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Chennai Metro Rail Investment Project - Tranche 1 The Chennai Metro Rail Investment Project will contribute in the expansion of the existing metro rail network in Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu, a state on the south-east coast of India. The investment project will develop Lines 3 and 4, connecting the central area of Chennai to key points in the south and west of the city. The first tranche will cover the initial stage of civil works related to underground tunneling and stations along the Line 4 corridor, and the construction of viaducts along the Line 3 corridor. Other contracts related to establishment of stabling depot, staff quarters, electrical and mechanical components, and other system packages will be procured subsequently. It will also include planning activities on urban renewal and livability improvement through the attached TA. The remaining tranches will gradually finance the contracts as they progress, and the periodic financing requests will be issued based on disbursement projections.
Railway Sector Investment Program - Tranche 3 The Government requested for a loan of $120 million ordinary capital resources (OCR) to finance completion of improving railway lines under the Railway Sector Investment Program (RSIP).
Railway Sector Investment Program - Tranche 1 ADB and the Government of India are working together to make the country's train system safer, more efficient and able to handle greater amounts of passengers and freight. The Railway Sector Investment Program is building second tracks alongside 840 kilometers of existing rail systems, essentially doubling the capacity of high-density routes. Another 640 kilometers of track will have electrification systems added. This is increasing the capacity of India's rail system. It is also increasing efficiency by installing modern signaling systems, and working to reform the accounting system. The result of the work is that India's trains are using less fuel, creating less pollution, keeping closer to schedules and costing customers less.
Assam Integrated Flood and Riverbank Erosion Risk Management Investment Program - Project 2 Incorporating lessons from Project 1, Project 2 for $60.16 million will fund a combination of structural and nonstructural measures in the three subproject areas (Palasbari-Gumi, Kaziranga, and Dibrugarh) along the Brahmaputra River in Assam. The structural measures will include: (i) 20 kilometers (km) of riverbank protection works with innovative technologies, combined with 5 km of pro-siltation measures; (ii) upgrade of 13 km of flood embankments; and (iii) construction of four sluice gates and one pumping station to improve drainage. Monitoring and adaptive maintenance of the infrastructure will also be included to cope with the highly dynamic morphological processes of the river.  The nonstructural measures will continue the methodologies used under Project 1 and cover community involvement and community-based flood risk management activities.
Infrastructure Development Investment Program for Tourism - Tranche 3 ADB and the Government of India are working together promote tourism in rural areas in order to benefit the poor. The Infrastructure Development Investment Program for Tourism is making rural tourist destinations more visitor friendly with improved water facilities, upgraded restrooms and sanitation systems, new signs and street lights, and more efficient garbage disposal methods. The program is helping state governments build the basic infrastructure for tourism while encouraging private companies to provide services and facilities. Work is also being done to help manage India's many heritage sites and to encourage greater local community participation tourist activities. This includes an emphasis on bring tourism-related facilities to remote communities. The program is primarily focused on the states of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, and Uttarakhand (the three main states of the North West Himalayan Heritage Circuit) and Tamil Nadu (the anchor state of the South Heritage Circuit). As a result of the program, the Government of India hopes to see a 50% increase in tourism-related employment in the participating states, as well as a 30% increase in the contribution of tourism to the states' gross domestic product.
Enhancing Connectivity and Resilience of the Madhya Pradesh Road Network Project The project will support the development of Madhya Pradesh's road subsector by (i) connecting the less-developed rural population to city and town centers or industrial corridors; (ii) preparing the road subsector development strategy, focusing on emerging areas in the subsector, including climate change resilience, low-carbon development, and road safety; and (iii) creating more opportunities, directly or indirectly, for women in project-influenced areas through enhanced access to markets and other social amenities, as well as in the subsector through the promotion of gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) in the workplace.
Karnataka State Highway Improvement Project The Karnataka State Highway Improvement Project will upgrade about 615 kilometers (km) of state highways in the state of Karnataka and strengthen the capacity of the Public Works Department (PWD) of the Government of Karnataka (GOK) to develop, operate, and maintain the state road network. 

The project includes consulting services for implementation of civil works and support the establishment and operation of the Planning and Road Asset Management Centre (PRAMC) of the PWD. 

Associated TA will be provided to support and strengthen the PWD's capacity in asset management, road safety, and private sector participation. Road improvement works will include the upgrading of existing roads to two lanes; green-field construction of bypasses; strengthening of culverts and bridges; and constructing new bridges, rail overbridges, and cross-draining structures.
Green Energy Corridor and Grid Strengthening Project The project will fund electric transmission system investments in India, including (i) a portion of the Government of India's "Green Energy Corridor" initiative to facilitate the transfer of power from the renewable energy (RE) rich areas to other parts of the country, consisting of 765 kilovolt (kV) and 400 kV high voltage transmission lines and an associated 765/400kV substation and associated equipment, and (ii) four high voltage direct current (HVDC) terminals (two at 800 kV and two at 320 kV) as part of increased inter-regional connectivity between India's western and southern regional power grids. 

