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MGNREGS is the first programme in India where the government has officially made social audits mandatory (Acharya, 2010). Section 17 of the MGNREGS Act states that the Gram Sabha shall perform social audits of all works sanctioned under the MGNREGS at least once every six months (Schjodt, 2018; Aiyar et al., 2023) to ensure transparency and accountability of the programme (Dhaktode & Kumar, 2020). The results of the study indicate that most of the respondents are well-awared about the MGNREGS. Further inferential statistics drawn the inference that there exists a significant association among gender, academic qualification, and income with regards to social audit increases transparency in the MGNREGS, and at the same time, age-wise analysis reveals an insignificant association. Likewise, the study ascertains the significant association between age and educational qualification with regards to social audit determines the accountability of the Social Audit Unit in the MGNREGS, whereas demographic variables of gender and income-wise analysis indicate an insignificant association.