Rehabilitation and Upgrading of Pratapgarh-Padi of NH 113 Final Detailed Project Report Volume V: Social Impact Assessment & RAP EXECUTIVE SUMMARY E.1 PROJECT BACKGROUND Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRT&H), Government of India has taken up Public Disclosure Authorized National Highways Improvement Inter-Connectivity Project (NHIIP) for strengthening and upgrading of various single/intermediate/sub-standard two lane National Highways to 2 lane/ 2 lane with paved shoulders. A total of 33 project roads have been selected by MoRT&H for improvements. Project roads covered under Phase I of NHIIP are likely to be implemented with World Bank (WB) assistance. The objective of the NHIIP is to provide better connectivity of various existing National Highways in the country and induce socio- economic development in the project area. NH 113 connects Nimbahera in Rajasthan with Dahod district in Gujarat. The highway Public Disclosure Authorized originates from junction of NH 79 at Nimbahera in Rajasthan passing through – Bari – Pratapgarh – Pipalkhunt - Ghatol – Banswara – Padi – Kalinjera to Gujrat covering Zalod, Limbdi and Dahod. It covers a distance of 264.000 km of which 224.600 km is in Rajasthan and 39.40 km in Gujarat. The proposed project stretch is Contract Package No. SP/D/1 which starts from km 80.000 and end at km 180.000. It is located in southern part of Rajasthan State. The selected section of project road starts at Pratapgarh (km 80+000) in Pratapgarh district and ends near Padi (km 180+000) in Banswara district in the State of Rajasthan. Total Public Disclosure Authorized length of the existing project road is 100.000 km. It passes through 57 villages coming in four tehsils Pratapgarh, Peepalkhut in Pratapgarh district and Ghatol and Banswara in Banswara district of Rajasthan. These districts come under the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution of India. For the purpose of the study, administrative boundaries of the districts through which the project road traverses has been considered as the Project Influence Area (PIA) whereas boundaries of villages and towns in which upgrading of project road is likely to affect land, structure and other properties have been considered as Direct Impact Zone (DIZ). Since more than 50 percent of the affected household are STs Public Disclosure Authorized and SCs and thus the RAP covers all these groups and in addition the TDP has been developed and included in this report to ensure compliance with OP 4.10 and national MoRT&H 8-1 Rehabilitation and Upgrading of Pratapgarh-Padi of NH 113 Final Detailed Project Report Volume V: Social Impact Assessment & RAP laws, and also ensure that mitigation is provided for negative impacts along with some additional facilities. E.2 SOCIO ECONOMIC PROFILE OF THE PROJECT AREA The Pratapgarh District has 868, 231 population and Banswara District 1798,194 Population as per 2011 Census of India. The ST population in Pratapgarh and Banswara districts is 59.94% and 72.27% respectively. Literacy rate 57.20% of Banswara district is higher than Pratapgarh 56.30% respectively. The area falls under fifth and sixth Schedule category of the Constitution of India which aims at targeted social and economic development of the STs and SCs E.3 PROPOSED IMPROVEMENT PLAN Additional land area is needed for various purposes namely, widening of project road, junction improvement, approach to bridges, bypass, realignment, etc. Additional land width is needed throughout the project road stretch. Approximately 125.001 hectare of additional land area which includes 30.020 ha of Govt. land, 42.353 ha forest land and 52.6297.33 ha private land would be required for the project road from 57 revenue villages. Efforts have been made to minimize the adverse impacts of the project by (i) utilizing available ROW as much as possible, (ii) proposing concentric widening in urban stretches, (iii) adopting the principle of actual land requirements in open sections of project stretch instead of having a uniform land width throughout the road stretch, and (iv) provision of bypass for Banswara town. E.4 PUBLIC INFORMATION AND CONSULTATIONS Public information and consultations were held during the social screening, census and socio-economic survey stages which covered individual consultations, public meeting, focus group discussion, in-depth interviews, etc. It ensured participation of potential project affected persons (PAPs), local community and other stakeholders. MoRT&H 8-2 Rehabilitation and Upgrading of Pratapgarh-Padi of NH 113 Final Detailed Project Report Volume V: Social Impact Assessment & RAP People were informed in advance, and allowed to participate in free and fair manner. This resulted in active participation by the people in making meaningful contribution during project preparation stage. Specific consultations were also held under Panchayat Extension of Scheduled Area Act (PESA), 1996and Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006 ….. During consultations brief description about the project, road development agency, involvement of the funding agency, likely adverse