Previous

Page - 6

Finally, the proposed structure suggests about two different models which may be chosen. The first one completely dedicated to treatment of water and sells it to villagers while the other one is combined with selling safe drinking water to villagers as well as selling water in nearest city areas after packing it into pouches.

Again, two different combinations of initial investments have been applied in both models which depend upon the understanding among different partners in the model.

2.7 General Assumptions: Basic Tenet Underlying the Model

1. Electricity is available in the village

2. Electricity supply of 10 hours at either existing or subsidized rate or free of cost is available

3. Water purification plant capacity is 1000 litre/hour

4. Maximum content of TDS in raw water is 8000 ppm (parts per million)

5. Water would be available ex-plant

6. Village having number of household 500 (HH), One household having five persons

7. Daily water consumption (drinking and cooking) per capita is 4 litres which means 20 litres per family per day

8. Ownership of the plant will be with Water Venture Sweet India. Water Venture Sweet India (WVSI) would invest 40% of total initial investment as an equity partner and rest 60% will be invested by Water Venture Sweet India

9. Water Venture Sweet India is taking 60% loan @12.5% interest rate with 5 year repayment schedule

10. Water Venture Sweet India would charge 40% as return on investment

11. NGO partner would charge 10% of net profit as administrative expenses

12. Village where plant has to be established is in close proximity of the town area. (Approximately within 15-20 km range)

13. Demand of water packing company would be 1000 litre/day in 1st year, 1500 litre/day in 2nd year and 2000 litre/day in 3rd and subsequent years. Hence, total demand of water from plant will be 5000 litre/day in 1st year, 7000 litre/day in 2nd year and 9000 litre/day in 3rd and subsequent years. Therefore, capacity utilization of the plant in first year would be 50%, for second year 70% and for third and subsequent years 90%

14. Paani Samiti (Village level water community) (include some Panchayat members) would provide

• Free water source
• Electricity connection and supply of 10 hours either free of cost or at subsidized rate or at normal rate
• Free land and building space for purification plant setup (optional as per requirement of the model)

• «Previous
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15
• 16
• 17
• 18
• 19
• 20
• 21
• 22
• 23
• 24
• 25
• 26
• 27
• 28
• 29
• Next »

* Contributed by: -
Amit Goel has done B. Tech. in Computer Science Engineering from Technological Institute of Textile & Sciences (TIT&S) Haryana. Worked as Software Engineer – Technology at HCL Technologies Ltd, New Delhi. Presently he is doing Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management from the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat.
Mohit Goel has completed his Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi University & is currently working as QA Lead at Mtree Software Limited.