The National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) launched in 2005 is the largest rural employment programme ever undertaken in India with an investment of Rs 30,000 crore every year, unleashing wage employment and livelihood opportunities for millions of rural poor in the country. When the news that hundreds of panchayat members gathered in New Delhi (on October 14-15) on the problems faced by them in managing NREGP, one got the feeling that this flagship programme has faced enormous leadership and management problems right across the country.