Quantifying the impacts of land use change and land cover practices on the hydrological response of a watershed has been an area of interest for the hydrologists in recent years as this information could serve as a basis for developing sound watershed management interventions. This thesis aims at evaluating the effects of land use land cover change on sediment yield using SWAT model simulation in Gadarwara watershed located in Narmada Basin. The degree and type of land cover influences the rate of infiltration, runoff and total sediment loads transported from a watershed. It often results in significant degradation of land resources such as loss of soil by erosion, nutrient leaching and organic matter depletion. However very few studies in India, have used the physically based hydrological models along with the land use land cover change conditions. Hence in this current work SWAT model has been used to assess the impact of land use land cover changes on monthly sediment of Narmada River Basin. The SWAT model has been calibrated and validated against the monthly streamflow for the gauging station of Gadarwara, situated along the Shakkar River. The results depict that SWAT model usually performs well in simulating runoff according to Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE), Coefficient of determination (R2) and Percentage bias (PBIAS) values. For stream flow the NSE, R2 and PBIAS values were 0.86, 0.89, 12.2 during calibration period and 0.83, 0.87 and 14.5 during validation period respectively. For sediment the efficiency decreased due to less availability of data and the NSE, R2 and PBIAS values were 0.66, 0.68 and -10.9 during calibration period and 0.65, 0.67 and -5 during validation period respectively. The results of the study indicated that increase in forested areas result in decreasing sediment yield Agriculture land contributes mainly in sediment yield hence reduction in agriculture land leads in reduction of sediment yield and increase in agriculture land results in increase of sediment yield.