FINAL REPORT Public Disclosure Authorized SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (SIA) & RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN (RAP) FOR BRT CORRIDOR IN NAYA RAIPUR CHHATTISGARH Public Disclosure Authorized NAYA RAIPUR DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY RAIPUR CHHATTISGARH, INDIA Public Disclosure Authorized December, 2012 Public Disclosure Authorized Naya Raipur Development Authority Executive Summary 1. NayaRaipurNewTownship: Naya Raipur is being developed in Greenfield area as a CapitalCity for the State of Chhattisgarh at a distance of about 17 km in the south-east of the present day capital city Raipur. Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) has been constituted by Government of Chhattisgarh for the planning and development of the New City. The planning area of Naya Raipur comprises three planning layers and covers a total area of 237.42 sq km. However, the Layer I of the planning area, where major development activities including the of BRTS would take place, is spread over in area of 80.13 sq km which is surrounded by green belt of 15.09 sq km. Layer II is the peripheral area under development control jurisdiction and Layer III is Airport zone. Naya Raipur is being developed for a population of 5.6 lacs by the year 2031, in three phases. The first phase development for a target population of 1.50 lacs including that of the existing villages is in progress. 2. Land Procurement for Township (Non Bank Project):Out of the total land required for the development of planning layer I, 29% is Government land and 71% is Privateland. The Government land has been transferred to the NRDA. In accordance with Rehabilitation and Resettlement Plan of Naya Raipur, NRDA started purchasing private land in the year 2006 by mutual agreement with the land owners NRDA has purchased 4798.75haPrivatelandthrough mutual consent and has paid Rs. 8759.40 million to the private parties as cost of land for development of buildings, roads, other facilities till July 2012. The private negotiation process had series of public consultation meetings with land owners and after obtaining their consent on replacement value of land the land procurement process was completed. Thus of the total private land (6365 ha), 4798.75ha land has been purchased by mutual agreement, 1387 ha (of 82 title holders)which could not be purchaseddespite best effort, is under different stages of land acquisition process under the LAA 1894. 3. NRDA R&R Policy and Implementation: NRDA has prepared a special rehabilitation plan under section 69 of ChhattisgarhTown and Country Planning Act 1973 read together with Section 56, for land procurementwith mutual consent and agreement to ensure a reasonable compensation package to project affected persons. The rehabilitation plan was approved by GO No. 442-443/32/2005 Raipur dated 28.2.2006.It emphasizes that the agricultural land required for the development shall be purchased from the farmers on mutual consent instead of acquiring the land under the Land Acquisition Act, as far as possible. The compensation package for the land and assets over it has been decided after a series of consultations at different level, with the project affected persons, public representatives and other stake holders. A hassle - free system is in place for registration Naya Raipur Development Authority i of the sale deed of agriculture land and payment of compensation. In addition to cash compensation for land the PAPs are entitled to special rehabilitation benefits such as land for horticulture/ floriculture or utility shops or residential plot, free of cost as a special benefit for livelihood restoration to the project affected persons. Families of any village which need to be relocated on account of development works of the NRDA are provided new houses in a residential colony developed by NRDA within 0.5 km distance from their existing houses. Special benefits are also provided to the project affected landless labourers.A systematic and exhaustive implementation process was followed to allothouse or plot to the project affected persons who have been resettled. As a first step their household information was collected through a census and socio economic survey. A biometric card jointly with husband and wife was done with photography of both. Since 2007, NRDA has taken up resettlement and rehabilitation as per the policy framed. Till July 2012 NRDA provided 2250 houses to PAPs in Naya Raipur with a total cost of Rs.176.3 million. In addition, it created a housing colony of 71 displaced persons in Naigaon with total cost of Rs.5.56 million. All the resettlement colonies are provided with infrastructure like water, electricity drainage etc. The social amenities like school community centers etc. are provided in all the resettlement colonies. In order to restore livelihood, NRDA arranged training in different trade and vocations for income restoration and livelihood loss after conducting a thorough training need assessment. Since 2007 till date 1104 project impacted personsreceived training in different trades like Mushroom production, flower art, Masonry, electrician, driving, computer etc. The total expenditure in conducting training was Rs.7.81 million till July 2012. 