College of Home Science

About the College

After the establishment of CSAUA&T, Kanpur, the University in its 38^th meeting of the Board of management held on 29^th July 1981 considered and approved SND schemes for the year 1981-82 through which the concept of imparting Home Science education, the science and art of managing the farm/rural family system, took birth. The general consensus amongst the learned members of the Board of management to this concept, culminated in the consolidation of it and thus, a decision to start Home Science as a discipline under the Umbrella of the Faculty of Agriculture took shape.

According to the statutes of the University, there exists a provision for a Home Science College and a Home Science Faculty. After a couple of years of serious thinking and planning, the Faculty of Agriculture opened the Department of Home Science in the University in 1983-84. The decision taken in February 1986 to introduce a Home Science education programme leading to B.Sc.(Home Science) Degree from the academic session 1983-84 became a milestone in the history of the growth and development of Home Science at CSAUA&T, Kanpur. The Faculty of Home Science took shape in 1998 at CSAUA&T, Kanpur, to impart Home Science education to the people of Uttar Pradesh.

Mission

The faculty of  Home Science is committed  to excellence and aspires to enhance the standard of living of individual in general and rural families and communities in particular through teaching, research and extension activities. The main focus is on empowerment of women and girl child in rural and urban households through self employment, service support to industries and communities that would help them to become better resources manager and contribute towards national development, promote home science as an entrepreneurial subject and make home science students stand successfully in the current market.

List of Department

 

Faculty

Department of ECM

Department of FSN

Department of HUD

Department of TCL

Achievements

Conference/ workshop conducted

2014:

National Conference on Technological Empowerment of Women at the Grass Roots, CSAUAT. Kanpur, Sep. 6-7^th 2014: 209-216.

National Workshop on Women Empowerment During XII Five Year Plan Through Agricultural Mechanization, Held at CSAUAT. Kanpur, Dec. 24-25, 2014: pp 101-105.

2016

A skill-oriented Workshop on ‘Capacity Building of Zari/ Zardozi Craft’ was conducted to enhance the self-empowerment and generation of employment for village women on 15-06-2016 at Bithur, Kanpur. The workshop was kindly sponsored by Ministry of Textiles, Government of India.

Scientists nominated for training/ workshop/ symposium/ conference/ summer/ winter school (2014- 2020)

 

Project: 2014

Two Ad-Hoc Research Projects:

• Role of Women in Food Security to Safeguard Agriculture Productivity in UP state funded by UPKAR, Lucknow amounting Rs 14,9,502/
• Utilization of Indigenous foods for the development of functional foods to combat micronutrient deficiency

Research papers published:

2014: 69

2015:

Patel, D. and Pandey, R. 2015. Textile Recycling Practices Prevailing in Kanpur City. International Journal of Community Science and Technology, 1(1): 1-10.

Pandey, R. 2015. Weaving Flax: A Way Forward. International Journal of Community Science and Technology, 1(1): 19-27.

2016

Pandey, R. 2016. Fiber Extraction from Dual-Purpose Flax, Journal of Natural Fibers. 13(5): 565- 577.

Kumar, P., Verma, M. and Gupta, S. 2016. Marketing Problem Faced by Farmers in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Cultivation. International Journal of Applied and Pure Science and Agriculture, 2(5): 125-127.

Baranwal, A. and Kunwar, N. 2016. Control and Prevention of female fertility through natural herbs, medicine and yoga: A Review. IJGMP, 5(4): 1-6.

Devi, S. and Kunwar, N. 2016. Inhabiting factors responsible for land and property ownership of farm women institution. Journal of Advanced Research, 4(2): 197-200.

Patel, D. and Pandey, R. 2015. Textile Recycling Practices Prevailing in Kanpur City. International Journal of Community Science and Technology, 1(1): 1-10.

Pandey, R. 2015. Weaving Flax: A Way Forward. International Journal of Community Science and Technology, 1(1): 19-27.

Saxena, A., Singh, A., Pandey, R. and Tiwari, M. 2016. Effect of Various Stiffeners on Dyed Cotton Fabric. International Journal of Family and Home Science, 12(1): 67-75.

Mishra, S., Pandey, R. and Singh, M. K. 2016. Development of Sanitary Flax Carding Waste as Absorbent Core with Herbal and Antimicrobial Efficiency, Indian Journal of Science, Environment and Technology. 5 (2): 404 – 411.

2017

Yadav, A., Pandey, R., Singh, A. and Ansari, I. A.2017. Increasing Demand of Modernized Designs in Exporting Carpets. International Journal of Community Science and Technology, 3 (1): 28- 36.

Verma, P., Pandey, R. Singh, A. and Ansari, I. A. 2017. Modifications of Existing Carpet Designs of Bhadoi and its Variations with the use Geometric Motif. International Journal of Community Science and Technology, 3 (1): 37- 45.

