Nutritional anthropometry of rural women revealed that a majority of women were in normal nutritional status(50.83 %) with a BMI ranging from 18.50 to 22.99 kg/ m2, having no risk of metabolic complications based on both waistcircumference (79.72 %) and WHR (85.56 %). Increased risk with respect to waist circumference was observed among15.83 per cent of women. Substantially increased risk with respect to waist circumference and WHR was observed among4.45 per cent and 14.44 per cent of women, respectively. Nutritional status of the rural women was dependent on the ageand socio-economic status of the family.