Conventional detection of Staphylococcus aureus in farm animals has a greater importance as they are not only reservoirs of drug resistant S. aureus but also there is a possible chance of transmission between hosts. Thus in the current study 30 milk samples from dairy herds and milk venders of different places were examined. On the basis of black shiny colonies with clear zone on Baird parker plate, Gram staining followed by catalase and coagulase tests; 12of 30 samples (40%) were morphologically identified as S. aureus. Further growth in aureusAlert^TM screening kit and amplification of 1.5kb 16S rRNA confirms screened isolates were S. aureus. The antibiotic susceptibility profile showed all the 12 isolates were resistant to Ampicillin and Pencillin where as 3 isolates (25%) LMV3, LMV4 and LMV5 exhibited additional resistance to Oxacillin with MIC of 14 ± 1.5 to 16 ± 0.75µg/ml indicating methicillin resistance. Colour change in aureusAlert^TMR/S confirmation kit and presence of mecA gene (304 bp PCR product) on the chromosome of 3 oxacillin resistance isolates confirms them genetically as methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains. Therefore results of the present study corroborate the gold standard methods for detecting MRSA in the raw milk.