Social Impact Assessment Study Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project
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Social Impact Assessment Study Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project Site: Chamrawali Bodaki Chithehra, Kathehra, and Palla Dadri Tehsil, Gautam Budh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh Draft submitted for Public Hearing and Consultations with Key Stakeholders Submitted by Gautam Buddha University Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh-201310 November 2020 Table of Contents Particulars Page No. 1. Executive Summary 3-7 2. Detailed Project Description 8-17 2.1. Introduction 8 2.1.1. DMIC Details and Project Site 10 2.1.2. Rationale for the DMIC Project 12 2.2. Screening and Scoping of the SIA 17 3. Approach and Methodology for the SIA 18-27 3.1. Description of Social Impact Assessment 18 3.2. Rationale and Objective of the SIA 19 3.3. The Research Methodology 19 3.3.1 Data Needs and Information Requirements 20 3.3.2 Data Collection 20 3.4. Tools used to Collect Information 21 3.4.1. Socio-Economic Survey 21 3.4.2. Community Stakeholder Consultations and FGDs 23 3.4.3. Overview of Information and Data Sources Used 23 3.5. The SIA Team and their areas of expertise 24 3.6. Schedule of the study and Consultation with Stakeholders 25 4. Socio-Economic profile of Impact Zone 28-34 4.1. Overview of UP and Project Influence Area 28 4.2. Project Influence Area- Dadri Tehsil 29 4.3. Socio-economic profile of Direct Impact Zone 32 5. Land Assessment of the PAFs 34-36 5.1. Land Holdings in Chamrawli Bodaki, Chithehra, Kathehra, and Palla, 34 5.2. Land requirements and Present Land Use 35 5.3. Crops in the area 36 6. Estimation and Enumeration 37-38 6.1. Households and structures enumeration 37 6.2. Typology of structures in the DIZ 37 6.3. PAPs in the Direct Impact Zone 37 7. Socio-economic profile of PAPs 39-87 7.1 Demographic Details of PAFs 39 7.2. Demographics Details of PAPs 39 7.3 Vulnerability Status 53 7.4. Social Infrastructure in the Direct Impact Zone 60 7.5 Information Regarding Land and Livelihood 61 7.6 Information about Trees on Land 66 7.7 Information about Crops 67 7.8 Availability/Access to Natural or Common Resources 67 7.9 Common Resources and Public Amenities 73 7.10: Impact analysis of Acquisition of Land, Livelihood and Income 74 1 711 : Impact Analysis of Physical Resources 82 7.12: The Collective Inferences: 85 8. Public Consultations - FGD 87-99 8.1. Need for Focus Group - Public Consultations 87 8.2 Focus Group - Research Design and Data Collection 88 8.3 Focus Group Study of Chamrawali Bodaki-Chitehara–Katehara–Palla 89 9. Public Consultations - Public Hearing 100 9.1. Need for Public Consultations - Public Hearing 9.2. Details of the Public Consultations 9.3 Key Concerns and Recommendations 9.4. Pictures from the Project Site 9.5. Pictures from the Public Hearings 10. Social Impact Analysis of DMIC 101-105 10.1. Potential Positive Impacts 101 10.2 Positive Impacts Perceived by PAFs 101 10.3 Impact on Poverty Reduction 102 10.4 Key Adverse Impacts 103 10.4.1 Impact on Land 103 10.4.2 Impact on Common Structures 103 10.4.3 Impact on Fixed Assets and Occupational Structure 103 10.4.4 Impact on Livestock and Crops 104 10.4.5 Impact on the People in the Adjacent Area 104 10.5 Concerns Perceived by the PAPs 105 11. Social Impact Management Plan 106-112 11.1 Approach to Mitigation Measures 106 11.2 Impact and Management Plan 107 11.3 Gender Plan 108 11.3.1 Management Plan for Women 108 11.4 Training Need Assessment 110 11.5 Livelihood Restoration and Income Generation Strategy via Skill Mapping 110 12. Annexures 113 12.1. Land Owners Details Onwards 12.2. Structured Questionnaire 12.3 Orders and Letters 2 1. Executive Summary 1. The DMIC project was launched in pursuance of an MOU signed between the Government of India and the Government of Japan in December 2006. DMIC Development Corporation (DMICDC) incorporated in 2008, is the implementing agency for the project. DMICDC has been registered as a company with 49% equity of Government of India, 26% equity of the JBIC and the remaining held by government financial institutions. The Japanese Government had also announced financial support for DMIC project to an extent of US$ 4.5 billion in the first phase for the projects with Japanese participation involving cutting edge technology. 2. The project spans the States of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra along the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) of the railways. Initially, 8 nodes/cities in the six DMIC states have been taken up for development. 