The growth in the sector of Information Technology paved the way for electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce. It is a type of industry where the buying and selling of goods or services is conducted over electronic systems such as the internet and other computer networks. It has been noticed over the past few years, that the business houses have gained a lot by marketing the products through e-commerce. E-commerce facilitates click and mortar to brick and mortar. Instead of visiting the shops, rehriwalas and mandis, goods reach the door step just on one click. The online shopping is very beneficial to all those who are not capable to visit the market due to one or the other reason but at the same time it has been noticed that sometimes on-line shopping appeals the visitors to the site to place order for the items not necessarily required and results in unnecessary spending. In this paper titled, ”On line shopping: Boon or Bane for the society” an effort has been made with the help of primary data and secondary data find out whether online shopping to be considered as a boon or bane in the society.