Singh, N., Pandey, R. Singh, A. and Rana, T. 2017. Dye the fabric using natural dyestuff. International Journal of Community Science and Technology, 3 (1): 46- 52.

Katayani, Awasthi, N. Pandey, R. and Sachan, K. 2017. Constraints faced by Potato Growers involved in Potato Cultivation Activities. International Journal of Science and Research, 6 (1): 1143- 1145.

Patel, S.; Pandey, R.; Gupta, H.; Kambo, N. and Bhargava, A. 2017. Ecofriendly dyeing of Linen Fabric with Binary Mixture of Natural Dyes. Research & Reviews: Journal of Herbal Science, 6 (2): 1-5.

Singh, R. and Pandey, R. 2017. A comparative study of machine knitted cotton fabrics. Asian Journal of Home Science 12 (2): 415- 420.

2018

Pandey, R., Patel, S., Pandit, P., Shanmugam, N., Jose, S. 2018. Colouration of textiles using roasted peanut skin- an agro processing residue. Journal of Cleaner Production 172, 1319-1326.

Yadav, S.; Singh, A. and Pandey, R. 2018. Screen Printing Chikankari Motifs on Sofa backs and Cushion covers. International Journal of Research, 5 (7): 505- 510.

2019

Seiko, J., Pandit, P. and Pandey, R. 2019. Chickpea husk – A potential agro waste for coloration and functional finishing of textiles. Industrial Crops & Products. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2019.111833.

Pandey, R., Jose, S., Basu, G. and Sinha, M. K. 2019. Novel Methods of Degumming and Bleaching of Indian Flax Variety Tiara. Journal of Natural Fibers,  https://doi.org/10.1080/15440478.2019.1687067

Singh, N. and Pandey, R. 2019. Development of Bandhani motifs inspired from Bandhani of Gujarat. International Journal of Chemical Studies, 7(2): 118-120.

2020

Pandey, R.; Sinha, M. K. and Dubey, A. 2020. Cellulosic Fibers from Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) peduncles. Journal of Natural Fibers, 17(2): 298-309.

MSc. Thesis awarded:

2014: 15

2016: 35

2017: 15

Ph.D. Thesis awarded:

Year 2014: 2

Year 2016: 5

Year 2017: 2

Research papers presented:

Year 2014

Dr Ritu Pandey, Department of Textiles & Clothing presented paper at International Forum of Natural Dyes at Nantou, Taiwan from 14 to 16-10-2014.

Year 2015

Dr Seema Sonkar presented paper in International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture for Energy & Industry in regional and Global Context (ICSAFE 2015), at Kuala lampur, Malaysia  from 25^th to 27-08-2015.

2017

Dr Seema Sonkar presented paper in 9th IFSDAA International Seminar on Sustainable Interaction of Agriculture through Resource Management and conservation. July 7-9, 2017 at Gottingen, Germany.

2018

Pandey, R. (2018) An innovative cellulosic fibre- Typha domingensis naturally growing on swampy lands. Conference on Integrating Design with Sustainable Technology at University of Leeds, July 23-26, 2018: P6.

Singh, V. (2018) Effect of date pulp levels of dates preparation. Conference on Sustainable developmentheld at Netaji S. C. Bose girls degree college, Lucknow, November 16-19, 2018.

Singh, V. (2018) Agriculture technology information centre (ATIC) farm facilities in Kanpur. Conference on Sustainable developmentheld at Netaji S. C. Bose girls degree college, Lucknow, November 16-19, 2018.

Devi,T. and Singh,A. (2018). Handicrafts from banana bio waste. International

Conference on “Sustainability of Smallholder Agriculture in Developing countries under changing clmatic scenario held at CSAUA&T, Kanpur ,Feb. 14-17.

 

Singh,A., Singh,S. Divyanshi and Anjum,S. (2018). Comfort Clothing for Orthopaedic female Patients. International Conference on “Advanced Materials, Textiles and Process” held at Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute, Kanpur Nov.19-20.

 

2019

Singh, V. and Garg, M. (2019) Green technologies for sustainable development of sugar & integrated industries. International Conference CSUGARCON held at Lucknow, Feb. 16-19, 2019: P11.

Singh, V. (2019) Chemical analysis of Chia seed products. International Conference SUGARCON held at Lucknow, Feb. 16-19, 2019.

Singh, V. (2019) Sugarcane jaggery: a health friendly sweetener. International Conference SUGARCON held at Lucknow, Feb. 16-19, 2019.

Singh, V., Garg, M. and Shrilata (2019) Empowering rural adolescent girls through awareness of women’s rights. Agripren Conclave held at CSAUAT, Kanpur, March 6-8, 2019: P116.

Singh, V. (2019) Assessment of intake of micronutrients of Punjabi women. Agripren Conclave held at CSAUAT, Kanpur, March 6-8, 2019.

2020

Pandey, R. (2020) Lotus Fiber: An unexplored wealth. IIT New Delhi, February 6-8, 2020.