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● projectActive · subnational · 1990

MKSS jan sunwais and social audits (Rajasthan)

The Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan organizes jan sunwais (public hearings) in which official records of public works and welfare programs, obtained through the right to information, are read aloud and checked against the reality of the villages to expose corruption and wage theft.

Row of empty chairs lined up in an institutional room

illustrative atlas image · Cierra Norman / Unsplash

MKMazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS)grassroots ARAruna Roy NDNikhil Dey SSShankar Singh

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01 The context

Started in Rajsamand in the early 1990s, it is the direct origin of the RTI movement and of the social audit now mandatory in MGNREGA.

02 How it works

method · Jan sunwai (public hearing) and social audit of public recordstool · Payroll records / muster rolls and RTI requests

03 What it stands on

Evidence level

Own experience

Grounded in published theory

Documented evidence elsewhere

Independently evaluated here

2 published documents support this project. No independent evaluation is in the atlas yet. Know of any? Contribute it.

The evidence 2 ›

EvidenceThe Movement for Right to Information in India: People's Power for the Control of CorruptionCommonwealth Human Rights Initiative · 2005

ContextMajor Achievements of MKSS: Transforming GovernancePubAdmin.Institute · 2024

04 Go to the source

Visit the official site ↗mkssindia.org