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Shikha Choudhary ¹, Sushma Kaushik ¹, Ella Rani ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education and Communication Management, C.C.S. Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (Haryana), IN

Abstract

Nutrition education of the school child is of paramount importance as the healthy children are supreme wealth of the nation because the foundation for life time, health, strength and intellectual vitality is laid during this period.Maintaining a balanced diet and regular exercise is important for all individuals, especially school-aged children (6-12 years). These children are required to eat a variety of foods from each food group to ensure optimal intake of all vitamins, proteins and minerals. At the same time, they may face new challenges regarding food choices and habits. So, decisions about what to eat are partly determined by what is provided in school, at home, the influences from friends at school, and the media, especially television. For taking these points in mind, different crucial message were identified for nutrition education for school children. Hence, study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana State. The results showed that from the list of fourteen main messages and thirty seven sub-messages three main messages viz., balance diet, protective foods and food hygiene were identified with its thirteen sub-messages viz., 'importance of balanced diet', 'functions of balanced diet', 'food group' and 'nutritional requirement of school children'.

Keywords

Nutrition Education, School Children, Food Consumption.

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Shatakshi Semwal ¹, Ella Rani ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education and Communication Management, I.C. College ofHome Science, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

India has gone through a lot of changes during these past years, first there was demonetization and now there is Goods and Services Tax. It was introduced on 1“ July 2017 and with the implementation of this new concept there has been a slowdown in our Indian economy and turbulence in financial volatility. So, there arises the need of understanding of this new concept. The research focuses on finding out the perception of shopkeepers through their knowledge and attitude about Goods and Services Tax. The study was conducted in Hisar city of Haryana state. The findings highlighted that majority of the shopkeepers had medium to low knowledge and neutral to favorable attitude towards Goods and Services Tax implementation. Our economy was in need GST for a long-term and it demands more clarity through mass media. There was positive significant correlation between the knowledge and years of experience of the shopkeeper but there was no significant correlation between the attitude and other independent variable as attitude of the respondent was neutral. Thus, it can be concluded that with the universal tax rates, GST has increased the transparency and tax collection but it has also resulted in technological glitches while filling the GST returns.

Keywords

Goods and Services Tax, Knowledge and Attitude.

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Shikha Bhukal ¹, Ella Rani ¹, Vandana Verma ¹, Diksha Rani ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education and Management, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Beauty culture techniques are very common in almost every Indian household and girls learn this art from their elders and beauty specialists. PMKVYis on generating job possibilities and entrepreneurship especially grey collar (knowledge workers), pink collar (waiters, retail clerks, salespersons) and rust belt workers (construction) besides white and blue collars. Training is effort initiated by an organization to foster learning among its workers, and development is effort that is oriented more towards broadening an individual's skills for the future responsibility. It provides a systematic improvement of knowledge and skills which in turn helps the trainees to function effectively and efficiently in their given task on completion of the training. The study was conducted in Hisar district in Haryana state purposively. Atotal of 120 respondents were selected from four training centres, i.e., 30 respondents from each training centre. Satisfaction of trainees in terms of subject matter, physical facility and quality of the trainer towards trainings was measured. The constraints faced by the respondents were observed. Results showed that majority of the respondents were satisfied with coverage of subject matter, methodology used, working environment, usefulness of training material whereas, practical sessions of the training programme were reported to be somewhat satisfactory. Further, it was also found that the economic constraints were perceived as major constraint followed by marketing, and technical constraints for all the beauty culture trainings.

Keywords

satisfaction, constraints, beauty culture, training, PMKVY.

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Diksha Rani ¹, Vandana Verma ¹, Ella Rani ¹, Shikha Bhukal ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education and Communication Management, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

In developing nations, gender norms dictate that women are expected to be largely responsible for domestic work. Women are still predominantly responsible for domestic and care work, despite rising female involvement rates in the workforce and significant contributions from women to economic growth and gross domestic product (GDP) globally. Poor mental health among women in low- and middle-income nations may be influenced by high work demands, particularly in rural areas where women are more likely to engage in labour-intensive unpaid employment. Women shoulder excessive burden of unpaid work with more traditional gender role attitudes. Rural women often encounter conflicting demands from their agricultural work and household work such as long and irregular working hours, physically demanding tasks, and unpredictable seasonal demands. It was observed that agricultural work was manually doing most of the agricultural operations. The role demands of farm women put them under heavy pressure requiring work-family balance. The current study was designed to study work demands of farm women, nature of work and type of work regarding household work, farm work and livestock work in Haryana, through agro climatic zones. To draw a representative sample, eight villages from four districts (Two districts from each agro climatic zone) were taken randomly. From each village data was collected from 25 respondents. Therefore, the study concluded that half of the respondents to cent percent respondents were doing all the activities related to family responsibilities as their day-to-day routine work in both zones. Most of the agricultural activities related to manual operations were carried out by the majority of respondents while participation of respondents was very low in activities related to buying and selling such as buying equipment or selling production in both zones. Medium level of task load was found in maximum number of respondents.

Keywords

: farm women, work, family, task load, work-family balance

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Shikha Bhukal ¹, Ella Rani ¹, Diksha Rani ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education and Management, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Agriculture, with its allied sectors, is unquestionably the largest livelihood provider in India. Wheat is an important source of carbohydrates. Wheat is mainly grown in the Rabi season (October-December to March-May) along with barley, lentils, peas, mustard and potatoes. The planting of winter wheat begins about 1st of October and runs through to the end of December. Farmers' innovations are also a way of life for the farmers who are being challenged by the ever-changing, technical, environmental, policy and market situations in the country Many wheat varieties evolved from the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, CCSHAU, Hisar such as C-306, WH 147, Sonak, WH 157, WH 1105, etc. The study was conducted in Hisar, Fatehabad and Sirsa districts in Haryana state. Atotal of 180 farmers were selected from six villages where maximum FLDs of newly released wheat varieties were distributed, i.e., 30 farmers from each village. Socio-economic status of the farmers growing newly released wheat varieties by CCSHAU was assessed in terms of the socio-personal and economic profile of the farmers. Results showed that half of the respondents were of 25-40 years of age group, belonging to general caste, educated up to senior secondary, had nuclear type of family with small family size and had pucca house. Also, it was found that cent percent of the respondents were engaged in farming as their family occupation, had a medium size of land holding and annual income of Rs. 60,000 to Rs.3,07,000.

Keywords

: agriculture, wheat, socio-.personal profile, economic profile

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