Resettlement External Monitoring Report
Project number: 46528–002 June 2020
PAK: Jalalpur Irrigation Project
Prepared by the Irrigation Department, Government of the Punjab for the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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IRRIGATION DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB
PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE (PMO) FOR CANALS Loan No. 3599-PK- Project No. 46528-002-PAK JALALPUR IRRIGATION PROJECT (JIP)
EXTERNAL MONITORING OF LARP IMPLEMENTATION REPORT NO. EMC-03
LARP for JIP/WORKS/ICB- P1 BATCH 1 RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 OF MAIN CANAL (UPDATED)
M. ASLAM MALIK EXTERNAL MONITORING CONSULTANT (EMC)
JUNE 2020 JALALPUR IRRIGATION PROJECT (JIP) EMC-03
EXTERNAL MONITORING REPORT OF LARP IMPLEMENTATION - REPORT NO. EMC-03
STATUS OF DELIVERABLE
Title of Report: External Monitoring Report # EMC-03 (RD 5+000-RD 33+750) P-1
Publication #: JIP/EMC-03
Prepared by: M. Aslam Malik, External Monitoring Consultant
Submitted Draft version: 27th March 2020
Comments received from ADB 1st time: 6th April 2020
Comments incorporated and Submitted the document: 19th April 2020
Comments received from ADB 2nd time: 26th April 2020
Comments incorporated and re-submitted the document: 5th May 2020
Comments incorporated and re-submitted the document: 21st May 2020
Comments incorporated and re-submitted the document: 10th June 2020
Comments incorporated and re-submitted the document: 12th June 2020
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EXTERNAL MONITORING OF LARP IMPLEMENTATION REPORT NO. EMC-03
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...... VI 1 INTRODUCTION ...... 1 1.1 Background ...... 1 1.2 Project Description ...... 1 1.3 Project Packages ...... 1 1.4 Length of Main Canal and Its Distribution System ...... 4 1.5 Land Acquisition for the Project ...... 4 1.6 Design Level Details of Construction Activities of ICB-P1 ...... 4 2 PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT ...... 5 3 PROJECT IMPACTS ...... 5 3.1 Impact on Land ...... 5 3.2 Project Components and its Impacts in P1 ...... 5 3.3 Summary of Project Impacts ...... 6 3.4 Synchronization of Land Acquisition Process with Construction Activities ...... 6 4 STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF LARP (RD 5+000 TO RD 33+750) ...... 7 4.1 Assessment of Land Valuation ...... 7 4.2 Assessment of Structures and other Damages ...... 8 4.3 Payment of Compensation for Affected Land, Structures and Other Assets ...... 8 4.4 Payment Against Loss of Income ...... 8 4.5 Payment to Vulnerable DPs ...... 8 4.6 Income Restoration Activities ...... 9 4.7 Employment to the DPs ...... 9 4.8 Preparation of Qabzal-Wasool Registers and Notices to DPs ...... 9 4.9 Notifications of Section 9, 10 & 11 under Land Acquisition Act 1894 ...... 10 4.10 Disbursement of Land Compensation ...... 10 4.11 Payment of Compensation of Other Affected Non-Land Assets ...... 10 4.12 Relocation of Residential Structures ...... 11 4.13 Status of Payments of Allowances ...... 12 4.14 Relocation of Govt. Boys and Girls Primary Schools ...... 12 5 PUBLIC CONSULTATION ...... 13 5.1 Information Campaign and Consultation with DPs ...... 13 5.2 General Response from the DPs/ Provision of Bridge ...... 14 5.3 DPs Perception about Land Values ...... 15 6 SOCIAL SAFEGUARDS MEASURES ...... 15 6.1 Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) ...... 15 6.2 Formation of Grievance Redress Committees (GRCs) ...... 15 6.3 Complaint Registers ...... 16 7 EXTERNAL MONITORING ...... 16 7.1 Verification by External Monitoring Consultant ...... 17 7.1.1 Telephonic Confirmation ...... 18 7.1.2 Acceleration of the Compensation Payment Processing ...... 18 7.1.3 Consultation to Address DPs Concerns ...... 19 8 FINDINGS ...... 19 8.1 Payment of Allowances to Entitled DPs ...... 19 8.2 Prepared Data Regarding Non-Disbursement of Land Compensation ...... 19 8.3 Provision of Field Staffing and Resources ...... 20 9 WAY FORWARD ...... 20
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Tehsil wise Length of Main Canal and its Distribution System (in Kilometers) ...... 4 Table 2: Distribution of Land being Acquired for Jalalpur Irrigation Project (in Acres) ...... 4 Table 3: Proposed Structures of Jalalpur Irrigation Project under ICB-P1 (in Nos.) ...... 4 Table 4: Distribution of Land being Acquired for P1 ( Acres) ...... 6 Table 5: Summary of Project Impacts under P1 ...... 6 Table 6: Package-wise, Segment-wise and Batch-wise Land Acquisition under JIP ...... 7 Table 7: Non-Land Impacts ...... 8 Table 8: Report of Disbursement Cheques of Allowances Upto RD: 33+750 Till 08-06-2020 8 Table 9: Laboure Employed by the Construction Contractor ...... 9 Table 10: Preparation of Revenue Record – Tehsil Jhelum ...... 10 Table 11: Status of Disbursement of Land Compensation in Tehsil Jhelum ...... 10 Table 12: Status on Disbursement of Compensation of Non-Land Assets ...... 11 Table 13: Public Schools in ROW of ICB-P1 ...... 12 Table 14: GRC Member compositions ...... 15 Table 15: Verification of Compensation Paid to the DPs Against Land, Structures, Fixtures, Trees and Crops of Tehsil Jhelum from RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 DPs Contacted and Confirmed ...... 18 Table 16: Summary of the Verification of the Documentation of Unpaid DPs (in Nos.) ...... 20
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure A: Layout Plan of ICB Package-1 & 2 ...... 3 Figure B: Map Depicting the Location of RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 ...... 5
LIST OF ANNEXES
Annex- I: Verification of Compensation Paid to the DPs Part 1 ...... 23 Annex- II: Details of Paid and Unpaid DPs of Damages of Main Canal from RD: 5+000 to 33+750 ...... 24 Annex- III: Status of Allowances Payments to the DPs of RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 ...... 25 Annex- IV: Verification of Land Compensation Paid to the DPs Part 2 ...... 26 Annex- V: Photologs ...... 27 Annex- VI: Compensation Payments to the Entitled DPs For Structures/Tubewells/Trees .. 30 Annex- VII: Unpaid DPs Data collection Form ...... 31 Annex- VIII: Photologs of Receiving Cheque of Allowances ...... 33 Annex- IX: Linear Map (RD 5+000 to RD 33+750) ...... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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ACRONYMS
AC Assistant Commissioner ADB Asian Development Bank DC Deputy Commissioner DPAC District Price Assessment Committee DPs Displaced Persons EMC External Monitoring Consultant FCC Flood Carrier Channel GRM Grievance Redressal Mechanism ICB International Contract Bidding IMR Internal Monitoring Report JIP Jalalpur Irrigation Project LAC Land Acquisition Collector LAR Land Acquisition and Resettlement LARP Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan PICs Project Implementation Consultants PID Punjab Irrigation Department PMO-Canals Project Management Office-Canals RD Reduced Distance ROW Right of Way SEU Social and Environment Unit
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1. The purpose of preparing this External Monitoring Report (EMR) is to study and ascertain the extent of implementation of LARP for Package 1; specifically, for section starting from RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 (Batch-1) of the Jalalpur Canal as part of the JIP. Field trips were undertaken and interaction with field staff, DPs and revenue staff was made to collect information about the LARP implementation. This is the 3rd External Monitoring Report prepared by the External Monitoring Consultant (EMC) and this is an updated version covering the disbursement aspects of the entitled allowance to the entitled DPs.
2. Islamic Republic of Pakistan has received a loan, “Jalalpur Irrigation Project”, from Asian Development Bank (ADB) loan No. 3599 PAK with the cost of US$ 274.63 Million for construction of Main Canal of 379 RDs length, 23 distributaries, 7 minors and 16 FCCs for Jalalpur Irrigation Project (JIP).
3. The Project will primarily benefit over 315,000 rural people of more than 114 Mouza (village) falling under the three International Contract Biddings (ICBs). Its direct beneficiaries will be small farmers who would get regular irrigation supplies during Kharif season and increased agricultural production.