India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and the Forum of Regulators commissioned Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (Powergrid) to conduct a Green Energy Corridor study to identify requisite nationwide transmission investments required to accommodate the anticipated additional renewable energy generation capacity targeted during India's 12th Five Year Plan (2013-2017) and beyond.  Powergrid is the public sector corporation that is mainly responsible for construction, expansion, operations and maintenance of India's inter-state and inter-regional power transmission network. In order to facilitate transfer of renewable energy from the renewable energy rich states  to other states, as well as absorption and smoothing out of the intermittency from such power sources, Powergrid has identified requisite investments in a phased approach to commence during the 12th Five Year Plan.

Powergrid also conducted the studies for the proposed HVDC transmission link to further increase inter-regional transmission capacity between the western and the southern regional grids.
Second Rural Connectivity Investment Program - Tranche 1 The investment program will improve rural connectivity in the states of Assam, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and West Bengal (the investment program states), facilitating safer and more efficient access to livelihood and socioeconomic opportunities for the rural communities. It will construct all-weather rural roads for the unconnected habitations and upgrade rural roads linking to the investment program states' district centers for an aggregate length of 12,000 kilometers (km). For the investment in physical infrastructure to be effective and sustainable, the investment program will strengthen the institutional capacity of the implementing agencies on road safety and road maintenance.
Assam Power Sector Enhancement Investment Program - Tranche 4 Tranche 4 of the investment program amounting to $50.2 million aims to fund a distribution efficiency improvement project in the state of Assam, India. It covers part of the state's power sector road map for enhancing the subtransmission and distribution capacities to improve operational efficiency and electricity service to end users. Tranche 4 will finance: (i) augmentation of existing transformers, construction of 33 kV lines, 33 kV and 11 kV railway and river crossings, and 33 kV terminal bays; (ii) construction of new 33/11 kV substations, 11 kV lines, and 11 kV aerial bunch conductors; and (iii) introduction of quick response operation and maintenance system, and installation of 8500 units of information technology modules (smart metering) for high tension consumers.
Punjab Development Finance Program ADB and the Government of Punjab in India are working together to improve the state's finances so that it can better deliver government services. The state is undertaking a comprehensive fiscal consolidation program to free up money that can be spent on health, education, power, and public works. The program is also addressing environmental issues through improved targeting of free power for irrigation. The program is expected to create adequate fiscal space for augmenting development spending in the state.
Chennai-Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor: Power Sector Investment Project The Chennai-Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor: Power Sector Investment Project will address the core problem of meeting the expected industrial power demand to ensure reliable power supply by augmenting the power transmission capacity between the southern part of the state (Madurai-Thoothukudi), the northern region (Chennai), and the western region (Coimbatore) at 765 kilovolt (kV) level. The proposed investment is expected to provide a transmission corridor to evacuate power from the renewable and thermal power plants to be located in Madurai-Thoothukudi area and supply industrial hubs in the Chennai-Madurai area and in Coimbatore.

The proposed project will have two outputs consisting of:

(i) Output 1: This will establish a 765 kV power transmission link between the energy generation hub in Madurai-Thoothukudi area and load centers in the western and northern parts of the state. This output consists of (a) Virudhunagar (765/400/230 kV, 2x1,500 megavolt amperes [MVA] and 2x500 MVA) substation; (b) 320 km of 765 kV transmission lines from Virudhunagar to Coimbatore; and (c) 356 km of 400 kV transmission lines to link Virudhunagar substation to several 400/230 kV pooling substations for wind and solar power plants; and

(ii) Output 2: This will establish a pooling substation to receive electricity generated from power plants in the Thoothukudi district. This consists of (a) Ottapidaram (400/230/110 kV, 2x315 MVA and 2x200 MVA) substation; (b) 200 km of 400 kV transmission lines to connect Ottapidaram substation with several thermal and renewable power plants; and (c) 90 km of 230 kV and 110 kV transmission lines to connect Ottapidaram substation with nearby load centers.

