Background: Schizophrenia is a major mental illness that causes changes in perception, thoughts and behaviour.Impairment of insight is considered as a hallmark of schizophrenia.There has been an increasing focus on the Negative symptoms and insight in schizophrenia. There has been evidence indicating an inverse relationship between insight and global, positive and negative symptoms was reported. Aim and objective of the study:To analyse the relationship of Negative symptoms with insight in patients with schizophrenia. Methodology: A Cross sectional study consisting of 40 patients with a diagnosis of Schizophrenia ,who were diagnosed according to the ICD-10 criteria for research and were attending to tertiary care hospital at Visakhapatnam as both outpatients and inpatients.Study tools used as Semi structured Performa for sociodemographic data, The 30 item clinician rated Positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) and Insight and Treatment Attitude Questionare (ITAQ). Results: The mean age,duration of illness of study population are 36.58±10.446 years and 7.82±6.480 years respectively.The mean PANSS positive,negative,general psychopathology and total scores were 15.93±7.879,21.45±10.841,25.73±8.738 and 63.10±22.534 respectively.Mean ITAQ score was 11.15±6.455.Insight scores had significant negative correlation with PANSS positive(p< 0.05),PANSS negative (p<0.05)and total score(p<0.05). Conclusion:A better appreciation of the association that insight shares with other symptom clusters could help us in gaining knowledge about aetiology,prognosis and treatment related facets of the disease.