2011074 Inception Report

INCEPTION REPORT

GIZ

August 2011

Support for Preparation of

State Action Plan on Climate Change to the State of Punjab

CONSULTING ENGINEERING SERVICES (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED

57, Nehru Place (5th Floor), New Delhi - 110019

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INCEPTION REPORT

Recognizing that climate change is a global challenge, India is engaged actively in multina-

tional negotiation sin the UN framework convention on climate change in a positive constructive

and forward looking manner. On June 30, 2008, the Prime Minister

of India released India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change

(NAPCC), which intends to provide a concrete road map detailing

how India plans to me forward in combating climate change. It’s a

careful long term strategy, which will help to attain the goals by

minimizing the adverse consequences of development on people’s

livelihood without undermining the developmental efforts.

The approach that NAPCC has undertaken is “a directional shift in the development pathway”

that promotes development objectives while also yielding co-benefits (emphasis added) for ad-

dressing climate change effectively.” The NAPCC has set out eight

national missions as the way forward in implementing the gov-

ernment’s strategy and achieving the National Action plans objec-

tive. The focus of these missions is on “promoting understanding of

climate change, adaptation and mitigation, energy efficiency and

natural resource conservation.” Alike other State Governments,

the Government of Punjab has embarked upon formulating its climate change action plan for

addressing the climate change concerns that it envisages for the future. In this respected it has

aligned some of its programs in line with the national missions articulated in the national action

plan on climate change which are:

National Water Mission

National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture

National Mission for a Green India

National Mission for sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem

National Solar Mission

National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency

National Mission on Sustainable Habitats

National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change

Adaptation to climate change required integrated solutions that simultaneously address liveli-

hood improvements and environmental sustainability. Proactive measures for adaptation to

climate variability and change can substantially reduce many ad-

verse impacts, and thus contribute to livelihood security of the vul-

nerable rural population. While climate change will affect the Na-

tion’s economy as a whole, its impact will be more severely felt by

the poor, who have the least adaptive capacity. Recognizing this,

NAPCC outlines its first principle a protecting the poor and vulnera-

ble sections of the society through inclusive and sustainable development strategy, sensitive to

climate change.

Introduction

National Missions

& Punjab

Project Back-

ground



GIZ project “Climate Change Adaptation in Rural Areas of India” with the aim to contribute

the livelihoods and adaptive capacities of vulnerable rural communities aligns itself with

NAPCC. The project focuses on integrating the issue of climate change adaptation in various

sector policy decisions that reduce risk and enhance the adaptive capacity of the most vulner-

able sectors and groups. The key components of the project in-

clude vulnerability and risk assessment, development of technical

adaptation options, climate proofing of rural development pro-

grams, development of adaptation oriented financial instruments

and information & knowledge management to support main-

streaming national discussions on climate change adaptation. In

addition to the above project components, the project is supporting selected states in prepara-

tion of State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC) including adaptation and mitigation.

In order to realize the implementation of National Action Plan on Climate Change, the support

for the preparation of State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC) has given the highest

priority by Government of India. GIZ will be supporting the Gov-

ernment of Punjab for the preparation of the SAPCC and has en-

trusted Consulting Engineering Services (India) Private Limited (CES),

New Delhi to undertake to study. CES will synthesize all the sectoral

reports and prepare the first SAPCC draft for the comments of var-

ious stakeholders of the State Government. The task to be under-

taken by CES is broadly outlined in Box 1.

Climate Change Initi-

ative of GIZ

Scope of the As-

signment



Synthesize various sectoral papers and prepare draft

SAPCC in collaboration with the various identified team

members from the state Government

Organize a state level consultation for presenting the

draft SAPCC

Finalize the SAPCC based on the comments received

from various stakeholders

Outline for the SAPCC in consultation with the State

Government & GIZ

Outline for the identified sectors/missions in consulta-

tion with the state government and GIZ

Organize the inception workshop for the preparation of

SAPCC

Support the identified working groups by the state gov-

ernments for the preparation of detailed sectoral pa-

pers

This task will include synthesizing the various sectoral papers prepared by the working groups and the consult-ants to prepare the draft state action plan on climate change. This task will require intense interaction with the state government & other relevant stakeholders at the state level. The comments received by the stakeholders need to be integrated for the finalization of the SAPCC.

Task 2

This includes preparation of an outline for the state action plan on climate change. The sectors/missions to be included will be discussed with the State Government. The framework prepared by GIZ for MOEF may be used for orientation for the structure of SAPCC. The collection of information will be facilitated by the State Government. The task includes series of meeting with respective state department, stakeholder and the nodal de-partment responsible for preparation of SAPCC.

Task 1 Box 1



The Steering Committee has been formed by Government of Punjab to expedite preparation

of the State Action Plan. The Steering Committee is headed by Chief Secretary, Government

of Punjab. Executive Director of Punjab State Council for Science & Technology (PSCST) cum

Member Secretary of Punjab Biodiversity Board, Chandi-

garh is acting as a nodal officer to facilitate the study. The

first meeting between CES and PSCST took place on 4th Aug

2011 at PSCST’s office in Chandigarh. The meeting was

chaired by Dr. Neelima Jairath, Executive Director. PSCST

and was attended by Dr. Satnam Singh Ladhar, Joint Direc-

tor (PSCST), Dr. Gurcharan Singh, Team Leader cum Water Resources and Agriculture Expert

(CES), Mr. R P Kapoor, Forestry Expert (CES), Mr. D Das Gupta, Head of Environment & Ecolo-

gy Department (CES) and Mr. Tirthankar Banerjee, Environmental Assessment Expert (CES).

The detailed minutes of the meeting is enclosed in Annex 1. The key outcome of the meeting is

as follows:

Identification of the nodal officers in different departments, who will provide the rele-

vant data that need to be analyzed for arriving at the relevant strategies required to

address climate change concerns.

The key focus areas for Punjab for the National Action Plan would be (a) So-

lar/Renewable energy and energy efficiency (b) Agriculture (c) Water resources (d)

Transportation and urban planning.

The other areas of concern for the Government of Punjab

include health, the Himalayan ecosystem, development of

a strategic knowledge database to address cc concerns.

CES will organize workshop with the help of GIZ and

PSCST to familiarize different departments about the issue of climate change, mitiga-

tion and adaptation needs and the process of preparation of the action plan such as

elaboration on the guidelines of MOEF, for preparation of the same and the sectoral

details required.

The Status of secondary data and reports collected till date is as follows:

Particulars Status

State of Environment, Punjab 2005 Collected

State of Environment, Punjab 2007 Collected

State action of Orissa Collected

State action of Meghalaya Collected

Basis statistics of Punjab 2010-2011* Collected

Statistical abstract of Punjab, 2011* Collected

Municipal Year book, Punjab* Collected

District Statistical Handbooks, Punjab* Collected

Inception Meeting be-

tween PSCST & CES

Key Issues & Data Col-

lected



Particulars Status

Met data from all sources (IMD and State Government Departments)* Ongoing

National Action plan on Climate Change Collected

Report on Insects (Department of Entomology) Ongoing

State Action Plan for Climate Change - Punjab (draft) Collected

Plan Documents-2011-2012(for Funding /Expenditure) Collected

* Socioeconomic Statistical data collected from pbplanning.gov.in/reports.htm

The Punjab Government has also provided Draft SAPCC of Punjab. The experts at CES have

gone through the entire document and comments have been provided to align the SAPPC with

the requirements of the framework provided by the MOEF for formulation of the same. The

comments on draft SAPCC has been provided in Annex 2. This also contains outlines of the

SAPCC and the outline of each of the chapters of the SAPCC. The chapter outline basically

indicates the information required for completing the SAPCC.

It is proposed to have a workshop with the concerned departments in the third week of Sep-

tember. The outline of the draft program is enclosed in Annex 3. Further, to augment the in-

formation provided in the draft SAPCC of the Punjab Government, a matrix has been created

to access information on some of the activities undertaken by the government under each mis-

sion of NAPCC, which is provided in Annex 4. The information requested includes information

on current key concerns, actions to be taken to achieve the targets, actions to be completed by

12th plan, costs of each action at today’s price, further actions to be completed by the 13th

plan for achieving these targets and cost of the same at today’s price. Further to this, the draft

outline of the SAPCC as per the guidelines of the MOEF (please refer Annex 5). This also indi-

cates the nature of data requirement for drafting the SAPCC according the MOEF guidelines.

Annex 1 Minutes of the Meeting between CES & PSCST A meeting was held on 4th August, 2011 in the office of Punjab State Council for Science and Technology (PSCST), MGSIPA Complex, Chandigarh for initial briefing related to Preparation of state Action Plan on Climate Change for Punjab.

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Minute of the meeting held in Chandigarh on 4th August’2011 A meeting was held on 4th August, 2011 in the office of Punjab State Council for Science and Technology (PSCST), MGSIPA Complex, Chandigarh for initial briefing related to Preparation of state Action Plan on Climate Change for Punjab. The following persons attended the meeting:

Dr. Neelima Jairath Executive Director, PSCST

Dr. Satnam Singh Ladhar Joint Director (Environment), PSCST

Dr. Gurcharan Singh Team Leader-Cum- Water Resources and Agriculture Expert, CES

Mr. R. P. Kapoor Forestry Expert, CES

Mr. D.Das Gupta Head, Environment & Ecology Department, CES

Mr. Tirthankar Banerjee Environmental Impact Assessment Expert, CES

The key issues discussed in the meeting are as under: A steering committee has already been formed with the Chief Secretary, Government of

Punjab, as its Chairman. The Committee met on 12th July 2011 where all the concerned Departments/ Agencies were asked to nominate a Nodal Officer who would be responsible for providing the requisite information and data to the consultants for preparation of the State Action Plan.

In order to facilitate the study, each Department/Agency is required to give the name of the

Nodal Officer and Co-Nodal Officer who will be responsible for providing authentic data. Two departments had already provided the names of their Nodal Officers, while other departments are expected to name them by 12th August 2011.

CES requests PSCST to provide contacts no. of Nodal Officers and members of steering

committee, which was agreed by PSCST. The members of PSCST informed that they have already collected the readily available

information from various departments related to activities under the eight National Missions and compiled the collected information in the Draft SAPCC, which will be provided to CES for review and preparation of the State Action Plan.

Mr. R.P. Kapoor, Forestry Expert, suggested one to one meeting with the nodal officers so as

to cover the grey areas because the subject of climate change is vast and unstructured. Others



agreed with him. Dr. Jairath opined that the Knowledge Mission and health sectors are grey area and sought help from the consultants to identify more grey areas.

It was also discussed that the timely completion of the project depends on availability of data from respective departments and for this the project may require some more time to complete.

Dr. Jairath stated that the focal areas in Punjab are:

a) Solar/ Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency b) Agriculture c) Water Resources d) Transportation, Urban Planning, etc.

Dr. Jairath informed that PEDA would provide details on energy efficiency and renewable

energy planned for Punjab. As regards water resources, ADB is already conducting a study and a draft report is available and it will be provided to CES. She also informed that on the agricultural aspects, Punjab Agriculture University has lot of information. They have also done detailed work related to meteorology. She mentioned that crop diversity is an important issue in the context of Punjab.

Punjab has very few forest lands except for the fragile Shivalik Eco System. In this context,

she advised that consultants should interact with Himalayan Glacial institute in Chandigarh. She also advised the consultant to consult a book on Plant Species by Ms. Kanchan Chopra.

It was discussed in the meeting that Inception Report is under preparation and will be

submitted soon. Dr. Satnam Singh Ladhar suggested that Inception report should cover comprehensive questionnaire. He also advised to submit the Inception Report to the respective departments and after the submission of report workshop should be organized.

Dr Singh suggested that the final SAPCC should reflect all data/information by respective

departments.

