Introduction: Nutritional status plays a vital role in deciding the health status particularly in children. Nutritional deficiencies give rise to various morbidities, which in turn, may lead to increased mortality. Undernutrition is a known factor closely associated with child mortality rates. Methodology: The sample size was estimated to be 372 according to online sample size calculator at 95 percent confidence interval (CI) with 5 percent precision. Thus 500 children from each tribal and nontribal area were covered from HD Kotetaluk of Mysore district. Results: The present study shows that higher percentage of history of fever 16% among tribal children and 5.2% among non tribal children during last one month. Respiratory Infection, Diarrhoea, Measles, worm infestation, chicken pox, skin Infection, TB, Jaundice, Dengue are more prevalent in tribes. Conclusion: Clinical nutritional deficiency signs like pallor (80%),Bitots spot (15%), angular stomatitis (37%) , thyroid enlargement (6%) which indicates iron deficiency, Vitamin A deficiency ,Vitamin B complex deficiency, iodine deficiency respectively were found among tribal children while in non tribal children pallor (53.6%), Bitots spot (2.4%), angular stomatitis (4.8%), thyroid enlargement(0.6% ) were found.

Keywords: Morbidity; Children; Nutritional Deficiency.