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Mobile phone is a device used to communicate verbally all over the world who are not near to us, it is common in adolescents. Mobile phone became more and more a tool in our daily life.Therefore a study was done to assess the knowledge on ill effects of mobile usage among students at selected college,Kanchipuram district, Tamilnadu, India. Was undertaken with the objectives: to assess the knowledge on ill effects of mobile usage among students and to associate the knowledge on ill effects of mobile usage with selected demographic variables. Non experimental - Descriptive research study was conducted. The study sample consisted of total 55 adolescents. Data was analyzed by inferential statistics and presented through tables and figures. Findings revealed that Variables like, number of mobile phone is found to be significant. The number of students having moderate knowledge were 28(51%), inadequate knowledge was 20(36%) and adequate knowledge was 7(13%). Mean value 4.8 and standard deviation (SD) 1.6 are as follows.