IND: Climate Adaptation in Vennar Subbasin in Cauvery Delta Project
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Resettlement Monitoring Report #10 Quarterly Progress Report For the period October to December 2018 Project Number: 44429-013 February 2019 IND: Climate Adaptation in Vennar Subbasin in Cauvery Delta Project Prepared by the Water Resources Department, Public Works Department, Government of Tamil Nadu for the Government of India and the Asian Development Bank. This resettlement 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. Loan 3394-IND: Climate Adaptation in Vennar Sub basin in Cauvery Delta Project Implementation of Resettlement Plan Quarterly Progress Report October - December 2018 PMU Trichy Water Resources Organization PWD, Government of Tamil Nadu-India Abbreviations ADB Asian Development Bank AEE Assistant Executive Engineer AP Affected Person AH Affected Household CoI Corridor of Impact (toe-to-toe of construction area) DP Displaced Persons DRO District Revenue Officer EE Executive Engineer GoTN Government of Tamil Nadu Ha Hectares NGO Non Governmental Organisation PAFs Project Affected Families PAP Project Affected Person PIU Project Implementation PMS Project Management Specialist PMU Project Management Unit PSC Project Steering Committee PWD Public Works Department RDO Revenue Divisional Officer RoW Right of Way RP Resettlement Plan SDS Social Development Specialist SPS Safeguard Policy Statement Sq.ft Square Feet Sq.mt Square meter VAO Village Administrative Officer WRD Water Resources Department Progress Report on Implementation of Resettlement Plan Resettlement Plan implementation progress for the months October and December 2018 is given in detail in this report 1. The revised number of 2010 affected households comprise of 1517 affected households who had opted for house and 493 affected households who had opted for cash in lieu of house and those who are entitled for cash, such as those losing their shop and cattle shed. The river wise summary of affected households categorised by their resettlement preference based on May-June 2018 field assessment is given in Table 1. Table 1 Summary of Affected Households and their Resettlement Preference Based on Field Assessment in May-June 2018(as on 30 June 2018) AHs who have opted for No of AHs after Cash alternate House in River May-June 2018 Re- Option Resettlement Site (as on June assessment 2018) Pandavaiyar 382 66 316 Vellaiyar 608 74 534 Harichandranathi 724 296 428 Adappar 295 57 238 Valavanar 1 0 1 Total 2010 493 1517 Source: Baseline Survey, October-November 2015, Joint Verification January-April 2017 and Field Assessment, May-June 2018 Affected Households Categorised for Proposed Phased Resettlement 2. Subsequently, an assessment of the affected households with the help of contractors to ascertain the number of households located within the Corridor of Impact (CoI) and beyond CoI and within the Right of Way (RoW). The NGO with the contractor and SDS conducted this assessment between May and June 2018. The number of households within the CoI were 1319 (65.6%) and those beyond CoI and within RoWwere 691(34.4%).The contractors were requested to incorporate this data in the embankment construction drawings. The summary of affected households categorised as within and outside CoI based on the data collected and finalized during joint verification is given in Table 2. Table 2.Summary of Affected Households Categorised asWithin CoI and Outside CoI PAFs beyond COI and PAFs Within COI Total River within RoW Cash House Total Cash House Total Cash House Total Pandavaiyar 40 223 263 26 93 119 66 316 382 Vellaiyar 36 282 318 38 252 290 74 534 608 Harichandranathi 223 258 481 73 170 243 296 428 724 Adappar 51 205 256 6 33 39 57 238 295 Valavanar 0 01 01 0 0 0 0 1 1 Total 1319 691 350 969 143 548 493 1517 2010 (65.60%) (34.40%) Source: Field Assessment, May-June 2018 Results of consultation with PAFs opted for house for phased approach in implementation of 3 RP 3. Interview schedule was prepared to collect data from PAFs regarding various options and choices for the phased approach by consulting only the PAFs opted for houses to expedite the implementation of RP. The schedule was prepared by the Social Development Specialist and HEAVEN NGO. The same was wetted with Er. Mohammed Salim Babu, EE. PMU and Mr.Chandrasekar, Social Safeguard Specialist, ADB and was used to collect data and information from the PAFs. 4. Using Interview schedule the decisions among PAFs opted for house for capturing their resettlement options in all rivers was carried out between July and