Psycho-Social Effect of Ethnic Conflict on the High School Students with Reference to Parbhatjhora Sub-Division of Kokrajhar District

School education is one of the most important and beautiful stages of education in ones life. School should provide proper teaching-learning facilities to the students, for growth and development of the students. It is regarded as a second home of the students. Good school environment must be provided to them, so that they can learn better. But in todays world, students are not free from any kind of disturbances due to ethnic conflict. The purpose of this study is to investigate the psycho-social effect of ethnic conflict on the students with reference to Parbhatjhora sub-division of Kokrajhar district. Descriptive survey method was adopted for the present study. A sample of 17 high schools and 800 students from class X were randomly selected from different schools. A self-made questionnaire on psycho-social effect of ethnic conflict was used for data collection. The findings of the study revealed that majority of the respondents were mentally disturbed and had adjustment problem due to conflict. The investigator feels that, this present study will create awareness regarding the negative effect of ethnic conflict on the students. It is hoped that, this study will be helpful to the researchers and academicians to conduct further research in the country.