Saturday, 14 November 2026

Self-help groups and schemes in villages of Saharsa district

In 2019-20, 364 of the 504 villages of Saharsa district reported 6,027 self-help groups with 71,593 members to DAY-NRLM, the Ministry of Rural Development's livelihoods mission.

407 of the 504 villages have these figures.

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Self-help groups by year

6,027Groups2019-20
71,593Members2019-20
364Villages 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
2025-263413,59130,47510,0601,450
2024-251831,51133,0249,9232,233
2023-241583875,7251,19863
2022-2318999511,6711,86368
2021-221052332,61255617
2020-212131,50817,1603,52278
2019-203646,02771,59320,410449
2018-192151,57719,0515,23376
2017-183077,86096,45627,356506

Self-help groups by block

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

BlockVillages with groupsGroupsMembers
Banma Itahri183414,095
Kahara384555,310
Mahishi688569,845
Nauhatta446057,024
Patarghat132362,869
Salkhua388109,695
Satar Kataiya358389,842
Saur Bazar495496,753
Simri Bakhtiarpur516207,554
Sonbarsa537178,606

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
GhordaurBanma Itahri2025-2655481
ChanaurSaur Bazar2025-2654467
KatholumarSimri Bakhtiarpur2025-2653532
ItahriBanma Itahri2025-2650375
SolindabadKahara2025-2647387
DhanupraSimri Bakhtiarpur2025-2642479
ParariKahara2025-2640287
NariarKahara2025-2637311
BarahiSonbarsa2025-2634247
NawadaMahishi2025-2634191
SardihaSimri Bakhtiarpur2025-2633306
MurajpurNauhatta2025-2633210
KharhatelwaNauhatta2025-2632217
BishunpurPatarghat2025-2631250
KabiraSalkhua2025-2630278
SaraunjaSimri Bakhtiarpur2025-2630267
Chainpur Uttar KhandKahara2025-2629254
MahkharSimri Bakhtiarpur2025-2629235
SattarSatar Kataiya2025-2628285
GamhariaSaur Bazar2025-2628248
KopariaSalkhua2025-2628223
SarbelaBanma Itahri2025-2628198
ManaurMahishi2025-2628169
TiriSaur Bazar2025-2627272
SalkhuaSalkhua2025-2627224

Showing 25 of 407 villages.

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District scheme figures for Saharsa

Post-2011 updates

Scheme progress — Saharsa 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 — Saharsa 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
2,23,253
Person-days of work
99.9 lakh
Average days of work per household
44
Households that completed 100 days
3,203
Average wage per person-day
₹248
Share of person-days worked by women
57.1%
Share of person-days, Scheduled Castes
12.8%
Share of person-days, Scheduled Tribes
0.2%
Active job cards
3,04,153
Job cards issued (all time)
5,24,934
Active workers
3,78,259
Works completed in the year
17,225
Works ongoing
15,755
Spending on natural resource works
87.4%

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 Saharsa district

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

    In 2019-20, 364 of the 504 villages of Saharsa district reported 6,027 self-help groups with 71,593 members to DAY-NRLM, the Ministry of Rural Development's livelihoods mission.

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

    Ghordaur: 55 groups with 481 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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