Five species of rodents, viz.,Bandicota bengalensis wardi(Wroughton), Musplatythrix(Thomas),M. musculus(Linnaeus),M. booduga(Gray) andM. cervicolor(Hodgeson), have been recorded from the area under investigation with a per cent occurrence of 43.65, 16.48, 19.65, 14.52 and 5.7 respectively. The fluctuation of murid population in the field during different months of the year seems to be due to some biotic and abiotic factors, the consideration of temperature, food, shelter and breeding period being important. Involvement of people and the constraints in rodent control operation have been investigated. It is revealed that there is a general apathy towards the control of rodents on account of (i) religious beliefs and teachings, (ii) additional labour and time factor, and (iii) economical factor. The farmers would catch and release the rodents at some distant place rather than kill them. Since women generally tend to agricultural field work, they do not want to have any additional burden such as treatment of burrows. Even those fanners who are interested in rodent control get disillusioned with the programme because they cannot get genuine rodenticides at reasonable rates. However, result‐oriented training and demonstration of experiments, made a fairly large number of people interested in rat control. The role of university and social groups in propagating the rat control campaign in the area besides the official distribution/ sales centres for rodenticides has been discussed.