We report on the visible light-driven hydrogen production from splitting of water molecules by nitrogen-doped TiO 2 (N-TiO 2 ) with a rice grain-like nanostructure morphology. The N-TiO 2 nanostructures are prepared using sol-gel and electrospinning methods followed by post-annealing of the composite nanofibers. The nanostructures are characterized by microscopy and spectroscopy. First order rate constants for the visible light-assisted photocatalysis in the degradation of methylene blue (MB) dye are found to be 0.2×10 −3 and 1.8×10 −3 min −1 for TiO 2 and N-TiO 2 (5 wt% of nitrogen), respectively. The N-TiO 2 utilized in water splitting experiments and evaluated hydrogen (H 2 ) of 28 and 2μmol/h for N-TiO 2 and TiO 2 , respectively. The improvement may be attributed due to the N-doping and higher surface area as ∼70m 2 /g.