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We have not yet verified Maharashtra'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 Maharashtra has started. The state board that runs the Mission has been identified and its guidelines page registered as a source, but nobody has read it against the national guidelines yet, so nothing on this page yet describes how Maharashtra itself runs the scheme.
What does apply here: 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 we can already see, and have not yet read: the board publishes its own guidelines, including one for protected cultivation dated 7 February 2025, and a separate index of letters and circulars — the page where a change of window, rate or procedure would be announced — whose most recent entry is dated 18 July 2025. Both indexes are now registered as sources, and the protected cultivation guideline is registered as a document in its own right. None of the three has been read, and the guideline’s file has not even been retrieved yet — the board serves its documents through a download control rather than a link, so someone has to fetch it by hand. A state guideline of that date may well add to or vary the national norms for polyhouses and shade net houses — which is exactly the kind of difference this platform exists to surface, and exactly what we cannot yet tell you, because reading it is the work that has not been done.
What is still missing: those guidelines read line by line against the national ones; any circular that opens or closes an application window; and the district offices that receive applications. Until then this page cannot tell you whether you can apply today, where to apply, or what Maharashtra pays over and above the national rate.
If you need one of those answers now, ask. We will answer from what has been verified and say plainly when the answer is not in a document we hold.
Written from the state's own pages and documents. Not yet reviewed, and not a statement of what the state pays.
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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. Maharashtra 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. Maharashtra 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 Maharashtra's windows, budgets or variations.
Everyone quotes 50%. Worked at the 4,000 square metre limit against the April 2025 cost norms, the same rule returns about 50% on a net house, 35% on a naturally ventilated polyhouse and 16%...
We compared four state horticulture pages against the national guidelines. In every case the state's figures came from the April 2014 edition, replaced in April 2025. Treat a state figure as...
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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