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We have not yet verified Puducherry'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Research on Puducherry has started, and it turned up something worth more than a link: a page that is out of date, and the proof that it is.
The Department of Agriculture publishes a centrally sponsored schemes page with the Mission described on it, now registered as a source. That description says the Government of India contributes 85% of the total outlay for developmental programmes in all states except those in the North East and the Himalayas, with 15% from the state, and 100% for the North Eastern and Himalayan states.
Those are the figures from the original MIDH guidelines. The current national guidelines — the 2025 edition, which this platform holds and which Chhattisgarh's department publishes in full — say something different: 60% from the Government of India and 40% from the state, and 90:10 for the North Eastern and Himalayan states. We are not inferring that; both documents were opened and read.
None of this is a rate of assistance to a grower. It is how two governments split a budget, and no reader should plan a project around it either way. But it tells you what the page is: a description written against a superseded edition and not revised since, which means nothing else on it should be assumed current either.
What does apply here meanwhile: the 64 statements we have taken from the MIDH operational guidelines of April 2025 hold across the country — 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: a current Puducherry statement of what the Mission pays here; whether the union territory adds anything of its own; and the office that receives applications.
Written from the state's own pages and documents. Not yet reviewed, and not a statement of what the state pays.
The Department of Agriculture describes the Mission using an 85:15 funding split. That is the figure from the original MIDH guidelines; the current edition says 60:40. Neither is a rate to a...
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. Puducherry 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. Puducherry 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 Puducherry'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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