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External Social Safeguard Monitoring Fifth Progress Report Bangladesh External Social Safeguard Monitoring Fifth Progress Report Project No. 45203-006 Semestral Report July 2020 Bangladesh: Natural Gas Infrastructure and Efficiency Improvement Project (Component 2 – Chittagong-Bakhrabad Gas Transmission Pipeline) Prepared by Md. Abdus Samad for the Gas Transmission Company Limited, Government of Bangladesh and the Asian Development Bank. This external social safeguard monitoring fifth progress 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. 1 Construction of Chattogram-Feni-Bakhrabad Gas Transmission Parallel Pipeline Project ADB Loan No: 3461/3462 BAN AIIB Loan No: LN 000015-1-B4D Gas Transmission Company Limited (A Company of Petrobangla) Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh Ministry of Power, Energy & Mineral Resources Energy & Mineral Resources Division SEMI-ANNUAL SOCIAL MONITORING REPORT NO. 5 JANUARY- JUNE 2020 2 ABBREVIATIONS AB Acquiring Body AC Assistant Commissioner (Land) ADB Asian Development Bank AIIB Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ADC Additional Deputy Commissioner (Revenue) AH Affected Household AM Area Manager AP Affected Person BBS Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics BDT Bangladesh Taka BGFCL Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Limited CBE Commercial and Business Enterprises CCL Cash Compensation under Law CEO Chief Executive Officer CMP Current Market Price CPR Common Property Resources DAE Department of Agriculture Extension DC Deputy Commissioner DORP Development Organization of the Rural Poor DoF Department of Forest DoF Department of Fisheries EA Executing Agency EP Entitlement Person EME External Monitoring Expert ERD Economic Relations Division 3 FGD Focus Group Discussion GoB Government of Bangladesh GRC Grievance Redress Committee GRM Grievance Redress Mechanism GTCL Gas Transmission Company Limited Ha Hector HH Household ID Identity Card IR Involuntary Resettlement JVS Joint Verification Survey JVC Joint Verification Committee Km Kilometer LA Land Acquisition LAP Land Acquisition Plan LAR Land Acquisition and Resettlement LRP Livelihood Restoration Program LMS Land Market Survey M&E Monitoring and Evaluation NGO Non-Government Organization PAH Project Affected Households PAP Project Affected Person PAU Project Affected Unit PCU Project Coordination Unit PD Project Director PIU Project Implementation Unit PMU Project Management Unit 4 PVAC Property Valuation Advisory Committee PWD Public Works Department R&R Resettlement & Rehabilitation RP Resettlement Plan RB Requiring Body/Resettlement Benefit RC Resettlement Cost RG Resettlement Grant RoW Right of Way STG Structure Transfer Grant ToR Terms of Reference USD United States Dollar 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION 12 A. Description of the Project 12 B. Compliance to ADB Safeguard Policy on Involuntary Resettlement 13 C. Compliance to AIIB policy on the project implementation 14 D. Compliance to Bangladesh Government’s Legal and Policy Framework 14 E. Compliance to Loan Conditionalities 15 II. PROJECT PROGRESS STATUS AND IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE 15 A. Location of the Project 15 B. Scope of Works 17 C. Indicators of Verification 17 D. Work Plan of The Monitoring Report 18 E. Preparation of Resettlement Plan and Information Disclosure 21 F. Minimizing Land Acquisition Impacts 22 III. RESETTLEMENT PLAN IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENT 23 A. Project Implementation 23 B. Employer’s Staff and their Roles 23 C. RP Implementing INGO 23 D. Formation of JVC, PVAC AND GRC 24 IV. DETAIL STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RESETTLEMENT PLAN 24 A. Land Acquisition Status 24 B. Status of Cash Compensation Under Law (CCL) 26 C. Socio-Economic Survey to Identify the Number of Affected Person 29 D. Disclosure, Consultation and Participation 32 E. Grievance Redress Mechanism 33 F. Property Valuation Advisory Committee 35 G. Income and Livelihood Restoration Program (ILRP) 35 H. Conclusions and Recommendations 42 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Summary of the Project Impact 22 Table 2: The Status of Land Acquisition 24 Table 3: Status of Financial and Physical Progress of CCL Payment 26 Table 4: Payment Status of CCL, Additional Grant and RB 28 Table 5: Non-Titled Eps of Chattogram District 29 Table 6: Status of Compensation Payment to Vulnerable/CPR/Business 30 Table 7: Entitlement Matrix 31 Table 8: Number of Complaints Submitted Under Grievance Redress 34 Table 9: Livelihood Restoration Programs (LRP) 36 6 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Map of Location of the Project 16 Figure 2: Work Plan for Monitoring the Total Components Performed By INGO 18 Figure 3: The EME visited the affected families in Perul Mouza in Laksam Upazila of Cumilla district 37 Figure 4: The EME is taking statements from the affected Hhs of Shihrail Mouzaof in Laksam 38 Figure 5: The EME is taking oral statement from the affected persons of Mazlishpur Mouza of Laksam Upazila of Cumilla district those received CCL payment with additional grant. 