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Due to rapid urbanization and infrastructure developments, there is scarcity of stable construction/foundation sites and Geo-technical Engineers often encounter situations where the selected site is not found suitable to take the load of the proposed structure.in such cases, various methods of soil stabilization can be used to improve the ground conditions. Though there are various soil stabilization techniques available, use of saw dust Ash (SDA) has been successfully used in recent times to improve the shear parameters of the marginal/weak soils. Among Various stabilizing materials saw dust Ash (SDA) can be used as to enhance the shear strength and bearing capacity of a clayey soil for sustainable use of waste materials and sustainable development of infrastructures in a rapid urbanization. Saw dust is a natural waste material obtained from sawmills, timbering works etc., which creates health and environmental problems if not disposed-off in scientific manner. This is available in abundance at a very low cost and can be easily used as a stabilizing material not only to improve poor/unsuitable construction sites for sustainable construction but also to avoid its disposal problems. Therefore, this project presents some studies on strength properties of clayey soil stabilization with saw dust Ash. The SDA randomly distributed in clayey soil samples were tested for its engineering properties by performing CBR and Unconfined test on a number of samples by using the different percentage of saw dust Ash and comparing the results with non-stabilized soil. The test results revealed that the strength significantly improves with the inclusion of SDA and also prevents the sampling from cracking.