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The present study deals with the relationship between Emotional intelligence & social intelligence among B.Ed., teacher trainees studying in aided and unaided institutions. A total of 500 teacher trainees (250 male and 250 female) was randomly selected from 9 B.Ed colleges of Mandya District in Karnataka. They were administered social intelligence scale developed by Chadda and Ganeshan (2004), which measures social intelligence of the teacher trainees in 8 dimensions- patience, co-cooperativeness, confidence, sensitivity, recognition of social environment, tactfulness, sense of humour, and memory. Two- way ANOVA was employed to find out the difference between teacher trainees studying in aided and unaided institutes with their undergraduate degree/gender as second variable. Results revealed that in components patience, cooperativeness, confidence, recognition of social environment, memory and in total social intelligence, teacher trainees studying in unaided institutions had higher social intelligence. Except for memory, for rest of the components and total intelligence, teacher trainees with B.Sc background had higher intelligence. Gender-wise comparison revealed that female teacher trainees were more socially intelligent than male teacher trainees except for sense of humour. Further, strategies for improving social intelligence among teacher trainees have been delineated. They were administered Emotional Intelligence scale developed by Ankul hyde,Sanjoy lethe, Upindardhar. This measures Emotional Intelligence of the teacher trainees in 10 dimensions- Self Awareness, Empathy, Self Motivation, Emotional Stability, Managing Relations, Integrity, Self -development, Value orientation, Commitment and Altruistic behaviour. Two- way ANOVA was employed to find out the difference between teacher trainees studying in aided and unaided institutes with their undergraduate degree/gender as second variable. Results revealed that On the whole in majority of the components of emotional intelligence and in total emotional intelligence scores teacher trainees studying in unaided institutions had possessed higher intelligence. Teacher trainees with science background possessed higher emotional intelligence than teacher trainees with arts background. Female teacher trainees were more emotionally intelligent than male teacher trainees. Finally, teacher trainees from science background and studying in unaided colleges had maximum emotional intelligence scores. Further, strategies for improving emotional intelligence among teacher trainees have been delineated.