Who should be the head of Social Audit team of the Panchayat under MNREGA?

Who should be the head of Social Audit team of the Panchayat under MNREGA? Correct Answer A person from outside the ward where work is conducted

 The correct answer is a person from outside the ward where work is conducted.​Key Points

  • According to the MNREGA, every state needs to set up a Social Audit Unit( SAU) which will be independent of the agency that is implementing MNREGA in the State.
  • The SAU can be registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.
  • The SAU must be headed by a full-time director who should have worked in the social sector for the rights of the people for at least 15 years.

Additional Information

  • Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (2005)
    • This is labor law and social security measure that aims to guarantee the 'Right to Work'.
    • It was officially launched on 2 February 2006 under The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was passed on 23 August 2005.
    • The act was first proposed in 1991 by P.V. Narasimha Rao.
    • MNREGS is a scheme that is based on the MNREGA act.
    • MNREGA is to be implemented mainly by Gram Panchayat.
    • The nodal ministry for MNREGA is the Ministry of Rural Development.
    • The mandate of the MNREGA is to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

Related Questions

In the question below, are given a statement followed by three courses of actions numbered I, II and III. On the basis of the information given, you have to assume everything in the statement to be true, and then decide which of the following suggested courses of actions logically follow(s) for pursuing. Statement: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is set to conduct ‘special audits’ of mobile phone operators from fiscal 2011-12 onwards to check for under-reporting of revenue that might account for a sharp downturn in license fees and spectrum usage charges (SUC). Annual license fees and SUC paid to the government are calculated based on a telco’s revenue. The audit, to be resumed after a gap of three years, comes when license fee and SUC due to the government fell in 2017 by more than 23% on the year and is expected to fall this year too. This is due to the brutal price war, which expedited a bloody consolidation that saw a spate of exits and mergers & acquisitions that dented telecom revenues.  Courses of action: I. All telecom companies will be audited soon and DoT is preparing for this. This will be the third audit and notices will go out soon. II. DoT proposes to conduct audit/special audit of Aircel for the period of seven years for financial years 2011-2012 to 2017-2018. III. Operators fear the new round of audit could lead to a new dues being demanded from the already stressed sector, sparking more litigation and be a drag on time and resources. 
Who selects the social Audit Committee under MNREGA ?