Resettlement Plan Project Number: 45224-003 February 2018 IND: Rajasthan Renewable Energy Transmission Investment Program - Tranche 1 Subproject: Revised Route for 400 kV D/C LILO Bhadla from 400 kV Jodhpur Merta Transmission Submitted by Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited, Jaipur This resettlement plan has been submitted to ADB by the Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited, Jaipur and is made publicly available in accordance with ADB’s Public Communications Policy (2011). It does not necessarily reflect the views of ADB. This is an updated version of the plan originally posted in June 2012 available on https://www.adb.org/projects/documents/mff-rajasthan-renewable-energy-transmission- program-facility-concept-draft This resettlement plan is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. 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. Updated Resettlement Plan (Tranche-1) Document Stage: Updated Loan Number: 3052 (IND) Project Number: 45224 (IND) 2ndFebruary2018 India: Rajasthan Renewable Energy Transmission Investment Program-Project-1-Traanche-1 Prepared by: Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited (RRVPNL) Government of Rajasthan The Updated Resettlement Plan is a document of the borrower. The views expressed here may be preliminary in nature and may not necessarily represent those of ADB’s Board of Directors, Management, or Staff. Page 1 CONTENTS SECTION PARTICULARS PAGE LIST OF ACRONYMS 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5-9 1 INTRODUCTION AND PROJECT DESCRIPTION 10-21 1.1 Background 10 1.2 Scope and Rationale of the Updated Resettlement Plan 12 1.3 Subproject Descriptions 12 1.4 Location Details of the Transmission Lines 19 1.5 Approach and Methodology 20 2 SCOPE OF LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT 22-28 2.1 General 22 2.2 Impact due to Grid Sub Stations 22 2.3 Transmission Lines and Impacts 23 2.3.1 Physical Features and Impact on Crop Land 23 2.3.2 Type of Land 23 2.3.3 Use of Land 24 2.3.4 Impact on Loss of Trees 24 2.3.5 Intensity of Temporary Impacts (Severity) 25 2.3.6. Vulnerability 25 2.3.7 Major Occupation Pattern of Head of the Household 26 2.3.8 Affected Households and Affected Persons 26 2.3.9 Occupation Pattern of Affected Persons 26 2.3.10 Education Level of the Affected Persons 27 2.3.11 Summary Impacts 27 3 SOCIO-ECONOMIC INFORMATION AND PROFILE 29-32 3.1 General 29 3.2 Demography and Literacy 29 3.3 Occupation Pattern, Possession of Durable Goods and Livestock 29 3.4 Income and Expenditure Pattern 30 3.5 Basic Household Infrastructure and Services 30 3.6 Health Status 30 3.7 Status on Women 31 3.8 Indigenous Peoples 32 4 INFORMATION DISCLOSURE, CONSULTATION, AND 33-36 PARTICIPATION 4.1 Consultations during the Initial Stage and PPTA 33 4.2 Consultations during Updating of Resettlement Plan 35 4.3 Continued Consultations 35 4.4 Disclosure 36 5 GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISMS 37-38 5.1 Need of the GRM and its Formation 37 5.2 Process of GRM 37 6 POLICY AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK 39-44 6.1 Overview 39 6.2 ADB's Safeguard Policy Statement, 2009 (SPS) 39 6.3 Statutory Requirements 41 6.4 Core Principles 42 6.5 Cut-off- Date 44 6.6 Valuation of Crop Loss 44 Page 2 SECTION PARTICULARS PAGE 7 ENTITLEMENTS, ASSISTANCE AND BENEFITS 45-46 8 RELOCATION AND INCOME RESTORATION 47-47 9 RESETTLEMENT BUDGET AND FINANCING PLAN 48-48 10 INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 49-50 11 IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE 51-51 12 MONITORING AND REPORTING 52-52 LIST OF TABLES Table 1.1 Investment Sub Projects Funded under RRETIP (Tranche-1) 10 Table 1.2 Details of Subprojects 13 Table 1.3 Details on the Transmission Lines 19 Table 2.1 Impact on Land Acquisition due to Substation 22 Table 2.2 Impact on Crop Land (Private Agricultural) 23 Table 2.3 Type of Affected Land 24 Table 2.4 Use of Land by Households 24 Table 2.5 Loss of Trees 25 Table 2.6 Intensity of Impacts 25 Table 2.7 Vulnerable Households 25 Table 2.8 Major Occupation Structure 26 Table 2.9 Affected Households and Persons 26 Table 2.10 Occupation Pattern of APs 27 Table 2.11 Education Level of the APs 27 Table 2.12 Summary Impacts 28 Table 4.1 Summary of Consultations 33 Table 7.1 Entitlement Matrix 45 Table 9.1 Resettlement Cost 48 Table 10.1 Institutional Roles and Responsibilities for Resettlement activities 49 Table 11.1 Implementation Schedule 51 LIST OF FIGURES Figure.1 Location of Bhadla Solar Park and ADB’s funded tranche 1 14 transmission sub-projects Figure2 Power Map of Rajasthan 15 Figure 3 Location map of transmission lines under tranche 1 16 Figure 4 (4A Rerouting Alignment 17-18 and 4 B) Figure 5 Grievance