The World Bank has rated the first phase of Rebuild Kerala Development Programme (RKDP) – First Resilient Kerala Programme – as ‘satisfactory’. The World Bank’s Implementation Completion and Results Report (ICR), released a few weeks ago, observed the State government “largely met and at times exceeded” the challenges of implementing cross-sectoral reforms to strengthen disaster and climate resilience.
The State could achieve all but one of the targets included in the first Development Policy Operation series (DPO1) that comprised eight prior actions deemed critical to achieving the objectives.
The government has been unable to develop river basin management plans for the Pampa and the Periyar as envisaged in the programme. Official sources said the Kerala River Basin Conservation and Management Authority Bill is in its final stage of drafting. The proposed legislation will pave the way for the constitution of a River Basin Conservation and Management Authority that will prepare the river basin management plans.
