Social Monitoring Report Semestral Report January - June 2013 IND: National Capital Region Urban Infrastructure Financing Facility-Project 1 Prepared for the National Capital Region Planning Board 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. Social Monitoring Report Loan Number: 2660 IND Reporting Period: (Jan – June 2013) INDIA: National Capital Region Urban Infrastructure Financing Facility Prepared by: Executing Agency: National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) December 2013 New Delhi ABBREVIATIONS ADB - Asian Development Bank CC - Construction Contractor CFE - Consent for Establishment DIMTS - Delhi Integration Multimodal Transit Service DPCC - Delhi Pollution Control Committee DP - Displaced Persons DPR - Detailed Project Report EA - Executing Agency EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment ESMC - Environmental & Social Management Cell ESMS - Environmental & Social Management System GoI - Government of India HSPCB - Haryana State Pollution Control Board IA - Implementing Agency IEE - Initial Environmental Examination IP - Indigenous People IR - Involuntary Resettlement LA - Land Acquisition MFF - Multi-tranche Financing Facility NCR - National Capital Region NCRPB - National Capital Region Planning Board NGO - Non Government Organization OCR - Ordinary Capital Resources PFR - Periodic Financing Request PHED - Public Health Engineering Department PMC - Program Management Consultant PMU - Program Management Unit PPTA - Project Preparatory Technical Assistance RP - Resettlement Plan R&R - Resettlement and Rehabilitation i Table of Contents I. SOCIAL MONITORING REPORT 4 A. Executive Summary 4 B. The Project - NCRUIFF 4 C. NCRPB’s Environmental & Social Management System 6 D. Background of the Monitoring Report 7 E. Scope of Land Acquisition & Involuntary Resettlement Impacts 9 F. Status of Resettlement Plans Implementation 12 1. Subprojects in Implementation/Construction 13 i. Badli Bypass – 5.70 Km 15 ii. Development of State Highways in Jhajjar District 22 iii. Development of Roads in Sonepat District 27 2. Subprojects in Preparation/Bidding 30 G. Lessons Learned and Follow Up Actions 31 List of Tables Table 1: NCRPB ESMS Social Categorization ......................................................................... 7 Table 2: First Tranche Subprojects (PFR1 Indicative List) ................................................. 8 Table 3: Scope of Land Acquisition ...................................................................................... 9 Table 4: Subproject - Badli Bypass ......................................................................................... 13 Table 5: Subproject - Badli Bypass Compliance Status of RP implementation ..................... 15 Table 6: Subproject - Badli Bypass Resettlement costs ........................................................ 17 Table 7. Summary Table of Resettlement Progress – Badli Bypass ..................................... 19 Table 8: Subproject – Development of State Highways in Jhajjar District ............................. 20 Table 9: Comparison between the initial RP and the revised RP .......................................... 22 Table 10: Summary of Resettlement Impacts - Development of State Highways in Jhajjar District ...................................................................................................................................... 23 Table 11 : Summary Table of Resettlement Progress – Development of State Highways in Jhajjar District .......................................................................................................................... 24 Table 12: Subproject – Development of Roads in Sonepat District ....................................... 25 Table 13. Summary Table of Resettlement Progress – Subproject: Development of Roads in Sonepat District ........................................................................................................................ 29 Table 14: Status of the upcoming subprojects ....................................................................... 30 Table 15: Compliance status of the subprojects under implementation ................................ 31 ii Annexure Annexure 1: Details of DPs under Badli Bypass Road Annexure 2: Details of Acquired Land and compensation paid in Badli Bypass Annexure 3: Detailed valuation of affected Structure and trees in Badli Bypass Annexure 4: Evidence for Payment made to DPs as compensation of acquired land under Badli Bypass Annexure 5: Evidence for payment of compensation as assistances paid to DPs of Badli Bypass Annexure 6: Details of DPs under Jhajjar Bypass Road iii I. SOCIAL MONITORING REPORT A. Executive Summary 1. This report covers the period of January – June 2013 and all available updates regarding social safeguards and compliance to ADB’s safeguards policy. The report is based on the documents submitted by the Implementing Agencies. This report presents the background of The National Capital Region Urban Infrastructure Financing Facility (NCRUIFF) followed by the structure and principles of environment and social management system that has been adopted for implementation and monitoring of safeguards issues. The implementation status of resettlement plans and emerging issues have been presented in every possible detail. Finally the report analyses the gaps and dwells on the necessary actions to deal with such issues. Currently three road subprojects are under various stages of implementation. Out of them in two subprojects, unanticipated land acquisition has been reported to National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB). These three subprojects were earlier categorized as S21 i.e. with limited impacts. It has been assessed that even after considering unanticipated land acquisition (for 2 sub-projects) the categorization will continue to be S2. NCRPB has taken necessary actions to deal with these developments of unanticipated land acquisition and has already requested the Implementing Agencies to revise resettlement plans to capture and mitigate the unanticipated impacts due to land acquisition. Social impact assessment and preparation / revision of Resettlement Plans are being carried out by the concerned Implementing Agencies. Three new road sub-projects were approved by PSMG in Dec 2012 under NCRUIFF Tranche 1. All these subprojects have been categorized under S2 category due to limited impacts. Short Resettlement Plans were prepared by HSRDC through some consultants but the quality of reports was not found satisfactory. As such it was decided that PMC NCRPB will prepare the SRPs and necessary data will be provided by IAs. Simultaneously the implementing agency HSRDC started land acquisition process. 2. The tranche 1 NCRUIFF also included three sub projects, Pataudi water supply, Nuh water supply and Sonepat drainage of PHED Haryana. These sub projects are also under category S2. The implementing agency Haryana PHED prepared SRP for Pataudi and Nuh water supply scheme but quality being unsatisfactory, NCRPB advised PMC to prepare SRPs of all three sub projects of Haryana PHED. PHED initiated land acquisition process on Pataudi and Nuh schemes. B. The Project - NCRUIFF 3. The National Capital Region Urban Infrastructure Financing Facility (NCRUIFF) is being funded by the Asian Development Bank. The impact of NCRUIFF is to improve overall quality of life and economic well-being of urban residents in India's NCR. The outcomes of NCRUIFF are improved economic growth support and public and environmental urban infrastructure services in the participating cities and/or sub regions of the NCR in accordance with the Regional Plan priorities. To this effect, NCRUIFF will support NCRPB in (i) leveraging its resources through a line of credit and other market access support services, and (ii) support a project development facility that would focus on design, implementation and delivery of quality growth oriented and public and environmental urban services and support capacity enhancements as well. 1 S2 category of NCRPB - ≤ 200 APs in Plain areas and ≤ 100 APs in tribal / hilly areas which is similar to ADB’s categorization of ‘IR category B’. 4 4. There are three broad outputs of this project: (i) NCRUIFF would support creation of high quality urban public and environmental infrastructure. This would include water supply, sanitation and waste management projects including possible regional initiatives. (ii) to foster economic growth and mobility, NCRUIFF will support creation of connectivity and/or up- gradation of transit infrastructure in the region. (iii) Implementation support for strengthening of NCRPB and participating implementation agencies' capacity to design and execute high quality urban infrastructure project, and other capacity development activities including enabling public-private partnerships. 5. The Facility is being provided to NCRPB in line with the provisions of the Multi tranche Financing Facility (MFF) modality of the ADB. Besides physical infrastructure, facility also supports NCRPB's institutional