Background: Irrational prescribing is a major contributing factor towards increase in mortality, morbidity and health costs. Methods: The inpatient case records of 200 patients were analysed using the WHO/INRUD prescribing indicators and the data was presented using descriptive statistics. Results: The study showed average number of medicines prescribed/encounter 5.97±2.33, percentage encounters with antibiotic and injectables 23.64% and 47.46% respectively, percentage drugs prescribed from EDL–WHO was 29.33%, NLEM India 42.36%  and Punjab State EDL 43.05%. Conclusion: Polypharmacy, overuse of injectables and prescribing by brand names were the challenges identified