HOW THE SOCIAL AUDIT IS CARRIED OUT BY THE ORGANISATION WORKING FOR THE TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE ADMINISTRATION:--ER FATEH CHAND GULERIA, DIRECTOR RTI , WELFARE ASSOCIATION REGISTERED NUMBER HPCD 3552 BILASPUR HIMACHAL PRADESH.

Social audit is the audit of a programme or a scheme by the community with active involvement of the primary stake holders .It includes audit of the quality of works being executed at different levels along with the details of disbursement made ,the number of labourers employed and the material used ,is called social audit.Administrative machinery should extend full support in carrying out a social audit. The social audit is necessary to enhance the accountability in order that the implementation of the scheme is transparent and made known to every body ,and to increase the public participation and also to enable people to exercise their rights for the effective implementation of the scheme and also to control the irregularities.The social audit is required to be covered at the time of estimation and at the stage when village NREGS plans are made ,when the funds are being spent,issued and approved or when wages are paid and at the implementation stage of the scheme under construction.The social audit may be conducted in all aspects of a work before it is begun , while it is in progress and even after its completion have to be examined and reviewed .The all details of outset of a work/works where audit is to be carried out,must be collected for the verification and in order to carry out a social audit concerned committed active members from the village community must come together.These may be educated youth,para teachers,members from the community based organisations , and representatives of labourers etc.After discussing various things such as the manner in which the audit should be conducted,the time and responsibilities to be taken by the different people,a plan must be formulated.In this behalf it is particularly mentioned here that the report on social audit processed vide number JB/RTI/2042 -4725 dated 25-5-2022 verified by the Deputy Director and Project Officer,DRDA Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh further send to the Programme officer cum BDO Jhandutta Distt Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh and related to the Construction of Hume pipe culvert link road to Village Kathuin Post office Gandhir Tehsil Jhandutta Distt Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh was sent to respective Deputy Commissioner Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh vide number Jhandutta -2377-78 dated 15-3-2023  examined by the Panchayati Raj Department at site of work in connection with the feasibility of pipe and the slab culvert on 11-3-2023 and now the same was again verified by the department of Himachal Pradesh PWD by Assistant Engineer of the department and the junior Engineer along with other technical staff of the department verifying the factual assessment of the design data at site of work as they have allowed to provide cement concrete surface on the said link road to Village Kathuin by the district administration on the basis of deposit work .The both the departments have been assessing the hydraulics of the pipe and the slab culvert so proposed at the site of work and it is assured that flow of water through pipe and the slab culvert would be analysed by applying the principles of the design calculations based on the essential design data and further feasibility verified by the Engineering department and case file accordingly approved by the competent authority to start the work in hand .