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BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is specific infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The disease primarily affects the lungs and causes pulmonary tuberculosis. It can also affect other body parts such as intestine,meninges,bones and joints, lymph gland,skin and other body parts.DOTS remain central to public health approach to tuberculosis control, which is now presented as Stop Tuberculosis strategy to ensure cure by providing the most effective medicine and confirming that it is taken. It is only strategy, which has been documented to be effective worldwide on a programme basis. ASHA workers are designated as DOTS providers, they go house to provide the DOTS medicines to the community peoples. OBJECTIVES: The study aims to assess the effectiveness of Planned teaching Programme on level of the knowledge regarding DOTS therapy among ASHA workers. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY: For this study a Pre -experimental design was selected with non prabability purposive sampling tecnique. Data was collected from 200 ASHA workers of Primary Health Centre,Misrod Bhopal, Madhyapradesh .Tool consists of part -I sociodemographic Variables and Part -II consists of knowledge questionnaire collecetd data was analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. The difference between the Pre-test and Post -test mean knowledge score of ASHA workers regardig DOTS therapy was statistically significant. CONCLUSION: It concluded that Planned Teaching Programme (PTP) was effective in enhancing the knowledge of ASHA workers regarding DOTS therapy.