Title
The title Social Audits in India make clear the population of interest and
the major variables. The title also is a general statement which give a
basic idea about the research article. The title touches a population of a
country which is India and its interest which is social audit. The term social
audit itself is a major variables in which can break down to minor or
independent variables such as equity, transparency and so on. The term
social audit is general and does not sound vague, ambiguous and emotionladen.
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social
audits.
Indias
big
demographics
causes
the
Related Literature
The related literature to the article is relevant and sufficient. It gives an
idea about social audit and its concept. It also includes past history of
social audit which link to the present study.
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Hypotheses/Research Questions
Subjects
The population of interest is specifically
Pradesh. In general, the social audit is conducted in India which has big
Procedures
Instruments
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Results
Conclusions
The conclusion is well presented as it started with critique of unefficient
social audit. The suggestions to make the social audits more effective and
efficient are followed. The suggestions are based from the results of the
study taking into account the unefficient and problems arised of the social
audits in India. The author adds more cases in the conclusion that are not
stated in the study and outcomes, thus to support the current situation of
unefficient social audit in India.
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are normally
issues and activities and have their views on the actual performance of
local elected bodies
iv. The auditor must obtain information from reliable sources. After the
introduction of Right to Information Act in 2005, the task of obtaining
statistics and other information from the government departments had
become a lot easier than before
v. The performance indicators adopted by the society at large should be
taken as standards in order to judge the performance
vi. Regular meetings and follow ups must take place in order to ensure
the continuity and effectiveness of audits
vii. Proper mechanisms must be set up in order to recover the swindled
money from the corrupt officials
viii. Substantive procedures are required to be devised instead of
compliance procedures to gauge the performance. ix. Hierarchy needs to
be defined for conducting social audits. x. External Parties such as NGOs
should be involved in conducting audits.
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Summary