Environmental awareness, knowledge and perception among faculty members in colleges of Chandrapur city, Central India

The present study focused on faculty member's environmental awareness, knowledge and perception in colleges of Chandrapur city, Central India. The study was carried out in 2016. For conducting this study the accessible ten colleges in the city were selected. Sample size for the study includes 12 faculty members, which comprises of equal number of male and female (n=6, 50%) who were teaching UGC's Environmental Studies course. The data was collected from them through interview schedule which was specially designed and developed taking into consideration the objectives of the study. The results revealed that the variables like gender, area background and stream had significant impact on faculty members environmental awareness and knowledge. It was observed that level of environmental awareness was higher 60.37% whereas, knowledge was low with 27.00% among faculty members.