Resettlement Planning Document

Resettlement Plan for –Barhet Section Document Stage: Draft Project Number: 40005 May 2009

India: State Roads Project

Prepared by Road Construction Department, Government of Jharkhand.

The resettlement plan 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.

ADB State Road Project in Jharkhand

Resettlement plan

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Abbreviations 5

Executive Summary 6

Chapter 1 : The Project Background 6

1.1. Project Description 6

1.2. Project Benefits and impacts 11

1.3. Measures to minimize impacts 12

1.4. Objectives of the Resettlement Plan 13

Chapter 2 : Project State and Subproject District 14

2.1. Project State 14

2.2. Subproject Districts 15

Chapter 3 : Findings of the Resettlement Census Survey 17

3.1. Objectives of the Resettlement Census Survey 17

3.2. Methodology 17

3.3. Findings of the Resettlement Census survey 17

3.4. Gender impacts of the subproject 22

3.5. Scope of the Land & Assets Acquisition 25

3.6. Impact on Agricultural land 26

3.7. Impact on Residential Assets 28

3.8. Impact on Commercial Assets 30

3.9. Impact on Residential cum Commercial Assets 33

3.10. Other Losses 35

3.11. Loss of Trees 36

3.12. Awareness & Perceptions of the affected households on the 37 subproject

3.13. Impact of the Project on Government property & other institutions 37

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Chapter 4 : Impact on Indigenous Peoples in the Project Area 40

4.1. Schedules Tribes (ST) in Jharkhand 40

4.2. Key impacts of the Project on ST Households 40

4.3. Involuntary Resettlement Impacts on Scheduled Tribes 44

4.4. Mitigation measures for ST Households 47

Chapter 5 : Resettlement Policy Framework & Entitlement Matrix 49

5.1. Introduction 49

5.2. Policy Framework – Review of Resettlement Policies, Legal 49 Framework & ADB Requirements

5.3. ADB Policy on Involuntary Resettlement 50

5.4. Similarities & Differences between NPRR & ADB Policy 51

5.5. Resettlement Policy & Principles for the subproject 54

5.6. Entitlement Matrix 55

5.7. Cut-off Date 60

5.8. Valuation of affected assets 60

5.9. Disposal of Acquired Property 62

Chapter 6: Consultations & Stakeholder Participation 62

6.1. Introduction 62

6.2. Methods of community consultation 62

6.3. Consultation – Scope & Issues 63

6.4. Feedback from Consultations 63

6.5. Disclosure of the Resettlement Plan 67

6.6. Plan for further Consultations and Community Participation during 68 Project Implementation

Chapter 7: Institutional Framework 69

7.1. Introduction 69

7.2. Executing Agency 69

7.3. Roles & Responsibilities 69

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7.4. RP Implementation Schedule 73

Chapter 8: Cost Estimates & Budget 77

Chapter 9 : Monitoring & Evaluation 82

9.1 Need for monitoring 82

9.2 Monitoring at EA level 82

9.3 Stages of Monitoring 83

9.4. Reporting Requirements 85

LIST OF ANNEXES

Annexure I : Resettlement Survey Questionnaires

Annexure II: List of Project Affected Persons and Assets

Annexure III: Terms of reference for the NGO/ R&R Implementation agency

Annexure III: Terms of Reference for an External Monitoring & Evaluation Agency/Consultant

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

ADB Asian Development Bank

BSR Building Schedule Rates

BPL Below Poverty Line

EA Executing Agency

FGD Focus Group Discussions

GOI Government of

GRC Grievance Redressal Cell

HH Household

IPSA Initial Poverty & Social Assessment

IP Indigenous Peoples

JH Jharkhand

Kms Kilometers

LA Land Acquisition

NGO Non-Government Organizations

NPRR National Policy on Resettlement & Rehabilitation

PPTA Project Preparatory Technical Assistance

PRA Participatory Rural Appraisal

RP Resettlement Plan

RO Resettlement Officer

R&R Resettlement & Rehabilitation

SC Schedule Caste

Sq.mts Square Meters

ST Schedule Tribe

TORs Terms of Reference

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1. The Project

The Jharkhand (JH) State Highway Project entails the upgradation and improvement of the existing State roads of Jharkhand with ADB assistance under the ADB’s Country Operations Business Plan (2007-2009). The project will rehabilitate the deteriorated and damaged state road corridors to provide reliable road transport service sand hence reduce poverty in the long term. The Executing Agency (EA) for this project will be the Jharkhand State Road Construction Department (JHRCD) which is responsible for about 6800 kms roads consisting of NH’s, SH’s and District roads.

In accordance with ADB’s procedure for Project lending, a project road has been selected in the state of JH for project preparation and processing. This subproject comprises of the upgradation of the State highway section of Gobindpur – – Dumka – Barhet – comprising of a total length of 310.7 kms, traversing through a total of six districts in the state. This existing road will be converted into a 2 lane State Highway under the Project.

2. Project Benefits and Impacts

The Project will augment connectivity between the six districts (Dhanbad, Jamtara, Dumka, , and Sahibganj) and will lead to the easy accessibility of the local people to essential socio-economic services such as health care, education, administrative services and trade centres enhancing the general quality of life. One of the key problems faced by the local people presently is the lack of means of transport, as very few public transport ply on these roads due to the poor road condition. The limited transport vehicles that do ply charge nearly double fare particularly making accessing socio-economic services difficult for the poor communities in the area. The Project, by improving road condition, is anticipated to improve access and transport options manifold thereby benefiting the locals particularly the poor.

The Package III from Dumka to Barhet is the longest package of the total project corridor, the corridor takes off from Dumka Bypass (near Santhal Paragna College) passes through Kathikund – Gopikandar - – Litipara – and reaches Barhet. The sub project corridor in this package passes through sensitive areas such as tribal village like Kadma, Sonajori etc, where availability of ROW is narrow.

As part of the Project, the existing road in Package III would be improved and widened to standard two lane entailing a total widening of 30 to 45 meters1. Taking into account the widening involved, despite the anticipated social economic benefits, the Project will necessitate land acquisition hence entailing involuntary resettlement. In order to assess the Project level resettlement impacts, a detailed census survey was undertaken packagewise from January 2008 onwards. During the survey, it is estimated that a total of 1