Awareness Towards Impact of Festivals on Ecology: Need for Social Work Intervention

Abstract

Festivities are considered as series of event conducted by people for the fulfillment of cultural needs. Irrespective of region, religion, castes we could see celebration of festivities with joy and prosperity. People do celebrate festivities because get together of family member, to come away from monotonous lifestyle and have some delicious food. Apart from these positive things festivities are the way to pollute environment in all sphere, like air, water, soil, noise pollution. From this study researcher has assessed the awareness level among people about ecological pollution during festivities and Explored Social work intervention to bring awareness about celebrating festivities without harming ecology. Descriptive research design was adopted for this study. Non probability sampling method was used with purposeful sample technique. 50 samples were drawn from universal for this study. The study found, that Indian cultural influence and low awareness about ecological protection among people are leading towards pollution (Environment foot print) in the name of festivities. Researcher has came up with Social Work intervention to bringing awareness among people regarding environment protection. Simple percentile and central tendency methods were used for statistical analysis and SPSS 20 was used to compute data.