Abstract
Environmental education creates an overall perspective, which acknowledges the fact that natural environment and man-made environment are interdependent. Environmental education should consider the environment in its totality and should be a continuous lifelong process beginning at the school level and continuing through all stages because the best way to attempt to bring about a change in the attitude in the society is through children. With this realization the present study assesses the status of environmental awareness, impact of environmental teaching programmes and the need for environmental education among school students of Nanded city, Maharashtra. Lack of environmental awareness among the students was observed. It is unequivocally demonstrated that environmental education is essential among these students to increase the awareness about the environmental issues.