The role of extension in uplifting the Socio-economic status of rural people is becoming prominent with the passage of time. Extension educators and extension service providers better deal with a variety of circumstances if they have holistic understanding of the principle of extension. To further ascertain this, it's necessary to know their Perception level about the fundamentals of extension education. The study was conducted in 145 Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVKs) of 24 State and Union territories all over India in 2021 with the help of structured questionnaire. Random sampling procedure was employed to select 150 KVK scientists. The findings revealed that majority of KVK professionals had favorable Perception toward principles (65.33%) of extension education. While about 18.00 per cent and 12.67 per cent were having unfavorable Perception. About 69.34 per cent of KVK scientists were doctorate. It was also found that job satisfaction, information seeking behaviour, education, background and position had shown positive and significant relationship with perception towards principles of extension. In step wise regression model for finding out significant variance contributors it was found that job satisfaction and position in department contributing around 12.3 per cent of variances in perceptions toward principles of extension.

Keyword: Perception; ATARI; KVK; Extension Service Provider.