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Dental caries is the major oral health condition in developing countries, affecting 60-90% of the school children and vast majority of adults. In India, the prevalence of dental caries is reported to be 50-60%.MATERIAL AND METHOD: evaluative research approach and structured close ended questionnaire with Observational checklist .Statistical method: Student T test and chi-square test used. Result : The level of knowledge in pre-test majority of the respondent had average knowledge 52%, 40% of respondent had poor knowledge whereas 8% had good knowledge., whereas The level of knowledge of elder child�s in post -test majority of the respondent had good knowledge 56%, 32% of respondent had average knowledge, whereas 12% had poor knowledge . The post test mean 9.84 is higher than the pre test mean 6.12 level of knowledge with standard deviation 2.48 and 2.27 respectively. This indicates that structured teaching programme was effective in increasing the knowledge of School going children in Govt. Secondary school Indore. There is no significant association between pre-test knowledge score of elder children regarding child to child programme on dental hygiene when compared to age, gender , source of information , no. of sibling except types of school of the elder children (the calculated value ?2= 12.40 and table value 9.49) at level 0.05level.