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Internal Monitoring Report for Implementation of Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan

16th Quarterly Internal Monitoring Report for Implementation of Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan (June 2019 - August 2019) 21 October 2019

PAK: National Motorway M-4 Gojra-Shorkot- Project Prepared by National Highway Authority, Ministry of Communications, Government of Pakistan for the Asian Development Bank.

CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of 21 October 2019)

Currency unit – Pakistani rupee/s (PRs)

PRs1.00 = $0.00641 $1.00 = PRs 155.906

ABBREVIATIONS

ADB - Asian Development Bank

AD - Assistant Director

AC - Assistant Commissioner

BOR - Board of Revenue

CAP - Corrective Action Plan

CNIC - Computerized National Identity Card

DC - Deputy Commissioner

DPAC - District Price Assessment Committee

DPC - Displaced Persons Committee

DP - Displaced Person

EMA - External Monitor Agency

EMR - External Monitoring Report

GM - General Manager

GRC - Grievance Redress Committee

GRM - Grievance Redress Mechanism

IDC - International Development Consultants

NOTE

(1) In this report, "$" refers to US dollars.

This 16th quarterly internal monitoing report for implementation of land acquisition and 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.

NATIONAL HIGHWAY AUTHORITY

Ministry of Communications

Government of Pakistan

PAK: NATIONAL MOTORWAY M-4 GOJRA-SHORKOT-KHANEWAL PROJECT

Internal Monitoring Report (No.16)

for the Implementation of Land Acquisition & Resettlement Plan (LARP) and

Corrective Action Plan (CAP) of M-4 Gojra-Shorkot Section

(M-4 Section-II)

Chainage 58+100 to 120+268 (62 km) (June 2019 – August 2019)

Prepaired BY. Qasim Sultan

Dy. Director (LM&IS) M-4, M-4 Ext. & M-2

National Highway Authority

Faisalabad – Khanewal (M-4) Project (Section-II) Internal Monitoring Report (No.16) (June, 2019 – August 2019)

Prepaired BY. Qasim Sultan (Dy. Director LM&IS) NHA M-4 , M-4 Ext. & M-2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS ......................................................................................................... i

LIST OF TABLES ................................................................................................................. iii

LIST OF ANNEXES ............................................................................................................. iii

ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................................ iv

1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................ 1

1.1 Project Background ..................................................................................................... 1

1.2 LARP Implementation Status as of 16th Internal Monitoring Report ............................. 1

2 NEED FOR INTERNAL MONITORING OF LARP AND CAP ...................................... 3

2.1 Internal Monitoring Requirements of LARP and CAP .................................................. 3

2.2 Objectives of the Internal Monitoring Report ............................................................... 3

2.3 Monitoring Indicators ................................................................................................... 3

2.4 Monitoring Methodology .............................................................................................. 4

2.5 Structure of the Internal Monitoring Report ................................................................. 4

3. LARP IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS REVIEW ...................................................... 5

3.1 LARP Implementation Progress in reporting period..................................................... 5

3.2 Compensation Payment Disbursement ....................................................................... 5

3.2.1 Payment of Land Compensation ................................................................................. 5

3.2.2 Payment of Crop Compensation ................................................................................. 5

3.2.3 Payment of Affected Structures................................................................................... 5

3.2.4 Payment of Affected Trees .......................................................................................... 6

3.2.5 Payment of Allowances ............................................................................................... 6

3.2.5.1 Payment of Additional Crop Compensation ............................................................... 6

3.2.5.2 Resettlement Assistance Allowance .......................................................................... 6

3.2.5.3 Livelihood Allowance ................................................................................................. 7

3.2.5.4 Transport Allowance.................................................................................................. 7

3.2.5.5 Business Losses Allowance ...................................................................................... 7

3.2.5.6 Vulnerable Allowance ................................................................................................ 7

3.2.5.7 Allowance for Employment Loss................................................................................ 7

3.2.5.8 Replacement Cost Allowance .................................................................................... 7

3.2.5.9 Electricity Allowance .................................................................................................. 8

3.2.5.10 House Rent Allowance ............................................................................................ 8

3.3. Pending Payment ..................................................................................................... 10

3.3.1. Payments Stuck due to Legal Administrative Reasons ............................................. 10

3.4 Facilitation provided to DPs in Processing of Claims ................................................. 11

3.5 Efforts Exhausted to Approach unpaid DPs for Additional Documentation ................ 12

3.5.1 Efforts Exhausted to Approach unpaid DPs of Land Compensation .......................... 12

3.5.2 Efforts Exhausted to Approach unpaid DPs of Allowances Compensation ................ 12

4. CONSTRUCTION RELATED EMERGING LAR ISSUES .......................................... 15

4.1 Additional Land Acquisition for Interchange Loops Carriageway ............................... 15

5. CONSULTATIONS, PARTICIPATION AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE ............ 18

5.1 Community Consultations ......................................................................................... 18

5.1.1 Community Consultations with Men and Women Unpaid DPs .................................. 18

5.2 Issues/ Concerns Discussed During Consultation Meetings ...................................... 18



5.3 Coordination meetings with Officials to Facilitate Compensation Payment ................ 19

6. GENDER ISSUES/ ANALYSIS IN LARP IMPLEMENTATION .................................. 20

6.1 Gender Segregated Consultations with the Unpaid DPs ........................................... 20

6.2 Project impact on Women Mobility and Privacy ......................................................... 20

6.3 Gender Issues/ analysis in LARP Implementation ..................................................... 21

6.4 Issues relating the Payment of Compensation to unpaid DPs ................................... 21

7. GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM AND COMPLAINTS HANDLING ................ 20

8. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ......................................................... 21

8.1 Conclusions .............................................................................................................. 21

8.2 Recommendations .................................................................................................... 22

PHOTOLOG ....................................................................................................................... 24

ANNEXES ........................................................................................................................... 27



LIST OF TABLES

Table 3.1: Impediments Causing Delay in Payment of Additional Crop Compensation ......... 6 Table 3.2: Impediments Causing Delay in Payment of Resettlement Assistance Allowance . 6 Table 3.3: Impediments Causing Delay in Payment of Replacement Cost Allowance ........... 7 Table 3.4: A Summary of Payments by type of Impacts ........................................................ 9 Table 3.5: Reasons for Delay in Payment of Land Compensation ....................................... 11 Table 3.6: Compensation payment against each category of unpaid cases ........................ 11 Table 3.7: Efforts made on Additional Documentation to expedite the process of Stuck

Payments .......................................................................................................... 12 Table 4.1: New & Already Existing DPs of Interchanges ROW Land ................................... 16 Table 4.2: Time-bound Action Plan for Emerging LAR Issues ............................................. 17 Table 5.1: Summary of Community Consultation with Men and Women Unpaid DPs.......... 18 Table 5.2: Issues and Response from the project team ....................................................... 18 Table 6.1: Gender Segregated Summary of Community Consultation ................................ 20 Table 7.1: Status of Complaints Resolution by Type Overall Complaints Resolution ........... 20

LIST OF ANNEXES

Annex 5.1: List of Consultations with Unpaid DPs ............................................................... 28



ABBREVIATIONS

ADB

Asian Development Bank

AD

assistant director

AC

assistant commissioner

BOR

Board of Revenue

CAP

corrective action plan

CNIC

computerized national identity card

DC

deputy commissioner

DPAC

district price assessment committee

DPC

displaced persons committee

DP

displaced person

EMA

external monitoring agency

EMR external monitoring report

GM

general manager

GRC

grievance redress committee

GRM

grievance redress mechanism

IDC

International Development Consultants

IMR

internal monitoring report

IR

involuntary resettlement

LAA

Land Acquisition Act

LAC

land acquisition collector

LAR

land acquisition and resettlement

LARP

land acquisition and resettlement plan

M&E

monitoring & evaluation

M4

Motorway 4

NHA

National Highway Authority

NHA, Land Team

Team constituted by Dy. Director (Land) to fill the void of SSMC team , Consisting of (NHA Land Wing Officers/Officials)

PD

project director

PIU

project implementation unit

PMU

project management unit

PRM

Pakistan Resident Mission

RS

resettlement specialist

ROW

right of way

SPS

Safeguard Policy Statement

SSMC

social safeguard management consultant

SM

social mobilizer

SC

supervision consultant



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FAISALABAD – KHANEWAL MOTORWAY PROJECT (M4) 16th Internal Monitoring Report for the Implementation of LARP & CAP of

National Motorway M-4 Gojra–Shorkot Section Project (58+100 to 120+268 = 62 km)

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Project Background

1. This report is the 16th Internal Monitoring Report (IMR) for the monitoring period of June 2019 – August 2019 to monitor and assess the resettlement outcomes by the implementation of LARP for the National Motorway M-4 Gojra-Shorkot Section Project (hereinafter referred to as the Project) of National Highway Authority (NHA), with financial assistance of Asian Development Bank (ADB) through Loan Pak 3300.

