{"id":29233,"date":"2018-10-24T17:40:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T12:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29233"},"modified":"2018-10-24T17:40:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T12:10:49","slug":"the-meghalaya-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-meghalaya-example\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meghalaya example"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Meghalaya example<\/a><\/p>\n

Social audit<\/p>\n

Article:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. The authors, Sampath Kumar, Commissioner and Secretary, Government of Meghalaya and RakshitaSwamy describes about the importance of social audits, which acts as a strong tool for community participation and grievance redress.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Analysis:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Background:<\/li>\n
    2. In April, 2017, Meghalaya became the first State India\u00a0to pass social audit legislation.<\/li>\n
    3. The legislation is known as the Meghalaya Community Participation and Public Services Social Audit Act.<\/strong><\/li>\n
    4. Later, the Meghalaya government decided to pilot social audits in a campaign mode. <\/strong><\/li>\n
    5. Eighteeen villages representing Garo, Khasi and Jaintia Hills were selected for the pilot.<\/li>\n
    6. The purpose of social audits are:<\/li>\n
    7. Citizen participation in the planning, implementation and monitoring of programmes;<\/li>\n
    8. Detecting beneficiaries who were eligible, but had been left out;<\/li>\n
    9. Sharing information about schemes, and enhancing awareness amongst people about their entitlements;<\/li>\n
    10. Recording people\u2019s testimonies;<\/li>\n
    11. Identifying priorities for inputs for planning;<\/li>\n
    12. registering of grievances;<\/li>\n
    13. Identifying systemic shortcomings; and<\/li>\n
    14. Recording financial and procedural irregularities and deviations between fact and record.<\/li>\n
    15. Audits helped identify and bring about evidence-based policy changes.<\/li>\n
    16. In India, there is a growing acknowledgement of social audits as a credible means of institutionalising citizen oversight. There is an urgent need to come up with a working protocol for facilitating social audits across a range of interventions.<\/li>\n
    17. The Meghalaya pilots would have help to formulate a practical framework through which that can be done.<\/li>\n
    18. Civil society needs to shape the social audit campaign, be a watchdog, and staunchly protect the independence of the process. Social audits must become part of the demand for effective legislation for the whole country.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The Meghalaya example Social audit Article: The authors, Sampath Kumar, Commissioner and Secretary, Government of Meghalaya and RakshitaSwamy describes about the importance of social audits, which acts as a strong tool for community participation and grievance redress. Analysis: Background: In April, 2017, Meghalaya became the first State India\u00a0to pass social audit legislation. The legislation is… Continue reading The Meghalaya example<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}