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Citizens look to take up social audit to monitor money spent by authorities

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Around 25 citizens in a group listen patiently to what is being said at St Joseph's High School, Wadala. Chandrika Vora, a resident of Nappu Gardens, Wadala is one of them. She had come to attend the meeting to know how exactly can citizens like her empower themselves to receive the information they need, and get things going in their area.

Vora rued: "Our corporator just goes on putting name plates everywhere and does not tell us anything. The ward officer does not take meetings and he wants things to improve. These are the reasons we attended the meeting."

Like Vora, many others gathered to be part of the social audit local teams (SALT) that are being formed to help citizens take stock of the work happening in the area. The initiative is the work of Mahiti Adhikar Manch, an NGO that looks to use the RTI Act for auditing public work by the authorities.

It encourages citizens to form small teams in different municipal administrative wards to audit the money spent by authorities. "The RTI Act has many sections that people are not aware of. One of them is inspection of work done," said Bhaskar Prabhu, convenor of the NGO.

At the meet, citizens were explained the strategic ways in which teams can work and the steps and reasons for conducting social audit. "At the end, there are many problems but even we are many. We can look at them this way," said Prabhu.

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