Environmental and Social Management Plan of Jamune Drinking Water Maintenance Sub-Project Kalinchowk Rural Municipality-7

Government of Nepal National Reconstruction Authority Central Level Project Implementation Unit District Level Project Implementation Unit (Grant Management and Local Infrastructure) Dolakha

February, 2019

Silent Features (Additional Information) of the Sub Project SN Particulars Description 1 Name of Project Jamune Drinking Water Maintenance Sub- Project 2 Type of Project Rehabilitation / Maintenance/ Reconstruction 3 Location Kalinchowk RM-7, Dhunge 4 District Dolakha 5 No. of Beneficiary HHs with in 35 sub-project area 6 No. of Earthquake Beneficiary 35 7 Major Works Earthwork, stone masonry wall, Stone soling, PCC, RCC and water tank fitting, Distribution pipeline fitting, tap construction 8 Existing Structures with Capacity Cracked RVT, Intake Tank, 60% HDPE pipe damaged 9 Total Estimated Cost (NRs.) 998,924.22 Project Contribution 890,000.00 User Contribution 108,924.94 Other Contribution 0 10 Rationality (a) Source Damage Intake, reserve tank and distribution (b) Increased Demand pipeline damaged which had increased the (c) New Scheme shortage of water and and no earthquake (d) Extension (e) Others (………………) beneficiaries house could start the construction. 11 How does the Proposed Project Before Gorkha earthquake, the drinking Fulfill the Provision of EHRP- water system was working properly. After ESMF? the earthquake, intake, reserve tank and distribution pipelines have damaged and thus local people of Dhunge got affected. It has halted reconstruction process for 20 household as they have difficulties to manage the water needed for drinking and reconstruction purpose 12 Is ESSR Approved? (if applicable) Yes 13 Is Separate ESMP Prepared? Yes 14 Earthquake and Safeguard Perspective of the Proposal:  Previously working drinking water system was damaged in Post-Gorkha earthquake  Local people of Dhunge have deficit of water supply for drinking & reconstruction  Due to deficit of water supply people have conflict in of use water

especially in dry season. 15 Technical Data 1. Number of HHs to be reconstructed during 20 project selection 2. Vulnerable HHs (with 2 (Senior citizen above 70 years - 1) Categories) (Single women above 65 years- 1) 3. Source Name Sano Chitre 4. Source discharge (Dry 0.23 Liter/s Season) 5. Water Demand (m3/day) 1.75 (50 Liter per HH) 6. Reservoir capacity 14m3 7. Break Pressure Tank 0 number 8. Length of pipe line 1500m (transmission mains and distribution 9. Type of transmission mains HDPE and distribution pipe 10. Numbers of tap stand 7

(A) Endorsement: DL-PIU (GMaLI) Prepared By: Approved By: Designation: Designation: ………………….. …………………..

(B) Endorsement: CL-PIU (GMaLI) Reviewed By: Approved By: Designation: ………………….. …………………..

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Table of Contents Silent Features (Additional Information) of the Sub Project ...... ii 1. Introduction ...... 1 2. Objectives of ESMP ...... 3 3. Methodology ...... 3 4. Site Description ...... 3 5. Environmental and Social Issues ...... 3 6. Environmental and Social Mitigation Plan ...... 4 7. ESMP Cost ...... 4 ANNEXES ...... I Annex-I: Detail Cost-Estimate ...... II Annex-II: Design and drawing ...... III Annex-III: Google Map ...... IV Annex-IV: Photographs ...... V Annex-V: Beneficiaries List ...... VI Annex-VI: Meeting Minutes ...... VII Annex-VII: Letter from Ward Office ...... IX Annex-VIII: Letter from Ward DL-PIU ...... X

1. Introduction A magnitude 7.6 earthquake of shallow depth struck central Nepal with an epicenter approximately 77km north-west of Kathmandu on April 25th 2015 causing widespread destruction. On May 12, 2015 a large after shock of a magnitude 6.8 hit Nepal and caused further causalities and damage. As of 3 June 2015, the reported casualties include: 8,702 deaths and 22,493 people injured. As the earthquake sequence destroyed 490,000 houses mostly traditional mud brick and mud stone built and occupied by the rural poor and rendered another 265,000 houses at least temporarily uninhabitable, the largest single need identified in the Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) was housing and human settlements, accounting for US$ 3.27 billion of needs.

