In the earthquake of 30th September 1993, with its epicentre near village Killari in Latur District of Maharashtra, thousands of houses collapsed and about 1.8 lakh houses were damaged. Before taking up the gigantic task of repair/strengthening/reconstruction of these houses, Govt. of Naharashtra réquested the Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkse to take up a pilot project on damage survey, categorisation, repair/strengthening of 500 houses each in Districts of Latur, Osmanabad and Solapur and to train their engineers in rehabilitation work. The paper is based on the work carried out by CBRI under the pilot project.