KEY TRENDS • Social Audits are mandatory as per the 73rd Constitutional Amendment in 1993, through which the Village communities are empowered to conduct social audit of all development work in their respective villages and the concerned authorities are duty bound to facilitate them*• Constitutional amendments in 1992-93 for local self government which introduced provisions for accounts…
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Please click here to access the MGNREGA Social Audit Report: Analytical Overview of the Public Information Available on NREGA-MIS (released in November 2020) by Social Accountability Forum for Action and Research. This brief looks at the Social Audit data available on the NREGA MIS for the financial years 2018-19 and 2019-20, which is updated by the state Social Audit…
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According to Empower.org,http://www.empowerpoor.com/backgrounder.asp?report=800: Social audit rules under National Rural Employment Guaranty Scheme (NREGS): • The rules lay out procedures under the three main stages of a social audit: preparatory phase, social audit forum, and post-social audit phase. • The social audit forum (meeting of the gram sabha) must be conducted every six months, be presided over by…
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According to Social Audit and its Relevance to Audit of Public Utilities by M Parthasarathy,http://www.asosai.org/journal1988/social_audit_and_its_relevance.htm: • Social audit of public utilities or public undertakings would be greatly facilitated if the undertaking prepared a social accounting document. Several models of social accounting and reporting have been tried out in a number of countries but efforts at standardising the…
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 The Lok Sabha on 13 December, 2006 passed by voice vote the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill, 2005, seeking to recognise and vest the forest rights and occupation in forest land of forest-dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest-dwellers.  The redrafted Bill was adopted with several important amendments…
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Kindly click here to access the LibTech India report titled Status of MGNREGA Employment and Wages in West Bengal FY (April to December 2022-23), published in December 2022. — The key findings for the report titled The state of rural employment: A look at MGNREGS across 5 states in India (released in October 2022), which has been prepared by…
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The main findings of the report titled Employment Guarantee during Covid-19 — Role of MGNREGA in the year after the 2020 lockdown: Survey findings from Bihar, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh (released in October 2022), which has been prepared by Azim Premji University in partnership with the National Consortium of Civil Society Organisations on NREGA and…
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Please click here to know about the 3-day dharna for the rights of the MGNREGA workers that took place in Delhi on 2-4 August, 2022. — Kindly click here and here to access the Interim Report of the Fact Finding Team Investigating the Stoppage of MGNREGA Wages in West Bengal dated July 28, 2022. — Kindly click here and here to access the Joint Press Note released by NREGA…
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Please click here to access the revised MGNREGA wage rates in various states for 2018-19. Please click here to access the Nagesh Singh Committee draft report on alignment of MGNREGA wages with minimum agricultural wages, submitted to the Ministry of Rural Development in July, 2017. The key recommendations of the Nagesh Singh Committee draft report on alignment of MGNREGA wages with…
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