SOCIAL AUDIT OF NREGS AND STAGES TO BE COVERED IN SOCIAL AUDIT, WHEN FUNDS ARE BEING ISSUED AND SPENT ON THE SCHEMES AND PROGRAMMES

Social audit is the Audit of a programme or a sachem by the Community with active involvement of the primary stakeholders. It includes audit of the quality of works being executed at different levels along with the details of disbursements made, the number of labourers employed and material used, is called the social audit. Administrative machinery should extend full support in carrying out a social audit. Further it is mentioned on the captioned subject matter deliberation that the implementation of the scheme must be transparent and made known to every one in the society and community service and also to enhance accountability and it is necessary to public participation and to enable people to exercise their rights required for the effective implementation of the scheme and to control the irregularities of the work done. The following stages to be covered in the social audit are described in the law code at the stage when village NREGS plans are made, At the time of estimation and at the implementation stage and when the wages are paid, when funds are issued and approved and spent on the work and scheme approved by the plan made in this behalf of the demand and execution for the welfare of society and community. It is necessary before the work is begin in all respects and also while the work is in progress and even after its completion have to be examined and reviewed. Keeping in view the above situation and position of the responsibility for the social audit of NREGS it is not possible to have irregularities in the work of NREGS but there exists number of complaints in the department of rural development and the panchayati raj but the administration taking no cognisance for the required so for the organisational and procedural aspects of the social audit, and the mandatory agenda for all aspects of NREGS social audit , as such open and fearless participation of all the people particularly the potential beneficiaries of the programme must have maximum participation on the captioned subject of the NREGS social audit, so that checklist must be prepared to review whether norms and provisions in the act, rules and guidelines are being followed:-- Er Fateh chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552,Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh phone number, 9459334377