CES will organize the workshop with help of (GIZ) and PSCST. Dr. Singh suggested that two persons from each stakeholder department, namely the Nodal Officer and the Head of the Department or his representative should attend the workshop. Therefore, the number of participants in the workshop will be around 25.

It was agreed by both PSCST & CES that the Nodal officer would be responsible for reliability

of data. Data of the respective department after compilation should be sent to secretary of the respective departments for verification and authentication.

Annex 2 Revised Draft SAPCC with Comments & Chapter Outlines Section 1: Comments on the existing SAPCCC- Punjab Section 2: Proposed outline for the Chapter on Energy and Industry Sector Section 3: Proposed outline for the Chapter on Agriculture Sector Section 4: Proposed outline for the Chapter on Biodiversity, Forests, Wild Life and Eco Tourism Sector Section 5: Proposed outline of the Chapter on Sustainable Habitats Section 6: Proposed outline of the Chapter on Human Health Sector Section 7: Proposed outline of the Chapter on Water Sector

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Section 1: Comments on the existing SAPCCC- Punjab

The aim of the State Action plan on Climate change is to achieve a certain level of climate

proofing of the ongoing and future planning vis a vis the current variability in climate and

projected climate change. Though, logistically speaking, it is easier to achieve the short term

targets as set out for 2020 in this document, but given that climate change is a long term

phenomenon due to long lives of the drivers of climate change (GHGs) in the atmosphere, their

impacts on various sectors, and the ensuing vulnerabilities may also need to be analyzed at

such time lines (say at least up to 2050s), to have an idea as to what the scenario is likely to

be in the future, within the context of which all development has to take place.

The draft document has indicated the targets it wants to achieve by 2020 which are in line

with the NAPCC. Also the document identifies the activities that are being undertaken by the

various implementing agencies and the future action plans. The following issues need to be

integrated in the document so as to make it a climate change Action Plan guide for the state:

1. A description of the natural resources of the state (water, agriculture, forests and

biodiversity along with the descriptions of sectors of energy, industry, transport, and

other habitat constituents)

2. A description of ongoing developmental policies/program/projects for the various

sectors

3. The institutional mechanism which governs and implements above

4. An analysis of the current climate trends and their impact on various sectors (possibly

by agro-climatic region – the seasonal mean temperature, maximum temperature,

mean surface temperature, and rain fall)

Water

Agriculture

Biodiversity and forests

Energy

Industry

Habitats including building and transport

Human health

5. Projections of future climate

6. An analysis of vulnerability of various sectors to climate change

7. The strategies to achieve climate proofing. The activities given in the document have to

be aligned under a few core strategies for each sector. Some of these have been set

out to be achieved by 2020 (e.g. energy efficiency) and some do not have any

definite time lines (e.g. agriculture). Time line with targets quantified have to be set for



the 12th plan (next 5 years) and 13th plan (next 10 years, which makes it up to 2022

at least) and may be beyond (next 15 years starting from 2012).

8. Some of the activities given in various sectors may have to be shifted to the other, for

e.g., in agriculture mission activities related to rainwater harvesting may have to be

taken under the chapter on water, as they are towards increase the water as a

resource.

9. Additional strategies and actions there in may have to be identified that can be in the

nature of formulation of policy, implementation of technology, institution of research

activities and augmentation of current institutional mechanism for effective service

delivery amongst others.

10. Tentative costs of each action and hence that of the strategy has to be quantified for

the 12th and the 13th plan.



Section 2: Proposed outline for the Chapter on Energy and Industry Sector

Electricity and Power

I. Overview of Electricity Sector in Punjab

a. Installed generation capacity details from 2000 to 2011 b. Quantum and trends of purchase of electricity from Central Grid and other

sources – from 2000 to 2011 c. Price at which electricity was and is purchased from the Grid – from 2000 to

2011 d. Sale of electricity by class of consumers from 2000 to 2011 (Domestic,

industry, traction, agriculture, public works etc) e. Urban and rural domestic electricity consumption pattern from 2000 to 2011 f. Domestic sector – energy consumption by use if data available and at least

under broad heads such as Power and Lighting. (Single phase, three phase) g. Commercial sector – energy consumption by category

i. Office ii. Commercial establishments iii. Hotels and resorts iv. Hospitals v. Educational institutions

h. Commercial Sector – energy consumption by use i. Lighting ii. Power iii. Etc

i. Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure i. Details of current infrastructure and additions, strengthening program

etc ii. If APDRP Programme was implemented – details – primarily year and

for what purpose j. Tariff and Pricing Policy

i. Current tariff rates – domestic, commercial, industrial etc (If data from 2005 is available that would be great)

ii. Who determines tariffs and when was the last revision of tariff k. Transmission and Distribution Losses

i. Trends of Technical losses – 2000 to 2011 ii. Trends of ATC Losses – 2000 to 2011 iii. If there is a falling trend – why, what programmes were implemented iv. Metering system – 100% metered connection? If No, what is the ratio

between metered and non-metered connection v. What is the billing system – computerised?? Bar coded?? Etc

l. Data on renewable energy installations i. Grid based systems ii. Non-grid based systems iii. Is there an authority or cell for renewable energy

m. Information on energy efficiency measures implemented i. On-going programmes sector wise if any ii. Where the funding coming from – are these BEE programmes.



II. Strategies, priorities and actions for the next 5, 10 and 15 years

Issues 5 years 10 Years 15 years

ATC Loss reduction

Targets in %age reduction

Programmes planned

to achieve this


Programmes planned

to achieve this


Programmes planned

to achieve this

Generation capacity addition

How much

What source

How much

What source

How much

What source

Energy Conservation

Targets – Say Government building lighting efficiency

Street lighting programme

Other programmes with

targets if any

Also any new policy/s being planned




targets if any





targets if any


Renewable Energy

Targets

Policies

Regulations

Targets

Policies

Regulations

Targets

Policies

Regulations

Industrial Sector

1. Consumption Pattern: a. Category of industries with numbers

i. Chemicals ii. Pharma iii. Cement iv. ..... v. ...... vi. .......

b. Electricity and energy consumption pattern of each of the category of industries c. Source of electricity for the industries d. Demand trends for industrial energy consumption from 2000 to 2011 e. Break up of number of industries – organised and un-organised; large and Medium

Scale and SMEs. f. Efficiency practices in industries – if any.

2. Future Demand Projections

a. If this is not done, we can do it based on trends and other information

3. Strategies, Actions, Timelines and Budgets



Section 3: Proposed outline for the Chapter on Agriculture Sector

(One paper each on agriculture crops, horticulture, livestock and its productivity and fisheries need to

be developed)

1. An introduction to the status of agriculture in Punjab

Trends of contribution of agriculture to the state GDP

Trends of production of important agriculture crops

Trends of production of horticulture crops

Trends of livestock population and productivity

Trends of production of fish (riverine/ estuaries/ marine)

2. Distinctive nature of the - heavy rainfall agro climatic zones

3. Policy drivers of agriculture productivity, production and hence maintaining food security

National Policies (link developmental policies with NAPCC and its missions on

water, agriculture and greening India, solar for renewable energy in agriculture)

Policies Specific to the Union territory

Programs

Projects

Others

4. Observed climate change (trends of temperature and precipitation from all stations where

weather data is recorded) for at least last 30 years

Min temperature (Pre- monsoon, Monsoon, Post Monsoon, Winter)

Max temperature (Pre- monsoon, Monsoon, Post Monsoon, Winter)

Average temperature (Pre- monsoon, Monsoon, Post Monsoon, Winter)

Seasonal rain fall (Pre- monsoon, Monsoon, Post Monsoon, Winter) 5. Concerns anticipated due to climate change

(this section will elaborate the concerns vis-a-vis the changes in climate parameters in the regions

mentioned in section 3 of agriculture productivity and production and hence food security (based

on literature survey and strong expert judgment / perception)

5a. Agriculture crops

Rising Minimum temperatures during sowing/ growing season

Changes in Maximum temperature if any during sowing/growing season

Total rainfall – increasing and decreasing

Rainfall intensity increasing

Onset and withdrawal of monsoon

Rabi season is getting shorter

Emerging pests mainly foliar type more abundant

Thermal humidity index rising

Rising CO2 concentrations

5b. Horticulture Same as above

5c. Livestock and livestock productivity

Increase in temperatures (livestock stress, decrease in availability of feed stock)

Increase in water stress (decrease in feed availability)

Increase in CO2 concentration (impact on feed)

increase in frequency and intensity of cyclones



5d. Fisheries (inland (ponds and riverine), estuaries, marine)

Increase in temperature (at lower and upper latitudes, changes in surface

temperature in the inland waters)

Changes in water flow in rain fed rivers due to changing precipitation

pattern or increase in intensity of rain fall

Changes in mean, maximum and minimum temperature of river water/

ponds

Submergence of catchment areas due to rise in water level (e.g., all the

major estuaries)

Change in biodiversity profile of estuaries

Increase in sea surface temperature -planktons/fish relationship (along with

examples of how shift is taking place)

Increase in sea level rise

6. Strategies for adapting to CC (for each of the six regions)

6a. Agriculture Crops - current best practices and future requirements for maintaining

yields and bridging the yield gaps

Strategy Current program/ projects

Funds available

Implemented through (institution/program/project)

Actions in the 12th Plan (next 5 years)

Approx. Cost in today’s price

Actions in the 13th Plan (nest 10 years)

Approximate Cost in today's price

Action in 14th plan

6b. Horticulture - current best practices and future requirements for maintaining yields and

bridging the yield gaps (Similar table as agriculture crops)

6c. Livestock - current best practices and future requirements for maintaining yields and

bridging the yield gaps (Similar table as agriculture crops)

6d.Fisheries - current best practices and future requirements for maintaining yields

bridging the yield gaps and catering to the demand (Similar table as agriculture crops)



Section 4: Proposed outline for the Chapter on Biodiversity, Forests, Wild Life

and Eco Tourism Sector

1. A description of Biodiversity

2. Current distribution of Forests (State of Forest, 2009)

.

3. A description of Biodiversity and Ecosystem services

4. Concerns of Biodiversity, Forests, Wild Life and Eco-tourism due to climate Change

5. The Institutions involved in management of Forests, Biodiversity, Wildlife and ecotourism

6. Current policies and programmes and projects

Protection of Wild Life and Biodiversity

Protection of Forests and Afforestation programmes

Protecting water sources within forests

Disaster Management

Developing renewable energy technologies

Curtailing man-animal conflict

Sericulture

Any other

7. Concerns due to climate change

Increase in temperature leading to Change in vegetation type

Increase in temperature leading to more frequent droughts and forest fires

Increase in intensity of precipitation leading to more land slides

Any other…..

