Government of Nepal National Reconstruction Authority Central Level Project Implementation Unit District Level Project Implementation Unit (Grant Management and Local Infrastructure) Dolakha

Environmental and Social Management Plan of Bhasme Budela Marbu taar drinking water Maintenance sub-project

Baiteshwor Rural Municapility-7

February, 2019

Silent Features (Additional Information) of the Sub Project

SN Particulars Description 1 Name of Project Bhasme Budela Marbutaar Drinking Water Maintenance Sub-Project 2 Type of Project Rehabilitation / Maintenance/ Reconstruction 3 Location Baiteshwor RM-7, Marbutaar 4 District Dolakha 5 No. of Beneficiary HHs with in 48 sub-project area 6 No. of Earthquake Beneficiary 48 7 Major Works Earthwork, stone masonry wall, Stone soling, PCC, RCC and Rehabilitation of RVT and Intake Tank, Distribution pipeline fitting, tap construction 8 Existing Structures with Capacity Damage of RVT, Intake and distribution pipeline 9 Total Estimated Cost (NRs.) 996,248.09 Project Contribution 895,000.00 User Contribution 101,248.09 Other Contribution 0 10 Rationality (a) Source Damage Intake, reserve tank and distribution (b) Increased Demand pipeline damaged which had increased the (c) New Scheme shortage of water and no earthquake (d) Extension (e) Others (………………) beneficiaries house could start the construction. 11 How does the Proposed Project Before Gorkha earthquake, the drinking Fulfill the Provision of EHRP- water system was working properly. After ESMF? the earthquake, intake, reserve tank and distribution pipelines have damaged and thus local people of Marbutaar got affected. It has halted reconstruction process for 15 household as they have difficulties to manage the water needed for drinking and reconstruction purpose 12 Is ESSR Approved? (if Yes applicable) 13 Is Separate ESMP Prepared? Yes

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14 Earthquake and Safeguard Perspective of the Proposal:  Previously working drinking water system was damaged in Post-Gorkha earthquake  Local people of Marbutaar have deficit of water supply for drinking & reconstruction  Due to deficit of water supply people are facing problem in regular supply of water especially in dry season.

15 Technical Data 1. Number of HHs to be 15 reconstructed during project selection 2. Vulnerable HHs (with 1 (Senior citizen above 70 years) Categories) 3. Source Name Bhasme 4. Source discharge (Dry 0.73 Liter/s Season) 5. Water Demand (m3/day) 2.4 (50 Liter per HH) 6. Reservoir capacity 14m3 7. Break Pressure Tank number 0 8. Length of pipe line 2050 m (transmission mains and distribution 9. Type of transmission mains HDPE and distribution pipe 10. Numbers of tap stand 0

(A) Endorsement: DL-PIU (GMaLI) Prepared By: Approved By: Designation: Designation: ………………….. …………………..

(B) Endorsement: CL-PIU (GMaLI) Reviewed By: Approved By: Designation: ………………….. …………………..

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Table of Contents Silent Features (Additional Information) of the Sub Project ...... ii 1. Introduction ...... 1 2. Objectives of ESMP ...... 3 3. Methodology ...... 3 4. Site Description ...... 3 5. Environmental and Social Issues ...... 4 6. Environmental and Social Mitigation Plan ...... 4 7. ESMP Cost ...... 4 ANNEXES ...... I Annex-I: Detail Cost-Estimate ...... II Annex-II: Design and drawing ...... III Annex-III: Google Map ...... IV Annex-IV: Photographs ...... V Annex-V: Beneficiaries List ...... VI Annex-VI: Meeting Minutes ...... VIII Annex-VII: Letter of DL-PIU ...... XII Annex-VII: Letter from Ward Office ...... XIII

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1. Introduction A magnitude 7.6 earthquake of shallow depth struck central Nepal with an epicenter approximately 77km north-west of Kathmandu on April 25th 2015 causing widespread destruction. On May 12, 2015 a large after shock of a magnitude 6.8 hit Nepal and caused further causalities and damage. As of 3 June 2015, the reported casualties include: 8,702 deaths and 22,493 people injured. As the earthquake sequence destroyed 490,000 houses mostly traditional mud brick and mud stone built and occupied by the rural poor and rendered another 265,000 houses at least temporarily uninhabitable, the largest single need identified in the Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) was housing and human settlements, accounting for US$ 3.27 billion of needs.

