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A commercial brief on Delhi Jal Board for suppliers, contractors and operators. It finds a sewage-led building programme with 33 projects worth Rs 6,114.11 crore at foundation-stone stage, a shift to zone operators on performance-linked pay, and purchasing through the Delhi e-procurement portal under new delegated powers, set against Board debt of more than Rs 70,000 crore and live procurement-integrity cases.

Delhi Jal Board is moving from building and running its own plants to buying performance from zone operators and monitoring the system from a control center launched in October 2026. The report finds that contracts and controls have moved ahead of the water balance and the finances: officials put supply at about 1,000 MGD against a requirement of nearly 1,250 MGD, loss estimates range from 30% to 55%, and Board debt exceeds Rs 70,000 crore.

Delhi's water system rests on rivers shared with upstream states, a single statutory board that runs supply and sewage, and a ring of other institutions that control allocation, effluent standards and funding. The report finds that summer 2026 output was held back by the river at Wazirabad rather than by plant capacity, that sewage capacity has grown faster than coverage, with compliance improved but incomplete, and that new investment is weighted toward sewage under the May 2029 Yamuna pledge.

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This report evaluates how Delhi Jal Board’s revenue model, subsidy obligations, government funding, multilateral finance, and regulatory environment shape its capacity to deliver metropolitan water and wastewater investment.