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The sixth revision of IS:1893 (Part ):2016, "Criteria for Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures" has been published by Bureau of Indian Standards recently in December 2016. In this new code many changes have been included considering standards and practices prevailing in various countries including India. The Indian seismic code IS:1893 has been revised after a gap of 14 years. This works aims at studying the revisions in various clauses of the new IS:1893 (Part 1):2016 and comparing it with the earlier version. The method of analysis and design of multi-storey residential buildings G+3, G+14 and G+24 located in zone III, IV and V under different soil conditions in both static and dynamic method with old and new IS:1893. The newly revised code has introduced a clause for effect of Unreinforced masonry (URM) infill walls in buildings, minimum width of column has changed into 300 mm and modifications done on response spectra. These are primary provisions considered in analysis of these buildings. The effects of diagonal struct provided in various locations in buildings with different conditions were analysed in the clause for URM infill walls. this project aims at under standing the relevance of the Indian standard codes that are used for design of various building elements using Staad Pro software under seismic load and wind load acting on the structure and investigating sufficient changes in the seismic performance of building while considering both the codes. If considerable variations in the results are identified between the both codes, then the currently existing buildings that had been constructed before implementing the revision in 2016 need to be modified by suitable retrofitting schemes.