Resettlement Plan Document Stage: Draft Project Number: 51308-001 May 2019 India India: Chennai – Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor: Power Transmission Improvement Project Compensation Plan Prepared By: Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation Limited (TANTRANSCO) Government of Tamil Nadu For the Asian Development Bank CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of 28 May 2019) Currency unit – Indian Rupees (₹) ₹1.00 = $0.01439 $1.00 = ₹69.47450 ABBREVIATIONS ADB - Asian Development Bank AH - affected household AP - affected person CKIC - Chennai Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor FGD - focus group discussions GIS - geographic information system GCC - general construction circle GRM - grievance redress mechanism GRC - grievance redress committee ha - hectare IP - indigenous peoples km - kilometre kV - kilovolt MoP - Ministry of Power MPH - main power house RFTCTLARR - ''The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act RoW - right-of-way SPS - Safeguard Policy Statement, 2009 SS - substation TANTRANSCO - Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation Limited TASF - Technical Assistance Special Funds TNSEB - Tamil Nadu State Electricity Board TL - transmission line TRTA - transaction technical assistance This resettlement plan is a document of the borrower. 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PARTICULARS Page ABBREVIATION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY i 1 INTRODUCTION AND PROJECT DESCRIPTION 1 1.1 Overview and Background 1 1.2 Project Components 1 1.3 Subproject Locations 2 1.4 Description of Subprojects 7 1.4.1 New Substations 7 1.4.2 Transmission Lines 9 1.5 Minimizing Resettlement and Alternative Analysis 17 1.6 Scope of Work and Methodology 18 1.6.1 Preliminary Route Alignment 18 1.6.2 Right of Way Considered for the Safeguards Assessment 19 1.6.3 Methodology 19 1.7 Limitation and Future Action for the Draft Compensation Plan 19 2 SCOPE OF LAND ACQUISITION AND INVOLUNTARY 21 RESETTLEMENT 2.1 Background 21 2.2 Impacts due to New Substations and Bay Extension 21 2.3 Impacts on Land Due to Tower Base/Footing 23 2.4 Impacts on Land due to Transmission Line Right of Way 26 2.5 Impacts on Trees 27 2.6 Affected Households and Affected Persons 29 2.7 Summary Impacts 30 3 SOCIO-ECONOMIC INFORMATION AND PROFILE 31 3.1 General 31 3.2 District Profile 31 3.3 Socioeconomic Survey Findings 33 3.3.1 Demography 33 3.3.2 Literacy and Education 34 3.3.3 Vulnerability 34 3.3.4 Access to Basic Amenities 34 3.3.5 Major Economic Activities 36 3.3.6 Cropping pattern 37 3.3.7 Average Yield of Major Crops 38 3.3.8 Average Annual Income 38 3.3.9 Average Annual Expenditure 39 3.3.10 Possession of Durable Goods 39 3.3.11 Household Indebtedness 40 PARTICULARS Page 3.3.12 Benefits from schemes 41 3.3.13 Major Illness 41 3.3.14 Engagement of Women in Various Activities 42 3.3.15 Women’s Voice in Decision Making 42 3.3.16 Status on Electricity 43 3.3.17 Other Alternate Fuel Consumption 43 3.4 Impact on Indigenous Peoples or Scheduled Tribe 4 INFORMATION DISCLOSURE, CONSULTATION AND 45 PARTICIPATION 4.1 Consultations 45 4.2 Objective of Public Consultations 45 4.3 Methods of Consultations 45 4.4 Public Consultations in the Project Area 46 4.5 Gender Consultations 49 4.6 Future Consultation Strategy 50 4.7 Disclosure 50 5 GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISMS 52 5.1 Need of the GRM 52 5.2 Formation of GRC 52 5.2.1 GRC at GCC- Madurai 52 5.2.2 GRC at TANTRANSCO Headquarters 53 5.3 Grievance Redress Process 53 5.4 GRC Record Keeping 54 6 POLICY AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK 55 6.1 Overview 55 6.2 ADB Safeguard Policy Statement 55 6.3 Statutory Requirements 56 6.3.1 The Electricity Act, 2003, Part-VIII, Section 67 & 68 56 6.3.2 The Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, Part-III, Section 10 57 6.3.3 MoP Guidelines, 2015 58 6.4 Basic Policy Principles for the Project 61 6.5 Cut Off Date 62 6.6 Valuation of Compensation and Payment Mechanism 62 7 ENTITLEMENT, ASSISTANCE AND BENEFITS 64 7.1 Eligibility and Entitlement 64 8 RELOCATION AND INCOME RESTORATION 66 9 RESETTLEMENT BUDGET AND FINANCING PLAN 67 9.1 Overview 67 PARTICULARS Page 9.2 Compensation Cost 67 10 INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 69 10.1 Overview and Overall Project Implementation Organizations 69 10.2 Roles and Responsibilities related to Safeguards 73 10.2.1 TANTRANSCO Management at HQ 73 10.2.2 General Construction Circle – Madurai (GCC-Madurai) 73 10.2.3 Roles and Responsibilities of Contractor 74 10.2.4 Roles and Responsibilities of TRTA Safeguard Consultant 75 10.3 Capacity Assessment of TANTRANSCO 11 IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE 78 12 MONITORING AND