In 21st century, climatic changes, water scarcity, increasing world population, rising food prices and other socioeconomic impacts are expected to generate a great threat to agriculture and poorest people who live in arid and subarid region. As we know, cereal grains is an important source that plays significant role in human diet. In which, millets are widely grown in the tropics of Africa and Asia and contains major source of carbohydrate and proteins, fatty acid, minerals, vitamins, dietary fibres and polyphenols. Typically millets protein contain higher amount of essential amino acids for e.g. sulphur containing amino acids (methionine and cysteine). Millet is an alkaline forming food. Alkaline based diet is useful to gain optimal health. Another health benefits of millets are to increase gastric emptying time. Millet grounded foods are considered as implicit prebiotic and probiotics with prospective health benefits. Millet based foods are considered with prospective health benefits. Including these grains in the diet may improve health and decrease the risk of diseases. There are various types of millets such as Sorghum millets, Proso millet, Pearl millet, Foxtail millet, Finger millet, Browntop millet, Barnyard millet, Little millet, Buckwheat millet, Amarnath millet, Kodo millet. Cutlet millet is also known as Ragi in India. The present review article elucidate the information of millets with a major focus on Finger millet by highlighting there Nutritional value and significance with some of their health benefits.