8. Strategies and Actions to Address the Concerns of Climate Change

Table : Strategies and actions for the forestry sector

Strategies Actions

Agencies

responsible

Short

(1st plan)

Medium (2nd

plan period)

Long (3rd

plan period)

Total

(Cost)

Strategy 1

Action 1

Action 2

Action 3

Action 4

--------

Actions to be

carried out

Cost:

Actions to be

carried out

Cost:

Action to be

carried out

Cost:



Section 5: Proposed outline of the Chapter on Sustainable Habitats

1. Introduction

2. Demography and Settlements

3. Trends in Urbanization

4. Urban Projections and Structure of Urban Punjab

5. Life-line Infrastructure in Rural and Urban Environs

5.1 Water Supply including sectoral demand

5.2 Sanitation and Wastewater

5.3 Household Sanitation:

5.4 Solid Waste Management:

6.0 Transport

6.1 Overview of the Transport Sector

6.1.1 The Growth of on road vehicle numbers (2000-2010)

6.1.2 Current distribution of vehicle mix by type

6.1.3 Trends of total demand of commercial energy in the transport sector

6.2 Policies in the Road transport sector

6.2.1 National policies and programs that are being implemented (JnNURM)

6.2.2 Any specific policy/s governing the transport sector exclusive to the state

6.2.3 Policy requirements towards a better transport planning that addresses.

- increased use of renewable mix in fuel

- tax on fuel

- better, wider, and additional roads to reduce congestion

- The concept of one way traffic

- Feasibility of introducing mass rapid transport system

- Encouraging pooling of cars

6.3 Traffic composition in Punjab

6.3.1 Passenger Vehicles Vs. Public Transport Vehicles

6.3.2 Truck and heavy vehicle population (If we can give some numbers such as x y

z number of trucks ply on the xyz roads every day – that will be great –

Toll Gate information would suffice)

6.3.3 Traffic congestion points if any

6.3.4 Mobility reform plans if any such as parking regulations, higher tax on

vehicles, etc

6.4 Profile of Public transportation and Government Vehicles in the state 6.5 Actions Plan for implementation of policies/strategies 6.6 Any transport related infrastructure plans for the next 5, 10 and 15 years such as

Airport

Railways

Truck terminals

7.0 Housing and Construction

8.0 Hazards and Vulnerability

8.1 Floods and Vulnerability 8.2 Any Other Hazard



9.0 Governance and the Public Policy Framework

10.0 Impacts of Climate Change

11.0 Strategies, Actions, Timelines and Budgets

Table (8): Action Plan for Habitat – Mitigation

Strategies Current program/projects

Fund available

Implemented through

(institution/program /project)

Actions in 12th

pla

Approx. cost in today’s

price

Actions Plan in 13th

plan


price

Table: Action Plan for Habitat - Adaptation


Fund available

Implemented through


Actions in years 0-5


price

Actions Plan in years 6-

10


price

Table : Action Plan for Habitat - Risk Mitigation


Fund available

Implemented through


Actions in years 0-5


price

Actions Plan in years 6-

10


price



Section 6: Proposed outline of the Chapter on Human Health Sector

1. Status of Disease profile related to climate

Water Borne Disease

Cholera

Vector Borne Disease Malaria:

Kala Azar:

Dengue:

Chikungunya:

Japanese Encephalitis (JE)/AES:

Heat Stress

Increase in respiratory diseases due to increase in pollution load (domestic and outdoor)

Malnutrition

Any other

2. Policies and Programs to Manage Morbidity and Mortality

3. Institutions managing disease

4. Concerns related to Climate Change and Human Health

Due to increase in temperature, Increase in frequency floods and Increase in frequency

and intensity of rain fall the following concerns may arise

Impacts on identified vulnerable population

Newer areas of infiltration for vectors

Increase in incidences of morbidities due to increase in extreme heat events

Higher damages, morbidity and mortality due to increase in intensity of cyclones

Increase in water borne diseases

Increase in respiratory diseases due to increase in pollution loads as temperatures

rises

Increase in morbidity/mortality due to increase in landslides

New and emerging diseases

5. Strategies and Actions

Table : Strategies, Actions, time lines and budgets

Institutions

involved

Actions in

the 12th

Plan

Approximate

Cost at today’s

price

Actions in

13th plan

Approximate

Cost at

today’s price

Actions in 14th

plan

Cost at

today’s Price

A. Vector borne

diseases

including

managing out

breaks

Action 1:

Action 2:

Action 3:

------

Action 1

Action 2

Action 3

...............

Action 1

........



Section 7: Proposed outline of the Chapter on Water Sector

1. A description of Water resources

River (river basin map to be provided)

Springs

Rainfall intensity (map to be provided)

Lakes (a map may also be provided giving location of the same)

2. Sources and modes of water supply in rural and urban areas 3. Current Challenges towards ensuring Water security in Punjab 4. Identification of special regions vulnerable to water availability 5. Institution managing water 6. Demand and Projection of water required for various sectors

Agriculture

Industry

Domestic use – Rural and Urban

Any other 7. Ensuring water availability – Current policies, programmes and projects 8. Concerns due to climate change

Decrease in Projected rainfall

Decrease in projected ground water recharge

Decrease in projected river runoff 9. Strategies and actions

Current

programs/ projects

Funds available

Implemented through (institution/program/project)

Actions in the 12th Plan (next 5 years)

Approximate Cost in today’s price

Actions in the 13th Plan (nest 10 years)

Approx. Cost in today's price

Strategy 1: Action 1 Action 2 Action 3 Action 4....

Action 1 Action 2 Action 3....

Strategy 2: Action 1 Action 2 Action 3 Action 4....

Action 1 Action 2 Action 3 Action 4....

Strategy 3:.....

Annex 3 Draft Program Schedule of Inception Workshop Objectives Participants Resource Teams Workshop Program Schedule



Inception Workshop for Preparation of Punjab State Action Plan Climate Change

Objective of Workshop: To discuss the guidelines for formulating the State Action Plan on Climate Change for the state of Punjab and setting up of working groups/ drafting committees for different sectors. Participants: Officials from following Departments of Government of Punjab:

Sector- Agriculture: Agriculture, Soil Conservation, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries,

Panchayati Raj & Rural Development and Forests.

Sector- Water: PWD, Irrigation & Urban and Rural Water Supply departments.

Sector- Energy: Power, PEDA (Non-Conventional Energy Sources).

Sector- Health: Health.

Sector- Industry: Industry.

Sector -Urban Habitat & Transport: Urban Development, Transport, Tourism, Planning &

Statistics, Town & Country Planning and Local department.

Punjab Pollution Control Board

Punjab Agriculture University

Punjab Remote Sensing Center

IMD,Chandigarh

CGWB,Chandigarh

Climate Change Division, MOEF

Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment Chandigarh

Planning department

CRRID

Resource Team for the Workshop: Dr. Sanjay Tomar, Dr. Sumana Bhattacharya, Dr. Gurcharan Singh, Mr. Debashish Dasgupta, Tirthankar Banerjee

Proposed Workshop Program Schedule

Date: ……September 2011

Time Program Details

9.00 am Registration

10.00 am Welcome/Opening Remarks: Focal Point Climate Change

10.30 am Thematic Presentation on Climate Change and Adaptation: Dr. Sumana Bhattacharya

11.00 am MoEF Framework for preparing SAPCC : GIZ/ CES

11.30 am Proposed outline of sectoral background papers and data gaps: Dr. Sumana Bhattacharya

Address : Chair, steering committee of SAPCC

1.00 pm LUNCH



Time Program Details

2.00 pm

Sector wise setting up of working groups /drafting Committees with relevant experts and nodal officers identified for each focus area (Themes: Agriculture, Water, Health, Energy, Industry, urban habitat and transport, Forests)

4.00 pm TEA

Recommendations

Annex 4 Matrix Activities undertaken by Punjab Government under each mission of NAPCC



1. National Solar Mission

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Sector Programs & Achievements* Departments involved

Current key con-cerns

Actions to be taken to achieve the targets

Actions to be taken by 12th plan

Cost of each ac-tion at today’s price

Action to be taken by 13th plan

Cost at today’s price

1 Solar Water heating

15 lac LPD commissioned 2 lac LPD under construction 4500 LPD sanctioned

Punjab Energy Development Agency

2 Solar lighting 4700 Nos. commissioned 600 Nos. under construction


3 Solar power generation

1.325 MW commissioned 16.960 MW under construc-tion


4 Assessment of Total Solar energy po-tential of state

2600 MW Punjab Energy Development Agency

5 % Solar ener-gy potential of state so far tapped

1.325 MW commissioned 16.960 MW under construc-tion


6 Green/Solar passive build-ings

1 Solar Passive Complex established at Chandigarh by PEDA


Solar Pump Sets

Dept. of Soil & Water Con-servation propose to install 100 solar pumps under GOI sponsored Rashtriya Kirishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) for which it has proposed addi-tional subsidy of Rs. 2.00 lakhs per solar pump under RKVY in addition to PEDA assistance, for Micro Irriga-tion on Farm Tanks for con-servation of irrigation water through assured power supply.

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7 Any other program

MC, Ludhiana has intimated that case is under consider-ation for adopting the solar system.

Dept. of Local Govt.

8 Solar cooking Punjab Energy Development Agency

PEDA

9 Conventional energy saved in the state by using solar energy sys-tem


PEDA

10 Development of Solar Cities


PEDA



2. National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency

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Cost of each action at today’s price



1 Saving of fuels Dept. of Transport pur-chased 1037 new buses and grounded old buses to in-crease the KMPL and to save the fuel. Dept. of Transport to pur-chase 150 new buses every year and to replace old bus-es of Punjab Roadways. The Dept. is presently buying EURO-2 (BS-II) buses. Under Incentive Scheme implemented, awards are given to the drivers who achieve high KMPL than the fixed target. The Dept. has installed Fuel Injection Pump Test Bench in Saheed Bhagat Singh Nagar. It is used for testing pumps of buses for ensuring saving of fuel and check on pollu-tion. The Dept. has also installed pollution checking machines in its depots to check smoke level. Further, the Dept. buys High Speed Diesel from the renowned public sector companies like M/s Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. and Hindustan Petroleum Corpo-ration Ltd. to get quality diesel supply.

Dept. of Transport

2 Improving effi-ciency in water pumps in agri-culture

Potential: 2550 mKW/h Pilot study on 2081Agri. pump sets by BEE in two circles (30-40% saving po-tential)


3 Energy audit of buildings

Energy audit of 24 Govt. buildings and 2 big institu-tions i.e. NIPER, Mohali and




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Punjabi University, Patiala.

MC, Ludhiana has informed that energy audit for the MC building has been conduct-ed. Audit of rest of the build-ings of MC is to be done.

Dept. of Local Govt. (MC, Ludhiana)

MC, Bathinda has intimated that audit of energy con-ducted by Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), New Delhi

Dept. of Local Govt. (MC, Bathinda)

4 Developing microhydel projects

Potential: 140 MW Achievement: 35 MW Under implementation: 40 MW


5 Replacement of ordinary bulbs with CFLs

Targets to provide 28 lac CFLs during 2010-11 and 20 lac during 2011-12. 7.5 lakh replaced Bachat Lamp Yozana under CDM scheme is in progress with PSPCL.


MC, Ludhiana has intimated that ordinary incandescent bulbs are not being used in the office of Nagar Nigam, Ludhiana.

Dept. of Local Bodies (MC, Ludhiana)

MC, Bathinda has completed replacement of ordinary lights with CFL 2400 nos. i.e. 17% on trial basis. If it succeeds, 75% lights will be replaced with CFL.

Dept. of Local Bodies (MC, Bathinda)

6 Improved con-trol systems for street lights

MC, Bathinda has provided timers on main roads. For energy saving MC would also provide timers in remaining part of city.

Dept. of Local Bodies (MC, Bathinda)

MC, Ludhiana has informed that case is under considera-tion to adopt solar system.




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7 Use of renewa-ble sources of energy (other than solar)

- Biomass/Bagasse Co-generation power project : 250.35 MW - Biomass Power Projects: 28.5 MW - Waste to energy: 1 No.


8 Formulation of Energy Conser-vation Cell (ECC)

Formed Energy Conservation Cell (ECC) to cover all offices of department.


9 LED 2 demo projects, 1 for street lighting and other for home lighting are under execution.


10 Energy Efficien-cy in Municipal street lighting

RFT prepared and submitted to Local Govt. Dept. of im-plementation MC, Ludhiana floated ten-ders for replacement of 80000 street lights through ESCO mode.

Punjab Energy Development Agency, Dept. of Local Govt.

11 Energy Efficien-cy in Industry

Potential: 795 mKHW, Achievement: 22 mKHW in large industry Energy audit in 24 SMEs 10% energy saving in brick, cupola and rolling mills through improved technolo-gy.

Concerned departments

12 Energy Efficien-cy in commer-cial buildings

Potential: 80 mKHW, achievement of 29 mKHW through CFL and Star la-belled appliances.GOP noti-fication for compulsory SWHS, CFL, ISI marked pumps and EE building de-sign.