2. The Project starts at M-4 chainage 58+100 at Chak No. 304/JB (end point of M-4 Faisalabad-Gojra Section at Gojra-Jhang road) and after crossing through various rural settlements, ends at chainage 120+268 km Chak No. 7-Ghagh (near Shorkot city).The project works include construction of 4-lane dual carriage way with three (3) interchanges located at Chainage 80+000 km (Toba Tek Singh-Jhang Road), Chainage 94+000 km (TobaTek Singh-Waryamwala Road) and 120+000 km (Shorkot Cantt-Shorkot City Road). The project is in two districts (Jhang and Toba Tek Singh) and three tehsils (Gojra, Toba Tek Singh and Shorkot). The location map of Section II is given in Figure 1.1.

Figure 1.1: Location Map of Faisalabad – Khanewal (M-4) Project

1.2 LARP Implementation Status as of 16th Internal Monitoring Report

3. LARP implementation is internally monitored and presented in the quarterly internal monitoring reports and submitted for ADB’s review and acceptance. The LARP implementation status reported in the 16th internal monitoring report (i.e. up to August, 2019) reflected that out of 3,502 DPs, 2,767 DPs were paid Rs. 907.909 million as compensation for acquired land and other assets, resettlement and livelihood restoration allowances as per

M-4 Section II (Gojra-Shorkot)



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LARP provisions. The remaining unpaid compensation for acquired assets and other entitled allowances is Rs. 20.523 million. The details of pending payment of compensation against acquired land/assets and allowances to unpaid DPs is provided in Table 1.1 below: Table 1.1: LARP Implementation with Pending Compensation as of 16th IMR

Type of Payment Updated No. of DPs and Compensation

Unpaid DPs and Compensation (as per 14th IMR)

Amount (Rs. M.)

DPs (No.) Unpaid Amount (Rs. M.)

Unpaid DPs (No.)

I. Land Compensation 647.925 3,502 14.345 735

II. Non-Land Compensation

i. Crop Compensation 56.814 463 0.358 4

ii. Affected Structures 31.935 118 0.215 4

iii. Affected Trees 73.683 410 0.054 3

III. Allowances

iv. Additional Crop Compensation 18.447 454 0.683 20

v. Resettlement Allowance 79.464 3,502 2.959 779

vi. Livelihood Allowance 0.893 23 0.119 3

vii. Transport Allowance 0.856 63 0.075 5

viii. Business Allowance 2.021 43 0.158 3

ix. Vulnerable Allowance 1.070 27 0.079 2

x. Employment Losses Allowance 0.238 6 - -

xi. Replacement Cost 13.378 990 1.250 303

xii. Electricity 0.880 22 0.120 3

xiii. House Rent 0.828 23 0.108 3

4. The LARP implementation and monitoring teams included the NHA land management staff i.e Dy. Director (Land) M-4 & M-4 Ext. , Assistant (Land) , Qanoongo (M-4), Patwaris and LDC’s. The Land staff coordinates with DPs to ensure payment of pending amount of compensation, monitor LARP implementation progress, update LAR database management information system and prepare quarterly internal monitoring reports for NHA and ADB’s review and acceptance. This is the “16th Internal Monitoring Report" (IMR) for section II of M-4 project which covers implementation progress in Gojra-Shorkot Section from June 2019 – August 2019.



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2 NEED FOR INTERNAL MONITORING OF LARP AND CAP

2.1 Internal Monitoring Requirements of LARP and CAP

5. LARP activities under the Project are subject to both internal and external monitoring. NHA, without the assistance of SSMC NHA land section, is responsible for internal monitoring of resettlement activities. Internal monitoring is done quarterly and this report is for 16th Internal monitoring of M-4 Gojra-Shorkot Section Project (Section II). The results of internal monitoring are included in the internal monitoring report for submission to ADB.

6. NHA has engaged the services of an External Monitor Agency (EMA) for external monitoring of section II. External monitoring reports are prepared semi-annually. EMR of M-4 Gojra-Shorkot Section Project (Section II) May-2019 has been submitted to ADB by NHA.

2.2 Objectives of the Internal Monitoring Report

7. This internal monitoring report presents the safeguards management progress achieved, coordination and consultations efforts carried out to mobilize and assist the DPs for receiving payment of compensation and redress of grievances. It summarizes the progress on following aspects:

• Delivery of compensation for assets and entitled allowances to the unpaid DPs who show-up their documentation after resolving their legal and administrative impediments;

• Efforts exerted to address construction related emerging LAR issues and progress on additional land acquisition along interchanges carriageway ROW, for submitted and cleared Addendum to LARP of Section II for interchanges loop community track;

• Activities and actions for the compensation of payment to the DPs with which efforts were implemented by recording additional documentation as required under ADB’s Guidance Notes of Handling of Compensation Cases with Legal and Administrative Impediments

• Community consultation and information dissemination activities performed for compensation disbursement and assessment on achievement of LARP objectives;

• Updates on recording, and handling of grievances; and

• Employment data of DPs and local community who got opportunity in the road construction work

• Recommend actions to improve disbursement of compensation and entitled allowances to achieve the LARP objectives.

2.3 Monitoring Indicators

8. Specific monitoring benchmarks are based on the approved LARP and cover the following:

a) Information campaign and consultation with DPs; b) Status of land acquisition and payments of land compensation; c) Status of crop, trees, structures compensation; d) Relocation of DPs; e) Payments for loss of income; f) Status of payment for resettlement and rehabilitation allowances;



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g) Selection and distribution of replacement land areas; h) Income restoration activities; and i) Ensure gender mitigation measures in the LARP are adhered to during the quarterly

monitoring and reporting process.

2.4 Monitoring Methodology

9. This IMR is based on review of, i) LARP implementation database and records maintained by the land acquisition unit, ii) monthly progress report compiled by the land staff after expiration of contract of SSMC team; iii) record on consultations with DPs and other community outreach measures implemented; iv) documentation on DPs with legal and administrative impedimennts and measures implemented to faciliate such DPs in processing and payment of compensation; v) updates on grievance redress mechanism including complaints recording, tracking and redress systems; and vii) compensation for acquired assets and payments for entitled allowances etc.

10. It also includes progress in identifying, assessing and redressing of construction related emerging LAR issues. It provides a brief on identification and assessment of construction related emerging LAR issues with timebound corrective action plan and updated progress on timebound action plan for acquisition of additional land, prepration and implementation of addendum to the LARP to ensure project implementation is in compliance with ADB’s IR sagfegaurds requirments.