(iii) : Financial and institutional capacity of Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation Limited improved. This output will (i) assist TANTRANSCO in implementing the FRP to restore its financial sustainability; (ii) support the financial management action plan (FMAP) to improve the financial management capacity and corporate governance of TANTRANSCO; (iii) facilitate the introduction of gender-sensitive workplace practices; and (iv) enhance the capacity of TANTRANSCO to monitor the environmental and social impacts of transmission projects. The attached TA will support these activities.
Uttar Pradesh Power Distribution Network Rehabilitation Project – Tranche 1 The proposed Project will improve the quality and reliability of electricity supply, reduce the aggregate technical and commercial (ATC) losses in electricity distribution and restore the financial sustainability of the rural electricity supply. The Project will convert the low voltage distribution lines to aerial bundle conductors (ABC), separate the 11 kilovolt (kV) feeders supplying agriculture and rural households to facilitate the rationing of electricity supply to agriculture consumers, increase the supply duration to rural households and enhance the community engagement for improving electricity supply cost recovery and gender inclusivity in electricity distribution related activities in rural areas.
Scaling Up Demand-Side Energy Efficiency Sector Project The project is aligned with the following impact: emissions intensity of economy reduced.  The project will have the following outcome: end-use energy efficiency in the project areas increased.
IND: EREN EDF Solar Power (EDEN Mumbai Solar Private Limited) The Project involves the development of 200MW solar photovoltaic power projects by ACME Solar Energy Private Limited during 2014-2016. ACME Solar Energy Private Limited is owned by the ACME group, EDF Energies Nouvelles and EREN S.A. Five projects for a total 100MW (20MW x 5) have so far been identified for 5 SPVs, namely ACME Gurgaon Power Private Limited, ACME Mumbai Power Private Limited, ACME Rajdhani Power Private Limited, Medha Energy Private Limited, and Ranji Solar Energy Private Limited, for which ADB is lending $50 million. In 2016, ACME Solar Energy Private Limited sold its ownership interest to the other two shareholders. As a result, the projects are now jointly owned by EDF Energies Nouvelles S.A. and EREN Renewable Energy S.A. SPV names were changed to EDEN Solar Energy Gurgaon Private Limited, EDEN Mumbai Solar Private Limited, EDEN Solar Rajdhani Private Limited, Medha Energy Private Limited (no change), and EDEN Renewable Ranji Private Limited, respectively.
Jharkhand State Roads Project The Project will rehabilitate and improve a 311 kilometer (km) state road from Govindpur to Sahebganj (via Jamtara, Dumka, and Barhet)  to a two-lane standard. The improved road will become a backbone of the northeastern part of the state, and connect it to National Highway 2 (NH2), the state's main highway, and to the larger national highway network.

