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BACKGROUND: Urinary tract infections (UTI) are one of the most frequent clinical bacterial infections in women. They are at higher risk to acquire UTI during pregnancy. The emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance is a cause of increasing concern. Thus, knowledge of local antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of common uropathogens is essential for empiric therapy of UTIs. Retrospective study was conducted in the Department of Microbiology of DRPGM MATERIALS AND METHODS: C Kangra at Tanda. Study was conducted for the period of one years ie. from July 2020 to June 202. Urine samples were collected and sent to the laboratory for identication and antimicrobial susceptibility of bacterial isolates. RESULTS: During the 12-month study period, out of the 1266 samples screened, 977(77.2%) were sterile, 224(17.698%) samples showed signicant growth of >10฀CFU/ml and 65(5.1%) were contaminanst or insignicant growth, which were excluded from the study. E. coli alone accounted for 66.9% of the urinary isolates followed by Klebsiella spp 12.9%. Among the Gram-positive cocci, Enterococcus isolated from a single sample and Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus were seen in two urine samples. Signicantly high susceptibility was seen with fosfomycin(90%) and nitrofurantoin(84%). Resistance was quite high against the noroxacin(30.3%) and cefazolin(17.8%). The susceptibility patterns seen in our study see CONCLUSION: m to suggest that it is necessary to obtain sensitivity reports before initiation of antibiotic therapy in cases of suspected UTI