Schemes are now classified into three types:

  1. Core of the Core (Total 6 schemes)
  2. Core (Total 18 schemes)
  3. Optional (Total 3 scheme

Special Category states are: 11 total ( 8 North Eastern states + 3 Himalayan states i.e. Uttarakhand, HP & JK)

Funding pattern for these types of schemes would be

For Core of the Core

  1. For General Category states: Existing pattern
  2. For Special Category states: Existing pattern

For Core

  1. For General Category states: 60 : 40 (i.e. 60% by centre, 40% by state)
  2. For Special Category states: 90 : 10 (i.e. 90% by centre, 10% by state)

For Optional

  1. For General Category states: 50 : 50 (i.e. 50% by centre, 50% by state)
  2. For Special Category states: 80 : 20 (i.e. 80% by centre, 20% by stat