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This study has been undertaken to investigate the awareness regarding hypertension & application of rule of halve in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh by using cross sectional observational study with the following objectives (1)to assess the awareness about hypertension & its complication among adult tribal population (2) to find the health seeking behavior of hypertension of study subjects (3) to analyze the current status of Rule of Halve of hypertension among study subjects among 25-60 years tribal, residing since 1year, data collected from November2018 to February2018 among 330 study subjects by systematic random sampling through interview method. The variables include status of awareness, knowledge and diagnosis status were used. It was found majority was hypertensive, of them 6% were known hypertensive, of them 5% was on regular treatment & 15% were control. Only 8.8% were aware about hypertension, of them 58.7% were aware by government doctors. Among aware 55.2% were having knowledge of hypertension & related complication. Study indicates, rule of halves in the place with weaker health system & equally weaker health awareness & knowledge among population.