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Introduction: Weaning is the process of introducing a semi solid food to an infant in age 6 months of life. Weaning beings from the movement of supplementary food is started and continuous till the child is taking off breast feeding completely infancy is the period when the foundation of health is laid. The changes in the infant between birth and the age one year are dramatic. Aim: The study to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding weaning among primi para mother in a selected community area of Sagar MP''. Research objectives: 1) To assess the knowledge of primi para mother regarding Weaning.2) To Develop and administer the structured teaching programme. 3) To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge among Primi para mother regarding weaning. 3) To find an association between pre-test knowledge of primi para mother with selected sociodemographic variables. Method: The quantitative research approach which was evaluate through the convenient sampling technique to conducted the study to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding weaning among primi para mother in a selected community area of Sager M P. Among the primi para mother's in selected community area, 50 were selected by the convenient sampling technique. During pre-test, the primi para mother having lack of knowledge regarding weaning process for that one week duration of structured teaching programme were taken which is effective to enhance the knowledge level regarding weaning process were administered for the group. After the intervention, post-test was done on the 7th day of that week to evaluate the level of knowledge regarding weaning process among primi para mother for the data analysis collection period as in the form of structural questionnaire method. Result: Quantitative research approach non randomization study group pre-test, post-test design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding weaning among primi para mother. Convenient sampling technique in the study group. Structural questionnaire was used to collect the data. The collected data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. To test the hypothesis chi-square were used. The majority of the study group was summarized as follows, Regarding age 17-20 year, 7 (14%) belongs to age group 20-23year 25 (50%) belongs to 23-26 year 12 (24%), above 26 year 6 (12%). Regarding education 2 (4%) belongs to illiterate, 10 (20%) belongs to primary education, 23 (46%) belongs to secondary education, 15 (30%) belongs to degree and above education. Regarding type of family 3 (6%) belongs to nuclear family, 42 (84%) belongs to joint family, 5 (10%) belongs to extended family.bRegarding occupation 0 (0%) belongs to unemployed, 5 (10%) belongs to labor, 5 (10%) belongs to Government employee, 6 (12%) belongs to private job, 34 (68%) belongs to housewife. Regarding religion 48(96%) belongs to Hindu religion, 1 (2%) belongs to Muslim religion, 1 (2%) belongs to Christian religion, 0(0%) belongs to other religion. Regarding language 39 (78%) belongs to Hindi language, 0 (0%) belongs to English language, 11 (22%) belongs to Local language, 0 (0%) belongs to other language. Regarding dietary habit 42 (84%) belongs to vegetarian, 1 (2%) belong to non -vegetarian, 7 (14%) belongs to mixed. Regarding source of health related information 24 (48%) belongs to Television/radio/internet, 2 (4%) belongs to newspaper/magazine, 13(26%) belongs to family members/friends, 11 (22%) belongs to health personal. Conclusion: It regards to compare a pre and posttest level of knowledge regarding weaning among primipara mother. The pretest mean value 10.34 and standard deviation was 7.96 and the calculated (+) value was which shows that there was a significant different between pretest and posttest level of knowledge regarding weaning among primi para mother. The calculated chi square value was 4.14, 1.58, 2.4 ,0.78 ,1.61 ,0.11 ,3.89, 5.02 respectively which showed that there was no significant association between age of mother, education of mother, type of family, occupation of mother, religion, language, dietary habit, source of health-related information.