Sunday, 15 November 2026

Self-help groups and schemes in villages of Ganjam district

In 2024-25, 1,480 of the 3,258 villages of Ganjam district reported 8,270 self-help groups with 1,16,065 members to DAY-NRLM, the Ministry of Rural Development's livelihoods mission.

2,074 of the 3,258 villages have these figures.

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Self-help groups by year

8,270Groups2024-25
1,16,065Members2024-25
1,480Villages reporting2024-25

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
2025-262556077,3961,098659
2024-251,4808,2701,16,06521,6696,319
2023-244102,04825,1565,1011,047
2022-237243,44529,2374,605451
2021-229958,64679,67413,2031,808
2020-213451,45013,1022,081469
2019-204011,56614,1262,748541
2018-194921,83016,6362,752666
2017-184932,29322,2184,1731,416

Self-help groups by tehsil

Villages with groups in any year, and the groups and members they reported in 2024-25.

TehsilVillages with groupsGroupsMembers
Asika8777510,438
Bellaguntha802894,414
Berhampur0——
Buguda806108,094
Chhatrapur652725,291
Chikiti1001762,414
Dharakote1191742,544
Digapahandi1198359,565
Ganjam711292,254
Ghumusar984685,534
Hinjili493986,233
Jagannath Prasad10975710,378
Kabisuryanagar671792,985
Kanisi783385,955
Khallikote1222233,556
Kodala1014316,861
Kukudakhandi701802,088
Patrapur1543024,120
Polasara833255,203
Purushottampur824726,264
Sanakhemundi1015195,126
Sheragada831732,867
Surada1562453,881

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.

VillageTehsilLatest yearGroupsMembers
NalabantaAsika2024-2542489
KalasandhapurAsika2024-2534421
ArakhapurPurushottampur2024-2534398
ChudangapurSanakhemundi2024-2534302
DihapadhalGhumusar2024-2531319
JharipadarDigapahandi2024-2531315
GoliaBuguda2024-2530389
AdipurBuguda2024-2529406
GahanguAsika2024-2529327
JhadabhumiJagannath Prasad2024-2528280
ManikyapurDharakote2021-2228270
BhatakumaradaPurushottampur2024-2527337
KumbhariAsika2024-2527297
Lalsingi (CT)Ghumusar2024-2527293
SoradaBuguda2024-2526274
KhukundiaAsika2024-2526269
PattadharaJagannath Prasad2024-2525277
BiranchipurBuguda2024-2525270
GunthapadaAsika2024-2525269
ManitaraBuguda2024-2524391
SikharapurHinjili2024-2524264
SingipurHinjili2025-2624230
KansamariSanakhemundi2025-2624229
BankataraJagannath Prasad2024-2523289
KalambaBuguda2024-2523258

Showing 25 of 2,074 villages.

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District scheme figures for Ganjam

Post-2011 updates

Scheme progress — Ganjam 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 — Ganjam 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
1,96,857
Person-days of work
1.0 crore
Average days of work per household
52
Households that completed 100 days
11,115
Average wage per person-day
₹232
Share of person-days worked by women
60.3%
Share of person-days, Scheduled Castes
14.3%
Share of person-days, Scheduled Tribes
4.8%
Active job cards
3,93,534
Job cards issued (all time)
4,63,629
Active workers
5,65,958
Works completed in the year
18,943
Works ongoing
33,411
Spending on natural resource works
51.9%

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 Ganjam district

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

    In 2024-25, 1,480 of the 3,258 villages of Ganjam district reported 8,270 self-help groups with 1,16,065 members to DAY-NRLM, the Ministry of Rural Development's livelihoods mission.

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

    Nalabanta: 42 groups with 489 members in 2024-25, 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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