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
Chilika
Development
Authority
(CDA) for
species and
wetland
research.
[3B-4]
Regional
Coastal Process
Study (by
SPMU)
accounting software.
2. Nine project staff has been recruited, and most already joined. For 3
other positions (Water resources Modeller; mathematical Modeller; and
Analyst for Dolphin Research Electronics) the first round of
recruitment failed to identify suitably qualified professionals, and a
send recruitment process has been initiated.
3. Habitat Evaluation & Monitoring of Avian Fauna in Chilika Lake: the
procurement process is nearly over and the awarded to the consultants
is expected early to mid-July 2011.
4. Study on Fish Ecology and Diversity: RFP for procurement of
consultants is issued, and the final award is expected by end-August
2011.
5. Assessment of Macrophytes Biodiversity in and around Chilika: RFP
to shortlisted consultants will be issued in July/August 2011, and award
is expected by September 2011.
6. Inventory of Benthic Faunal Assemblage: REOI issued. Award
expected by October 2011.
7. Strengthening the Wetland research and Training Centre (WRTC): For
procurement of scientific instruments - bid received in May 2011. Bid
evaluation going on. Similarly, bid evaluation for computers and
hardware is under progress. Modelling software such as MIKE21, GIS
platform (ArchGIS 10, ArchInfor, ArchView and 3D Analyst), and
image processing software (ERDAS Imagine, Imagine Autosync and
Imagine Deltacue) have been procured. Civil work contract for
renovation and upgrading of the WRTC laboratory has been awarded;
and procurement process for office equipment and office/laboratory
facilities is going on. All activities are on schedule.
1. SPMU has organized a 3 day national workshop and technical
discussions at Bhubaneswar to finalize the specific objectives and
scope of the assignment. Experts from all over the country and the state
were invited, and the workshop deliberated on the scope. Based on the
consensus of the workshop, it was decided that the assignment involves
3 distinct parts; (i) delineation of sediment cells along the Odisha coast,
which will be done by NCSCM; (ii) collection and analyses of regional
coastal processes data – primary data collection by consultants to be
absence of these 3 professionals, CDA should always keep a back-up
plan ready.
3. Nil. However, with respect to all the 4 studies already launched or to
be launched (and the other proposed studies in future), CDA will need
to work out with all the consultants together the manner and schedule
that the data collected by consultants is uploaded in the GIS by
WRTC staff.
4. Same as above.
5. Same as above.
6. Same as above.
7. WRTC should prepare an action plan for the entire research program
of the WRTC (including the ICZM Project funded activities and the
activities funded by other sources including governments) describing
the research objectives, the outputs, the schedule of delivery for the
period of next 3-5 years. Such a plan should be shared with the World
Bank by December 2011.
Additional: Recently MOEF has declared that it will finance/support
Odisha to set up (a) Centre of Excellence on Wetland management
and Training at a cost of Rs. 500 million; and (b) under the Coastal
Zone Management program, a centre for research on turtles. The
mission encouraged the SPMU and the Department of Environment
and Forests to consider combing all these proposals, and locate these
new centers adjacent to WRTC (given that it already exists) instead of
at Bhubaneswar such that a world-class facility (or a complex of
facilities) for research and training can be created in Odisha. SPMU
with help from CDA will propose such an alternative to the
Government of Odisha.
1. Nil.
2. SPMU and SICOM should meet with NCSCM to finalize the schedule
of delineation of sediment cells (including the geomorphological
analysis at NCSCM, and the field investigations that is required to
confirm the nature, characterization, and factors influencing the
specific sediment cells in Odisha). NCSCM should be able to finalize
and share such a schedule by October 2011. Based on the schedule
(where the delineation of sediment cells and sub-cells on the eastern
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