• SHATARUPA BURMAN
• DR. DEBASRI BANERJEE

The quantity and quality of our knowledge has evolved over time leading to knowledge explosion. Knowledge sharing takes place when knowledge is shared by individuals within a group and during the process the knowledge will also be negotiated and refined until it becomes common knowledge to the group. This paper aims to explore if a difference existed in knowledge sharing practices amongst 520 urban and non-urban govt. and govt. aided college students of West Bengal. To measure the Knowledge Sharing Practices amongst college student, a self-developed test ( K.S.P scale ) has been used by the researcher. To accomplish objective, Mann Whitney U test were conducted on the scores of Knowledge Sharing Practice across area of living. This study concluded there are significant differences in earning reputation by sharing knowledge, in earning rewards by sharing knowledge, in actual knowledge sharing behaviour, in content of shared knowledge and knowledge sharing total due to area of living, non-urban students share more knowledge for reputation and rewards than urban students. Non-urban college students share more contents than the urban students. Finally knowledge sharing practices amongst non-urban college students are higher than the urban students.

Knowledge sharing practices, Urban and Non-urban college students.

"KNOWLEDGE SHARING PRACTICES AMONGST COLLEGE STUDENTS IN RELATION WITH AREA OF LIVING", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 3, page no.c81-c86, March-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2303212.pdf

"KNOWLEDGE SHARING PRACTICES AMONGST COLLEGE STUDENTS IN RELATION WITH AREA OF LIVING", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 3, page no. ppc81-c86, March-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2303212.pdf