2.5 Structure of the Internal Monitoring Report

11. This Internal monitoring report presents the updated status of implementation of LARP (June 2019 - August 2019) that includes disbursement of payments, grievance redress mechanism, disclosure of information, institutional arrangements, details components of which are presented below:

i) No. of displaced persons (DPs) paid, unpaid and being paid; ii) Status of land acquisition; iii) Loss of structures and status of payments and income restoration; iv) Affected fruit and timber/ wood trees and status of their payments; v) Affected crops and payments; vi) Payment of allowances including rehabilitation, livelihood restoration and

vulnerability allowances; vii) Categorized payment of land compensation including payments to the DPs (a)

not living in the project area, (b) have meager amounts of compensation, (c) national ID cards, (d) and have issues with land titles/ ownership or inheritance matters;

viii) Efforts underway to complete all categorized payments; ix) Complaints/ redress management; x) Institutional arrangements put in place for LARP implementation and

monitoring; and xi) Conclusions and recommendations.

12. The following section contains the progress of LARP implementation (Section II) and findings of the report.



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3. LARP IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS REVIEW

13. Land compensation payment to payable DPs is completed. However, DPs with legal and administrative impediment remain unpaid. The subsequent sections provide a brief on the LARP implementation progress achieved and efforts implemented during monitoring period.

3.1 LARP Implementation Progress in reporting period

14. The land acquisition for the carriageway and interchanges is considerably completed and the remaining unpaid compensation for land and land-based assets is pending mainly due to legal and administrative impediments faced by the DPs. During reporting period (June 2019 - August 2019), efforts were continued to outreach and record additional documents as well as mobilize unpaid DPs for resolving their issues to get compensation for land and improve payment progress against entitled allowances like additional crops compensation, resettlement allowances and replacement cost differential. Focus was made on the delivery of additional crop compensation, resettlement assistance allowance and replacement cost (allowance) to the DPs who already had collected their compensation for land and land-based assets. Continued follow-up helped in a slight decrease in unpaid number of DPs for land compensation and to improve compensation payment status against some of the entitled allowances. The Land Acquisition Collector is processing the submitted files of DPs for payments made during reporting period.

3.2 Compensation Payment Disbursement

3.2.1 Payment of Land Compensation

15. A total of Rs. 647.925 million was to be paid to 3,502 DPs. Of which, 2,767 DPs (79.01%) were paid an amount of Rs. 633.580 million (97.8%). The balance amount of Rs. 14.345 million (2.2%) is yet to be paid to 735 DPs (20.9%) with legal and administrative impediments, such as title disputes/ issues, DPs not livings in project area, DPs with inheritance mutation issues, minor DPs and those lacking valid legal documents to claim compensation. The Table 3.4 below provides a summary of land compensation for awarded land.

3.2.2 Payment of Crop Compensation

16. Rs. 56.814 million was to be paid to 463 DPs as crop compensation, Of which, 459 DPs (99.1%) have been paid an amount of Rs. 56.456 million (99.4%). The leftover compensation of Rs. 0.358 million (0.6%) for 4 DPs (0.86%) is yet to be paid. The efforts are continuing to outreach, mobilize and facilitate remaining 4 DPs for payment of compensation as and when they show-up documents after resolving their legal and administrative impediments.

3.2.3 Payment of Affected Structures

17. Rs. 31.935 million was to be paid to 118 DPs for their affected structures. Out of which, Rs. 31.72 million (99.33%) has been paid to 114 DPs (96.61%) and Rs. 0.215 million (0.67%) to 4 remaining DPs (3.39%) is yet to be paid for their structure. The whereabouts for the remaining 3 DPs are unknown and 1 DP has passedaway. The PIU/SSMC will keep in coordinating with the DPC president, village’s headmen and other community members and as soon as the whereabouts of these three households are known, they will be paid.



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3.2.4 Payment of Affected Trees

18. Rs.73.683 million had to be delivered to 410 DPs as compensation for loss of trees, Out of which, Rs. 73.629 million (99.9%) has been paid to 407 DPs (99.3%) and Rs. 0.054 million (0.1%) to 3 remaining DPs (0.7%) is yet to be paid for their trees. These 3 DPs have legal and administrative impediments and could be compensated as and when they show-up documents with their valid claims.

3.2.5 Payment of Allowances

19. During this reporting period, some progress was made in providing resettlement allowance. Details of the overall payment of various allowances are given below:

3.2.5.1 Payment of Additional Crop Compensation

20. On the crop losses, additional crop compensation is provided to DPs. In this context, 454 DPs were to be paid an amount of Rs.18.447 million as additional crop compensations. Out of which, Rs. 17.764 million (96.3%) has been paid to 434 DPs (95.6%) and Rs. 0.683 million (3.7%) to 20 remaining DPs (4.41%) is yet to be paid for their additional crop compensation. Details of 20 unpaid DPs reflecting issues/ impediments causing delay in payment are given in Table 3.1.

Table 3.1: Impediments Causing Delay in Payment of Additional Crop Compensation

Categories of Impediments/ Reasons for Delay DPs (Nos.)

(i) Under process for payment 2

(ii) Deceased 7 (iii) DP out of country 2

(iv) Informed 9 Total Unpaid 20

21. NHA, Land field staff/ Team (M-4) will continue its efforts to locate, motivate and disburse payments to all payable DPs as and when they show-up documents after overcoming their issues/ impediments.

3.2.5.2 Resettlement Assistance Allowance

22. The total resettlement allowance is Rs. 79.464 million to be provided to 3,502 DPs. Out of which, Rs. 76.587 million (96.4%) has been paid to 2,728 DPs (77.9%). The remaining 774 DPs1 (22.1%) are yet to be paid Rs. 2.877 million (3.6%). Those having different constraints/issues causing delay in payment are presented in Table 3.2.

Table 3.2: Impediments Causing Delay in Payment of Resettlement Assistance Allowance



(ii) Deceased 6 (iii) DP out of country 1

(iv) DP out of project area 1

(v) Meager amount (Not Interested) 1

(vi) Informed 18 Total Unpaid 34

1Out of 774 unpaid DPs in this category, 735 DPs could not be paid because their land compensation is still pending due to legal and administrative impediments. For remaining 34 payable DPs for land, payment process is being delayed due to certain issues/ impediments faced by them.



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23. The efforts will be continued to mobilize the DPs to overcome their issues and ensure delivery of compensation to all payable DPs.

3.2.5.3 Livelihood Allowance

24. Livelihood allowance for 23 DPs is Rs. 0.893 million. Rs.0.774 million (86.67%) has been paid to 20 DPs (86.96%). The remaining Rs. 0.119 million (13.33%) is yet to be provided to 3 DPs (13.04%) with legal and administrative impediments.

3.2.5.4 Transport Allowance

25. Out of Rs. 0.856 million transportation allowance to be paid to 63 DPs, Rs.0.781 million (91.24%) has been paid to 58 DPs (92.06%). The remaining Rs. 0.075 million (8.76%) are to be paid to 5 DPs (7.94%) having legal and administrative impediments. The efforts by NHA, Land team are continued to locate and pay the leftover DPs as and when they show-up.

3.2.5.5 Business Losses Allowance

26. Rs. 2.021 million business loss allowances is due to 43 DPs. Out of which, Rs. 1.863 million (92.18%) has been delivered to 40 DPs (93.02%). The remaining Rs. 0.158 million (7.8%) were to be paid but these 3 DPs (6.98%) died before to start the payment process. The legal heirs of these DPs are being pursued to come-up with valid title proof and supporting documents to receive their allowances.

3.2.5.6 Vulnerable Allowance

27. Vulnerability allowance for 27 DPs is Rs. 1.070 million. Vulnerability allowance to Rs.0.991 million (92.62%) has been provided to 25 DPs (92.59%). The remaining Rs. 0.079 million (7.38%) is yet to be paid to 2 DPs (7.41%) because their whereabouts are unknown.

3.2.5.7 Allowance for Employment Loss

28. Allowance for employment loss for 6 DPs is Rs.0.238 million, which has been 100% fully paid to all 6 entitled DPs belonging to this category.

