SOCIAL AUDIT OF RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME/ACT BECOMING NEED OF THE TIME, AS NO COMPLETION CERTIFICATE OF PROPOSED SCHEME/WORKS ARE ISSUED BY THE GRAM PANCHAYATS, AND COMMUNITY SCHEMES REMAINING PARTLY IN-COMPLETE, EVEN FUNDS ARE BEING SPENT.

Social audit is becoming need of the time and programmes or a scheme by the community with active involvement of the stake holders and it includes audit of the quality and quantity of the works, being executed at different levels along with the details of the disbursement made and progress of the work done by the labourers employed and the material issued and consumption statement verified by the technical support of the specifications materialised at the site of work and scheme furnished for the use of community welfare service, demanded by the public under utility and all this process of verification of record and the progress made is called Social Audit for which the Administrative machinery should extend full support in carrying out a social audit. The provision of the social audit has been made in order that the implementation of the scheme is transparent and made known to every body living in the society and circle. It is too necessary to enhance the accountability and the public participation and to enable people to exercise their rights and to control the irregularities required for the effective implementation of the scheme proposed and planned for the welfare of communities people living in the society and circle. It is necessary to examine and review the all aspects of a work before it is begun, when it is in progress and even after it's completion, so that it may be checked as per the detailed information collected from the department/agency responsible for the implementation of the use and exercise of the funds being spent on the captioned subject matter deliberation required to be verified at the site and also on the papers of the DPR prepared and approved for the technical sanction and the administrative approval of the grant for the community welfare service . As for as the RTI on the rural employment guarantee scheme is concerned The onus of providing information rests on the following officials, The programme officer at the block levels and the panchayat secretary acts at panchayat levels and the ADM -Cum Project Director acts as the information officer in the District, under the right to information act -2005 .