Cutting fluids used in manufacturing industry have environmental and economic drawbacks. In order to reduce the negative effects associated with cutting the fluids, it is now becoming indispensable to move towards more sustainable techniques. In this research work, the turning of EN-24 steel under minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) environment have been done. The study has been completed three phases. The first phase deals with planning of experiments based on Box-Behnken design. Theinfluence of input process parameters i.e., cutting speed, feed rate, depth of cut and MQL flow rate have been investigated on output parameters i.e., surface roughness, tool wear, cutting temperature and cutting force. The desirability approach strategy has been used for multi-response optimizationof input parameters in the second phase.The third step deals with analysis of results using SEM, 3D surface graphs and main effect graphs. The confirmation experiments have been carried out to verify the developed model. Experimental results revealed that, the turning performance under high MQL flow ratehas been found to be the most effective parameter on mean surface roughness, cutting temperature, tool wear and cutting force.