Concerned departments



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13 Efficiency in Power genera-tion (Moderni-zation of power plants)

Punjab State Transmission Corporation Limited

PSTCL

14 Saving of pow-er


PSTCL

15 Prevention in pilferage and other losses


PSTCL

16 Reduce trans-mission/ distri-bution losses


PSTCL



3. Mission on Sustainable Habitats

Sr. No.

Sector Programs & Achieve-ments*

Departments involved

Current key concerns






1 Solar pas-sive build-ings

Punjab Energy Develop-ment Agency has con-structed a Solar Passive Complex at Chandigarh which houses this agency. It is an energy efficient build-ing.

Punjab Ener-gy Develop-ment Agency

Dept. of Forests, Punjab has set up green building in Mohali. This is also an en-ergy efficient complex.

Dept. of For-ests, Punjab

2 Promotion of use of clean fuels in transport sector

Dept. of Soil & Water Con-servation has set up Energy Conservation Cell (ECC) which will take necessary steps for use of clean fuels under the technical assis-tance from PEDA.

Dept. of Soil & Water Conserva-tion, Punjab

Other de-partments also need to take similar action and intimate achieve-ments.

3 Vehicular pollution control

Dept. of Transport is issuing instructions to all the De-pots from time to time to check the pollution of the buses before sending on routes. Punjab Roadways have its own Drivers Training School, where training is imparted to the drivers.

State Transport Dept.

State Pollu-tion Control Board need to give ac-tion taken with regard to vehicular pollution control in the state.

4 Water pol-lution con-trol from MCs

As per MC, Ludhiana public is requested from time to time to change their old/damaged pipes to pre-vent supply of polluted wa-ter. At the same time the Sewerage Board is request-ed to change the damaged pipes in the cities.

MC, Ludhia-na

State Pollu-tion Control Board need to give ac-tion taken with regard to water pollution control from MCs in the state.



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Municipal Solid waste manage-ment

As per SOE 2007, 3035 tons of municipal solid waste is being generated per day in the state. Of which 71% is contributed by 5 Municipal Corporations namely Lu-dhiana, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Patiala and Bathinda. 38 municipal authorities have adequate land for disposal of municipal solid waste for more than 20 years. Action taken by departments for management of solid waste include :- Constitution of District Level Committees to identify landfill sites for all urban bodies.- Dept. of L:ocal Bodies has taken an initiative under Public Pri-vate Partnership format for which the state has been divided into 9 clusters namely Jalandhar, Ludhia-na, Ferozepur, Bathinda, Pathankot, Patiala, Sangur, Amritsar and GMADA. Each cluster comprises a major town and other peripheral towns. The management of solid waste would include door-to-door collection, trans-portation, Central Integrat-ed Processing Plant, scien-tific landfill site and transfer stations. - SWM project for Ludhiana cluster has been planned under JNNURM. - Preparation of DPR by Punjab Pollution Control Board for the towns of Mandi Gobindgarh and Kartarpur. - State Govt. has enacted Punjab Plastics Carry Bags (Manufacture, Usage and Disposal) Act. Landfill site for municipal solid waste is being maintained.

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5 Manage-ment of hazardous waste

As per SOE, 2007 there are 2628 hazardous waste gen-erating units in the State which are generating ap-proximately 124674 tons of waste per annum (TPA). Of this, 96992 TPA is recycla-ble, 15108 TPA is incinera-ble and 12573 TPA is stora-ble. A Common Treatment Storage & Disposable Facili-ty (TSDF) has been devel-oped in the state at village Numbian, Teh. Derabassi, Dist. Mohali on 20.64 acres area by M/s Nimbuan Greenfield Punjab Ltd. through M/s Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd., Hyderabad. The Facility has an expected life of 15 years.

6 Manage-ment of Animal waste and Dead ani-mals

MC, Ludhiana has intimated that a cow dung based bio-gas plant to generate elec-tricity has already been installed by PEDA at Dairy Complex, Humbran Road, Ludhiana. Another project for Tajpur Road Dairy Com-plex is under consideration.

Dept. of Lo-cal Govt. (MC, Ludhia-na)

Dept. of Animal Husbandry, other MCs and other depts. to give the action taken by the re-spective depart-ment.

7 Control of Noise pol-lution

Dept. of Transport has is-sued instructions to all the depots to remove the pres-sure horns and check the buses in this regard before sending on routes.

Transport Dept.

8 Mass Pub-lic Transport System

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9 Industrial Air Pollu-tion Con-trol

Industry Dept. Punjab Pollu-tion Control Board

Dept. of Industries and State Pollution Control Board need to give ac-tion taken with regard to industrial air pollution control in the state.

10 Water pol-lution con-trol from industries

Industries Dept. & Punjab Pollution Control Board

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11 Manage-ment of Electronic waste

All concerned Depts., Pun-jab Pollution Control Board



4. Water Mission

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Actions to be taken to achieve the tar-gets





1 State of drink-ing water sup-ply in urban areas

For providing water supply and sewerage facilities to 100% urban population or Punjab State, a sum of Rs. 2815.82 cr. is required (An-nexure 'I'). The Dept. is maintaining water sup-ply schemes in 16 towns of Bath-inda, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Dasuya, Mukerian, Tanda, Phillaur, Goraya, Na-wanshahr (Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar), Banga, Dhilwan, Kapurtha-la, Sultanpur Lodhi, Phillaur and Phagwara.

Punjab Water Supply & Sewerage Board

86% urban population of 135 towns of Punjab State has access to drink-ing water supply. The Board is mak-ing efforts to achieve 100% urban population coverage with drinking water supply.

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MC, Bathinda has formulated pro-ject for 100% W/s in the town at a cost Rs.29.40 crores for which works is in progress.

Dept. of Local Govt. (MC, Bathinda)

The Dept. is providing water supply to the historic towns of Muktsar, Anandpur Sahib and Fatehgarh Sa-hib.(a) Muktsar: Augmentation of water supply scheme at a cost of Rs.431.88 lacs under PIDB and Rs. 1541.08 lacs under JNNURM in pro-gress.(b) Anandpur Sahib: Augmen-tation of water supply scheme un-der Gurta Gaddi Diwas Program at a cost of Rs. 306.19 lacs.(c) Talwandi Sabo: Augmentation of water sup-ply scheme under Gurta Gadi Diwas Programme at a cost of Rs. 168.48 lacs.Further, the Dept. is imple-menting the project for augmenta-tion of water supply scheme in Jala-labad town, Dist. Ferozepur at a cost of Rs. 256.00 lacs.

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2 Increase in water use efficiency in urban areas (by preventing leakages etc.)

MC, Ludhiana has informed that to prevent leakage, they have re-quested PWSSB to take necessary action and educate public to main-tain their water supply lines.


Punjab Water Supply & Sewerage Board has formed Patrolling Parties for different areas and they have been ordered for surprise checking of leakage and wastage of water. Flow meters have been installed on tube well for checking the dis-charge of water. Consumers have been educated through advertise-ments.


3 State of water supply in rural areas

- The department is implementing rural water supply program under SWAP mode under which rural wa-ter supply schemes are being exe-cuted with contribution from bene-ficiaries as well as Operation and Maintenance of schemes is being done through Gram Panchayat Wa-ter Supply and Sanitation Commit-tees (GPWSC). This will ensure bet-ter sustainability of rural water supply schemes.- Govt. of India has made it compulsory for each state to utilize 20% funds for sustainabil-ity activities. Punjab Govt. has ac-corded formal approval for imple-mentation for sustainability pro-gram in the department. Sustaina-bility of water means to ensure availability of adequate quantity of potable water to rural population throughout the year.



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There are 11780 main habitations and 2331 other habitations out of which department has covered 12516 (10764 main habitation and 1752 other habitations = 11623 habitations) with safe drinking wa-ter supply up to 31.03.2009. Details are given below : Status as on 01.04.2010 HabitationsSchemes Schemes MH OH Totalbased uponi Ca-nal : 671 1084 199 1283 waterii Tube well : 4501 9112 946 10058iii Perco-lation : 33 82 86 168 Welliv India Mark- : 820 187 1007 II Hand Pumps Total 5205 11098 1418 12516 During the year 2010-11, the Dept. has covered 373 habitations up to 31.08.2010.




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Rural Habitations yet to be covered as on 01.04.2010: MH OH TotalNon covered : 1628 579 1595 Habita-tions(NC)Partially : 2665 -- 2665CoveredHabitations(PC)Total : 3681 579 4260Habitations- It is proposed to cover 2023 NC/PC habitations with potable water supply during 2010-11.- All the balance NC/PC habita-tions will be covered by the end of financial year 2011-12. Further, the Dept. targeted to cover 2228 habitations (NCs 935, PC 1216 and OH 77) during 2009-10 of which following have already been covered : NC habitations 339 PC habitations 661 Other habitations 229 Total 1229 Remaining habitations will be cov-ered by March, 2012.



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4 Increase in water use efficiency in rural areas

The following activities are being carried out by the Department of Water Supply & Sanitation.- The department is carrying out inten-sive IEC activities to sensitize the rural population regarding efficient use of drinking water.- The Dept. has set up a Shikayat Nivaran Ken-dra (SNK) at Mohali with a toll free number 1800-180-2468 where all rural water supply consumers can lodge their complaints as well as retrieve the latest information about the status of the complaints lodged by them. This will help in achieving higher O&M standards thereby increasing the water use efficiency.- The leakage, if any, is being promptly repaired by the department officials.


5 State of treatment of waste water in urban areas

PWSSB is maintaining sewerage schemes in the towns of Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Kartarpur (Annexure-I)

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The Dept. of Water Supply & Sani-tation is providing sanitation facility in 3 No. historical towns namely Anandpur Sahib, Kiratpur Sahib and Muktsar.Status of installation of sewerage treatment plants in dif-ferent towns is as under:i) Anandpur Sahib: A sewerage treatment plant (STP) of 8 mld ca-pacity is under construction and the same is likely to be commissioned by January/February, 2010.ii) Muk-tsar: Two No. STP is to be con-structed for the city. 12.2 MLD ca-pacity STP has been approved un-der JNNURM out of which 3.5 MLD capacity STP at Ballamgarh Road is already operational. 1st installment under JNNURM has already been received and the work is likely to be taken in hand shortly.The case for acquisition of land for construction of 5.7 MLD STP at Jalalabad Road is under process. The construction of STP will be taken in hand after the acquisition of land.iii) Kiratpur Sa-hib: Detailed survey report has been framed and is pending with World Bank for NOC. The augmen-tation of water supply is likely to be completed by March, 2011.


6 Reuse of treated mu-nicipal waste water

(i) 45 Mld treated domestic waste water from STP, Bhattian at Ludhi-ana to be reused for irrigation. Lay-ing pipe network to utilize 45 Mld of treated Municipal Waste Water. Work started. This work is financed by "Sh. P.Ram Committee for Budha Nallah"

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(ii) Treated domestic waste water from STP, Balloke at Ludhiana to be reused for irrigation. A sum of Rs. 304.62 crore is required for this purpose. Proposal for laying pipe network to utilize treated Municipal Waste Water is being prepared by Dept. of Soil Conservation, Punjab. Funding source is yet to be tied up.

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Soil & Water Conservation propos-es to use of treated waste water for irrigation in 225 ha area through Underground Pipeline System (UGPS) at an estimated cost of Rs.175.00 lac.

Dept. of Soil & Water Con-servation

Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal, a re-nowned environmentalist and reli-gious preacher has started mobiliz-ing public for reuse of treated waste water in agriculture.

7 State of Sew-erage/ Sanita-tion facilities in Rural areas

Govt. of India has awarded Nirmal Gram Puraskar to 96 villages for achieving the target of open defe-cation free villages. • The Punjab Govt. has recom-mended 152 no. villages for award of Nirmal Gram Puraskar during the year 2010-2011. • 3487 villages in Punjab shall be made open defecation free with construction of 1.05 Lakh Individu-als Household toilets up to June 2011 with financial assistance from NABARD. • All remaining villages of Punjab are proposed to be open defecation free within next five years. • 40% of villages in Punjab are also likely to be covered with sewerage facility in next 10 years.



