This research work defines the various techniques used for information hiding, their applications and also discusses the drawbacks of implementing those techniques independently. The motivation for this work includes provision of protection of information during transmission without any detection of information. In the present work, it has been observed that steganography is the solution for given problem as in this technique, existence of data is not evident. Among various types of steganographic techniques, image steganography is best solution. Thus, a new image steganography scheme based...