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The mobile phone could be the most incredible device ever made in the consumer world. The mobile phone which started as a bulky device for voice communication has in the last 15 years, morphed into lean models with a bewildering array of features. However, among the two billion plus consumers worldwide, the prime utility of the mobile phone remains voice. The ongoing technological revolution in telephone gains momentum with the rapid diffusion of cellular phones worldwide. Wireless technology expands telephone applications by empowering people to use it anywhere and anytime. In this study the non-experimental descriptive research design. The research variable of the study is Knowledge and practice of school going children regarding adverse effects of excessive use of mobile phones and extraneous variable. The pilot study was conducted to find the feasibility of the study 22nd of February 2021 to 28th of February 2021among School children. The main study was conducted from 21-04-2021 to 30-04-2021. Among 60 subjects; the subject was selected by convenient sampling technique and data was analysed and interpreted using descriptive and inferential statistics. The Overall knowledge on adverse effects of excessive mobile phone usage. The mean score is 20.62 with a mean percentage of 58.91 with a standard deviation of 2.525 and attitude scores of schools going children of adverse effects on mobile phone use were found to be 58.2% with standard deviation 1.501.