Document of
The World Bank
Report No: 67667 v1
RESTRUCTURING PAPER
ON A
PROPOSED PROJECT RESTRUCTURING
OF
HYDROLOGY PROJECT PHASE II PROJECT
LOAN (LN. 4749-IN)
July 19, 2004
TO THE
REPUBLIC OF INDIA
March 25, 2012
Extension of Closing Date – Restructuring Paper
INDIA — HYDROLOGY PROJECT PHASE II
P084632 (LN. 4749-IN)
1. The closing date for India, Hydrology Project PHASE II, [LN. 4749-IN], P084632 is
proposed to be extended from June 30, 2012 until May 31, 2014.
2. The management and development of the water sector in India (including all waterrelated sub-sectors such as urban, irrigation, hydropower, environment, and disaster
risk management) is only possible with reliable, quality, timely, and public water
information and data. The Hydrology 2 Project aims to support this. The project
development objective is to extend and promote the sustained and effective use of
Hydrology Information Systems (HIS) from data collection (often in real-time), to
validation and storage, to public dissemination to a wide range of stakeholders (both
government and non-government) for various uses and knowledge creation (e.g.
planning, research). The project includes implementing agencies (IAs) in 13 States
and 8 Central Agencies1 and is one of the few multi-state water projects in the Bank
portfolio. The project builds upon the satisfactory earlier Hydrology 1 Project
3. The project implementation progress has been steadily improving over the past year,
despite initial delays with the mobilization of key support consultancies and delayed
effectiveness. Achievement of the development objective remains highly likely.
Areas of recent implementation progress include the following. First, 8 real-time data
acquisition systems (for both hydrology and climate) are near the final stages of
procurement (with those systems for BBMB and Maharashtra being installed). These
systems will provide real-time hydrologic and climatologic information to support
operations of reservoirs and enhance flood management. Second, the decision support
systems models for each of the nine selected states are in the final customization
stages. This work is now demonstrating their usefulness for planning purposes to a
wide set of stakeholders (including the State Secretaries in some cases). Third, most
research studies under the project (numbering over 30) will be completed in the next
few months. The findings from these are of great interest to many water managers.
Fourth, the new data centers and monitoring networks in three of the four new states
(Goa, Pondicherry, and Himachal Pradesh) are well in place and beginning to
function. Finally, all IAs report continued successful training and capacity building
opportunities. It is worthwhile to note that the investments currently being made
under the Hydrology 2 Project are also directly providing support and analysis to
various water-related World Bank projects and programs throughout India. More
detailed information is provided in the Memorandum to the Country Director.
4. The proposed extension is necessary to complete those activities already started and
committed and to focus on providing technical support to ensure long-term
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These are Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,
Orissa, and Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, Pondicherry, Punjab, Ministry of Water Resources
(MoWR), Central Water Commission (CWC), Central Groundwater Board (CGWB), National Institute of
Hydrology (NIH), Central Water and Power Research Station (CWPRS), India Meteorological Department
(IMD), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), and Bhakra-Beas Management Board (BBMB).
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sustainability of project outputs in the 13 States and eight Central agencies. This
strategy allows for sufficient time for all agencies to troubleshoot the newly installed
hardware and software systems and tools with continued access to technical support
by the Project Coordination Secretariat (PCS), the Technical Management
Consultancy (TMC) and Bank teams. The generation of public awareness (through
agency websites and various forums) and the consolidation of various research
studies will also be critical during this extension period to ensure full impact. A work
program of about Rs. 275 crore (about USD50 million including incremental staff
costs of about Rs. 60 crore) is currently outstanding and committed and will be
completed during the extension period. There is an additional Rs. 50 crore (about
USD10 million) that may be taken on depending on the availability of resources and
in the case of any slippage in the program. These amounts under the final program are
very likely to be expended by the end of the extension period (May 31, 2014) and
would thus exhaust the Project loan.
5. This will be the first extension of the project.
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