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8 Cleaning of polluted riv-ers, streams, etc.

i) Under Satluj Action Plan 8 num-ber STPs commissioned to treat 462 Mld of domestic waste water.


ii) Installation of 155 Mld capacity STPs at Bhattian & Balloke in Ludhi-ana approved under JNNURM to treat domestic waste water before disposal on to land and river Satluj.

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iii) Installation of 237 Mld capacity 18 no. STPs in 12 towns approved under UIDSSMT.

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iv) Proposal to set up STPs at Ropar (10,2 & 2.5 Mld) & Nangal (5 Mld) approved by GOP to treat 19.5 Mld domestic waste water before dis-posal on to land or river.

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v) Proposal to set up 14 STPs (95.68 Mld) in towns of district Bathinda & Mansa approved by GOP.

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Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal, a re-nowned environmentalist and reli-gious preacher has taken lead for initiating environment protection programs particularly for cleaning and rehabilitation of Kali Bein. Govt. of Punjab has been facilitat-ing this program.

9 Restoration of degraded wa-ter bodies

Punjab Water Supply & Sewerage Board proposes to ensure 100% treatment of waste water before its release in rivers.

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10 Water bodies in rural areas (Rehabilitation of village ponds)

Dept. of Rural Development has launched scheme for rehabilitation of village ponds in the state. . 512 ponds in 500 villages of the state ( average 25 from each dis-trict) are proposed to be rehabili-tated as pilot project at an estimat-ed cost of 33.66 crores within next one year. . The ponds of all the remaining villages are likely to be renovated within next ten years.

Rural Devel-opment Dept.

11 Conservation of wetlands

With the efforts of the PSCST, Harike, Kanjli and Ropar wetlands have been included in the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance. These wetlands were earlier designated as wetlands of national importance by MEF, GOI. Conservation measures at these wetlands are being taken by involv-ing various state government de-partments. Steps being taken in-clude soil conservation, wildlife conservation, plantation, weed removal, water quality assessment, livelihood development issues for using water hyacinth, public awareness, etc.

PSCST and other related departments

12 Assured avail-ability of drinking water through Re-verse Osmosis (RO) Plants.

In order to ensure availability of quality water throughout the year for drinking and cooking purposes, RO Plants stand installed and com-missioned in 367 villages of 8 dis-tricts, where ground water is not potable due to high concentration of chemicals in water or where suf-ficient quantity of raw water is not available from canals due to various reasons.It is proposed to install R.O Plants in 246 villages during the year 2010-11, In future, R.O. plants will be installed keeping in view the quality of ground water and/or availability canal water in the vil-lage.

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13 Increase in water use efficiency by industries

Industries Depts., Pun-jab Pollution Control Board

14 Reuse of treated water by industries

Industries Depts., Pun-jab Pollution Control Board

15 Water bodies in urban areas

Local Bodies Dept.



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1 Conservation efforts for Shivalik hills in Punjab-plantation activities

Dept. of Soil & Water Conservation is imple-menting GOI sponsored National Watershed Development Project for Rain fed Areas (NWDPRA) in kandi area and Treatment of catchment area of flood prone River (FPR) Ghag-gar and State Plan scheme for watershed development in non-project areas in Kandi area. Under the program it has treated approx. 69071 ha area since 8th Plan. Components of the scheme include planta-tion activities, Soil & Water Erosion Control and Livelihood support through sustainable ag-riculture & allied activi-ties on watershed basis in middle & lower reaches of Kandi area. Further, it proposes to extend the activity to 24276 ha area.

Dept. of Soil & Conservation

2 Conservation efforts for Shivalik hills in Punjab-soil conservation activities

Dept. of Soil & Water Conservation has im-plemented GOI spon-sored National Water-shed Development Pro-ject for Rain fed Areas (NWDPRA) in Kandi Area and Treatment of catchment area of flood prone River (FPR) Ghag-gar and State Plan scheme for watershed development in non-project areas in approx. 69071 ha in Kandi Area at a cost of Rs. 4476.61

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lac. The Dept. would further carry out activi-ties in 24276 ha area at approx. cost of Rs. 2832.20 lac.

3 Conservation of wetlands in Shivaliks

With the efforts of the PSCST, MEF has desig-nated Nangal Wetland, Ropar Wetland and Ran-jit Sagar Dam Wetland located in the Shival-iks/its foothills as wet-lands of national im-portance. Conservation measures at these wet-lands are being taken by involving various state agencies under the co-ordination of PSCST with financial support from MEF, GOI. Steps being taken include plantation of native species, soil conservation, water quality assessment, wet-land education & awareness, etc. State Govt. has also identified Dholbaha Wetland as wetland of state im-portance.

All depart-ments

4 Development of water-sheds

As above Soil Conserva-tion Dept.



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1 Parks and gardens

Ludhiana has 758 parks. 373 parks are being maintained by Park Management Commit-tees for which Municipal Corporation is providing funds @ Rs.1.00/- per sq.m. per month. During the year 2008-09. MC provided Rs. 65.40 lacs for 368 parks. During 2009-10 it provided Rs. 69.84 lacs for the maintenance of 373 parks. In rest of the parks like Rose Garden, Mini Rose Garden, etc. the MC itself maintains the plantation along 77.5 km center verges, green belts and roads in the city. MC has planted a number of trees dur-ing the previous years as per details mentioned below : 2005-06 30050 saplings 2006-07 38039 2007-08 28957 2008-09 34800 2009-10 38511 Further, it proposes to take up plantation dur-ing next two years : 2010-11 32000 2011-12 35000 MC has a program to plant 2000 saplings around buildings in four zones and sub-zones.

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MC, Bathinda is devel-oped and is maintaining 70 parks including One Rose garden. 2500 plants planted in parks and on roads sides/streets. Till 2012, 92 parks main-tain committees will be formed to enhance pub-lic participation. 5000 more plants will be planted in parks and along roads/streets.

Dept. of Local Govt. (MC, Bath-inda)

2 Plantation in schools

Schools are actively tak-ing up environment conservation programs including plantation of native species of trees, shrubs, herbs and me-dicinal plants with fi-nancial and technical support from Ministry of Environment & For-ests, Govt. of India un-der National Green Corps Programme and National Environment Awareness Campaign. PSCST is coordinating implementation of the-se schemes in the State.Dept. of Forests is providing saplings to schools for plantation activities.

PSCST, Educa-tion Dept., For-ests Dept.,

3 Any other program

State Govt. is mobilizing public to plant trees on large scale under the scheme 'Nanhi Chhan'. Religious leaders have initiated mass planta-tion programs in the state involving public students and NGOs.



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4 Natural for-est

Forests Dept.

5 City Forests MC, Bathinda Nil

Urban Local Bodies, PUDA, Improvement Trusts

6 Forests along roads, canals, riv-ers, streams

Forests Dept., Irrigation Dept., Water Re-sources Direc-torate, PWD (B&R)

7 Plantation of forest trees

Forests Dept.

8 Areas under horticultural trees (Fruit bearing trees only)

Horticulture Dept.,

9 Plantation in government buildings other than schools

Horticulture Dept., Forests Dept.Respective Depts.

10 Private for-ests

Forests Dept.

11 Plantation in Shamlat lands

Rural Dept., Forest Dept.

12 Plantation in cant areas

Army/Forest Dept.

13 Plantation in industrial units

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14 Plantation in Railway col-onies

Railway Dept.



7. Mission on Sustainable Agriculture Sr. No.





Cost of each action at to-day’s price



1 Improved irrigation by promoting sprinkler systems

As per PAU, it is estimated that Punjab has a potential of bring-ing 3,57,000 ha of land under sprinkler irrigation. This meth-od is suitable for irrigating all the close growing crops except paddy. The Sprinkler irrigation system is also suitable in undulating terrain where land shaping is expensive or technically not feasible. PAU had conducted a study on sugarcane using Sprinkler method and found that it saved 36.3 cm (20.6%) of total water used consequently increasing the WUE by 24.7 percent. The sugar yield increased by 1.62 percent under sprinkler meth-od as compared to surface method of irrigation.

PAU, Ludhia-na

Dept. of Soil & Water Conser-vation has implemented GOI sponsored Micro Irrigation scheme and State sponsored NABARD-RIDF Project in 8819 ha. area at a cost of Rs. 2709.77 lac. It proposes to ex-tend the scheme in 21000 ha area. The Dept. is providing 75% subsidy on Drip/Sprinkler sys-tems to the farmers in all dis-tricts, 50% subsidy on Farm Water Storage Tanks in South-western districts for saving water resources through this scheme.




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2 Improved irrigation by promoting drip irriga-tion systems

As per PAU estimates, Punjab has a potential of bringing 65,000 ha under drip irrigation because State has about 1.5 lakh ha area under vegetables, 0.47 lakh ha area under fruits, 6.0 lakh ha under cotton and 1.25 lakh ha under sugarcane where drip irrigation can be used efficiently. Thus this tech-nology if adopted in proper perspective can prove to be a boon to the farmers of Punjab. It has been estimated that by converting 1 lakh ha land under micro irrigation will result :- The total water saving of 347 million Cu.m./annum.- Fertiliz-er saving of Rs.105 lakh KWH of energy per year worth Rs.7 crores by pumping less water. Employment generation of 1.25 lakh persons. Saving on infrastructural in-vestment on major irrigation projects - 265 crores. AICRP on Application of Plastics in Agriculture - Various vegetable crops like chili, cauliflower, potato, toma-to, pea, bottle guard, okra and carrot has been raised with drip irrigation system. The in-crease in yield and saving in water ranges from 15-56% and 17-63% respectively. - Use of mulches along with drip irrigation has improved the processing quality of potato along with increase in yield by 30-35% as compared to no mulch condition. - Adaptive trials for three years on the use of drip irrigation in cotton showed that it saved 28% water and 20% increase in yield.

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Effect of Mulches and Drip Irri-gation on Hydrothermal Re-gimes of Soil, Tuber Yield and Quality of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L) to suggest irriga-tion scheduling for different drip irrigated crops.

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To study the salt & moisture distribution in the soil profile under drip irrigation system with saline water.

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Effect of low tunnel environ-ment on growth and yield of capsicum using drip irrigation system.

Determination of maximum lateral length for uniform ap-plication of water using various design parameters of drip irri-gation system

Response of Tomato to differ-ent levels of fertigation under plastic mulch and crop geome-try with drip irrigation to opti-mize fertigation levels and ef-fect of mulching on yield and quality.

Studies on effect of crop ge-ometry, irrigation and fertiga-tion on cauliflower under drip irrigation to optimize irrigation and fertigation levels and its effect on yield and quality.

3 Rain water harvesting

MC, Ludhiana has intimated that it has imposed a condition for installation of Rain Water Harvesting systems in the resi-dential plots of the size of 250 sq.yds and above. The con-struction plan will be approved only if this is provided.




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PAU programs include water-shed hydrology studies in Kandi area under Kandi watershed area development project for:- Hydrological parameters for the design of small water har-vesting structures for providing supplemental/Lifesaving irriga-tion in Kandi area.- Perfor-mance evaluation and impact assessment of small water har-vesting structures in Kandi ar-ea.PAU's National Professor-ship project "Development of technologies for the control of declining water table in irrigat-ed areas" for :- Quality status and optimum utilization of vil-lage pond water for irriga-tion.optimum dike heights for rainfall conservation in paddy fields.- Evaluated impact of water harvesting structures on ground water balance in Kandi area.

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PAU also proposes for : - Development of an efficient composite filter for groundwa-ter recharge uses surface run-off through gravity well. -Recharging dry shallow aqui-fers using surface runoff. - Impact of Rainwater harvest-ing through rooftop for groundwater recharge. - Transfer of Technology.

