Aim: To find the prevalence of uncorrected refractive error in paediatric population aged 5-12 years visiting our tertiary care hospital and to look for any association between the amount of screentime and presence of refractive error. Material and Methods: A single-centre hospital- based cross-sectional observational study was carried out at our out-patient department and the recorded data was analysed. The study included 158 children aged between 5 years and 12 years satisfying specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. Prevalence of uncorrected refractive error in this study population was determined by the cycloplegic refraction. Parents of the subjects were invited to fill up a questionnaire to report the time spent by their children on digital screen and outdoors. Descriptive and Inferential Statistical analysis of the data was performed by SPSS software version 26 using chi-square test as the test of significance. Conclusions were obtained by calculating and comparing P value with level of significance of 5%. Results: In our study 78.5% of the study population, with an average daily illuminated screentime of 5 hours, had uncorrected refractive error. Most common refractive error was astigmatism followed by hypermetropia and myopia. Mean daily screentime was higher among myopic and astigmatic. The prevalence of refractive error showed an increasing trend with increase in daily screentime, with more rise for near screen usage. Outdoor time was found to have a protective role against myopia and astigmatism.