38 Figure 6: EME is talking with the vulnerable affected persons of Shital pur Mouza of Sitakunda upazila under Chattogram district 39 Figure 7: Mr. Md. Abdus Samad, EME is taking oral statement from affected people of Jahanabad Mouza of Sitakonda Upazila of Chattogram district about the CCL and additional grant received by them. 39 Figure 8: Mr. Md. Abdus Samad talking with the vulnerable affected families of Shitalpur Mouza of Chattogram about their livelihood conditions who received resettlement benefits. 40 Figure 9: Mr. Md. Abdus Samad talking statement from the affected peoples of Shitalpur Mouza in an another place 40 Figure 10: The EME is taking statement about their livelihood restorations in Jahanabad Mouza of Sitakunda Upazila of Chattogram district 41 Figure 11: The EME is taking statement about the livelihood restorations after property acquisition by the project in Chattogram area 41 Figure 12: The EME is talking about the livelihood conditions of the affected persons who lost land and structures in this project in Chattogram district 42 7 GLOSSARY Affected persons (APs) includes any person, affected households (Ahs), firms, or private institution who, on account of changes that result from the Project will have their (i) standard of living adversely affected; (ii) right, title, or interest in any house, land (including residential, commercial, agriculture, forest, and/or grazing land), water resources, or any other moveable or fixed assets acquired, possessed, restricted, or otherwise adversely affected, in full or part, permanently or temporarily; (iii) business, occupation, place of work or residence, or habitat adversely affected, with or without displacement. Assistance means support, rehabilitation and restoration measures extended in cash and/or kind over and above the compensation for lost assets. Awardees refers to person with interests in land to be acquired by the Project after their ownership of said land has been confirmed by the office of the respective Deputy Commissioner as well as person with interests in other assets to be acquired by the Project. Compensation for acquired assets is provided to awardees through notification under Section 7 of Acquisition and Requisition of Immovable Property Ordinance, 1982 and under section 8 of Acquisition and Requisition of Immovable Property Act, 2017. Compensation includes payments in cash or kind for assets acquired by the Project at replacement cost or current market price. Cut-off date refers to the date after which eligibility for compensation or resettlement assistance will not be considered. Date of service of notice under section 3 of Acquisition and Requisition of Immovable Property Ordinance, 1982 or section 4(1) of Acquisition and Requisition of Immovable Property Act, 2017 is considered to be the cut-off date for recognition of legal compensation and the start date of carrying out the census/inventory of losses is considered as the cut-off date for eligibility of resettlement benefits. Displaced persons refers to those who are physically displaced (relocation, loss of residential land, or loss of shelter) and/or economically displaced (loss of land, assets, access to assets, income sources, or means of livelihoods) as a result of (i) involuntary acquisition of land, or (ii) involuntary restriction on land use or on access to legally designated parks and protected areas. Eminent domains refers to regulatory authority of the government to obtain land for public purpose/interest or use of as described in the 1982 Ordinance and Acquisition and Requisition of Immovable Property Act, 2017. Encroachers include those people who extend attached private land into public land or who extend their use of titled land into adjacent non-titled land before the cut-off date. Encroachers will not be eligible for claiming compensation for land assets for the affected area which is an extension to their existing titled land. Entitlements include the range of measures comprising cash or kind compensation, relocation cost, income restoration assistance, transfer assistance, income substitution, and business 8 restoration which are due to AHs, depending on the type and degree/nature of their losses, to restore their social and economic condition.
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