4. As a part of land acquisition process, three LARPs for P1, P2 and P3 were prepared/ approved by ADB and uploaded on website.
5. Award for the land measuring 228 acres falling between RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 (Batch-1) was announced by LAC Jhelum on 28th August 2019. Project impacts under Batch-1 are, acquisition of 228 acres of land resultantly, 1393 DPs will lose land. Overall, 14 structures are impacted. These are comprising 11 residential structures, 2 cattle sheds and one boundary wall. In addition, some losses for the crops, wood trees, fruit plants, sump well/water course and tube well are also impacted.
6. The land values have been determined by the District Price Assessment Committee (DPAC) of Jhelum. Whereas, assessment of non-land assets i.e. residential & other structures, crops, wood trees and fruit plants have been made by the respective departments and approved by DPAC Jhelum.
7. There are overall 1393 DPs for the land between RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 as the entitled persons for payment of compensation. Out of these 686 DPs (49.2%) have been paid land compensation by end March 2020 by the office of LAC Jhelum. Whereas, LAC could not pay compensation to 707 remaining DPs due to the reasons: meager compensation amount; DPs have died; DPs don’t reside in the area (out of district/abroad); mutation issue; absconder and; court cases. Documentation of all such cases has been properly made by LAC.
8. The DPAC, Jhelum has approved assessed cost of residential & other structures, crops, wood trees and fruit plants amounting to Rs. 9.91 million during its meeting held on 4th December 2019. These funds were released to LAC Jhelum for the payments to the DPs against their affected non-land assets. In this Batch-1 section, out of 65 DPs,
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45 (70%) have been paid compensation for the damages to the structures, crops, wood trees, fruit plants and tube-wells. There are remaining 20 (30%) DPs who have not received the payment and they have gone to the court of law for legal remedy against the District Price Assessment Committee (DPAC). The total amount paid so far is Rs. 9,169,961/- (93%). Major amount of compensation has been paid to these categories of DPs. Remaining funds amounting to Rs. 741,897/- (7%) are readily available with LAC Jhelum and these are yet to be disbursed upon completion of the legal matters of 20 DPs.
9. Deputy Commissioner/Assistant Commissioner along with their filed staff including Tehsildars, Qanoongo and Patwaries all had made exhaustive efforts by holding formal and informal meetings. This involved corner meeting and group discussions/ meetings and visits to these villages These efforts include personal contacts, announcements through the mosques by public address system in each village, by holding the chain of consultation sessions, by contacting Numberdars (village heads) and village elders.
10. Overall, 50 DPS are eligible for the allowances in this category. It covers shifting charges, vulnerable, livelihood/transition and self-relocation allowances and 38 DPs are willing or in contact with the project to receive these allowances. Cheques in favor of 35 DPs were prepared for the readily available DPs at site. These Cheques were distributed to 25 DPs on June 08, 2020 and 10 DPs on June 12, 2020 at three different villages of the project area. For this purpose, DPs were requested to be available on these dates, places and times specifically announced in the mosques through the public address system. On these occasions 35 entitled DPs comprising both male and female heads of family have turned up, and received their cheques. These cheques were disbursed by the two members of the committee one each from PMO and Irrigation Department (Mr. Hassnat Rasool Deputy Director, PMO-Canals and Mr. Najam Shah SDO Khokhra Sub Division, Irrigation Department). These cheques were given after completion of the documentation/verification of their Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC). Unpaid remaining 15 DPs includes: 3 DPs are in contact with the committee & their cheques are in process; 07 DPs as died and their mutation cases are in process; 03 untraceable/residing in other districts and; 02 are not interested in receiving the payments. EMC has personally witnessed the transparent distribution of these cheques in the presence of head of the respective villages (see photo log in this report and Annex III & VIII).
11. Public consultations have been a regular feature of the LARP implementation activities for smooth implementation. Due publicity was made by staff to accelerate the process by motivating the DPs to receive their land compensations.
12. Project interventions have ‘NO’ direct negative impacts on income of the DPs. Because, no business/commercial activity is disturbed directly due to project impact.
13. By the end of March 2020, 63 persons have got the employment with the project contractor, which is a positive impact of the project. 14. Relocation cost to the DPs loosing residential structure has been paid by the LAC Jhelum during January & February 2020. The LAC Jhelum has also served notices to
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these DPs with a given time frame for the relocation and vacate the ROW. Substantial number of these DPs have already dismantled their affected structures.
15. For the relocation of 02 impacted government schools, the District Buildings Department, Jhelum, Government of Punjab submitted the cost estimate of Rs. 23.4 million through Deputy Commissioner (DC) Jhelum to the Project Director JIP/Head PMO-Canals and a cheque of the same amount was released to the Education Department on 14 October 2019 for the construction works of both schools.
16. Land measuring 03 Kanal and 07 Marla under existing affected schools belonged to Education Department. The girls school will be reconstructed in the premises of another Girls Primary School existed in the same mouza. The land is owned by the Education Department. For the boys school, 04 Kanal area has been identified which is private land owned by M/s Ammar Haider Shah and Zafar Ali Shah, residents of Maryala village. Out of these 04 Kanal area, 02 Kanal has been procured and 02 Kanals has been gifted to the school by the owners. The payment of 02 Kanal land as an alternate site for relocation of Boys Primary School Bhai Ludden has been made by the Education Department, from the funds provided by PMO (Canals). All this 04 Kanals of land is to be owned by the Education Department.
17. Based on the compensation payments made till now, verification of these payments by the External Monitoring Consultant (EMC) has been carried out. For this purpose, EMC M. Aslam Malik has made two field trips to the field on 07 March 2020 and 14 March 2020. During these field trips meetings at various locations from RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 were held with the respective stakeholders. There are overall 1393 DPs for the land between RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 as the entitled persons for payment of compensation. Out of these, 686 DPs have been paid land compensation by end March 2020 by the office of LAC Jhelum.
18. In order to verify these payments random stratified sampling was done during the verification visits to the project site for confirmation of the payments to DPs. This includes all categories of the DPs. Out of the total 686 DPs of paid compensation 384 DPs (56%) were contacted in person in two separate visits to this Batch-1 of Package- 1 of the Project area. This also includes contacts with some of vulnerable DPs as well for verifications. Endeavored to contact the cross section of the DPs to get meaningful and representative feedback from them.
19. DPs residing out of the project area in other cities were contacted on cell phone (by EMC) and they have confirmed the receipt of the compensation payments.
20. Regarding the court cases, these have to be decided by the court of law, hence nothing can be done till the decision from the honorable courts are announced.
21. Efforts are being made by the district administration to facilitate and expedite the disbursement through their revenue field staff for all the non-court cases.
22. DPs of Shah Kameer mouza (village) are demanding that a road bridge should be constructed across the canal at adjacent point to the population centers for crossing
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the main canal. Location of bridge has been proposed between RD 27 to RD 33 or at any other nearby appropriate/suitable location. This matter was discussed with the PMO (Canals) and it was decided to provide a bridge as demanded by the community.
23. Some of the DPs had expressed that though they have received the land compensation payments but the rate assessed by the DPAC is far less than their perception. They demand that it should be enhanced to make it comparable with the market rates of the land in the area.
24. The data regarding payment of land compensation in Tehsil Jhelum (RD 5+000 to RD 33+750) up to 31 March 2020, maintained by AC/LAC office, Tehsil Jhelum is provided in the summary Table 11. The LAC has documented all 707 unpaid DPs with reasons: meager share; mutation issues; expired; court cases and; DPs not residing in the area as reflected in section 8.2 Table 16. Linear map of the area reflecting compensation payment is also given as per Annex-IX.
25. For the verification of the payments made so far, EMC M. Aslam Malik has made exhaustive trips to the field on 07 & 14 March, 16 May and on 8 June 2020. During these field trips various meeting at various locations from RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 were held with the respective DPs, village heads, revenue staff members and project staff working at site. Meetings were also held with individuals at their door steps, farming areas, near cattle sheds, tube well, forest plantation areas, at the road side hotels, tea shops all along the project area wherever a DP was available. All these meetings and interactions with DPs were aimed at getting confirmation of payments. Legal heirs of the deceased DPs were also contacted for confirmation of the entitled compensation payments in the presence of other notables of the same Mouza.