The Government of Nepal (GON) has requested support from a number of development partners, including the WB, to address the immediate and long-term damage inflicted by the earthquake in Nepal. In response to this, World Bank approved a US$200 million loan to finance the Earthquake Reconstruction Project (EHRP) approved on 18 June 2015 to support 55 thousand households of three severely affected districts namely: Dolakha, Dhading and Nuwakot. The project will support in restoring affected houses with multi hazard resistant core housing units in target areas and to enhance government’s ability to improve long-term disaster resilience. Initially, the EHRP is to be completed by July 2020.

Considering the further need to support GoN, International Development Association (the World Bank) has agreed to support additional US$300 million loan to finance the Earthquake Housing Reconstruction Project (EHRP). The recent additional loan support will cover another eleven severely affected districts including Gorkha covering 96000 households from Additional Financing and 3200 households from Multi Donor Fund.

Environment and Social Management Framework serves as a practical tool to ensure that environment and social aspects are duly considered in the planning and implementation process of earthquake housing reconstruction project. Accordingly, Revised ESMF, have guided to address the environmental and social issues of the projects by site-specific environmental and social management plan after selection of the sub-projects prioritized by orientation and consultation in the respective local government.

Dolakha district is located in province- 3 situated in the height from 762 m to 7132 m from mean sea level. The district lies in the latitude of 85 50' to 86 32' East and longitude of 27 28' to 28 00' North. The climatic condition of districts varies from tropical to alpine and tundra type. The average annual maximum temperature is 19° C and minimum temperature is 8° C. The average rainfall is 2043.5 ml (District Profile Dolakha, 2015). Dolakha is one the earthquake affected district. According to National Reconstruction Authority (NRA), the total number of houses damaged in district is 58,388 of which 56553 are fully damaged and 1835 partially damaged. Dolakha district is administratively divided into 7 Rural Municipality and 2 municipalities (former: 48 VDCs & 2 Municipalities). The total population residing in the district is about 186,557 in 45,688 households (HH) with an average HH size of 4.11 The female population (99554) in the

1 districts is higher than that of male population (87003). The sex ratio of the district is 85.47 (CBS, 2012)

Beneficiaries’ data of Dolakha District: SN Beneficiaries Beneficiaries Ist tranche 2nd tranche 3rd tranche (Nos) with (Nos) (Nos) (Nos) Agreement (Nos) 1 72819 67337 63532 54130 46856 Source: MIS dated 2076/01/02 Kalinchowk Rural Municipality ranges from the altitude of 940 to 3230 meter covers former VDCs Kalinchowk, Babare, Lamidanda, Lapilang, Sunkhani and Sundrawati. Administratively it is divided into 9 wards. Famous religious place as Kalinchowk Bhagawati Temple is located in the Kalinchowk Rural Municipality -1(former Kalinchowk VDC). Singati River, Dolti Khola and Gumu Khola are major rivers in Kalinchowk Rural Municipality.

2. Objectives of ESMP This Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) is addresses the problem arise by shortage of water on hygiene, sanitation and other daily activities due to increase demand of water for reconstruction and decreased capacity of storage tank. Therefore the Main Objective of this ESMP is to maintain and rehabilitate the RVT, Intake, distribution pipeline and construction of public taps of Water Supply System to support in reconstruction of remaining houses of EHRP beneficiaries.

3. Methodology  Consultation and discussion: Consultation and discussion program was held with Local Government (Chair of RM, deputy Chair, chief administrative officer, ward chair persons and secretary) and engineers from DLPIU and collected the environmental and social Issues.  Field visit: After the consultation walkover survey for verification of environmental and social Issues which were collected from local level consultation were carried out at project level. Environmental and Social screening checklist was used for relevancy with ESMF guideline.  Desk study: Documents such as district profile, Municipality profile, CBS publication and publication of line agencies at district level and other project related reports were reviewed. Google earth map was taken to get the overview of the project area. 4. Site Description