The Project will also enhance the project management skills of the officials of the Road Construction Department (RCD) of the state government of Jharkhand (GOJH) through involvement in activities that are central to project management, such as project design, implementation planning, procurement, land acquisition, resettlement and rehabilitation, environmental management, utility shifting, contract management, and financial management. This will be replicated by RCD for future road improvement projects.
Madhya Pradesh Energy Efficiency Improvement Investment Program - Tranche 2 Adequate and better quality power supply in rural Madhya Pradesh (MP), where 70% of the population lives, would spur economic growth and development. In order to ensure good quality, 24 hour power supply to rural households, Government of Madhya Pradesh (GoMP) has been undertaking a distribution improvement program (feeder separation program) with an approximate cost of $1100 million. The first phase of this program is already under implementation and the proposed Facility provides financial assistance to the investment program that constitutes the second phase. The investment program will install separate feeders  for households and irrigation water pumps, install high voltage distribution systems (HVDS), provide new power connections, install meters, map the assets of the distribution companies and undertake network analysis to ensure better quality power supply to households and financial sustainability of the distribution companies.  Of the total of 50 districts of MP, the investment program covers 32 districts served by three distribution companies: Madhya Pradesh Madhya Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Company Limited (DISCOM-C); Madhya Pradesh Poorva Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Company Limited (DISCOM-E); and Madhya Pradesh Paschim Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Company Limited (DISCOM-W).
Khadi Reform and Development Program Khadi and Village Industries Development Program aims at enhancement of income and employment growth in the Khadi and Village Industries (KVI) sector. It supports ADB's core strategy of inclusive social development, as it will benefit rural poor, especially low-skilled workers, disadvantaged and women. The Program aims  at: 
(i) establishing a policy reform and implementation framework; 
(ii) promoting and marketing khadi; 
(iii) realizing procurement and production efficiencies; and 
(iv) implementing institutional reforms.
IND:  MUNDRA ULTRA MEGA POWER PROJECT The Project is to construct, operate, and maintain a 4,000 MW coal-fired power plant (5 units of 800 MW each) on a build-own-operate basis, incorporating supercritical technology.
Low-Cost Affordable Housing Finance There is an acute shortage of housing in India, particularly in urban areas where demographic trends are pressuring current housing stocks. Banks and housing finance companies (HFCs) need longer tenor funding to provide access to affordable housing finance. To partially address this challenge, PSFI offered a 7-year senior loan of up to $200 million or IDR equivalent to PNB Housing Finance Limited (PNBHF), an HFC, to fund affordable housing in India. US$150mn was disbursed, the proceeds of which are being used to support PNBHF's affordable housing lending activities.  Geographic targets in underserved areas may be included in the project scope.
Multitranche Financing Facility (MFF) - Second Rural Connectivity Investment Program - Tranche 2 The Second Rural Connectivity Investment Program will improve about 12,000 kilometers (km) of rural roads in the states of Assam, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and West Bengal. To meet the development priorities of the state of Madhya Pradesh, the Madhya Pradesh Rural Road Development Authority (MPRRDA) carried out advanced project preparation for tranche 2 of the MFF and obtained the Ministry of Rural Development approval for ADB financing on 30 January 2018. The government proposed that tranche 2 cover only Madhya Pradesh and finance the upgrading of at least 2,800 km rural roads in the state of Madhya Pradesh. In addition, it will support the training of 500 Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) engineers and will support road safety audits on the project roads.
Bihar State Highways II Project - Additional Financing The project will expand the original Bihar State Highways II Project "Original Project" output by rehabilitating and upgrading about 254 km of state highways in Bihar identified under the Bihar State Highways Development Program (BSHDP). These severely deteriorated highway sections are located in the very poor north and south parts of the state. The project will involve upgrading existing roads to two lanes, strengthening existing pavement, strengthening culverts and bridges, and constructing new bridges and cross-draining structures. Consulting services are provided to supervise the implementation of civil works. Completion of spillover works under Loan 2663-IND: Bihar State Highways II Project (closed on 30 September 2018) for the construction and upgrading of about 389 km of state highways have been included under the scope utilizing the loan surplus.
Multitranche Financing Facility (MFF) - Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 3) The transmission component of MP's investment program from 2007 to 2012 is predicated on building sufficient capacity for evacuation of power from existing and planned power stations and substation, and delivering power reliability and efficiency to consumers. ADB will finance key components of the transmission investment program from 2007 though to 2012. The construction of new transmission lines will remove constraints to power flow and will provide additional operational flexibility to TRANSCO in its role as independent system operator in MP. Supply reliability will be further improved and furthermore, it will promote open access and development of intra-state and inter-state power trading by providing sufficient excess substation and line capacity to handle unplanned power transfers.
Public-Private Partnership in Madhya Pradesh Road Sector Project The proposed project will improve transport connectivity in Madhya Pradesh by rehabilitating and upgrading about 1,600 kilometers of state highways and major district roads (MDRs). It will involve upgrading newly declared state highways and single-lane MDRs to two-lane width. The project will be implemented under the hybrid-annuity model (HAM), which is a form of public-private partnership. This will be the first HAM project by the executing agency and will pave the way for increased investment in the transport sector by mobilizing private sector participation.
National Grid Improvement Project (formerly Powergrid) POWERGRID's immediate investment plans focus on the transmission projects required to deliver electricity from 55 new IPP power generation plants to primary load centers. Known collectively as the high capacity power transmission corridors program, these projects include nine major transmission schemes approved by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) with an estimated total cost of more than $12.9 billion. The project proposed for ADB financing is the biggest of these transmission schemes and involves 14 IPPs and a public power trading company in Chhattisgarh. It will strengthen interregional transmission between the western and the northern regional grids and supply additional bulk power to the north from generation of IPPs in Chhattisgarh, which will generate over 15,000 MW in total. The project will create a high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system using smart grid technology to support stable, efficient, flexible, and economical long-distance power transfer among its interconnected systems. HVDC is a least-cost and low-carbon investment option.
Maharashtra Rural High Voltage Distribution System Expansion Program The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has financed HVDS projects in India for reliable supply to rural customers through conventional project loan or program loan approach.   Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) and Government of Maharashtra (GOM) have requested the result-based lending (RBL) approach. The RBL is suitable for the following reasons (i) it uses MSEDCL's systems  that contribute to institutional strengthening beyond the RBL; (ii) strong government interest and ownership of the rural electrification program; (iii) it would help lower transaction costs for over 600 small-scale contracts during implementation; and (iv) the focus on results and the government's willingness to link disbursements to results.
Meghalaya Power Distribution Sector Improvement Project This is a stand-alone project estimated to cost $166 million. The Government of India has requested ADB to provide a loan of $133 million to finance the cost of distribution network improvement and construction of new substations including upgradation of existing substations with improved automation. The executing agency (EA), MeECL, will finance the contingencies, land acquisition, and project management expenses using counterpart funds.