26. WAY FORWARD: As observed through field visits and personal interviews with DPs, interaction with the field staff along with the documentary evidences exhibited by the EMC, it is clear that the work on war footings on all fronts in the field is going on. All out efforts by the staff have been witnessed. Achievements made by all are commendable for the implementation of LARP in Batch-1 (RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 Ref. Fig B). Unpaid DPs have been documented by LAC office Jhelum, with solid reasons as to why they have not received their payments so far. However, revenue department and PMO (Canals) is requested to make efforts to deliver unpaid compensations to DPs all through the project period and monitor the progress of the activities. Progress of compensation payments shall be reported in upcoming monitoring reports. Similarly, compensation payments under the entitled allowances category of DPs, all the available DPs in the area have been made their payments in the presence of the EMC and necessary documentary evidence have been annexed in this updated version of the report. A linear map illustrating these payments made to all categories of the DPs has been prepared (Annex IX). PMO has placed all the required funds at the disposal of disbursing authority for payment to the DPs. Now, all the entitlements have been disbursed to DPs and Non-paid DPs have been documented by LAC. Based on the positive ground realities and field observations, it is justified and strongly recommended to give a go-ahead for the civil works construction for Main Canal RD 5+000 to RD 33+750.
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1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
27. Islamic Republic of Pakistan has received a loan, “Jalalpur Irrigation Project”, from Asian Development Bank (ADB) loan No.3599 PAK with the cost of US$ 274.63 Million for construction of Main Canal of 379 RDs length, 23 distributaries, 7 minors and 16 FCCs for Jalalpur Irrigation Project (JIP). The Project is expected to increase agricultural production with development of sustainable agriculture to alleviate poverty in Pind Dadan Khan and Khushab Tehsils of Districts Jhelum and Khushab by providing canal irrigation supplies during Kharif season and reduce the land degradation by minimizing the use of marginal quality ground water. Output of the Project envisages construction of a new irrigation system including a Main Canal & its system and appurtenant structures to irrigate about 170,000 acres of land in Tehsil Pind Dadan Khan and Khushab area. It also included the construction of 16 Flood Carrier Channels (FCCs) network to carry saline flood water of hill torrents (debouching over the command area) directly to Jhelum River. The project area map is shown as Figure A for ICB Package 1 & 2.
1.2 Project Description
28. The command area of JIP is in the form of long strip of land bounded by the salt range hills on northern side and right bank of the Jhelum River on its southern side. The Main Canal would off-take from the right bank of the Rasool Barrage, for which provision for the canal head regulator already exists. The Main Canal of 1,350 cusec capacity will be about 116 km long and traverses along the foothills of the Salt Range.
29. The Project will primarily benefit over 315,000 rural people of more than 114 Mouza falling under the three International Contract Biddings (ICBs). Its direct beneficiaries will be small farmers who would get regular irrigation supplies during Kharif season and increased agricultural production. The Project would reduce land degradation and salinization being caused due to saline flow from many hill torrents. Other beneficiaries will include farm laborers and women through enhanced farming activities.
30. Punjab Irrigation Department (PID) is the Executing Agency (EA). Feasibility study of Jalalpur Irrigation Project was prepared by NESPAK–ICS Joint Venture Consultants under grant ADB PPTA (8404-PAK) in 2015. As part of feasibility study in August 2017, PDA Consultants prepared Draft LARP for the whole project on the basis of detailed design and was submitted to ADB for Approval. Later on, JIP works were divided into three International Contract Packages (ICBs) and was agreed with ADB that LARP shall be prepared for each contract package respectively.
1.3 Project Packages
31. Accordingly, for the whole project, 03 LARPs have been prepared corresponding to the three civil works contract packages (ICBs) mentioned below: § JIP/WKS/ICB-P1, RD 0+000 to RD 52+000: Main Canal, 01 Distributary, 01 Escape and 03 Flood Carrier Channels (FCCs).
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§ JIP/WKS/ICB-P2, RD 52+000 to RD 225+500: Main Canal, 12 Distributaries, 02 Minor Canals and 05 Flood Carrier Channels (FCCs). § JIP/WKS/ICB-P3, RD 225+500 to RD 379+750: Main Canal, 10 Distributaries, 05 Minors and 08 Flood Carrier Channels (FCCs).
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Figure A: Layout plan of ICB Package-1 & 2
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1.4 Length of Main Canal and Its Distribution System
32. Keeping in view the discharge capacity of 1350 cusecs, the length of the Main Canal and its distribution system is designed to cover maximum area under command. The length of all water channels and FCCs is provided in the Table 1 below:
Table 1: Tehsil wise Length of Main Canal and its Distribution System (in Kilometers) Channel Jhelum PD Khan Khushab Total Length Main Canal 11 92 13 116 Distys & Minors - 170 40 210 FCCs - 165 75 240 Total Length 11 427 128 566
33. The objective of giving the details is to explain about the project components and its impacts on the land and land-based assets.
1.5 Land Acquisition for the Project
34. The Package wise land distribution to be acquired is as below in Table 2:
Table 2: Distribution of Land being Acquired for Jalalpur Irrigation Project (in Acres) Sr. Tehsil-Activity-Canal Reach P1 P2 P3 Total Tehsil Jhelum Main Canal RD 0+000 to RD 1 228 - - 228 33+750 2 Tehsil PD Khan-FCC (1-3) 65 - - 65 3 Tehsil PD Khan-Main Canal & Distys 168 1646 932 2746 4 Tehsil PD Khan-FCCs(4-13) - 2513 1413 3926 5 Tehsil Khushab- Main Canal, Distys & FCCs - - 1377 1377 6 Tehsil PD Khan- FCC Addendum of 372 acres - 317 55 372 7 Tehsil PD Khan- PID staff Colony 16 16 Total 461 4492 3777 8730
1.6 Design Level Details of Construction Activities of ICB-P1
35. This report is addressing the section RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 (Fig B) under ICB-P1 of the project, falling in Tehsil Jhelum. However, the scope of works under ICB-PI includes the following civil works of Main Canal of up to RD 52+000. Overall, details of the proposed structures under P1 is given as per Table 3 below:
Table 3: Proposed Structures of Jalalpur Irrigation Project under ICB-P1 (in Nos.) Sr. Description Main Canal Disty-1 FCCs Total 1 Intake structure at Rasul Barrage 1 - - 1 2 Distributary/Minor Head Regulator 1 - - 1 3 Vertical Fall Structure - 2 - 2 4 Canal Syphon cum Escape Structure 1 - - 1 5 Village road / Arterial Bridges 5 3 2 10 6 Cross Drainage Structures 27 - - 27 7 Transition - 2 - 2 8 Cattle Ghats - 1 - 1 9 Outlets 5 14 - 19 10 Tail Cluster - 1 - 1 11 Flood Carrier Network’s Outfalls - - 3 3 Total 40 23 5 68
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2 PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT
36. The purpose of preparing this External Monitoring Report (EMR) is to study and ascertain the extent of implementation of LARP for Package 1; specifically, for section starting from RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 (Batch-1, refer Table 6) of the Jalalpur Main Canal as part of the JIP. This area is falling in Tehsil Jhelum. Field trips were undertaken and interaction with field staff, DPs was made to collect information about the LARP implementation. This is the 3rd External Monitoring Report prepared by the External Monitoring Consultant (EMC) M. Aslam Malik. 1st report covers RD 0+000 to RD 5+000. By submitting this 3rd report as the External Monitor will cover verification of LARP implementation from RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 as per Figure B.
Figure B: Map depicting the location of RD 5+000 to RD 33+750
3 PROJECT IMPACTS
3.1 Impact on Land
37. In the ICB-P1, 461 acres of land has been acquired, 228 acres are falling in RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 as a part of P1. In this reach 11 residential structures will also be lost and total DPs impacted is 1393. The other 2 DPs will lose 2 cattle sheds, 1 DP will lose the boundary wall besides this other, non-residential impacted structures includes, irrigation pipes, sump well, tube well room/water course and tress and crops etc.
