Women self-help groups per lakh people, 2026
DAY-NRLM had set up 92.30 lakh women self-help groups by August 2026, 657 per lakh people. Andhra Pradesh (1,549), Meghalaya (1,414), Tripura (1,309), Odisha (1,182) and West Bengal (1,171) have the most per head, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (131), Punjab (185), Haryana (205) and Goa (218) the fewest. The southern states are not all high: Karnataka has 437 and Tamil Nadu 452.
Policy implication
This counts groups and not members, and it is cumulative, so it includes groups that have since stopped meeting. The denominator is the whole population while the Mission works in rural areas, which pulls down heavily urban states and territories. Delhi and Chandigarh are outside the Mission and are grey. Membership by state, which the older map showed, is not in this table.
This counts groups and not members, and it is cumulative, so it includes groups that have since stopped meeting. The denominator is the whole population while the Mission works in rural areas, which pulls down heavily urban states and territories. Delhi and Chandigarh are outside the Mission and are grey. Membership by state, which the older map showed, is not in this table.
Data vintage. The figures are for to Aug 2026 and have not been refreshed since this map was made.
Source: Ministry of Rural Development via Lok Sabha Q.3687 (11 Aug 2026) (to Aug 2026). See the methodology for notes and limitations.
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