This is what we have read, not what the state pays. Nobody has yet confirmed a Chandigarh figure against the national norms, and this page does not give you one. It tells you what Chandigarh 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.
Chandigarh is a case where the tempting answer and the honest answer are different, and the difference is worth setting out.
What we could not read
The administration's agriculture page is linked beside this and it answers, but it will not show its contents without JavaScript: what a fetch receives is a notice asking for it to be enabled. Nothing could be read, and nothing is registered here.
The tempting answer
Chandigarh is a city union territory with very little agricultural land. The Mission is built around area expansion, orchards and protected cultivation at a scale the territory largely does not have. It is entirely possible that almost nothing under this scheme happens here.
That is a reasonable thing to think. It is also a guess, and this page will not present a guess as a finding.
Why the distinction is worth the paragraph
The whole value of this platform rests on a reader being able to tell the difference between something we read and something we inferred. If we write "the Mission does not operate in Chandigarh" because it sounds plausible, and a grower on the periphery of the territory acts on it, we have cost them a scheme they were entitled to apply for — and we would have no document to point at when asked why we said it.
Small territories are exactly where this goes wrong most easily, because the assumption is so easy to make and so rarely checked. Urban and peri-urban horticulture is a real thing, the national guidelines carry components that fit a small holding, and a territory with little farmland is not the same as a territory with none.
What we can say
The national terms apply. NHM is a national scheme, and the 64 statements taken from the MIDH operational guidelines of April 2025 hold in every state and union territory outside the North Eastern and Himalayan region — the components, the national cost norms and the general rates of assistance. Those are in the guides below, and every figure names the page it came from.
What to do
Ask the administration's agriculture department directly what it runs, rather than assuming from the size of the territory. Open its page in a browser, which will show you what a fetch could not. Use the guides below for the components and figures meanwhile.
If you find out what horticulture support Chandigarh actually offers, tell us. It would take one answer to turn this page from a careful non-statement into a real one.
