Resettlement Plan Due Diligence Report Document Stage: Updated Project Number: 34304 April 2014 NEP: Kathmandu Valley Water Supply Improvement Project–Block Distribution System and Service Reservoir (Package I) Prepared by Project Implementation Directorate, Kathmandu Upatyaka Khanepani Limited (KUKL) for the Asian Development Bank. Kathamandu Valley Water Supply Improvement Project (ADB Loan No. 2776 NEP-SF) Due Diligence Report of Block Distribution System and Service Reservoir (BDS-SRT) Package (BDS 1) Project Implementation Directorate Kathmandu Upatyaka Khanepani Limited (KUKL) Anamnagar, Kathmandu April, 2014 Contents A BACKGROUND ............................................................................................................................ 3 B PROJECT COMPONENTS ............................................................................................................ 3 II SCOPE OF LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT ................................................... 5 III SOCIOECONOMIC INFORMATION AND PROFILE ............................................................ 8 A. SOCIOECONOMIC PROFILE ....................................................................................................... 8 B. GENDER CONSIDERATIONS ....................................................................................................... 9 IV Information disclosure, consultation, and participation ....................................................... 10 A. PUBLIC CONSULTATION .......................................................................................................... 10 B. INFORMATION DISCLOSURE ................................................................................................... 10 C. CONTINUED CONSULTATION AND PARTICIPATION ............................................................... 11 V GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM .............................................................................................. 12 VI. POLICY AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK ............................................................................................. 15 A. ENTITLEMENTS ........................................................................................................................ 15 ANNEX-I RESETTLEMENT CATAGORIZATION CHECKLIST ANNEX-II COMPENSATION PAYMENT STATUS ANNEX-III PHOTOGRAPHS ANNEX-IIV MAP OF RESERVOIR 2 I PROJECT DESCRIPTION A Background 1. The proposed Kathmandu Valley Water Supply Improvement Project1 will support the ongoing efforts of the Government of Nepal towards improving the water supply services in Kathmandu Valley. The project will invest in bulk water transmission and distribution network improvement systems, and will complement the past and ongoing Asian Development Bank (ADB) projects.2 The resultant synergy is expected to lead to increased efficiencies, greater improvement in service delivery, and higher impact on health outcomes and quality of life for inhabitants of Kathmandu Valley. 2. Kathmandu Valley is characterized by high urban population growth (estimated to be 6.6% per annum) and high population density (estimated to be more than 2,500 persons per km2).3 The total population of Kathmandu Valley is estimated to be 2.72 million in 2011, and is expected to hit 3.5 million in 2016. Rapid and largely unplanned urban growth, high population density, lack of sustainable water sources, and inadequate past investments in water supply infrastructure have resulted in abysmally poor availability and quality of drinking water.4 Moreover, poor access to sanitation facilities, improper solid waste management systems, and groundwater and surface water pollution from untreated domestic sewage have caused increased disease incidence, health risks, and associated economic burdens disproportionately impacting the poor and vulnerable.5 B Project Components Initially the BDS consisted into three packages. But, two more BDS packages has been in Bharkatpur and Kirtipur and still in design. And now the total numbers of BDS packages are five. The package I consisted construction of three reservoirs namely Arubari tank 8500 CU.M. Capacity, Mahankal Chaur -2 tank 8000 CU.M. Capacity and New Bansbari tank 9500 CU.M Capacity. In pipe lying for this package, the size of pipe varies from 400 mm to 1400 mm. The total length of pipe for this package is 10.043 Km length. The package II consisted construction of two reservoirs namely New Panipokhari Tank 7500 CU.M. and Khumaltar 9500 CU.M capacity. In the pipe lying for this package, the size of pipe varies from 400 to 1100 mm. The total length of pipe for this package is 23.527 Km length. The 1 The project was prepared through PPTA 4893-NEP: Preparing the Kathmandu Valley Water Distribution, Sewerage, and Urban Development Project, approved on 13 December 2006. Due to restructuring of ongoing loans, the work of PPTA started in 2009 and final report was submitted in May 2010. 