This is what we have read, not what the state pays. Nobody has yet confirmed a Punjab figure against the national norms, and this page does not give you one. It tells you what Punjab 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.
Punjab is a short entry, and the honest version of it is shorter than a padded one would be.
What is there
The Department of Horticulture's site answers and carries a news ticker. Beyond that a fetch sees four links and no documents at all — no schemes page, no guidelines, no orders, nothing to download. Whatever Punjab publishes about the Mission is not on the page a fetch receives, so nothing is registered here.
What a ticker is and is not
A news ticker is a good sign in one narrow respect: somebody maintains the site, and there is current activity to announce. It is not a substitute for a document, and it is worth being clear why.
A ticker item is ephemeral — it scrolls past, it is replaced, and there is usually no archive of what it said last month. It is unattributable — it carries no order number, no date of issue and no signature, so you cannot cite it or hold anyone to it. And it is incomplete by design — it announces that something has happened, not what the terms are.
If you see a horticulture announcement in a ticker, the useful move is to note the wording and ask the department for the order behind it. The ticker is a pointer; the order is the thing.
What governs meanwhile
NHM is a national scheme, and the 64 statements we have taken from the MIDH operational guidelines of April 2025 hold in every state — the components the Mission supports, the national cost norms and the general rates of assistance. Those are the guides listed below, and every figure in them names the page it came from.
In the absence of a Punjab document saying otherwise, those national terms are what apply, and they are enough to cost a project with.
What to do
Go to the district horticulture office, which receives applications and generally holds the current circulars whether or not they are online. Ask for the order governing the component you want, by name, and for the window. Use the guides below for the figures.
And if you know where Punjab publishes its horticulture scheme guidelines, tell us. This is a state where one address would replace this whole page with something more useful.
