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RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized RP213 Volume 4 Electrification Project of Zhe-Gan Railway Public Disclosure Authorized (Hunan Section) RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Foreign-Financing Center of Ministry of Railways, PR China East China Investigation and Design Institute under State Power Corporation Public Disclosure Authorized May 2004 FiLE COPYi Approved by: Gong Heping Examined by: Bian Bingqian Checked by: Xu Chunhai Mao Zhenjun Compiled by: Zhu Qiang Li Min'an Xia Yunqiu 2 ±1ss.. List of Contents OBJECTIVES OF RESETTLEMENT PLAN AND DEFINITION OF RESETTLEMENT TERMINOLOGY....... 1 1 Generals ... 3 1.1 Project Background .. 3 1.1.1 Existing conditions .3 1.1.2 Necessity of railway electrification .3 1.1.3 Significance of project .5 1.2 Project Design and Design Approval .. 6 1.3 Description of Project .. 7 1.4 Project Impacts .. 9 1.5 Measures To Alleviate Project Impacts .. 10 1.5.1 In project planning and design stage .10 1.5.2 In project implementation stage .10 1.5.3 In resettlement action planning and implementation stage .11 1.6 Project Schedule .. 11 1.7 Preparation for Resettlement, Monitoring and Evaluation . .12 1.7.1 Breakdown of affected inventories and supplementary survey .12 1.7.2 Social and economic survey .13 1.7.3 Resettlement plan .13 1.7.4 Preparation of resettlement monitoring and evaluation .13 1.8 Policy Frame and Targets of RAP .. 14 1.8.1 Policy frame .14 1.8.2 Policy Objectives .15 2 Natural Social and Economic Conditions of Project-Affected Provinces ... 16 2.1 Natural Social and Economic Conditions .. 16 2.2 General of social and economy . 19 2.3 Basic Conditions of Project Affected Households . .22 3 Project Impacts . .28 3.1 Confirmation of the scope of project impacts . .28 3.1.1 Land acquisition for the project .28 3.1.2 Temporary land for construction .28 3.2 Investigation of project impacts . .28 3.3 Inventory index of project impacts . .30 3.3.1 Land Acquisition/occupation .30 3.3.2 Relocated buildings and auxiliary facilities .................................... 36 3.3.3 Population affected by the Project .................................... 41 3.3.4 Enterprises, institutions and individual commerce .................................... 44 3.3.5 Sporadic trees and graves .................................... 45 3.3.6 Special facilities .................................... 47 3.3.7 Affected facilities for production and living .................................... 47 3.4 Analysis of impacts of land acquisition on regional social economy .. 48 4 Policy Framework for Resettlement . ..................................................... 52 4.1 Policy Basis ................................................ 52 4.2 Relative Laws and Regulations ............................................. 52 4.2.1 Relative specifications of "Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China"................................................. 52 4.2.2 Main rules of Interim Regulation of The People's Republic of China on Taxation for Farmland Occupation................................................ 64 4.2.3 Main rules for implementation of "Land Administration Law of PRC"" of Hunan province ................................................ 65 4.2.4 Relative specifications of Operational Manual--OP 4.12 ............................. 68 4.3 Compensation Standards ................................................. 70 4.3.1 Compensation criteria for rural resettlers ................................................ 70 4.3.2 Compensation criteria for relocation of enterprises and public institutions. 71 4.3.3 Compensation criteria of special item restoration ........................................ 72 4.4 Entitlement Matrix .............................. 72 5 Resettlement and Rehabilitation Plan . .......................... 75 5.1 Objectives and Tasks ........................................ 75 5.1.1 Resettlement target ....................................... 75 5.1.2 Resettlement Task ....................................... 75 5.2 Resettlement Guideline and Principle ....................................... 75 5.2.1 Resettlement Guideline ....................................... 75 5.2.2 Resettlement Principle....................................... 76 5.3 Overall Resettlement Scheme ....................................... 76 5.4 Analysis on Carrying Capacity for Resettlement . ...............................77 5.4.1 Natural conditions and land resources ........................................... 77 5.4.2 Resettlers' characteristics and relationships ........................................... 78 5.4.3 Basic Infrastructure Conditions for Production and Living ......................... 78 5.4.4 Economic Development Potential of the Affected Area ............................... 