Introduction: Exclusive breastfeeding is very helpful in the reduction of infant mortality and it is also helpful in protecting infants against infectious and non-infectious diseases. Exclusive breastfeeding can play important role in the reduction in infant mortality and can help in achieving health-related sustainable development goals. Various initiatives of health education and social mobilization have been taken by the department of community medicine of a private medical college of Meerut in its urban field practice area. Objective: To find out the prevalence and associated factors of exclusive breastfeeding in urban areas of Meerut. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the field practice area of the urban health training centre (UHTC) among 179 lactating mothers. The data collection was done by predesigned and pre-validated questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and Fisher Exact test were used for statistical analysis. Results: The study findings revealed the initiation of breastfeeding within an hour was practised by 63.7% of mothers. The exclusive breastfeeding was practised by 134 (74.9%) mothers. Pre lacteal feeds __ampersandsignamp; colostrum was given to 22.3% and 78.8% of the children respectively. The complementary feeding at 6 months was started by 76 (42.5%) mothers. Conclusion: The practices of breastfeeding like early initialization of breastfeeding, colostrum feeding, exclusive breastfeeding till 6 months and complementary feeding from 6 months are comparatively better in the study area as compared to breastfeeding practices in Uttar Pradesh. The prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding was comparatively lesser in population belonging to upper lower socioeconomic classification.