78 Quality Assurance in Mental Hospitals CHAPTER 8 A] Mental Hospitals in Ranch!, Agra and Gwallor 8.1 Upon being entrusted with the supervision of the functioning of three major mental hospitals in Ranchi, Agra and Gwalior by the Supreme Court of India on II November 1997, the Commission constituted a Central Advisory Group, headed by the Chairperson, to carry out the remit of the Apex Court. 8.2 The Central Advisory Group, in a meeting held on 6 July 1999, constituted a sub committee headed by Shri Sudarshan Agarwal, Member of the Commission as its Chairman, with the Secretary General, NHRC and the Secretaries of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and the Department for Women and Child Development in the Ministry of Human Resource Development as Members, to advise it on the steps to be taken to rehabilitate patients who languished in the hospitals even after they were cured of mental illness. 8.3 In a meeting of the sub-committee held thereafter, the Secretary, Department of Women and Child Development informed the Commission that the Department had devised a scheme for the setting-up of Short Stay Homes for women and girls as well as for the establishment of Employment and Income Generating Training-cumProduction units for women, and that these schemes could be suitably adapted for the rehabilitation of women who were treated and cured of mental illness. The Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment also informed the Committee that the NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION i