Public Disclosure Authorized RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN FOR COMPREHENSIVE WATER SUPPLY SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS TO GUNTUR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION - PACKAGES- I & III. Public Disclosure Authorized ANDHRA PRADESH MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT Public Disclosure Authorized Guntur Municipal Corporation January, 2014. Public Disclosure Authorized CONTENTS S.No. Description Page No. 1 Abbreviations 2 2 Executive Summary 3 3 Introduction 4 4 Social Impact Assessment 8 Resettlement of Displaced Squatters and 5 14 Entitlements 6 Implementation Arrangements and Budget 18 7 Annexures 24 1 ABBREVIATIONS APMDP Andhra Pradesh Municipal Development Corporation APRRP Andhra Pradesh Resettlement and Rehabilitation Policy BPL Below Poverty Line CDMA Commissioner and Director of Municipal Administration CPRs Community Properties Recourses DEE Deputy Executive Engineer EE Executive Engineer ELSR Elevated Level Service Reservoir ESMC Environmental and Social Management Committee FGD Focused Group Discussions GMC Guntur Municipal Corporation IRS Income Restoration Schemes LA Land Acquisition LAO Land Acquisition Officer M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MDO Mandal Development Officer MSU Municipal Strengthening Unit NGO Non Government Organization PAPs Project Affected Persons PD Project Director PDFs Physical Displaced Families R & R Resettlement and Rehabilitation RAP Resettlement Action Plan RDO Revenue Divisional Officer RoW Right of Way S&E Social and Environmental SC Scheduled Caste ST Scheduled Tribe WTP Water Treatment Plant 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This Resettlement Action Plan has been prepared for Comprehensive Water Supply Service Improvements to Guntur Municipal Corporation- Packages-I&III taken up under APMDP with World Bank assistance. Main objective of this RAP is to mitigate the negative impacts due to this Sub-Project. This RAP covers project information and its impacts, R&R Policy frame work, Stakeholder’s meeting details, R&R entitlements, implementation arrangements, budget, Grievance Redressal Mechanism and synchronization of R&R and civil works. Comprehensive Water Supply Service Improvements to Guntur Municipal Corporation is formulated with River Krishna as source with intake arrangements at Undavalli. The sub- project is aimed at augmenting the water supply by construction of Water Treatment Plants and strengthening the distribution by construction of ELSRs and remodeling of distribution system. This sub-project is taken up in 3 packages. An ARAP has already been prepared for Package-II.. Hence, scope of this RAP is limited to Packages-I&III. The components of this sub-project have been so finalized that negative impacts are avoided as far as possible. The negative impacts are limited to displacement of 30 residential squatters on GMC land at Nulakpet and temporary displacement/ disturbance to 3 vendors on RoW during laying of pipelines. Following are the key provisions of the R&R policy frame work applied for this sub-project. All displaced residential squatters (30) will be allotted a house in the resettlement zone at Tadepalli along with subsistence allowance and shifting allowance. Owners of the affected houses (21) will be paid compensation for lost structure. Vulnerable families will be given annuity policy / fixed deposit to yield monthly income of Rs.500. Shifting allowance of Rs.2200 and transitional allowance of Rs.3300 will be provided for affected roadside vendors on RoW. Implementation of RAP will be done by the Commissioner, GMC. The RAP along with the budget for the same will be approved by GMC. The R&R implementation schedule has been synchronized with construction schedule. It will be ensured that compensation for the residential squatters and roadside vendors on RoW is paid before the commencement of respective civil works. The concurrent monitoring will be done by a third party monitoring agency. The tentative budget for this RAP works out to Rs.2.50 crores. The budget provides for resettlement of residential squatters and compensation to roadside vendors on RoW. 3 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Andhra Pradesh Municipal Development Project (APMDP) is a US$ 350 MILLION project being implemented by Government of Andhra Pradesh (GoAP) with support from World Bank. The Project is aimed at improving urban services in select ULBs mainly in water supply and sewerage sectors. The project will also support improvements in the financial, technical, and management capacities of all ULBs of Andhra Pradesh through technical assistance to sustain the infrastructures being created. 