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Health Seeking Behaviour (HSB) refers to decision or an action taken by an individual to maintain, attain, or regain good health and to prevent illness. Determining the health care seeking behaviour is essential to provide need-based health care services to the population. While hospital data remains the main source of information regarding the disease pattern, community-based studies well reflects the preferences in seeking health care services. This study indicates the perception of disease and willingness for treatment in Kupari Panchyat of Balasore District. The total number of respondent were 120, among 120, 44.33% were general, 20.83% OBC, 20% SC and 15.83 were ST category. The purposive sampling was used for collection of data. The data was collected through household survey by administrated questionnaire on the respondents who are the head of the household. The major findings of the study were most of respondents were depends on PHC/CHC for their treatment.