WARD PANCH/PANCHAYAT PRESIDENT MUST NOT CHAIR SOCIAL AUDIT MANCH AND SHOULD BE CHAIRED BY AN INDIVIDUAL INDEPENDENT.

Requirements for the Jan Audit Manch have been essential to ensure that proceedings are conducted in a transparent and no-partism manner,where the poorest and most marginalized people can participate and speak out in confidence without any fear .As such the Jan Audit Manch is a plateform where the independence and facilitating nature of the institutional arrangement will contribute directly to its credibility. Care has to be taken that the Manch should not be manipulated by vested interests towards this end. All marginalised Communities and the MGNREGA workers must be convenient to participate the meeting and the women should also attend the meeting.The social audit objections must be recorded at all times and lack of the corum should not be taken as a reason for non recording of the objections, and the corum must be the same as for all Gram Sabhas and must be maintained as per the separate categories.The social audit Manch must be chaired by an individual independent of the implementing agencies in the Panchayat.The ward panch /Panchayat president must not chair this meeting.The agenda must be gone through including the transpancy, checklist and the objections so recorded .The Report of the technical persons from out side should be submitted to the District Employment Guarantee council for further necessary action. During the Jan Audits, RTI and RTS provisions, ward Sabha Social Audit, law code manual should be publicized so that it may serve as an ongoing training required for the Public vigilance process .The Jan Audit may visit all the sites and conduct detailed enquiries where people have testified that there is corruption.