Background: -India has 440 million children. About 27 million children are born each year in India. But nearly 2 million of them do not live to the age of 5. Upper respiratory infections are leading cause of child mortality (30%) in India.1..WHO report stated that children below five years of age suffer about 5 episodes of URTI per child per year. URTI is responsible for about 30-40% of visits to health care facilities and for about 20-40% admission to hospitals.The proportions of death due to respiratory infection in the community is much higher as many children die at home