Himachal Pradesh
State Sanitation Strategy (HP – SSS))
Issues, Outline and Structure
(based on NUSP)
First State level Sanitation Committee Meeting
2 May 2012- Shimla
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Outline of Presentation
 National scenario
 SSS – What will it help achieve
 HP-SSS : an outline, 9 key themes
 Potential Institutional roles to develop
HP SSS
 Key milestone and timeline
 Next steps / way forward
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National scenario
 National Urban Sanitation Policy (NUSP) in October
2008
 Two year time period for States to develop their
“State Sanitation Strategies”; recognizing
Sanitation as state subject
Specific situation of states and cities (Hilly
small size, primate city, dispersed
settlements)
 NUSP lays out draft framework for developing State
Sanitation Strategies (besides CSP and Award
Scheme for Cities)
 SSS developed by Odhisha, CG, Tripura, UP, Bihar
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NUSP : Vision & Objectives
Vision:
All Indian cities and towns become totally sanitized, healthy and
liveable and ensure and sustain good public health and
environmental outcomes for all their citizens with a special focus
on hygienic and affordable sanitation facilities for the urban poor
and women
NUSP / CSP Objectives :
1. Awareness generation and behaviour change
2. Open defecation free cities
3. Integrated city wide sanitation
4. Proper operation and maintenance of all sanitary installations
CSP is city level instrument for sector plan while SSS is guidance tool
from State to City
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HP-SSS : What will it
help achieve
 Meeting Service Level Benchmark on Drinking water supply,
Sewerage, Solid Waste Management, Storm Water Drainage
 Respond to state level situation, challenges and issues
(small size, dispersed settlements, hilly terrain et al)
 Improving City Sanitation Rating (Shimla 29.583 in red)
 Improving City Sanitation Ranking (Shimla rank 292 / 423)
 Mobilizing funds through flagship programmes such as
JNNURM, RAY et al
 Linkages with performance based grants under XIII Finance
Commission
 Improving public health and environmental outcomes
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HP-SSS : Key themes
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Situation analysis and sector assessment
Himachal Pradesh Vision, Goal and State Slogan
Strategic Planning Approaches and Options
Institutional structures, responsibility, capacities and
resources
Urban sanitation infrastructure and service delivery
standards
Awareness, School Sanitation
Solid Waste Management
Data management & monitoring
Financing
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HP-SSS : an outline
1. Situation analysis and sector assessment
 Trends on urban growth and urbanization
 Sanitation sector wide policy environment (related
policies, Acts, Rules presently prevailing)
 Institutional stakeholder analysis in urban sanitation sector
 Current levels of services
 Water supply
 Sewerage (connectivity)
 Storm water drainage
 Solid Waste Management
 Financial sustainability (including capital costs, tariffs,
subsidies, fiscal space)
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HP-SSS : an outline
2. Himachal Pradesh Vision, Goal and State
Slogan
Largely drawing from NUSP
State’s Approach to XII Five Year Plan
Learning from CSP preparation and
implementation
Mainstreaming of climate change mitigation
and adaptation to urban sanitation
State diversity and uniformity
Guiding principles
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HP-SSS : an outline
3. Strategic Planning Approaches and Options
Inclusive : Gender & child sensitive, under / un served areas communities, migrants, floating population, poor
Integrated and city wide : Appropriate technical options,
centrality of CSP, Sanitation Ratings and Ranking, linkage with
CDP and urban flagship programmes (RAY, JNNURM, BSUP,
IHSDP et al)
Data management and monitoring
Communication and awareness strategy for behavior change
– individuals, households and institutions
Sanitation and emergencies
Climate change adaptation and mitigation
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HP-SSS : an outline
4. Institutional structures, responsibility, capacities
and resources (regulatory framework)
State level structures : SLSC, State Mission –
Working Group, Regional + District (!), City level
Roles, responsibility and inter department
coordination
ULB and Ward level functioning
Training need assessment and capacity building
(Training modules for sanitary workers etc)
Municipal cadre management and staffing
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HP-SSS : an outline
5. Urban sanitation infrastructure and
service delivery standards
 Norms and standards adequacy (vis a vis
national guidelines and examples for similar
states)
 State level sanitation ratings and ranking
 Project structuring: PPP, engagement
modalities, procurement
 Dovetailing mechanism with RAY and
JNNURM
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HP-SSS : an outline
6. Awareness, School sanitation
 NSSI linkages
 Deepening school participation
 Expanding child participation
 Teacher and parents participation
 ULB and Education department collaboration
 School WASH infrastructure : child and
gender friendly facilities, standards and O&M
 Monitoring mechanism
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HP-SSS : an outline
7. Solid Waste Management
State MSWM Strategy :
 Norms and standards adequacy (vis a vis MSWM Rules)
 Data management for ULBs using SLB parameters for
waste
 Regional concepts / bundling of ULBs for achieving
required improvements
 Project structuring: PPP, engagement modalities,
procurement
 District Level Plans: Monitoring of MSW implementation
 ULB Action Plans: MSW implementation
 Financing , Product charges
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HP-SSS : an outline
8. Data management & monitoring
City Information Systems (overlapping,
duplication) – GIS, NUIS, E-Governance
Monitoring (Project / programme monitoring, data
flow)
Feedback mechanism (completion of information
loop)
Using data for improved information and
knowledge
Dissemination mechanisms
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HP-SSS : an outline
9. Financing
 Scenario costing (indicative) to reach goals
 Broad assessment of funding gap at varying
level of services
 Focusing on sewerage and sanitary toilet access
 Issues around subsidies, cost recovery, tariff
 Social concern for vulnerable families, poor,
female headed household
 Financial dovetailing between flagship
programmes and Finance Commission grants
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HP SSS development :
Who does what !
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Directorate of Urban Development & Environment
Irrigation and Public Health Department
Environment Division & HP Pollution Control Board
Public Works Department
Finance Department
Planning Department
Health & Family Welfare Department
Education Department
Rural Development
Town and Country Planning Department
Economics & Statistics
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HP-SSS : Key players
Irrigatio
n&
Public
Health
Educati
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RDD
Plannin
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Public
Works
Urban
Develop
ment
Environ
ment
Finance
ULBs
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Key milestones and Timeline
X no. of weeks for SSS (draft version):
Situation analysis &
sector assessment
• XXX weeks
• Secondary data
• Departmental
coordination
HP SSS Goal,
Vision, Slogan
PARTICIPATION
OF ULBs
• YYY weeks
• SLS Committee
Approval
• ULB consultative
workshop
State Sanitation
Strategy
• ZZZ weeks
• Urban sanitation
Infrastructure and
service delivery
standards
Recommendations
Endorsement
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Way forward and next steps
Discussions on way forward and
immediate next steps……
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