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INDIA Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project (P007985) First Implementation Support Mission, June 2011 Activity Current Progress Agreed Next Steps & World Bank Recommendations [4C-B5] Distribution of Grid Electricity in Sagar Island by West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (WBSEDCL) [4C-C1] Support to CBO Coordinated Livelihood Improvement Program at Sagar Island (through SPMU) [4C-C2] Support to Community 6. No progress yet on the issue of certification and/or accreditation to be able to meet international standards. 1. The WBSEDCL has signed MOU with the SPMU, nominated a senior officer as the nodal officer for the activities to be undertaken; 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. The WBSEDCL has dedicated staff resources available to undertake and deliver this activity. 3. The work on the transmission line across the 4km wide river is nearing completion. Purchase order for the sub-station was placed in July 2010, and installation is expected to be completed in August 2011. It is expected that grid electricity will reach Sagar Island in August 2011. 4. For the distribution system, the required soil testing work has been completed. Bids have been invited, and it is expected that the award will be in early September 2011. Albeit a little delayed, this activity is progressing very well. 1. This activity was originally proposed to be coordinated by the Sundarban Development Corporation. Looking at the lack of capacity, and the lack of need to have the Sundarban Development Corporation to coordinate CBOs, it was recommended by the World Bank that SPMU is better placed to coordinate this activity. Implementation will remain to be delivered by a group of CBOs. 2. Consultation meetings have been organized with a few CBOs; however no actual progress has been made. The CBOs have, in turn, undertaken several informal consultations in the villages of Sagar Island. 3. Three prominent CBOs will take lead to prepare a joint action plan. SPMU will lend support to these CBOs to prepare the action plan. 1. The SAD has not yet signed MOU with the SPMU, nor did they nominate a senior officer as the nodal officer for the activities to be undertaken. SAD has not opened the required bank account. the auction center will not work. 5. EDC shall obtain all clearances that is needed by September 2011. 6. EDC will prepare a plan of actions to achieve the required certification and accreditation, and share such plan with the World Bank by October 2011. 1. Nil. 2. Nil. 3. The WBSEDCL is encouraged organize a celebration event at Sagar Island in August 2011, when grid electricity will reach the Island, and will connect a few establishment such as hospitals. 4. Nil. 1. SPMU will nominate a staff of the SPMU to lead and coordinate the activities by the CBOs. If required, the SPMU will recruit or contract specialists for this work as soon as possible, and not later than by March 2012. 2. The SPMU will ensure that a clear set of agreements emerge by September 2011. 3. The SPMU will take all necessary actions (including if required modification in the choice of CBOs) such that CBO contracts are signed by SPMU in October 2011, and actual work by the CBOs starts by November 2011. 1. The SPMU and the SAD should finalize the agreements related to (i) the project’s required processes, and (ii) the concept of eco-tourism including that clean-up of the Sagar Mela ground is essential before any new tourist facilities are added in Sagar. Unless such agreements 52
INDIA Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project (P007985) First Implementation Support Mission, June 2011 Activity Current Progress Agreed Next Steps & World Bank Recommendations Livelihood through Ecotourism at Sagar Island by the Sundarban Affairs Department (SAD) [4C-C3] provision of Cyclone Shelters in Sundarban by the Disaster Management Department 2. SAD officials have not retained any institutional memory of project preparation; and are therefore proposing activities and concepts which were rejected at preparation period of the project. The revised concepts and designs have not been prepared. 3. No progress otherwise has been made. 1. The Disaster Management Department has not signed MOU with the SPMU, but has nominated a senior officer as the nodal officer for the activities to be undertaken. The Disaster management Department has yet not opened the required bank account. 2. No specific action has been undertaken to build the nascent capacity of the Disaster Management Department 3. The proposal accepted at appraisal stage has been revised; the cost of one unit of cyclone shelter has been revised to RS.36.9 million instead of approximately Rs. 8 million at the time of appraisal. The new unit rate of construction is based on the States proposal under two other programs (PM Relief Fund and proposed National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project – where the unit rate proposed by the State is Rs.38.6 million). The designs and estimates drew upon advice from an expert from IIT Kharagpur. 4. Based on the above proposed rate escalation, the Disaster Management Department has proposed to reduce the number of planned cyclone shelter to 10 from the original target of 32. 5. No other progress has been made. are in place by September 2011, SPMU will undertake the work itself (the actual work will anyway be managed and operated by CBOs and Panchayats, as is currently planned). 2. SPMU will need to support SAD to revise the proposal. SPMU will collect the plan and survey data already available with PHED (who oversee the annual fair at Gangasagar); and start planning and designing activities in conformity to that plan, but with an aim of environmental improvement of the area. SPMU will prepare an update and share with World Bank by October 2011. [Subject to Point 1 above.] 3. SPMU and SAD will revise and confirm the Annual Action Plan of 2011-12 and 2012-13 by November 2011. [Subject to Point 1 above.] 1. These actions need to be completed in August 2011. 2. It is important for the State to build capacity for disaster management. The Department should prepare a proposal for building adequate capacity, using the current program of cyclone shelters as a base. The proposal should include how the other states such as Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha and the like has built institutional capacity in the last decade; and what appropriate institutional models and elements should be replicated for West Bengal. This proposal should be internally agreed by the State, and shared with World Bank by March 2012. Based on this proposal approved by the State, initial institutional and capacity building activities should be included in the Annual Action Plan for 2012-13. 3. This revision of cost is unacceptable to the World Bank. (A) The basic principle of constructing cyclone shelter is that creating a common facility has an economy of scale. Within the proposed unit cost of one cyclone shelter; around 300 households can be made cyclone proof, and if the cost of one unit of cyclone shelter is so high it might be rather appropriate and beneficial to use this money to retrofit a large number of houses. (B) The idea of very large size cyclone shelters, for either 2000 or 3000 persons is suspect. Such large size of cyclone shelters will mean that people at the time of cyclone have to travel long distances to reach the cyclone shelter. Also, land for construction of such large cyclone shelters is in short supply in the densely populated area. All cyclone shelters should usually be located in the 53
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