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Detailed explanation-1: -UPSC Mains Q. Which state government has launched India’s first social audit law? Notes: Meghalaya has become the India’s first state to operationalise a law that makes social audit of government programmes and schemes a part of government practice.

Detailed explanation-2: -History of Social Audit In India, Tata Iron and Steel Company Ltd (TISCO), Jamshedpur, was the 1st to take the initiative to perform social audits in 1979.

Detailed explanation-3: -Meghalaya is the first state to launch the social audit law.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first Social Audit was carried out in Sweden (1985–88) by John Fry and Ulla Ressner, worklife researchers at the Centre for Swedish Working Life (Arbetslivscentrum) and published in Sweden in 1988 by Allmäna Förlaget, Stockholm (332 pp) under the title “Social Revision av ett Ämbetsverk".