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Abstract: Generally, steel bars are used as reinforcement in concrete structures. But because of high cost and heavy self weight, replacement of steel with some other suitable materials as reinforcement is now a major concern. Though bamboo has been used as a construction material, especially in developing countries, but its use as reinforcing material in concrete structure is limited due to various factors. Since bamboo is a natural, cheap and also easily available material, it can be a used in place of steel as a reinforcement material due to the fact that tensile strength of bamboo per unit weight is more than steel. In this research, suitability of bamboo as reinforcement in concrete would be evaluated. In this research, 650mm long bamboo strips of slightly varying cross sections were used. Performance of bamboo as reinforcing material was analyzed by performing flexural strength test of bamboo reinforced beam. Flexural test on the beams were performed at the 28days, 56days and 90days on the Universal Testing Machine. In this research three different orientation of bamboo strips were used during casting of beam. At first bamboo strips were placed such that shining side of bamboo strips were facing towards the bottom of the beam mould. Secondly, bamboo strips were placed such that rough side of bamboo strips was facing towards the bottom of the beam mould. In third arrangement, the bamboo reinforcement was placed such that its thickness was supported by concrete and both bamboo strips were facing each other. To make this arrangement stable, spacers in form of small pieces of bamboo strips have been provided. By use of above mentioned orientations of bamboo strips several beams were also casted by the coating of adhesive material like bitumen.