3.2 Project Components and its Impacts in P1
38. As already mentioned, the project is having three packages to proceed with the developmental work for which LARPS have been developed separately. Land for the whole project is being acquired into five segments. These segments are classified into
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mainly three packages to be termed as P1, P2 and P3. Land acquired for this sectional report is given as per Serial No.1 Segment S1 in Table 4 below:
Table 4: Distribution of Land being Acquired for P1 ( Acres) S. No. Segment Tehsil-Activity-Canal Reach1 P1 1. S1 Tehsil Jhelum Main Canal RD 0+000 to RD 33+750 228 2. S3 Tehsil PD Khan-FCC (1-3) 65 Tehsil PD Khan-Main Canal &Distys RD 33+750 to RD 3. S2 168 340+000 Total 461
3.3 Summary of Project Impacts
39. The project impacts have been documented in the ADB approved LARP-P1. The summary of the project impacts for P1 is provided in the Table 5 below:
Table 5: Summary of Project Impacts under P1 Items under Impact ICB Package-1 Land (acres) 461 Total DPs (No.) 6,023 Residential Structure (No.) 11 Other Structures (No.) (T/wells/bore holes, Fixtures, Cattle sheds, 53 B/walls, hand pumps and pipes etc.) 798 Private Owned Trees (No.) (151 DPs) 41 fruit tree Govt. Trees (No.) Forest up to RD 5+000 210 Vulnerable DPs (No.) (only 30 in this batch 1) Severely Affected DPs (No.) 76 249 (40%) Land under Cultivation: 2738 DPs
9 Mouza 2 Community/Public Structures (No.) Schools Women headed HH (No.) 01 Socio-economic Interviews 1006 DPs 13 Mouza Final LARP Submitted 24-5-2019 Resettlement Budget (Rs. Million) 283.65
3.4 Synchronization of Land Acquisition Process with Construction Activities
40. In order to synchronize land acquisition process with construction activities, it has been agreed with the LACs that award under Section 11 will be announced in batches comprising 10 to 12 villages. Their number of DPs have also been kept in mind while preparing batches. In this way, area in batches will be handed over to the contractors. Package-wise, segment-wise and batch-wise table on land acquisition is given in Table 6 below. Out of all this, our current focus is only from RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 (Batch-1) for LARP implementation covering the Tehsil Jhelum area.
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Table 6: Package-wise, Segment-wise and Batch-wise Land Acquisition under JIP
Area DPs Tehsil Canal RD (No.) (No.) (acres) (No.) Batch Package Segment S0 = RD 0+000 to RD 5+000 (State Land. Mainly. This also includes 15 Kanal 10 Marla as private land ) = 1.5 km 5+000 to 33+750 S1 1 Jhelum 228 1393 1 (MC-8.8 km) - 33+750 to 52+000 S2 2 PD Khan 168 2774 (MC-5.6 km and Disty-1)
S3 3 PD Khan FCC -1 to 3 65 1856 JIP/WKS/ICBP
(RD5+000 to 52+000) to (RD5+000 Sub Total: 6023 52+000 to 87+000 4 416 9595 (MC-10.7 km & Disty 2&3) 87+000 to131+000 5 349 7230 S2 (MC-13.4 km and Disty 3-7) PD Khan 131+000 to 158+000 2 6 269 8120 - (MC-8.2 km and Disty 3,6,7&8) 158+000 to 193+000 7 502 11,734 (MC-20.4 km and Disty 3,9 to 13) 8 FCC-4 & 5 292 7196
9 FCC-5 to 7 557 7654 JIP/WKS/ICBP S4 PD Khan 10 FCC-6 & 7 467 6838 (RD 52+000 to 225+5000) to 52+000 (RD 11 FCC-7 & 8 708 7244 Sub Total: 65,611
193+000 to 283+000 12 646 11,232 S2 (MC-21.3 km and Disty 14 to 17) PD Khan
3 283+000 to 340+000
- 13 398 6405 (MC-13.7 km and Disty18 to 20) 379+750) 14 FCC-8 to 12 910 7253 S4 PD Khan 15 FCC-11 to 13 888 7458 16 340+000 to 379+750 JIP/WKS/ICBP S5 Khushab 1377 23191 &17 (MC 12.1 km and Disty 21 to 23 and FCC-14 to 16)
(RD 225+5000 to to 225+5000 (RD Sub Total: 55,539 TOTAL: 127,171 S1=Segment-1: Main Canal (RD 5+000 to 33+750) Tehsil Jhelum, 228 acres, (Package 1) S2= Segment – 2: Main Canal and Distys.(RD 33+750 to 340+000)Tehsil PD Khan 274acres, (Packages1,2&3) S3 = Segment – 3: FCC 1-3 (RD 33+750 to 52+000) Tehsil PD Khan 65 acres, (Package 1) S4 = Segment – 4: FCC 4-13 (RD 52+000 to RD 340+000) Tehsil PD Khan, 3926 acres, (Packages 2 and 3) S5 = Segment – 5: Main Canal, Distys and FCC 14-16 (RD 340+000 to 379+750) 1377 acres, Tehsil Khushab (Package 3)
4 STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF LARP (RD 5+000 TO RD 33+750)
4.1 Assessment of Land Valuation
41. The land value has been determined by the District Price Assessment Committee (DPACs) of the concerned district i.e. Jhelum for this part of P1. The detail of DPs and their compensation of land under project impact is provided in the Annex- I of LARP.
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4.2 Assessment of Structures and other Damages
42. The LAC Jhelum is the responsible for arrangements of joint assessment of non-land impacts i.e. affected residential & other structures, crops, wood trees and fruit plants, falling between RD 5+000 to RD 33+750, with the help of respective departments i.e. Revenue Department for crop yield assessment, District Buildings Department for residential structures, Agriculture/ Horticulture for fruit trees, Agriculture Machinery Department for tube wells & bore hole drilling price assessment and Forest Department for non-fruit trees etc. Impacts on other assets are given in Table 7 as below:
Table 7: Non-Land Impacts Sr. No. Impacts/Damages Total DPs 1 11-Residential Structures 14 02-Cattle Sheds 01-Boundary wall 2 11-Wooden Trees 11 3 Crops 15 4 19-Fruit Plants 19 5 6-Tube Wells 6 Total 65
4.3 Payment of Compensation for Affected Land, Structures and Other Assets
43. Required funds were provided to LAC Jhelum by PMO (Canals). The LAC has paid land compensation and payment of other impacted structures/fixtures and other assets. Status on payment to DPs is discussed in the subsequent sections.
4.4 Payment Against Loss of Income
44. The DPs have not faced any loss of income from the project. Enough time is being given to the DPs to harvest their farm crops on maturity, to avoid any loss of the DPs as per provisions in their entitlement matrix in the LARP document.
4.5 Payment to Vulnerable DPs
45. During Socio-Economic and Resettlement surveys, vulnerable DPs were recorded having monthly income below OPL (Official Poverty Line) These DPs are shown in the LARPs as applicable to individual DP. The total number of DPs of this category existing in RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 are identified as 50 and each is entitled to receive the entitled allowances which includes shifting, livelihoods restoration/transition, self- relocation and vulnerability and these have paid by the PMO-Canals on June 08 and June 12, 2020, as per details given in the para 59 & Annex-III and summarized in Table 8 below.
Table 8: Report of Disbursement of Cheques of Allowances Upto RD: 33+750 Out of Project Not Sr. Received DPs are Died Mouza Area/ Interested/ Total No. DPs in Contact* DPs Untraceable Court Cases 1 Maryala 10 1 5 1 0 17 2 Malikpur 20 2 2 1 0 25
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3 Shah Kameer 5 0 0 1 2 8 Total 35 3 7 3 2 50
4.6 Income Restoration Activities
46. This is quite satisfying aspect that the project interventions have ‘NO’ direct negative impacts on income of the DPs. Because no business/commercial activity is disturbed directly due to project impact. However, the DPs losing agriculture land (resultantly will lose income from land) will be provided crop and severely affected allowance for restoration of their activities.
4.7 Employment to the DPs
47. Contract Clause 6.1 “Particular Condition of the Contract” binds the Contractor to provide jobs to skilled/unskilled persons, particularly Displaced Persons (DPs) to resolve their problems of livelihoods. In this regard, during the socio-economic, gender and resettlement surveys of the Project area, DPs and other locals enquired about the job opportunity for the affected people and others as well during the construction of channels. DPs were advised to apply, if they need jobs at project site.
48. Up to the end of March 2020 (before the situation of COVID-19), 63 applicants were appointed as skilled and unskilled staff by the Contractor for Package 1. Detail regarding DPs and Non-DPs of these employees are being collected. Because the Contractor did not maintain this data. The distribution of these employees is provided in the following Table 9. This indicates that the project has generated employment opportunities for local residents and it will substantially contribute towards increase in the earnings for their families. This is positive impact of the project implementation and the construction works.
