Process of conducting social audit

• The Social Audit Unit shall frame an annual calendar and a copy of the calendar shall be sent to all the DPCs for making necessary arrangements.
• The labourers and the village community shall be informed about the Gram Sabha conducting social audit.
• The Social Audit Team shall be provided by the PO, all the required information and records of all implementing agencies.
• The resource persons deployed by Social Audit Unit, along with primary stakeholders shall verify all the documents, physically verify the works.
• Gram Sabha shall be convened to discuss the findings of the verification. The Gram Sabha shall also provide a platform to all villagers to seek and obtain further information.
• All the officials responsible for implementation must be present in the meeting to answer queries from the members of the Gram Sabha.
• The DPC or his authorised representative shall supervise the Gram Sabha meeting.
• The action taken report relating to the previous social audit shall be read out at the beginning of the meeting of each social audit by the Gram Sabha.
• During the Social Audit all issues must be recorded in writing and evidence should be gathered. The entire proceeding of the Social Audit Gram Sabha shall be video recorded, and uploaded on website. The social audit reports shall be prepared in local language by the Social Audit Unit and must be displayed on the notice board of the Gram Panchayat for at least seven days.
• All social audit reports will contain a list of grievances that require redressal and a separate list of social audit findings that require criminal investigation.
• The Action Taken Report on the issues raised in the Gram Sabha shall be given to the Social Audit Unit and to the individuals whose grievance have been recorded in the report.
  

Roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in conduct of social audit

1. Programme Officer - PO shall ensure that all the required information and records of all implementing agencies are properly collated in the requisite formats; and provided along with photocopies to the Social Audit Unit for facilitating conduct of social audit at least fifteen days in advance of the scheduled date of meeting of the GS.
2. District Programme Coordinator : DPC shall ensure that all records for conduct of social audit are furnished to the Social Audit Unit by PO. Ensure that time-bound corrective action (including initiating criminal and civil proceedings or termination of services) is taken on the social audit report. Take steps to recover the amount improperly utilised and issue receipts or acknowledgements for amount so recovered.
3. The Social Audit Unit :
• Shall identify, train and deploy suitable resource persons at village, block, district and State level drawing from primary stakeholders and other civil society organisations having knowledge and experience of working for the rights of the people.
• Will create awareness amongst the labourers about their rights and entitlements under the Act, and facilitate verification of records with primary stakeholders and worksites.
• Shall be responsible to prepare social audit reporting formats, resource material, guidelines and manuals for the social audit process.
• Facilitate verification of records with primary stakeholders and conduct door-to-door visits to meet beneficiaries of the MGNREGS and also physically verify the project sites and come out with detailed report.
• Responsible to host the social audit reports including action taken reports in the public domain.
4. The State Government : shall be responsible for follow-up action on the findings of the social audit.
5. State Employment Guarantee Council : SEGC shall monitor the action taken by the State Government and incorporate the Action Taken Report in the annual report to be laid before the State Legislature by the State Government.
6. Central Government : provide funds to meet the cost of establishing the Social Audit Unit. Cost of conducting social audit shall be met from administrative expenses.
7. Central Employment Guarantee Council : CEGC shall monitor implementation of MGNREG Audit of Scheme Rules, 2011 and action taken on social audit reports and report the same in the Annual Report to be laid before the Parliament.
   

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