Hisar, in the running for a technology institute, already has an agricultural university autonomous since a Presidential Ordinance

Background

Hisar is one of the five Haryana districts that have offered land for a proposed Indian Institute of Technology, and the district already hosts Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University.
The university became an autonomous institution on 2 February 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, having begun as a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.
The Lok Sabha passed the Act that ratified it on 29 March 1970.
It is named after Chaudhary Charan Singh, India's seventh Prime Minister, and its first Vice-Chancellor was A.L. Fletcher.
The university won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997 and holds an A+ grade accreditation from NAEAB of ICAR.
Its colleges include Agriculture at Hisar, Bawal and Kaul, Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Basic Sciences and Humanities, Biotechnology, Fisheries Science, I.C. College of Community Science, and the Centre of Food Science and Technology.
The university describes itself as one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities and credits itself with a part in the Green Revolution and the White Revolution.