Thursday, 12 November 2026

Self-help groups and schemes in villages of Simdega district

In 2017-18, 343 of the 450 villages of Simdega district reported 2,581 self-help groups with 28,083 members to DAY-NRLM, the Ministry of Rural Development's livelihoods mission.

431 of the 450 villages have these figures.

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Self-help groups by year

2,581Groups2017-18
28,083Members2017-18
343Villages reporting2017-18

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
2025-26577891965623
2024-251142322,6442931,676
2023-241854506,6281,2534,152
2022-23971381,5302251,032
2021-22801772,0083331,379
2020-212891,29214,5041,6738,399
2019-201485366,2027594,213
2018-1972428088181
2017-183432,58128,0834,75518,478

Self-help groups by block

Villages with groups in any year, and the groups and members they reported in 2017-18.

BlockVillages with groupsGroupsMembers
Bano924174,478
Bansjor191962,351
Bolba26——
Jaldega542372,539
Kersai203353,546
Kolebira471031,030
Kurdeg253053,378
Pakar Tanr311822,124
Simdega586236,691
Thethaitangar591831,946

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
RobgaBansjor2017-1819229
RamjolBano2020-2119225
BujgaBano2017-1813127
Bera ErgeBano2020-2112149
BandarchuanKolebira2020-2112139
JokbaharSimdega2023-2412110
RaikeraBano2020-211286
RengarbaharBolba2019-2011143
ElaBano2017-1811122
DanrgurdaSimdega2017-1810113
KindardegaSimdega2017-1810109
GenmerBano2020-211098
KonaroaBano2020-219121
LamgarhBano2017-189105
SuadongerBolba2019-20999
JamtoliBano2017-18995
JarakelBano2020-21973
Jamur SoiyaBano2017-188100
KundurmundaBolba2023-24898
GondlipaniPakar Tanr2017-18897
DumarmundaJaldega2017-18892
JaplangaThethaitangar2020-21889
SoraBano2020-21877
AugaBolba2023-247108
KahupaniThethaitangar2020-21786

Showing 25 of 431 villages.

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District scheme figures for Simdega

Post-2011 updates

Scheme progress — Simdega 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 — Simdega 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
62,231
Person-days of work
34.5 lakh
Average days of work per household
55
Households that completed 100 days
6,363
Average wage per person-day
₹284
Share of person-days worked by women
47.3%
Share of person-days, Scheduled Castes
9.8%
Share of person-days, Scheduled Tribes
62.8%
Active job cards
99,034
Job cards issued (all time)
1,83,315
Active workers
1,57,385
Works completed in the year
12,824
Works ongoing
38,587
Spending on natural resource works
75.3%

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 Simdega district

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

    In 2017-18, 343 of the 450 villages of Simdega district reported 2,581 self-help groups with 28,083 members to DAY-NRLM, the Ministry of Rural Development's livelihoods mission.

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

    Robga: 19 groups with 229 members in 2017-18, 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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