79 ii 5.5 Resettlement and Rehabilitation Plan .. ......................... 79 5.5.1 Plan of production recovery and resettlement .............................................. 80 5.5.2 Plan for house relocation ............................................... 83 5.5.3 Social service facilities in resettlement plot ............................................... 84 5.5.4 Resettlers' Administrative Management and house construction ................. 84 5.5.5 Administration of Resettlement implementation organizations ................... 84 5.6 Rehabilitation Plan for Special Facilities .. 85 6 Cost Estimation on compensation for land requisition . .86 6.1 Compiling basis and principles ..................................................... 87 6.2 Compensate standards .................................................... 88 6.2.1 Compensation to rural resettlers ............................................. 88 6.2.2 Compensation for removing of organizations and enterprises ..................... 89 6.2.3 Compensation for reconstruction of special item ......................................... 89 6.2.4 Other Fees ............................................. 90 6.2.5 Contingency ............................................. 90 6.2.6 Related tax ............................................. 90 6.3 Compensation cost . 91 7 Resettlement Implementation Plan . .............................94 7.1 Implementation procedures . 94 7.2 Schedule . 96 7.3 Payment . 99 7.3.1 Principles of payment .99 7.3.2 Institutions assuming financial responsibility for resettlement .99 7.3.3 Fund flow .100 8 Institutional Organizations ................... 103 8.1 Institutional Arrangements . ................................103 8.1.1 Organizations ......................................... 103 8.1.2 Responsibility of the organizations ......................................... 103 8.1.3 Staffing .......................................... 108 8.1.4 Organization chart .......................................... 109 8.2 Working Relations between Organizations . ........................109 8.3 Measures for Enhancing Capacity of Organizations . ........................................110 9 Participation and Grievance Procedure . .................................... 111 9.1 Public Participation ......................................... 111 9.1.1 Participation in Resettlement Preparation ........................... 11.............I iii 9.1.2 Participation in RAP Preparation ................................................... 11 9.1.3 Participation during Resettlement Implementation .................................... 115 9.2 Grievance and Appeal ................................................... 117 10 Monitoring & Evaluation ............................................... 119 10.1 Internal Monitoring .................................................. 119 10.1.1 Target and Task .................................................. 119 10.1.2 Institution and Staff .................................................. 119 10.1.3 Monitoring Contents.................................................. 119 10.1.4 Monitoring Procedures .................................................. 120 10.2 External Independent Monitoring and Evaluation . ............................120 10.2.1 Target and Tasks .120 10.2.2 Institution and Staff .121 10.2.3 Main Indicators to be Monitored and Evaluated .121 10.2.4 Monitoring and Evaluation Measures .122 10.2.5 Working Processes .124 11 Reporting..................................... 126 11.1 Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) Report ..................................... 126 11.2 Internal Monitoring Progress Report ....................................... 126 11.3 Independent M&E Report .. ..................................... 128 Attachment I: Record of visit meeting ....................................... 129 iv OBJECTIVES OF RESETTLEMENT PLAN AND DEFINITION OF RESETTLEMENT TERMINOLOGY This Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) is prepared according to the Laws and Regulations of PRC and the resettlement policy of (KInvoluntary resettlement ) OP4.12/BP4.12 of the World Bank. The purpose of this document is to set out an action plan for the Resettlement and Rehabilitation of the Project Affected Persons (PAPs) to ensure that they will benefit from the project and their standards of living will improve or at least be restored after the project impact. Acquisition of land and other assets for the project will adversely affect the livelihood of persons who live, work or earn their living on the land that will be acquired for the project. PAPs are defined as those persons whose income or livelihoods will be adversely affected by land acquisition for the project. PAPs include the following categories: a) persons who have a title, right, interest, in structures
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