3.2.5.8 Replacement Cost Allowance

29. Rs. 12.128 million (90.7%) of replacement cost allowance has been delivered to 687 DPs (69.4%). The payment of the remaining Rs. 1.250 million (9.3%) for 303 DPs (30.6%) is still in progress. Of these 303 DPs, 256 DPs are unpaid for land category due to legal and administrative impediments, while 47 DPs who have already received their land compensation were considered payable. However, when contacted for processing of their compensation files, it is identified that many of them also had certain issues that are causing delays in payment of compensation. Ongoing status for payment process and recorded different reasons causing delay in payment to DPs are presented in Table 3.3.

Table 3.3: Impediments Causing Delay in Payment of Replacement Cost Allowance



(ii) Deceased 16 (iii) DP is out of country 8

(iv) Meager amount (not interested) 3

(v) Informed 6 Total Unpaid 47



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3.2.5.9 Electricity Allowance

30. In case of electricity allowance, Rs.0.760 million (86.36%) has been delivered to 19 DPs (86.36%). The remaining Rs. 0.120 million (13.64%) is yet to be paid to 3 DPs (13.64%). Whereabouts of 2 DPs are unknown and 1 DP has died. Efforts are continued to locate the unpaid DPs and mobilize the legal heirs of the deceased DP to receive the allowance.

3.2.5.10 House Rent Allowance

31. Rs. 0.720 million (86.96%) rental allowance has been made to 20 DPs (86.96%). The remaining Rs 0.108 million (13.04%) for 3 DPs (13.04%) having legal and administrative impediments is still underway. Out of 3 unpaid DPs, 2 DPs are untraceable and one DP is died. Efforts are continued to locate the unpaid DPs and facilitate the legal heirs of deceased DP to get inheritance mutation record for processing and payment of entitled allowances.

32. Abstract of the progress made during the reporting period are provided in the text below.and a comparative summary of implementation progress since last monitoring report is provided in Table 3.4:



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Table 3.4: A Summary of Payments by type of Impacts

Category-wise Summary of Payment Disbursement for Current Quarter (June 2019 – August 2019)

Sr.

No.

Type of Payment Actual DPs and Cost Progress as per

(till May 2019)

Progress during Quarter

(June 2019 – August 2019)

Total

(As of 31st August 2019)

Payable Total Paid Unpaid Paid Unpaid Paid Unpaid Paid Unpaid Paid Unpaid Paid Unpaid

Payment DPs Amount Amount DPs DPs Amount Amount DPs DPs Amount Amount DPs DPs

(Rs. M) (No) (Rs. M.) (Rs. M.) (No.) (No.) (Rs. M.) (Rs. M.) (No.) (No.) (Rs. M.) (Rs. M.) (No.) (No.)

1 Land Compensation 647.925 3,502 633.320 14.605 2,762 740 0.260 14.345 05 735 633.560 14.345 2767 735 (Awarded)

(97.7%) (2.3%) (78.9%) (21.1%) (97.7%) (2.3%) (78.9%) (21.1%)

2 Non-Land Payment 56.814 463 56.456 0.358 459 4 - 0.358 - 4 56.456 0.358 459 4

Crops Compensation

(99.4%) (0.63%) (99.1%) (0.86%)

(99.4%) (0.63%) (99.1%) (0.86%) 3 Affected Structures 31.935 118 31.720 0.215 114 4 - 0.215 - 4 31.720 0.215 114 4

(Awarded)

(99.3%) (0.7%) (96.6%) (3.4%)

(99.3%) (0.7%) (96.6%) (3.4%)

4 Affected Trees 73.683 410 73.629 0.054 407 3* - 0.054 - 3 73.629 0.054 407 3* (Awarded)

(99.9%) (0.1%) (99.3%) (0.7%)

(99.9%) (0.1%) (99.3%) (0.7%)

5 Allowances – rehabilitation/ livelihood restoration

i) Additional Crop 18.447 454 17.764 0.683 434 20 - 0.683 - 20 17.764 0.683 434 20 Compensation

(96.3%) (3.7%) (95.6%) (4.41%)

(96.3%) (3.7%) (95.6%) (4.41%)

ii) Resettlement 79.464 3502 76.587 2.877 2728 774** - 2.877 - 774 76.587 2.877 2728 774** Allowance

(96.38%) (3.62%) (77.90%) (22.10%) (96.38%) (3.62%) (77.90%) (22.10%)

iii) Livelihood Allowance 0.893 23 0.774 0.119 20 3* - 0.119 - 3 0.774 0.119 20 3* (86.7%) (13.3%) (87.0%) (13.0%)

(86.7%) (13.3%) (87.0%) (13.0%)

iv) Transport Allowance 0.856 63 0.781 0.075 58 5 - 0.075 - 5 0.781 0.075 58 5 (91.2%) (8.8%) (92.1%) (7.9%)

(91.2%) (8.8%) (92.1%) (7.9%)

v) Business Allowance 2.021 43 1.863 0.158 40 3* - 0.158 - 3 1.863 0.158 40 3* (92.2%) (7.8%) (93.0%) (7.0%) (92.2%) (7.8%) (93.0%) (7.0%)

vi) Vulnerable Allowance 1.070 27 0.991 0.079 25 2 - 0.079 - 2 0.991 0.079 25 2 (92.6%) (7.4%) (92.6%) (7.4%) (92.6%) (7.4%) (92.6%) (7.4%)

vii) Employment losses 0.238 6 0.238 - 6 - - - - - 0.238 - 6 - allowance

(100%)

(100%)

(100%) (100%)

viii) Replacement Cost 13.378 990 12.128 1.250 687 303 - 1.250 - 303 12.128 1.250 687 303 (90.7%) (9.3%) (69.4%) (30.6%) (90.7%) (9.3%) (69.4%) (30.6%)

ix) Electricity 0.880 22 0.760 0.120 19 3* - 0.120 - 3 0.760 0.120 19 3* (86.4%) (13.6%) (86.4%) (13.6%) (86.4%) (13.6%) (86.4%) (13.6%)

x) House rent 0.828 23 0.720 0.108 20 3* - 0.108 - 3 0.720 0.108 20 3* (87.0%) (13.0%) (87.0%) (13.0%) (87.0%) (13.0%) (87.0%) (13.0%)

.Note: * Whereabouts of these three households are unknown, and will be paid as traced **. Out of 774 unpaid DPs in this category, 735 DPs could not be paid because their land compensation is still pending due to legal and administrative impediments. For remaining 34 payable DPs for land,

payment process is being delayed due to certain issues/ impediments faced by them. For 05 Dps they are traced out by NHA Land Team i.e LAO, Qanoongo, Patwaris and Land LDC’s, Land Compensation is paid and remaining allowences will be paid soon after fulfilling all codal Formalities.



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3.3. Pending Payment

3.3.1. Payments Stuck due to Legal Administrative Reasons

33. The findings of the IMR revealed that some land payments are delayed due to some legal and administrative factors. For example payments of land compensation of an amount of Rs. 14.345 million (2.2% of total amount) to about 735 DPs (20.9% of total DPs) have been delayed due to the following reasons.

34. The main reasons of delayed payment are legal and administrative impediments faced by the DPs due to which they are not showing up to claim compensation. During reporting period the data for unpaid DPs was reviewed and efforts were continued to outreach and faciliate the unpaid DPs in different categories of impediments for compensation disbursment and additional documentations. Based on field verifcation list of upaid DPs falling in different categories of impediments was revised and updated during this monitoring period. As per updated list of unpaid DPs, the impediments/ reasons contributing towards the delay in payments are described below while number of unpaid DPs against each impediment/ reason are summarized in Table 3.5:

• Inheritance mutation issues: 132 landowners have passed away which requires transfer of land to the legal heirs. Payments of compensation to inheritors will be made after transfer of land to the legal heirs by the district revenue authority. After inheritence mutation in land revenue record, all legal heirs of deseased DPs will receive entitled compensation as per their legal inherited share.