The sub-project is located at Dhunge Tole, Ward No. 7 of Kalinchwok Rural Municipality, Dolakha district. The geographical location of the site is 27o42’47”N and 86o05’40”E. with altitude of 2190 MSL. According to Census 2011 the total household on Ward No. 7 of the Kalinchwok Rural Municipality is 584 and total population is 2306 of which 1098 are male and 1208 are female. The area is dominated by Brahmin, Chettri and Dalit and is mostly Hindu by religion. In Ward No. 7 of Kalinchwok Rural Municipality (Previously Sunkhani VDC), the total housing reconstruction beneficiaries are 947 in which out of total 35 Sub-project beneficiaries household, 20 houses were remained to be reconstructed due to lack of water supply. Previously for the construction of other than these remaining houses, people collected the water from half an hour walking distance downhill which created trouble in water supply for reconstruction. Discharge of the source at Sano Chitre is 0.23 liter/s at dry season. Rehabilitation and maintenance of the one RVT of capacity 14m3, one Intake tank, 300m distribution pipeline, 1200m main pipeline and construction of seven public tap on Dhunge Tole will supply the ample amount of water for the reconstruction.

5. Environmental and Social Issues Site verification carried out on 2075/11/12 by Environmental Specialist, Social Development specialist along with district engineer. Before Gorkha earthquake, the water

3 supply system for drinking and other household use was working properly. After the earthquake, intake, reserve tank and distribution pipelines were damaged and local people of ethnic group especially 32, 2 and 1 of Brahmin, Chhetri and Dalits respective household of Dhunge tole were affected. It has halted reconstruction process as they have difficulties to manage the water needed for drinking and reconstruction purpose.

After the completion of this sub-project water supply system will be smoothly run. Further, the program will help for the sustainable safe drinking water supply in the area which enhances the sanitation and hygiene along with reconstruction in the area. After the completion of reconstruction of those remaining 20 houses, water supply system will be managed by the user committee. For the maintenance of water supply system they will generate the maintenance fund from the amount collected within the beneficiaries.

6. Environmental and Social Mitigation Plan Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of water storage tank and distribution pipeline have been proposed to address the issues of water scarcity raised by Ward Chairperson during orientation and consultation program held on 2075/01/24 at Kalinchwok Rural Municipality. The existing water supply has directly benefited more than 35 Households through public taps.

Location Issues/ Likely Potential Time Responsibility Significance Impact of action Kalinchwok Cracked RVT, Increase in water Falgun, UG's/RM Rural Intake Tank, demand for 2075 to ward/DLPIU- Municipality – 60% HDPE reconstruction Baisakh, GMaLI 7, Dhunge Tole pipe damaged Adverse impact 2076 on hygiene and sanitation due to lack of availability of water

7. ESMP Cost Major works under ESMP includes dismantling old tank, earthwork, stone masonry wall, Stone soling, PCC, RCC and water tank fitting, Distribution pipeline fitting, tap construction. The total cost of sub-project is NRs. 998,924.22 of which contribution from GMaLI will be NRs 890,000.00 and user committee will contribute NRs 108,924.22. The contribution from user committee accounts for 10.90% of the total cost. Per capita household cost of sub-project is NRs. 28,541. .

ANNEXES

Annex-I: Detail Cost-Estimate

Annex-II: Design and drawing

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Annex-III: Google Map

Annex-IV: Photographs

Damaged RVT

Annex-V: Beneficiaries List

S.N Name Address Ward No. Settlement Remark 1 Bal Kumari Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 2 Bhawani Parshad Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 3 Bhesh Kumari Khadka Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Chhetri 4 Binda Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 5 Chatra Bahadur Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 6 Chet Maya Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 7 Chet Raj Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 8 Dil Bahadur Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 9 Dipendra Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 10 Ganesh Prasad Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 11 Ghunlaxmi Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 12 Indra Kumar Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 13 Jagat Bahadur Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 14 Jhul Kumari Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 15 Kalyani Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 16 Kalyani Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 17 Kedar Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 18 Laxmi Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 19 Lok Bahadur Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 20 Manish Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 21 Maya Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 22 Nanda Parshad Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 23 Nepal Bandhu Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 24 Netra Bahadur Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 25 Nirmaya Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 26 Phun Bahadur Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Chhetri 27 Prakash Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 28 Prem Parshad Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 29 Rajan Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 30 Santosh Bishokarma Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Dalit 31 Santoshi Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 32 Shankar Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 33 Shiva Maya Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 34 Siddhi Bahadur Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin 35 Sundar Shivakoti Kalinchwok rural Municipality 7 Dhunge Brahmin

Annex-VI: Meeting Minutes

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Annex-VII: Letter from Ward Office

Annex-VIII: Letter from Ward DL-PIU