Social Audit in MGNREGP : A Tool for Controlling Corruption in Arunachal Pradesh

The social audit in any organisation is to ensure public accountability in the implementation of programmes, laws and policies. The social audit is a continuous process of public vigilance. It is considered as a means of promoting certain basic norms like transparency, participation of people, consultation and consent of groups or individuals, accountability of government functionaries and redressal in the public matters.The Government of India as well as the Government of Arunachal Pradesh emphasize on the use of social audit to control the corrupt practices and ensuring accountability of the functionaries of welfare and development programmes, including MGNREGP. The social audit in the MGNREGP is expected to identify the malpractices in the delivery of the programme and pave the way for mid course corrections