Proposal is there since 2014 [1]. As I've seen nothing controversial in the request (a valid language, a valid ISO 639-3 code, large population of native speakers [2]), I've marked the request as eligible.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Awadhi [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awadhi_language