November 2018. All the NGO staff were involved in collecting data among PAFs opted for house. Of 1517 PAFs, data were collected from 1448 affected families who were presented. Since many PAFs were absent during data collection, multiple visits were made. 5. Data were collected entered, compiled and analysed. Out of 1517 PAFs, majority of 1072 PAF have reaffirmed the option towards houses and 376 PAFs have changed their options to cash. Attempts are being made to contact and collect data from remaining, 69 PAFs. For the deceased households, their legal heirs are being contacted to collect data and if the heir were able to produce legal document, proof of residence or in the baseline survey family data and residing in the same asset, they could be treated as the PAFs subject to that the family does not have any house own by them. 6. Of 1072 affected families opted for house, 700 were located within CoI and 372 were residing beyond CoI. Among total 376 APs opted for cash, 230 were located within CoI and 146 were beyond CoI and within RoW. Hence, the overall preference for opting house has reduced to 1072 from 1517 opted for house before Table 3&4. Table 3. Summary of PAFs opted for house and cash after consultation SI.No River Options of PAFs during After Resurvey Not Total No. of Joint verification (out of 1517) decided / houses Absent/ considering Cash House Total Cash House Total Expired undecided as (3+4) (6+7) houses (7+9) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 Pandavaiyar 66 316 382 87 217 304 12 229 2 Vellaiyar 74 534 608 147 366 513 21 387 3 Harichandranadhi 296 428 724 93 310 403 25 335 4 Adappar 57 238 295 49 178 227 11 189 5 Valavanar 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 Total 493 1517 2010 376 1072 1448 69 1141 Source: Reassessment Survey results - NGO and SDS 4 Table 4.Resettlement options by the PAFs located within and beyond CoI after resurvey as on December 2018 River PAPs Within COI PAPs beyond COI Total Grand Cash House Total Cash House Total Cash House Total Pandavaiyar 57 166 223 30 63 93 87 229 316 Vellaiyar 75 207 282 72 180 252 147 387 534 Harichandranadhi 54 204 258 39 131 170 93 335 428 Adappar 44 161 205 5 28 33 49 189 238 Valavanar 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 Total 230 739 969 146 402 548 376 1141 1517 7. PAFs located within and beyond CoI was also worked out in the sites allotted for giving priority to resettle the PAFs residing within CoI. The same data have been shared to the Engineering Specialist, CAVSCDP and Contractors and aligned construction activities have been prepared. 8. Further, the number of PAFs have been reduced in the beyond CoI, as the assets are situated just abutting and beyond RoW stone, which were included earlier assuming that those would be affected if the bunds of canal raised. Currently, 20 DPs were identified and confirmed that they would not be affected by the project activities and were excluded from the list of PAFs. The numbers from each river is given in the following Table 5. Hence, the number of PAFs opted for houses has been reduced to 1121 from 1141. 9. Hence, keeping the view of filling the houses and delay in identification of land for 56 PAFs of Kilvelur Taluk, in Nagapattinam District, consultations were made to accommodate those PAFs in the surplus units available in Kadanthethi, VadakkuPanaiyur or Thirukuvalai resettlement sites where 58 houses unfilled units are available. Of 56 PAFs, 26 have opted for houses and 30 opted for cash. Further, consultations were conducted among the PAF opted for cash previously to accommodate in the unfilled units at Kadanthethi, Thirukuvalai and VadakkuPanaiyur in Nagapattinam District, for which 19 PAFs have chosen for houses instead of cash. In total, 48 PAFs will be accommodated in 58 unfilled houses in Nagapattinam District and remaining 7 units will be filled in the following consultationsTable 5. Table 5. Details on Total Number of PAFs opted for Houses and Cash after further consultations River Houses No. of Total No. No. of PAFs No. of PAFs Total opted by houses of Houses opted for opted for (5+6) the PAFs excluded after house after Cash after after abutting excluding consultations* consultations* Resurvey RoW Houses 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pandavaiyar 229 6 223 199 111 310 Vellaiyar 387 9 378 377 147 524 Harichandranadhi 335 5 330 338 86 424 Adappar 189 0 189 195 43 238 Valavanar 1 0 1 1 1 Total 1141 20 1121 1110 387 1497 *Consultations carried out in the first and second week of January 2019 Status of progress in Land availability for Resettlement 5 10.