Wokha conducts public hearing on MGNREGA

Dimapur, April 11 (EMN): A social audit public hearing for eight villages was conducted on April 10 at the Village Development Board's multipurpose hall in Wokha. According to the press release from DIPR on Wednesday, the state resource person of Social Audit Union (SAU) Imlirenla Sanglir gave an introduction about the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. spoke on the activities of SAU that were being carried out during the financial year 2017-18. She stated that, they had audited 129 villages in Nagaland. on the future activities of SAU, she said that, the unit will be targeting at least 70 villages per district.  In an overall total of 770 villages in the state, it will be audited according to the current annual action plan (financial year 2018-2019). achieve the target, capacity building measures and awareness generation will be carried out extensively for the implementing agencies as well as primary stakeholders,’ she said.  Sanglir also iterated on the importance of proper book-keeping and following the guidelines for effective implementation of the programme. resource persons from the unit presented the public with social audit findings. Issues related to job cards, muster rolls, maintenance of detailed transparency board, worksite facilities, mismatched sanctioned amounts were discussed. were also made by the concerned Rural Development block officers. It resolved to take corrective measures for transparency and effective implementation of the programme.