Guwahati, June 14 -- By NE NOW NEWS

Guwahati: Nearly five years of inactive registration, a high vacancy rate, and weak monitoring mechanisms have emerged as major concerns in the functioning of Assam's Social Audit Unit (SAU), according to a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India report.

The findings were detailed in the CAG's report on Local Bodies for the period ending March 2024, which examined the performance of the agency responsible for conducting social audits of rural development programmes in the state.

One of the key issues flagged by the audit was the prolonged lapse of the unit's registration under the Societies Act.

The report noted that the registration ceased to remain valid in December 2019 and was not renewed...