• Living out of project area/ outside countery: As per LAA 1894, DPs have to submit their claims supported with valid title documents and receive compensation voucher/ cheque in person after due verification of their documents and record. Currently, 416 DPs have reportedly moved out of the project area without leaving a clue or address to with fellow villagers and 7 DPs are residing out of country.

• Meager2 Compensation Amounts and other reasons: The 40 DPs living in the affected or nearby villages have not showed up to claim their meager compensation. As procedural requirement, DPs have to open bank account to receive even such small amount of compensation for which DPs are reluctant to open bank account as sometimes the amount of opening bank account exceeds the compensation amount or some other reasons well known to them.

• Title Disputes/ court cases: 92 landowners/DPs have title disputes that have not been resolved till to date. The compensation could not be paid to them until land title issues are resolved/decided by the competent revenue authorities/ Hon’able courts of law.

• Underage DPs (Juvenile) or DPs lacking CNIC: Currently, total 05 DPs who are either of underage (juvenile) and 12 lack identification documents like computerized national identity card (CNIC).

• The Land Acquisition Collector3 processed the submitted files of 26 DPs for payments made during reporting period.

2 Compensation amount up to Rs.5000 is defined as meager amount and it is likely most of the DPs in this category may lack interest in

claiming compensation following prevalent payment mode under LAA 1894. 3 Land acquisition collector (LAC) post was vacant for more than 01 Year but from April 2019 LAC is posted on at section II and until then has processed 26 cases with the coordination of NHA Land team.



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Table 3.5: Reasons for Delay in Payment of Land Compensation

Unresolved Legal and Administrative Impediments Unpaid DPs (Nos.)

(Unpaid DPs for Carriageway/ Interchanges ROW) (i) Meager compensation/ Not Interested 40

(ii) Underage DPs (Juvenile) 10

(iii) DPs lacking CNIC 10

(iv) Living out of Project Area (within country) 408

(v) Tittle Disputed/ Court Case 83

(vi) Deceased 152

(vii) DPs out of country (abroad) 6

(viii) Informed/ File Submitted 26*

Total 735

Note: *Submitted files of 26 DPs for payments as per the availability of land acquisition collector (LAC) Sec-II.

3.4 Facilitation provided to DPs in Processing of Claims

35. During reporting quarter, SSMC team contract was expired on June 2019, Dy. Director (Land) compiled a team of NHA Land Staff consisting of LAO, Qanoongo, Patwari’s and Land (LDC’s) to visit the project effected villages of districts Toba Tek Singh and Jhang to: i) locate, motivate and guide DPs and legal heirs of deceased DPs; ii) facilitate delivery of compensation to the remaining unpaid DPs; and iii) record current residential addresses of those living out of project area; and iv) obtain certification statements of the guardians of juvenile and legal heirs of deceased DPs regarding payment of compensation as and when they approach with requisite legal/ title documents. Besides, the lists of DPs in differnet categories of impediments were reviewed and updated based on field verfications and accordingly the database was revised and the numbers of unpaid DPs in different categories of impediments were re-adjusted. The Table 3.6 below highlights the payement progress achieved against different categories of unpaid DPs and updated number of remaining unpaid DPs (as of 31st August 2019) in differnet categrories of legal and administrative impediments.

Table 3.6: Compensation payment against each category of unpaid cases

Unpaid DPs with Impediments Total unpaid DPs (till 28 February 2019)

DPs paid (During March 19 - May 2019)

Updated unpaid DPs (as of 31 May 2019)

Up to 5000 Above 5000 Total Up to 5000 Above 5000 Total Up to 5000 Above 5000 Total

Meager compensation/ Not Interested

40 - 40 - - - 40 - 40

Underage DPs (Juvenile) 2 10 12 - 02 02 2 08 10

DPs lacking CNIC 1 12 13 - 02 02 0 10 10

Living out of Project Area (within country)

247 169 416 - 01 01 247 161 408

Tittle Disputed/ Court Case 16 78 94 - - - 16 67 83 Deceased 48 84 132 - - - 48 104 152 DPs out of country (abroad) 2 5 7 - - - 2 4 6 Informed/ File Submitted 6 20 26 - - - 6 20 26*

Total 362* 378 740 - - - 362* 373 735

Note: *362 DPs (10% of total landowners) have stuck/ pending payments is so small4 (24 DPs- Rs 1> to <Rs. 100, 19 DPs – Rs.100> to <Rs. 200, 43 DPs- Rs. 200>to<Rs. 500 & 276 DPs- Rs.500>to<Rs.5000), which will have no/ or insignificant impact on the livelihood of DPs.

4 The largest number of DPs (362 DPs out of 740) are having pending payments because of amounts of compensation of less than Rs. 5,000. Summary of average amount (Rs/ DPs) is given bellow:

Compensation Meager Amount Due

(in Rs.)

Number of Unpaid DPs

Meager Amount of Unpaid DPs

(Rs.)

Average Amount

(Rs/ DPs)

Rs. 1 > to <=100 Rs. 24 1,507 63 Rs. 100 > to <=200 Rs. 19 2,868 151 Rs. 200 > to <=500 Rs. 43 1,4209 330 Rs. 500 > to <=5000 Rs. 276 599,650 2,173

Total 362 618,234 1,708



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3.5 Efforts Exhausted to Approach unpaid DPs for Additional Documentation

3.5.1 Efforts Exhausted to Approach unpaid DPs of Land Compensation

36. Facilitate payment of compensation to DPs with legal and administrative impediments, the NHA, Land team continued to approach unpaid DPs to mobilize them for submission of their compensation claims after resolving their issues. Certification statements regarding compensation payment upon resolution of the legal and administrative issues, certification statements by legal under age heirs of deceased DPs were recorded. Certification statements regarding compensation payment upon resolution of the legal and administrative issues, certification statements by legal under age legal heirs of deceased DPs were recorded. Certification statements of all unpaid DPs have been completed as of Nov 2017; to date 48 DPs have been received compensation as of August 2019.

37. Category wise Table 3.7 below summarizes the progress achieved for additional documentation about DPs with legal and administrative impediments.

Table 3.7: Efforts made on Additional Documentation to expedite the process of Stuck Payments

DPs with Legal and Total Additional

Administrative Impediments Unpaid DPs

(as of 31 March 2019)

Documents Signed. till May 2019

Compensation Paid during

(June. 2019 – August

2019)

Additional Documents

Signed. to be paid

Remarks

a b c d e=c-d f - Meager amounts 40 40 - 40 Certification statements of all DPs under meager amount

have been completed as of Nov 2017.

- Underage DPs (Juvenile) 12 12 2 10 Certification statements of all DPs have been completed as of Nov 2017.

- CNIC issues/ correction of name

13 13 2 10 Certification statements of all DPs have been completed

- Living out of Project Area (within country)

416 416 1 408 Certification statements of all Living out of Project Area (within country) DPs have been completed as of Nov 2017

- Tittle Disputed/ Court Case 94 94 - 83 Certification statements of all ownership title/ Court cases DPs have been completed as of Nov 2017.

- Deceased 132 132 - 152 Certification statements of all Inheritance DPs have been completed as of Nov 2017

- DPs out of country (abroad) 7 7 - 6 Certification statements of all DPs out of country (abroad) have been completed as of Nov 2017

- Others (Informed/ File Submitted)

26 26 - 26* Certification statements of all Others (Informed/ File Submitted) DPs have been completed as of Nov 2017.

Total 740 740 5 735

* Number of DPs in all categories is reviewed and updated based on field verification and payment disbursement as of August 2019.

3.5.2 Efforts Exhausted to Approach unpaid DPs of Allowances Compensation

38. During the reporting period, After expiration of SSMC contract, Dy. Director (Land) M-4 & M-4 Ext.directed additional assignments to NHA, Land Field Satff(Land Wing M-4) i.e Land Officers/Officials to continue following up the payable DPs5 in allowances category to assist them in processing of their claims and for payment of entitled allowance which were pending since long. During follow-up meetings with payable DPs entitled for additional crop compensation, resettlement and resettlement cost allowances, it was identified that the payable DPs in said categories do face legal and administrative impediments that are causing delay in processing and delivery of compensation. So, besides mobilizing DPs in processing of claims, the Land Field Staff team started recording of additional documentation from unpaid DPs entitled for additional crop, resettlement and replacement cost allowances following templates for land and assets category.

