Constraints faced by the students of SKNAU, Jobner in development of soft skills

Abstract

Soft skills involve personality traits, personal habits, social graces, friendliness, facility with language and optimism that mark human beings to various degrees than others. The study was conducted to find out gaps in Soft Skills among the students. This paper assessed the constraints faced by the students in development of soft skills by the final year college students in four constituent colleges of Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University, Jobner. A total of 88 (59 boys and 29 girls) final year students from SKNAU, Jobner were selected by using 50 per cent sampling, randomly. The data were accumulated through well-developed personal interview schedule. shows that “Course curriculum not meeting the diversified needs of the prevailing agricultural situation” was the foremost constraints with 80.30 MPS faced by the students of SKNAU, Jobner and “Deterioration in quality of the agricultural education” was the least severe constraint with 42.80 MPS faced by the students.