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Today's child is tomorrow's citizen .The development of the country can be determined by estimating the health status of the children in that country. Children are the major consumers of health care. In India about 35% of the total population is children below 15 years of age. This group is considered as special risk group as they are vulnerable to various health problems. An accident is defined as "an unexpected unplanned occurrence which may involve injury". Also accident is the "occurrence of sequence of events that usually produce unintended injury, death or damage to property". School children being more active and adventuresome, they are prone to falls, sports injury. Accidents and injuries are major cause for disability and death among children. Children between the ages of 5-14 years contribute one fourth of India's total population and they spend most of their time in school. The aim of study was to evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on first aid management of selected emergencies among adolescents in selected schools of district Ganderbal. An experimental approach with Pre- experimental one group pre- test and post-test design was used for this study. The population of main study comprised of 60 adolescents studying in Government High and Higher Secondary Schools of Lar Ganderbal. Simple random sampling technique was adopted to select the sample. Data was collected by using self-Structured questionnaire. The findings of study revealed that the knowledge score of students was higher 65% in post-test as compared to pre-test knowledge 10%.The difference between pre-test and post-test knowledge score was calculated with the paired 't' which was found statistically significant at p value < 0.05. Hence it was revealed that the mean post-test knowledge score was significantly higher than the mean pre -test knowledge score of adolescents in first aid management of selected emergencies. Moreover, there was a significant association of pre-test knowledge score with selected demographic variable such as gender (p=<0.05).There was no association between pre-test knowledge score and demographic variables such as education status of mother, education status of father, family income, type of family and source information on first aid.