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Assertiveness is accepting ourselves and others; it is a skill-based on honest, real self, expressing genuine personal viewpoints, claiming one's entitlements, and achieving one's interests while taking into account the opinions, entitlements, and interests of everyone else. Assertiveness is essential in a student's life especially in nursing students as they are the backbone of professional nurses of tomorrow. To ensure competent and safe practice, they must be individuals with high assertiveness skills. A quantitative research approach was used. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 60 B.Sc. final year nursing student (30 experimental group and 30 control group) from SGT University and Amity University. Informed Consent was taken from the B.Sc. final year nursing student. A questionnaire on selected social demographic variable and a standardized Rathus assertiveness schedule were used to assess the level of assertiveness. The data was analysed by using Descriptive and Inferential statistics. Frequency and percentage distribution was used for demographic variable and assessing effectiveness of intervention program on selected assertiveness techniques. Chi square test was used to analyse association between post-test level of assertiveness with selected social demographic variables. Result revealed that the post-test mean score in the experimental group was 14.83 with S.D 13.110 and the post-test mean score in the control group was -1.07 with S.D 21.678. The calculated unpaired, "t" value of t = 4.696 with df value (58) was found to be statistically significant at 0.05 level of significance as p value (p=0.001). It can be concluded that there is effectiveness after the administration of intervention program on selected assertiveness techniques among B.Sc. final year nursing students in the experimental group and there is no effectiveness in control group. Level of assertiveness highly increases in the post-test from pretest in the experimental group.