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Social Monitoring Report __________________________________________ Bi-annual Social Safeguard Monitoring Report Jan - Jun 2018 July 2018 PAK: Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program, Tranche 3 Prepared by Multan Electric Power Company (MEPCO) for the Asian Development Bank. NOTES (i) The fiscal year (FY) of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and its agencies ends on 30 June. (ii) In this report “$” refer to US dollars. This social monitoring report 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. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. ___________________________________________________Bi-annual Social Safeguard Monitoring________________________ Report Project Number: 2972-PK Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program, Multi-Tranche Finance Facility (PDEPMFF-Tranche-III) (Financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) (January - June 2018) Prepared by: Muhammad Arif, Assistant Manager (Social) Multan Electric Power Company (MEPCO) Multan, Pakistan For: Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) Multan Electric Power Company (MEPCO) This report does not necessarily reflect the views of ADB or the Government concerned, and ADB and the Government cannot be held liable for its contents. Table of Contents Subject Page No. 1. Introduction and Background of the Project 2 1.1 Basic Data 2 1.2 Introduction 3 1.3 Scope of Work 3 1.4 Physical Progress of G/S 4 1.5 Status of T/Line 4 1.6 Status of crops compensation 4 2. Project wise Summary of the Subprojects 4 2.1 Mubarakpur 132KV New Grid Station 4 2.1 Chunnawal 132KV New Grid Station 7 2.3 Fortabbas 66KV to 132KV Conversion 8 2.4 Faqirwali 66KV to 132KV Conversion 9 2.5 Dahranwala 66KV to 132KV Conversion 10 2.6 Chak 83/12-L 66KV to 132KV Conversion 11 2.7 Shah Sadardin 66KV to 132KV Conversion 12 2.8 Yazman 66KV to 132KV Conversion 13 2.8 Monitoring of Project sites 15 3. Summary of Physical Works and Implementation Status 13 4. Involuntary Resettlement and Categorization of Project 18 5. Status of LARPs 19 5.1 Impact of Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement 19 6. Social Safeguard Awareness and Training 21 7. Consultation Process 21 8. Grievance Redress Mechanism 24 9. Conclusion and Recommendation 24 2 9.1 Conclusion 24 9.2. Recommendation 24 Photographs and Annex 26 2 3 1. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT A. BASIC DATA 1. ADB Loan No. 2972-PAK Power Distribution Enhancement 2. Project Title Investment Project Tranche III 3. Borrower Islamic Republic of Pakistan Pakistan Electric Power Company 4. Executing Agency (PEPCO) Multan Electric Power Company Ltd. 5. Implementing Agency (MEPCO) 6. Total Project Cost US $ 35.18 Million Total US $ 31.79 Million 7. ADB Loan Withdrawal US $ 30.93 Million 8. Loan Approval Date - 9. Loan Signing Date September 09, 2013 10 Date of Effectiveness December 10, 2013 . 11 Date of Closing . i) Original June 2016 ii) Revised January 31, 2018 12 Date of Physical Completion - . i) Original December 2016 ii) Revised January 31,2018 14 Elapsed Loan Period . i) Original 37 Months ii) Revised 15 Date of Last ADB Review Mission 25-01-2018 . 3 4 1.2 MEPCO Introduction Multan Electric Power Company (MEPCO) is a Public Limited Utility Company, established in 1998 under Companies Ordinance 1984, responsible for distribution of Electric Power within its territorial jurisdiction in thirteen districts of Punjab Province. To meet the increased power demand and to improve the grid stations and transmission lines infrastructure MEPCO decided to approach the loaning agencies through Government of Pakistan like Asian Development Bank, World Bank and other financing sources to arrange financing. Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to support the program through a mult-tranche financing facility (MFF) to be implemented in three tranches i.e. Tranche-I, II, III &IV. 1.3 Scope of Work Tranche - III is financing 11 subprojects (10 subprojects in the original scope and 1 additional subproject from the loan savings). The detail of the subprojects is as under. i. Construction of 2 new 132 KV grid stations and allied transmission lines i.e. Chunnawala 132 KV Grid Station and Mubarakpur 132 KV Grid Station. ii. Conversion of 5 grid substations from 66kV to 132kV & allied transmission lines. i.e. Chak 83/12-L, Dharanwala, Faqirwali, Fortabbas, & Shah Sadar Din. iii. Augmentation of 3 grid stations i.e. Lodhran 132KVGS, Burewala old 132 KVGS and Bahawalpur 132KVGrid Station. iv. Conversion of Yazman Grid Station from 66KV to 132KV and allied transmission