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Sanitation is a necessity for a healthy life (George: 2008). Access to basic amenities such as safe drinking water and sanitation is not only an important measure of socio-economic status of the household, but also a fundamental element to the health of the people. In India, access to improved sanitation remains far lower as compared to many other countries. In rural areas, the scale of the problem is particularly daunting as 74 percent of the rural population still defecates in the open. Individual health and hygiene is dependent largely on adequate availability of drinking water and proper sanitation. There is, therefore, a direct relationship between water, sanitation and health. In this light the aim of present study was to evaluate the Sanitation and Public Health services that provided to the people in rural Punjab. The main objective was to evaluate the views of villagers towards sanitation and health status conditions, programmes related to sanitation and health and scope of improvement in such programmes. The study was based on the survey of 120 respondents, selected through simple random sampling.