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5. Social Audit

 

5.1. What is Social Audit?Social audit is a process in which details of resources used by public agency for development initiatives are shared with people often through public platforms, which allows end users to scrutinize the impact of developmental programs.Difference with other audits5.2. Need of Social Audit5.3. Principles of Social Audit5.4. Significance of Social AuditThe significance of social audit for social sector programmes can be understood from the following points:5.5. Limitations of Social Audit♤ The scope of social audits is highly localised and covers only certain selected aspects.♤ Promoting proactive disclosure of information to facilitate social audits.6.3. Models of e-governanceE-Governance services can be shared between citizens, businessman, government and employees. These four models of e-governance are:- Government to citizen (G2C), Government to government (G2G), Government to businessmen (G2B) and Government to employees (G2E).6.3.3. Government to Businessmen (G2B)6.3.4. Government to Employees (G2E)6.4. E-Governance Initiatives in India6.4.1. Government to Citizen (G2C) Initiatives:6.4.2. Government to Business (G2B) Initiatives6.4.3. Government to Government (G2G) Initiatives6.5. Challenges6.5.1. Environmental and Social Challenges6.5.2. Economic Challenges6.5.3. Technical challenges6.6. Recommendations of 2nd ARC on e-governance6.7. Ease of Governance