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Power quality disturbances (PQD) are becoming more and more complicated due to the vast growth of power quality oriented applications particularly the power electronic equipment’s. Since the power with less power quality consequences to a huge loss in the electronic devices, there is a need to detect the power quality disturbances more effectively. This paper proposes a new method for PQD detection and classification based on the entropy characteristics of PQD signals and a novel support vector machine algorithm (SVM). The proposed approach develops a flexible entropy based feature selection (FEFS) mechanism to extract the unique characteristics of all types of PQDs such that the detection system can detect more effectively with in less time. Further to increase the accuracy of individual PQDs, this paper proposed Multi Class SVM (MC-SVM). Various experiments are conducted over the proposed work and at every experiment; the performance is measured through Classification accuracy, False Alarm Rate and computation time. Further a comparative analysis reveals the outstanding performance of proposed approach when compared with conventional approaches.