Sowmya Kidambi is the Director and CEO of the Social Work and Research Centre (Barefoot College), Tilonia. She has over for 30 years’ experience in governance and social accountability, and played a pioneering role in establishing India’s first independent social audit society.

As I See It06 May 2026

• Inside The Radical Promise Of Social Audits Under MGNREGA

  The jan sunwai, an experiment in participatory democracy, was premised on the idea that ordinary citizens, especially the rural poor, can and must hold the state accountable

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