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Now a days, utilization of alternate materials which bear higher engineering quality than traditional materials have been increased. Soil is most important construction material. Soil improvement is necessary because of expansive and swelling nature of soil and low bearing capacity of soil. Soil stabilization is the process of improving its properties by changing its graduation. Millions of tons of waste will cause problems in both disposal, environmental contamination and health risk. Here the clay soil is mixed with steel slag and rubber crumbs in various proportion of the properties are taken into account. The strength properties of the soil were improved by increasing the percentage of rubber crumbs (5%, 10%, 15%) and keeping the steel slag constant (20%). Standard proctor test, California bearing ratio (cbr), unconfined compressive strength test was performed at various proportions into the clay soil. The conclusion drawn from this investigation is that the combination of rubber crumbs (10%) and steel slag (20%) is more effective for the improvement of properties of clay.