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Resettlement Planning Document Resettlement Plan Document Stage: Final Project Number: 38492 July 2006 IND: Power Grid Transmission (Sector) Project Prepared by Power Grid of India Limited 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. CONTENTS PAGE # EXECUTIVE SUMMARY i-vi SECTION – 1 BASE LINE DATA AND SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT 1-9 INTRODUCTION 1 PROJECT DESCRIPTION 1 LAND REQUIREMENT 3 SITE SELECTION 3 LAND ACQUISITION STATUS 4 SOCIAL ASSESSMENT 5 PROFILE OF THE IMMEDIATE PROJECT VICINITY 5 LAND ACQUISITION & SOCIAL ASSESSMENT PROCESS 6 INFRASTRUCTURAL FACILITIES 8 SECTION - 2 SOCIAL – ECONOMIC PROFILE OF PAFs 10-18 EXTENT OF IMPACT ON THE VILLAGE 10 AGE DISTRIBUTION OF PAPs 11 DETAILS OF LIVESTOCK 14 AVERAGE INCOME OF PAPs 15 DISTRIBUTION OF PAP BY LANDHOLDING 16 SUMMARY OF THE SOCIAL ASSESSMENT 17 SECTION-3 LEGAL REQUIREMENT AND REHABILITATION & 19-32 RESETTLEMENT POLICY / ENTITLEMENTS LEGAL REQUIREMENT 19 POLICY OF ENTITLEMENT 20 ADB;s OP-F2/BP: INVOLUNTARY RESETTLEMENT 20 POWERGRID’s SOCIAL ENTITLEMENT FRAMEWORK 21 DEFINITIONS 27 GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL MECHANISM 28 PUBLIC CONSULTATION 31 SECTION-4 ACTION PLAN FOR REHABILITATION OF PAPs 33-40 OBJECTIVES 33 COMPENSATION 35 REHABILITATION ASSISTANCE CRITERIA 37 ECONOMIC REHABILITATION MEASURES 38 OTHER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKS 39 BUDGET 40 SECTION-5 IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING OF RAP 41-45 IMPLEMENTATION & MONITORING 41 ORGANISATIONAL SUPPORT STRUCTURE OF SAMP. 43 GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL PROCEDURES 44 BAR CHART / SCHEDULE OF IMPLEMENTATION 45 ANNEXURES: APPENDIX -I PROFILE OF PAPs APPENDIX -II REHABILITATION ASSISTANCE MAP – 1 ANNEXURE-1-6 PLATE: 1-3 i EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1.0 Introduction: India has progressed a lot in every sphere during the last five decades. However, studies also have indicated that the pace of development of Infrastructure is highly inadequate and needs to be expedited. Power projects are one such example. These infrastructure projects mostly require land which some times cause economic and cultural disruption to the affected individuals. Thus, a sound Rehabilitation Action Plan (RAP) is warranted for project affected persons on a productive basis to offset the trauma of loosing land/assets. Preparation of the Rehabilitation Action Plan (RAP) and its implementation are integral part of the Social Assessment Process described in the POWERGRID’s Environmental and Social Policy & Procedures (ESPP). The present report deals with the socio-economic condition of people who will be affected by land acquisition for the construction of 400/220 Kv sub-station at East Cochin (Muvattupuzha) in the State of Kerala and plan for their Rehabilitation. 2.0 Description of the Project Power is one of the most essential infrastructural facilities required for accelerating the economic development. It may be observed that India’s power system is already imposing a constraint on industrial development. POWERGRID is involved in a long-term plan for the development of an Indian National and Regional Transmission Network to make efficient use of generating capacity. Southern region grid covers the Regional as well as State grids of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and UT of Pondicherry. Kerala is one of the constituent State of Southern Region located along the western coast. The present peak demand of Kerala is of the order of 2,450 MW which is likely to grow to about 4,300 MW by the end of 10th Plan (year 2006-07) and about 6,400 MW by the end of 11th Plan (year 2011-2012). The demand of Kerala is primarily met through its share of about 1250 MW from Central Sector generations and its own State Sector generations with installed capacity of about 2,619 MW. The state generation mainly comprise of hydro generations (about 70%) that are subjected to vagaries of Monsoon. Therefore, adequate transmission system is required to be established to enable additional power import from the grid during the poor monsoon years. Kerala presently draws its central share from a lone 400 kV double circuit line from Udumalpet to North Thrissur. Further, additional 400 kV in- feed is being created for Kerala through Madurai – Trivandrum 400 kV D/C line. The proposed grid-strengthening scheme is aimed at creating transmission highway to meet the long-term transmission requirement of Kerala in the Southern Region and to improve reliability. 