Colombo - Horana (B084)

108 Pages·2011·3.71 MB·English

by  Asian Development Bank

Resettlement Plan

May 2011
Document Stage: Draft

SRI: Additional Financing for National Highway
Sector Project

Colombo–Horana Highway (B084)

Prepared by Road Development Authority for the Asian Development Bank.
CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS
(as of 11 May 2011)
Currency unit – Sri Lanka rupee (Rs)
Rs1.00 = $0.009113278
$1.00 = Rs109.730000

ABBREVIATIONS
ADB – Asian Development Bank
CEA – Central Environmental Authority
CSC – Chief Engineer’s Office
CSC – Construction Supervision Consultant
CV – Chief Valuer
DSD – Divisional Secretariat Division
DS – Divisional Secretary
ESD – Environment and Social Division
GN – Grama Niladhari
GND – Grama Niladhari Division
GOSL – Government of Sri Lanka
GRC – Grievance Redress Committee
IOL – inventory of losses
LAA – Land Acquisition Act
LARC – Land Acquisition and Resettlement Committee
LARD – Land Acquisition and Resettlement Division
LAO – Land Acquisition Officer
LARS – land acquisition and resettlement survey
MOLLD – Ministry of Land and Land Development
NEA – National Environmental Act
NGO – nongovernmental organization
NIRP – National Involuntary Resettlement Policy
PD – project director
PMU – project management unit
RP – resettlement plan
RDA – Road Development Authority
ROW – right-of-way
SD – Survey Department
SES – socioeconomic survey
SEW – Southern Expressway
STDP – Southern Transport Development Project
TOR – terms of reference

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Ha hectare
km – kilometer
sq. ft. – square feet
sq. m – square meter
NOTE
In this report, "$" refers to US dollars.

This resettlement plan 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
preliminary in 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.
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CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .......................................................................................... v
CHAPTER 1 - PROJECT DESCRIPTION ................................................................ 1
1. Description of the Road Project .............................................................. 1
2. Road - Project Profile ............................................................................. 1
3. Administrative Boundaries of the Road Project ....................................... 4
4. Socioeconomic Benefits of the Project ................................................... 4
5. Land Acquisition and Impacts ................................................................. 5
6. Methodology ........................................................................................... 5
CHAPTER 2 – LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY FRAMEWORK ................................... 7
1. Legislative Framework ............................................................................ 7
2. Policy Framework ..................................................................................10
CHAPTER 3 – SCOPE FOR LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT ...........17
1. Impact of Land Acquisition.....................................................................17
2. Impact on Public and Community Properties .........................................21
8. Burial Grounds and Tomb Stones..........................................................21
9. Consultation Process will Agencies Responsible for Land Acquisition
and Resettlement ..................................................................................22
CHAPTER 4 – SOCIOECONOMIC PROFILE .........................................................23
1. Demographic Data of Displaced Households (DHs) ..............................23
2. Ethnicity .................................................................................................23
3. Population Distribution by Age and Gender ...........................................25
4. Educational Information .........................................................................26
5. Role of Women in the Household ..........................................................26
6. Vulnerable DPs .....................................................................................27
7. Attitude of the Displaced Persons towards the Development of the
Road Project Expected Socioeconomic Advantages .............................28
8. Perceived Adverse Effects.....................................................................29
CHAPTER 5 – INFORMATION DISSEMINATION CONSULTATION AND
PARTICIPATORY PROCESS ..........................................................31
1. Consultation process with agencies responsible for Land Acquisition
and Resettlement ..................................................................................31
2. Public Disclosure and Information Dissemination ..................................31
3. Consultation during RP preparation and implementation .......................31
4. Information Disclosure ...........................................................................32
CHAPTER 6 – ENTITLEMENTS .............................................................................35
1. Highlights of Entitlements ......................................................................35

