Request For 2nd Installment

Office of the Commissioner of Jabalpur Municipal Corporation, Jabalpur. REF:

Date:

To, Dr.P.K.Nandi Chief Technical Adviser Water for Asian Cities Programme United Nations Human Settlements Programme E-1/191, Arera Colony Bhopal -462016 M.P., India Subject:

Cooperation Agreement between UN-HABITAT and

Jabalpur Municipal Corporation (JMC) for the implementation of Community managed solid waste disposal scheme in Jabalpur. Dear Mr. Nandi, This is regarding sending you the supplementary report consisting 3 points raised by you in your above mentioned letter, kindly find the justification in Annexes attached with this letter for your kind perusal. With the submission of this report I request you to please expedite the process of releasing second installment as per the cooperation agreement, enabling

us

to pushing the

proposed

activities

in

timeframe manner. Thanking you,

O.P. Srivastava Commissioner, JMC

Annex-1 Raised issues Justification Mapping of active During initial survey of the proposed project CBOs/NGOs

in

the area, it was a mandate given to NGO Prerana

project area.

to identify such active CBOs/NGOs in those targeted five wards, who can become caterer of DTDC services in longer run. observed

by

the

NGO

and

our

It was health

department that existing NGOs/RWAs/CBOs are found to be of different natures like some were religious, cultural, and of being of specific objectives far from what we intended to do with them, above these they found reluctant to take up the DTDC activity. So after an exhaustive consultation on this issue and to ensure better results we decided to form new RWAs, entrusting them to carry out this activity with the community by providing them a proper capacity building mechanism.

of At the time of cooperation agreement, an

Formation proposed100 and

the

covering Households

RWAs estimated figure was provided by JMC, that

target

of entailed of 20,000 HH, covering population of

20,000 approx. 100,000. However as the outcome of the survey, which was done as the first step to identify ultimate stakeholders, revealed that a total no. of 11,772 residential HH in addition to the 3,624 comercial entities & 979 are the vacant houses which may be in habitation in future.

Thus a total no. of 16,325 units has

been identified in all the assigned 5 wards to work with. This covers increased no. of target population i.e. 77908 (Please refer to the

survey report, already sent to you). Thus the no.

of

HH

16,325

&

the

no.

of

target

population 77908 is near to the approximation set

as

20,000

HH

and

100,000

target

population, at the time of signing cooperation agreement. The

process

formation of RWAs

of It was proposed that every approx. 200 HH will have a RWA and after the mapping of the area, the wards were divided in to the blocks to serve the purpose efficiently and total 77 blocks

have

been

identified

therefore

considering the no. of HH, suitability of forming new 77 RWAs was decided. For the formation of RWAs a number of consultation programmes had been conducted in their respective wards. local citizen, The by-laws & MoU

The participation of the

public

representatives

were

ensured in the process. The bylaws & MoU are prepared and signed in RWAs local languages i.e. Hindi, (a translated English version is also attached) is being forwarded to you.