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In the quality of life of rural people is the important agenda of rural development programme. In India so many people living in rural areas, rural development programme is necessary aspect. Rural development implies both the economic betterment of people as well as greater social transformation. The basic objective of all rural development endeavours / programmes has been the welfare of the millions. In order to achieve this, planned attempts have been made to eliminate poverty, ignorance and inequality of opportunities. Rural development is a dynamic process, which is mainly concerned with the rural areas. These include agricultural growth, putting up of economic and social infrastructure, fair wages as also housing and house sites for the landless, village planning, public health, education and functional literacy, communication etc. The Community Development programme was launched during the first five-year plan period to reach as much as rural poor as possible through developmental activities. Drought Prone Areas in India have continued to suffer from chronic instability of weather, crop production and consequential economic burden, necessitating for an immediate need to evolve a strategy of development to mitigate these conditions. The food for works programme was started in the year 1977-78, as a non-plan scheme to augment the funds of the state Government for the maintenance of public work. The concept of the Minimum Needs programme (MNP) emerged and crystallized out of the experience of the previous plans that neither growth nor social consumption could be sustained much less accelerated without being mutually supportive. After independence, recognizing the importance of irrigation to boost up crop production, quite a good number of Major and Medium Irrigation Projects were taken up in the country. Many more were taken up in subsequent stages. The NREP programme was launched in October 1980 and became a regular plan programme right from April, 1981. MGNREGA is one of the largest work guarantee programmes in the world. The primary objective of the scheme is to guarantee 100 days of employment in every financial year to adult members of any rural household willing to do public work-related unskilled manual work.