3. DMIC is being developed along with the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC). DFCCIL, a Ministry of Railways, Government of India enterprise, is developing WDFC, which passes through the states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra, having end terminals at Dadri in the Uttar Pradesh and Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNPT) near Mumbai, Maharashtra. The Dedicated Fright Corridor offers high-speed connectivity for High Axle Load Wagons supported by high power locomotives. DMIC will leverage the High Speed – High Capacity connectivity of WDFC. 4. Under the Dadri-Ghaziabad-Noida Investment Region of DMIC, following three Early Bird Projects are being developed: a. Integrated Industrial Township at Greater Noida b. Multi Modal Logistic Hub (Freight Village) at Dadri, Greater Noida and c. Multi Modal Transport Hub at Boraki, Greater Noida 5. The objective of DMIC is to expand India’s Manufacturing & Services base and develop DMIC as a “Global Manufacturing and Trading Hub”. It will provide a major impetus to planned urbanization in India with manufacturing as the key 3 driver. In addition to new Industrial Cities, it envisages development of infrastructure linkages like power plants, assured water supply, high capacity transportation and logistics facilities as well as softer interventions like skill development programme for employment of the local populace. 6. A site of 302.63ha has been developed for the “Integrated Industrial Township (IIT)” under Dadri-Noida-Ghaziabad Investment Region of DMIC to facilitate large scale investments for the commercial and industrial development expected in DMIC region. 7. The proposed Freight Village site is located in Dadri Tehsil of Gautam Budh Nagar of Uttar Pradesh. The site is in close proximity of Delhi-Howrah Broad Gauge line in the south west and NH 91 in North West. The UP Government has already initiated the land acquisition process. The site identified for Freight Village located in Dadri Tehsil in the planning boundaries of the city of Greater Noida and its extension. 8. The MMTH at Greater Noida has been planned with the key objective to create a world-class intermodal transport station with provision of international level facilities incorporating the Rail, Road and MRTS accessibility for the passengers, in a seamless manner. 9. The proposed Dadri-Ghaziabad-Noida Investment Region of DMIC that includes three Early Bird Projects namely Integrated Industrial Township at Greater Noida, Multi Modal Logistic Hub (Freight Village) at Dadri, Greater Noida and Multi Modal Transport Hub at Boraki, Greater Noida will cause involuntary resettlement of the PAFs across the four villages (Chamrawali Bodaki, Chithehra, Katehra and Palla) that are being subsumed under this phase of land area acquisition. 10. The land holdings of the PAPs range from less than half a hectare up to above 3 hectares. The majority of the land holders are consolidated within the bracket of 0 to 1 hectare. As per the RFCTLARR Act, 2013, marginal farmers in irrigated land are defined as those having holdings below 0.5 Ha and small farmers as those with holdings between 0.5 to 1 Ha. As can be seen, from the table 5.1, there are large numbers about 82.59 percentage of landholders who are 4 marginal and merely 12.97% of the landholders can be categorized as small farmers. As per the village Land Records and household (Annexed), the landholdings for Gautam Budh Nagar district, almost 88.82 % of agricultural holdings can be categorized as marginal and small farmers, which is almost in similar pattern as distribution found in India across and in Uttar Pradesh as per Agriculture Census 2015-16. 11. The total land required for the project is 87.8624 Hectares carved out of total area of the four villages “Chamrawali Bodaki- Chitehara – Katehara – Palla” Dadri Tehsil, consisting of 293 land plots or gatasankhya mainly private agricultural land plots with some 10-15% of PAFs as residential structure which is to be subsumed under the Direct Impact Zone. 12. The total area of land to be acquired for the project is 87.8624 Hectares. Almost the entire land is currently used for the purposes of agriculture. The change in land use, from agricultural to transport, specifically for the purposes of establishing Delhi-Mumbai corridor has been granted by the government of Uttar Pradesh. 13. The agricultural lands are irrigated lands in the four demarcated villages ‘Chamrawali Bodaki- Chitehara – Katehara – Palla’ located in Tehsil Dadri. The landholding pattern indicates that majority of the landholders are small and marginal farmers. This also resonates with the district level data. 14. The land though is use for agricultural purpose primarily however there are few residential structures and livestock cottages in the land. The PAFs use these livestock for milking and dairy purpose which is a major source of income for them. 15. The gender distribution of PAPs is not deviated on one side. However the landowners are primarily male members of the family. The females though almost equal in number is not the earning member of the family and they are primarily engaged in household activities.