VILLAGE LEVEL TO DISTRICT LEVEL OFFICIALS/OFFICERS ARE PROVIDING INFORMATION UNDER THE RTI IN (NREGA) .

People are to undertake the social audit process and for which they require access to all information for which RTI is a source of the record of relevant registers for employment guarantee job cards, job application registers, water register, expenditure register Muster rolls register, assets register and the complaint register, essentially required to be maintained in the Gram panchayats . Under the RTI act every citizen have been empowered by the Act to access any information that lies under the control of the government machinery and people have the right to inspect works, records and documents. They can see records and note down the information therein, take photocopies and certified copies of such records/documents.Informationcontained in floppies, tapes, CDs, videos, cassettes or in any electronic medium can also be accessed. This act also provides for access to information stored in computers and taking printouts thereof. The RTI can be used in the NREGA scheme and projects and onus of providing information rests on the following officials. The programme officer (PO) at the block level in employment guarantee scheme act as the information officer. At the village/panchayat level the panchayat secretary act as the information officer. The district project coordinator (ADM -cum project Director) Acts as the information officer in the district under the Right to information Act. Further the rural employment guarantee act also makes it mandatory for some types of the information to be disclosed proactively, in accordance with that an information wall has to be created in every village. The objective of the scheme, non negotiable points, important guidelines, the details of work recorded in the annual plan, in order of their priority, estimated cost of the works etc. Details of works under progress, number of labourers allotted for the works, details of payments made to labourers, details of expenditure incurred on the works, details of material purchased and details of material supplied, may also be obtained from the RTI in the NREGA.