Table 9: Laboure Employed by the Construction Contractor Employees DP/ Non DP * Sr. Type of Job (No.) (No.) Skilled Employees 1 Office staff, Supervisors 14 * 2 Drivers/ Machine Operators 18 3 Kitchen Staff 05 Un Skilled Employees 4 Camp Unskilled Labour 06 5 Site Labours 13 6 Local Security Guards 07 Total 63 *Data awaited (camp office closed) due to Pandemic.
4.8 Preparation of Qabzal-Wasool Registers and Notices to DPs
49. After publication of Declaration under Section-6 on 26-02-2019 in the area from RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 falling in Tehsil Jhelum, the Social and Revenue JIP/PIC teams started on preparation of village wise Qabzal-Wasool registers along with Notices under Section 9 to the DPs. The Qabzal-Wasool register comprises village wise DPs detail on land under impact and land compensation amount to be paid to each DP.
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Revenue record prepared and award announced for the three villages as per records shown in the following Table 10.
Table 10: Preparation of Revenue Record – Tehsil Jhelum Total Sr. Activity (No.) 1 Mouza/DPs (Village/ Displaced person) 3 / 1393 2 Qabzal-Wasool Registers Prepared (Register of Land and Payment record) 3 3 Notices under Section 9 Prepared served to DPs 1393 4 Handing over Revenue Record to LAC 25-07-2019 5 Public Hearing under Section 10 by LAC 20-08-2019 6 Announcement of Award under Section 11 28-08-2019
4.9 Notifications of Section 9, 10 & 11 under Land Acquisition Act 1894
50. The LAC of Tehsil Jhelum has completed proceedings under section 9 & 10 of Land Acquisition Act 1894 and announced Award under Section 11 on 28-08-2019 as mentioned above.
4.10 Disbursement of Land Compensation
51. The data regarding payment of land compensation in Tehsil Jhelum (RD 5+000 to RD 33+750) up to 31 March 2020 was maintained by AC/LAC office, Tehsil Jhelum which is provided in the summary Table 11 below. The LAC has documented all un-paid DPs with reasons: meager share; mutation issues; expired; court cases and; DPs not residing in the area (refer section 8.4 for further detail).
Table 11: Status of Disbursement of Land Compensation in Tehsil Jhelum Consolidated Report of Disbursement of Amount Till 16-03-2020 Total Paid DPs Total Amount Paid Amount Mouza % Age % age DPs (No) (NO) (Rs.) Rs. Maryala 476 276 57.98 10866535 9021221 83.02 Malikpur 581 268 46.13 28449576 21421686 75.02 Shah 336 142 42.26 21528833 9001673 39.32 Kameer Total 1393 686 49.25 62313175 39444580 63.30 *Due to mutation of land, DPs were increased to 1393.
4.11 Payment of Compensation of Other Affected Non-Land Assets
52. The LAC Tehsil Jhelum has completed all verifications from the concerned departments. The DPAC, Jhelum has approved assessed cost of residential & other structures, crops, wood trees and fruit plants amounting to Rs. 9.91 million during its meeting held on 4th December 2019. The LAC Jhelum requested Head/PD PMO (Canals) to provide requisite funds. The Project Director JIP has released the funds of Rs. 9.91 million to LAC Jhelum on 04-01-2020, for the payments to the DPs against their affected non-land assets as shown in Table 12. Documentary evidence of payments made by LAC and confirmation at field level by EMC is given as per Annex IV Part 2.
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Table 12: Status on Disbursement of Compensation of Non-Land Assets Paid Total Sr. Total Paid Unpaid Impacts/Damages Amount Amount No. DPs DPs DPs (Rs.) (Rs.) 1 11-Residential Structures 14 13 1 8,240,000 8,488,000 02-Cattle Sheds 01-Boundary wall 2 11-Wooden Trees 11 10 1 32,4807 37,6240 3 Crops 15 10 5 336,000 579,500 4 19-Fruit Plants 19 9 10 99,154 163,118 5 6-Tube Wells 6 3 3 170,000 305,000 Total 65 45 20 9,169,961 9,911,858
53. From the above table it reveals that out of 65 DPs, 45 (70%) have been paid compensation. There are 20 DPs (30%) who have not received the payment and they have gone to the court of law for legal remedy against the District Price Assessment Committee (DPAC).
54. As per table 11 above, the total amount paid so far is Rs. 9,169,961/- (93%), whereas overall compensation to be paid to DPs is Rs. 9,911,858. Out of all, a sum of Rs 741,897/- (7%) is yet to be disbursed upon completion of the legal matters. This is comparatively a minor amount because, major part has been disbursed and even the remaining part is readily available with the revenue department for payment to the entitled DPs.
55. Details of paid and unpaid DPs of Damages of Main Canal area from RD: 5+000 to 33+750 is given as per Annex-II.
4.12 Relocation of Residential Structures
56. Relocation is required by the 14 DPs having impacted structures (with 11 Residential and 2 cattle sheds 1 boundary wall) in Tehsil Jhelum from RD 5+000 to RD 33+750. Distribution of 11 DPs by profession is: 3 farmers; 4 laborers; 2 in the service sector; 1 is working abroad and; 1 is housewife. The relocation time was also discussed with DPs. They will require 6 months to relocate/rebuild for big structures and DP having small structures may require only 3 months to re-establish themselves at a new location.
57. However, all relocating households are supported for 6 month transition period allowances to ensure that they are able to properly adjust with their relocation at new sites. All residential structures will be affected 100% except that of Mrs. Zaib Bibi whose kitchen is only affected and she will not relocate even her other families are not intended to move as they owned enough adjacent place/land to relocate.
58. Relocation cost to the DPs loosing residential structure has been paid during January & February 2020 and it was personally visited by EMC to see the progress of LARP implementation and it was confirmed by the DPs that they have received the compensation payments (Annex I Part1). The LAC Jhelum also served the notices to these DPs with a given time frame for the relocation and vacate the ROW. The DPs have started dismantling their affected houses.
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4.13 Status of Payments of Allowances
59. Overall, 50 DPS are eligible for the allowances in this category. It covers shifting charges, vulnerable, livelihood/transition and self-relocation allowances and 38 DPs are willing or in contact with the project to receive these allowances. Cheques were issued to 35 DPs, the readily available DPs at site. These Cheques were distributed to 25 DPs on June 08 and 10 DPs on June 12, 2020 at three different villages of the project area. For this purpose, DPs were requested to be available on these dates, places and times specifically announced in the mosques through the public address system. On these occasions 35 entitled persons comprising both male and female heads of family have turned up, and received their cheques. These cheques were disbursed by two members of the committee one each from PMO and Irrigation Department (Mr. Hassnat Rasool Deputy Director, Community Relation from PMO- Canals and Mr. Najam Shah, SDO Khokhra Sub Division, Irrigation Department). These cheques were given after completion of the documentation/verification of their Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC). Unpaid remaining 15 DPs includes: 03 DPs are in contact with the committee & their cheques are in process; 07 DPs as died and their mutation cases are in process; 03 untraceable/residing in other districts and 02 are not interested in receiving the payments. EMC has personally witnessed the transparent distribution of these cheques in the presence of head of the respective villages (see photo log in this report) refer Annex-III & Annex-VIII.
4.14 Relocation of Govt. Boys and Girls Primary Schools
60. For the payment of compensation to 02 Government Primary Schools (1 each for boys and girls), an inventory of losses and measurement was prepared with the help of school staff and local community representatives. Teachers and other relevant school staff were also available at site for providing information/data. The impacted structures are given in the Table 13 below:
Table 13: Public Schools in ROW of ICB-P1 Impact on Location Details of Structures/fixtures Sr. Name of Structure Structure (RD) (%) 5 classrooms, two wash rooms, boundary Govt. Primary School for Boys, 1 10+000 100 wall, Gate, water tank, electric meter, 2 adult Bhai Luddan (Maryala mouza) trees and few sapling/nursery plants. Govt. Primary School for Girls, 2 classrooms, two wash rooms, boundary 2 20+000 100 Malik Pur Mouza wall, Gate, water tank, electric meter, 1 tree
61. Total land under both affected primary schools is 03 Kanals and 07 Marlas (01 Kanal and 07 Marla under Boys Primary School and 02 Kanals under Girls Primary School). Existing land of both schools is in the name of Education Department.
