DJB planning to offer more PPP Projects in water space, Suez Environment & Pratibha Industries bagged new projects in water, IUKAN2014 and more...

This is a newsletter sent to mailing list of pManifold, sharing Water Distribution Industry opportunities and updates.

Some of the recent updates in the Water Distribution space are shared below. 

New Water Project Highlights in Oct-2013

• Suez Environment won contracts worth Rs. 20 million euros from state-bodies of Karnataka and Maharashtra more...
• Pratibha industries bagged worth Rs. 516 Cr. water supply project in Rajasthan more...
• DJB is planning to offer more PPP projects in water space more...
• Tamil Nadu state government allots Rs. 717 Cr. for drinking water projects more...

Top News Highlights of Oct-2013

• Goa planning to supply 24x7 water by end of 2014 more...
• Pune's water meter project likely to take off after 3 unsuccessful attempts more...
• World Bank to provide $360 million loan for water projects in Uttar Pradesh more...
• Agra's potable water project to complete by 2016 more...
• Ahmedabad citizens will soon get 24x7 water supply more...

Articles of Oct-2013

• Successful water PPPs in India need full political support - Veolia India Executive more...

  Upcoming Water Events

• World Plumbing Conference 14-15 November, Delhi
• India Water Expo  21-23 November 2013, Chennai
• 11th EverythingAboutWater Expo 2014  9-11 January 2014, Delhi
• IUKAN 2014 13 February 2014, Delhi
• India Water Expo 7-9 February 2014, Ahmedabad

Blogs

• Interview with Mr.Rahul Gowardhan, Director - HR at OCW on the Opportunities and Key Challenges as an Operator in Water Distribution Space more... 

Case Studies

• If you are prospecting to enter in Water Utilities as Operator or Service Provider or Vendor - learn some best practices through case studies from pManifold (Water Utility Case Studies).

Indian Utility Knowledge and Networking (IUKAN) 2014

IUKAN is back! Its Bigger...Its Better!!! (Block your dates)

The pManifold team brings to you the 2nd Annual Conference of India Utility Knowledge and Networking forum (13-February-2014 | Le Meridien, New Delhi) with focus on Power and Water Distribution Utilities. The theme for this edition is  'Complimenting Reforms Bottom-up through Improved Operationalization and Engaged Local Ecosystem', with separate focused tracks in Power Distribution (see Power Track Agenda) and Water & Waste Water (see Water Track Agenda).

 
For Best Practice Awards (Get in touch Now to Nominate yourself)

The Awards intend to recognize best practices employed at all business and operating levels of a water, waste water and power distribution utilities thereby driving improve service levels across the industry. If you want to be recognized as the leader in a particular area, then get in touch with us to discuss/nominate. 
                    

We hope you will find the content informative and useful. Your queries, feedback and suggestions are welcome. I can be reached at mohammad.sufiyan@pmanifold.com for any support, we can extend to your efforts.

PESU DF on-hold, Essel begins Muzaffarpur DF, IUKAN 2014 - Nov, 2013 Newsletter

This is a newsletter for the month of Nov, 2013 sent to mailing list of pManifold sharing Power Distribution Franchisee industry opportunities and updates.

Last month has been slow for Power Distribution Franchisee industry, as 2 opportunities (i.e. PESU Distribution Franchisee and Jaipur's Technical Feasibility Consultant) have seen little progress. Please see below more information about the updates. 

Existing Opportunities

• PESU bid stands cancelled, as of now. (Read here) 

Roll Outs & Updates

• Essel Utilities takes over power distribution in Muzaffarpur, Bihar from 1st Nov, 2013. (Read here)
• Spanco Nagpur Discom Limited (SNDL) to launch SMS service for complaints lodging and bill updates for its consumers. (Read here)
• Financial bid opening and evaluation for consultancy assistance to implement Distribution Franchisee in Jaipur Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Ltd (JVVNL) is still due. (Stay tuned for updates)

​Indian Utility Knowledge and Networking (IUKAN) 2014

IUKAN is back! Its Bigger...Its Better!!! (Block your dates)

The pManifold team brings to you the 2nd Annual Conference of India Utility Knowledge and Networking forum (13-February-2014 | Le Meridien, New Delhi) with focus on Power and Water Distribution Utilities. The theme for this edition is  'Complimenting Reforms Bottom-up through Improved Operationalization and Engaged Local Ecosystem', with separate focused tracks in Power Distribution (see Power Track Agenda) and Water & Waste Water (see Water Track Agenda).

