RURAL ENVIRONMENT OF ASSAM AND PEOPLE’S ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR

Conservation of environment for sustainable development largely depends upon the environmental behaviour of human being. Environmental behaviour or environment related behaviour refers to that kind of symbiosis behaviour in which human being impacts upon environment by several interacting actions, concerns, attitudes, abilities, awareness, etc. Present paper is an effort to find out the environment related behaviour of rural people of Assam with the following objectives- To assess the environment related behaviour of rural people To study is there any significant difference between male and female in case of their environment related behaviour To study is there any significant difference between service holder and non-service holder in case of their environment related behaviour For achieving the objectives two null hypotheses have been formulated- There is no significant difference between male and female in case of their environment related behavior. There is no significant difference between service holder and non-service holder in case of their environment related behaviour Present study has been carried out through Descriptive survey method with total 100 rural people as sample, comprises of 50 male and 50 female selected randomly. For analysis and interpretation of data, simple % and t test have been used.