1.2 This sub-project for Guntur Municipal Corporation is one of the Comprehensive water supply service improvements taken up under Andhra Pradesh municipal Development Project (APMDP). This Sub-project is divided in to the following 3 Packages. Package I: Source Augmentation. Salient components of this Package are: 1. Intake well cum pump house in River Krishna at Undavalli 2. MS Raw water Gravity pipeline from MBR to Water treatment plant at Takkellapadu Premises. 3. Rapid gravity Water Treatment Plant of capacity 42 MLD at Takkellapadu in existing WTP Premises. 4. Rapid gravity Water Treatment Plant of capacity 25.20 MLD at Sangam Jagarlamudi in existing WTP premises. 5. Clear Water Rising mains (from 200mm dia to 900 mm dia with DI K-9 & DI K-7 pipes) for a length of 30.67km within Guntur Municipal Area. 6. 18 Elevated Level Service Reservoirs (capacity varying from 500 KL to 2300 KL). Package II: Remodeling of Distribution System in the Town. This package comprises remodeling of Distribution System in the ULB which mainly involves laying of DI And HDPE pipe lines. 4 Package III: Water Meters. This Package comprises of Supply, Delivery, Fixing and Maintenance of Bulk and Domestic Water Meters. SCOPE OF THIS RAP: An ARAP has already been prepared for Package-II. Hence, scope of this RAP is limited to Package-I and Package-III. 1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE RAP: The assessed adverse social impacts due to this Sub- Project involve displacement of residential squatters on GMC land at Nulakpet and temporary impact on some road side vendors on RoW along the alignment of some of the proposed pipe lines. Mitigation of these adverse social impacts needs assessment of the impacts, estimation of the compensation, preparation of methodology and schedule for payment of compensation and establishment of institutional mechanism for implementation of RAP and grievance redressal. This RAP is prepared to propose and implement these mitigation measures. The objectives of this RAP are summarised as follows: Assessment of impacts of the sub -project Identification of PAPs by type and extent of loss. Establish baseline data of the PAPs. Propose compensation as per the policy frame work. Estimation of compensation and R & R assistance for the PAPs. Outline Institutional Mechanism for implementation and Grievance Redressal. 1.4 STAKE HOLDERS’ CONSULTATION: In order to ensure participation of citizens in project preparation, to improve public awareness of development objectives of the projects and to promote project acceptability and transparency, Stakeholders meeting was conducted on 13-06-2011 where details of the project were explained and suggestions of participants were sought for wider acceptability of the proposal. Proceedings of the meeting are provided as Annexure- I. The suggestions received during the meeting and the replies are summarized below. 5 Response by the Urban Local Body/ Key Issues Identified/ Suggestions Integration in DPR. Muttineni Rajesh, former Corporator suggested Yes, the people coming for study purpose to consider the people coming for study to the are considered in the floating population. city in floating population. Consider the surrounding village population into Water demand for the surrounding villages the design which will be merged in Guntur is considered. The water is pumped from the WTP to the Shriram, former corporator, Gujjanagundla concerned sumps to ELSR's and ELSR's to suggested to consider the tanks (cheruvulu) for the distribution system directly. Hence, storage of the water. storage is not required. In old Guntur, the two service reservoirs were Additional service reservoirs are proposed constructed in the year 1975 to meet the water in the GMC area to meet the water supply demand. However, no additional demand of the projected population for reservoirs are constructed afterwards to meet the year 2041. the present demand The project is designed & will be All the project components should be constructed with sound engineering constructed with highest degree of quality techniques by considering national and norms. international (World Bank) norms. Stakeholders requested to increase the quantity The proposed water supply improvement of the water to be supplied in the Corporation scheme is designed for 135 lpcd. area. The residents of GMC are ready to pay the The proposed scheme is designed to meet water supply charges of Rs. 200 per month, if the GMC requirements comprehensively GMC supplies quality and adequate quantity of with quality and quantity. water. After allocation of the World Bank fund to the proposed water supply improvement scheme, The GoAP and World Bank audit norms will the construction work should be carried out with be followed to spend the amount as per sincere efforts as per the ground requirements ground reality. of the project. 6 Response by the Urban Local Body/ Key Issues Identified/ Suggestions Integration in DPR. All the old pipelines will be replaced to Replacement of the old pipelines, which are arrest the frequent