Transparency And Accountability In Nregs

Transp arency and accountability in employment programmes: the case of NREGA in Andhra Pradesh[1]

Neera Burra

neeraburra@gmail.com

This paper is based upon several field visits to the state of Andhra Pradesh to detect and analyse the social audit assist initiated by the governing of Andhra Pradesh (GoAP) under the National Rural Employment Guarantee run (NREGA). This researcher visited Ananthapur, Karimnagar,Medak, Nalgonda, Rangareddy and Warangal regularises during the period August 2006 May 2007. Field visits consisted of consequent social audit teams on their house-to-house verification visits, attention public hearings and discussing issues that had emerged with villagers after the social audit process was over. These were supplemented by extensive discussions and conversations with villagers, NGO representatives and government officials both at the mandal and district levels as also at Hyderabad, the state capital.

The most evoke finding of this research is the possibility of a new persona for the relationship surrounded by state agencies and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). At one end of the spectrum is a model of contrast between CSOs and the state and, at the other end, is a model of cooperation where CSOs coif closely in concert with agencies of the state.



Of course, these models are idealized and galore(postnominal) CSOs will not fit neatly into either of these conceptual categories. What is fascinating about the Andhra Pradesh example is that the state itself has commissioned CSOs to go through transparency and accountability in the working of NREGA through the process of social audits. On the one hand, this relationship could be depict as one of partnership between the state and CSOs. However, the marge partnership does not perhaps capture the nuances of the relationship because CSOs are encouraged to bring out into the open instances of corruption and maladministration in the state machinery itself. In a sense, this model involves both conflict and...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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