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Public Disclosure Authorized Resettlement Action Plan Rehabilitation and Upgrading Road Sections from Ambepussa (00km) - Dambulla (90+500km) - A006 Kanthale (157km) - Trincomalee (200km) - A006 Public Disclosure Authorized World Bank Funded Road Sector Assistance Project (II) Sri Lanka Public Disclosure Authorized Ministry of Highways and Road Development The Government of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka January, 2011 The Resettlement Plan is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the Bank’s Board of Directors, Management or staff and may be preliminary in nature. Public Disclosure Authorized Resettlement Action Plan for Road Sector Assistance Project II, August, 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary 1. The Project. The Road Sector Assistance Project II (RSAP II) aims at improving two road sections of A006 highway. The total length of these road sections is 133km. The road sections run through four provinces of the country. (Sri Lanka is administratively divided into 9 provinces). A detailed social assessment was carried out for these road sections selected for rehabilitation. An Entitlement Matrix was also prepared to define categories of PAPs and types of mitigation measures. The Resettlement Plan is prepared in compliance with the Government‟s National Policy on Involuntary Resettlement and World Bank‟s Policies in particular on Operational Policy (OP): 4.12. 1.2 Proposed Road sections of the project The project will improve and rehabilitate the following two road sections of the A006 highway. Table 1 - Road sections to be rehabilitated under the project Road Road Name Length Beneficiary Provinces (kms) A006 Ambepussa – Dambulla Sabaragamuwa, North Western, Road sections Central. (00km – 90km) 90 A006 Kanthale-Trincomalee Eastern Road Sections (157km-200km) 43 (Source- Social survey for RAP 2010) Ambepussa – Dambulla road section of A006 highway will be packaged in to four sections and Kanthale-Trincomalee road section will be packaged in to two sections as follows; Package 1 – from Ambepussa (0.0km) to Pothuhera (23km) Package 2 – from Pothuhera (23km) to Ibbagamuwa (47km) Package 3 – from Ibbagamuwa (47km) to Galewela (69km) Package 4 – from Galewela (69km) to Dambulla (90km) Package 5 – from Kanthale (157km) to Thambalegamuwa(178km) Package 6 – from Thambalegamuwa(178km) to Trincomalee(200km) 2 Resettlement Action Plan for Road Sector Assistance Project II, August, 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Scope of Land Acquisition and Resettlement. It has found that small portions (2550m2) of lands (for 19m corridor) are required to purchase or acquire for this road construction at some places. Under this category Sixty eight (68) households will be losing their lands and total population of these households is 188. As per designs; Total land requirement : 1885m2 Government owned lands : 1075m2 Privately owned lands : 810m2 Number of affected households : 06 Number of persons of affected households: 22 The lands will be purchased on willing buyer-willing seller basis. It will be at the replacement value at current market prices. The seller will have the option to refuse it. If any acquisition is carried out it will follow normal acquisition procedure without following the section 38A Proviso, which is the emergency procedure of the LAA. The RDA will follow a transparent process to purchase or acquire required lands for the project as follows; The lands will be taken on willing buyer-willing seller basis. The RDA ensures that land is appropriate for the intended purpose. It will be at the replacement value at current market prices of the area. The seller will have the option to refuse it. It will be at replacement value at current market prices. It does not negatively impact on the livelihood of any vulnerable group, and if so, the community developed mitigation measures are acceptable to the affectee. There are no encumbrances on the lands. The lands should not belong to any person who is below the poverty line. The entire project (for 19m corridor) creates impacts on 1099 PAPs. and they belong to 407 families. The details about PAPs and the properties are summarized in Table 2. As per designs; The details about PAPs and the properties are provided in Table 3. Number of affected households: 174 Number of persons of affected households: 578 3 Resettlement Action Plan for Road Sector Assistance Project II, August, 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table 