Introduction- India is a country of villages and about 50% of villages have severely poor economic condition. Keeping in view to these large rural inhabitants, the “Father of Nation”,Mahatma Gandhi had given much emphasis to the concept of “Gram Swaraj”, which deals with economic, political and cultural freedom of the villages for all round development of rural India. His concept of swaraj is associated with more political freedom for socio –economic development of the village through Panchayati Raj, and it is through Panchayats, he dreamt to make India a strong country in the world..In India ,Panchayati Raj was formally introduced in 1959.All the employment generation schemes were implemented through Panchayati raj institution. The MGNREGS was one of the major flagship programmes of U.P.A government passed in parliament in 2005