impacts and positive impacts, employment generation, etc were discussed and initial opinion of people were solicited. Hand drawn sketches were used to explain broadly the proposed improvement plan and likely adverse impacts. Concerns, views and suggestions expressed by the participants during these consultations have been shared with design team for minimizing the impacts wherever possible. Consultations were held at 26 places during the project preparation. Concerns and apprehensions expressed by the community covered compensation amount for land, structure and other assets, impacts on structures, impact on religious structures, impacts on sources of earning, likely hood of being displaced, road accidents, etc. Overall, project affected persons and other stakeholders are in favour of the proposed project. The community perceives that the project will help development in the area and also generate employment opportunities. E.5 PROJECT IMPACTS Socio-economic profile of the project affected households has been worked out on the basis of Census & Socio-economic survey conducted for structures and other properties likely to be affected. PAHs comprise both Hindus and Muslims. PAHs constitute of 54.34% schedule tribes where as SC, and all others accounts for balance 45.64% A total of 2509 PAPs comprising 1311 males (52.25%) and 1198 (47.74%) females from 414 households are likely to be affected by the proposed widening and upgrading of the project road. There are 913 females per thousand males. Family types of PAHs have been categorized based on the number of members in the family. 11.59% of the households belong to nuclear families, 64.97% lives in joint families and extended families constitute MoRT&H 8-3 Rehabilitation and Upgrading of Pratapgarh-Padi of NH 113 Final Detailed Project Report Volume V: Social Impact Assessment & RAP of 23.42% of the total affected household. The average size of the household works out to be 6.0 members. Of the total 414 PAHs, 347 PAHs are likely to lose land, 61 households are likely to lose structures and 6 kiosks (commercial structures As per the findings of the survey 43.28% of the head of the households are illiterate, primary level literate constitute of 29.77%, followed by those who have completed their secondary education 22.0%, while graduates and post graduate/technically educated accounts for 3.94% and 0.99% respectively. Occupational profile indicates that 70.77 % of the households are engaged in agriculture and related activities followed by non agriculture wage labourers 16.34%, others which include service professional ,trade, business and self employed comprise of about 12.86% of the total households. It may be summarized that the economy of the area is largely dependent on agriculture and allied activities. Households having annual income of less than Rs. 36000 comprise of 67.65% of the total PAHs whereas 24.86% of the PAHs indicated annual income between Rs. 36000 to 60,000. The income level of 7.47% of the households is more than Rs. 60000 per annum. Out of the total 414 households who indicate their monthly income of less than equal to Rs 2500 are 38.49% which includes SCs. STs, BPLs, General and other socially vulnerable groups. Vulnerable households have been identified as defined in the Resettlement Policy Framework for the project They include head of the household who is 65 years & above in age, households covered under below poverty line (BPL), WHH, ST, SC and PHH e.t.c. A total of 304 households (including kiosks) have been identified as vulnerable. Adverse impacts of the project are distributed all along the project stretch. However, major impacts would be experienced at Banswara only. A total of 79 structures including CPRs and Kiosks have been identified which are likely to be affected. Of the total structures likely to be affected 77.21% include title holders, encroachers and squatters excluding kiosks. Of the total number of structures likely to be affected 40.50% are of titleholders, followed by squatters and encroachers (36.70%) excluding kiosk. 12 CPRs comprising government, community, religious structures, etc are likely to be affected MoRT&H 8-4 Rehabilitation and Upgrading of Pratapgarh-Padi of NH 113 Final Detailed Project Report Volume V: Social Impact Assessment & RAP which constitute 15.18% of the total structures likely to be affected within the proposed right of way. Temporary structures together constitute about 6.32% of the total structures likely to be affected. Structures likely to be affected have been also been identified by its present use such as 51.89% of them are used for residential purpose. This is followed by structures used for commercial purposes constitute to be 22.78%, residential cum commercial structure by usage constitute of 10.12%. Kiosks constitute 7.59% of the total structures. It has been identified as a separate category. E.6 R & R PRINCIPLES, POLICY FRAME WORK & ENTITLEMENT MATRIX A Resettlement Policy Framework has been prepared by the Ministry of Road, Transport & Highways of Government of India for National Highways Inter-Connectivity Improvement Project (NHIIP).