The Government of Nepal (GON) has requested support from a number of development partners, including the WB, to address the immediate and long-term damage inflicted by the earthquake in Nepal. In response to this, World Bank approved a US$200 million loan to finance the Earthquake Reconstruction Project (EHRP) approved on 18 June 2015 to support 55 thousand households of three severely affected districts namely: Dolakha, Dhading and Nuwakot. The project will support in restoring affected houses with multi hazard resistant core housing units in target areas and to enhance government’s ability to improve long-term disaster resilience. Initially, the EHRP is to be completed by July 2020.

Considering the further need to support GoN, International Development Association (the World Bank) has agreed to support additional US$300 million loan to finance the Earthquake Housing Reconstruction Project (EHRP). The recent additional loan support will cover another eleven severely affected districts including Gorkha covering 96000 households from Additional Financing and 3200 households from Multi Donor Fund.

Environment and Social Management Framework serves as a practical tool to ensure that environment and social aspects are duly considered in the planning and implementation process of earthquake housing reconstruction project. Accordingly, Revised ESMF, have guided to address the environmental and social issues of the projects by site-specific environmental and social management plan after selection of the sub-projects prioritized by orientation and consultation in the respective local government.

Dolakha district is located in province- 3 situated in the height from 762 m to 7132 m from mean sea level. The district lies in the latitude of 85 50' to 86 32' East and longitude of 27 28' to 28 00' North. The climatic condition of districts varies from tropical to alpine and tundra type. The average annual maximum temperature is 19° C and minimum temperature is 8° C. The average rainfall is 2043.5 ml (District Profile Dolakha, 2015). Dolakha is one the earthquake affected district. According to National Reconstruction Authority (NRA), the total number of houses damaged in district is 58,388 of which 56553 are fully damaged and 1835 partially damaged. is administratively divided into 7 Rural Municipality and 2 municipalities (former: 48 VDCs & 2 Municipalities). The total population residing in the district is about 186,557 in 45,688 households (HH) with an average HH size of 4.11 The female population (99554) in the

1 districts is higher than that of male population (87003). The sex ratio of the district is 85.47 (CBS, 2012)

Beneficiaries' data of Dolakha District: SN Beneficiaries Beneficiaries Ist tranche 2nd tranche 3rd tranche (Nos) with (Nos) (Nos) (Nos) Agreement (Nos) 1 72819 67337 63532 54130 46856 Source: MIS dated 2076/01/02 Baiteshowr Rural Municipality (BRM) ranges from the altitude of 860 to 3025 meter covers the former VDCs Gaurimudi, Kabhre, , Chetrapa. Administratively it is divided into 8 wards. Gopi Khola is the major river passes through Baiteshwor Rural Municipality.

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2. Objectives of ESMP This Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) is addresses the problem arise by shortage of water on hygiene, sanitation and other daily activities due to increase demand of water for reconstruction and decreased capacity of storage tank. Therefore the Main Objective of this ESMP is to maintain and rehabilitate the RVT, Intake, distribution pipeline of Water Supply System to support in reconstruction of remaining houses of EHRP beneficiaries.

3. Methodology  Consultation and discussion: Consultation and discussion program was held with Local Government (Chair of RM, deputy Chair, chief administrative officer, ward chair persons and secretary) and engineers from DLPIU and collected the environmental and social Issues.  Field visit: After the consultation walkover survey for verification of environmental and social Issues which were collected from local level consultation were carried out at project level. Environmental and Social screening checklist was used for relevancy with ESMF guideline.  Desk study: Documents such as district profile, Municipality profile, CBS publication and publication of line agencies at district level and other project related reports were reviewed. Google earth map was taken to get the overview of the project area.

