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: Now a day the construction of multi storey buildings are increasing day by day. But most of the building lacks structural wall mainly in the ground floor. This is mainly for the purpose of parking area or for making open meeting halls. Even though we have seen such buildings in our locality too. These types of buildings are known as soft storey building or open ground storey building. So we can say that in multi storey buildings or high rise buildings, soft storey is a typical feature because the ground storey is left open for these purposes which has been discussed. These types of building are weaker than the normal regular framed building. And these buildings are more vulnerable even in low intensity earthquakes. Severe collapse of building occurs for soft storey building. Now a day some retrofitting methods for soft storey effect are using during the construction itself. But for already constructed buildings the number of retrofitting methods are low. The commonly used methods are Shear wall and Diagonal bracings. But it has some disadvantages. So here we are trying to develop a new retrofitting method for soft storey effect.The whole analysis is done using ETABS 2019 software