PRESENTATION

ON
SOCIAL AUDIT
(10-3-2015)

Directorate of Social Audit, Haryana

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 General Principals of Social Audit
• During Social Audit all the officials of the implementing agencies
should have mandatorily presence and answer the raised queries.
• Social Audit must be conducted once in every six months (twice in a
year).
• The Social Audit public forum and the Social Audit public hearing
should be open for all members of the public to participate.
• It is the responsibility of the Gram Sabha to conduct a Social Audit
with the help of the Village Social Audit facilitators.
• The Quorum of a Gram Sabha as defined in the State Panchayati Raj
Act will apply to the Social Audit Gram Sabha too.

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Procedure for Conduct of Social Audit

• A Social Audit is conducted by the Gram Sabha.

• A committee constituted by Gram Sabha consisting of atleast

11 members, two persons from Vigilance & Monitoring
Committee (VMC), 6 persons from MGNREGA, 3 members of
disadvantage groups (1 member from SC, 1 from minority and
1 physically handicapped) and 1/3 women are mandatory.
• Present Sarpanch and Panchayat Members should not be
included in the Social Audit committee.

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 Setting up of Social Audit Unit

• Directorate of Social Audit Unit has already been

established with 44 Sanctioned posts, out of which only 12
posts are filled up i.e. Director, Additional Director, Senior
Accounts officer, two Accounts officers, System Analyst(MIS
Nodal Officer), Project Officer, Assistant, Clerk, Programmer
and two Data Entry Operators.
• The matter regarding the filling up of the remaining posts is
under process.
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 Achievements of Social Audit Unit
• Awareness programme of Social Audit of 21 District of the
State have already been organized by the teams of Social
Audit Unit.
• 431 Gram Panchayats have been visited by the Social Audit
Unit for awareness of Social Audit during the year 2013-
2014.
• District Karnal, was selected for the Social Audit on pilot
basis.
• Social Audit on pilot basis of three blocks of District Karnal
i.e. Ghraunda, Indri and Nissing has also been got
conducted by this Directorate Social Audit Unit along with
Village Resource Persons deployed in these 3 Blocks out of
6 and the problems arising during the Social Audit were
solved on the spot.
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 Achievements – (Cont..)
• 71 Village Resource Persons have been deployed after
training conducted at HIRD, Nilokheri to conduct the Social
Audit of remaining of three blocks i.e. Nilokheri, Asandh
and Karnal. Social Audit on Pilot basis has also been
conducted in these three Blocks i.e. Asandh, Nilokheri and
Karnal.
• Out of 6141 Gram Panchayats, 6595 Social Audits have been
conducted and 4758 GPs were covered during the year 2014-
2015 as per MIS.
• Haryana Social Audit and Grievance Redressal Rules, 2014
have been notified on 14th November, 2014 and copies have
been sent to all the District Programme Coordinators
MGNREGA (DC’s) and Additional District Programme
Coordinators MGNREGA (ADC’s) for compliance.
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Photographs of Social Audit (District:
Karnal)

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Photographs of Social Audit (District:
Karnal)

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 Special Project
• During the review of Progress of Social Audit of the States
by MoRD it has been found that Social Audits are
conducted in a routine manner, in contravention of the
rules, diluting the effects of this important transparency
and accountability initiative.
• In order to rectify this situation and to support the states to
conduct the Social Audit, MoRD has decided to provide
technical assistance under a Special Project that will be in
operation till 2017.
• Under this project one independent Director, 4 Social Audit
Experts and one District Resource Persons for every 30
crore of expenditure (2013-2014) are to be recruited.
• Recruitment of the posts is under process.

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 Impact
• Awareness amongst the primary stakeholders have been
Increased.

• People have come forward for participation.

• People have become aware about their rights.

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 Challenges
• Peoples are not taking interest to attend the meeting of
Gram Sabha for Social Audit.
• Sarpanch wield upon the weaker sections.
• Lack of awareness about the scheme.
• Transparency & accountability needs to be increased.
• People needs to be motivated.
• Full, free & fair participation of all the communities in the
Gram Sabha meetings needs to be increased.

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 Plan of Action
• Appointment of District Resource Person (DRP), Block
Resource Person(BRP) & Village Resource Person(VRP) is
under process.
• A State level workshop on Social Audit for MGNREGA & IAY
Schemes will be organized shortly.
• 71 Village Resource Persons have been trained at HIRD,
Nilokheri and deployed in district Karnal for conducting the
Social Audit on Pilot basis.
• A calendar for conducting the Social Audit under IAY
Scheme will be issued in the month of April, 2015.
• Under Special Project, the matter regarding the
appointment for the posts of Director, 4 Social Audit
Experts & 21 District Resource persons is under process.
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Thanks

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