The World Bank has approved the $105 million Punjab municipal services improvement project to strengthen urban services in Amritsar and Ludhiana. The project will mainly focus on providing efficient water supply and sanitation services in Amritsar and Ludhiana. The project will finance all new raw water systems, water treatment plants, transmission systems and reservoirs to supply clean water and cover entire cities under a design-build-operate-transfer (DBOT) contract. The DBOT operator will manage the operations and maintenance of these water supply systems under the direct supervision of the municipal corporations in the two cities through city-level water utilities. The project will also provide subgrants to all the municipal corporations in Punjab for financing critical non-medical interventions to address the impact of Covid-19 and for improving their preparedness to tackle disasters.
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