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Not just India but it has become one of the major concerns of globe to address issues related to environment. We have enough knowledge about major environmental issues like various kinds of pollution, soil erosion, ozone layer depletion and many more and we are also aware of the fact that education has vital role to play in addressing these environmental issues along with other responsible stakeholders. But little do we know that education in itself has many challenges that hinder in awakening the citizens regarding taking care of the planet. We just believe in sensitizing our citizens regarding environment, its protection and maintenance through education but we hardly have made any effort in introducing and improving educational planning and provisions so as to address environmental issues. There is an immediate need of transformative Environmental Education and active environmental participation. World should understand that education is not only responsible for enabling the learners to solve mathematical problems or learn historical facts of India and the world but one of the major aims of education is to equip learners, teachers and other stakeholders to take care of our planet and make it a better place to breathe and live for all living and non living beings. There are many hindrances in the field of education which is obstructing in achieving this aim and needs immediate action. One important thing to understand here is unless we know what all are the problems we cannot find measures to solve them. Therefore this paper deals in finding out various challenges in the field of environmental education in India so as to come up with measures to sensitize generations on existing and probable environmental issues.