Environmental education is life long process with the objectives of importing to its target group in the formal and non formal education sectors environmental awareness ecological knowledge, attitude values commitment for actions and ethical responsibilities for rational use of resources and for sound & sustainable development. Environmental education emphasis the teaching of the holistic nature of environment through interdisciplinary and problem solving approaches. The primary school is the natural place to introduce children to environmental education, since at this level they instinctively have holistic view of the environment. They have yet not been trained to compartmentalize their learning into separate subject as they will have to do in secondary & higher education. Introducing critical thinking & problem solving approaches in Environmental education especially in Primary School level, is fundamental if students are to become skillful in the identification and solution of environment problems as student and later on as adult citizen and possible decision makers.

Education is a basic human right that increases the economic, social and political opportunities available to men and women. After independence the Indian Government has expressed a strong commitment towards education for all. It is too obvious that Uttar Pradesh (State) is a truly diverse state representing diversity not only in geographical locations but in socio-cultural aspects too. It is a micro-study of a KGBV (Katuraba Gandhi Balika Vidhyalaya) to get more realistic picture. Eastern U.P. has its own historical, political, economic and social-cultural characteristics and has more cultural barriers for girls education. Thus a KGBV located in district Ballia is selected. Hence it is pertinent to enquire that what the contributions are of this scheme in providing academic support to disadvantaged girls in terms of teaching-learning atmosphere and what are the levels of achievement of girls studying in KGBVs? Besides these after the National Evaluation 2007 new revised guidelines for the implementation of KGBVs are laid down by the Government of India.The study focus on the availability and quality of physical