Motherhood is the most important position a woman can have in her life but can be a life threatening event as well. During pregnancy, any woman can develop serious, life-threatening complications that require medical care [1]. India accounts for nearly 20% of maternal and child health services in the globe. This could be related to several factors such as non utilization or under utilization of maternal and child health (MCH) services. For proper programme implementation, understanding community knowledge and practices regarding maternal care during pregnancy, delivery, and postnatal period is required. Improving community awareness on maternal and child health (MCH) services is still required [4]. Materials and methods; Research design used for this study was pre experimental one group pre test post test design. 60 rural people belonging to the age group of 20-60 years were selected using non probability convenient sampling technique from Vadavucode Puthencruz Panchayath . The tool used for data collection consisted of two parts. Part A included demographic profile and part B was a structured questionnaire which comprised of maternal and child health services of community health centre .Pre-test was done which was followed by a structured teaching programme ,  five days prior to the post-test. The pre-test and post-test values were compared by using paired t-test. Result: The findings showed that the mean post test knowledge score of the subjects 18.25 was higher than the mean pre-test score of 14.183. The calculated “t” value obtained from paired ”t” test was10.190  which is significant at P£ 0.05 level showing that there is improvement in knowledge of people. The results of chi-square analysis indicated that there was significant association between knowledge and demographic variables. Conclusion: The research conducted on people of selected Panchayath revealed that there was significant lack of knowledge regarding MCH services provided by Community Health Centres , among the people and the structured teaching programme has a remarkable role in improving their knowledge.