  We have undertaken a spectroscopic survey of field stars to find metal-poor
objects among them. Observations are carried out using OMR spectrograph
attached to 2.3m telescope at VBO Kavalur, India.
  The sample of candidate stars are chosen from prismatic survey of Beers and
his collaborators covering a large part of the Galaxy. At the first phase of
this project, the analysis is completed for a set of 19 relatively hot stars
(Teff in 6000 to 8000K range). The metallicities of the program stars are
derived by synthesizing the spectrum in the wavelength range 4900 to 5400A for
different metallicities and matching them with the observed spectra. More than
half of the candidate stars were found to show [Fe/H] in -0.7 to -1.2 range.
Two most metal-poor stars have [Fe/H] values of -1.3 and -1.8. It appears that
metal-poor candidates suggested by Beers et al. from their prismatic survey has
a very significant fraction of metal-poor stars. The significantly metal-poor
stars found so far would be studied in detail using high resolution spectra to
understand nucleosynthesis processes that might have occurred in early Galaxy.