62. For the relocation of these school buildings, PMO (Canals) decided with the Education Department that, no compensation of existing school buildings will be paid to the Department. However, funds for the construction of 02 standard buildings of primary schools will be provided to Education Department. Accordingly, the Buildings Department, Jhelum, submitted cost estimate for the construction of both schools amounting to Rs. 23.4 million through Deputy Commissioner (DC) Jhelum to the
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Project Director Jalalpur Irrigation Project/Head PMO-Canals for transfer of funds. Immediately, a cheque of the same amount was released to the Education Department on 14th October 2019 so that the construction of both schools could be started well in time. This may be noted that the Education Department had decided to construct girls school in the premises of another Government Primary School located in the same mouza, where sufficient space is available for the construction of another primary school. Proposed area is owned by the Education Department.
63. For the relocation of boys school, 04 Kanal area has been selected in Maryal mouza (village) by the Education Department in-consultation with the community. This is private land owned by M/S Ammar Haider Shah and Zafar Ali Shah, residents of Maryala mouza (village). Out of these 04 Kanal area 02 Kanal is being procured on payment and remaining 02 Kanal area is being gifted to the school by the same private owners of the land. The payment of 2 Kanal procured land on negotiation bases for relocation of Boys Primary School, Bhai Ludden is being made by the Education Department, from the funds available with Chief Executive Authority Jhelum, with the concurrence of PMO (Canals). However, land has been handed over for the construction of relocated school building.
64. Status on relocation of both affected school buildings is summarized below:
Boys Girls Sr. Activity Primary Primary School School 1 Funds provided to Education Department by PMO (Canals) Rs. 23.4 M on 14-10-2019 2 Relocation sites identified & handed over for Construction Yes Yes 3 For the Construction Tender Opening Date 15-01-2020 19-12-2019 4 Award Date by Buildings Department, Jhelum 15-03-2020 21-01-2020 5 Contractors Mobilized at Sites Yes Yes 6 Construction at Site In Progress In Progress 7 Expected Construction Period Six Months Six Months
65. The Buildings Department has assured to complete construction of both schools within 6-month time. This has been also assured by the Commissioner Rawalpindi Division that interim arrangement for continuing the education will be made in a rented building for Boys Primary School; in case the building construction and completion is delayed. This was a contingency plan issued by the Commissioner Rawalpindi during his visit to the project site in December 2019.
5 PUBLIC CONSULTATION
66. Public consultations have been a regular feature of the LARP implementation activities for smooth implementation and further progress indicators as under:
5.1 Information Campaign and Consultation with DPs
67. The following measures were taken for the 03 Mouza (village) of Tehsil Jhelum falling in ICB-Package-1 to cover the task:
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• Prepared Qabzal Wasool registers (land and payment register) of 1393 DPs of 03 Mouza.(villages) • Notices were served to each DP showing land to be acquired with Khewat (land record number on map) and Khasra number (land record sub number on map) number for the extent of requirements for clearing the right of way (ROW). • Clarification of compensation amount to the DPs. • Date was fixed for public hearing in the LAC office to listen their concerns. • During February and March 2020, the revenue staff especially the relevant revenue Patwari made exhaustive efforts to motivate the DPs to receive their land compensation. • Deputy Commissioned/Assistant Commissioner along with their filed staff including Tehsildars, Qanoongo and Patwaries all had made efforts by holding corner meeting and group discussions/ meetings and visits to these villages These efforts includes personal contacts, announcements through the mosques by public address system in each village,by holding the chain of consultation sessions, contacting Numberdars (village heads ) and village elders. • Display and fixation of posters/ panaflex about the Project and compensation payments campaigns was run, in all 03 villages. With all these efforts compensation payment process was accelerated. • Detailed list of the persons contacted for verification of the compensations payment is given at Annex I and Annex IV. • Pictorial data for Information campaign and consultation with DPs are shown in Annex-V Pictorial data for Information campaign and consultation with DPs are shown in Annex-V
68. All this was possible as the PMO has placed all the required funds at the disposal of the Revenue Authority for disbursements to the DPs. As a matter of fact all the DPs are treated as the paid except those who have gone into litigation, mutation issue, absence from the site, meager payments issues etc. All such DPs however are having their entitled compensation funds readily available with the Revenue offices for payment.
5.2 General Response from the DPs/ Provision of Bridge
69. DPs of Shah Kameer village are demanding that road bridge should be constructed across the canal at adjacent point to the population centers for crossing the canal. Location of bridge is proposed between RD 27 to RD 33 or at any other nearby appropriate location. In this way residents of the area will have easy access to their remaining/residual farming area on the left bank of the canal. The road bridge must have the capacity for crossing of the tractors/ trolleys /livestock (for reaching the grazing areas) and to facilitate the transportation of the farm produce from farms to the market places.
70. Regarding construction of bridge, this matter was discussed in detailed with the PMO office and they have decided to provide a bridge as desired by the community. This will be a new bridge, which will be provided at RD 29+100 for the local community to
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take care of their residual farming areas located on the left side of the canal. This will serve the purpose and address their demand.
5.3 DPs Perception about Land Values
71. Some of the DPs had expressed that though they have received the land compensation payments but the rates assessed by the committee responsible for per unit rate fixation is far less than their perception. They demanded that it should be enhanced to make it comparable with the market rates of the land in the area.
72. Generally, DPs with meagre compensation payable to them are reluctant to travel to LAC offices to collect such a small compensation. Some mechanism should be adopted to make payments to all these through payments in cash at their door step or nearest easily approachable places on the main road. For this advance publicity need to be done by announcing time, day and place of disbursement of such meagre amounts. Revenue staff has made some progress in the disbursement of the compensations to such category of the DPs.
6 SOCIAL SAFEGUARDS MEASURES
6.1 Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM)
73. In compliance with the institutional requirements of the Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plans (RAPs) for 03 Packages and Environmental Management Plan (EMP) for Jalalpur Irrigation Project, a Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) with 3 tier structure; one at village level, second at tehsil level and, third at project level has been established to address grievances arising from environmental & social impacts.
6.2 Formation of Grievance Redress Committees (GRCs)
74. The Grievance Redress Committees (GRCs) at village level (V-GRCs) have been established for the all 03 villages falling in Package 1 (RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 of Main Canal) vide PMO Notification No. PMO/ID/JIP/R&E/9705 dated 21-01-2020. The notification covers TOR of the village level committees also. Tehsil Level GRCs (T- GRCs) for Jhelum Tehsil, (similarly for PD Khan and Khushab tehsils) have been established vide PMO/ID/JIP/R&E/1020 dated 19-03-2020. Whereas, Project Level GRC(P-GRC) was established vide PMO/ID/JIP/R&E/9783 dated 19-02-2020. The objectives of these V-GRCs were explained to the head/members of GRCs. The GRCs are now fully functional in the field. Names of GRC members and their contact numbers are given below in Table 14:
Table 14: GRC Member compositions Sr. Mouza Name Position Contact No. 0312-6061004 Jr. Environmentalist/Social Mobilizer-PIC Head 0333-6757216 1 Maryala Syed Zafar Ali Shah Member 0333-8034051 Malik Gul Muhammad Member - Ammar Haider Shah Member - 0312-6061004 Malik Pur Jr. Environmentalist/Social Mobilizer-PIC Head 2 0333-6757216
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Sr. Mouza Name Position Contact No. Malik M. Nawaz Member 0331- 9304536 Muhammad Lateef Member - Muhammad Hanif Member - 0312-6061004 Jr. Environmentalist/Social Mobilizer-PIC Head 0333-6757216 3 Shah Kameer Mirza Saeed Mehmood Baig Jhelumi Member 0300-5412870 Subedar Ghulam Hussain Member - Haji Umer Din Member -
6.3 Complaint Registers
75. Complaint registers have been placed at Contractor’s office and Project Field Office Khewra. Both the offices will properly guide the complainants regarding GRM. The Contractor will segregate the complaints. All the complaints related to him will be kept for redressal whereas, related to LAC process will be forwarded to Field Office for redressal through respective V-GRCs. Likewise, Field office will hand over complaints related to the Contractor for grievance redress.
76. During the month of February 2020, a complaint was received from a DP belonged to Mouza Maryala. The complaint was related to change of alignment at RD 6+500 due to NTDC pylon foundation constructed for the installations of transmission lines tower in the ROW of the Main Canal. The complaint was redressed with the assurance that NTDC pole will be removed and alignment will not be changed for the safeguard of his land. A copy of letter written to PD NTDC Project was also delivered to the DP on 19 February 2020 for his satisfaction. The complaint has also been entered in the complaint register placed at Grievance Redress Committee (GRC) camp site of ICB- P1.
