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This study attempts to examine the effect of school climate on the emotional intelligence of adolescents studying in secondary schools. The hypothesis of the study is that there is no significant effect of school climate on the intrapersonal awareness, interpersonal awareness, intrapersonal management, interpersonal management and emotional intelligence of adolescents studying in secondary schools. The researcher has used survey method in this study. The investigator adopted stratified random sampling technique to select ten secondary schools of district Haridwar. The investigator selected twenty students from each school. In this way, the investigator selected the required two hundred adolescent boys and girls randomly. Emotional intelligence is the dependent variable and school climate is the independent variable involved in the present study. Mean, S.D. and two-way analysis of variance have been used for the statistical analysis. Findings revealed that there was a significant effect of school climate on the intrapersonal awareness, interpersonal awareness, intrapersonal management and interpersonal management of adolescents. Adolescent boys and girls who get good school climate had highest intrapersonal awareness, interpersonal awareness, intrapersonal management and interpersonal management. Significant effect of gender has been found on the emotional intelligence of adolescents. Adolescent girls had better emotional intelligence as compared to adolescent boys. There has been found a significant effect of school climate on the emotional intelligence of adolescents. Adolescent boys and girls who get good school climate had highest emotional intelligence. Interaction of gender and school climate has not been found to create a significant effect on the emotional intelligence of adolescents. Adolescent boys who get good school climate had highest emotional intelligence.