South Sikkim prepares for MGNREGA social audit

GANGTOK, 08 Nov [IPR]: A kick-off meeting on Social Audit of MGNREGA works of some Gram Panchayat Units under Gram Vikas Kendra-Namchi, Jorethang, Ravang & Yangang was held on 07 November at the Conference Hall of Zilla Panchayat Bhawan under the Chairmanship of ADC (Development) cum District Programme Coordinator, Benu Gurung. The program was attended by concerned Gram Panchayat members, Gram Vikas Adhikaris cum Program Officer, Assistant Engineers/ Junior Engineers, Assistant Program Officers, Line Department Officials, Gram Rojgar Sahayaks & mates.
Social Audit in the South District is being done by Pacific Club which is the District Resource Institution (DRI) appointed by Social Audit Unit, Sikkim. The DRI presented the Social Audit calendar for 20 GPUs of South District which will be carried out in two phases comprising of ten GPUs in each phase.
The ADC (Development) in her address stressed on the importance of Social Audit and urged all the officials to cooperate and extend all help required for the purpose. The field level functionaries were directed to maintain all the documents as per the check list provided for verification by the team on the given dates.
The date of Jan Sunwai has been fixed and all the concerned stakeholders are kindly requested to attend the Jan Sunwai on the given dates for making the programme successful.