A joint team of the World Bank and Asian Development Bank undertook a preliminary survey of damage here caused due to the recent natural disaster in Uttarakhand.
It was decided in coordination with the State Government that the WB and ADB would jointly provide $400 million to the State. Under this, the basic amenities of housing, tourism, irrigation, agriculture, livesto k, education, health and construction of roads would be redeveloped. The meeting was led by Chief Secretary Subhash Kumar at secretariat on Tuesday.
The Additional Chief Secretary, Rakesh Sharma, disclosed that the Asian Development Bank would give thirty million dollars for tourism development, ninety-five million dollars for highways and connecting roads, ten million dollars solely for hill roads affected in the disaster, twelve million dollars for drinking water and six million dollars for construction of drainage systems.
He also stated that the World Bank would give thirty million dollars for drinking water projects, fifty million dollars for repair of damaged buildings, twenty million dollars for irrigation and twenty-three million dollar for technical aspects.
The joint funding from World Bank and Asian Development Bank will be provided for the required programmes through its ‘Crisis Window’ provision. The aid will be given in a ratio of 90:10, under which ninety percent would be paid by the Indian Government and ten percent by the State Government.
Present at the meeting were FRDC BP Pandey, Principal Secretaries S Ramaswamy, Dr Ranveer Singh, Om Prakash, S Raju, MH Khan, Radha Raturi, Secretaries Vinod Fonia, RC Pathak, Ajay Pradyot, Additional Secretary Amit Negi, Secretary Sachin Kurve, PS Jangpani, Radhika Jha, World Bank’s Country Head Onno Ruhl and other representatives of the bank.