An appraisal of environmental education system in India

Today every government throughout the world has a superseding anxiety for environment deterioration which is the byproduct of progress for economic development resulted into expected consequences such as terrible environmental problems that tackle us today and those that intimidate the very survival of our species on the earth. Environmental education will not only open our eyes to this havoc but also guide us about how a wine progress and life exist together. Environmental education helps the learner to recognize and understand environmental values and tribulations and assess their benefits and risks. Over last few years, environmental education has been part of the curriculum in Indian schools and universities, since the general instruction provided by the Honorable Supreme Court of India to make environmental education mandatory in curriculum and also ordered NCERT and UGC to make a syllabus for different stages of schools and one common syllabus for all the stream of universities respectively. The present writing is an attempt to appraise the status of environmental education in India with respect to existing curriculum for environmental education in schools and universities.