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Introduction: - In India volunteer curfew named as janta curfew was imposed on the evening of 23rd March 2020, lock down 1.0 was announced for 21 days without any prenotice. Students who are went different places for studies stuck at their place in the lock down. This situation is difficult for the students as there is no classes at the institution and they have to just stay in the hostel in this pandemic situation. Aim: - To evaluate and compare the psychological impact of lock down on students residing in hostels and homes of lock down and covid-19. Methodology: -An online link was generated and on which students have to fill a questionnaire, which was prepared by researcher with socio-demographic details. Results: - There are 208 responses which we get on our generated link between 29th March 2020 to 22nd April 2020. 100 of them were residing at home, 106 at hostel & 2 were at their relatives� place. In total number of students residing in hostels and homes 38.5% of them were moderately impacted, followed by mildly impacted 33.7%, severely impacted 22.6% and least at no impact with 5.3% students. After applying Independent sample t-test we found that students residing in hostels (t=8.92, p=0.000) are significantly psychologically impacted more than students residing in home, there might be number of causes behind it.