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Abstract: Improving the well-being of mothers, infants, and children is an important public health goal for any country. The well-being mother and child determine the health of the next generation and can help predict future public health challenges for families, communities, and the health care system. Thus NRHM was implemented in 2005 to provide affordable and accessible and qualitative health care services to the rural population of the country by strengthening the rural health care system by providing all the basic health care infrastructure in the rural India. One of the important components of the mission is to provide free maternal health care by reducing the financial burden of accessing maternal healthcare services to the rural people. Hence this paper intends to study the socio-economic determinants influencing the utilization of maternal health care services among the beneficiaries NRHM in a rural area of Vijaypur district. The study has selected 4 Primary Health Centers in Indi taluk of Vijaypur district. Study area represents total 218 samples distributed in the study area. The study found that the access to maternal health care services is influenced by individual, household and community level factors. Socio economic factors like age, education, occupation of the women, occupation of the husband, household economic status are important determinant of access and under utilization of maternal health care services.