Social Monitoring Report Semestral Report April 2012 PRC: Anhui Integrated Transport Sector Improvement Project Prepared by Engineering Resettlement Research Institute of Anhui Communication Vocational &Technical College for Anhui Provincial Transport Department and the Asian Development Bank. 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. Asian Development Bank Financed Anhui Highway Project Xuzhou-Mingguang Highway External Monitoring Report of the Resettlement (The Second Copy) Engineering Resettlement Research Institute of Anhui Communication Vocational &Technical College April 2012 3 Contents CONTENTS……………………………………………………………………………2 1 GENERAL DESCRIPTION…………………………………………………………………………4 1.1 General Description of the Project………………………………………………4 1.2 Time of the Project’s Approval and Construction…………………………………4 1.3 Brief Description of the Resettlement plan………………………………………5 1.3.1 Effect of the Project……………………………………………………5 1.3.2 Compensation and Time of Implementation…………………………5 1.4 General Description of Monitoring Evaluation……………………………………7 1.4.1 Basal Investigation……………………………………………………7 1.4.2 Main Content of Monitoring Evaluation………………………………7 1.4.3 Methods of Monitoring Evaluation……………………………………7 2 Monitoring and Evaluation in the Process of Resettlement…………………………………9 2.1 Land Requisition…………………………………………………………………11 2.1.1 Quantity of Land Expropriation………………………………………11 2.1.2 Compensation Criterion of Land Requisition………………………12 2.1.3 Compensation and payment of Land Fee……………………………16 2.1.4 Restoration Measures and Compensation……………………………17 2.2 House Relocation………………………………………………………………17 2.2.1 Schedule and Quantity of Relocation…………………………………17 2.2.2 Compensation Criteria of Relocation…………………………………18 2.2.3 Condition of Resettlement……………………………………………20 2.2.4 Compensation for Removal and Interim Transitional Allowance……23 2.3 Compensation for the Relocation of the Electronic Telegraphic Lines…………24 2.4 Affected Enterprises and Individually-owned Business…………………………25 2.5 Infrastructure Construction………………………………………………………26 2.6 Affected Vulnerable Groups……………………………………………………26 3. Mechanism of Monitoring and Evaluation………………………………………………27 3.1 Internal Monitoring Inspection…………………………………………………27 4 3.2 Communal Participation…………………………………………………………28 3.3 Complaint and Claim……………………………………………………………30 4. Typical Investigation and Evaluation……………………………………………………30 5. Basic Evaluation and Suggestion…………………………………………………………36 5.1 Basic Evaluation…………………………………………………………………36 5.2Suggestions………………………………………………………………………36 1 General Description 1.1 General Description of the Project The route of Xuzhou-Mingguang Highway begins by the north of Lingbi County ,around Liang Village which is by the east of the provincial boundary of Jiangsu and Anhui-Cuilou, from north to south, goes via Zhaoyang,Yugou,Damiao,Changgou,Caogou,Dinghu,and bypass the east of Tuo Lake,across Huai River at Xiaoxi Town,Wuhe County, it goes along the west of G104 National Road, and finally connects Nanluo Highway Mingguang 5 to Bengbu around Gangji Mingguang City. The length of the route is about 139.061 kilometers,the width of the roadbed is 27.0 meters, it is constructed according to the highway level of designed speed 120 kilometers per hour . The whole project commenced on January 2011,and it will be completed on December 2013, the work period is about 3 years. The plan of land requisition, house relocation and compensation was enforced on January 2010, and will be finished on December 2013. The estimate of the resettlement cost is 6811.219 million yuan, including 1861.34 million yuan in Lingbi County(account for 27.33%); 2292.059 million yuan in Si County(account for 33.65%); 1723.072million yuan in Wuhe County(account for 25.30%);801.449 million yuan in Mingguang City(account for 11.77%);133.297million yuan in Fengyang County (account for 1.96%). Among the whole cost of resettlement, the cost of expropriating the collective land in the rural area is 3129.020million yuan, it accounts for 45.94%of the total cost; compensation for land requisition is 1257.3308million yuan(account for 18.46% of the total cost); compensation for resettlement of the rural resident-al houses is 446.214million yuan(account for 6.55% of the total cost);compensation for the basic construction and ground appendage is 308.69million yuan(account for 4.53%); taxes and management fee is 1669.964million yuan(account for 24.52%). 