August 2018 Abbreviated Resettlement Action Plan REHABILITATION OF MORAGODA ELA CROSS DRAINS – PACKAGE B (BOMBE CASTLE AND HIRIBURA) IN GALLE Ministry of Megapolis and Western Development STRATEGIC CITIES DEVELOPMENT PROJECT | SETHSIRIPAYA, BATTARAMULLA Rehabilitation of Moragoda Ela Cross Drains - Package B Table of Contents Abbreviations ........................................................................................................ 4 A. Subproject Description ................................................................................ 6 I. Background ...................................................................................................................................... 6 II. Proposed Intervention ...................................................................................................................... 6 III. Significance of the subproject .................................................................................................... 10 IV. Scope of Proposed Civil Works ................................................................................................. 11 1) Bombe Castle Drain ....................................................................................................... 11 2) Hiribura Cross Drain ...................................................................................................... 11 V. Socio-Economic Profile ................................................................................................................. 11 B. Legal and Regulatory Framework ............................................................. 14 I. Land Acquisition Act No. 9 of 1950 .............................................................................................. 14 II. Land Acquisition (Payment of Compensation) Regulations of 2013 ............................................ 15 III. National Involuntary Resettlement Policy 2001 ........................................................................ 16 IV. Involuntary Resettlement Policy (OP/BP 4.12) ......................................................................... 16 C. Subprojects Impacts and Mitigations Measures ........................................ 19 I. Impact of Land Acquisition and Resettlement ............................................................................... 19 1) Acquisition of private land ............................................................................................. 19 2) Transfer of Government land ......................................................................................... 21 II. Impacts on Residential, Commercial and Auxiliary Structures ..................................................... 21 1) Impact on residential structures...................................................................................... 21 2) Impact on commercial structures ................................................................................... 22 3) Impact on auxiliary structures ........................................................................................ 22 4) Impacts on Standing Trees ............................................................................................. 23 5) Construction related impacts and mitigation measures .................................................. 24 III. Census of Project Affected Persons ........................................................................................... 25 D. Eligibility, Compensation and Resettlement Assistance ........................... 27 E. Consultations ............................................................................................. 31 I. Stakeholder Consultations.............................................................................................................. 31 II. Public Consultations on Moragoda Ela Cross Drain Rehabilitation-Package B ............................ 31 F. Institutional and Implementation Arrangements ....................................... 33 I. Dissemination of ARAP................................................................................................................. 34 II. Maintaining Information Profile .................................................................................................... 34 III. Grievance Redress Mechanism .................................................................................................. 34 Rehabilitation of Moragoda Ela Cross Drains - Package B 1 1) Grievances redress at field level ..................................................................................... 34 2) Grievance redresses at PIU level .................................................................................... 35 3) Grievance redresses to PMU level ................................................................................. 35 4) Independent Grievance Redress Panel (IGP) ................................................................. 35 G. Monitoring and Reporting ......................................................................... 37 I. Resettlement database .................................................................................................................... 39 H. Resettlement Budget .................................................................................. 40 Annex 1: Proposed Rehabilitation Activities of Cross Drains .............................................................. 42 Annex 2: Inventory of Losses ................................................................................................................ 43 Annex 3: Cabinet Approval for SCDP as ‘Specified Project’ ................................................................ 46 Annex 4: List of Participants at Individual Consultations ..................................................................... 47 Annex 5: List of Participants at Public Consultations ........................................................................... 50 Annex 6: Social Impact Mitigation Plan ................................................................................................ 51 Annex 7: Pictorial representation of Project Impact Area ..................................................................... 58 Rehabilitation of Moragoda Ela Cross Drains - Package B 2 List of Figures Figure 1: Moragoda Ela and the Cross Drain Packages ................................................................................ 8 Figure 2: Gender composition in the Project Impact Area ........................................................................ 12 Figure 3: Income Categories of the households ........................................................................................ 13 Figure 4: Monthly Incomes of PAHs ........................................................................................................... 26 Figure 5: Structure of the GRM for SCDP ................................................................................................... 36 Figure 6: Organigram of SCDP Social Safeguard Implementation ............................................................. 37 List of Tables Table 1: Design width of Moragoda Ela cross drains ................................................................................... 9 Table 2: Demographic profile of the GNDs ................................................................................................ 11 Table 3: Educational levels of the Population ............................................................................................ 12 Table 4: Livelihood activities of the households in Project Impact Area ................................................ 13 Table 5: Land Acquisition Process under Land Acquisition Act No. 9 of 1950 ........................................... 14 Table 6: Details of survey plan with number and dates ............................................................................ 19 Table 7: Land use pattern of the affected households .............................................................................. 19 Table 8: Impact of land acquisition ............................................................................................................ 20 Table 9: Details of the affected private land lots ....................................................................................... 20 Table 10: Proportion of the loss of land .................................................................................................... 21 Table 11: Land use pattern of the affected Government institutions ....................................................... 21 Table 12: Auxiliary structures affected due to land acquisition ................................................................ 23 Table 13: Details of affected trees and values ........................................................................................... 24 Table 14: Socio-economic profile of the PAHs ........................................................................................... 25 Table 15: Livelihoods of PAHs .................................................................................................................... 26 Table 16: Entitlement Matrix ..................................................................................................................... 28 Table 17: Summary of Community Consultation Outcomes on Cross Drains - Package -B ....................... 31 Table 18: Agencies responsible for Resettlement Plan Implementation .................................................