SFG1690 V10 NATIONAL GANGA RIVER BASIN AUTHORITY (NGRBA) (Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India) Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Environmental and Social Assessment with Management Plan for Sewerage Works in Sewerage District ‘B’ of Allahabad City, Uttar Pradesh. Public Disclosure Authorized March 2015 Public Disclosure Authorized 1 Table of Contents Executive Summary ........................................................................................................ 9 Chapter 1 Introduction..................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Ganga Clean up Initiatives .......................................................................... 1 1.2 The Ganga River Basin Project................................................................... 2 1.2.1 World Bank Assistance ................................................................. 3 1.3 Project Components ................................................................................... 3 1.3.1 Component One: Institutional Development ................................. 3 1.3.2 Component Two: Priority Infrastructure Investments .................... 5 1.4 Structure of the Report ............................................................................... 7 Chapter 2 Project Description ........................................................................................ 10 2.1 About the City .............................................................................................. 10 2.2 Existing Sewerage Facilities in Allahabad City............................................. 11 2.2.1 Works Completed under Ganga Action Plan Phase – I (GAP-I) .... 12 2.2.2 Works Completed under Ganga Action Plan Phase II ................... 13 2.2.3 On-going works in Sewerage District ‘D’ Under JNNURM ............ 13 2.2.4 Works Approved Under NGRBA ................................................... 14 2.2.5 City Sewerage Plan ....................................................................... 15 2.3 Necessity of this project .............................................................................. 19 2.4 Location of Proposed Sewerage Project .................................................... 20 2.5 Proposed Sewerage System ...................................................................... 22 2.5.1 Components of Proposed Sewerage Work ................................... 23 2.5.2 Implementation Schedule .............................................................. 25 2.5.3 Financing....................................................................................... 25 Chapter 3 Approach and Methodology ......................................................................... 27 3.1 Methodology ............................................................................................... 27 3.2 Screening Activity for Project Impact Assessment ...................................... 30 3.3 Conclusion of Screening Activity ................................................................. 42 Chapter 4 Regulations and Legal Framework .............................................................. 44 4.1 Applicable Laws and Regulations – Environmental .................................... 44 4.1.1 Legal Framework of Government of India ..................................... 44 4.1.2 Key Environmental Laws and Regulations..................................... 44 4.2 Applicable Laws and Regulations - Social .................................................. 47 2 4.2.1 National Policies and Acts ............................................................. 47 4.2.2 National Resettlement and Rehabilitation Policy for Project Affected Families – 2007 ........................................................................ 48 4.2.3 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (As Modified Until 1st September, 1985) 48 4.2.4 Forest Rights Act 2006 .................................................................. 49 4.3 Other Legislations applicable to Construction Projects under NGRBP ....... 50 Chapter 5 Baseline Status .............................................................................................. 52 5.1 Baseline Environmental ............................................................................... 52 5.1.1 Physiography and Topography ...................................................... 52 5.1.2 Climate ........................................................................................... 53 5.1.3 Geological and Geophysical features ............................................ 54 5.1.4 Ambient Air Quality ........................................................................ 55 5.1.5 Noise Environment ........................................................................ 58 5.1.6 Water Environment ....................................................................... 60 5.1.7 Storm Water Drainage .................................................................. 67 5.1.8 Waste Water Management ........................................................... 70 5.1.9 Solid Waste Management ............................................................. 72 5.1.10 Biological Environment ................................................................ 74 5.1.10.1Green cover ............................................................................... 74 5.2.1 Details of Social Survey............................................................................ 84 Chapter 6 Environmental and Social Impacts .............................................................. 89 6.1 Potential Environmental Impacts ................................................................ 89 6.1.1 Design and Development Phase .................................................. 89 6.1.2 Impacts during construction phase................................................ 89 6.1.3 Impacts during operation phase .................................................... 93 6.2 Potential Social Impacts ............................................................................. 93 6.3 Conclusion .................................................................................................. 99 Chapter 7 Mitigation and Management Plan ............................................................ ..... 100 7.1 Environmental Management Plan ............................................................... 100 7.2 Social Management Plan............................................................................. 115 7.2.1 Social mitigation plans during construction phase ........................ 115 7.2.2 Social mitigation plans during operation phase ............................. 117 7.2.3 Mitigation measures adopted by locals during similar nature of project activities ...................................................................................... 118 3 7.2.4 Consultation Framework for Participatory Planning and Implementation of Mitigation Plan............................................................ 120 7.2.5 Assess the Capacity of Institutions and Mechanisms for Implementing Social Development Aspects and Social Safeguard Plans; Recommend Capacity building measures ................................................................... 121 7.2.6 Develop Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanisms to Assess Social Development Outcomes ......................................................................... 122 7.3 Cost information of EMP ............................................................................. 123 Chapter 8 Social Development Outcomes and Issues ................................................ 128 8.1 Social Development Outcomes of the sub project ...................................... 128 Chapter 9 Conclusion ...................................................................................................... 131 Annexure 1: Questionnaire ............................................................................................. 132 Annexure 2: Minutes of meeting with key stakeholders .............................................. 136 Annexure 3: Census Data ............................................................................................... 141 4 List of Tables Table 2.1 District wise (A to G) arrangements and status of Sewage Treatment in Allahabad*..................................................................................................... 16 Table 2.2 Projected Populations for Allahabad Sewerage District ‘B’ .......................... 20 Table 2.3 Sewage Flow Generation (Capacities in MLD) ............................................ 20 Table 2.4 Size wise details of the sewers proposed for sewerage work in District ‘B’.. 23 Table 2.5 Overall Estimated Project Cost for proposed sewerage system project ...... 25 Table 3.1 Environment and Social information format for screening ........................... 31 Table 4.1 Environmental Regulations and Legislations ............................................... 44 Table 4.2 The Land Acquisition Process ..................................................................... 49 Table 5.1 Climatological Normal of Temperature, Humidity and Rainfall at Allahabad...................................................................................................... 53 Table 5.2 Generalized Stratigraphic Sequence Time .................................................. 54 Table 5.3 Quality of soil sample ................................................................................... 55 Table 5.4 Latest air