2 - Persons and properties of the affected families (for 19m corridor) Type of Impact Ambepussa-Dambulla road Kanthale-Trincomalee Total number section road section of affected persons Number of Affected Number of Affected (a + b) Properties Persons Properties Persons (a) (b) Front walls of houses & 16 47 24 53 100 buildings Cement floors / cement steps 130 268 12 45 313 of business places Cement steps of public places 09 0 3 0 0 Permanent fences (Iron poles 11 26 8 15 41 with concrete columns) Gates 19 43 55 75 118 Parapet walls 12 32 64 86 118 Front walls / roof extension of 39 87 19 59 146 business places Permanent sales huts 12 39 6 36 75 Lands 58 130 19 58 188 plots plots Total 306 672 210 427 1099 (Source- Social survey for RAP 2010) Table 3 - Persons and properties of the affected families (as per designs) Type of Impact Ambepussa-Dambulla Kanthale-Trincomalee Total road section road section number of (details may change once (as per finalized designs) affected the designs are finalized) persons (a + b) Number of Affected Number of Affected Properties Persons Properties Persons (a) (b) Front walls of houses & 0 0 18 22 22 buildings Cement floors / cement steps 44 115 2 12 127 of business places Cement steps of public 0 0 0 0 0 places Permanent fences (Iron poles 7 28 1 0 28 with concrete columns) Government Gates 10 32 54 70 102 Parapet walls 11 28 64 86 114 Front walls/ roof extensions 20 56 18 45 101 of business places Permanent sales huts 09 21 6 36 57 Lands 11 (plots) 22 3 (plots) Government 22 05 plots- Govt. lands 06 plots - Private Total 112 307 166 271 578 (Source- Social survey for RAP 2010) 4 Resettlement Action Plan for Road Sector Assistance Project II, August, 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Socio-Economic Profile and Vulnerability of PAPs The PAPs belong to 407 households. About 7% of the households affected are reported as women headed households. The rest, 93% of households are male headed units. Only about 1.5% of the affected PAPs have obtained higher education. Majority (25%) have studied up to grade 6 and 10. About 10% of the PAPs have no formal education while 19% is reported as primary level education (Grade 1 to 5). Nearly 74% of PAPs are Sinhala. The 2nd largest ethnic group affected is Muslim (16%) and nearly 10% of PAPs are Tamils. Only 9% of the families are reported as families getting some small assistance from the government. Nearly 35% of the PAPs are involved in moderate and small business activities. 4. Policy Framework and Entitlements The policy framework and entitlements in this project have been built upon the requirements of the Government of Sri Lanka, principally the Land Acquisition Act (1950 and revised in 1979) and the National Involuntary Resettlement Policy (2001) and also World Bank‟s Policy on Involuntary Resettlement (O.P. 4. 12). Provisions and principles adopted in this RAP and are required to meet the standards established in the National Involuntary Resettlement Policy and World Bank‟s policy. The Project entitlements have been designed to provide compensation, resettlement and rehabilitation for lost assets and restore or enhance the livelihoods of all categories of affected people. Detailed project entitlement matrix is discussed in chapter 5. 5. Implementation Arrangements and Budget The Project Director and the relevant staff of the PMU with the assistance from the RDA will be responsible to implement the project. Most of the issues related to resettlement have been identified and mitigation provided in the RP. The implementation arrangements for implementing the RP and the resettlement budget are provided in chapters 6 and 7. The roles and responsibilities of the different personnel are also identified in the RP. 6. Participation and Grievance Redress Mechanism The RP suggests establishing a grievance redressal mechanism for redressal and mitigation of the negative impacts. The public will be adequately informed about the grievances redressal mechanism and the RDA will continue informing the new development of the project to the public through the identified communication and public awareness mechanism. Details are provided in chapter 6. The Grievances Redress mechanism is a multi faceted one and aims to respond to the requirements of the project over its life cycle. 5 Resettlement Action Plan for Road Sector Assistance Project II, August, 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For minor matters the GN and the social staff of the project will be responsible to respond to them.