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The study was to identification of posture defects among Basic schools children and their remedial programme in Kanpur and also to make some suggestions to parents and related Government Authority regarding corrective program of postural defects. For this study one thousand students studying in 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th standard in hundred basic schools in Kanpur were selected as subjects for the investigation. The age level of the students was 7 to 10 years. Five postural defects Kyphosis, Lordosis, Scoliosis, Knock knee and Flat foot were selected for the study. The evaluation of posture were made by lateral, medial view of posture and by observing the cervical, thoracic, lumbar spine region for spinal deformities, like kyphosis and scoliosis deformity was detected by the forward bending test in which a rib hump is observed on either side of the spine. Whereas as the bow legs and knock knee deformities were diagnosed by measuring the inter condylar distance and inter malleolar distance in erect standing position, flatfoot deformity was diagnosed by the Simple wetted stand by observing the foot impression the conclusion was derived whether the participants has a normal or a flat foot arch. To analyze data, Mean and standard deviation in respect of each of the posture defects were computed in order to identify the normal children and those suffering from above defects. In order to determine the number of subjects suffering from posture defects in relation to the population, a percentage analysis was be used. To test the hypothesis the level of significance was set at 0.05. The research conducted by the scholar did reveal that the numbers of deformed students were quite high compared to the general population in schools.