Implementation Review Mission* - Aide Memoire June 12

DISTRICT POVERTY INITIATIVE PROJECT (DPIP) – RAJASTHAN
(Credit No.33390)
Implementation Review Mission * - Aide Memoire
June 12 - 15, 2007
Introduction: A World Bank Mission visited Rajasthan from June 12-15 2007. The Mission
focused on overall project implementation progress, including review of the actions taken since
the previous mission. The Mission met with senior government officials in Jaipur, and held video
conferences with District Project Management Units (DPMUs) and NGOs. The mission visited
Dooni block in Tonk district to visit a Women Dairy based Producer Company, and part of the
mission team visited a sample of sub-projects in the districts. The Mission would like to thank the
State Project Management Unit (SPMU), DPMU staff, NGOs, Rajasthan Cooperative Dairy
Federation (RCDF), MART, BASIX, NABCON, Rajasthan Non-Farm Development Agency
(RUDA) Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur and Maitree Women’s Dairy Federation for
their organization of the field visits and assistance during the mission.
Key Project Data
Project Data
Board Approval: April 25, 2000
Effectiveness Date: April 25, 2000
Original Closing Date: December 31, 2005
Revised Closing Date: December 31, 2007
MTR Date: November 4, 2003
Original Ln./Cr. Amt: SDR 75m sdr:
Amount Disbursed: 78%
Project Performance Ratings
Summary Ratings: Last Now
Achievement of PDO S S
Implementation Progress MS S
Ratings: HS=Highly Satisfactory; S=Satisfactory; U=Unsatisfactory; HU=Highly Unsatisfactory;
NA=Not Applicable; NR=Not Rated
Achievement of Development Objectives:
Overall the project has made commendable progress since the last mission, most of the agreed
actions have been addressed and accomplished. The State Government has provided all necessary
support to the project and the project is moving in a positve direction as it approaches closure on
December 31, 2007. Some of the notable accomplishments are: 1) disbursement is at 78% and it
is expected that the project will achieve close to 100% disbursement by closure; 2) acting on the
last mission’s observation the project has sanctioned 5 cluster proposal, which are currently under
implementation; 3) implementation of quality and sustainability contracts has started and funds
disbursed under this head; 4) the project has an established Management Information System that
is fully operational and highly satisfactory; and 5) a system for obtaining utilization & completion
certificates for sub-project is in place and it is expected that the project would obtain the
remaining certificates in a timely manner. Based on the above outputs, the project development
objective remains satisfactory and implementation progress is up-graded to satisfactory, as the
project has taken actions on all three critical actions agreed since the last mission.
* The mission team comprised of : Asmeen Khan ( TTL), Samik Sundar Das (Co-TTL), Manvinder Mamak & Arun
Manuja (Financial Management) , Puja Dutta (Social Protection) Adarsh Kumar (Non-Farm Sector), Dr. G. K. Kurup
(Livestock : visited 27 th – 31 st May, 2007), Ajai Nair (Microfinance: visited 2 nd – 3 rd May, 2007), Kalyani Kandula
(Environment), and Veronica Minaya (Intern - Impact Evaluation).

Current Implementation Status:
• 2, 46,330 members organized in to CIGs and Sub-project of 2,05,034 members
sanctioned.
• Some 20676 sub- projects (SPs) have been approved and funds disbursed for a
cumulative total of Rs. 4082 million.
• Cumulative number of CIGs credit linked stood at 3182 with loan amounting to Rs. 51.3
million.
• As of April 2007, 3943 insurance claims for Rs.14.3 million have been settled; 3732
claims worth Rs.5.9 million are pending.
• 5 cluster development proposals have been sanctioned and 5 more cluster proposals are in
the pipeline to be sanctioned by end of June, 2007.
• 278 CIGs have been evaluated, 190 CIGs in A and 88 CIGs in ‘B’ category and an
amount of Rs. 19 lakhs have been paid under Q&S payments.
• The disbursement profile as on June 7, 2007 stands at about 78% of the project allocation
of SDR 75 million
• There has been good progress in obtaining and adjusting utilization certificates (UCs)
against the total of Rs. 270.78 Crores, UC have been generated for Rs. 237 crores i.e. is
around 80%.
• Out of 8648 completion certificates (CCs) to be generated, 6328 CCs have been
generated (i.e. 73%) as of December, 2006
• The Computerized Management Information System (CMIS) at SPMU level is fully
operational and performance is highly satisfactory. The CMIS can generate data at all
levels and has a user interface for logging in insurance claims and bank linkage related
bottlenecks. This allows the project to closely monitor delays in processing credit
applications and insurance payments.
• As of March 2007, 13, 736 CIG sub-project have undergone a social audit and 2494
infrastructure sub-projects implemented by GPs have completed social audits.
• Some 641 number of complaints have been lodged and 595 numbers disposed till March,
2007.