Liaising and Capacity Building

The months of November-December were among the best months in terms of progress for the project. The public toilet tender notice was published in the leading dailies, definitely one of the major milestones achieved for the project. The tenders were opened and potential documents are currently under technical scrutiny. The project got a response from one bidder each for Package I and II and three bidders for package III. The Officials of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) along with the officials of Government are deciding on the way forward for the single bid tenders.

While the major issue for these months has been Public toilet tender, CTRAN facilitated several meetings with the engineering section of the BMC in order to collect their inputs on the technical documents relevant to the release of the Community Toilet tender and accordingly proceed for the technical sanction. Meetings were fixed with the Mr. Mallick, Executive Engineer- Division I, to get the technical inputs and the formats in which the documents should be submitted.

In Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC), reviewing of the technical documents is on. The files have been forwarded to the Engineer in Chief for the technical sanction owing to the total cost of the package. Certain compliances have been sought for which the project team has been working. With the administrative sanction in place, technical sanction is just the only step left before the release of the Community tender in Cuttack.

With assigning of officials for various posts under process, one of the priority activities for CTRAN will be to introduce the project to the new officials and update them on the status. City Engineer, BMC has been promoted to the level of Chief Engineer and is expected that the new City Engineer will be deputed in the month of January, 2014. CTRAN would also enable capacity building exercises for the new officials with discussions, distribution of newsletter, discussions to make the officials understand the files and documentation.