4. Site Description

The sub-project is located at Marbutaar, Ward No. 7 of Baiteshwor Rural Municipality, Dolakha district. The geographical location of the site is 27o33’29.16”N and 85o04’12.60”E. According to Census 2011 the total household on Ward No. 7 of the Baiteshwor rural Municipality is 540 and total population is 2101 of which 978 are male and 1123 are female. The area is dominated by Brahmin, Chhetri, Janajati and Dalit ethnic communities and is mostly Hindu by religion. In Ward No.7 of Baiteshwor Rural Municipality (Previously Namdu VDC), the total housing reconstruction beneficiaries are 1049 in which out of total 48 Sub-project beneficiaries household, 15 houses were remained to be reconstructed due to lack of water supply. Previously for the construction of other than these remaining houses, people collected the water from half an hour walking distance downhill which created trouble in water supply for reconstruction. Discharge of the source at Bhasme is 0.73 liter/s in dry season. Rehabilitation and maintenance of the two intake Tanks, one RVT of 14m3 capacity, Main pipeline with total length of 1350m and 700m long distribution pipeline on Marbutaar will supply the ample amount of water for the reconstruction.

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5. Environmental and Social Issues Site verification carried out on 2075/11/08 by Environmental Specialist, Social Development specialist along with district engineer. Earthquake limited the capacity of storage tank at the same time water demand increased for the reconstruction of houses which adversely impacted the sanitation and hygiene and daily activities of the local people. It has halted reconstruction process as they have difficulties to manage the water needed for drinking and reconstruction purpose. After the completion of this sub-project water supply system will be smoothly run. Further, the program will help for the sustainable safe drinking water supply in the area which enhances the sanitation and hygiene along with reconstruction in the area. After the completion of reconstruction of those remaining 15 houses, water supply system will be managed by the user committee. For the maintenance of water supply system they will generate the maintenance fund from the amount collected within the beneficiaries.

6. Environmental and Social Mitigation Plan Reconstruction of water storage tank has been proposed to address the issues of water scarcity raised by Ward Chairperson during orientation and consultation program held on 2075/01/23 at Baiteshwor Rural Municipality. The existing water supply has directly benefited more than 48 Households through public taps.

Location Issues/ Likely Potential Time Responsibility Impact Significance of action Marbutaar Damage of Increase in water Chaitra, UG's/RM of RVT, Intake and demand for 2075 to ward/DLPIU- Baiteshwor distribution reconstruction Jestha, 2076 GMaLI RM Ward pipeline Adverse impact on No. 7 hygiene and sanitation due to lack of availability of water

7. ESMP Cost Major works under ESMP includes dismantling old tank, earthwork, stone masonry wall, Stone soling, PCC, RCC and water tank fitting, Distribution pipeline fitting. The total cost of sub-project is NRs. 9,96, 248.09 of which contribution from GMaLI will be NRs 8,95,000 and user committee will contribute NRs 1,01,248.09. The contribution from user committee accounts for 10.16% of the total cost. Per household capita cost of sub-project is NRs. 20,755.

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ANNEXES Annex-I: Detail Cost-Estimate

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Annex-II: Design and drawing

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Annex-III: Google Map

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Annex-IV: Photographs

Leaked Intake

Damaged RVT Area

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Annex-V: Beneficiaries List S.N Name Address Ward No. Settlement Remarks 1 Nandalal Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 2 Hari Pd Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 3 Chandra Pd Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 4 Bishnu pd Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 5 Tika Pd Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 6 Jaya pd Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 7 Tulasi Pd Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 8 Lila Pd Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 9 Puskar kumar Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 10 Mohan Pd Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 11 Krishna Pd Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 12 Khina Devi Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 13 Ram Pd Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 14 Chudaraj Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 15 Ashok kumar Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 16 Rabi Chandra Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 17 Jiwan Kumar Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 18 Jibanath Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 19 Arun Chandra Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 20 Khadga Pd Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 21 Jayaram Dhungel Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Brahmin 22 Durga Bdr Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 23 Mohan Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 24 Raju Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 25 Rabin Kumar Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 26 Hari Bdr Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 27 Jagat Bdr Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 28 Harka Bdr Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 29 Ram Bdr Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 30 Hari Bdr Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 31 Nir Bdr Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 32 Talak Bdr Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 33 Badri Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 34 Bharat Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 35 Sabitri Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 36 Aashish Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 37 Dhana Laxmi Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 38 Bir Bdr Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 39 Bhim Bdr Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri

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40 Samsher Bdr Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 41 Kul Bdr Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 42 Durga Bdr Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 43 Binod Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 44 Kedar Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 45 Arjun Bdr Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 46 Jaya Bdr Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 47 Amber Bdr Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri 48 DipaK kumar Khadka Baitashor Rural Muncipality 7 Marbutaar Chhetri

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Annex-VI: Meeting Minutes

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Annex-VII: Letter of DL-PIU

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Annex-VII: Letter from Ward Office

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