 
For Best Practice Awards (Get in touch Now to Nominate yourself)

The Awards intend to recognize best practices employed at all business and operating levels of a water, waste water and power distribution utilities thereby driving improve service levels across the industry. If you want to be recognized as the leader in a particular area, then get in touch with us to discuss/nominate. 

pManifold's Utility Practice can be viewed here, If you would like to know more about us, please contact at kunjan.bagdia@pmanifold.com.

Posted by: Kunjan Bagdia @ pManifold

Interview with Col. Gowardhan - HR Director, OCW on the key challenges and future plans for 24 x 7 water supply project at Nagpur

The interview showcases the key challenges and future plans of the 24x7 water supply operator for the city of Nagpur, as told to Mohammad.Sufiyan@pManifold.com

Nagpur 24x7 water supply project is the first urban water supply project in India. Could you, at the outset, help us understand the current status of the Project?

Nagpur comes along as the first big urban water supply project on Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model. In this Project, Orange City Water Pvt. Ltd. (OCW) is to upgrade city water distribution network through rehabilitation of the existing network and laying new network to achieve 24x7 uninterrupted water supply to city of Nagpur.The work is in progress under JnNRUM scheme. The plan agreed and approved for 5 years and in last 18 months OCW has been able to lay about 250 km of pipe line and done more than 26000 new service connections. One zone is already operating on 24x7 basis and few areas will be shortly added to 24x7 list as work in 3 areas is nearing completion.  Further to that, OCW is currently working in almost 30% of the city to improve the water mains network.

Rs.400 Cr Water Supply Projects up for tendering in Baneta and Bikaner; L&T and SPML win projects in Water Space, IUKAN 2014 - October 2013

This is a newsletter sent to mailing list of pManifold, sharing Water Distribution Industry opportunities and updates.

Some of the recent updates in the Water Distribution space are shared below. We hope you'll find the content informative and useful.

New Water Project Highlights in Sep-2013

• L&T Construction has won orders in water segment worth Rs 1,141 Cr. more... 
• SPML Infra bagged order worth Rs.772.20 Cr. more... 
• Shriram EPC(SEPC) has won orders worth Rs. 389 Cr. from Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan municipal corporation more... 
• Bids invited for Baneta Water supply scheme - estimated contract value of Rs.75 Cr. more...
• Bids invited for Bikaner Water supply project - estimated contract value of Rs.298 Cr. more...

Top News Highlights of Sep-2013

• Asian Development Bank (ADB) is likely to provide $400 Million (Approx Rs.2488.2 Cr.) loan to improve the water and sanitation system in Kolkata more...
• Asian Development Bank has recently sanctioned 130 Cr. To improve water distribution systems in Agartala more... 
• Now “Water ATM machines” to bring reforms in life of peoples in India more...

Articles of Sep-2013

• Why urbanization is a problem all over Asia? more... 
• Poor water supply system becoming a massacre for Delhi’s poor people more... 
• Goa to achieve self sufficiency by 2015 more...

  Upcoming Water Events

• India’s Leading Trade fair for Water, Sewage, Refuse and Recycling 24-26 October 2013, Mumbai, India
• India water forum 2013, 28-30 Oct 2013, New Delhi
• India Water Expo  21-23 November 2013, Chennai, India
• 11th EverythingAboutWater Expo 2014  9-11 January 2014, Delhi, India
• IUKAN 2014 12-13 February 2014, Delhi, India
• India Water Expo  Ahmadabad, 7-9 March 2014, India

Case Studies

• If you are prospecting to enter in Water Utilities as Operator or Service Provider or Vendor - learn some best practices through case studies from pManifold (Water Utility Case Studies)

If you would like to know more about us, please contact at mohammad.sufiyan@pmanifold.com

pManifold India Water Utility Updates - September 2013

This is a newsletter sent to mailing list of pManifold sharing Water Distribution Industry opportunities and updates.

pManifold takes this opportunity to bring you a refined collection of news, deals, events and reforms in the Indian Water Utility space.

