A STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Environment is the source of the needs for human development in all respect right from beginning but unfortunately human beings are deteriorating the environment in so many ways. So various fatal effects and chages are being seen since few decades. Even the international conference of the experts held in Indonesia has alarmed to the world that the world have to be very conscious regarding environment depletion and pollution otherwise by 2030 many disasters may occur. Environmental awareness not only makes aware the world population about the natural environment and its problems, but also aims at developing in them the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary to protect the natural balance in environment, besides working for its enrichment. Environmental awareness is nothing but teaching a man how to interact fully with the surrounding world, so as to improve his or her own inner world. Environmental awareness enables one to maintain his or her life. This,, in turn, helps in the preservation of human race. It channelizes man towards diminishing natural resources, environmental pollution and the problem of population explosion. Environmental awareness means the generation of widespread awareness of environmental problems. Thus in the present study researcher has tried to find out the environmental awareness among the secondary school students