Mahatma Gandhi frequently pointed out, “Gram Swaraj is the pathway to Purna Swaraj�. Also while addressing some young students who wanted to serve rural India, he made the following observations about eighty years ago: “The fact is the villagers have lost all hope. They suspect that every stranger’s hand is at their throats and that he goes to them only to exploit them. The divorce between intellect and labour has paralysed our agriculture. The worker should enter villages full of love and hope, feeling sure that where men and women labour unintelligently and remain unemployed half the year round, he working all the year round and combining labour with intelligence cannot fail to win the confidence of the villagers.� Gandhiji’s emphasis on marrying brain and brawn in order to achieve rural regeneration is a very important one. For example, we can restructure the Mahatma policiesGandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) on the following lines to get optimum benefit from this largest social support programme in the world.