Public Disclosure Authorized Draft Final Report for Bundelkhand Public Disclosure Authorized Revised Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized 0 Table of Contents Executive Summary .......................................................................................................................................... 7 Chapter 1: Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 31 1.0 Introduction & Background ............................................................................................................. 31 1.1 Water Resource Development in Uttar Pradesh ............................................................................... 31 1.2 Study Area & Project Activities ....................................................................................................... 34 1.3 Need for the Social & Environmental Framework ........................................................................... 38 1.4 Objectives ........................................................................................................................................ 38 1.5 Scope of Work (SoW) ...................................................................................................................... 38 1.6 Approach & Methodology ............................................................................................................... 39 1.7 Work Plan ........................................................................................................................................ 41 1.8 Structure of the Report ..................................................................................................................... 42 Chapter 2: Regulatory Review and Gap Analysis ........................................................................................ 44 2.0 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 44 2.1 Policy and regulatory framework to deal with water management, social and environmental safeguards ....................................................................................................................................................... 44 2.1.2 Regulatory framework to deal with water, environment and social Safeguards .............................. 44 2.1.3 Legislative Framework to Deal with Social Safeguards .................................................................. 45 2.2 Applicable Policy, Rules & Regulation to project interventions / activities .................................... 45 2.2.1 EIA Notification ............................................................................................................................... 45 2.3 Institutional Framework to deal with water, social and environmental safeguards.......................... 49 2.4 Institutional Gaps ............................................................................................................................. 51 Chapter 3: Socio-Economic Baseline Status ................................................................................................. 53 3.0 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 53 3.1 Socio-Economic Baseline Status of Bundelkhand Area of Uttar Pradesh Based on secondary Data 53 3.1.1 Demography Profile: 1991 and 2001 ............................................................................................... 53 3.1.2 Decadal Growth in Population ......................................................................................................... 54 3.1.3 Population Density ........................................................................................................................... 54 3.1.4 Sex Ratio: Number of Females per 1000 Male ................................................................................ 54 3.1.5 Sex –wise Literacy Rates and Gender Gap in Literacy .................................................................... 54 3.1.6 Educational Institutions.................................................................................................................... 55 3.1.7 Safe Source of Drinking Water ........................................................................................................ 55 3.1.8 Road Density .................................................................................................................................... 55 3.1.9 Proportion of Electrified villages ..................................................................................................... 56 3.1.10 Number of Commercial Banks .................................................................................................... 56 3.1.11 Post offices, P.C.O. and Telephone Connections ........................................................................ 56 1 3.1.12 Health facilities ........................................................................................................................... 57 3.1.13 Persons in Labour Force .............................................................................................................. 57 3.1.14 Families Below Poverty Line ...................................................................................................... 57 3.1.15 Cropping Intensity ....................................................................................................................... 58 3.1.16 Crop Coverage Area under Pulses and oilseeds: ......................................................................... 58 3.1.17 Productivity of Pulses and Oilseeds ............................................................................................ 58 3.1.18 Operational Landholdings ........................................................................................................... 58 3.1.19 Irrigation Intensity ....................................................................................................................... 59 3.1.20 Irrigation Potential ...................................................................................................................... 59 3.1.21 Source-wise Irrigation ................................................................................................................. 59 3.1.22 Per Capita Annual Food Grain Availability ................................................................................ 59 3.1.23 Proportion of Agricultural Labour .............................................................................................. 60 3.1.24 Consumption of Fertilizer ........................................................................................................... 60 3.1.25 Pesticides Consumption .............................................................................................................. 60 3.1.26 Soil Fertility ................................................................................................................................ 60 3.1.27 Facilities for Livestock ................................................................................................................ 61 3.1.28 Reservoir Fish Production ........................................................................................................... 61 3.2 Socio-Economic Baseline Status of Blocks under Project area in Jamini, Sajnam and Rohini Dam of Lalitpur district based on secondary data ................................................................................................... 61 3.3 Socio-economic status of Bundelkhand Region based on Primary Survey in Command & Non- command area ................................................................................................................................................ 65 3.3.1 Socio-economic status of Bundelkhand Region based on Household Survey ................................. 65 3.3.2 Socio-Economic Baseline Status of Lalitpur district based on Household Survey ............................. 68 3.4 Socio-Economic Baseline Status of Bundelkhand & Lalitpur district based on primary Survey based on Focussed Group Discussions (FGD) ............................................................................................... 79 3.4.1 Socio-Economic Baseline Status of Bundelkhand based on Focussed Group discussion ................ 79 3.4.2 Socio-Economic Baseline Status of Lalitpur district based on Focussed Group discussion ............ 82 3.5 Socio-Economic Issues in Bundelkhand .......................................................................................... 85 3.6 Irrigation Infrastructure Performance Agriculture Productivity, Livelihood & Poverty ................ 102 Chapter 4: Regional Environmental Setting & Environmental Baseline ................................................. 103 4.0 Background .................................................................................................................................... 103 4.1 Study Area ..................................................................................................................................... 103 4.2 Environmental status of Bundelkhand region ................................................................................ 103 4.2.1 Land Environment ........................................................................................................................