Awareness towards Environmental Pollution and Academic Achievement among Secondary Level Students in Purba

The main purposes of the study were to elucidate the levels of awareness towards environmental pollution and academic achievement and to investigate the relationship between awareness towards environmental pollution and academic achievement, the factors that affect awareness towards environmental pollution was determined. Awareness towards environmental pollution measuring questionnaires were done with 188 secondary levels students of Bardhaman district. For the analysis of data, Mean, S.D., ‘t’ test, ANOVA, and graph have been applied in itself. The moderate level of awareness towards environmental pollution and academic achievement both have been observed in present study. It is revealed that the Girls and Urban students were comparatively more aware towards environmental pollution than Boys and Rural. Non-minority students were comparatively more aware towards environmental pollution than Minority. Through the present study, it was also found that there is no significantly difference among various part of Parent’s Occupation, Family’s Economical Status and Categories. But on the basis of mean scores, Sons of Serviceman, Rich Family and Unreserved category are more aware towards Environmental Pollution than others.

The main purposes of the study were to elucidate the levels of awareness towards environmental pollution and academic achievement and to investigate the relationship between awareness towards environmental pollution and academic achievement, the factors that affect awareness towards environmental pollution was determined.Awareness towards environmental pollution measuring questionnaires were done with 188 secondary levels students of Bardhaman district.For the analysis of data, Mean, S.D., "t" test, ANOVA, and graph have been applied in itself.The moderate level of awareness towards environmental pollution and academic achievement both have been observed in present study.It is revealed that the Girls and Urban students were comparatively more aware towards environmental pollution than Boys and Rural.Non-minority students were comparatively more aware towards environmental pollution than Minority.Through the present study, it was also found that there is no significantly difference among various part of Parent"s Occupation, Family"s Economical Status and Categories.But on the basis of mean scores, Sons of Serviceman, Rich Family and Unreserved category are more aware towards Environmental Pollution than others.

INTRODUCTION
Today, each people and Animal were dwelling with risk because of environmental pollutants and the primary cause for these pollutants is over populace, greed and the subconscious mind-set of people closer to environment (Dhayalan and Joseph 2019).The human beings commenced draining the encompassing assets on one aspect in addition to on the alternative growing pollutants on earth which affecting the stability of ecological within side the atmosphere of earth.Undesirable alternate with inside the physical, chemical, or organic traits of the air, water, or land which can harmfully have an effect on fitness, survival, or sports of human beings or different dwelling organisms, that's Pollution (Subramanian and Shanthini 2019).The people started draining the surrounding resources on one side as well as on the other creating pollution on the earth which affecting the stability of ecological within side the atmosphere of earth (Poonam, 2013).The environmental imbalance gives rise to severa environmental problems.Some environmental troubles are pollutants, soil erosion main to floods, salt deserts and sea recedes, desertification, landslides, alternate of river directions, extinction of species, and inclined environment in vicinity of extra complicated and solid ecosystems, depletion of herbal resources, waste accumulation, deforestation, thinning of ozone layer and international warming.Rapid migration and growth in populace with inside the city regions has additionally cause visitors congestion, water shortages, stable waste, and air, water pollutants are not unusual place important troubles in nearly all of the city regions considering the fact that previous few years.Over the closing 3 many years there was growing international situation over the general public fitness affects attributed to environmental pollutants.

The cycle of environmental pollution
We are belonging in a cycle of ecosystem.We have different types of work in daily life for survival.Many times these work helps to environmental pollution directly or indirectly by the tasks.
Figure 1.Some Daily Life Activities of an Individual

LITERATURE REVIEW
Astalin, P. ( 2012) has concluded that an advantageous relation among environmental consciousness and consciousness in the direction of social responsibility of better secondary faculty college students has been confirmed.It means that students are more aware with inside the path of conscious in the direction of environmental consciousness, with higher consciousness in the direction of social responsibility.Adejoke, et al. (2014), their look at have inferred that Awareness and Attitude in the direction of Environmental Pollution of college students and teachers have became now no longer a obsession on the premise of gender.On the opposite sides, it became in variance with research locating girls with better ranges than males.Sahayaselvi. S. (2015) had showed that the attention ranges in the direction of pollutants of human beings in Kanyakumari District are tremendous and the pollutants likes water, air, plastic, soil and so on conscious via way of means of them.Mihanpour H. et al. (2018), their gift look at, there has been no big courting among gender, schooling degree, marital repute, region of residence, consciousness degree and mindset ranges in addition to The consciousness rating became statistically big when it comes to the age, schooling degree and employment repute variables.Yunus, et al. (2019), their look at found out that the effectiveness of those factors consisting of mindset, behaviour, demographics and perception.Overall, schooling is critical to growing the knowledge, mindset; behaviour and exercise among human beings to transport ahead to shield the surroundings.Srividhya and Malathy, (2019) of their look at in Coimbatore district has inferred that there may be a distinction in regard to the extent of consciousness on environmental pollutants among B.Ed scholar teachers.Thomas, G. K., et al. (2020) confirmed of their research that there exist an advantageous correlation among surroundings consciousness and mindset in the direction of environmental pollutants.Rahmani, H. (2021) in his look at indicates that slight percentage of members remembers public consciousness and much less of slight percentage suppose that enforcement of environmental legal guidelines is critical.

