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Resettlement Planning Document Short Resettlement Plan – Constructing 20.15 Km of 11KV OH Line In the Mavelikkara Division of KSEB Document Stage: Final Project Number: 39114-01 January 2009 INDIA: Tsunami Emergency Assistance (Sector) Project Prepared by Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB), Government of Kerala for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) The resettlement plan is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB’s Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. Executive Summary of the Short Resettlement Plan A Description of the Project The tsunami of 26 December 2004 was a terrible calamity resulting in serious loss of lives and livelihoods in the coastal areas of the three states of Tamilnadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and the Andaman Nicobar Islands. Further, the disaster devastated all infrastructures including the network of electric supply. To remedy the havoc wreaked to the vital installations supplying electricity to the area and to enhance the distribution system, Kerala State Electricity Board has proposed to construct 20.15 Kms of 11 KV OH line and install 18 transformers in four packages in the Electrical Division of Mavelikkara in Kerala under the Tsunami Emergency Assistance Project (TEAP) funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Incidentally these four packages fall within Alappuzha district which is the mostly thickly populated coastal district in Kerala. The four packages are: 1) Constructing 6.75 Km of 11 KV Line and installing two transformers (Package No.30) 2) Constructing 4.8 Km of 11 KV Line and installing eight transformers (Package No.31) 3) Constructing 4.8 Km of 11 KV Line and installing three transformers (Package No.32) 4) Constructing 3.8 Km of 11 KV Line and installing five transformers (Package No.34) B Scope of Land acquisition, impacts and profile of AHs Implementation of the project involves no land acquisition as the whole length of the OH line is constructed along the PWD and Panchayat roads. It neither affects any squatters either displacing from their livelihood. However, this sub project, split into four packages, requires cutting of 564 trees belonging to 227 households. On close examination it is found that 292 of the trees to be cut have impact on the livelihood of the 164 households, while the remaining trees do not have any significant relationship to the livelihood of people other than providing a natural fence between the road and the property of the household. C Objectives of the Short Resettlement Plan This short resettlement plan is prepared in accordance with ADB’s policy on involuntary resettlement that aims at (i) avoiding involuntary resettlement wherever feasible; (ii) minimizing resettlement where population displacement is unavoidable by choosing alternative viable project options; and (iii) where livelihood is negatively impacted, to ensure that affected people receive assistance, preferably under the project, so that they will be at least as well off as they would have been in the absence of the project. D Gender Impacts and Mitigation Measures The women in the coastal area will benefit directly by the proposed project as access to electricity provides clean energy to light the house and to operate the appliances they use at home as electricity has become a synonym for everyday life. It will also benefit school going (female) children in their study at home, to iron their dress, listen to electronic media for learning and entertainment. Thus electricity will be a boon to all particularly in improving their standard of living. 1 E Resettlement Principles and Policy Framework The resettlement principles adopted for this subproject recognize the State Land Acquisition (LA) Act 1976 (amendment) and the entitlement benefits as listed in the National Policy on R&R, (Govt of India) as notified in February 2004 and the relevant Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) policies and operations manuals, in particular the policy on Involuntary Resettlement (1995), Operations Manual F2 on Involuntary Resettlement (2003) and agreed resettlement policy framework (2005). The SRP is based on the findings of the survey, field visits, and meetings with various project-affected persons in the subproject area. Taking into account the various losses, the Entitlement Matrix provides for compensation to all affected persons in the subproject area. In general terms, the people affected by the Project will be entitled to the following types of compensation and assistance – Since in this sub project, there is no land acquisition and displacement of structures or squatters, and the impact is limited to loss of trees, compensation is worked out taking into account the yield of each productive tree and its span of life. Personnel of the statistics department assessed the loss systematically and carefully in consultation with the affected persons. A detailed Entitlement Matrix for the subproject is provided. F Stakeholder Participation and Disclosure of RP Local level stakeholders were consulted in the subproject area while conducting initial social and poverty assessment. Similarly, due consideration was also given for Stakeholder consultations and community participation at different levels during planning of the designing and planning of the project and particularly before the preparation of the SRP. Executive summary of the short RP will be translated into Malayalam language and made available to the affected people by the implementing agency (IA) for review and comments on the policy and mitigation measures by means of subproject-level disclosure meetings prior to disbursements. Copies of the short RP will also be made available to the people at the local public offices such as grama panchayats, village offices, Section office of KSEB. The final SRP will also be disclosed on the ADB Website and DMD/TEAP website of the Kerala state. In addition, a Public Consultation and Disclosure Plan has been prepared for the project and is enclosed as Annexure-2. G Implementation Arrangements, Grievance Redressal and IR Disaster Management Department (DMD) will be the Executing Agency (EA). Through its project management unit (PMU) it will be responsible for overall coordination, planning, implementation, monitoring, and financing of all resettlement and rehabilitation activities. DMD, through the PMU and through KSEB, will implement the SRP for each subproject. Fortunately, this sub project has no impact on indigenous peoples. A Grievance Redressal Committee (GRC) will be established at KSE Board level with the primary objective of providing a mechanism to mediate conflict and disputes concerning compensation payments and to cut down on lengthy litigation. The GRC will be constituted with the commencement of the process of disclosure of assistance and will comprise of local NGOs, representatives of affected persons including women and 2 vulnerable groups and department representatives. The Committee will also establish the assistance to be provided to affected persons based on the prevailing rates to restore the pre-project levels of livelihoods. Affected persons will also be supported through the livelihoods programs under the subproject (training, capacity building, and entrepreneurship development) for restarting or new income-generating activities. The PMU will submit the SRP for ADB review and approval, and will ensure that affected persons will receive their entitlements and compensation before the end of March 2009. All compensation will be paid to the entitled APs as per detailed implementation schedule provided. H Budget The total estimated cost for the restoration of lost livelihood resource by the subproject is about Rs.1,855,791/- or say Rs.1.86 million (US$.38,542 approximately @ Rs.48.15/US$ as on 15.1.2009). I Training, Monitoring and Evaluation An orientation on resettlement management will be provided to the KSEB staff by the Social Development and Resettlement Specialist on the policies and principles agreed under the ADB loan; (ii) public consultation and participation; (iii) entitlements and compensation disbursement mechanisms; (iv) Grievance redressal and (vi) monitoring of resettlement operation. The SRP will have both internal and external monitoring. Internal Monitoring will be a regular activity for PMU. The PMU will conduct regular internal monitoring of the implementation and prepare quarterly progress reports for submission to ADB. An independent agency/monitoring expert may be engaged by the DMD/PMU in agreement with ADB to undertake the external monitoring of the subproject implementation. This expert will submit its reports biannually via PMU to ADB. 3 Draft Short Resettlement Plan A. Description of the Project 1 Government of Kerala proposed to reconstruct 11 KV electric line covering a distance of 20.15 kilometers and install 18 transformers under the Tsunami Emergency Assistance Project (TEAP) funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The project will benefit 25,572 households covering 111,412 people in five coastal villages of Alappuzha district ravaged by the tsunami that struck the Kerala coast on 26 December 2004. 2. The objective of constructing 11 KV electric line as part of TEAP is to restore the vital lifeline of electric supply to the residences, institutions and establishments and to maximize the infrastructure facilities and thereby improve the standard of life of the people. 3 In line with the ADBs sector assistance project for Kerala under the Tsunami Emergency Assistance