39. Overall achieved progress in recording of additional documents during reporting period reflects that additional documents from 26 DPs have been collected by the end of August, 2019 and compensation has been paid to 05 Dp’s, while the payment for remaining 21 DP are in

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process as additional documentation has been received. Table 3.8 below summarizes the progress achieved in compiling additional documents for unpaid DPs in allowances category.



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Table 3.8: Efforts made to approach unpaid DPs in Allowances Category

DPs with Legal and Additional Addl. Compensation

Additional

Administrative Impediments in Allowances Category

Documents Signed.

till May 2019

Documents Signed During

June 2019 - August 2019

Paid as of 31st May

2019

Documents Signed. Total as of

31st August 2019

Remarks

A b C d e=(b-d) e - Living out of Project Area

(within country) 5 1 1 5 Certification statements of all Living out of Project Area

(within country) DPs have been completed. - Deceased 3 - - 3 Certification statements of all Inheritance DPs have been

completed. - DPs out of country (abroad) - 4 4 - Certification statements of all DPs out of country

(abroad) DPs have been completed. - Others (Informed/ File

Submitted) - 13 - 13 Certification statements of all Others (Informed/ File

Submitted) DPs have been completed

Total 8 - 5 21



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4. CONSTRUCTION RELATED EMERGING LAR ISSUES

40. For construction of service area at KM-89+572 land measuring 33 Acre (State Land) is to

be acquired in south bound but in the middle of said land a piece of land measuring 67K-10M in

Village 400/JB Tehsil & Distt. TobaTek Singh was allotted by the then District Collector to

Mr.Abdul Khaliq. Said Case is Pending in the office of District Collector TobaTek Singh for re-

consideration on allotment of said state land and hopefully will be decided in favor of NHA soon.

Moreover, a peace of land measuring 28K-17M in Mauza/Chak 398/JB was also allotted by the

concerned authority i.e. District Collector but it is pointed out that said Piece of land was allotted

before publication of U/S 4 and will be Considered as private land.

Layout Plan For Service Area

4.1 Additional Land Acquisition for Service Tracks at Interchange Loops

41. Land strip is acquired for interchanges loops carriageway and track for the community to access their farm land on either side of the interchanges loops carriageway with small changes on the alignment. Based on these interchange loops carriageway design changes, additional impact has been identified by the safeguard team of PIU. However, during execution of works for one of the interchanges, it was identified that the interchanges loops ROW is inadequate to adjust the side slopes for elevated carriageway and providing 5 meters wide service track for the community to access their farm land on either side of the intechnages loops carriageway. Albeit the loops carriageway roads can be completed within acquired ROW by making some design adjustments like retaining walls, managing horizontal and verticle side slopes into 1.5:1 (maximum) but with this option will negate provision of service track on either side of loop carriageway as per design of M-4. Thus, construction of interchanges loops carriageway without 5 meters service track can restrict landowner’s free access for cultivating their agricultural lands along with interchange carriageway loops.



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42. The addendum to LARP identified 59 landowners 2.575 acres (20.600 kanals) in interchange loops at Chainage 80+000 km (Toba Tek Singh-Jhang Road), 135 landowner 2.844 acres (22.752 kanals) at Chainage 94+000 km (TobaTek Singh-Waryamwala Road) and 9 landowners 2.356 acres (18.848 kanals) at 120+000 km (Shorkot Cantt-Shorkot City Road) in Toba Tek Singh and Jhang districts. The submitted LARP addendum has been cleared by ADB.

43. New & Already Existing DPs of Interchanges ROW Land: Total 203 DPs are identified on which impact has been recorded. These include already existing (99 DPs) and some new (104 DPs). Amongst these, 35 DPs already exist in LARP while 24 are new DPs in Addendum to LARP for interchange of Toba Tek Singh-Jhang Road. Impact has been recorded for Interchange ROW Land of Waryamwala Road where 55 DPs are already existing in LARP while 80 are new DPs in Addendum to LARP. No new DP was identified at Shorkot Cantt-Shorkot City Road, while the 9 DPs already exist in LARP. Disaggregated summary of already existing and newly identified DPs for each interchange is presented in the table 4.1 below:

Table 4.1: New & Already Existing DPs of Interchanges ROW Land

Addendum Records Impact on DPs

Interchange Village Already Existing DPs

New DPs Total DPs

Toba Tek Singh-Jhang Road 388/ JB 7 15 22 383/ JB 28 9 37 Waryamwala Road 401/ JB 32 7 39

487/ JB 23 73 96 Shorkot Cantt-Shorkot City Road

Rakh Kotla 9 - 9

501 (State land)

- - -

Total 99 104 203

44. The identified land already has been notified under Section-4/ Gazette notice has been notified for the requisite additional land for interchanges in sections II. Gazette notification/ Section-46.

45. DPAC meeting for determining land cost on market price basis has been carried out for Jhang and Toba Tek Singh district of M-4 Section II while minutes of meeting are circulated officially.

46. Funds have been deposted in concerned District Treasury.

47. Notification U/S 5 of LAA 1894 for some has been published in Punjab Gazzete for additional land and for some villages Notification U/S 5 of LAA 1894 has been sent for publication in Punjab Gazzete.

48. After price assessment detailed land measurement survey and census of all affected landowners have been completed and addendum to LARP to address emerged LAR issues have been prepared and submitted to ADB and has been cleared by ADB. The amount of land compensation is yet to be made to the (landowners) DPs.

49. Notifcation U/S 6 of LAA 1894 is under process and positively will be completed till end of November 2019.

6 Published in the official gazzette since August 2017



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50. Addendum to LARP for addressing emerged LAR issues and relative time-lines as depicted above are summarized in Table 4.2 below.

Table 4.2: Time-bound Action Plan for Emerging LAR Issues

Sr. No.

Action Timeline/ Status Responsibility

Time line Status i) Addendum to LARP Implementation

1 • Additional Land to be acquired (for catering embankment slope and providing access road along interchanges loop carriageway) marked on ground as per design.

20 August 2017 Done SC/PD-M-4.

2 • Additional land measured and notified under Section-4 of LAA 1894.

• Potentially affected land owners communicated on acquisition process and timelines for compensation agreed.

25 August 2017 Done

Done

LAC/Director Land M-4 SSMC-M-4

3 • DPAC assessment of land compensation completed

31 December 2017

Done. Last village in Shorkot was completed on 2 May 2018

Dist. Collectors/ LAC-M-4

4 • Detailed measurement survey and census of potentially affected land owners completed.

31 January 2018 Done SSMC-M-4

5 • LARP submitted to ADB for review. 20 February 2018 Done

6 • Revised Addendum to LARP finalized and sent to ADB.

28 May 2018 Done SSMC/ Director Land/ GM-M-4

7 • Addendum to LARP reviewed and cleared by ADB.

10 July 2018

Done ADB

8 • Assessed Land Cost deposited in treasury and Additional land notified under Section-5 of LAA 1894.

15 March 2019

Done LAC/ Director Land/GM-M-4

9 • Notification under Section-6 published. 30 June 2019 In office of Comissioner Faisalabad for signatures and further forward to Punjab Printing Press for Gazzete.

LAC/ Director Land/ GM-M-4

10 • Cost approved by the Competent Authority 15 July 2019 Done LAC/ Director Land/ GM-M-4

11 • Land Awards Announced under LAA provisions.

