Working Papers

Transparency and Accountability in NREGA

Yamini Aiyar
Salimah Samji

Centre for Policy Research

November 29, 2009

This paper documents the Andhra Pradesh experience of institutionalising social audits into the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), and uses it to analyse the social audit process. It draws on empirical work aimed at measuring the effectiveness of social audits conducted in Andhra Pradesh between March and December 2007.

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