ORDER

Pursuant to our order dated 17th April, 2015, the Secretary in the Ministry of Women and Child Development is present in Court today.

2. The Ministry of Women and Child Development has filed an affidavit of Mr. Naveen Yadav, Under Secretary in the Ministry on 28th July, 2015. We have perused the affidavit and gone through its contents with the assistance of learned amicus curiae as well as the learned Additional Solicitor General.

3. A Committee has been set up for laying down the policy for conducting social audits. We have gone through the composition of the Committee and find that members of the civil society, academia, experts in various other disciplines which can work to the advantage of children have not been included in this Committee. Accordingly, we require the Secretary in the Ministry of Women and Child Development to broad-base the composition of the Committee so that at least 20 or 25 people from civil society, experts, academia, institutions such as Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Public Administration, Indian Institute of Management, etc. are included so that a multi-disciplinary and meaningful discussion takes place on the methodology of c