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India’s first social audit law
December 18 , 2017
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- Meghalaya became the first state in India to operationalise ‘The Meghalaya Community Participation and Public Services Social Audit Act, 2017’, at a national convention in Shillong.
- It is a law that makes social audit of government programmes and schemes a part of government practice and it was launched by Chief Minister Mukul Sangma.
- The legislation which is applicable to 11 departments and 21 schemes was passed on April 2017 and was followed by pilot social audits for 26 schemes in 18 villages of the north-eastern state.
- Prior to enacting this law, social audits of government programmes were done at the initiative of civil society organisations. These social audits had no official sanction.
- A social audit facilitator will be appointed to conduct the audit directly with the people. He will present findings to the Gram Sabha, who will add inputs and the result will finally go to the auditors.
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