The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was not merely a welfare programme. It was one of India’s most pioneering democratic interventions.
Anchored in the Gandhian vision of Swaraj, decentralisation, and the dignity of labour, the Act institutionalised a bottom-up, demand-driven approach to rural development. It empowered citizens to demand work as a legal right, strengthened Panchayati Raj institutions, and ensured that economic decision-making flowed from villages upwards rather than from distant bureaucratic centres.
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