PMKSY Cold Chain

Section 12 "Dovetailing of Assistance" (page 10 of 43), verbatim: "PIA may dovetail assistance available under various other schemes of other Central/ State Governments, which would improve the viability of the project. While dovetailing such assistance, it will be ensured that there is no duplication of assistance for the same component/ activity of the project." A general, unrestricted convergence permission (no illustrative scheme list, unlike AIF's Section 13) subject only to a no-double-funding-per-component rule the compute engine already enforces structurally (one payer per Component). Moot for a mushroom applicant today: this scheme carries no mushroom rule (noMushroomComponent above), so nothing here currently combines with MIDH.

Same Section 12 "Dovetailing of Assistance" blanket permission as against midh-2025. NHB Scheme No. 1 does fund mushroom production, on two rules of its own; see that record for the rates, which are not restated here so this note cannot go stale when they change. (CORRECTED TWICE: this note once said neither side of the pair had a mushroom rule, which was wrong about NHB, and then restated NHB's rate as 40% of project cost capped at ₹30 lakh, which was right about the document read at the time and stopped being right when NHB replaced its guideline.) This pair is still moot today, but only because of THIS scheme's own scope exclusion (noMushroomComponent above, PMKSY's Objective clause excludes horticulture produce by name), not because NHB Scheme No. 1 has nothing to combine.

Both sides carry an explicit convergence clause naming or generally permitting the other: this scheme's Section 12 "Dovetailing of Assistance" (general permission) and AIF's Section 13 "Convergence" (which names PMKSY explicitly in its illustrative list). Moot today, this scheme carries no mushroom rule for AIF's interest subvention/credit guarantee to ride alongside.