Expansive soils, such as black cotton soils, are basically susceptible to detrimental volumetric changes, with changes in moisture. This behaviour of soil is attributed to the presence of mineral montmorillonite, which has an expanding lattice. Understanding the behaviour of expansive soil and adopting the appropriate control measures have been great task for the geotechnical engineers. Extensive research is going on to find the solutions to black cotton soils. There have been many methods available to controlling the expansive nature of the soils. Treating the expansive soil with electrolytes is one of the techniques to improve the behaviour of the expansive ground. Hence, in the present work, experimentation is carried-out to investigate the influence of electrolytes i.e., potassium chloride, calcium chloride and ferric chloride on the properties of expansive soil.