Indian children are susceptible to undernutrition because of wide spread disparity, poverty and illiteracy. Present study aimed to assess the prevalence of under nutrition among schoolgoing boys and to compare the findings with international reference i.e. NCHS and WHO. A total of 300 boys of age group of 5-18 years were selected. Height-for-age, weight-for-age and body mass index for age were used to evaluate their nutritional status. Z- score and composite index of anthropometric failure were computed. The study reveals that age wise mean body weight, height and BMI has increased with age. Present studied boys were lighter in body weight and shorter in stature than the reference population (NCHS). Similarly Body mass index of the present studied boys indicate low mean BMI than the reference population (WHO). It was found that 6.3% of boys were stunted, 4.3% were underweight and 3% were undernourished, whereas as per composite index of anthropometric failure a total of 10% boys were undernourished. For better understanding about the situation of undernutrition among central Indian boys, the findings of present study are compared with other studies among Indian children and children of other developing nations and found that the incidences of undernutrition among present studied boys are significantly lower; still 10% boys were found undernourished which indicate that the nutritional programme like supplementary diet to pre-school children and mid-day-meal to school going children of primary standard need more attention evaluation and proper monitoring.