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The study is aimed at assessing the water quality index for drinking purposes of ground water of Bulandshahr city, U.P. Ground water quality has been determined by collecting 15 samples from different parts of Bulandshahr city. For calculating parameters such as pH, alkalinity, Total Hardness, TDS, Conductivity, Chloride, were considered No sample was found as excellent for drinking, although 1 sample out of all was found to be of good quality for drinking. More samples were declared poor for drinking purposes and 31.81 % samples were very poor for drinking purposes. This unsuitability of water quality of these samples is attributed to two factors i.e. large amount of waste water being discharged freely and over extraction of ground water by these industries. After analyzing the correlation between the parameters it was found that TDS showed a very strong relationship with conductivity and turbidity. The analysis revealed that the water of Bulandshahr is not good for drinking, thus it needed a pre-treatment before consumption and over extraction of ground water must be checked so as to curb the quality of ground water.