Top News Highlights

• SPML Infra Ltd has won new orders worth Rs. 1,802.10 crore projects. Out of which 802.10 Cr. were received from PHED for water supply schemes in 3 districts. 
• Pratibha Industries has bagged a water supply project worth Rs. 205 Cr. from the Public Health Engineering Department, Jaipur.
• Ahmedabad 24x7 water supply project costs expected to be around 2600 Cr. for 14 lakh connections in the city. 
• Aurangabad water project likely to start soon - Civic Chief
• Pimpri-Chinchwad 24x7 water supply plan gains momentum. Two more suburbs likey to have 24x7 water supply within two months. 
• Vishakhapatnam's 30,000 households to get 24-hour water supply from July 2014. 
• Cuttack 24x7 water supply project worth Rs. 325 Cr. to start soon. 
• Chandigarh Municipal Corporation to do surprise checks to detect water thefts. 
• Piramal Water uses Water ATM’s to deliver safe drinking water to villages at the cost of 30 paise per litre. 
• Belgaum experts claims 24x7 water supply is unaffordable for the poor citizen. 
• Reforming Energy subsidies could curb India’s water stress. 
• The Saga of 24x7 water supply. 

Upcoming Water Events

• Water management in India 2013, 11-12 Sep 2013, Delhi
• Water management in India 2013, 13 Sep 2013, Ahmedabad
• India water forum 2013, 28-30 Oct 2013, New Delhi
• India Water Expo  21-23 Nov 2013, Chennai
• 11th EverythingAboutWater Expo 2014  9-11 Jan 2014, Delhi
• India Utility Knowledge and Networking (IUKAN) Conference 2014, 12-13 Feb 2014, New Delhi
• India Water Expo 7-9 March 2014, Ahmedabad

Case Studies

• If you are prospecting to enter in Water Utilities as Operator or Service Provider or Vendor - learn some best practices through case studies from pManifold (Water Utility Case Studies).

If you would like to know more about us, please contact at mohammad.sufiyan@pmanifold,com

Jharkhand's DF on-hold, PESU bids again extended, MoP New Initiatives, IUKAN 2014 - Oct, 2013 Newsletter

This is a newsletter sent to mailing list of pManifold sharing Power Distribution Franchisee industry opportunities and updates.

Some of the recent updates in the Power Distribution Franchisee space are shared below. Hope, you will find it useful.

Existing Opportunities

• Last date of PESU bid submission has been extended (now multiple repeat) until22nd Oct, 2013. (Share your views on 'Why PESU Distribution Franchisee bid is getting multiple times extended?')
• Last date of bid submission for appointment of Distribution Franchisee for four 11kV feeders of Godhra (W) sub-division has been extended until 8th Oct, 2013. (Read here) 

Roll Outs & Updates

• Bids for consultancy assistance to implement Distribution Franchisee in Jaipur Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Ltd (JVVNL) has been submitted by four companies (Crisil, PwC, IL&FS and Feedback). Financial bid opening is still due. (Read here)
• Jharkhand's Ranchi and Jamshedpur Input based Distribution Franchisee is put 'On-hold', as State Power Minister is planning to conduct an audit to evaluate the feasibility of the model. (Read here)

New Initiatives

• Ministry of Power (MoP) proposes to bring Management Responsibility for State owned DISCOMs through proposed new bill by state governments to ensure financial and operational turnaround and long term sustainability of electricity distribution. (Read here) 
• MoP has recently released 'Smart Grid Vision and Roadmap for India' with an overarching policy objective of Access, Availability and Affordability of Power for All. (Read here)
• MoP has set up a group that is working on ways to implement the plan which will require a separation of the distribution and the retail supply business, with separate licences for each. (Read here)

Share your vote

• Should centre mandatorily extend R-APDRP funding to all Franchisee towns to enable better franchisee operationalization and also viability? (Vote here)

Indian Utility Knowledge and Networking (IUKAN) 2014

• pManifold team is glad to bring 2nd Annual IUKAN 2014 Conference, on 12-13th Feb 2014 at New Delhi. IUKAN 2014 theme is 'Complementing Reforms Bottom-up: Through Improved Operationalization and Engaged Local Ecosystem. (See draft Conference Agenda)
• One of the distinction of IUKAN 2014 is first of its kind Best Utility Awards to recognize operational best practices and innovations across multiple processes. 
• On 1st day, we shall be hosting 2-4 parallel workshops, interested Service Providers can connect to us for more details.

pManifold's Utility Practice can be viewed here, If you would like to know more about us, please contact at kunjan.bagdia@pmanifold.com.

Posted by: Kunjan Bagdia @ pManifold

New Report Available: Interim / Mini Power Franchisee Market in India 2013

There are exciting developments in the broader private participation in Indian Utilities in - Network O&M, Customer Services and Revenue improvements. While most heard models are Delhi PPP model; Bhiwandi Input Based Franchisee model; Orissa's Smart metering model; and J&K's new PPP Concessionaire model; a new Interim/Mini Franchisee model is building fast traction.