2 Loan 1820-NEP (SF): Melamchi Water Supply Project was approved on 21 December 2000 and became effective on 28 November 2001. Loans 2058/2059-NEP (SF): Kathmandu Valley Water Services Sector Development Program were approved on 18 December 2003 and became effective on 7 December 2004. 3 Estimated projections by the Central Bureau of Statistics, Government of Nepal, 2003. 4 A baseline survey done by CRISIL under PPTA 4893-NEP in September 2010 estimates water availability at 20 liters per capita per day (lpcd) and average duration of water supply at 0.4 hours per day. Kathmandu Upatyaka Khaneani Limited (KUKL), the operator, assesses the current availability as 45 lpcd. 5 Vulnerable groups include female-headed households and below poverty line households (the poverty line in current terms is NRs 12,457 per capita/year). The national average household size in Nepal is considered 5.27 (Poverty Trends in Nepal. National Planning Commission Secretariat, 2005). Therefore, it is assumed the poverty line is NRs 65,648 per household/year. 3 package III consisted construction of one water reservoir namely Balaju reservoir with 7000 CU.M. capacity. The length of pipe lying for this package is 15.57 Km and the, size of pipe varies from 500 to 1000 mm. In totality BDS includes the installation of about 49 km of water mains ranging in diameter from 400 mm to 1,400 mm along the Kathmandu Ring Road (two lanes in each direction, with a 9 m carriageway) and along major city road corridors. These water mains will feed five existing service reservoirs and five new service reservoirs. The BDS will feed these new RVT at Arubari, Mahankal Chaur II, Bansbari, Balaju, and Khumaltar. The service reservoirs provide water to the distribution network. Most of these pipes will be within wider roads with heavy traffic. Traffic management planning and implementation will be critical to ensure continued public support and limited impacts to businesses. Temporary disturbance to businesses is anticipated for 3-5 days per 100-200 m trench of the BDS component. Full road closure is not anticipated, as the Ring Road is a primary traffic artery within Kathmandu. Good construction practices and traffic management measures, including night works, will ensure continued access to businesses and limited disruption to business activity. In a few areas, vendors and hawkers will require temporary relocation, and will be provided assistance by the contractor in relocating and shifting. Location map of package I 4 II SCOPE OF LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT 3. There is no land acquisition under the proposed project. All land for service reservoirs were previously acquired under the ongoing ADB Loan 1820. (Ref. Annex II). The impacts resulted from land acquisition has already been addressed. The reservoir construction area is fenced with compound wall and blocked access of public. So, during the time of reservoir construction no impacts are anticipated in private land and business. The pipe line route for BDS package I follow more than 25 to 30 meter wide ring road and follows service track. The construction works within the right of way (RoW) for the Bulk Distribution System (BDS),6 The temporary disruption for BDS approximately was estimated 3-5 days for BDS (from open trench to backfill). Trench sections for BDS will be 50-100. Contractors are required to maintain access to shops to avoid and limit the disturbance to the extent possible, and mitigation measures are incorporated into their contracts and monitored by the construction supervision consultants. Temporary economic impacts to businesses along the BDS routes are expected to be short term, and avoided and/or mitigated through good traffic management planning and implementation, night works, and maintaining access to shops during the construction period, as outlined in the Environmental Management Plan (EMP).7 Under the BDS, some mobile hawkers and vendors, including those with stalls and temporary structures, will be assisted by contractors in moving to alternative locations during the brief period of construction, and allowed to return once the area is declared complete of construction, usually within 5 days. In the event roads are fully closed, with access to shops disrupted, compensation for lost income will be made for the time of disruption.8. The entitlement matrix has provisioned those businesses that experience full closures during the pipe lying period are entitled for compensation. Based on detail design of the pipe route alignment and reservoir construction area the disruption will be short and none of the business will experience full