15 August 2019 - LAC/ Director Land M-4

12 • Compensation paid to landowners and Addendum LARP implementation confirmed to ADB

31 August 2019 - Land Staff team/ Director Land/ GM-M-4

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5. CONSULTATIONS, PARTICIPATION AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE

5.1 Community Consultations

51. During the reporting quarter, the tasks performed by the LAR management team are discussed below:

5.1.1 Community Consultations with Men and Women Unpaid DPs

52. After expiration of SSMC contract from June 2019 Dy. Director (Land) has established the displaced persons committees (DPCs) constituting of Land Field Staff i.e (Land Officers/Officials) LAO,Qanoongo,Patwari’s, LDC’s (Land) in project affected villages (M-4 section II). The NHA, land team held consultation meetings with men and women in project villages (Section II) during this quarter (as of 31st August 2019). The purpose of these meetings was to inform and facilitate DPs in the process of payments to unpaid DPs, addressing their concerns/ complaints, information disclosure and facilitation in preparation & submission of claims for payment and collect updated status of DPs and to find out contact numbers & addresses of DPs who are out of the project area.

53. NHA, Land team conducted total 19 (19 with men and 00 with Women) consultation meetings were held in which total 89 (89 Men, 00 Women unpaid DPs participated) DPs, members of DPCs, and local community residents were contacted in affected villages to assist/ motivate DPs in preparation and submission of compensation claim for payments of their acquired assets and also consulted with the DPs of meager amounts, the DPs were also informed about grievance redress mechanism and role and functions of DPCs were elaborated during consultations. Table 5.1 below summrizes the consultations carried out during reporting period and List of consultation meetings with both men & women and participants is given in Annex 5.1.

Table 5.1: Summary of Community Consultation with Men and Women Unpaid DPs During Quarter (Mar 19 - May 19)

Section No. of Meetings Contacted with DPC/ Contacted with DPC/ DPs/ GRC

DPs/ GRC Men Participant Women Participant

II 19 89 89 00

5.2 Issues/ Concerns Discussed During Consultation Meetings

54. During consultation meetings, discussed issues concerns and their responses are given below in the Table 5.2:

Table 5.2: Issues and Response from the project team Sr. No.

Discussion Points/Issues/ Summary of Concerns

Response from the Land Field Staff/Team

1.

Compensation entitlement concerns among DPs about land occupied due to Quarterly distribution of family owned assets without getting land record updated accordingly.

Land field staff/ team will continue coordinating with DPs to motivate and mobilize them to approach land revenue authorities for resolution of land record updating issues as soon as possible so that the payment could be disbursed as per their entitlement in acquired land parcel.

2.

DPs entitled to meager amount are not showing interest to get their compensation. Some DPs with meager amount coupled with mutation issues as well are least bothered to show-up for claiming and getting entitled compensation due to incidental expenses for procuring support document and processing of claim files.

Land field staff/ team will keep coordinating and motivating such DPs to prepare file and to get compensation payment.

3.

Issue on inheritance mutations: In some cases, legal heirs are disinterested to record inheritance mutation due to meager compensation amounts or lack of coordination/ cooperation among themselves which is causing delay in payment of compensation.

Land field staff/ team will coordinate and request the land revenue authorities to facilitate DPs for recording inheritance mutation in record, however, the legal heirs of the DPs will have to submit request for mutation and follow the procedures under law. The compensation payment could only be paid when legal heirs of deceased DPs can submit their claims with valid title after inheritance mutations of land.

4.

Migrated DPs Population in affected villages of section-III is scattered in small hamlets and many DPs have been shifted to other places. Locating DPs who are not living in project affected villages is time consuming. The addresses and contact numbers of DPs are gathered through village headmen/ notable persons and their



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Sr. No.

Discussion Points/Issues/ Summary of Concerns

Response from the Land Field Staff/Team

relatives in the village but in some cases local community lacks addresses and contact numbers of migrated families. Through Land field staff/ team efforts will be continued to locate such DPs and mobilize them to submit their claims with valid documents.

5.3 Coordination meetings with Officials to Facilitate Compensation Payment

55. NHA, Land field staff/ team coordinates with revenue department and office of concerned Project Director(M-4) regularly and ensures payments consistent with entitlements, construction related emerging LAR issues and changes in DPs data. During this quarter (June 2019 - August 2019) 08 meetings between Land field staff/ team and Revenue Department and other official.



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6. GENDER ISSUES/ ANALYSIS IN LARP IMPLEMENTATION

6.1 Gender Segregated Consultations with the Unpaid DPs

56. During this Quarter (June 2019 – August 2019) total 19 consultations in Section II were made with unpaid DPs consisting of men by the NHA , Land Team, wherein 89 DPs/ members of DPCs/ DPs as well as local community participated. The main focus of the discussion was to consult those unpaid DPs for the collection of their amount and in case of any issues related to inheritance or ID card the DPs were advised to address it immediately, so that the payment could get cleared. Gender segregated summary of community consultation DPs are given in Table 6.1.

Table 6.1: Gender Segregated Summary of Community Consultation During Quarter (June 19 - August 19)

Section No. of Meetings Contacted with DPC/ Contacted with DPC/ DPs/ GRC

DPs/ GRC Men Participant Women Participant

II 19 89 89 0

57. The main activities of these consultations were the following

- Information disclosure to the unpaid payable DPs regarding the process of payment. - Identification of issues and grievances regarding the payments of compensation, mode of

payment. - Assessment of the impacts of the project. - Determine the solutions to resolve the issues and concern of the DPs on village level

related to the payment.

58. The DPs actively participated in these consultation meetings and ensured that they would try their level best to contact untraced unpaid DPs and motivate them to collect their compensation amount.

59. Review of gender issues/ and analysis associated with the LARPs Implementation including:

• Payment of compensation by gender

• Gender segregated grievances

• Gender segregated issues associated with the project, such as restricted mobility, eligibility & entitlements, income/ livelihood restoration

60. A strategy to address the gender segregated LARPs (Section II) implementation issues in compliance with ADB's Gender Policy, has been prepared.However Women social mobilizers are not available after expiration of contract of SSMC for locating unpaid DPs (women) in this regard. Due to which Consultation meetings with women DPs/ members of DPC could not be conducted. During this quarter (June, 2019 – August 2019) 19 meetings have been conducted in project villages and no women participated in the meetings. Because Women Dp’s of villages are not in comfortable talking zone with Men. Land field staff coped to acknowledge that some women DPs are settled out of village after their marriages. Detail of participants in section (II) has been presented in Annex 5.1.

6.2 Project impact on Women Mobility and Privacy

61. At this stage, there is no such major impact recorded regarding women mobility and privacy in the project area due to project activities but lack of female staff in land field staff /team and after expiration of SSMC contract conducting meetings with females Dp’s has become a sentient issue.



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6.3 Gender Issues/ analysis in LARP Implementation

62. At this stage, there is no major impact recorded regarding gender issues particularly regarding women’s.

6.4 Issues relating the Payment of Compensation to unpaid DPs

63. These are the main issues relating the payment of compensation:

• Women unpaid DPs are migrated from villages and settled in other villages after their marriages.

• Some women’s DP’s families have been shifted to other villages.

• Some women’s DPs have no CNIC.

• Some women’s DPs are under age.



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7. GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM AND COMPLAINTS HANDLING

64. After expiration of SSMC contract in June 2019, previous GRC (Grivience Redressal Committee) became non-functional as SSMC officials were key member of GRC as per LARP/ADB policy. However, Dy. Director (Land) in his own capacity has prepaired an NHA, Land team to work as key members of GRC and to keep Grivience Redressal Mechanisam Functional and to hadle the complaints if received and forward any grivience to the office of Dy. Director (Land) M-4 for redressal.

65. During reporting period, a close liaison is maintained with the complainants and they were informed with the updated status.Detail of received greviences regarding impending paras is under:

Measurement of Land (1 Complaint in village 7 Gagh): complaint regarding re-measurement of land in village 7 Gagh is in process, as land measurement by land staff of NHA has been carried out that verified veracity of complainant’s claim in which it is found that 2 Kanal and 3 Marla of additional land is to be acquired by NHA. Land acquisition proceeding is in process.

