INDIA: Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project

INDIA Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project (P007985)
First Implementation Support Mission, June 2011
Activity Current Progress Agreed Next Steps & World Bank Recommendations
[2C-A4]
Marine
Resources
Conservation
and
Interpretation
Centre and
Oceanarium
(MRCI) at
Dwaraka
[2C-B1]
Sewerage
System of
Jamnagar by the
Jamnagar
Municipal
Corporation
(JMC)
using force account. The quality of plantation and their survival rate
has been monitored and found to be very good.
1. Government of Gujarat decided to consider the Tourism Department
the responsible PEA instead of MNP. The Tourism Department brings
additional technical strength; improved the potential of private sector
investment; and if required the Tourism Department is agreeable to
invest additional money to fill viability gap. This is agreeable to the
Bank.
2. Site for oceanarium selected, as per the Pre-Feasibility Study.
3. Discussion with private sector to be initiated; various models being
discussed.
4. Discussions have taken place about combining facilities for the MRCI
with that of the NCMB and the proposed central laboratory of GEER.
1. JMC has nominated a senior officer as the nodal officer; has opened
the required bank account; delegated technical and financial powers to
the nodal officer; and has installed the financial management and
accounting software.
2. Sewerage including house connection: [A] a pilot work of laying
sewers and providing house connections at Prabhukripa Society was
procured using local shopping; and the work has been completed at a
cost of Rupees 4.435 million. The quality of the work has been good
and accepted; and the communities expressed satisfaction about the
quality of the work, and the benefit it brought to the community,
especially cleaned out the area of accumulated sewage. [B] For the
larger sewerage works, the project management consultancy (PMC)
was awarded to consulting firm Mott MacDonald in March, 2011; and
the consultants completed mobilization in April 2011. Work of the
PMC is progressing satisfactorily, especially related to examination
and evaluation of the existing sewers in the city for its suitability to be
integrated with new sewers that will be laid by the project. [C]
villages have been declared “no-go” areas). All other planned
mangrove plantation in islands should be done through EDCs and
SHGs with clear and distinct MOU or contracts.
5. .
1. The Tourism Department as the PEA should prepare a protocol on
how species under respective Schedule s of the Wildlife Act will be
procured, displayed and conserved; and the responsibilities of the
Wildlife Department and the marine National Park, describing
respective responsibilities. This should be shared with the Bank by
October 2011, before the bid for the PPP is initiated.
2. Site for the MRCI (as also the NCMB and the GEER Central
Laboratory) should be reserved for such purpose by a government
order. Actual mutation/lease will be needed when the private investor
comes on board (say by April 2012).
3. Initial discussion with potential private sector investors should be
organized by October 2011, so as to understand the industry demands.
4. Once the scope of NCMB is known better (see 1E), a conceptual
design brief should be prepared by SPMU, SICOM and the two PEAs
so as to finalize the scope of PPP by March 2012.
1. Nil.
2. Sewerage including house connection: [A] The PMC (with help from
the SPMU Communications Cell as agreed between SPMU and PMC)
will prepare a brief documentation of the work, and the reaction of the
community, and with a special focus on the issue of how to provide
incentives and disincentives such that 100% consumers connect to the
sewers based on interviews and household survey; and share this with
SPMU/SICOM/Bank by August 2011. [B] PMC will now prepare in
agreement of the contractors, a final detailed execution schedule, and
a plan for communication campaign, and share this with
SPMU/SICOM/Bank by October 2011. [C] Nil. [D] JMC, with help
from PMC shall prepare (i) a plan for advance warning,
communication and grievance redress wherever public amenities such
as water supply, street lights, storm water drain, or access road will be
impacted by laying of sewer lines; and finalize actions to implement
this plan; and (ii) a plan to achieve the target that 100% consumers in
the sewered areas in the city get connected to the sewer network,
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