This is what we have read, not what the state pays. Nobody has yet confirmed an Assam figure against the national norms, and this page does not give you one. It tells you what Assam publishes, what is in it, and what to do with that. The national cost norms that apply meanwhile are in the guides linked at the foot of this page.
The Directorate of Horticulture and Food Processing is unusually well organised about where it puts things, which makes what is missing easier to state.
Six indexes, correctly named
Assam publishes separate indexes for guidelines, circulars, government sanction orders, acts and policies, budget and ceilings, and memoranda of understanding. It also lists its schemes individually: beekeeping, coconut development, an agro-textile scheme, and a state plan scheme.
That is a better-structured document estate than most states have, and one of those six deserves attention on its own. "Budget and ceilings" is precisely where a state ceiling would be filed — the number that says how much of a component this state will actually fund, which is among the most valuable things a state can publish and which almost none of them do. If Assam has one, that is where it is.
The sanction orders index is the second most useful. A sanction order is the document that releases money for a specific purpose in a specific year; a run of them tells you what the state is actually funding as opposed to what it lists.
Why we could not read them
Each index renders its page furniture to a fetch and assembles the list of documents afterwards, so the titles and the files behind them are not in what we receive. There is nothing yet to register.
This is a case where a person with a browser will get further in five minutes than any amount of fetching. The material is there and the shelves are labelled; only the reading is missing.
The regional rule
Assam is in the North Eastern region, so the Mission reaches a grower here as HMNEH rather than as NHM. That matters for the money in a way worth stating: under the national guidelines the Government of India contributes 90% of the outlay in North Eastern and Himalayan states against 60% elsewhere. That is the split between governments, not a rate of assistance to a beneficiary, but it is the reason a hill or North Eastern state's scheme documents can differ from a plains state's.
What to do
Open the budget and ceilings index first, then guidelines, then sanction orders — in that order, because that is the order of how much each will tell you about what you can actually claim. Use the national guides below meanwhile for the components and figures, each naming the page it came from.
If you open those indexes and find a ceiling or a guideline, send it to us. Assam is one of the states closest to being properly documented on this site, and it is a browser visit away.