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Dept. of Soil & Water Conser-vation have provided 100 nos. of Rainwater Harvesting Struc-tures under GOI sponsored NWDPRA and State Plan scheme for Rainwater Harvest-ing in kandi area at an approx. cost of Rs. 500.00 lac. Further it proposes to install 60 nos. Rain Water Harvesting Structures to

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promote natural recharge of ground water.

Roof Top Rain Water Harvest-ing has been made mandatory in all building above 200 sq.yds. by amending the build-ings by-laws vide Chief Town Planner, Local Govt. Dept. Pun-jab vide notification No. 10/19/05-2LG/803 III dated 28.12.2005.PUDA is also amending building by-laws applicable outside the munici-pal limits, to make Roof Top Rain Water Harvesting manda-tory in building constructed in area where water table is fall-ing.

Water Re-sources & Environment Directorate

4 Recharging of ground water

Under All India Coordinated Research Project on Agriculture (AICRP) on Optimization of ground water utilization through tube wells and pumps PAU, Ludhiana has developed: - Design of rainwater harvest-ing structure through rooftop for groundwater recharge which has been recommended by the University Research Evaluation Committee. The technology has been imple-mented at field level at various sites which includes education-al institutes, marriage palaces, residential houses, etc. - National Professorship project "Development of technologies for the control of declining water table in irrigated areas"

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- Quality status and optimum utilization of village pond water for ground water recharge. By renovating village ponds water table decline can be arrested up to 5 cm/year. - Development low cost filta-tion technique (Vertical filter) for recharge with silty water. - Studied the feasibility of using surface drains for recharge of ground water. Improvement of water quality of domestic waste water through soil aquifer treatment system (SAT) for ground water recharge.

Dept. of Soil & Water Conser-vation has installed 22 Nos. artificial recharging structures in community buildings with the technical and financial as-sistance of Central Ground Wa-ter Board at a cost of Rs. 178.00 lac. It proposes to in-stall 200 more structures.

Dept. of Soil & Conserva-tion

As per Central Ground Water Board, Chandigarh Report ti-tled “Master Plan on Artificial Recharge to Ground Water in Punjab State,” 2002. about 1201 MCM of non-committed surface run-off is available from river Ravi, Beas, Sutlej & Ghagar which can be utilized as source of water to recharge ground water reservoir. Be-sides this 24.58 MCM of rain-water can be harvested from roof tops of urban areas of the State The total number of structures required to recharge the surplus run-off will be 70,640. Besides this 1,38,684 recharge structures will be required to harvest roof top rain water in urban areas.

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(a) Work of 8 No. Pilot Artificial Recharge Schemes in various districts of Punjab completed with the financial and technical assistance of Central Ground Water Board. The initial results are encouraging and efforts are being made to implement such schemes in 79% area of the state where ground water ta-ble is falling to arrest its de-cline. Following schemes have been completed : - Dhuri Drain & Dhuri Link Drain, Distt. Sangrur. - Bassian Drain, Distt. Moga. - Sirhind Choe, Miranpura Choe and Patiala Nadi, Distt. Patiala. - Bilga and Sari Canal Rest House, Distt. Jalandhar. - Bhatian Canal Colony, Dist. Ludhiana.

On the basis of success of the-se 8 No. Artificial Recharge Schemes and the Master Plan on artificial recharge for Punjab state (prepared by C.G.W.B.) a project for artificial recharge to augment declining ground wa-ter resources of the state amounting to Rs. 31.90 crores, submitted to NABARD for fi-nancing, has been partially approved for Rs. 9.62 crores for funding under RIDF-XIII for studying its initial impact. Dur-ing 2008-09, Rs. 182.76 lacs mobilization advance was re-leased by NABARD, but funds could not be utilized due to time taken to clarify certain conditions laid down by NAB-ARD and increase in cost of project due to escalation. Now this project has been revised amounting to Rs. 15.44 crores



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for 59 No. Artificial Recharge Schemes in various Rest Hous-es in the state of Punjab under NABARD Project by using canal water

(b) The area lying between Chandigarh-Hoshiarpur-Dasuya-Mukerian Road and Shivalik Foothills in Punjab is known as Kandi Area. The Govt. of Punjab declared this tract as economically and so-cially backward area. Till date, 12 low dams have been con-structed to provide irrigation facilities to about 13000 hec-tares of land. These dams con-structed for irrigation and flood control and shall also indirectly help in augmenting the ground water resources of the state. In addition, out of total 17 Low Dams to give total irrigation facilities to 15861 hectares, it is proposed to construct 9 No. Low Dams to cater irrigation facilities to 3400 hectares of land under Bharat Nirman Pro-gramme costing Rs. 170.00 crores, in addition to check flashy flood menace in the ar-ea. These dams indirectly help in augmenting the ground wa-ter resources of the state.

(c) Pilot Artificial Recharge to augment declining ground wa-ter resources of district Moga in Phidda Drain and Chand Bhan Drain amounting to Rs. 1.79 crore has been approved by the Govt. of India under Centrally Sponsored Schemes (For details ref. Annexure-III).



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(d) Various departments com-prehensive proposal for 'Man-agement of Declining Ground Water Resources to sustain Food Production', which in-cludes 'On Farm Management practices like Proper/Precision land leveling, furrow method of irrigation, suggested pre and post-sowing irrigation sched-ules adoption, straw mulching, tillage, etc. are being encour-aged through PAU, Ludhiana, underground pipeline system n place of Kacha Field Channels for Kotla Branch Canal and Ghaggar Branch Canal system for conservation of water re-sources amounting to Rs. 3498.40 crores stands submit-ted to Ministry of Water Re-sources, Govt. of India in March 2009 for consideration and providing financial aid.

(e) Artificial recharge by using canal water to augment declin-ing ground water resources in Amritsar, Tarn Taran and San-grur districts have been pre-pared and submitted to Central Ground Water Board for fi-nancing under centrally spon-sored schemes (For detail ref. Annexure-IV).

(f) Various steps, including re-vival of ponds, water-bodies cleaning of Budha Nallah etc. have been initiated so that the declining ground water level can be revived to help farmers to recoup from additional ex-penditure for installation of submersible pumps instead of centrifugal pumps.



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5 Recharging of sub soil water

The recharging of subsoil water by harvesting of rain water in the water works area or roof top surface run off from Govt. High/Senior Secondary Schools is being carried out by the de-partment.From the year 2009-10 the department has started the work of Recharging of sub soil water by harvesting of rain water in the water works area or in the Govt. High/Senior Secondary Schools where suffi-cient quantity of roof top rain water is available.The work of recharging of subsoil water will be replicated throughout the state in next five years.

Dept. of Wa-ter Supply & Sanitation

6 Measures to remove and prevent wa-ter logging of agricultural areas

PAU, Ludhiana All India Coordinated Research Project on "Agricultural drain-age under actual farming con-ditions on watershed basis (1982-002)" The following technologies were development - Multiple well point system. Cyclic use of canal water and groundwater. - Sub-surface drainage system Bio-drainage system. Research on Development of Irrigation & Drainage System - Water management practices for enhancing crop production with the application of Adju-vant under waterlogged condi-tion under which 20% water saving & 6.3% increase in yield was reported. - Inventory of salt affected wa-terlogged areas of southwest-ern districts of Punjab is pre-pared. - Preliminary survey of water logged areas of Muktsar district

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has been completed for sub-mission of Pilot Project on Ag-ricultural Drainage for reclama-tion of salt affected water-logged areas.

7 Promotion of organic farm-ing

PAU, LudhianaA Network Pro-ject on organic farming funded by ICAR has been in operation since 2004 and a new research project to evaluate Jeev Amrit (a cow dung and urine prepara-tion) in rice - wheat and maize - wheat cropping systems has been sanctioned by Punjab State Farmers' Commission in 2009.Research work already done:The four experiments being conducted since the start of project 'Network Project on Organic Farming' have been concluded with the observa-tion that the cropping system viz Basmati rice - wheat - green manuring, Turmeric - onion, Summer groundnut- Garlic, Maize - durum wheat - cowpea (fodder) and Rice - Garlic + Mentha performance better or at par with the chemical sys-tem. The chemical system was maintained as pure chemical and not as per the recommen-dations in the Package of Prac-tices. The crops like onion, gar-lic, turmeric, summer ground-nut and maize performed ex-ceptionally better under organ-ic management than the con-ventional system. The soil health improved under organic and integrated management systems. There was an increase in the organic and integrated management.

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All the fodder crops and crop-ping systems (maize-berseem-bajra, maize-berseem-maize+cowpea, sor-ghum+guara-oats-cowpeas and sorghum-berseem) responded well to organic management and performed better than the chemical system. The maize yield with farmyard manure, vermicompost and combina-tion of the farmyard ma-nure+vermin compost + crop residue was significantly more than the crop residue alone. Trichogramma japonicum and T. chilonis release proved effec-tive for pest management in rice, basmati rice and maize. Promising cropping systems recommended for Organic farming Rice/Basmati rice - wheat Maize/Soybean - wheat Maize-D.Wheat-Cowpea fod-der Maize-Potato-Onion

PAU, Ludhiana also plan to conduct studies with regard to : The performance of new cropping systems (Basmati Rice-Wheat-Summer Moong, Maize-Potato-Summer Moong, Cotton-Gram (desi), Maize (Popcorn)-Gram (Kabuli) and Turmeric (cowpea mulch)-Onion) will be studied under organic, integrated and chemi-cal management systems and the effect of these manage-ment systems on soil health will also be studied.The effect of organic ma-nures/preparations like FYM, Panchgavaya, Biodynamic preparations and their combi-nations will be studied on boi

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intensive cropping systems like Maize+Cowpea (fodder)-Wheat+Chickpea-S.Moong and Basmati rice-Wheat-Green Manure.The non-chemical management of weeds in or-ganic basmati rice-wheat crop-ping systems and organic tur-meric will be studied.

The study on cropping systems based on fodder crops (Sor-ghum-Barseem, Maize-Barseem, Maize-Barseem-Maize+cowpeas and Sor-ghum+Guara-Oats-cowpeas) under organic, integrated and chemical management system will be continued. The laboratory studies on Jeev Amrit (a cow dung and urine preparation) will be done and its effect on productivity or Rice-Wheat and Maize-Wheat cropping systems will be studied.



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8 Promotion of timely sow-ing of crops

PAU, LudhianaBased on the optimum sowing time for real-izing the higher yields, the de-tails with respect to various cropping systems which have been recommended are as follows:Maize-potato-onion: This cropping system gave highest net returns with sub-stantial saving of water (82 cm) and gave 2.1 times productivity than rice-wheat system. For this system, sow maize (PMH 1) in mid-June, potato (Kufri Chandermukhi) in first fort-night of October and onion (Punjab Naroya) from 10-15 January for high yield realiza-tion.Summer groundnut-potato-bajra (fodder): This sys-tem gave better productivity levels than rice-wheat systme with sizeable saving of irriga-tion water. For this system now groundnut (M 522) in first week of May, potato in first week of October and bajra fodder in the first fortnight of March.

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Maize/rice-gobhi sarson-summer moongbean: These systems produce more yield and economic returns than maize-wheat and rice-wheat systems. Therefore, maize should be sown in first fort-night of June, rice in second fortnight of June, gobhi sarson from 10-30 October and sum-mer mongbean in the first fortnight of April. The summer mongbean can be sown without tillage after ap-plying pre-sowing irrigation. Rice-gram-summer moong: This sytem produces more yield and economic returns than rice-wheat system. Therefore, the rice should be transplanted in the second fortnight of June, gram should be sown from 25 October to 10 November in two lines per bed and sow summer moongbean in the 2-3 week of April. PAU, Ludhiana also proposes to conduct studies to find out biologically productive, remunerative and resource conservative bio-intensive complementary cropping sys-tems.

