Background: Morbidity and malnutrition incidences among pre-school children are considered as good indicators towards future development of a country.

Aims: The main objective of the study is to find out the incidences of morbidity, under nutrition and anaemia among the children in India and to find out the association of these incidences with basic amenities, socio-economy, child’s birth weight and mother’s health.

Data: The data has been obtained from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4). The sample size is 144646 of (0-59)-month children.

Results: The study reveals that in India, prevalence of under-five morbidity, namely, diarrhoea, fever, and cough are 8.6%, 12.9% and 11.8% respectively. Percentages of underweight, stunted and anaemic children are 32.4%, 35.6% and 56.0%.The study shows a strong relationship between basic amenities, awareness, socio-economy, child’s birth weight and mother’s health status with the occurrences of children’s diarrhea, fever, cough, under nutrition and anemia.

Conclusions: Clean toilet facility, hygienic cooking fuel, literacy and wealth are the key to the health status of the incidences of diarrhea, fever, cough, under nutrition and anemia, of children.