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Community Health remains substantially significant in the Sri Lankan development sector as it concentrates much on community development for many decades. This study explores the existing issues of the rural community health sector, with special reference to a selected Grama Niladhari Division (GND) in North-Western province in Sri Lanka. Even though the rural development has much-focused community development projects, community health has not been sufficiently developed by the national and regional development sectors. Having conducted a field survey consisting of both qualitative in-depth interviews (10) and a general questionnaire survey (50), this study can be concluded that the majority of the subjects were not sufficiently aware of their health and hygiene by the respective community health programs conducted in this area for many years. Though there were many rural development projects in this area for many years, community health issues of identifying their health matters, chronic diseases, reproductive health risks, and sexually transmitted diseases were not substantially addressed by the respective community development programs.