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World Bank in Pact for Kerala Water Project
Friday, 17 February 2012, 01:24 IST
New Delhi: Multilateral agency World Bank has entered into an agreement with India for a 
1,022-crore project to provide drinking water and sanitation facility in Kerala.
The legal agreement of the scheme 'World Bank aided Second Kerala Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Project' was signed yesterday in Thiruvananthapuram, an official release said.
"The project envisages potable drinking water facility and sanitation interventions to about 1.84 million rural people covering 200 gram panchayats within a period of five and half years at a total cost of 1,022 crore," it said.
The first phase of the project was implemented between 2000 and 2008 and covered a population of 1.3 million people in 112 gram panchayats of the State.
The project was awarded the first runner up position in the Peoples' First Award competition organized by the World Bank in 2008.
The second phase is designed to provide more benefits to the communities and 22 grama panchayats have already been selected for the first batch of implementation.
Source: PTI
1,022-crore project to provide drinking water and sanitation facility in Kerala.
The legal agreement of the scheme 'World Bank aided Second Kerala Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Project' was signed yesterday in Thiruvananthapuram, an official release said.
"The project envisages potable drinking water facility and sanitation interventions to about 1.84 million rural people covering 200 gram panchayats within a period of five and half years at a total cost of 1,022 crore," it said.
The first phase of the project was implemented between 2000 and 2008 and covered a population of 1.3 million people in 112 gram panchayats of the State.
The project was awarded the first runner up position in the Peoples' First Award competition organized by the World Bank in 2008.
The second phase is designed to provide more benefits to the communities and 22 grama panchayats have already been selected for the first batch of implementation.
Source: PTI