Its even more than a centennial that the systematic researches of chemical alteration of sugars have been advancing. Out of all the interest in the field of N‐glycoside has assembled pace over the past few years. Therefore, N‐functionalization of sugar is one of the most fundamental modifications along with other group like azide, amide etc also play a remarkable role in the field of glycoscience. Different approaches to access structurally modified N‐glycosides in carbohydrate derivatives are reviewed. The goal of this review is to provide an overview of different way of N‐functionalization of amino sugar and induction of nitrogen scaffolds for the synthesis of various orthogonal protective groups of the N‐glycoside. The N‐functionalization of sugars designate as follows: (a) glycosylamine, (b) glycosyl azide, and (c) introduction of N‐functionality to the sugar for formation of N‐glycosides. This is the first review focus on N‐functionalization of sugars which will be a future scope that influence the readers to work in this area further.