Public Distribution System in India: A Social Audit.

Abstract

With the rampant corruption in many policies and programs of Government and with a view to provide justice to the poor, Social Audit is definitely needed in one of the biggest policies of the government known as Public Distribution System. What kinds of problems do the poor faces in getting the rations which are considered as basic necessity to live on earth? How policies like Public Distribution System are corrupted and what happens in reality in the name of providing food to the needy ones, Social Audit is needed and it becomes very important for the people to not only wait for a program to take place but to audit and review that particular program, an audit which provides a way of measuring, understanding, reporting and ultimately improving an organization's social and ethical performance. An audit helps to narrow down the gaps between vision/goal and reality, between efficiency and effectiveness, which gives people a technique to understand, measure, verify' and to improve the social performance of the organization is known as Social Audi. In such endeavour, people work with the government to monitor and evaluate the planning and implementation of a scheme or programme, or a policy or law.