The aim was to study the effect of media i.e hours of T V viewing , time spend on videogames , mobile, computers or any other gadgets as one of the risk factor of obesity in children of age 12–16 years of age.

Children’s age 12–16 years attending  Dr D.Y patil hospital’s paediatric OPD or get admitted in ward of department of paediatric with acute complaints only. Children enrolled in this study were not suffering from any disease which lead to overweight or  malnutrition.

Screen time– is a term meant to represent an individual’s use of electronic mass media, including television viewing, video and computer  game playing, DVD viewing, internet use, or other online activity.

Our study shows a strong relationship of screen time in overweight children with mean hour of screen time 2.7 hrs/day with S.D 0.16 and with normal weight children 2.3hrs /day with S.D 0.09 and having a P<0.05.