Social Monitoring report Project Number: 48025-003 Loan Number: 3527-UZB March 2021 Uzbekistan: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 (Pap-Namangan-Andijan) Railway Electrification Project LARP 2.1: External Power Supply Transmission Line: 220 kV Namangan/ Raustan (12km) Prepared by JSC O’zbekiston Temir Yo’llari, the Republic of Uzbekistan for the Asian Development Bank. This social monitoring report is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be in preliminary nature. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. Social Monitoring Report O’ZBEKISTON TEMIR YO’LLARI Joint-Stock Company Project Number: 48025-003 Loan Number: 3527-UZB Prepared: March 2021 Republic of Uzbekistan: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 (Pap-Namangan-Andijan) Railway Electrification Project IMPLEMENTATION OF LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT PLAN 2.1 (External Power Supply Transmission Line: 220 kV Namangan/ Raustan 12km) COMPLETION REPORT Prepared by “O’ZBEKISTON TEMIR YO’LLARI Joint-Stock Company (UTY) for ADB This Social Monitoring Report is a document owned by the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB’s Board of Directors, Management, or staff. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. 1 CONTENTS ABREVIATIONS ................................................................................................................................... 3 1 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................... 4 1.1 Overview and Background of the Project ........................................................................... 4 1.2 Summary of impacts defined by approved LARP 2.1 ........................................................ 6 1.3 Legal Framework and Entitlements for Compensation..................................................... 7 2 MONITORING OF LARP 2.1 IMPLEMENTATION ..................................................................... 7 2.1 Monitoring objective and scope ........................................................................................... 7 2.2 Internal Monitoring Methodology ......................................................................................... 8 3 LARP 2.1 IMPLEMENTATION PROCEDURES AND RESULTS .............................................. 8 3.1 LARP Implementation Preparatory activities ..................................................................... 8 3.2 Payment of Compensation ................................................................................................... 9 4 PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE .......................................... 12 5 GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM.................................................................................... 12 6 CONCLUSIONS ........................................................................................................................ 12 ANNEX 1: Compensation Payment Order ........................................................................................ 14 ANNEX 2: Entitlement Matrix of the LARP ........................................................................................ 89 ANNEX 3: Photos of affected lands in Raustan and Turakurgan ..................................................... 94 2 ABREVIATIONS ADB Asian Development Bank AP Affected Person AH Affected Household CR Completion Report CSC Construction Supervision Consultant DMS Detailed Measurement Survey DLARC District Land Acquisition and Resettlement Committee GRM Grievance Redress Mechanism ha Hectare HH Household IA Implementing Agency LAR Land Acquisition and Resettlement LARP Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan LC Land Code MOF Ministry of Finance PC Public Consultation PIU Project Implementation Unit RoW Right of Way State Committee on Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography and SCLRGCSC State Cadaster SES Socioeconomic Survey SSMR Semi-annual social monitoring report SPS Safeguard Policy Statement TC Tax Code TL Transmission Line UTY O’zbekiston Temir Yo’llari UZS Uzbek Som 3 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Overview and Background of the Project 1. The Project aims to electrify the missing 145.1 kilometers (km) of non-electrified track linking major cities in the populous Fergana Valley with Tashkent. This will facilitate direct and efficient operation of both freight and passenger train services, and thereby promotes economic and social development of the Fergana Valley.1 2. The Project will be aligned with the following impacts: (i) stimulated economic growth in the Fergana Valley, and (ii) increased regional trade along CAREC Corridor 2. The outcome will be the level of passenger and freight service on the Pap-Namangan-Andijan railway line improved. 3. The Project will produce two outputs. First, railway infrastructure along the Pap-Namangan- Andijan railway line will be upgraded. This includes electrification of 145.1 km of the main railway line to 27.5 kilovolts alternating current (including the 3.5 km line from Blok Post 136.1 to Uchkurgan), construction of 2 traction substations and dispatcher points, modernization of the locomotive depot in Andijan for it to be able to handle electric locomotives, purchase of maintenance equipment and machinery, modernization of signaling and communications facilities, and construction of external power supply facilities which will transmit electricity from the main grid to the traction substations. 6.7 kilometers of the railway line will be realigned to bypass a section of the line that currently traverses the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic to be also electrified under the Project. Second, safety of railway operations will be improved. 4. The Project includes the following components: 1) Electrification of the main track (145.1 km) between Pap Station and Andijan 1 station, and including the 3.5 km line from Blok Post 136.1 to Uchkurgan- Voltage of transmission lines will be 27.5 kV 2) Electrification of the new alignment (6.7 km)-Voltage of transmission lines will be 27.5 kV 3) Construction of two new traction substations in Namangan (Raustan) and Khakulabad, including the access roads 4) External power supply transmission line (TL) of 52km to transmit electricity to two new substations to be constructed as follows: • 110 kV TL for Khakulabad (40 km) • 220 kV TL for Namangan/Raustan (12 km) 5) Construction of Uychi Blok post new passing loop at km137 which includes: • Automobile road for passing loop (780m) • Building of Uychi Blok post • Borrow pit for construction (120m) 5. The implementation-ready Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan (LARP) 2.1 was prepared for one of the components of the Project: External Power Supply Transmission Line (220 kV Namangan/Raustan 12km), which assessed the land acquisition and resettlement impacts of the Project based on the final design (hereinafter: LARP 2.1). The LARP complies with requirements of relevant Uzbek laws and regulations and ADB’s Safeguards Policy Statement (SPS) of 2009 1 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) provided Project preparatory technical assistance for Preparation of Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 (Pap-Namangan-Andijan) Railway Electrification Project (TA 8706-UZB). 4 and is based on the detailed measurement survey (DMS) and Census data which allowed assessing the Project’s actual impact. Figure 1 presents the Project components with applied social safeguard due diligence approach for each Project component. The LARP 2.1 was approved by ADB on 14.10.2019 and has been disclosed on ADB’s and UTY’s websites2. 6. According to the LARP 2.1, requirements of ADB’s SPS 2009 and established operational practice, the condition for the start of physical civil works is the full implementation of the final LARP 2.1 (full compensation/rehabilitation delivery) to be vouched by a compliance (completion) report prepared by UTY and acceptable to ADB. This LARP 2.1 Implementation Completion Report (CR) is covering the full implementation of LARP with demonstration of its compliance with approved LARP, as well as clear indication of issues emerged during the implementation process, including the GRM. Thus, the approval and disclosure of this CR by ADB will serve as a basis for the commencement of civil works in the concerned sections (component) of the Project. Figure 1: Map of the Project Components Per Social Safeguards Approach 2 https://www.adb.org/projects/documents/uzb-48025-003-rp-2, http://www.railway.uz/en/gazhk/investicionniy_potencial/, http://www.railway.uz/ru/gazhk/investicionniy_potencial/ 5 1.2 Summary of impacts defined by approved LARP 2.1 7. The impact of the Project component in terms of land acquisition is limited to Turakurgan and Namangan districts and Namangan city. The Project component has permanent and temporary impacts in terms of land acquisition. Permanent land acquisition includes loss of trees as well as permanent impacts on agricultural