📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P174732
Region: South asia
Commitment Amount: US$ 160.00 million
Total Project Cost: US$ 560.00 million
Borrower: Department of economic affairs
GoHP’s WSS Medium Term Program (MTP):The GoHP’s MTP includes comprehensive reforms of policies, institutions, and infrastructure development, and enhanced accountability to customers, focusing onpromoting a professional corporate culture, enhancing efficiency and financing sustainability and improving service delivery and accountability. The MTP supports capacity building and addressing climate change related vulnerabilities. The MTP also emphasizes the need for financial and physical sustainability, including tariff structures, cross-subsidization, digitization of WSS schemes and information, and auditing and accountability of service delivery. The first phase of this program was initiated in Shimla undertheDPL and has resulted in improvement of the WSS services. In Shimla, priority was given to improving water quality and quantity through strengthening of the governance system and enabling financial and managerial autonomy. 16.The MTP aims to improve WSS services across the state with the goals of universal coverage of water supply and sanitation, continuous pressurized water supply, accountability and responsiveness to citizens, and decentralized service delivery through autonomous and professional institutions. The state has adopted the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) Service Level Benchmarks (SLBs) for improving and sustaining WSS services in the urban areas. The GoHP has accorded top priority to the provision of safe drinking water to every household and has set targets aligning with the SLBs and GOI’s objectives on service delivery improvements and capacity building program. The WSS MTP is financed by the State budget and various national missions such as AMRUT, Smart City Mission, Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM)-Urban and Grameen and Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM). The state also supports the National Water Mission (one of 8 missions of the National Action Plan on Climate Change, 2008) by promoting water use efficiency through regulatory and pricing mechanisms in the State Strategy and Action Plan on Climate Change, which has a set target of 20% by 2030, also mentioned in India’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC, 2015). The anticipated expenditure under the Medium Term WSS Program is US$ 750million in the period 2018-30.
