The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has a mandate to guarantee 100 days of labour in a financial year to those registered under it, under various categories such as natural resource management, drought proofing, water harvesting and conservation, afforestation and tree planting, and horticulture activities. In reality however, what it has actually done is to convert farmers to road layers and construction labour owing to limited interpretation and short sighted applications of the Act. Manohar Dronagiri, a farmer in Doni village in Mundargi taluk of Gadag district says,