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The researchers conducted a cross sectional online survey method to assess the knowledge, attitude and utilization of the emergency contraception among married women of reproductive age group.. The study was conducted among 173 purposefully selected women in Varanasi India on the levels of knowledge attitude and practice on emergency contraceptive pill. An online questionnaire was prepared using Google forms where the tool was incorporated. An online consent form was also included in the survey and the survey was restricted in such a way that the tool will open only on accepting the consent form. A validated and translated tool in Hindi was used in the online form. The link of the online form was sent to all the possible samples through social media platform like Whatsapp and Facebook. The form was open for over a week to collect the data. After organizing and analyzing the data the study shows that 77.45% had moderately adequate knowledge, 63% of the samples had neutral attitude and 54.33% were using emergency contraceptive pill. The researchers evaluated the association between the knowledge and attitude on emergency contraception. The values shoed that there is significant association at p<0.01. The study concludes that though the use of emergency contraception has been a very popular in this 21st century, yet the knowledge about it is very minimal and the talk about the use of emergency contraception is still considered to be a taboo maybe because of the reported long term use side effects