Introduction: Education is an instrument of child to become successful human for our society”. In order to achieve this, training of a child in pre-school years is an important step ahead. The first five years of life are crucial for physical, social, adaptive, emotional, cognitive and language development of the child because during this period the foundation for all later development is laid. Normal school entry age is defined as 4 years, however in many schools across India children are admitted at 3 years in the lowest grade. However, either due to parental pressure, children are being increasingly admitted even earlier in the name of preschool or play way soon after achieving 2 years of age. There are no studies from India which look into the effect of the preschool/play way education on mental, social, and developmental skills of children or whether they are beneficial or detrimental to their development.Hence this study was conducted to check the attainment of overall skills in children exposed to play way method as against those who are not exposed. Methods: A case-control study was conducted at Ujjwal Bhavishya kinder garten and Department of Paediatrics of a medical college Delhi NCR with the approval of institutional ethical committee from May 2012 till April 2014.10 Children between age group of 2.5-3.5 years enrolling in play way school enrolled by 1st July 2013 and 10 children of same age group, demography and sex from local area not enrolled in Preschool education were included in the study. Children less than 2.5 and more than 3.5 years, child with chronic illness and children with Mental retardation or H/o seizures were excluded.Children between 2.5-3.5 years of age who were attending play way voluntarily were taken as cases. Controls were age, sex and demographically Matched 10 children those were not attending play way. Data was analysed using the SPSS version 20 software. Results: Result showed that age wise development in all 4 domains was better in children who received preschool education as compared to those who did not. The cases who received preschool education had a better adaptive development as compared to controls. Net difference between cases and controls being 85.6 points and showed a better development in cases being early introduced to preschool education.