The NREGA provided that, 100 days of guaranteed wage employment should be provided to every rural household seeking unskilled manual work. Quite succinctly, the Act led to a paradigm shift in the way earlier government employment generation programmes were conceptualized and implemented. It made employment a basic right of individual, which a government could not deny, or in such case will have to pay compensation. The Act also made it compulsory to put in place several transparency and accountability mechanisms like social audit, which handed the baton of democracy right into hand of individuals and communities. It also, in certain ways transformed the information management system drastically with field level offices required to provide regular updates on progress of the scheme, which is available throughout the country and is a remarkable example of e-governance.