ABSTRACT: Background: Ageing is progressive generalized impairment of physiological, psychological functioning of the body resulting in loss of adaptive responses to external and internal stresses leading to increased risk of age associated diseases.Thus it is essential to maintain physical fitness and quality of life at optimum level in elderly. The fitness level and quality of life were evaluated by using senior fitness test and quality of life questionnaire. The senior fitness test includes six components which were upper body strength and flexibility, lower limb strength and flexibility, agility and cardiopulmonary endurance. All of these components are performed by elderly in there day to day life. Method: Two groups were selected (N = 40) which included 20 individuals from the exercising and 20 from non-exercising. Their fitness level and quality of life were evaluated using senior fitness test (SFT) and quality of life questionnaire which has six components to assess upper body strength and flexibility, lower body strength and flexibility, 8 foot up and go test, 2 minute step test. Results: Comparison of SFT components and quality of life was made by using unpaired t-test and MannWhitney test. Analysis of the data showed significant difference in upper body strength (p-0.0189), lower body flexibility (p-0.0191), 2 minute step test (p-0.0012) and quality of life (p-0.0315) which was better in exercising elderly than non exercising elderly. Also upper body flexibility (p-0.0807), lower body strength (p-0.0988), agility (p-0.0848) was better in non exercising elderly though was not statistically significant. Conclusion: Exercising elderly showed better upper body strength, lower body flexibility, cardio respiratory endurance and quality of life in comparison to non exercising elderly of the same age group and gender. Regular exercises have positive impact on functional, physical independence and quality of life in elderly