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A major part of the construction works are done on red soil. But the problem associated with red soil is that they are loosely packed and void space is more which results in reducing the strength of the soil. Hence to rectify this we need to stabilize the soil. An effective method of soil stabilization is to add additives. These additives bind the particles together thereby reducing the void space. But there comes a question that which additive is the best whether natural or artificial fibre. In this study, a comparative analysis on the increase in strength of soil by adding natural as well as artificial fibre in various concentration of fibre (0.5%, 1%, 2%) is done. As a natural fibre, a mixture of coir fibre and sugarcane fibre is used and as an artificial fibre, polyester fibre is used. Various tests such as plastic limit and liquid limit test, standard proctor test, UCC, direct shear test is done to check out the strength parameters of soil by adding additives. From the study, we have concluded that by adding natural as well as artificial fibre the strength increases. There is not much difference between natural and artificial fibre hence natural fibre can be used.