HP Van Samridhi Jan Samridhi Yojana (Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Cultivation), Himachal Pradesh

What is HP Van Samridhi Jan Samridhi Yojana?

HP Van Samridhi Jan Samridhi Yojana is circulated on private scheme-listing websites as a Himachal Pradesh Forest Department programme that enables rural income generation through cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants on forest and private land. That description could not be confirmed on any Himachal Pradesh government source.

Specifically, as checked on 2 August 2026:

• hpforest.gov.in, the Forest Department's own website, carries no page, notification, booklet or menu entry for a scheme of this name. Its Flagship Plantation Drives menu lists only two schemes.
• The Himachal Pradesh Economic Survey 2024-25 and the Economic Survey 2023-24, published by the state Economics and Statistics Department, do not mention a scheme by this name in the forest chapter or anywhere else.

That is not proof that no such scheme was ever announced. State schemes are sometimes announced in a budget speech, run for a period and are then merged into a successor programme without a lasting web presence. But it does mean that no benefit amount, subsidy rate, eligibility rule or application deadline for this scheme can be honestly stated here, and any figure you see quoted for it on a private website should be treated as unverified until you have seen a Forest Department notification carrying it.

What follows is what the Himachal Pradesh Forest Department does actually run in this space, verified on its own website, so that a reader looking for support to grow medicinal and aromatic plants knows where to go.

Which Forest Department plantation schemes are verified and live?

The Himachal Pradesh Forest Department publishes two flagship plantation drives on hpforest.gov.in, each with its own documentation:

Mukhya Mantri Van Vistar Yojna (MMVVY). The department publishes the scheme notification, a list of identified planting sites, the composition of the MMVVY Task Force, and a photo gallery of the drive. MMVVY is a site-based plantation programme, so the department's list of identified sites tells you whether work is planned near you.

Rajiv Gandhi Van Samvardhan Yojna (RGVSY). The department publishes the RGVSY notification, a Booklet (2025-26) on RGVSY, the geolocation of RGVSY sites and RGVSY videos. The booklet is the single most useful document for a citizen, because it is the current-year statement of what the scheme covers and how sites are selected.

Both are administered through the normal forest hierarchy: the Range Forest Officer at range level and the Divisional Forest Officer at division level.

Who can and cannot take part in Forest Department plantation work?

You can approach the department if:

• You are a resident of Himachal Pradesh.
• You hold private land recorded in your name on which you want to raise a plantation, and can produce the Jamabandi and Tatima for it.
• You are a member of a Gram Panchayat or a village forest management institution that wants planting done on common land, and the body is willing to pass a resolution.
• You are willing to maintain the plantation after planting, which is the condition on which most departmental support rests.

You cannot apply or are not eligible if:

• You are not a resident of Himachal Pradesh.
• You want to plant on forest land as a personal enterprise. Forest land is not allotted to individuals for cultivation under these schemes; planting on forest land is departmental work carried out with the village institution.
• You have no land record for the plot you are proposing, for the private-land route.
• You are seeking a cash grant with no planting obligation. These are plantation programmes, not income-support schemes.

What does Himachal Pradesh do on medicinal plants?

The verified medicinal plant activity in the state runs through the State Medicinal Plants Board and the AYUSH machinery rather than through a Forest Department citizen scheme. The Himachal Pradesh Economic Survey 2024-25 records under Development of Herbal Resources:

• 37,000 medicinal plants were provided by the State Medicinal Plant Board from its own herbal gardens and nurseries to units of herbal gardens established in Ayurvedic institutions across the state.
• A project for setting up herbal gardens in 75 schools under the Education Department, costing Rs 39.75 lakh, was approved by the National Medicinal Plants Board, Government of India.
• Specific medicinal plant corridors were established in four departmental herbal gardens, each covering 5 bighas: a Tejpatta corridor at Joginder Nagar in district Mandi, an Arjun corridor at Neri in district Hamirpur, a Moringa corridor at Jungle Jhalera in district Bilaspur, and a Taxus corridor at Dumreda in district Shimla.

There is also a market-side route worth knowing about. The Economic Survey records that NABARD has sanctioned grants for the formation and promotion of 124 Farmer Producer Organisations across all 12 districts of Himachal Pradesh, covering about 23,417 farmers, and that these FPOs produce, process and market vegetables, medicinal and aromatic plants, milk and flowers. For a grower, joining or forming an FPO is often the practical answer to the problem that this scheme was said to address, because the difficulty with medicinal and aromatic plants is rarely the planting — it is aggregation and sale.

How to apply for medicinal and aromatic plant cultivation support

Because no application route for HP Van Samridhi Jan Samridhi Yojana is published, use the department's actual channels:

1. Go to your Range Forest Officer with your land papers and say what you want to grow and on how much land. The RFO knows which departmental schemes are operating in that range in the current year.
2. Read the Booklet (2025-26) on RGVSY on hpforest.gov.in and ask the RFO whether your site falls within the RGVSY or MMVVY identified sites for the year. The department publishes site lists and geolocations for exactly this purpose.
3. Escalate to the Divisional Forest Officer of your forest division if the range office cannot place your case, and ask in writing which scheme, if any, covers medicinal and aromatic plant cultivation on private land this year.
4. Approach the State Medicinal Plants Board for planting material and species advice, and ask whether any National Medicinal Plants Board project is running in your district.
5. Ask NABARD's district development manager about the FPO route if your interest is commercial cultivation and sale rather than a one-time planting grant.

How do I check on a case I have filed?

1. Note the diary number given by the range or divisional office when you submit anything in writing, and follow up on that number.
2. Ask the Divisional Forest Officer for the current status and, if a scheme does not exist, for that answer in writing. A written negative is more useful than an indefinite wait.
3. File on e-Samadhan, the Himachal Pradesh online public grievance system at esamadhan.nic.in, or call the CM Helpline on 1100, if the department does not respond.
4. Use the Right to Information route through the Forest Department's PIOs, listed on hpforest.gov.in, to ask directly whether a scheme called Van Samridhi Jan Samridhi Yojana exists, and if so for a copy of its notification. This is the cleanest way to settle the question for your own case.

Where do I contact the Himachal Pradesh Forest Department?

• Himachal Pradesh Forest Department, Talland, Shimla 171001
• Telephone: 91-177-2624186 and 91-177-2623147
• Fax: 91-177-2624192 and 91-177-2624193
• Website queries: the Web Information Manager at head-foritlab-hp@hp.gov.in
• Divisional Forest Officer of your division, for anything site-specific

A note on why this page is short

This guide is deliberately shorter than most. The honest position is that a Himachal Pradesh Forest Department scheme by this name is not documented on the department's website or in the state's Economic Survey, and inventing an eligibility list, a subsidy rate or an application deadline for it would be worse than saying so. If the department publishes a notification for HP Van Samridhi Jan Samridhi Yojana, this page will be rewritten around it. Until then, Mukhya Mantri Van Vistar Yojna, Rajiv Gandhi Van Samvardhan Yojna, the State Medicinal Plants Board and the FPO route are the real, verifiable options for a Himachal Pradesh household that wants income from medicinal and aromatic plants.