The Union Ministry of Rural Development is likely to introduce a Mobile Monitoring System for effective implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).
The monitoring system will be introduced on a pilot basis to allow real time monitoring of all works, workers attendance and work site measurement. The move is expected to plug leakages in the rural job scheme.
Moreover, the Centre has recently sanctioned Rs.147 crore to the States to strengthen the social audit structures. Social audit ensures comprehensive public scrutiny of records and accounts with a view to enhance transparency and accountability. The additional grant was sanctioned as States were finding it difficult to put the necessary institutional structures for social audit within the overall 6 per cent administrative cost.
