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The top layer of earth known as soil consists of mixture of organic and inorganic particles and does not have greater strength to bear the load. India is a fast-growing nation and construction activities are increased day by day which results in scarcity of land, in order to overcome this problem, we have to improve the properties of soil by using stabilization techniques. In the modern world stabilization of soil becomes important before construction of any engineering project such as building construction, bridges, railways, airports. In order to make the stabilization process economical, the industrial wastes are used to replace the costly stabilizers. This research consists of materials such as RHA and WPS which are the wastes produced from rice husk mill and paper industry. RHA is added to natural soil in different percentages (4%, 8%, 12%, 16%). The optimum percentage of RHA to the soil found to be 8%. The UCS values of natural soil increases from 78.01kN/m2 to 116 kN/m2. After that the WPS is added to soil + 8% RHA mix at different percentages of WPS (2.5, 5, 7.5, and 10) %. It was found that optimum value of UCS was found at 5% WPS and UCS value obtained at this percentage is 223.01 KN/m2.