Rashtriya swasthya bima yojana(RSBY) is a government sponsored health insurance scheme for the unorganised sector labours in the country. Aim of the study was to assess the awareness of RSBY scheme among clinicians in the tertiary care teaching institution in central kerala. Methods; With approval of IEC after getting written informed consent a cross sectional study was conducted among 121 clinicians using a self administered structured questionnaire consisting of 20 questions. Scores were assigned to each questions and score more than 60% were considered as good and less than 40% were considered as poor awareness. Data was entered in excel and analysed using SPSS version 21 done.Mean and percentage were used for describing the data, while chi square was done to find out association between variables. Result; 57(47.1%) out of 121 doctors were from medicine and medical speciality, while the rest from surgery and surgical speciality. 14 (11.3%) doctors were having good awareness and 82(66.1%) were having average awareness. Mean awareness score for males (12.29) was greater than females (10.54) and statistically significant (p=0.003).There wasassociation between awareness and designation (p=0.04) and gender(p=0.02). Conclusion; The study revealed that majority of the clinician have adequate knowledge on RSBY