1.2 Project’s Date of Approval and Construction On June 2008, the ADB technical support tour visited Anhui Province, and discussed the content of Anhui road network development project(including Xuzhou-Anhui Highway Anhui segment) in the 2010 ADB National strategic plan with the related departments, and formed a memorandum, on November 2009, the National Development and Reform Commission of Anhui province gave an approval to the preliminary design of this project, on December 2009, Traffic Planning and Design Institute of Anhui Province finished the construction document design of this project. The project commenced on January 2011 and the whole project will be completed on December 2013, the work period is about 3 years. 1.3 Brief Description of the Resettlement Plan 1.3.1 Effect of the Project The collective land requisition and relocation of Xuzhou-Mingguang project involves 18 towns and 62 incorporated villages in Lingbi County,Si County,Wuhe County,Mingguang City and Fengyang County of Anhui Province. The land that the project expropriates is about 11034.7097 mu, and the area of the house relocation is about 71616.639 square meters. The quantity of the affected households is about 12678 families, the population is about 47101;Among them,the quantity of the affected households of land requisition is about 11840 families, the population is about 44067; the quantity of the affected households of house relocation is about 502 families, the population is about 2011; the quantity of the affected household of both land requisition and house relocation is about 419 families, the population is about 1517.There are 3 affected enterprises and public institutions. 1.3.2 Compensation and Time of Implementation 6 Land requisition and house relocation commenced on October 2010,and will be completed on December 2013. By investigation, we have known that the resettlement is under way, the progress is provided in the table below1-1to1-5. According to the requirement of Resettlement Action Plan, Anhui provincial government authorizes Anhui Province Transportation and investment Group LTD to reserve all rights for the carrying-out and relevant resettlement of the project via Transportation Bureau of Anhui province, the regional government of each project is responsible for the carrying-out and relevant resettlement of the project in the area, carrying out the internal monitoring work at the same time and finishing The Internal Monitoring Report.The regional government of each project establishes 3 levels of County,Town,Village resettlement office, the organization is as shown in Picture 1. Picture 1 The Picture of Xu-Ming Highway Resettlement Leading Group’s Organization 1.4 General Description of the Monitoring Evaluation Engineering Resettlement Research Institute of Anhui Communication Vocational&Technical College is authorized by Anhui province Transportation and Investment Group, as the external monitoring organization of the resettlement, to be responsible for the periodical monitoring of the project and finished The Resettlement External Monitoring Report. 7 Picture 2 Field Investigation at Sunping Village ,Wuhe County 1.4.1 Basal Investigation On March 2011 to May 2011, with the resettlement office workers from all levels,the monitoring evaluation assessment team carried out a basal investment about the project’s affected region, and took the investigation method of random sampling to the affected families of land requisition and house relocation, and established a sample of households archives. 1.4.2 The Main Content of Monitoring Evaluation A. The main monitoring indicators (1) Schedule: Including the pre-work and carrying-out of the land requisition (2) Quality: Including the project construction quality and immigrants’ satisfactions in the process of land requisition and house relocation. (3) Investment: Including the appropriation and usage of the funds. B. The main indicators of evaluation are as following: (1) The production and living condition of the immigrants ①The economic condition: Families’economic developing condition before and after the immigration, including household production material and the ownership of livelihood,property and income condition. ②The environmental condition: The resident environment before and after the immigration, including the communal facilities like transportation, culture and education, health,business service to develop the changing situation. ③The employment status: The changing of profession before and after the immigration, labor employment, and providing help situation to different objects,especially poverty- stricken and minority families. ④The community development: After the immigrants have