diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index bcbc74d66b6..3bda850b28e 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -174,6 +174,9 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-5014. Extend Distcp to accept a custom CopyListing.
     (Srikanth Sundarrajan via amareshwari)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-5775. Remove unnecessary job.setNumReduceTasks in SleepJob.createJob 
+    (jhanver chand sharma via devaraj)
+
 Release 2.4.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/SleepJob.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/SleepJob.java
index b9f4a679135..40fab8ce0b7 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/SleepJob.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/SleepJob.java
@@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ public Job createJob(int numMapper, int numReducer,
     Job job = Job.getInstance(conf, "sleep");
     job.setNumReduceTasks(numReducer);
     job.setJarByClass(SleepJob.class);
-    job.setNumReduceTasks(numReducer);
     job.setMapperClass(SleepMapper.class);
     job.setMapOutputKeyClass(IntWritable.class);
     job.setMapOutputValueClass(NullWritable.class);
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/SleepJob.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/SleepJob.java
index 92add201c39..97b76369c74 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/SleepJob.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/SleepJob.java
@@ -208,7 +208,6 @@ public Job createJob(int numMapper, int numReducer,
     Job job = Job.getInstance(conf, "sleep");
     job.setNumReduceTasks(numReducer);
     job.setJarByClass(SleepJob.class);
-    job.setNumReduceTasks(numReducer);
     job.setMapperClass(SleepMapper.class);
     job.setMapOutputKeyClass(IntWritable.class);
     job.setMapOutputValueClass(NullWritable.class);