Section 5 in The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Audit of Schemes Rules, 2011
5. Social audit pre-requisites.
(1)The Social Audit shall be a process independent of any process undertaken by the implementing agency of the scheme.(2)The implementing agency shall at no time interfere with the conduct of social audit.(3)Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule (2), the implementing agency of the Scheme shall provide requisite information to the Programme Officer for making it available to Social Audit Unit at least fifteen days prior to the date of commencement of the social audit.(4)The resource persons deployed for facilitating social audit in a Panchayat shall not be residents of the same Panchayat.
