Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHSNCs) have been constituted as a key mechanism of India’s National Rural Health Mission (NHRM). These committees play a vital role in successful implementation of NHRM at village level. NHRM aims to restructure the health delivery systems towards providing universal access to equitable, affordable and quality health care responsive to the health needs of the community. The VHNSCs are the fulcrum around which entire National Rural Health Mission revolves. The VHSNCs are one of the major instruments of NRHM for decentralizing and empowering local people to achieve village health, nutrition and sanitation. The VHSNCs are established to increase community ownership and for utilizing power of the local people in every aspect of governance and administration of community health, nutrition and sanitation. The VHSNCs offer equitable participation to local people in health governance and provide them an opportunity to access the basic services at the village level itself. Periodic reviews and evaluation have shown that VHSNCs have contributed significantly in decentralized health planning, however, given the vast untapped potential of the local people; these committees are still to reach the expected levels. Against this scenario, present study examined some of the selected VHSNCs in state of Punjab and found that there is little information with local people about the composition, functioning and role of these committees. For making these committees effective, it is essential that the VHNSC members have good knowledge and understanding about the process of formation, composition, determination of membership and process of nomination of members to these bodies. In this