Wednesday, 11 November 2026

Self-help groups and schemes in villages of Arwal district

In 2019-20, 256 of the 350 villages of Arwal district reported 2,468 self-help groups with 28,072 members to DAY-NRLM, the Ministry of Rural Development's livelihoods mission.

286 of the 350 villages have these figures.

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Self-help groups by year

2,468Groups2019-20
28,072Members2019-20
256Villages 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
2025-261654245,0331,793365
2024-2512639712,5633,6061,124
2023-24941772,24861733
2022-231123193,67663528
2021-2239788482116
2020-21912152,39248513
2019-202562,46828,0727,292100
2018-191213464,04270516
2017-182374,02346,95216,594140

Self-help groups by block

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

BlockVillages with groupsGroupsMembers
Arwal494514,884
Kaler605195,799
Karpi758599,958
Kurtha614054,709
Sonbhadra Banshi Suryapur412342,722

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
Purainia ShekhaKarpi2019-2016186
MaliSonbhadra Banshi Suryapur2025-2615222
MahmadpuraKarpi2019-2012146
Bhikhanpur DhawaiKaler2017-1811131
SalarpurKarpi2019-2011120
MoglapurSonbhadra Banshi Suryapur2017-1810119
Baid BighaKurtha2017-1810117
Rampur ChauramArwal2025-269102
SakriKaler2023-249102
SakriArwal2025-269102
ShahbazpurKurtha2017-189102
SarwarpurKaler2019-20999
Sarmastpur NewanaKarpi2024-258137
NighwanKurtha2025-268111
MarailaKaler2021-22893
PainathiKurtha2019-20893
GangeaKurtha2022-23787
BelkharakhasKarpi2025-26780
AkrangaSonbhadra Banshi Suryapur2025-26776
DhamaulKurtha2025-26776
KealKarpi2025-26773
ChauharKarpi2024-25768
KonikaArwal2025-26764
JagdispurKurtha2025-26763
AlawalpurKurtha2019-20676

Showing 25 of 286 villages.

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District scheme figures for Arwal

Post-2011 updates

Scheme progress — Arwal 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 — Arwal 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
52,832
Person-days of work
18.5 lakh
Average days of work per household
35
Households that completed 100 days
139
Average wage per person-day
₹253
Share of person-days worked by women
53.2%
Share of person-days, Scheduled Castes
11.6%
Share of person-days, Scheduled Tribes
0.4%
Active job cards
90,599
Job cards issued (all time)
1,89,538
Active workers
1,04,889
Works completed in the year
7,116
Works ongoing
7,219
Spending on natural resource works
55.4%

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 Arwal district

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

    In 2019-20, 256 of the 350 villages of Arwal district reported 2,468 self-help groups with 28,072 members to DAY-NRLM, the Ministry of Rural Development's livelihoods mission.

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

    Purainia Shekha: 16 groups with 186 members in 2019-20, 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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