2. Project Entitlement Matrix ......................................................................37
CHAPTER 7 – GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM ..........................................48
CHAPTER 8 – RELOCATION OF HOUSING AND SETTLEMENTS ......................53
1. The Options Available for DPs for Relocation ........................................53
2. Incentive Payments ...............................................................................54
3. Relocation Assistance for Encroachers .................................................55
4. Relocation of Sub-families .....................................................................55
5. Loss of Community Facilities and Resources ........................................55
6. Measures to Assist with Establishment at New Sites and Integration
with the Host Community .......................................................................56
CHAPTER 9 – INCOME RESTORATION AND REHABILITATION ........................57
1. Loss of Income and Livelihood of the Displaced ....................................57
Source: Land acquisition and Resettlement Survey (LARS), July 2007 .......59
2. Trade and Business...............................................................................59
3. Project as a Development Opportunity ..................................................60
4. Empowerment of Displaced Persons .....................................................60
5. Anticipated Losses ................................................................................60
6. Organization of Implement the Income Restoration Plan .......................61
7. Categories of DPs Entitled to Income Restoration Benefits ...................61
8. Identification of Potential Income Restoration Programmes ...................61
CHAPTER 10 – RESETTLEMENT BUDGET ..........................................................64
1. Total Cost for Land Acquisition and Resettlement .................................64
2. Rates Used in the Preparation of the Resettlement Budget ...................66
CHAPTER 11 – IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE ..................................................67
CHAPTER 12 – INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR RESETTLEMENT .............68
1. Project Management Unit ......................................................................68
2. ESD and Land Division ..........................................................................69
3. Divisional Secretariat .............................................................................69
4. Land Acquisition and Resettlement Committee (LARC) .........................70
5. Field Office of the PMU .........................................................................70
6. Construction Supervision Consultants (CSC) ........................................70
7. Institutional Arrangement to Attend to Gender Concerns .......................71
CHAPTER 13 – MONITORING AND EVALUATION ...............................................73
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 1 Settlement Distribution of DP Households by DS Divisions .............................. 4
Table 2 Category of Land and Extent Acquired ............................................................. 5
Table 3 Legislative GAP Analysis ............................................................................... 14
Table 4 Number of Displaced Households Losing Ownership / Access to Land
Tenure, Land Use and Type of Impact .................................................................. 17
Table 5 Summary of Land Acquisition and Resettlement Impacts ............................... 18
Table 6 Number of DP Households Displaced and Type of Impact ............................. 20
Table 7 Category of Structures and the Affected Extent.............................................. 20
Table 8 Type of Affected Community / Common Structures and the type of
Impact ................................................................................................................... 21
Table 9 Types of Affected Utilities and the type of Impact ........................................... 21
Table 10 Household Size of DP Households .............................................................. 23
Table 11 Ethnicity of Household Heads Disaggregated According to Gender ............. 23
Table 12 Civil Status of Household Heads Disaggregated According to Gender ......... 24
Table 13 Civil Status of Household Members (Excluding HH) Disaggregated
According to Gender ............................................................................................. 24
Table 14 Age Distribution of Household Heads Disaggregated According to
Gender .................................................................................................................. 25
Table 15 Age Distribution of Household Members (Excluding HH) Disaggregated
According to Gender ............................................................................................. 25
Table 16 Educational Attainment of Household Heads Disaggregated According
to Gender .............................................................................................................. 26
Table 17 Educational Status of Household Members (Excluding HH)
Disaggregated According to Gender ..................................................................... 26
Table 18 Women‟s Freedom to Engage in Household and Community Activities
(Multiple Responses, N = 391) .............................................................................. 27
Table 19 Livelihood of DPs which are affected by the Project ..................................... 27
Table 20 Workers / Labourers in Business / Enterprises which are affected by the
Project ................................................................................................................... 27
Table 21 Monthly income and Expenditure of the DP Households .............................. 27
Table 22 Vulnerable DP Households by Category ...................................................... 27
Table 23 Displaced persons Receiving Assistance from State Institutions .................. 28
Table 24 DPs Perceived Social and Economic Advantages of the Project / Road
Project (multiple responses, N=391) ...................................................................... 28
Table 25 DPs Perceived Social and Economic Impacts of the Project / Road
Project (multiple responses, N=391) ...................................................................... 29
Table 28: Completed and Planned Public Consultation and Disclosure Activities ....... 33
Table 28 DPs Preferred Method of Resettlement ........................................................ 54
Table 29 Estimated Cost of Land Acquisition and Resettlement of Road Project
B084 ..................................................................................................................... 64
Table 33 Implementation Schedule – Major Events .................................................... 67
Table 35 Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators ........................................................... 75
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1 Location Map of B084 (Colombo – Horana) .................................................... 3

