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Site-specific seismic hazard analysis is crucial for designing earthquake resistance structures,particularly in seismically active regions.Shear wave velocity(Vs)is a key parameter in such analysis,although the economy and other factors restrict its direct field measurement in many cases.Various Vs-SPT-N correlations are routinely incorporated in seismic hazard analysis to estimate the value of Vs.However,many uncertainties question the reliability of these estimated Vs values.This paper comes up with a statistical approach to take care of such uncertainties involved in Vs calculations.The measured SPT-N values from all the critical boreholes were converted into statistical parameters and passed through various correlations to estimate Vs at different depths.The effect of different soil layers in the boreholes on the Vs estimation was also taken into account.Further,the average shear wave velocity of the top 30 m soil cover(VS30)is estimated after accounting for various epistemic and aleatoric uncertainties.The scattering nature of the Vs values estimated using different Vs-N correlations was reduced significantly with the application of the methodology.Study results further clearly demonstrated the potential of the approach to eliminate various uncertainties involved in the estimation of VS30 using general and soil-specific correlations.