Social Audit & MGNREGA Meghalaya Venue : C & AG, New
Delhi Date : 10 th March 2015
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STATE LEVEL A dedicated Society, State Rural Employment
Society, under the Chairmanship of the Chief Secretary oversees the
implementation of the MGNREGA at the State level. The day to day
affairs are managed by the Principal Secretary as Mission Director
and assisted by an Additional Mission Director along with dedicated
team of professionals drawn from various academic background. BLOCK
LEVEL The Block Development Officer is the Programme Officer who is
assisted by dedicated officers and is responsible for the
implementation at the Block level. There are 39 Blocks in the
State. DISTRICT LEVEL The Deputy Commissioner is the District
Programme Coordinator responsible for the implementation of the
MGNREGA at the District level. There are 11 Districts.
Institutional arrangement
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VILLAGE LEVEL Meghalaya, not being under Part IX of the
Constitution, has created Village Employment Councils (VECs) at the
village level for the implementation of the MGNREGA Each VEC is
comprised of two members from each Household that is registered
under the MGNREGA There is a Programme Implementation and Execution
Committee (PIEC) within each VEC that is headed by a Chairman
assisted by a Secretary and a woman member. Several other
Committees include Social Audit Committee, Village & Monitoring
Committee are under the VEC. The PIEC is entrusted with the
responsibility of record maintenance, supervision, work site
management, communicating with the Block officials. The PIEC
members are provided with adequate training. There are 6083 VECs in
the State
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Current Social Audit Process in Meghalaya Since inception, the
Social Audit has been facilitated by several NGOs. These are
engaged by the respective DPCs as it is easier to identify them
based on their local presence, background & experience. A MoU
is signed between the DPC and the facilitating NGO for engaging
them in the Social Audit process. The NGO is given the
responsibility to gather all relevant records pertaining to the
implementation of the projects from the Blocks and VECs.
Accordingly, the projects undertaken in each and every VEC has to
be audited by the facilitating NGO and reports placed in the SA
Forums The NGOs engaged by the various Districts are 26 in number
The payment for the NGOs is met from the 6% administrative expense
placed with the DPC
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Performance of social audits Inception onwards ParticularsSince
inceptionFor FY 2014-15 Number of GPs audited585421 Number of SA
Reports uploaded on website7619363 Number of ATRs uploaded on
website5825171 Number of Social Audit Forums/ Public Hearings
held4487353 Number of grievances registered by the SAU- 34 (At
present registered by the SRES) Number of grievances
redressed/closed3124 Number of FIRs registered370 Amount of money
identified as misappropriatedRs 3588002/-Rs 480600/- Amount of
money recoveredRs 2052492/-Rs 480600/- Number of functionaries
against whom action has been taken1440
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Social Audit Impact in Meghalaya In the state of Meghalaya,
Social Audit have been imposed by the Government through the
MGNREGA. This is a first of its kind. It has had a huge impact in
the state as per the instruction from the MoRD for the conduct of
Social Audit under MGNREGA since 2009. The awareness for rights and
entitlement has increased not only on MGNREGA; it has open the
doors for dissemination of information on other state and central
schemes as well as funds & grants. The MGNREGA and the RTI Act
has altogether made people more alerts and aware of rights and
entitlements a as well as participation and empowerment. Recovery
of misused and misappropriate of funds. Strengthening of
implementation of the MGNREGA Building the capacity of the
Functionaries Participative Approach in Planning, Implementation
& Monitoring
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Social Audit - Plan of Action The setting up of the Social
Audit Unit (SAU) is in process Preparation of Schedules-
Preparation of Modules under the training manual &
Customization of these Modules as per the local departments.
Capacity Building of the SAU at all levels by end of FY 15-16 : It
would be reasonable to ensure that capacity building should be done
at regional level or TOT at the state level. Capacity building to
be done once after every 3 months and thus ensuring on building the
SAU institutions across the State, District & Village
Level.