Saturday, 14 November 2026

Self-help groups and schemes in villages of Ayodhya district

In 2023-24, 822 of the 1,301 villages of Ayodhya district reported 4,527 self-help groups with 48,163 members to DAY-NRLM, the Ministry of Rural Development's livelihoods mission.

1,056 of the 1,301 villages have these figures.

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Self-help groups by year

4,527Groups2023-24
48,163Members2023-24
822Villages reporting2023-24

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
2025-261372172,800909111
2024-253417809,3143,215153
2023-248224,52748,16318,120515
2022-237342,61624,5298,62725
2021-227002,68326,0678,71124
2020-215231,30511,8294,48725
2019-20871119534240
2018-191352451,9946271
2017-181353492,4198241

Self-help groups by tehsil

Villages with groups in any year, and the groups and members they reported in 2023-24.

TehsilVillages with groupsGroupsMembers
Bikapur27797510,133
Faizabad1837498,403
Milkipur2621,15711,787
Rudauli1969579,014
Sohawal1386898,826

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
Mukimpur Urf PaharpurBikapur2023-2437351
JakhauliRudauli2023-2434335
Jarayal KhurdRudauli2023-2427252
Narinda BhadaMilkipur2023-2420192
BirauliFaizabad2023-2419191
SarraiyaFaizabad2023-2419191
Firozpur MakhdoomiRudauli2023-2419174
GauhannaRudauli2023-2419167
ParsauRudauli2023-2419146
SewaraMilkipur2023-2418191
BaburichakRudauli2023-2418178
Haripur JalalabadSohawal2023-2417171
SeewanRudauli2023-2417156
Bhikhan PurSohawal2021-2217134
SamdaFaizabad2023-2416152
RewnaMilkipur2023-2416141
KhedipurRudauli2023-2416130
Inayat NagarMilkipur2023-2415146
AhmadabadRudauli2023-2415126
BiharaRudauli2021-2214142
SunwaRudauli2022-2313143
Kazipur Biswa ManjhaFaizabad2023-2413133
IchauliaRudauli2023-2413126
GhurehataMilkipur2025-2613124
JohanBikapur2023-2413121

Showing 25 of 1,056 villages.

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District scheme figures for Ayodhya

Post-2011 updates

Scheme progress — Ayodhya 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 — Ayodhya 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
72,576
Person-days of work
31.3 lakh
Average days of work per household
43
Households that completed 100 days
1,775
Average wage per person-day
₹255
Share of person-days worked by women
49.1%
Share of person-days, Scheduled Castes
39.4%
Share of person-days, Scheduled Tribes
0.2%
Active job cards
1,32,477
Job cards issued (all time)
2,42,399
Active workers
1,87,029
Works completed in the year
10,144
Works ongoing
17,108
Spending on natural resource works
75.5%

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 Ayodhya district

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

    In 2023-24, 822 of the 1,301 villages of Ayodhya district reported 4,527 self-help groups with 48,163 members to DAY-NRLM, the Ministry of Rural Development's livelihoods mission.

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

    Mukimpur Urf Paharpur: 37 groups with 351 members in 2023-24, 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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