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    Social audit refers to steps taken to ensure work by NALCO benefits intended recipients. It is based on local governance with consent and understanding of people concerned. Social audit is a process of understanding, measuring, reporting, and improving efficiency and effectiveness of governance. It enables citizens to assess social, economic, and environmental benefits and limitations of schemes through regularly monitoring performance and stakeholder views. Effective social audit requires stakeholder involvement and empowerment of people through access to documentation and punitive actions for noncompliance. Hindrances include mindsets, lack of legal proceedings, education, transfers, and lack of participation. Benefits are involvement in development, reduced waste and corruption, awareness, integrity, and improved governance.

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    Social audit refers to steps taken to ensure work by NALCO benefits intended recipients. It is based on local governance with consent and understanding of people concerned. Social audit is a process of understanding, measuring, reporting, and improving efficiency and effectiveness of governance. It enables citizens to assess social, economic, and environmental benefits and limitations of schemes through regularly monitoring performance and stakeholder views. Effective social audit requires stakeholder involvement and empowerment of people through access to documentation and punitive actions for noncompliance. Hindrances include mindsets, lack of legal proceedings, education, transfers, and lack of participation. Benefits are involvement in development, reduced waste and corruption, awareness, integrity, and improved governance.

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    Social audit refers to steps taken to ensure work by NALCO benefits intended recipients. It is based on local governance with consent and understanding of people concerned. Social audit is a process of understanding, measuring, reporting, and improving efficiency and effectiveness of governance. It enables citizens to assess social, economic, and environmental benefits and limitations of schemes through regularly monitoring performance and stakeholder views. Effective social audit requires stakeholder involvement and empowerment of people through access to documentation and punitive actions for noncompliance. Hindrances include mindsets, lack of legal proceedings, education, transfers, and lack of participation. Benefits are involvement in development, reduced waste and corruption, awareness, integrity, and improved governance.

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    SOCIAL AUDIT

    Social audit refers to the steps that are taken to ensure that the work done by NALCO
    is actually benefiting the people whom it is intended to benefit. It is based on the
    principle that the local governance should be carried out, as much as possible, with
    the consent and in complete understanding of the requirements of the people
    concerned. It is a process and not an event. Thus, Social Audit is nothing but
    understanding, measuring, reporting, and most importantly improving the efficiency
    and effectiveness of the governance.

    Social Audit is a process that enables citizen of a Gram Panchayat to assess and
    demonstrate social, economic, and environmental benefits and limitations of a scheme
    on a citizen of a gram Panchayat Social auditing provides an assessment of the impact
    of scheme non-financial objectives through systematically and regularly monitoring its
    performance and the views of its stakeholders. Social auditing requires the
    involvement of stakeholders. This may include employees, clients, volunteers,
    funders, contractors, suppliers and local residents interested in the scheme.

    IMPLEMENTATION OF SOCIAL AUDIT

    1. Empowerment of people : Social audit is most effective when the actual


    beneficiaries of an activity are involved in it. However, people can only get
    involved in the process when they are given appropriate authority and
    rights. To this end, the 73rd amendment of the constitution has empowered
    the Gram Sabha to conduct social audit. This is relevant only in the villages.
    In the cities, the Right to Information Act empowers the people to inspect public
    records.
    2. Proper Documentation : Every thing right from the requirement gathering to
    planning to implementation must be properly documented. Some of the
    documents that should made mandatory are:

     Applications, tenders, and proposals


     Financial statements, income - expense statements.
     Registers of workers
     Inspection reports.

    3. Accessibility of Documents : Merely generating documents is useless if they


    are not easily accessible. In this information age, all the documents must be put on
    line.

    4. Punitive Action : The final and most important provision, about which nothing
    is being done yet is to have punitive actions for non-conformance of the process of
    social audit. Unless there is legal punishment, there will be no incentive for the
    people in authority to implement the processes in a fair manner.
    HINDRANCES IN SOCIAL AUDIT

    1. Mindset of people. Even after 50 yrs of independence people do not understand


    the concept of govt. for the people, of the people, and by the people. Most of
    the people still think themselves as being ruled by the politicians, while
    politicians think that they are the rulers. Due to this reason, common people do
    not get involved in the developmental activities.
    2. Lack of any legal proceedings for not following social audit principles. Unless
    there is a stringent penalty on authorities for not implementing social audit, they
    will not give up control because it reduces their kickbacks and authority.
    3. Lack of education among the common masses.
    4. Untimely transfer of functionaries makes it difficult to have appropriate
    responsibility fixation
    5. Problem of difference in work culture
    6. Lack of people participation
    7. Timely meetings are not held
    8. No follow up

    BENEFITS OF SOCIAL AUDIT

     Involvement of people in developmental activities ensures that money is spent


    where it is actually needed.
     Reduction of wastages.
     Reduction in corruption.
     Awareness among people.
     Promotes integrity and a sense of community among people.
     Improves the standard of governance.
     Benefits disadvantaged people
     Develops human resource and social capital
     Promotes collective decision making and sharing responsibilities

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