Aim: To evaluate the awareness of principles of lockdown among the adult population. Introduction: Lockdown is a state of isolation or restricted access where people are prevented from entering (or) leaving a restricted area during a threat of danger. In the other words, it is termed as quarantine, confinement, curfew (or) lockout. There are two types of lockdown emergency lockdown and preventive lockdown. Actually, during the lockdown, all non-essential activities remain shut for the entire period. Preventive lockdown is a preemptive action plan implemented to address and usual scenario. The protocols are based on the type of threat and they are kept simple and short for quick learning and implementation. Materials and Methods: The present study is a cross sectional survey conducted among 101 general populations to analyze their knowledge and awareness of the principles of lockdown. A self-administered 15 questions were prepared and was circulated among dental students through Google form. The responses were collected and analyzed using SPSS software and the results are represented as a bar graph. Results: Results showed that 73.8% of the study population was aware of the lockdown and 45.6% of the study population obeys the lockdown regulations. Conclusion: This study concludes that there is a good positive response among the adult population regarding various principles of lockdown.