77. During the Month of March 2020, no complaint was received regarding any grievance due to the project implementation.
7 EXTERNAL MONITORING
78. JIP is being a linear project involves the land and land-based asset owners spread over 116 km in length from the start of the project area to the end. Land holding of the owners are small and fragmented. This further reduces the level of ownerships to much smaller land holdings by inheritance. This has two-fold effects i.e. (i) the smaller land parcels are uneconomical to produce for meeting the family needs; (ii) by sharing the limited land available for the canal project, they will be deprived of their land and land-based assets. This further aggravate the situation, if any, when someone’s already small piece of entire land is acquired and makes him as landless. It amounts to changing the social status of such person and makes him vulnerable both socially and economically. On the other hand, any development project of this nature obviously requires a level of sacrifice for making their respective areas as developed for the present and the future generations. Historically this is how the province of Punjab, Pakistan and entire subcontinent has developed over the years in the past through the construction of the network of canals, railway lines, roads. In fact, it is the
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history in making due to land mark development by the construction of an irrigation canal as Jalalpur Irrigation Project (JIP). This will contribute tremendously in developing the sustainable agriculture in this area. And with this development, allied agricultural industry will be developing as well.
79. JIP has made all out efforts in coordination with the other nation building departments like Revenue, Buildings, Forest and Agriculture and developed Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan (LARP) for acquiring the land and land-based assets falling in the planned Right of Way (ROW) of this canal networks.
80. Substantial compensation payment has been made in the section RD5+000 to RD 33+750 of P1 of the project. Revenue Department is disbursing the compensation payments to the entitled displaced persons (DPs) as per their entitlement for the land and land-based assets, and restoration of the livelihood of these DPs. Compensation payment process is satisfactorily moving further to ensure that the payments are made speedily to all the DPs of the project.
81. DPs who are yet to be paid have to be given top priority now onward and further efforts be made to locate/trace them out for making the payments (including the meager amounts) at their door steps through the compensation payment team of revenue staff. Further details of achievements are given in the next section at Table15 of the report.
82. Necessary documentation for payments to the legal heirs of the deceased DPs and Minors DPs in collaboration with the verifications through village heads, notables are being worked out to settle these issues on sound basis.
7.1 Verification by External Monitoring Consultant
83. Based on the payments made till now, verification of these payments through External Monitoring Consultant (EMC) is being carried on. For this purpose, EMC M. Aslam Malik has made two exhaustive trips to the field on 07 March 2020 and 14 March 2020. During these field trips meetings at various locations from RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 were held with the respective DPs, village heads, revenue staff members (Patwari of the area Mr. Nazar Hayat was picked from Mouza Darapur Patwar office) and project staff working at site. These meetings were held at Mouza (village) Shah Kameer, Malikpur and Maryala. Meetings were also held with the individual at their door steps, farming areas, near cattle sheds, tube well, forest plantation areas, at the road side hotels, tea shops all along the project area wherever a DP was available. All these meetings and interactions with the DPs were aimed at getting confirmation of payments to each individual and through groups of family members, family heads, Numberdars and Mouza (Village) notables of the area. Legal heirs of the deceased DPs were also contacted for confirmation of the entitled compensation payments in the presence of other notables of the same Mouza. DPs living outside the project area were contacted on telephone to get their confirmation of entitled compensation payments.
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84. There are overall 1393 DPs for the land between RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 as the entitled persons for payment of compensation. Out of these 686 DPs have been paid land compensation by end March 2020 by the office of LAC Jhelum.
85. In order to verify random stratified sampling was done during the verification visits to the project site for confirmation of the payments to DPs. This includes all categories of the DPs including some of the vulnerable DPs as well. Out of the total 686 DPs eligible for compensation 384 DPs (about 57%) were contacted in person in two separate visits to this batch of Package-1 of the Project area. Endeavored to contact the cross section of the DPs to get meaningful and representative feedback from them. Annex 1 Part 1 and Annex IV Part 2 gives the details of the verified DPs from RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 as a part of the P1. Linear map has been given as Annex- VIII regarding the status of payment of compensations for various categories of the Project DPs. However, summary of the verification of compensation payments to the entitled DP as per stratified samples are given in Table 15 covering the land and land- based assets:
Table 15: Verification of Compensation Paid to the DPs Against Land, Structures, Fixtures, Trees and Crops of Tehsil Jhelum from RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 DPs Contacted and Confirmed (No.) Cattle Total Structure Wooden Fruit Area Land Sheds/ T/well Crop DP Residential Trees Trees B.Wall (No.) Maryala 62 - 4 6 5 4 81 Malikpur 200 11 2 - 3 1 3 218 Shah 1 Kameer 81 - (Boundary - - 3 1 85 wall) Total DPs 343 11 3 4 9 9 8 384
7.1.1 Telephonic Confirmation
86. Some of the DPs were residing out of the project area in cities like Jhelum and Sargodha. They were contacted on cell phone (by EMC) and they have confirmed the receipt of the compensation payments. These DPs are:
Removed in accordance with para 17 of ADB’s Access to Information Policy (2018)
7.1.2 Acceleration of the Compensation Payment Processing
87. Following key institutions are making their well-coordinated efforts to accelerate the payment of compensation to the remaining DPs. (a) BY PMO
88. In this connection, PMO is making their best efforts to contact these persons through massive publicity campaign by advertisement / display of banners and approaching through announcements in the mosques, contacting the village elders and contacts with the respective area Numberdar and village notables. Project staff has been motivating all the remaining DPs to collect their compensation payments (Annex V).
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(b) By Courts and Revenue Staff
89. (a) Regarding the court cases, these have to be decided by the court of law, for which relevant authorities have to decide the cases. As these cases are in the court of law hence nothing can be done till the decision from the honorable courts are made.
90. (b) Efforts are being made by the district administration to facilitate and expedite the disbursement through their revenue field staff for all the non-court cases.
7.1.3 Consultation to Address DPs Concerns
91. The EMC conducted consultations with the DPs regarding their concern related to compensations and land price assessment. It appeared that the social team had well explained about the procedure of assessment of land value by the revenue department. Similar efforts were made by the Revenue staff to satisfy the DPs with some success so far.
8 FINDINGS
8.1 Payment of Allowances to Entitled DPs
92. The compensation of land is being paid directly by the LAC, while payment of allowances (including shifting, livelihood restoration, relocation assistance and vulnerable) has been now paid by the PMO-Canals, Annex III and Annex-VIII.
8.2 Prepared Data Regarding Non-Disbursement of Land Compensation
93. The LAC Jhelum collected data regarding payment of land compensation through door to door visits of first three Mouza, the DPs who could not receive or not willing to receive their compensations were documented with the reasons as to why they have not received their payments. These documents have been submitted to AC Jhelum for review, updating and verification. The AC office Jhelum is finalizing the document to submit to the PMO for further processing.
94. Out of total 1393 DPs of three Mouza of Tehsil Jhelum, 686 DPs have been paid land compensation whereas LAC Jhelum could not pay the compensation to 707 remaining DPs due to the following reasons: • Meager compensation amount, • DPs have died, • DPs don’t reside in the area (out of district/abroad), • DPs have mutation issue, • DPs are absconder, and • Court cases, in the process.
95. Field team organized and conducted surveys for collection of information and preparation of the documentation by all those categories of the DPs mentioned as above.
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96. These team had collected information for remaining unpaid DPs and prepared their documentation with proper evidence from their respective families, village heads and relatives. EMC had an opportunity to visit some of the DPs of these category during the field visit. And now due to the efforts of the field staff 100 percent verification documentation was conducted on designed “FORM” duly translated in Urdu based on the ADB guidance notes (Annex-VII). This is a credible work done under initial stages of the spread of pandemic COVID-19.
97. This data collected through these Forms has been summarized in Table 16 below:
Table 16: Summary of the Verification of the Documentation of Unpaid DPs (in Nos.) Died Meagre Court Unknown/ Mouza OD Abroad Mutation Absconder Total DPs Amount Cases Untraceable Maryala 85 52 33 - - - 24 6 200 Malikpur 57 83 24 123 21 4 1 - 313 Shah 17 62 9 3 58 45 - - 194 Kameer Total 159 197 66 126 79 49 25 6 707
98. All these documents and required funds for payments to the DPs have been placed by PMO at the disposal of the LAC Jhelum office. The entire responsibility of these funds disbursement is with those offices now. Revenue department and PMO (Canals) is requested to make continuous efforts to deliver unpaid compensations to DPs all through the project period and monitor the progress of the activities. Progress of compensation payments shall be reported in upcoming monitoring reports.