REPORTING 79 TABLES Table 1.1 List of Subprojects in CKIC power sector project in Tamil Nadu 2 Table 1.2 Different locations of proposed subprojects 2 Table 1.3 Location Details of substations, and transmission line from Grid 5 Substations to other substations or LILO points Table 1.4 S1-Virudhunagar (2x1500MVA) 7 Table 1.5 S2- Ottapidaram (2x500MVA) + (2x200MVA) 8 Table 1.6 T1.1: 765 kV double circuit Virudhunagar - Coimbatore 11 transmission line Table 1.7 T1.2: 400 kV double circuit line Virudhunagar – Kayathar 11 transmission line Table 1.8 T1.3 - 400 kV double circuit Thappagundu LILO 11 Table 1.9 T2.1 - 400 kV double circuit line Ottapidaram - Udangudi 12 transmission line Table 1.10 T2.2 - 400 kV double circuit line Ottapidaram - Kamuthi 12 transmission line Table 1.11 T2.3 - 230 kV double circuit line in and out at Ottapidaram for 12 Sipcot - Kavanoor line Table 1.12 T2.4 - 230 kV double circuit line in and out at Ottapidaram for 13 Sipcot - Savasapuram line Table 1.13 T2.5 - 110 kV double circuit line in and out at Ottapidaram for 13 Ottapidaram - Eppothumvendran Table 1.14 T2.6 - 110 kV single circuit line Ottapidaram - Vijayapuri details 13 Table 1.15 T2.7 - 110 kV single circuit line in and out at Ottapidaram for TTN 14 Auto - T-off Sipcot line Table 1.16 S3.1-400 kV bays at Kamuthi substation 14 Table 1.17 S3.2-400 kV bays at Kayathar substation 15 Table 1.18 S3.3- 110 kV bay at Vijayapuri substation 16 Table 1.19 Right of Way 19 Table 2.1 Impact related Substation and Due Diligence Findings 21 PARTICULARS Page Table 2.2 Tower Details on Land 23 Table 2.3 Type of Land (in Percent) for Tower Base 24 Table 2.4 Affected Land Area due to Tower Base/Footing 25 Table 2.5 Type of Land (in Percent) for Right of Way 26 Table 2.6 Affected Land Area Under the Right of Way 27 Table 2.7 Number of Trees to be Affected 27 Table 2.8 Species Wise Tree Details 28 Table 2.9 Affected Households and Affected Persons 29 Table 2.10 Summary Impacts 30 Table 3.1 Profile of project affected districts and Tamil Nadu 31 Table 3.2 Demographic Feature 33 Table 3.3 Households by Social Group 34 Table 3.4 Literacy Status 34 Table 3.5 Gender Desegregated Education Achievement 34 Table 3.6 Vulnerability feature of HHs 35 Table 3.7 Main Source of Drinking Water 35 Table 3.8 Distance & time taken for drinking water collection 35 Table 3.9 Involvement in drinking water collection 36 Table 3.10 Type of Sanitation Facilities 36 Table 3.11 Availability of basic amenities 36 Table 3.12 Major economic activities of households 37 Table 3.13 Major Cropping Pattern 37 Table 3.14 Average Yield of Major Crops 38 Table 3.15 Average Annual Income 38 Table 3.16 Average Annual Expenditure 39 Table 3.17 Possession of durable goods 40 Table 3.18 Average Amount Taken from Different Sources and Interest Rate 40 Table 3.19 Coverage under development schemes 41 Table 3.20 Insurance status 41 Table 3.21 Type of Illness 41 Table 3.22 Type of Activities for Women 42 Table 3.23 Women’s Say in Decision Making 42 Table 3.24 Status on Electrification 43 Table 3.25 Average Usage Pattern of Electricity 43 Table 3.26 Purpose of Electricity Use 43 Table 3.27 Non-Electric Energy Sources 44 Table 4.1 Method of Consultations 45 Table 4.2 Locations and Participants (Public Consultations) 47 Table 4.3 Summary Findings of Public Consultations 47 Table 4.4 Locations and Participants (Gender Consultations) 49 Table 4.5 Findings on Gender Consultations 49 Table 6.1 Gaps between National Requirements & ADBs Safeguard Policy 60 2009 Table 7.1 Entitlement Matrix 64 Table 9.1 Tentative Compensation Cost 67 PARTICULARS Page Table 10.1 Overall Project Implementation Organizations – Roles and 69 Responsibilities Table 10.2 Institutional Roles and Responsibilities for Compensation Plan 76 Table 11.1 Implementation Schedule 78 FIGURES Figure 1.1 Geographic locations of key assets to be built under the project 4 Figure 1.2 Locations for Virudhunagar substation 7 Figure 1.3 Locations for Ottapidaram substation 8 Figure 1.4 Map of Study Area and Coordinates for Termination points for 10 each line Figure 1.5 Location for Kamuthi substation bay 15 Figure 1.6 Location for Kayathar substation bay 16 Figure 1.7 Location for Vijayapuri substation bay 17 Figure 10.1 Overall Project Organization Structure 72 ANNEXURE ANNEXURE 1.1 GPS LOCATIONS OF ANGLE POINTS 80 ANNEXURE 1.2 DETAILS ON THE ALTERNATE ANALYSIS FOR THE 97 PROPOSED LINES ANNEXURE 2.1 INVENTORISATION ALONG THE TRANSMISSION LINES 120 ANNEXURE 4.1 DETAILS ON PUBLIC CONSULTAIONS 128 ANNEXURE 4.2 DETAILS ON GENDER CONSULTATIONS 197 ANNEXURE-6.1 MOP GUIDELINES FOR PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION FOR 233 DAMAGES IN REGARD TO ROW ANNEXURE 6.2 GOVERNMENT ORDER OF TAMIL NADU ADOPTING MOP 235 GUIDELINES i EXECUTIVE SUMMARY I.