ANNEXES
Annex 1: National Involuntary Resettlement Policy 77
Annex 2: The personnel met during the field visits ...................................................... 83
Annex 3: TOR for the External Monitoring and Reporting Consultant / Agency ........... 84
Annex 4: Census Survey Questionnaire ..................................................................... 86
Annex 5: Sinhala Version of Entitlement Matrix .......................................................... 86
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1. Introduction
1. The resettlement plan (RP) is based on the data collected by census and
socioeconomic survey (SES) conducted in the project area after demarcation of the
centre line of the ROW after the preliminary design of the planed improvement to the
road. The information contained in the RP is tentative until completion of detail
engineering designs and the preliminary plan. After which RDA will finalize the RP by
completing the census and the inventories of loss of assets. This will be sent to ADB
for review and disclosure to ADB website.
2. Colombo–Horana B084 Highway is 13.4 km in length and one of the six road
projects to be upgraded under the National Highways Sector Project (NHSP) Southern
Link Road Development as shown in Figure 1. The road starts at Pamankada Junction
ends up at Polgasowita. The design right-of-way is for a minimum of 24m with
additional requirement in place for embankments and requires 6+07m widening each
side for a four-lane highway up to southern expressway at Kahathuduwa. Hence total
land acquisition requirement is 3,627 perches or 9.1 acres.
2. Methodology
3. Resettlement consultants reviewed the Resettlement Plan completed in mid of
2007 for the section from 01+100 to 14+500. It is necessary to do a detail survey of this
section to obtain data before implementation of this road project. The DPs were
informed by the RDA that the road will be widened and many of the DPs are in favour
of this development.
3. Scope of Land Acquisition and Resettlement
4. Total of 303 lots belonging to 303 households will be needed to acquire for the
widening of this road which result in displacement of 82 residential and commercial
units. The required area for land acquisition has been ascertained to approximately
3627 perches or 9.1 hectares. Out of this total extent 2.67 Hectares or 1,058 perches
are private residential lands, 0.19 Hectares or 76 perches of commercial land and 6.30
Hectares or 2,493 perches, belong to agricultural sector. Total of 303 households will
be displaced both physically and economically, comprising of a population of 1453
persons of this number 741 are females.
4. Socioeconomic Information
5. Of the 303 households displaced,128 households falls under the category of
residentisl,45 households in trade and business and 120 households in agricultural
category of the total displaced households (DHs), 32% belong to 41-60 age group out
of the total DHs 3% have achieved up to primary school, 91.5% secondary school and
over 5.1% tertiary level of education. Number of displaced persons (DPs) losing
income temporary is 40 and impacts of the income of 68 DPs are severe as they are
permanently losing their agricultural income over 87% of the DPs are earning over
Rs.10,000 per month. But, it is not only their main income source.
6. There are no indigenous people located in the vicinity of this road project area.
5. Information Dissemination, Consultation and Participatory Approaches
7. A workshop has conducted in Colombo for the representative of the main
agencies connected with the Land Acquisition and Resettlement to relocate them of the
programme enabling to disseminate information through them. Discussions all were
held with Divisional Secretariat of Kesbewa including Homagama and Thimbirigasyaya
to organise awareness meetings with all relevant stakeholders. Member of Clergy,
Politicians, Grama Niladharies, Samurdhi Niyamakas, Agricultural Assistants and
representatives of CBOs have attended these meetings. Information flyer was
distributed among the participants to be familiarised with the project, in addition to the
discussion had among the Participants. Altogether 04 consultation meetings with the
participation of the various stake holders were held between June 2007 to May 2010
and one to one consultation between resettlement staff and the displaced persons is
being continued.
6. Grievance Redress Mechanism
8. A grievance redress mechanism will be in place to allow people a forum
accessible to them to submit their grievances. The GRC will comprise of public officials
and members of the civil society. Wide publicity will be given regarding the powers and
composition of the GRC. DPs could make representations to the GRC to seek redress
to their resettlement issues.
7. Policy and Legal Framework
9. Land acquisition is governed by a statute enacted by parliament in 1950
designated as Land Acquisition Act, with certain amendments made periodically to
meet the emerging situations of the state and the public. Latest amendment being the
version of 1986 and the Regulations 2008, gazetted on the 20 January 2009.
Resettlement policy of the road project is based on the provisions contained in the (i)
National Environment Act (NEA), (ii) National Involuntary Resettlement Policy, (iii) ADB
Safeguard Policy Statement, 2009.
8. Entitlement
10. In order to comply with the NIRP and Safeguard Policy Statement, 2009 on
resettlement, in addition to the statutory compensation payable under the LAA, a
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special compensation package has been approved by the Cabinet of Ministers to
address all resettlement issues faced by the displaced persons including payment of
replacement cost for the loss of properties, income and livelihood restoration. The
Entitlement Matrix is a part of the resettlement implementation plan and has been
presented under entitlements, funds will be provided by the Government of
Sri Lanka (GOSL) in a timely manner to complete the payment of compensation as
planned.
9. Relocation of Housing and Settlement
11. There are two options for the displaced persons to relocate after handing over
their properties to the project. Either the DP could obtain the replacement cost of the
properties and other entitlements and relocate in a location selected by himself or
resettle in a site developed by the project management unit subject to the availability of
such lands in the area in consultation with displaced persons. Project will assist
wherever possible to find alternate locations to re-establish businesses of the affected.
10. Income Restoration Strategy
12. After a need assessment survey income restoration plan (IRP) will be launched
in order to assist the DPs to restore and rehabilitate their businesses. Those with minor
impacts will be given a grant of Rs.15,000 or loss of net income for six months
whichever is higher. Vulnerable DPs are entitled to an additional compensation of
Rs.15,000 and those who lose wage income is entitled to a grant, equivalent of three
months basic salary.
11. Resettlement Budget
13. Entire resettlement budget is financed by funds provided by the GOSL. The
amount of compensation including administrative costs and provision for contingencies
is approximately Rs. 376 million equivalents to approximately US$ 3.2 million. Statutory
compensation, replacement cost, and cost of IRP are included in the budget.
12. Implementation Schedule
14. Implementation is based on the time frame indicated in the implementation
schedule. It is of 18 months duration. Implementation is undertaken by the relevant
staff of the PMU assisted by Environmental and Social Division of RDA (ESD),
Divisional Secretaries (DSs), and Construction Supervision Consultant (CSC).
13. Institutional Framework for Resettlement
15. RDA/PMU is mainly responsible for the implementation of the resettlement
programme with the assistance of the DPs, ESD, DSs, CSC, community-based