CCS Haryana Agricultural University

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.