Alike other models, the Interim Franchisee model is similar turnkey Network, O&M and MRBD Management, but works on much smaller aggregations like malls, townships, SEZ, airports etc. This small volume aggregation comes at much reduced operational & financial risks, offers definite returns, and allows easy entry for new players because of no strict QRs. The model has high scalability in growing Metros and Tier-2/3 towns with multiple aggregations, allowing good economy-of-scale. It also offers high economy-of-scope, as same competence can be extended to undertake broader EE and utility O&M projects.

pManifold Team has dived deeper to research this emerging model and proudly present to you our new report 'Interim / Mini Power Franchisee Market in India 2013'. (See Table of Content and Executive Summary here).

Some add-on top level takeaways and benefits of this report: 

• This model also known by 'Single Point Connection' is operating in 4+ states (Maharashtra, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab) and is poised for fast growth with rapid urbanization and integrated townships development
• This model has high scalability, and with its proximity and stickiness to clustered end-customers, it could become precursor to bigger Smart Grid and Energy Management Solutions deployment
• Current service providers in this space are non-organised and fragmented. There is good scope for competent products, solutions and service providers to offer O&M; Metering, Billing and Collection (MBC); Customer Services; Back-up power supply provisioning; and Loss reduction
• This could be good go-to-market opportunity to build QRs for bigger Input Franchisee projects:
• Metering, EE and allied product/solution companies to build service portfolio and co-create their offerings with end-customers
• International players and PE Investors to capture market share of scalable utility O&M Indian business
• Domestic Infra players to build B2C customer-centric services expertise and QRs

If you would like to know more about the report, please contact at kunjan.bagdia@pManifold.com

Posted by Kunjan Bagdia @ pManifold

Jaipur Franchisee opportunity, Updates from PESU & Dhanbad, Expert Interviews, pManifold's New Report Launch - Sep, 2013 Newsletter

This is a newsletter sent to mailing list of pManifold sharing Power Distribution Franchisee industry opportunities and updates.

Last month, the Power Distribution industry saw various developments across different states. Some of these are mentioned below. We hope you will find them useful.  

New Opportunities

• Jaipur Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Ltd (JVVNL) has floated a tender for Consultancy assistance to implement Distribution Franchisee in its 3 Discoms namely Jaipur, Ajmer and Jodhpur. 3 discoms have 18 areas for the study. Last date of bid submission is 26th September, 2013. (Read here)
• Bihar Discom has floated tenders for selection of implementing agency for 'Strengthening, Improvement and Augmentation of Distribution System Capacity" under Backward Region Grant Fund (BRGF) scheme on Turnkey basis. (Read here)

Moving from Electrical Contractor to 'Specialised O&M Managed Services Partner' for Power Distribution Franchisees

Mr. Gagan Aggarwal, MD,
Creative Entrepreneurs

Utilities are heavily driven by outsourcing of products and services, but most times, their integration is limited by lack of strong Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and vendor management practices. The new private operators usually start dealing with several products and contractors, and already
scarce Management bandwidth gets occupied in monitoring and renegotiating contracts and performance. The key question here is – can organized vendors be developed with more end-to-end managed services for these new PPPs?

Recently, pManifold team spoke with Mr. Gagan Aggarwal, MD, Creative Entrepreneurs (CE). The company has 30+ years of experience in providing Turnkey EPC and O&M services for Power and Water utilities. The interview focuses upon 'What new business models need to emerge for such managed services that have performance-linked contracts?' The below shared are the author's personal views and not to be associated with any of his company's and other associations.

Raising meaningful GIS implementation in Indian Discoms and Franchisees

Mr. Sanjay Sahay, VP - India
Sales

GIS is very much talked about in the utility space. Every new franchisee that starts or an existing utility wants to first start by mapping the network and its customers to a GIS map. How effective is this and how effectively it can be done are both questions whose answers differ. However, in the experience of an Indian utility, a well executed strategy for GIS and its integration with existing IT applications can be successfully implemented.

Rahul Bagdia from pManifold team spoke to Mr. Sanjay Sahay, Vice President - India Sales, Infotech - Enterprises. The company has 20+ international experience of providing solutions in the arena of Smart Grid, GIS, Network Management, etc. The below shared are the author's personal views and not to be associated with any of their company's association.