Redress Mechanism 38 Figure 6 PMU structure of RRVPNL 50 LIST OF ANNEXURES Annexure 1 Physical Details of Transmission Lines 53 Annexure 2 Census and Socio Economic Survey Questionnaire 74 Annexure 3 Findings of Inventory and Census Survey 78 Annexure-4 Socio Economic Profile of the Project Area 115 Annexure 5 List of Participants in Consultations 156 Annexure-6 Sample Form and Valuation Method of Crop Compensation 168 Annexure 7 Monitoring and Reporting Format 178 Page 3 List of Acronyms ADB Asian Development Bank APs Affected Persons AH Affected Household BPL Below Poverty Line DC District Collector DEA Department of Economic Affairs DP Displaced Persons EA Executing Agency ESC Environment and Social Cell ESO Environment and Social Officer FGD Focus Group Discussions GOI Government of India GoR Government of Rajasthan GRC Grievance Redress Committee GRM Grievance Redress Mechanism Ha Hectare HH Household IA Implementing Agency LA Land Acquisition Km Kilometer kV Kilo Volt MFF Multi-Tranche Financing Facility NGO Non-Government Organization PHH Physically Handicaped Household PIU Project Implementation Unit PMU Project Management Unit RF Resettlement Framework RFCTLARR Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act RP Resettlement Plan RREC Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation RRETIP Rajasthan Renewable Energy Transmission Investment Program RRVPNL Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited SIA Social Impact Assessment SPS Safeguard Policy Statement, 2009 ST Scheduled Tribe STH Scheduled Tribe Household STU State Transmission Utility WHH Women Headed Household Page 4 Executive Summary i. Asian Development Bank (ADB) has extended a multi-tranche financing facility (MFF) to the Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited (RRVPNL), which is the state transmission utility (STU), of Government of Rajasthan (GoR) under the Rajasthan Renewable Energy Transmission Investment Program (RRETIP). This is an updated Resettlement Plan (RP). The resettlement impact is insignificant and the Project has been Categorized as “B”1for Involuntary Resettlement (IR) and “C” for Indigenous Peoples as per the ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement, 2009 (SPS). The RRETIP’s Tranche 1 was assessed for technical aspects as well as for social safeguards impacts in 2012. Accordingly, the Resettlement Framework (RF) for the entire RRETIP (including future tranches) and the Resettlement Plan (RP) for tranche 1 were approved in 2012 for implementation between RRVPNL and ADB. The RP prepared during the loan processing under the project preparatory technical assistance (PPTA) was draft because the actual impacts on loss of crops, trees and number of affected households (AH) and affected persons (APs) were not known for the transmission lines. This is was due to the preliminary design of the line route where impacts were assessed based on the preliminary line route design. It has also been noted that the scope of the project especially the line length and route of the transmisison line in one of the subprojects (Bhadla to Jodhpur-Merta 400 kV line) was also changed and increased (from 160 km to 199.221 km) and further there was rerouting of 2.93 kilometers line (Additional 25 towers) which became a total of 202.279 kilometers of line for ICB-6. Therefore, as a mandatory requirement as per the SPS 2009, the draft RP needs to be updated based on the detailed and final engineering design. This report is an Updated Resettlement Plan for the Tranche-1 component. The updated RP also includes the assessment on additional 25 towers having an additional 2.93 kilometers of line for the rerouting due to the Khichan Bird sanctuary2. The updated RP has been prepared based on the final engineering route alignment and inventory of losses and carrying out census survey of the affected households3.The updated RP cosnists of both the old scope and the new scope under the rerouting. ii. The first project under the Program (Tranche 1 project) included physical and non physical investments. Physical investments included the construction of the transmission system, including two grid substations (400/220/132kV) and associated facilities at Bhadla and Ramgarh; two substations (220/132 kV) and associated facilities at Bap and Kanasar; 1 Resettlement is insignificant when less than 200 people experience major “impacts” defined as involving AP being physically displaced from housing and/or having 10% or more of their productive, income generating assets lost. Resettlement having insignificant impact is categorized as B which requires a - resettlement plan. 2A writ petition no 14676/2016 was filed in 2016 and heard by High Court on 10 April 2017 and 12 July 2017.