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Initiating community awareness and participation program (CAPP) activities early on and continuing them beyond the end of the project enhances a project's effectiveness and sustainability.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Advance action on the recruitment of project consultants can help avoid delays.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Small investments can have large impacts and make a big difference to people's lives. Examples from this project include the hospitals in the project cities and the diversion channel for rainwater in Kota.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 31324-013
Project Name: State Power Sector Reform Project
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Timely induction of counterpart staff and building up their capacity is critical to a successful handover of assets to urban local bodies (ULBs) and line agencies.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Along with consultations related to project formulation and design, consultation with participating towns on cost recovery, tariffs, and user charges is crucial forsustainability.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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A good project performance monitoring system is essential to avoid ad hoc or delayed decisions. Weekly contractor review meetings, a practice introduced by the Urban Development Department (UDD), can help get past implementation hurdles in a timely manner.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Providing awards and incentives to contractors for quality and timely delivery, as done by the UDD, helps foster a spirit of competition and better performance.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 36318-013, 36318-023
Project Name: Assam Power Sector Development Program
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Involving specialist agencies for specific components�the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage for this project's heritage component, for example� leads to positive outcomes.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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(No section on lessons provided in the report.)

Project Number: 23241-013
Project Name: Mumbai and Chennai Ports Project
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Lesson
The project was the first of its kind to use an ADB loan to implement a rural roads program in India. The project helped the states identify gaps in various program implementation activities. Some of these lessons learned are listed as in the following paragraphs.

Project Number: 36320-013
Project Name: Rural Roads Sector I Project
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Overreliance on the private sector for power generation investments when there are structural issues in the distribution sector that may not result in desired outcomes. Financial viability and cost recovery in the sector are important considerations for private sector investments in power generation in the absence of opportunities to sell electricity outside the state.

Project Number: 29473-013, 29473-023
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Development Program [Loans 1868/1869]
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Lesson
Restoring financial viability of the power sector in Madhya Pradesh requires a holistic approach encompassing technical, institutional, and governance measures. The Madhya Pradesh power sector has been suffering from structural problems such as persistently high level of ATC losses, increasing cost of generation and power purchase, and limited scope of tariff increase as industrial tariffs have already reached the cost of captive power generation.

Project Number: 29473-013, 29473-023
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Development Program [Loans 1868/1869]
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Regulatory and institutional reforms alone are important, but they will not result in improved performance in the absence of accountability and incentives. The SDP was based on the premise that regulatory and institutional reforms will improve the performance of sector entities. Although the regulatory and institutional reforms were implemented as intended, the sector entities except for MPTransco showed no significant improvement in performance.

Project Number: 29473-013, 29473-023
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Development Program [Loans 1868/1869]
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