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Abstract: Non-utilization of maternal and child health care services at the right time and right place exposed to physical and mental health related problems among the pregnant women, mothers and child and even lead to death. Hence, timely utilization of maternal and child health care services is extremely important for the health of a mother and child as because they are very much vulnerable to health complications especially during the time of pregnancy and child birth. Education exposes women to new ideas, to new information, and to new heights and maternal education is very important as it plays significant role in family welfare and in determination of child�s and mother�s own health. Many international and national researches have persistently advocated that availability of health personnel and location of facility (distance of the facility from home) as the main barriers to utilisation of health care services. However, in a study conducted in the state of Arunachal Pradesh it was found that besides availability of health personnel and location of the facility; factors like maternal educational level, perception of women, occupation of the mother, transportation and communication bottlenecks etc., also acts as a strong barriers in utilisation of maternal and child health care services in the state of Arunachal. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyze the barriers to utilization of maternal and child health care services in Arunachal Pradesh based on empirical evidences from field survey.