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Environmental Monitoring Report First Annual Report (September 2017- August 2018) January 2019 IND: Rajasthan State Highways Investment Program Tranche-1 Prepared by PPP Division, Public Works Department, Government of Rajasthan for the Government of India and the Asian Development Bank. CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS th (As of 30 Sept., 2018) Currency unit - Indian Rupee (INR) INR 1.00 = $ 0.0137 $1.00 = INR 72.4716 ABBREVIATIONS ACE – Additional Chief Engineer ADB – Asian Development Bank AE – Assistant Engineer / Authority Engineer ASI – Archeological Survey of India CCF – Chief Conservator of Forests CGWA – Central Groundwater Authority CPCB – Central Pollution Control Board CTE – Consent to Establish CTO – Consent to Operate DEIAA – District Environmental Impact Assessment Authority DPR – Detailed Project Report EA – Executing Agency EARF – Environmental Assessment and Review Framework EFP – Environment Focal Person EMP – Environmental management plan EMOP – Environmental monitoring plan GOI – Government of India GOR – Government of Rajasthan GRC – Grievance redress committee GRM – Grievance redress mechanism IE – Independent Engineer IEE – Initial Environmental Examination IRC – Indian Road Congress MDR – Major District Road MFF – Multitranche Financing Facility MOEFCC – Ministry of Environment, and Forests and Climate Change MORTH – Ministry of Roads, Transport and Highway NOC – No Objection Certificate ODR – Ordinary District Road PD – Project Director PIU – Project Implementation Unit PMU – Project Management Unit PMC – Project Management Consultant PPP – Public-Private Partnership RO Regional Office ROW – Right of way RSHIP – Rajasthan State Highway Investment Program RSPCB – Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board SEIAA – State Environmental Impact Assessment Authority SH – state highway SOE – Safeguard Officer – Environment SPS – ADB Safeguard Policy Statement, 2009 VGF – Viability Gap Funding WLS – Wildlife Sanctuary This environmental 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. Your attention is directed to the “terms of use” section of this website. 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. CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 1 A. Background .......................................................................................................... 1 B. Project Categorisation .......................................................................................... 2 C. Annual Environmental Monitoring Report and its Scope ....................................... 2 D. Approach and Methodology for Monitoring EMP/EMOP Compliances .................. 3 E. Staffing and Mobilization of EMP Implementation Parties ..................................... 3 F. Status of Physical Progress .................................................................................. 5 II. STATUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SAFEGUARD COMPLIANCE .................................... 7 A. Compliance with EARF Requirements .................................................................. 7 B. Compliance with Loan Conditions ........................................................................ 9 C. Compliance with Statutory and Regulatory Conditions ........................................10 D. Compliance with EMP .........................................................................................13 E. Compliance with EMOP/Pollution Monitoring .......................................................18 III. CONSULTATIONS AND GRIEVANCE REDRESS ....................................................... 18 IV. NON-COMPLIANCES AND CORRECTIVE ACTIONS ................................................. 21 V. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................ 22 List of Tables Table 1: Details of Tranche 1 Roads under RSHIP .................................................................... 2 Table 2: Contact Details of Persons Responsible for EMP Implementation ................................ 4 Table 3: Physical Progress of Each Contract Packages up to July 2018 (Targeted vs Achieved)6 Table 4: Compliance with EARF Requirements .......................................................................... 7 Table 5: Compliance Status with Loan Conditions on Environment Safeguard .......................... 9 Table 6: Status of Statutory Clearances/Approvals/Permits, up to June 2018 ...........................11 Table 7: Details of Site Visits by PMC within Reporting Period ..................................................13 Table 8: Progress of Tree Cuttings and Plantation As of 30-06-2018 ........................................17 Table 9:Summary of Public Consultations .................................................................................19 Appendices Appendix 1: Map of Tranche Roads under RSHIP ....................................................................24 Appendix 2: Status of EMP Implementation ..............................................................................25 Appendix 3: Analysis of Environmental Pollution Monitoring Results .........................................39 1 I. INTRODUCTION A. Background 1. Rajasthan, with 10.41% of country’s total geographical area is the largest state of India occupying 3.42 lakh sq. km. area. Total population is 68.6 million forming 5.5% of the country’s total population. It ranks among top 4 states in attracting tourists from all across the globe. State’s economy is largely dependent on agriculture, dairy, minerals, and tourism, which all require strong road network. Rajasthan, being located between landlocked northern states and western port states, imposes additional burden on roads due to interstate movement of goods and passenger traffic. Long international boundary necessitates good quality road infrastructure in border areas. 2. As of 30th September 2015, Rajasthan has a road network of 210,800 km, including 8,016 km of national highways, 15,509 km of state highways, 6,416 km of MDRs, 29,013 km of other district roads, and 151,845 km of village/rural roads. Road density in Rajasthan is only about 63.61 km per 100 square km (sq.km), compared to the national average of 166.47 km. Road density per lakh population in Rajasthan is 307 km corresponding to national figure of 400km. Further, nearly 80% of the roads are single lane. Years of underinvestment due to paucity of financial resources and inadequate maintenance has left many of the state highways and MDRs in poor conditions both in terms of in terms of riding quality and network constraining national goal of inclusive growth. 3. Appreciating the importance of good road network in social, regional and economic cohesion, Government of Rajasthan (GOR), endeavors to improve approximately 20,000 km state highways and districts roads under Rajasthan State Highway Development Program (RSHDP). In this series, The GOR requested Asian Development Bank (ADB) to consider a multi-tranche financing facility (MFF) of $500 million to finance part of the RSHDP comprising approximately 2,000 km of state highways and major district roads. The MFF will provide financing support to the contracts of Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) through public private partnership (PPP) annuity and engineering procurement and construction (EPC) models under tranches to support the capacity development of RPWD on key areas such as business procedures for PPP project management and road safety of state highway system. The proposed models will require ADB financing to be used for 50% of total project costs to be paid during the construction period and the GOR will underpin the balance of 50% to be contributed by the private sector concessionaire. Such financing arrangements can maximize the impact of ADB’s resource. 4. The ADB Loan was provided through Multitranche Financing Facility (MFF) modality for US$ 500 million to be implemented in 2 tranches. The program is named as Rajasthan State Highways Investment Program (RSHIP). The GOI entered into a Framework Financing Agreement (FFA) with ADB on 16th March 2017. The first loan for Tranche 1 (Loan Number 3534- IND) amounting to US$ 220 million was approved by ADB Board on 30th May 2017. Subsequently a loan agreement was signed on 3rd July 2017 and this loan became effective on 6th November 2017.Tranche 1 comprises 16 roads totaling 979.686 km grouped in 4 contract packages (Pls see Appendix –I for Map of Tranche 1 roads). Three of them being implemented under BOT (Annuity) and one under EPC schemes. Table 1 summarizes details of each contract package. 2 Table 1: Details of Tranche 1 Roads under RSHIP Scheme Road Sections Length Project Concessionaire/ Independent/ Cost Contractor and Authority Engineer Award Date and Award Date Kanwas-Khanpur-Aklera 74.82 125 M/s B G (SH-74) Theme Engineering Pkg-I (Rajasthan) Deoli-Kanwas (SH-74A) 14.85 42 Services Pvt Ltd. (Annuity Highways Pvt Ltd. Alot - Gangdhar- 24.55 33 Mode) Suwansara (SH-19C) (01.08.2017) (05.08.2017) Kherli-Pahari SH-22 61.156 106 Pkg-II Barmer - Sindari - Jalore 148.08 320 TPF GETINSA (Annuity (SH-16) 9 M/s Dinesh EUROESTUDIOS