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Environmental and Social Management System Implementation Report Annual Report 2013 IND: National Capital Region Urban Infrastructure Financing Facility Prepared by National Capital Region Planning Board for the Asian Development Bank. Annual ESMS Implementation Report Loan Number: 2660 IND Period: Year 2013 INDIA: National Capital Region Urban Infrastructure Financing Facility Prepared by: Executing Agency: National Capital Region Planning Board March, 2014 New Delhi i ABBREVIATIONS ADB - Asian Development Bank CC - Construction Contractor CFE - Consent for Establishment DIMTS - Delhi Integration Multimodal Transit Service DPR - Detailed Project Report EA - Executing Agency EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment ESMC - Environmental & Social Management Cell ESMS - Environmental & Social Management System HSPCB - Haryana State Pollution Control Board IA - Implementing Agency IEE - Initial Environmental Examination MFF - Multi-tranche Financing Facility NCR - National Capital Region NCRPB - National Capital Region Planning Board PHED - Public Health Engineering Department PMC - Program Management Consultant PMU - Program Management Unit PPTA - Project Preparatory Technical Assistance ii Table of Contents I. REPORT ON ESMS IMPLEMENTATION 1 A. Background 1 B. NCRPB’s Environmental & Social Management System 2 C. NCRPB Project Portfolio in 2013 5 D. Environmental & Social Due Diligence of Projects 7 E. ESMS Review & Update 25 F. Summary & Conclusions 25 List of Tables Table 1: Environmental Categorization ..................................................................................... 3 Table 2: Social Categorization ................................................................................................... 4 Table 3: Additional Staff of PMU & Status ................................................................................ 4 Table 4 : Projects Submitted for NCRPB Loans in 2013 .......................................................... 5 Table 5 - Projects under KFW line of credit ............................................................................. 7 Table 6: Project Categorization of NCRPB projects ............................................................... 11 Table 7: Status of Mandatory Approvals & Clearances .......................................................... 15 Table 8: Status of Environmental Due Diligence Reports ....................................................... 21 Table 9: Status of Social Due Diligence Reports .................................................................... 22 Attachments Attachment 1: NCRPB Circular to IAs on ESMS Implementation & Compliance Attachment 2: Applicable Environmental & Social Legislations Attachment 3: Applications for tree cutting by IAs for projects iii I. REPORT ON ESMS IMPLEMENTATION A. Background 1. The National Capital Region Planning Board is a statutory body under the Ministry of Urban Development, constituted through an Act of Parliament in 1985. It has the mandate to prepare a Regional Plan for the development of the National Capital Region and to coordinate and monitor the implementation of such a plan and evolve harmonized policies for control of land uses so as to avoid any haphazard development. In addition, the Board also provides financial assistance by way of loan to critical infrastructure projects, being undertaken by constituent State Governments, ULBs and other parastatals of the State Governments, in the region. NCRPB Regional Plan-2021 envisages massive scaling up of urban infrastructure investment in NCR. 2. The scaling up of urban infrastructure by implementing priorities of Regional Plan 2021 requires provision of longer tenure low cost debt, technical capacities for implementing agencies (borrowers of NCRPB) in urban planning, project development, project implementation, identification of bankable projects and enabling private sector investments, improving urban basic service provision, among others, through partnership with private sector. Besides, provision of adequate incentives is needed to motivate cities and state entities to undertake public and environmental urban infrastructure projects that can mitigate greenhouse gas emission, and enhance private sector efficiencies. The National Capital Region Urban Infrastructure Financing Facility (NCRUIFF) is built around this rationale. NCRUIFF is being funded by the Asian Development Bank. 3. The impact of NCRUIFF is to improve overall quality of life and economic well-being of urban residents in India's NCR. The outcomes of NCRUIFF are improved economic growth support and public and environmental urban infrastructure services in the participating cities and/or sub regions of the NCR in accordance with the Regional Plan priorities. To this effect, NCRUIFF will support NCRPB in (i) leveraging its resources through a line of credit and other market access support services, and (ii) support a project development facility that would focus on design, implementation and delivery of quality growth oriented and public and environmental urban services and support capacity enhancements as well. 4. There are three broad outputs of this project: (i) NCRUIFF would support creation of high quality urban public and environmental infrastructure. This would include water supply, sanitation and waste management projects including possible regional initiatives. (ii) to foster economic growth and mobility, NCRUIFF will support creation of connectivity and/or up- gradation of transit infrastructure in the region. (iii) Implementation support for strengthening of NCRPB and participating implementation agencies' capacity to design and execute high quality urban infrastructure project, and other capacity development activities including enabling public- private partnerships. 5. The Facility is being provided to NCRPB in line with the provisions of the Multi tranche Financing Facility (MFF) modality of the ADB. Besides physical infrastructure, facility also supports NCRPB's institutional transformation in line with the evolving infrastructure and financial sector reforms. The total estimated project cost is US$ 200 million, of which 75% of the financial assistance is provided by ADB (i.e. US$ 150 million) from its ordinary capital resources (OCR) and the remaining is to be contributed by NCRPB and its sub borrowers. 6. The Facility supports subprojects that are located in and/or those that assist the National Capital Region and the notified counter magnet areas (CMAs). The sub-borrowers comprise local (sub-national) authorities/ governments, urban development authorities, statutory bodies set up by the state governments, the utility boards or corporations and special purpose vehicles sponsored by the above. The subprojects, among others, may include following subsectors: (i) Water supply (ii) Waste water treatment and drainage 1 (iii) Waste management (Municipal and Industrial) (iv) Urban transport, multimodal terminals and regional transport and connectivity (v) Slum development (vi) Other economic growth infrastructure like industrial estates, social infrastructure (vii) Capacity building and institutional development 7. This Annual ESMS Implementation Report 2014 provides implementation of ESMS in the year 2013. B. NCRPB’s Environmental & Social Management System 8. In compliance with ADB Safeguard Policies and various prevalent, policies and Rules related to Environment, Rehabilitation & Wildlife, the Environmental and Social Management Systems (ESMS) has been developed and adopted by NCRPB in April 2010. The ESMS clarifies NCRPB's environmental and social policies; and safeguard screening, categorization, and review procedures. The ESMS document also sets out a plan to strengthen the environment and social organization structure and staffing; and sets our performance monitoring and reporting procedures. Under ADB’s environmental assessment requirements, Financial Intermediary (FI) loans are subject to the same rigor of assessment by ADB and the same expectations of environmental and social performance in design and implementation as regular investment projects. However, the nature of financial intermediary projects requires differing roles and responsibilities of the party or parties involved. The ultimate project sponsor (the company or individual carrying out a project financed) is responsible for the project environment assessment. This is consistent with ADB policy for regular investment projects and with environmental assessment regulations in most countries: the entity that wants to undertake a project must also carry out any required environmental and social assessment. The financial intermediaries must verify that subprojects in which they invest meet the environmental & social regulations or other requirements of the country, and are consistent with ADB’s safeguard policies. 9. Environmental Policy of NCRPB. “NCRPB will continually strive to ensure and enhance effective environmental management practices in all its operations” • Minimizing negative environmental (including health and safety) impacts in its operations and risks to the environment (particularly eco-sensitive areas and culturally important areas) and people who may be affected through formulating and implementing commensurate plans. • Ensuring that environmental safeguards—defined as requirements of applicable Indian environmental legislation and donors—are being adequately integrated by the project proponent/IA in the planning, design, construction prior to its financing and in its implementation during the