4. BRTS - SUTP (World Bank Assisted Project): NRDA prepared a DPR for development of BRTS and submitted it for inclusion in the Sustainable Urban Transport Programme initiated by Government of India. The BRTS proposed by NRDA shall facilitate connectivity between Raipur and Naya Raipur. Based on the DPR it has been selected as a DemonstrationCity under GEF - UNDP - World Bank assisted Sustainable Urban Transport Programme (SUTP) of Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India. A funding plan of Rs 1791.93 million has been approved. 5. SUTP of Naya Raipur:NRDA along with the Government of Chhattisgarh signed the Participation Agreement with the MoUD GoI, on 10th February 2009 for implementation of component - 2 of GEF - Sustainable Urban Transport Program in Naya Raipur. The Loan Agreement, Project Agreement and Global Environment Facility Grant Agreement were signed on 5th February 2010. Naya Raipur Sustainable Urban Project bears Loan no. 7818 – IN and GEF grant no 095549. A funding plan of INR 1791.93 million has been approved based on the DPR submitted by NRDA. Under the project NRDA was required to develop 7 km of road links from its own funds which have since been completed. The GEF-WB/SUTP Component of BRT Naya Raipur project includes: (1) Development of- Cycle Tracks & Pedestrian Walkways (36 km app). (2) Bus stops /Shelters. (3) Bus Naya Raipur Development Authority ii Depot. (4) 2 Bus Terminals(5) Traffic Safety system for non motorized vehicles.6.Control & information centre including off board ITS. 6. SIA&RAP: To address and mitigate any adverse impacts on people and assets on account of the Project (BRTS under the guidelines of Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) of SUTP NRDA carried out Social Impact Assessment of Naya Raipur and prepare a Resettlement Action Plan for the BRT component. The RAP is based on the general findings of the census/socioeconomic surveys, field visits, and meetings with various project-affected persons in the project area. 7. BRTS Roads, Impact and Land Procurement: There are two corridors selected for BRTS line services – (i) Corridor I having total length of 24.7 km, out of which 9.4 km is within Raipur city where the RoW availability is 22-60 mts, road section 2.4 km is a section of National Highway with RoW of 60 mts. NRDA constructed 12.9 mts as a part of City Development, a part (road no. 13 length 3 km) has been constructed to complete the corridor. (ii) Corridor III has a length of 17.8 km Three road sections (Road no. 11 (0.5 km, Road no. 12 A (2.7 km) and Road no. 10 (0.3 km) have been constructed to complete the corridor. The land acquisitions for the roads were completed in 2007- 2008.Thus no strip acquisition or any additional land acquisition for the purpose of the BRTS project is required. For the purpose of preparation of RAP an attempt has been made to estimate the land acquisition and compensation details. For the purpose of BRTS project 44.94 ha, and 3.95ha land was procured through private negotiation and LA Act respectively. For the construction of Bus depot 5.18 ha land was procured through negotiated purchase. The government land transferred to NRDA was 21.25 ha. The NRDA paid Rs.83.53 million as compensation payment through negotiated purchase. 8. Land Acquisition and Details of PAPs:There are 122 title holder PAPs. The corridor wise distribution of PAPs shows that 38.50 ha of land was purchased through negotiation/mutual consent from 102 PAPs and Rs.69.61 million were paid to them in 2007-2008. For the purpose of development of bus depot at Naya Raipur 5.18 ha of land was purchased by NRDA ata total cost of Rs.6.96 million from 15 PAPs. For corridor number III 1.48 ha of land was procured through mutual agreement and Rs.1.73 million was paid as compensation to 5 PAPs. 9. Relocation Measures for NTH PAPs: Relocation of 12 squatter families has already been done and resettled in close proximity in relocation colony. The houses that have been allotted to them give them legal titles to the homestead plot and house. The size of the plot is large enough for them to accommodate their house according to their Naya Raipur Development Authority iii needsand also in addition to construct structures for service units, shops, etc. The road has been constructed for resettlement colony by NRDA from State Government grant as provided in the funding plan. The employable members of all the affected families are engaged in meaningful employment. The new houses are located near their old homes about 200 metres away.