Greening Initiatives among Higher Secondary Students:An Explorative Study

The purpose of the study aims at determines and evaluates the interest in greening initiatives/practices among higher secondary students in relation to Gender, locality and type of school. The nature of measuring Interest in Greening initiatives measured by a inventory comprised 6 dimensions which describe the behaviour/attitude practicing in their day to day activities. This normative survey sample of 300 higher secondary students has been collected on the basis of Stratified Random Sampling technique from 7 schools of Kendriya Vidhyalaya (KV) Jawhar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) State Govt, Private and Aided Schools. The data has analysed by descriptive and inferential statistics and the results has concluded that (a) the higher secondary students have high level of interest in greening initiatives. (b) There is significant difference in the interest in greening initiatives between boys and girls students. (c) There is no significant difference in the interest in greening initiatives between rural and urban students. (d) There is significant difference in the interest in greening initiatives among four different types of school students.