Background: Infertility tends to be one of emerging health concern with modern world. Ten to fifteen percent of the marriages prove to be childless.

Objective: To evaluate the role of diagnostic hysteroscopy and laparoscopy in the assessment of infertility and to help in planning appropriate treatment.

Materials and Methods: Data was obtained from the patients who have visited outdoor of department of obstetrics and gynaecology and admitted in a tertiary care hospital New Delhi, India for a duration of six months from July 2017 to December 2017.

Results: Among 205 infertile women showed that most common pathology was PID (16.8 %) followed by Fibriod (8.29%), endometriosis (7.8%), PCOD (7.31%), uterine septum, polyp/myoma and hydrosalphnix (6.34%), fibrosedostea and TO mass (5.36%).

Conclusion: In order to reduce the burden of primary and secondary infertility proper counselling, guidance and appropriate management plays a important role .

Keywords: Hysteroscopy, Laparoscopy.

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