Post-operative wound infection is defined as surgical site infection from 0-30 days after surgery, or infection to surgical site till one year in cases of implants like mesh, vascular grafts and prosthesis. This study was done to find out incidence of post-operative wound infection in surgical patients in rural setup. This study of post-operative wound infection was carried out from August 2008 to August 2010. The study is of 3275 patients who underwent surgery in the A.V.B.R.H. Significant association was observed between the nature of surgery and Southampton Wound Grading System. It concluded that severity rate of post-operative wound infection was increased from grade I to grade V which was found to be similar in clean to contaminated nature of surgery and that was found to be statistically significant at P value less than 0.001.