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We have not yet verified Bihar's own NHM documents. The national framework still applies here, and it is below — with the state's own door, and a way to ask us to read the rest.
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Research on Bihar has started, and it found the most useful thing any state has published so far after Karnataka: the state's own guideline and checklist for each project-based component.
The Directorate of Horticulture under the Department of Agriculture runs the Mission here. Its site carries a page headed "Guidelines & Checklist for Project Based Components", now registered as a source, which lists component by component — rural markets and Apni Mandi, air-conditioned retail outlets, cold storage of Type-I and Type-II, collection, sorting, grading and packaging units, distillation units and more — and gives each one four documents: a guideline, a checklist, a model project, and a reference data sheet. Fifty-one files hang off that one page.
That combination is unusual and worth naming. A guideline says what the state will support. A checklist says what an application must contain, which is the thing most likely to sink a claim and the thing least often published. A model project shows the shape of a proposal the department expects. None of it has been read yet, so nothing here describes how Bihar's terms differ from the national ones, but the material to answer that question exists and is fetchable, which is more than most states can say.
Bihar also runs its own application system and publishes guidance on applying through the Bihar Krishi mobile app.
What does apply here 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.
What is still missing: the component guidelines read against the national norms, starting with cold storage where Bihar publishes two types; any order that opens or closes a window; and the district offices that receive applications.
Written from the state's own pages and documents. Not yet reviewed, and not a statement of what the state pays.
Bihar publishes a guideline, a checklist, a model project and a reference data sheet for every project-based component — fifty-one files in all. The checklists are the rare part: what an app...
NHM. The MIDH operational guidelines of April 2025 say the National Horticulture Mission covers all States and Union Territories except those in the North Eastern and Himalayan region, and all districts in the States it applies to. Bihar is outside that region, so NHM is the sub-scheme an application here sits under, and the national cost norms in the guides below are the ones to work from.
On the NHB side, the Board's circular of 21 August 2026 sets its rate of assistance at 35% in general areas and 45% in the North Eastern and Himalayan States, Scheduled Areas and four named Union Territories. Bihar is a general area, so 35% is the rate to plan against — though a Scheduled Area within the state may not be.
The rules quoted here are the national ones. Which states sit inside the North Eastern and Himalayan region is our reading of them rather than a list either document prints, so treat it as our wording and confirm anything you are about to spend money on.
NHM is a national scheme run by the state. These guides explain the national rules; they do not confirm Bihar's windows, budgets or variations.
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A large nursery of 1 to 2 hectares carries a cost norm up to ₹30 lakh per hectare at 40% for the private sector; a small nursery of 0.4 to 1 hectare carries ₹20 lakh per hectare at 50%. Both...
INM and IPM carry a cost norm of ₹5,000 per hectare at 30%, up to 2 hectares per beneficiary. That 30% is the lowest rate in the scheme. Organic farming has no NHM figure at all; the guideli...
Most machinery under NHM defers to SMAM norms rather than carrying its own figure. The clearest exception is a power tiller up to 8 BHP, costed at ₹1.0 lakh per unit with a maximum of ₹0.40...
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