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(i) Optimum use of ferti-lizers

- Optimum use of fertilizers is promoted through soil-test based application. - Fertilizer N management through need-based applica-tion using leaf color chart (LCC). - Use of FYM, poulty manure, and industrial wastes (rice busk ash, bagasse ash) improved crop yields and saved fertilizer.

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(ii) Paddy & wheat straw management to avoid burning

- Straw can be managed either by incorporation in soil to build up organic carbon status; or - By surface retention as mulching to reduce soil water evaporation and save irrigation water. - Sowing of wheat in zero-tiled field by surface retention of rice residues (Happy Seeder) is a better option to avoid burn-ing.

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(iii) Reclama-tion of Alkali Soils

- A sound and economically reclaiming large tracts of alkali soils.

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(iv) Use of modern eco-friendly equipment (Happy seeders, straw balers, Laser Level-lor, etc.)

The Punjab Agricultural Univer-sity introduced the zero tillage technology for sowing of wheat after rice. The adoption of this technology can provide multi-ple benefits with respect to timely farming operations, in-creased productivity, reduced input requirements, lower cost of production, scope for crop diversification and improved soil and human health and above all increased farmers' profits. In Punjab, area under zero tillage wheat increased from 800 hectare (2000-01) to 5.92 lac hectares during 2007-08. Farmers could save about 171.68 crores of rupees by skipping tillage operations at

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the time of seed bed prepara-tion on the basis of a saving of about Rs.2900-4400/h. This technology helped to save 50 to 60 litres of diesel/ha (29.6 million litres) and avoided the CO2 emission by about 130 to 156 kg/ha (76960 tons), ulti-mately, helped to reduce air pollution to a great extent if 2.6 kg CO2 production/one litre of diesel burnt is taken as the basis. Similarly, 1.9 hec-tare-cm. saving of irrigation water from the first irrigation (911248 hectare meter at state level. Zero tillage also saves the energy @ 30%/ha (3342.4 mil-lion MJ) of total energy (18800 MJ/ha) used for sowing of wheat. Taking cue from zero tillage wheat, now this tech-nology has been recommended for barley, oats, raya, linseed, summer moong, maize, kharif moong, soybean and arhar.

(v) Happy Seeders

An ACIAR funded project on 'Fine tuning the Happy Seeder technology for adoption in North West India' is operation-al at Dept. of FM&PE, PAU, Ludhiana from Oct. 2007 on-wards. It has : - Developed light weight Happy Seeder prototype. - Organized demonstra-tions/trainings on HS for its large scale adoption. - The area under HS technology increased from 700 acres in 2008-09 to 2100 acres in 2009-10.

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(vi) Laser Leveller (LLL)

Farmer participatory research trials were conducted under US Aid funded project through CYMMIT by the DFM&PE, PAU, Ludhiana to evaluate and popularize Laser Land Leveller and it was found that :- It saves irrigation water to the tune of 25-30%.- Improves fertilizer and weed efficacy.- Improves crop production by 5%.- Tech-nology was recommended by the university to the state farmers in 2006.- Organized demonstrations/trainings on LLL for its large scale adoption.- Based on the information pro-vided by the Laser Leveller suppliers around 2000 units are operational in Punjab state and has levelled around 6,00,000 ha of land.

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(vii) Straw baler

Evaluation and modifications of field bailing machines for com-bine harvested paddy fields. Performance evaluation of three commercially available balers vis. CLAAS, New Holland and Kartar was carried out. Compaction ratio of paddy and wheat was 7 to 10 and 3 to 5 respectively. Bailing efficiency was 75% approx. Cost of oper-ation in stubble shaved field was Rs. 3531/- approx. Few demonstrations were also car-ried out. The cost of operation at pre-sent for 30 days operations in paddy alone comes out to be Rs. 7000/- per ha.

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10 Other pro-grammes

Further, for management of crop residues, PAU, Ludhiana proposes to take up pro-grammes on :- Evaluation of kharif and rabi fodder crops under No-tillage/Minimum tillage and conventional tillage after wheat.- Evaluation of conservation technology (Zero tillage, Happy seeder and rota-vator) for paddy residue man-agement.- Nutrient manage-ment in crops sown with dif-ferent paddy management techniques.- Studies on long term effects of permanent zero tillage.- Studies on long term effect of different options of paddy residue management on rice-wheat cropping system.- Evaluation of different meth-ods of direct seeding rice to sustain the productivity of rice-wheat cropping system.

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8. Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change Sr. No.







1 Data base generation

Modernization and up gra-dation of hydrological data collection and storage sys-tem to have a well-developed Hydrological In-formation System for water resources planning and proper operation of irriga-tion systems has been taken up in State. Under the world bank aided hydrology pro-ject Phase-II, through the Ministry of Water Re-sources, Govt. of India, State Data Centre shall be constructed at Mohali, which will improve the insti-tutional and organization arrangements, technical capabilities and physical facilities available for meas-urement, validation, collec-tion, analysis, transfer and dissemination of water re-lated data.

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2 Any other program

Govt. of Punjab has ap-pointed Dr. Neelima Jerath, Executive Director, PSCST to act as a nodal point/nodal officer. Punjab State Council for Science & Technology had prepared proposal for prep-aration of Green Budget for the state at a cost of Rs. 1225.29 lacs and submitted to the Govt. of Punjab. De-tails of the scheme are at Annexure-V.

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3 R & D Projects for energy efficiency, waste utiliza-tion, biofuels, etc.

Punjab Energy Development Agency, Local Bodies Dept., Punjab Pollu-tion Control Board

4 Education and mass aware-ness about climate change issues


5 Brain storm-ing, knowledge sessions, state related na-tional & inter-national sym-posia/ confer-ences


6 Remote sens-ing infor-mation of local climate and changing pattern of vegetation

Punjab Re-mote Sensing Centre

7 Networking with relevant agencies

Dept. of Sci-ence, Tech-nology & Envi-ronment

* Note: All concerned departments need to identify activities relevant to their department , check the data included and provide necessary additional information in the format for updating and finalization of the document tor submission to the Govt. of India

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(Draft 1 )

Strategy/ Evolution of a Framework towards Preparation of State Level Climate Change and Action

Plan

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Towards evolution of a Framework for the preparation of State Level Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan

1. Introduction:

Climate change poses an unprecedented level of threat to life on earth. In addition, predictions about the scale and enormity of the impacts of climate change are continually being revised upwards, so that what was already a serious situation continues to look even more threatening. Atmospheric greenhouse gases are creating warmer temperatures, ice melt, sea-level rise and an unpredictable climate, with a range of extremely serious and hard-to-predict consequences. It has huge economic implications too. Climate change adaptation process alone is estimated to cost US$75-100 billion a year from 2010 onwards for developing countries1.

The impacts of climate change in India are expected to be significant. India, in fact is considered highly vulnerable to climate change, not only because of high physical exposure to climate-related disasters (65% of India is drought prone, 12% flood prone, and 8% susceptible to cyclones2), but also because of the dependency of its economy and of the majority of its population on natural resources and climate-sensitive sectors (e.g. water resources, agriculture, forests, animal husbandry, fisheries, etc.).

Climate change is expected to increase water stress due to the decline in rainfall, with impact on water availability (per capita water availability is expected to decrease from 1820 m3/yr in 2001 to 1140 m3/yr in 20503) and agriculture/food security (60% of crop area in India is under rain fed agriculture). As mentioned in the initial National Communication to UNFCCC, the basic sways of Indian economy such as agriculture, forests, fisheries etc. are likely to be severely hit due to climate change, thus impacting 1 Natural Solutions, 2009

2 NIDM, 2007.

3 IPCC, 2007.

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the lives of large number of people depending on these sectors4. The poorest of the poor will be the most affected by these changes.

In view of the context mentioned above, it has been the endeavour of the national Government to understand and put in place appropriate institutional mechanisms (both at national and sub-national level) for addressing climate change issues in a comprehensive manner.

2. India’s Approach to address climate change:

The National Action Plan on Climate Change, 2008 (NAPCC) through its eight Missions 5 provides multi-pronged, long term and integrated framework for addressing climate change. NAPCC outlines the following principles in this regard:

Protecting the poor and vulnerable sections of society through an inclusive and sustainable development strategy, sensitive to climate change.

Achieving national growth objectives through a qualitative change in direction that enhances ecological sustainability, leading to further mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions.

Devising efficient and cost-effective strategies for end-use Demand Side Management.

Deploying appropriate technologies for both adaptation and mitigation of greenhouse gases emissions extensively as well as at an accelerated pace.

Engineering new and innovative forms of market, regulatory and voluntary mechanisms to promote sustainable development.

Effecting implementation of programmes through unique linkages, including with civil society and local government institutions and through public-private-partnership.

Welcoming international cooperation for research, development, sharing and transfer of technologies enabled by additional funding and a global IPR regime that facilitates technology transfer to developing countries under the UNFCCC.

4 NATCOM

5 National Solar Mission, National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency, National Mission on Sustainable Habitat, National

Water Mission, National Mission for Sustaining Himalayan Eco-System, National Mission for Green India, National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture and National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change

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NAPCC identifies a number of steps to simultaneously advance India's development and climate change related objectives of adaptation and mitigation. The focus is on promoting understanding of climate change, adaptation and mitigation, energy efficiency and natural resource conservation. In short, India envisages to progress towards a low carbon climate resilient development trajectory.

3. Need for State Level Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan:

With climate change becoming increasingly central to policy imperatives of Government at various levels, there is need for coherence between climate change strategies at national and sub-national level. Though the Government (both at national and state level), over the years, has considerably enhanced sectoral budgetary outlays, these inputs still remain vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Unless addressed adequately, the development gains achieved by various sectors could be undone and may even be reversed by the negative impacts of climate change. This will be a major impediment in the national endeavor to achieve national development priorities including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Hence there is need for developing cross-sectoral strategies and Action Plans for effectively combating the impacts of climate change.

The implementation of actions to successfully address climate change (both mitigation and adaptation) will only be achieved, and sustained, through involvement and commitment at all levels of decision-making. In particular, sub-national authorities (at State level) have a key role to play in actively incorporating climate change considerations into day-to-day governance and adopting climate-friendly policies, programmes, regulations, and investment decisions. While the national Government remains the central actor by providing overall enabling policy and institutional environment, State level authorities need to play an even more crucial role in tackling climate change at the ground zero. In this context, to operationalise the implementation of the NAPCC and its constituent Missions as well as to address other issues related to climate change, it is imperative that the State Governments may prepare SCCSAPs, which will enable them to address the existing as well as futuristic issues of climate change and reduce risks and vulnerabilities therein.

SCCSAP will build on the existing policies of the state Government by taking into consideration the ongoing programmes and schemes being implemented at the state level as well as the NAPCC. The SCCSAP needs to be integrated into the state level planning process so that the resource allocation for the implementation of the identified adaptation / mitigation measures can be defined with an objective to achieve the development goals of the state Governments. As it may not be possible to include complete array of measures to address climate change, the SAPCC should be seen as a

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dynamic document which will follow a continuous interactive process to reflect the changes and developments happening at the national, state and local level.

