AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS CONSERVATION OF ENVIRONMENT AMONG POST GRADUATE STUDENTS

Since the ancient time, there has been a sensitive balance between the human world, plantation and
environment. But for the attainment of ultra comforts of life and the irresistible greed of comfort, the
commodities are dismantling that ecological balance. Therefore, there is a great need to protect and
preserve our environment. The study was conducted on randomly selected 100 post graduate students of
humanities from different departments of the Panjab University, Chandigarh which comprised 50 female
students and 50 male students. The main objectives were (i) To study the Attitude and Awareness level of
students towards environment. (ii) To study the effect of gender of students on Awareness and Attitude
towards environment. Self constructed multiple choice questionnaire regarding the environmental awareness
and attitude towards the environment was made by the investigator as a tool for collecting the data. Mean,
frequency and percentages were used as statistical techniques to analyse the collected data. The results of
the study concluded that there is insignificant difference between the knowledge of male and female students
regarding the environmental issues. The study may prove very useful in assessing the knowledge of youth
and at the same time promoting their awareness about the environmental conservation. Finally, the study
provides succinct suggestions towards conservation of environment for sustainable development