Rajasthan Secondary Towns Tender

Project Name Rajasthan Secondary Towns Development Sector ProjectProject Number 42267-031Country IndiaProject Status Active DescriptionThe project will support the Government of Rajasthan GOR in expanding access to improved water supply and sanitation WSS services for about 570000 people in about 16 towns by drawing on experiences and lessons from three earlier projects funded by the Asian Development Bank ADB in Rajasthan. The project will finance climate-resilient and inclusive WSS infrastructure in Rajasthans small and medium towns including heritage towns and strengthen human and institutional capacity for improved and sustainable service delivery in line with the GORs investment program. In Rajasthans smaller towns water supply coverage is often high but services are intermittent unreliable and the quality is unreliable. In the proposed project towns households receive only 1.4 hours of water per day on average with inequities in distribution of water a high incidence of water-borne diseases and high coping costs. Most connections are unmetered. A major factor in the poor quality of services is high losses in the transmission and distribution systems. Sanitation services coverage is low leading to an unsanitary environment and negative impacts on health and economic growth. Proposed investments in WSS coupled with institutional strengthening of ULBs in district headquarters tourism towns and other market centers are expected to significantly improve livability through safe and continuous water supply that is more equitable and through city-wide inclusive sanitation CWIS services including for the poor and vulnerable. i Access to potable affordable reliable equitable and environmentally sustainable drinking water supply in all urban areas of Rajasthan improved Rajasthan Urban Water Supply Policy ii Health status of urban population especially the poor and under-privileged improved State Sewerage and Waste Water Policy