Minimization of makes pan in multiple parallel flow line scheduling

Abstract :

The present day environmental scenario emphasizes that environmental awareness is the need of the hour, to sustain equilibrium between man and his environment and to avert further environmental crisis. The present study is undertaken as a first step towards the preparation of an environmental awareness package. The prerequisite for the development of environmental awareness package is a prior knowledge of the existing awareness level among the target group for whom environmental awareness' creation is envisioned. In this regard the present study attempts to assess the level of environmental awareness among the student community and focuses to find out the impact of environmental education on their levels of environmental awareness, with special reference to their gender. The universe for the present study comprises of the male and female class XI students of selected schools at Tiruchirappalli, South India. The findings of the study reveal that there is no significant difference between the student's gender and their perceived levels of environmental awareness before the environmental education. However there existed a significant difference between the gender of the respondents and their perceived levels of environmental awareness after the environmental education had been imparted, the females perceiving higher levels of environmental awareness than the males. The findings of the study adds credence to the cry of environmentalists that environmental education would make a world of difference in safeguarding the environment and the findings of the present study would in no doubt facilitate the environmental policy planners, education planners and educators to incorporate environmental education as an informal education, thereby enabling the people in their endeavor to have a sustainable livelihood in harmony with their environment.