line (Note: Yazman is from Tranche –III savings) 1.4 Physical Progress of Grid Stations: • Civil works have been completed in all tranche-III subprojects. All substations have been completed and energized. (Annex –III) 1.5 Transmission Lines: • All transmission lines under tranche-III subprojects are completed and functional. (Annex- III) 4 5 1.6 Status of Crops/Trees Compensation: • Crops/trees compensation has been paid to all affected persons under tranche – III. Each activity i.e. foundation, erection & stringing is given below in subproject-wise. Details are given in annex (IV). Table 1: ADB Tranche - III subprojects Crops/Tree Compensation Status Amount Name of No. of APs Amount Paid (Rs.) No. of APs Amount Transmission during Paid (Rs.) No. of APs Sr.No for Erection Paid (Rs.) Line & Grid Foundation Erection Stringing foundation Works Stringing Station. Works Work Works F/F Mubarak Pur 1 113,232.0 12 77,448.0 12 77,448.0 12 132KVGS F/F Chak 83/12-L 2 1,058,880.0 115 1,357,120.0 136 1,538,120.0 184 GS 3 F/F Dharanwala GS 937,454.0 105 1,005,459.0 109 1,924,846.0 147 4 F/F Fortabbas GS 1,129,592.0 110 1,062,499.0 110 2,000,768.0 195 5 F/F Faqir Wali GS 1,849,900.0 98 1,316,575.0 108 2,291,259.0 161 F/F Chunnawala 6 889,420.0 75 0.0 75 1,128,036.0 90 GS 7 F/F Shah Sadar Din 1,918,901.0 149 291,840.0 38 511,050.0 65 F/F Yazman GS 8 715,996.0 49 0.0 0 0.0 0 (saving) Total 8,613,375.0 713 5,110,941.0 588 9,394,079.0 842 2. PROJECT WISE SUMMARY OF THE PROJECTS UNDER ADB TRANCHE - III 2.1 Mubarakpur 132KV New Grid Station and allied Transmission Line MEPCO has purchase 6 acres of land from a landowner on voluntary sale basis against negotiated price for construction of new grid station and compensation payment has been paid to the affected persons. Consequently, land has been transferred to MEPCO. 5 6 Photo 1. Land purchased from land owner(s) (Muhammad Saleem S/o Abdul Sattar) transferred to MEPCO for construction of 132 KV New Grid Station Mubarakpur. Therefore, no social impacts were associated with the construction of grid station. However, there were some minor social impacts associated with the construction of 1.5 km transmission line that were mitigated and compensated. All civil works of both grid station and allied transmission line are completed and compensation of all three stages have been paid to the affected persons. Only crops of 12 landowners were affected during foundation, erection and stringing activities and there was no tree cut down. All 12 affected persons were paid crops compensation of Rs. 268,128. Paid voucher showing names and amounts for concrete works is given below. 6 7 Photo.2 Crops compensation paid to the affected persons for concrete works F/F Mubarkpur 7 8 2.2 Chunnawala 132KV New Grid Station and allied Transmission Line (Social Monitoring) MEPCO has acquired 11 acres of land from provincial government for construction of new grid station and land has been transferred to MEPCO. (Annex- II). Therefore no social impacts associated with the construction of grid station. However, there were some minor social impacts associated with the construction of 26 km transmission line that were compensated. Grid and transmission works are 100% completed. Crops compensation has been paid to all affected persons of all stages except in tower location number (99). The owner of said tower location took stay order and this tower was erected on the direction of honorable court. Crops compensation cheques were prepared but owner of the land refused to receive the crops/trees compensation cheques. Foundation and erection activities were conducted parallel which affect 110 persons and they were paid Rs. 887,420 and stringing activities affected the crops/trees of 90 persons and they were paid 1,128,036 as crops/trees compensation. Photo 3. Picture showing affected people’s name, paid amount and types of damaged crops/trees of Chunnawala transmission line. 8 9 Before mobilization contractor was provided one-day orientation/training session to implement the environmental and social management plan. Contractor has been provided translated EMP and Summary of LARP. He has also been provided public awareness material/literature and format of information for the disclosure at project site. For the public awareness summary of LARP and some basic questions related to the project impacts, process and methodology of crops compensation and rehabilitation program for the project had been discussed with the affected persons during public consultation. 2.3 Fortabbas Conversion of 66kV to 132KV Grid Station and allied Transmission Line (Social Monitoring) This project has been completed and the GS is energized.