Vellakovil City Development Plan - Municipal

City Development Plan for Vellakoil Municipality SMEC India Pvt Ltd
Final Report TNUDP III
that would meet or exceed the annual payments to cover up the entire project costs usually a
period of 5 to 10 years. The savings can be shared proportionately with the institution for which
the project is designed and implemented for.
The salient features of performance contracting for energy savings through ESCO based
business model are as under:
1 'Nil' investment by customer / ULB.
2. ESCO to identify Energy Efficient Measures (EEMs) to replace / modify existing in
efficient systems.
3. ESCO supplies, installs and maintains the Energy Efficient Measures (EEMs) during the
contract period.
4. Contract period could be 3-5 years or as mutually agreed upon.
5. Energy saving is shared between ESCO and customer as per agreed terms. Total
project cost is funded by ESCO. The O & M expenses will be met by the Municipality.
6. Guarantee Energy savings and recover its investment including interest & other costs
out of generated energy savings.
Table 6.6 Road Map for Energy and Resource efficiency
Year of Implementation
S.N Reforms
Year 1
Year
2
Year
3
Year
4
1 Energy audit
i Leak detection study
ii Fixing of bulk water meter
iii Fixing flow control values and meters
iv
Implementing energy saving measures on street
lights and pumping machineries (ESCo)
6.3.4 Action Plan: Computerization and E-Governance
Strategy options
1. Launch data warehousing on a large scale, which would avoid cross-reference to paper
record, which are time consuming and also preservation of paper media, which occupies
space, could be avoided.
2. Computerization of bill payment and facilitation of on line payments
3. Computerisation of registration of land records within Municipal limit
4. Digitisation of Birth and death certificates for the past 30 years
5. Property Mapping to be computerised and details on area, year of construction, type of
assessment to be computerized to facilitate calculation of property tax.
6. Administration and issue of trade licenses to be on line, including payment and
reconciliation of license fee.
7. Computerization of birth and death certificates and on line issue of certificates.
8. Computerization of public grievances and Redressal mechanism
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Year
5