(1) Management of kitchens or cooking food on caste or religious basis must be totally banned in prisons for women.
(2) Female prisoners shall not be allowed to cook for themselves.
(3) Cooked food shall be brought to them by a convict cook accompanied by the warder in-charge and shall be placed outside the enclosure gate.
(4) All refused matter etc. placed at stated time outside the enclosure shall be carried away by convicts.
(5) Adequate and nutritious diet shall be given to nursing women and children accompanying women prisoners as specified under rule 757.
(6) Food articles shall be of a good quality.
(7) Pregnant and nursing women prisoners should be provided a special diet as prescribed in these rules.
(8) Women prisoners should get special diet on festivals and national Holidays, as prescribed in these rules.
(9) Medical Officer shall ensure that food is cooked under hygienic conditions and is nutritious.
(10) There shall be a separate kitchen for every three hundred prisoners.
(11) Some women staff should be given special training in management of diet and kitchens and such trained staff should supervise the kitchens and cooking in prisons for women.
(12) Prison officers, including the Superintendent, shall supervise every aspect of the prison diet system like issue of rations, management of kitchens and distribution of food.
(13) Women prisoners shall not be allowed to have their own mini kitchens inside the prison barracks.
(14) Clean drinking water shall be supplied to prisoners and it shall be tested periodically.