Synopsis Man himself due to lack of knowledge or negligence creating environmental problems. Environmental education should be a part of adult education to disclose the global problems to the public and to help him to protect his environment. An attempt has been made to identify the needs of the rural adults in the area of environmental education and related with their socio-economic background. The material was arranged in six chapters. The findings will be useful to the researchers, teachers, environmental education programme implementers and administers for chalking out the future programmes and to revise the existence schemes.