4. Evolution of an approach and suitable framework for State Level Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan:

While awareness about climate change has increased across the country, to ensure a certain level of coherence at the national level, it is important to provide a common generic framework to the states for the preparation of the SAPCC. Although some of the states have initiated the process of preparing climate change policies, strategies or even Action Plans (for example Climate Change Agenda for Delhi6), it is important to have a common understanding about the purpose and content of State Action Plans with scope to incorporate regional/ site specific variations at the state level. The states would require orientation to ensure uniformity in contents as well in the methodological steps on the preparation of SCCASP particularly on the following:

a) Impacts and Vulnerability assessment: The states may require specific guidance, in terms of methodological steps and common guidelines, to analyze the impacts of climate change as well as vulnerability assessment at the regional and local level. Reference for this may be drawn from the national exercises conducted for impacts and vulnerability assessment e.g. India’s National Communication to UNFCCC.

b) Identify Adaptation/Mitigation options: The Mission documents under the NAPCC will provide the guiding framework to the states in identifying adaptation / mitigation options7 suiting to regional or local requirements. Various ongoing programmes and schemes should be included and their relevance to complement adaptation / mitigation needs to be examined. This will also include additional interventions and cross cutting issues which are not covered under the eight Missions. The states may also require criteria to distinguish between the ‘business as usual’ and new adaptation/mitigation actions.

c) Prioritize Adaptation/Mitigation options: This will require multi perspective deliberations as views of various stakeholders including Government, research institutions, academia, NGOs and Civil Society needs to be considered while prioritizing the adaptation/mitigation options. The states may require inputs

6 http://www.delhi.gov.in/wps/wcm/connect/Environment/environment/our+services/climate+change+agenda+for+delhi+2009-2012.

7 Draft National Water Mission (http://wrmin.nic.in/index2.asp?sublinkid=579&langid=1&slid=794) National Solar Mission (http://mnes.nic.in/) National Mission for Sustaining Himalayan eco-system (http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/national%20mission-4.pdf)

http://www.delhi.gov.in/wps/wcm/connect/Environment/environment/our+services/climate+change+agenda+for+delhi+2009-2012

http://wrmin.nic.in/index2.asp?sublinkid=579&langid=1&slid=794

http://mnes.nic.in/

http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/national%20mission-4.pdf

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about the national level priorities to align the actions at the local level. Support will also be required for the stakeholders at the local levels to incorporate these options in the planning process. Adaptation/ mitigation options may also need to be prioritized in terms of time horizon (matching the plan period) and the resources available.

d) Financing Adaptation/Mitigation options: Additional resources as well as policy shifts will be required to implement some of the adaptation/mitigation options. States may require active guidance to identify potential financial sources as well as appropriate technology. They may also require support to design the feedback mechanism to the national level missions.

In view of the above, it is appropriate that SCCSAPs are prepared according to a common and generic framework under the overarching NAPCC while providing scope for incorporating state specific contexts and situations. This will enable proper coordination of the process of preparation of SCCSAPs and its subsequent implementation at varied sub-national situations.

5. Guiding Principles of SCCSAP

Acknowledging climate change is about interacting with complex systems.

Understanding the limits of scientific predictions, nature of uncertainties and how to interpret climate data.

Going beyond risk management by looking at actions that address climate change and deliver benefits for growth and development.

Looking at how climate change will interact with existing vulnerabilities.

Considering the distribution and transaction trade-offs (who will win, who will lose & how these may be handled).

Identifying what systems & services can build climate resilience.

Using longer time frames and promoting greater flexibility to respond to a range of scenarios.

Considering what investments needed in knowledge and research to reduce uncertainty and improve knowledge about appropriate responses.

Considering role of both state-led (planned) & bottom-up (autonomous) adaptation.

Building broader stakeholder engagement to maximize the perspectives and to increase robustness of analysis.

Addressing state-specific priority issues, whilst also creating appropriate enabling environment for implementation of NAPCC at state level.

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Looking for adaptations and mitigation options offering substantial development benefits – e.g. health, energy security, energy efficiency, growth, jobs and income generation.

Exploring existing and new & additional carbon finance potential.

Considering governance and institutional contexts and ensuring appropriate Institutional arrangements and building capacities keeping in view the political environment, high-level central ownership, coordination, inter-departmental consultations, stakeholder involvement, and integration with regular planning and budgetary processes.

Setting out options, then evaluating and ranking according to criteria (cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, feasibility, ease of implementation, “no-regrets”, robust to different futures, incremental vs transformative change etc).

Estimating additional resource requirements.

Linking up with national policies and programmes for consistency and to identify financial or policy support that may be available.

Finalizing Action Plan and allocate resources.

Monitor, review and refine over time

6. The approach for preparation of SCCSAP:

The SCCSAP is to be developed through a participatory planning process involving all major stakeholders including Government officers from various line agencies, organizations, civil society, NGOs, academics, policy makers, scientists, the private sector, people’s representatives, local communities and all those who have a stake in climate change.

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The SCCSAP should be seen as much as a process as a final product, and if a truly participatory approach is achieved, it will evoke much wider ownership of the process and product, and go a long way in ensuring the implementation of what is recommended in the final SCCSAP. In particular, the following will be critical:

1. Workshops and public hearings at districts/ agro-climatic zones seeking inputs from farmers, pastoralists, fisher folk, forest dwellers, disadvantaged communities and other user communities who are directly dependent on climate sensitive sectors.

2. Coordination and consultative meetings amongst a variety of line agencies of Government, at state and district/ ago-climatic zone level.

3. Seeking inputs from a wide range of 'expert' and 'experienced' individuals and organizations working on various aspects of environmental and developmental issues in including scientists, social activists, academics, students, industrialists, cultural leaders, etc.

In nutshell, a SCCSAP would consist of broadly the following:

1. Statement of the issues or problems; 2. Identification of ongoing initiatives regarding this issue; 3. Identification of key actors involved; 4. Identification of major gaps in coverage; 5. Delineation of strategies needed to plug gaps and enhance the effectiveness of

ongoing initiatives;

Logical framework for the preparation of SCCSAP

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6. List of measures and actions (short and long term) needed to implement these strategies, with prioritization in terms of importance and immediacy;

7. Identification of key elements needed for implementation: institutional structures, funds, expertise/human resources, policy/legal measures, monitoring, etc;

8. Specific project proposals (Compilation of information); 9. Time frame for implementation.

7. SCCSAP: The process

Though the ultimate aim of the SCCSAP process is the production of a comprehensive, ready-to- act State Action Plan, it will also stimulate and facilitate the implementation of the same. To begin with, it is proposed to form appropriate institutional structures at the State level for the preparation SCCSAP. The development of SCCSAP will require support from various Ministries and the Departments so that the identified Missions can be addressed at the local level. As mentioned above, the SAPCC will also include the additional issues specific to the state which are not covered under the eight Missions. (eg. tourism, disaster risk reduction and human health, etc). The lead agency (as identified by the State Government) will coordinate the preparation of the SAPCC in consultation with the line Ministries and relevant stakeholders.

A robust preparatory stage is crucial for assuring that the activities are carried out in a way that ensures the quality, consistency, relevance, pertinence and transparency and ownership of the final outputs. During this stage, it will be important to ensure the participation of all relevant Ministries, Government Departments, academia and research institutions.

The following flow chart depicts the step-wise process for the formulation of SCCSAP.

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7.1 State Steering Committee:

In order to generate the highest levels of ownership for the preparation of SCCSAP, it is envisaged to establish a State Steering Committee (SSC) under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary and comprising of representatives from relevant Government Departments (e.g. Agriculture, Water Resources, Planning, Finance, Fisheries, Panchayati Raj, Science and Technology, Finance, State Disaster Management Authority, Rural Development, Environment, Forests, Power, Tourism and Transport, etc.); eminent Academicians, members from civil society and NGOs. The SSC will provide the

Prioritization of state issues and activities

Formation of Advisory Group

Capacity building of key agency

Identification of key agency for SCCSAP

prep.

Sectoral Stakeholder consultations

Formulation of SCCSAP by Key Agency

Review of existing sectoral policy and

programs

Finalization of SCCSAP by Advisory Group

Validation by State Level Committee

Adoption of SCCSAP

Agriculture Water Forest and B.D. Rural Development Energy Health Urban Habitat

NAP CC

Dissemination & Implementation

SCCSAP Steering Committee Headed by the Chief Secretary

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overall guidance, supervision and coordination to the whole process of preparation of SCCSAP and its subsequent implementation.

7.2 State Advisory Group: Under the overall direction of SSC, the State Advisory Group (SAG) shall be responsible for directly monitoring and supervising the preparation of SCCSAP by the Key Agency. SAG would also review the technical quality of data, robustness of analyses and feasibility of recommendations or strategies for the development of SCCSAP. SAG will frequently monitor the progress of preparation of SCCSAP and suggest measures for improving the process. 7.3 Core agency: The State Government may identify and designate an agency or a consortium of agencies for the actual preparation of the SCCSAP. The selected agency should have adequate core competencies for undertaking the task of preparation of SCCSAP. The key agency shall undertake extensive ago-climatic zone/ sector/ district wise stakeholder consultations for the preparation of SCCSAP. Once the SCCSAP is cleared by the Advisory Committee, it shall be validated by the SSC, and thereafter the States may adopt the Plan for implementation.

The national Government may also from time to time monitor and provide assistance for the preparation of SCCSAP.

8. Indicative Table of Contents of SCCSAP:

Part A: Climate Profile: Introduction

1. Description of regional/state level context; statement of issues and problems

1.1 Regional development issues and priorities vis-à-vis national priorities and NAPCC

1.2 Baseline assessments: general social, economic, ecological and demographic data on which analyses and scenarios will be built

1.3 Identification of main local stakeholders

1.4 Past and on-going climate change trends and related risk management actions

1.5 Possible future climate scenarios

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1.6 Knowledge gaps

2. Assessment of Vulnerability to Climate Change

2.1 Development of Climate Change scenarios, i.e. projection of possible climate changes at relevant spatial and temporal scales

2.2 Assessment of the physical and economic impact of and vulnerability to climate change in the most vulnerable sectors (agriculture, water, forestry and biodiversity, coastal-zone management, health, tourism, urban, etc.)

2.3 Assessment of impact of and vulnerability to climate change on vulnerable groups

3. GHG emissions and energy needs inventory

3.1 Assessment of existing GHG emissions by sector (transport, buildings, industry, waste, agriculture and forest) and sub-sectors

3.2 Assessment of energy needs by 2020/2050 and expected GHG emissions by 2020/2050 under a business-as-usual scenario

Part B: Climate Change Strategy

1. Review of existing climate change and sectoral policies and strategies to identify priorities

2. Description of main entry points, opportunities, trade-offs identified in each sector, including potential synergies and trade-offs identified between priority adaptation and mitigation measures

3. Identification of possible options to achieve policy objectives and identified priorities (affordability, social acceptance, and feasibility of natural solutions over engineering solutions wherever applicable)

4. Identification of criteria to assess identified options

5. Cost–benefit analysis to assess environmental, social and economic costs of identified options (CBA should take into consideration, among other factors, GHG emission reductions, job creation, energy access, local pollution reductions, improved biodiversity and livelihoods), and comparison of these options

6. Assessment of adaptive capacity and feasibility of implementing the options

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7. List of prioritized mitigation and adaptation options based on the criteria and CBA (no regrets/low regrets, negative cost, no cost, low cost, higher-cost options; short-term, medium-term, long-term, political and social acceptance, regulatory needs, capacity and financial requirements, irreversibility)

Part C: Climate Change Action Plan

1. List of measures (short and long term) needed to implement these strategies (including natural, engineering and locally suitable solutions), including timeframe and sequence for implementation

2. List of (public and private) ongoing and planned initiatives (who is doing what, where, how much is allocated)

3. For each priority option, identification of existing financial instruments to implement it and of possible matching policy/financing instruments to attract and drive direct investment towards lower-carbon/climate resilient activities (optionally in the form of sectoral 2010-2020 roadmaps)

4. Cost implications for the implementation of SCCSAP. What are the existing allocations and how much is the additional resources to be mobilized. Also indicate potential sources for resource mobilization.

5. Design of M&E system (governance, indicators, etc.) and M&E implementation arrangements

6. Review of institutional implementation arrangements, capacity, etc. needed to implement identified measures and capacity development plan.

7. Survey of public opinion

Standard Annexes:

1. Present and Future Vulnerability Maps

2. List of proposals from co-construction process, public forums, white papers

3. Project Summaries listed by size and types of financing

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