Presence of rivers or canals are observed in most of the parts of india almost throughout the year with full of water current. however, development towards use of kinetic energy from river current is not explored. an innovative propeller turbine is introduced for utilization of river current of flowing fluid. the broad objective of the project is to explore efficient utilization of kinetic energy of water resources available in india in form of flowing river and canal by using innovative propeller turbine. the prime objective of the project is to investigate performance of propeller turbine. a laboratory scale turbine set up is fabricated using conventionally available structural members and rotor. the experimental investigations are carried out in the available irrigation canal. the results indicates that, the performance of the propeller turbine is comparatively good related other conventionally used savonius turbine and darrieus turbine.