Indiscriminate over exploitation from natural source to meet the growing demand by industry coupled with low seed viability, lack of vegetative propagation methods and insufficient attempts for replenishment of wild stock of different important plant species have contributed to its threatened status. So realizing the threat of extinction and to meet the growing needs, the alternate method for propagation is micropropagation. This technique is used not only for those plants which are difficult to be propagated through conventional practices, but also for the mass multiplication of existing stocks of germplasm for biomass production and conservation of important, elite and rare plant species that are threatened or on the verge of extinction [1]. In all reports, protocols described are based on conventional micropropagation system (CMS). This CMS explained most common methods of micropropagation (Table 1), which involve initiation/bud proliferation, the shoot multiplication followed by rooting via a semi solid medium. Although CMS have been highly successful in terms of multiplication yields, it has become increasingly important to improve productivity and uniformity of commercially important material in reduced cost, time and space [2]. Hence an improvement in plant tissue culture techniques for the mass propagation of commercial plants is highly desirable [3]. An alternative that has shown potential to improve the efficiency of protocols for in vitro multiplication is the use of a double-phasic culture system (DPS). In this method, the explants remain in the semi-solid medium and the liquid medium is added over periodically throughout the culture, thus Low cost and time saving tissue culture techniques by improving process efficiency and better utilization of resources without compromising the quality of the plants are of high priority for commercial utilization. In this report a double phase culture system (DPS) i.e. a semisolid phase with rooting media at the bottom with a layer of shooting media in liquid phase, was standardized and compared with conventional micro propagation system (CMS) by taking Rauwolfia serpentine L. Bent. as a model. In CMS the shoots were raised first followed by two subsequent subculture then they were transferred to rooting media for root induction for which it will take more than 12 weeks but under DPS, plantlets with well developed roots and shoots can be produced simultaneously in a single culture vessel within 08 weeks without shoot manipulations/repeated subculture. It was found that the rate of multiplication (98.7), shoot length (9.8) and shoot thickness (5.2) was higher in DPS in comparison to CMS. The no. of roots/shoot (8.7), root length (5.3cm), root thickness (6.1mm) was found higher in DPS than that of the CMS. Percentage survival of plantlets was 98.5 % in DPS, while it was only 70% in CMS. The culture period was reduced by 44% in DPS compared to the CMS. In DPS nutrient cost/plantlet, energy cost/plantlet and labour cost also reduced by 35.36%, 40.66% and 33.33% respe...