At the very beginning entire team of contributors is to be complimented for their effort to highlight various aspects of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme MGNREGA—both positive and negative, which will help in making corrections and modifications in the programme. Also the book is extremely timely as the Ministry of Rural Development is in the process of bringing about certain changes for better implementation, and therefore the insights presented in this book will be useful to the policy-makers.