3.0 Project Area and Impacts POWERGRID selects a suitable substation site after studying the different alternative keeping in mind the three basic principles i.e. Avoidance, Minimization and Mitigation. For Muvattupuzha also such studies were carried out after exploring different options it was concluded that construction of proposed sub-station very near to the Cochin town is not feasible in view of the growth in the vicinity and non-availability of the corridor. Accordingly the site selection committee after studying the different alternative sites selected substation site approximately 20 Km away from Cochin town in the village of Kunnathanad of Ernakulam (Cochin) District. The selected land measuring 12.5 ha. is a low lying private land and 90% of the area is not under any sort of cultivation for the last 7-8 years and is lying barren the land selected is devoid of any houses/structures. Selection of said land has i further minimized the associated impact of land acquisition. The acquisition of said land affected 44 families and the total population affected is 143 which is summarize in table below: Table-1 Affect of Land Acquisition for Substation Sl. No. Item Kunnathanad 1 No. of Households 4464 2 Households Affected 44 3 Percentage of Households Affected 0.98 % 4 Population 20500 5 Population of Households Affected 143 6 Percentage of Population Affected 0.69% 8 Population of PAP 143 9 Average Family Size of PAP 3.25 It may be noted from above that the percentage of the affected households in the village works out to 0.98 percent while the percentage of population affected works out to 0.69. These percentages are based on the 2001 census and it is likely that the impact could be much less when compared with the current data (2005-06) where the total population of the village could have definitely increased. The affected population being very small is not going to effect major change. Moreover, most of the affected families are gainfully employed or doing other business and many are settled abroad hence, it would not affect the social fabric or their status. The summary of impact on affected household and its severity is presented in the table-1.1 4.0 Resettlement Principles and Policy Framework The primary objective of the Rehabilitation Action Plan (RAP) is to identify impacts and to plan measures to mitigate various losses due to acquisition of land for substation The RAP is guided by the Land Acquisition Amendment Act of 1984, and associated regulations, Asian Development Bank ADB’s Policy of Involuntary Resettlement (1995), ADB’s Handbook on Resettlement (1998), POWERGRID’s Social Entitlement Framework as detailed out in its corporate policy viz. ii Table 1.1: Land Acquisition and Affected Households by Subproject Subproject Non- Significant Total Total Affected Permanent Temporary Trees % of lost Remarks significant1 AHHs AHHs APs Residential Land Land assets (Land Affected Structures Aacqusition Acquisition only) households (ha) (ha) over total (AHHs) 16 16 52 nil 1.9805 nil 11.92 to 100% Out of the 44 household only 200 16 households were (Coconut) practicing some sort of agriculture. 5 H/H among East 380 these have lost total land Cochin s/s (Aricanut) however, as per subsequent information, many H/H are 101 having alternate land and (Teak) their family members are gainfully employed. 28 28 91 nil 10.8461 nil 0.15 to 79 % Out of 28 H/H, 10 are doing business, 6 H/H are settled abroad and 6 H/H are in government service. Total 44 143* nil 12.8266 Nil 681 Project AHH: affected household AP: affected person *11 APs are children of less than 6 yrs., 29 APs are students of age between 7to 20 yrs., 83 APs are in productive age group of 20 to 60 yrs. and 20 APs are above 60 yrs. 1 (1) Resettlement is “significant” where 200 or more people experience major impacts. Major impacts are defined as when the affected people are physically displaced from housing and/or more than 10% of their productive assets (income generating) are lost. iii “Environmental and Social Policy & Procedures” (2005). Since the POWERGRID framework is much more comprehensive and recognizes different type of impacts as well as goes beyond the provision of agreed entitlement matrix for the benefit of the affected population like provision of Rehabilitation, Assistance, Community development work etc., has been followed for the preparation of instant RAP. Since POWERGRID’s policy as well as Entitlement Matrix provides compensation at prevailing market price/replacement value, District Collector (DC), Ernakulam was approached by POWERGRID officials with a request to take all possible steps for calculation of land cost at market price. The compensation calculated by DC comes out to be very attractive rather more than market value or replacement costs as the rate finalized by the DC are 5-15% more (depending upon the category of land) than prevailing market/registered rate of same type of land in the area. Besides the land cost 30 per cent additional compensation was also paid as solatium. Moreover, 12% interest for 12 months w.e.f. section-4 notification (i.e. Feb, 2005) to date of interim award / possession (i.e. Feb, 2006) has also been paid to all land owners. For the 44 affected households the total compensation offered was Rs.