Institute of Psychiatry was not in a position to certify the nutritive value of food measurable in kilo calorie, tidiness of kitchen and dining hall. The Institute had assigned the responsibility to the Nursing Superintendent to ensure that the food served was sumptuous, hot and nutritious; food served had a balanced combination of carbohydrates, protein, oil/fat, trace minerals and vitamin; food was prepared in a neat, orderly and hygienic manner; patient’s preferences and tastes were taken into account while designing the menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The supervision of the Nursing Superintendent was not quite effective. The food was served in the dining hall of the Institute of Psychiatry and timings of serving food were: morning tea with biscuits 06.30AM; breakfast 08.00 AM; lunch 12:00 PM; evening snacks 6PM and dinner 8PM. The food served in terms of quantity was inadequate and the nutritive value of food varied between 1500 and 1800 Kilo Calorie whereas the nutritive value of food for an able bodied adult should not be less than 2500 Kilo Calorie. The Institute of Psychiatry should develop its own modular kitchen on the similar pattern of modular kitchen of IMHH, Agra. Pending the construction of its own kitchen, steps should be taken to exercise proper supervision and strict control over the contractor who is bringing food from kitchen of S.N. Pandit hospital; improve the overall quantity and quality of food; and check wastage and leakage of resources in the whole process of outsourcing. ii Right to Portable Water Right to Potable Water requires adequate and effective access to portable water which includes the source of water must not be contaminated; adequate quantity of water stored in the overhead tank to make per capita availability of 135 litres of water to each patient per day as required by established norms for drinking, cleaning, washing, cooking, bathing, flushing the toilet; proper arrangement of distribution of water to all parts of hospital through linking the overhead tank to all the wards through pipes and a sub-tanks installed for each ward; the proper cleaning of overhead tanks by application of the state-of-the-art technology with mechanized dewatering sludge removal, high pressure cleaning, vaccum cleaning, antibacterial spray and ultraviolet radiation; samples of water collected at an interval of a quarter or at least six months and sent to Public Health Laboratories to test and certify that the water is free from chemical and bacteriological impurities, excess of iron, calcium, sodium, sulphur, magnesium and floride and has no colour, hardness, turbidity and alkalinity; setting up of a RO (Reverse Osmosis) plant to ensure provision of pure water to the patients. The position as it stands in different mental health institutions is given below: The Institute of Mental Health (IMH), Hyderabad (19th and 20th July, 2010) IMH had 24 hour supply of potable water through a direct line from the 84 National Human Rights Commission