METHODOLOGY
The nature of the present study is a descriptive kind.The researcher has used the survey method of Descriptive type in the present study.The researcher has selected among 188 Secondary levels Students in Purba Bardhaman district of west Bengal as a sample for the present study.The Simple Random sampling technique has been applied in the selection of the sample.The researcher has applied Awareness Scale as a research tool for collecting the data in the present study.On the basis of current situation, the researcher himself constructed a self-made Questionnaire which consists of 21 (twenty-one) questions related to their Awareness towards Environmental Pollution.The Inventory consisted of 21 Items (19 Items are Positive and 2 Items are Negative).The Inventory was constructed on the basis of Likert"s four Point Scale i.e.Strongly Agree (SA), Agree (A), Disagree (D), and Strongly Disagree (SD).The value of the reliability with split-half of the present research tool was 0.84 which indicates that the tool was highly reliable.And in case of measuring the validity of the tools, the Expert Judgment Method was applied by the researcher in order to measure the validity of the tool.The present researcher has used SPSS (Version-20) followed by the techniques which are mentioned below to analysis the data: Mean; S.D.; "t"-Test; ANOVA and Graphs.In Table 5, it is found that the calculated value of 'r' that is 0.33 is significant at 0.01 level of significance.So, it is a significant relationship between Awareness towards Environmental Pollution and Academic Achievement.The 'r'-value shows a Low Positive Correlation between Awareness towards Environmental Pollution and Academic Achievement.Hence, the null hypothesis is rejected and it can be said that when one's Awareness towards Environmental Pollution increased, Academic Achievement of that student will be increased.Testing of H04 and Interpretation:

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
From Table 6, it is found that the calculated "t"-value (0.971) is less than the table value at the 0.05 level of significance (1.97) and the null hypothesis is accepted.Therefore, the result is insignificant and it indicates that there is no significant difference between Boys and Girls Secondary levels Students with respect to their Awareness towards Environmental Pollution.

Testing of H05 and Interpretation:
From Table 6, it is found that the calculated "t"-value (0.036) is less than the table value at the 0.05 level of significance (1.97) and the null hypothesis is accepted.Therefore, the result is insignificant and it indicates that there is no significant difference between Rural and Urban Secondary levels Students with respect to their Awareness towards Environmental Pollution.

Testing of H06 and Interpretation:
From Table 6, it is found that the calculated "t"-value (3.362) is greater than the table value at the 0.05 level of significance (1.97) and the null hypothesis is rejected.Therefore, the result is significant and it indicates that there is a significant difference between Minority and Non-Minority Secondary levels Students with respect to their Awareness towards Environmental Pollution.also change.However, we have to be a lot more conscious about the environment and have positive attitude to the environment.Only then our current world and current life will live longer.As well as it suggested the government and institutions should take policies and action plan to protect environment.

H01 :
There would not have high favorable level of Awareness towards Environmental Pollution among Secondary Level Students in Purba Bardhaman District.

Analysis of Awareness towards Environmental Pollution among Secondary Level Students on the basis of cut off pointTable 1 .
Shows the Number, Mean and S.D of Total Secondary Level Students

Table 2 .
Show the level of Awareness towards Environmental Pollution on basis of Cut off point From the Table.2 , On the basis of Cut off Point, we can see that out of the total 188 Secondary level Students, 14.36% Students have scored Above 75.56, 71.28% Secondary level Students have scored Between 63.36 to 75.56 and 14.36% Secondary level Students have scored Below 63.36.As a result, it can be said that the maximum percentage 71.28%Secondary level Students has scored Between 63.36 to 75.56, which shows that the level of Awareness towards Environmental Pollution among Secondary Level Students is being Moderate in Purba Bardhaman district.
Figure 2. Graphical Representation of Awareness Towards Environmental Pollution Among Secondary Level Students on basis of Cut off Point Analysis

of Academic Achievement among Secondary Level Students on the basis of cut off pointTable 3 .
Shows the Number, Mean and S.D of Total Secondary Level Students

Table 4 .
Show the level of Academic Achievement on basis of Cut off Point

of H02 and Interpretation:
From the Table.4, On the basis of Cut off Point, we can see that out of the total 188 Secondary level Students, 15.96% Students have scored Above 81.06, 69.15% Secondary level Students have scored Between 56.92 to 69.15 and 14.89% Secondary level Students have scored Below 56.92.As a result, it can be said that the maximum percentage 69.15%Secondary level Students has scored Between 56.92 to 69.15, which shows that the level of of Academic Achievement among Secondary Level Students is being Moderate in Purba Bardhaman district.There is no significant relation between Awareness towards Environmental Pollution and Academic Achievement among Secondary Level Students in Purba Bardhaman District.
Figure 3. Graphical representation of Academic Achievement among Secondary Level Students on basis of Cut off point H03:

Table 5 .
Shows the Relationship between Awareness towards Environmental Pollution and Academic Achievement

Table 6 .
Results of t-Test between different groups of Secondary Level Students with regard to Awareness towards Environmental Pollution

Table 9 .
Shows the Number, Mean and S.D of Secondary Level Students of difference groups on the basis of Parent"s Occupation in respect to their Awareness towards Environmental Pollution.

Table 10 :
Shows the results of ANOVA on different groups Secondary Level Students in respect to their Awareness towards Environmental Pollution.