan, one of the main Administrative building constituting the Campus Core
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Former names
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Haryana Agricultural University (till 30 October 1991) |
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| Motto | कृषिरेव महालक्ष्मीः |
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Motto in English
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Agriculture is supreme wealth |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 2 February 1970 |
| Budget | INR 4,130,093,000 (2015-16) |
| Chancellor | Kaptan Singh Solanki |
| Vice-Chancellor | Prof. K.P. Singh |
| Dean | Dr. K.S. Grewal (COA) Dr. R.K. Jhorar (COAET) Dr. Parveen Punia (COHS) Dr. Saleem Siddiqui (COBS&H) Dr. (Mrs.) Asha Kawatra (PGS) |
| Director | Dr S K Sethi (Research) Dr R S Hudda (Extension) Dr D. P. Nandal (Director Students' Welfare) Dr Ashwani Kumar (HRM) |
| Registrar | Dr. M. S. Dahiya |
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Academic staff
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459 |
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Administrative staff
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2211 |
| Location |
Hisar, Haryana, India 29°08′N 75°42′E / 29.14°N 75.70°ECoordinates: 29°08′N 75°42′E / 29.14°N 75.70°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Area | University is spread over an area of 7219 Acres at Hisar and 1426 Acres at outstations. |
| Athletics | Hisar district has one stadium (Mahabir Stadium) and only one ground known as the Haryana Agricultural University Complex. Out of the very few Synthetic Athletic track all over India, one of them is present in Sports Authority of India's Sports Center at Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. |
| Nickname | HAU |
| Affiliations | ICAR, UGC |
| Sports | The major sports played here are Boxing, judo, hockey, badminton, soccer, basketball, volleyball and handball.The international badminton player Saina Nehwal had done her schooling from the campus school of CCSHAU. |
| Website | www.hau.ernet.in |
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| HAU also operates a Community Radio Station at 91.2 MHz for farming community. | |
Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University is a public funded agricultural university located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is one of the biggest agricultural universities in Asia. It is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. In 2017 Indian Council of Agricultural Research ranked HAU as the fourth best university out of 57 agricultural universities surveyed in India, behind National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI, Karnal), Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI, Delhi) Punjab Agricultural University (PAU, Ludhiana).
It was initially a satellite campus of Punjab Agricultural University 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 October 31, 1991, it was renamed as Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University. A. L. Fletcher was the first Vice-Chancellor of the university.
The university publishes the largest number of research papers among agricultural universities in India. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997. It contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India.
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