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The main stated purpose of environmental education in schools is to acquaint and sensitise the young minds to the environmental problems and concerns, to inculcate in them healthy personal and social attitude and behaviour towards environment. It is necessary to study how far the school students are aware about the environment and environmental problems. This study is an effort to compare the environmental awareness among the male and female students belonging to the general category, other backward c classes and scheduled castes of secondary schools. For the purpose of the study a sample of 109 students of two schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education and two schools affiliated to Uttar Pradesh Board were randomly selected, out of which50 were female students and 59 were male students. The tool used for analysis was the Environmental Awareness Ability Measurement preparedby Dr. Praveen Kumar Jha consisting of 51 questions based on environmental awareness. The collected data was interpreted by using mean, standard deviation and t-value. The results revealed that there was no significant difference between the male and female students of general castes, other backward cs classes and scheduled castes regarding their level of environmental awareness.
Sandhya Singh (Sat,) studied this question.