The present study was undertaken to examine the emotional intelligence of school students of Jashpur district. For that, 80 students were selected randomly from various government schools of jashpur district and Mangal Emotional Intelligence Inventory and Personal Data Questionnaire (PDQ) was used to examine Emotional Intelligence. The objective was (i) To examine the extent of emotional intelligence among school students. The findings are (i) Most of the school students had high emotional intelligence, and (ii) Most of the Hindu and Muslim school students had high emotional intelligence, and (iii) Most of the boy and girl school students had high emotional intelligence, and (iv) Most of the class 10 and 12 school students had high emotional intelligence.

Keywords: Emotional intelligence, Religion, Gender and level of education