Wednesday, 11 November 2026

Self-help groups and schemes in villages of Araria district

In 2019-20, 542 of the 780 villages of Araria district reported 10,014 self-help groups with 1,16,821 members to DAY-NRLM, the Ministry of Rural Development's livelihoods mission.

655 of the 780 villages have these figures.

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Self-help groups by year

10,014Groups2019-20
1,16,821Members2019-20
542Villages reporting2019-20

Sums of the village figures DAY-NRLM publishes for each financial year; a village counts in a year when it reports at least one group.

YearVillages reportingGroupsMembersSC membersST members
2025-263232,43920,5546,2421,885
2024-253512,36638,8739,5312,850
2023-243882,25825,0763,941695
2022-233782,40126,5013,945810
2021-222201,14912,8101,675385
2020-213302,58029,2085,289542
2019-2054210,0141,16,82123,5351,431
2018-1919091410,8443,016183
2017-183986,98382,55717,6821,624

Self-help groups by block

Villages with groups in any year, and the groups and members they reported in 2019-20.

BlockVillages with groupsGroupsMembers
Araria7696110,926
Bhargama5191710,701
Forbesganj941,17713,967
Jokihat831,27314,854
Kursakatta657588,494
Narpatganj561,14113,211
Palasi981,21113,882
Raniganj751,79021,777
Sikti577869,009

Villages with the most self-help groups

Each village's latest year with groups, most groups first; the link opens the village's schemes page.

VillageBlockLatest yearGroupsMembers
Rampur MohanpurAraria2025-2656407
TaranJokihat2024-2550330
GaigariAraria2025-2641371
BaturbariAraria2025-2641279
PothiaForbesganj2025-2640391
KirkichiaForbesganj2025-2633237
MirzapurForbesganj2025-2632286
ArariaAraria2025-2632209
Sirsia KalanBhargama2025-2631172
ManullahpattiBhargama2025-2630152
DumariaJokihat2024-2528325
TamganjNarpatganj2025-2628304
Rahikpur Thila MohanForbesganj2025-2628251
ChahatpurPalasi2025-2627262
BhagkohiliaForbesganj2025-2626236
ChanderdaiAraria2025-2626183
BelaiForbesganj2025-2625243
Rampur KudarkattiAraria2025-2625242
khairaNarpatganj2025-2625211
SatgharaJokihat2020-2124279
ArrahaForbesganj2025-2623221
BochiAraria2025-2623178
Paik TolaAraria2025-2623172
AmharaForbesganj2025-2622191
BasantpurAraria2025-2622129

Showing 25 of 655 villages.

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District scheme figures for Araria

Post-2011 updates

Scheme progress — Araria district

Central-government dashboards · sourced from data.gov.in · refreshed when the ministry publishes

PMAY-G (rural houses) is not shown: the ministry publishes no district-wise bulk dataset.

MGNREGA · Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee

Rural jobs scheme — Araria district, 2025–26

The district's figures for the whole financial year (April to March) as the Ministry of Rural Development reports them.

Households that got work
1,54,654
Person-days of work
74.2 lakh
Average days of work per household
47
Households that completed 100 days
1,327
Average wage per person-day
₹253
Share of person-days worked by women
63.3%
Share of person-days, Scheduled Castes
6.6%
Share of person-days, Scheduled Tribes
0.7%
Active job cards
2,95,411
Job cards issued (all time)
7,79,912
Active workers
4,01,844
Works completed in the year
58,079
Works ongoing
25,233
Spending on natural resource works
26.4%

Figures are the year's last (March) report as published. Spending in rupees is not shown because the dataset does not state its unit.

Source: District-wise MGNREGA Data at a Glance, Ministry of Rural Development, on data.gov.in · dataset updated 29 Oct 2026 · retrieved 29 Oct 2026

Questions about Araria district

  1. How many self-help groups are there in the villages of Araria district?

    In 2019-20, 542 of the 780 villages of Araria district reported 10,014 self-help groups with 1,16,821 members to DAY-NRLM, the Ministry of Rural Development's livelihoods mission.

  2. Which village of Araria district has the most self-help groups?

    Rampur Mohanpur: 56 groups with 407 members in 2025-26, according to DAY-NRLM.

Sources
  • DAY-NRLM, Ministry of Rural Development: village-wise self-help group and member counts (retrieved 30 Oct 2026). · www.data.gov.in

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