8.3 Provision of Field Staffing and Resources
99. During the visits to the project site it has been observed that field staff deployed currently for LARP implementation is short and the resources available with them are also inadequate. The resources needed to accomplish the work output in a limited time frame is challenging. It is suggested that the field staff need to be strengthened along with the resources to match with the high priority field work assignments. Reliable road worthy vehicles needed for mobility to meet the deadlines of their assignment out puts.
9 WAY FORWARD
100. As observed through field visits and personal interviews with DPs, interaction with the field staff along with the documentary evidences exhibited by the EMC, it is clear that the work on war footings on all fronts in the field is going on. All out efforts by the staff have been witnessed. Achievements made by all are commendable for the implementation of LARP in Batch-1 (RD 5+000 to RD 33+750 Ref. Fig B). Unpaid DPs have been documented by LAC office Jhelum, with solid reasons as to why they have not received their payments so far. However, revenue department and PMO (Canals) is requested to make continuous efforts to deliver unpaid compensations to DPs all through the project period and monitor the progress of the activities. As part of the efforts,
Page-20 JALALPUR IRRIGATION PROJECT (JIP) EMC-03 all the unpaid DPs in Batch-1 will be contacted by the project related personnel (physically or telephonically) before actual displacement happens at their respective sites. Un-paid DPs will be informed that they are entitled for compensation and urged for receiving them. In addition, they will be informed of the commencement of the civil works at their respective location and be asked for their consent on it. Result of such efforts will be documented together with the progress of compensation payments in the upcoming monitoring reports. Next monitoring report (either internal or external) will be submitted to ADB before actual displacement occurs at un-compensated sites. Similarly, compensation payments under the entitled allowances category of DPs, all the available DPs in the area have been made their payments in the presence of the EMC and necessary documentary evidence have been annexed in this updated version of the report. A linear map illustrating these payments made to all categories of the DPs has been prepared (Annex IX). PMO has placed all the required funds at the disposal of disbursing authority for payment to the DPs. Now, all the entitlements have been disbursed to DPs and Non-paid DPs have been documented by LAC. Based on the positive ground realities and field observations, it is justified and strongly recommended to give a go-ahead for the civil works construction for Main Canal RD 5+000 to RD 33+750.
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ANNEXES JALALPUR IRRIGATION PROJECT (JIP) EMC-03
Annex- I: Verification of Compensation Paid to the DPs Part 1
Removed in accordance with para 17 of ADB’s Access to Information Policy (2018)
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Annex- II: Details of Paid and Unpaid DPs of Damages of Main Canal from RD: 5+000 to 33+750
Removed in accordance with para 17 of ADB’s Access to Information Policy (2018)
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Annex- III: Status of Allowances Payments to the DPs of RD 5+000 to RD 33+750
Removed in accordance with para 17 of ADB’s Access to Information Policy (2018)
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Annex- IV: Verification of Land Compensation Paid to the DPs Part 2
Removed in accordance with para 17 of ADB’s Access to Information Policy (2018)
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Annex- V: Photologs
Public Campaign Regarding Land Compensation in First Three Mouza From RD 0+000 to RD 33
In Mouza Maryala In Mouza Maryala
In Mouza Malik Pur In Mouza Malik Pur
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In Mouza Shah Kameer In Mouza Shah Kameer
In the office of Land Record canter, Govt. of Punjab In the office of LAC PD Khan
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External Monitor with DPs of Maryala Mouza External Monitor visited Project area
External Monitor Verifying Compensation from External Monitor Verifying Compensation from the DPs of Mouza Malikpur ( RD 18+000 to the DPs of Mouza Malikpur ( RD 18+000 to 22+000 of Main Canal 22+000 of Main Canal
External Monitor Verifying Compensation from External Monitor Verifying Compensation from the DPs of Mouza Malikpur ( RD 18+000 to the DPs of Mouza Malikpur ( RD 18+000 to 22+000 of Main Canal 22+000 of Main Canal
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Annex- VI: Compensation Payments to the Entitled DPs For Structures/Tubewells/Trees
Removed in accordance with para 17 of ADB’s Access to Information Policy (2018)
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Annex- VII: Unpaid DPs Data collection Form
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Annex- VIII: Photologs of Receiving Cheque of Allowances
Removed in accordance with para 17 of ADB’s Access to Information Policy (2018)
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Linear Map Showing Status on Payments of Compensation and Allowances at Jalalpur Irrigation Project (JIP)
Mouza Maryala RD 5+000 to RD 10+000 Mouza Maryala-1 RDs 5+000 6+000 7+000 8+000 9+000 10+000 Mouza Khasra No 260 259, 277 294, 265 288, 257 292, 287,285,284,445/106 263 291, 261 437/81 297, 286, 255, 256 73,76,280,267,295 290, 283, 298 266, 258, 279, 264 77 79 80, 300, 78 71 281 293 276 441/10, 4/1 Compensation Status Impact Land Acquisition Land Crops Structures/Wood Trees/Fruit Plants Allowances: Vulnerablity Allowance Livelihood/Transition Allowance Shifting Allowance Self Relocation Allowance Mouza Malik Pur-2 Mouza Malik Pur RD 11+000 to RD 22+000 RDs 11+000 12+000 13+000 14+000 15+000 16+000 17+000 18+000 19+000 20+000 21+000 22+000 Mouza Malik Pur Khasra No 283, 287 248, 246, 245 263,278,277 260 201 698 628,712 565, 564, 563, 572, 566, 827, 579 886, 701 837, 830 578, 576 700, 826 824, 825 182 191, 183 196, 195, 254 900, 899 194 609, 608, 606, 612, 611, 610, 703, 706 707 591, 584, 699 257 262 690, 627 585, 580 619 884, 885 888, 268 276, 275, 573/1, 166/1, 702 581/1 167/1 269, 265, 279, 264, 696 187, 185, 188 622, 199, 192, 705, 704 810 583 189, 184, 258, 190, 259 256 178 695, 812 202, 255 827 288 290, 569, 570, 289, 571 896 828, 839, 838, 840, 829 187, 185, 188 592, 694 806, 805/1, 809, 807, 805, 798, 797 831, 832, 836 Compensation Status Impact Land Acquisition and Resettlement Land Crops Structures/Wood Trees/Fruit Plants Allowances: Vulnerablity Allowance Livelihood/Transition Allowance Shifting Allowance Self Relocation Allowance Mouza Shah Kameer-3 Mouza Shah Kameer RD 23+000 to RD 33+750 RDs 23+000 24+000 25+000 26+000 27+000 28+000 29+000 30+000 31+000 32+000 33+750 Mouza Shah kameer Khasra No 566, 557 562, 58, 579, 565 564, 563/1 621, 636, 648, 635, 622 568 211, 210, 212, 628, 627 617, 639 670, 677 669, 678 665 624, 193, 148, 632, 654, 652, 631 704, 709 623, 195, 147, 651, 633, 634 630, 625, 571 672, 675 666, 680/1, 667 554/1 705, 708 552 642/1 616, 640, 645/1192, 152,556/1 147/1,567 150/1, 151/1, 153, 149,155 154,555, 638, 569/1, 618 569/2, 569/3 715, 716 199, 184, 711, 553/1, 712 713, 714 717, 718, 721, 724, 202 215 720 197, 186 673, 674/1 185, 198, 701, 698 700, 699/1 702146, 145, 194, 196, 188, 187706, 707 570, 661, 658 204, 214 520/1, 513, 548/1 209, 222, 629, 626 203, 659, 521/1, 660, 213 200, 201, 551/1 662, 657 510, 509, 514, 519/1, 656, 665, 663 681/1 549/1, 550/1, 515/1, 516, 508, 506, 671, 676/1 568 672, 675 616, 640, 645/1 Compensation Status Impact Land Acquisition Land Crops Structures/Wood Trees/Fruit Plants Allowances: Vulnerablity Allowance Livelihood/Transition Allowance Shifting Allowance Self Relocation Allowance
LEGEND Note: Compensation/Allowances Paid 1. RDs Length is not as per Scale Compensation/Allowances Un-paid 2. Un-paid DPs of Land and Non-land Affected Assets Ducumented by LAC Payment of Allowances is Not Applicable here
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