We live in a world that is changing faster than ever before and facing challenges that are unprecedented. In the current competitive environment where students are expected to perform multi roles with efficiency and effectiveness, it is highly needed to develop their right attitude and emotional intelligence towards the unseen complexities of life and quality education. The proposed New Policy on Education mainly focussed on improving the quality of education that can be brought by making the students emotionally intelligent. The concept of Emotional Intelligence is of great importance in the field of education as it helps the students to indicate future success and the absence of emotional intelligence also indicate the weak personality. Emotional intelligence helps in bringing better achievement of students and offer them skills for their personal and professional lives. An attempt would be made by the researcher to study the emotional intelligence of secondary school students in relation to their socio-demographic variables. Descriptive survey method was employed for the present study. The sample of this study was delimited to 100 secondary school students studying in Jammu and Samba districts. Mangal Emotional Intelligence Inventory developed by S.K Mangal and Subra Mangal (2004) was used to collect the data for the present study. Statistical techniques like Mean, Percentiles, Standard deviation and t-value were used to analyse the data. The findings of the present paper revealed that significance of difference was found between male and female secondary students of Jammu and Samba districts in relation to their emotional intelligence and locality (i.e. Urban and Rural). Significance of difference was found between males and females having different levels of emotional intelligence studying in secondary students of Jammu and Samba districts and also found that males having high emotional intelligence differ significantly from males having low emotional intelligence. In the same manner, in the case of females, it was also found that females having high emotional intelligence differ significantly from those having low emotional intelligence. The present study would be helpful for enhancing the personality among secondary school students if they are emotionally strong then only they would be able to solve their personal problems like adjustment, stress, conflict, etc.