Land Payment (1 Complaint in village 489 JB): Complainant/ DP was advised to substantiate his eligibility and claim for land compensation by providing valid land title documents issued by land revenue authorities. DP provided the requisite documents and notification under section-4 of LAA 1894 has been notified while DPAC meeting minutes for Jhang district has been carried out. In the meantime, section 5 is in process.

State Land Payment (5 complaints in village 504 JB) Complaints about payment of compensation for state land mutated in the names of complainants have been reviewed. The GRC clarified to the complainants that payment of compensation due to change of title of acquired state land as private land through mutations recorded in October 2016 is beyond GRC and NHA’s control.

Construction Related Complaint (1 complaint) Compliant about construction related issue was received. The NHA land staff team forwarded the application to concerned Project Director and is under process for redressal.

Moreover, it is pertinent to mention here that 07x complaints were recived by SSMC and after expiration of their contract handing over of record of such complaints are not provided to the NHA land office by SSMC representatives.

Status of complaints received, resolved and pending upto 31st August 2019 has been presented in the Table 7.1.

Table 7.1: Status of Complaints Resolution by Type Overall Complaints Resolution

Section

Previous Complaints (Till February 2019)

Progress during Quarter

(March 2019 - May 2019)

Total

(As of 28 February 2019)

Received Resolved Pending Total Resolved

+ Pending)

Received Resolved Pending Total Resolved

+ Pending)

Received Resolved Pending Total Resolved + Pending)

II 61 54 7 61 - - - - 1 - 7 8 (88.5 %) (11.5 %)



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8. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

8.1 Conclusions

66. The awarded land for the project has already been acquired under the LAA 1894 in the project affected villages of section-II. On the whole, total amount of compensation of land (Rs. 647.925 million) was to be paid to 3,502 DPs, out of which, an amount of Rs. 633.580 million has been paid to 2,767 DPs on account of payment for the loss of land, as the intercahnegs loops carriageway, additional land acquisition involved for community track to access their farm land on either side of the intechnages loops carriageway, 7.775 acres (62.20 kanals) of privately owned land need to be acquired for Interchange loops ROW to be awarded covering 203 DPs award announced by end of November 2019. Out of which, an non-land (crops compensation, affected structures and affected trees) payment Rs. 161.805 million (99.6% of total amount) has been paid to 980 DPs (98.9% of total DPs) on account of payment for the loss structures, community structures, crops and trees. The achiveed progress in delivery of entitlled allowances represent that 95.4% of entitled allowances cost has been disbursed to entitled DPs. Meanwhile the DPs with impediments are being approached to record additional documents and assist them in delivery of compensation as and when they show-up after resolving their issues.

67. The break-up of remaining payments is as under:

(a) Rs. 14.345 million to 735 DPs for the loss of land.

(b) Rs. 0.358 million for the loss of crops to 4 unpaid DPs.

(c) Rs. 0.215 million for the loss of structure to 4 unpaid DPs.

(d) Rs. 0.054 million to 3 DPs for the loss of trees.

(e) Rs. 0.683 million to 20 DPs for the loss of additional crops

(f) Resettlement and rehabilitation costs/ allowances amounting to Rs. 5.469 million (1,161 DPs), including, 0.683 million rupees additional crop allowance for 20 DPs, 2.877 million rupees resettlement allowance for 774 DPs, 1.250 million rupees Replacement Cost for 303 DPs and Rs 0.464 million for other entitled allowances7 to be paid.

68. Efforts are being ensured for acquiring additional land for which Addendum to LARP has been prepared, submitted and cleared, following timelines suggested in time bound action plan for emerging LAR issues, details are in section 4.1 of this IMR. In this regards NHA land team along with LAC are liaising with District Collectors for completing land acquisition process under LAA 1894 provisions. Meanwhile the Land field staff/ team has carried out the consultations with affected land owners to explain objectives and process of acquiring additional land. Addendum to LARP is prepared, submitted and cleared by ADB including impact inventory and compensation costs based on detailed measurement and census surveys of the affected land and the land owners/ occupants.

7 Other unpaid allowances include, Rs. 0.119 million for livelihood allowance to 3 DPs, Rs. 0.075 million for transport allowance to 5 DPs, Rs. 0.158 million for business allowance to 3 DPs, Rs. 0.079 million for vulnerability allowance to 2 DPs, Rs. 0.120 million for electricity allowance to 3 DPs and Rs. 0.108 million for house rent allowance to 3 DPs.



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8.2 Recommendations

69. Land field staff/ team assembled by Dy. Director (Land) M-4 & M-4 Ext. lacks basic provisions i.e Vehichles, fuel, driver etc. to conduct field work, provisions that were previously provided to SSMC team. Some time they use public transport to conduct DPC meetings, visit revenue offices etc. At present scenario it is proposed that, vehichles must be provided along with all allied facilities to complete the task assigned by the Dy. Director (Land) M-4 & M-4 Ext. working as team leader to ample the assignments smoothly and to avoid further delay in completion of Project.Which is also in the best interest of public Exchequer.

70. Delay in payment of land compensation due to legal and administrative impediments has also slowed down progress in payment of compensation against the entitled allowances. The efforts to locate, mobilize and assist unpaid DPs are continued for delivering compensation as and when they show up after resolving their impediments. However, to ensure the payment of pending compensation against acquired land and land-based assets as well as for entitled allowances to all payable DPs (DPs who already had collected their land compensation) following actions are recommended.

71. Pending compensation for land and non-land based assets:

• NHA, Land team will maintain a close liaison with the available Displaced Persons or the DPs showing up after resolving their impediments to assist them in processing and payment of their compensation claims.

• DPs lacking CNIC: NHA, Land team will continue to liaise with DPs and NADRA offices/ department at tehsil and field level to support DPs for issuance of their CNIC and subsequent processing of claims.

• For DPs out of country or shifted in other cities in Pakistan: All unpaid DPs having impediments have been approached and certification statements are recorded further NHA, Land team liaison will be continued with the relatives of DPs,; and DPs will be mobilized to collect compensation through telephonic contacts or other plausible means. For DPs with Inheritance issues: The available legal heirs of the all unpaid DPs having impediments have been approached and certification statements are recorded further NHA Land team will be coordinated to assist and guide them for early mutation in land records and payment of compensation on producing valid title documents.

• In case of meager compensation amounts, the specific measures will be explored in consultation with the local land revenue authorities.

• DPs with title disputes will be followed to sensitize them for expeditious resolution of issues through courts and payment of compensation.

72. Payment of pending Resettlement Costs:

• Additional Crop Compensation: Review of LARP database reflects that most of unpaid 20 DPs in this category have some issue/ impediments that are lingering the payment process. The files for payable DPs in this category will be processed on priority and a follow-up will be retained with the DPs to show-up for compensation after resolving their issues and additional documents will be recorded during next monitoring period.



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• Resettlement Assistance Allowance: Out of 774 unpaid DPs in this category, 735 DPs could not be paid because their land compensation is still pending due to legal and administrative impediments. For remaining 34 payable DPs for land, payment process is being delayed due to certain issues/ impediments faced by them, and will be paid in coming months while efforts will be continued to mobilize the DPs for resolving their impediments, recording of additional documents by close of next monitoring period.

• Replacement Cost allowance: The total unpaid DPs in this category are 303 out of which 256 fall in category of DPs having legal and administrative impediments and could not be compensated until their issues are resolved. During next monitoring period, compensation for payable DPs will be delivered and coordination efforts will continue for other 47 DPs to record additional documents and mobilize them to submit claims with valid support documents.

• Besides above, efforts will be continued in next monitoring period to locate and deliver entitled compensation against business loss for 3 DPs, livelihood restoration allowances for 3 DPs, shifting of utilities and transportation cost to 5 DPs and assistance for 2 vulnerable DHs etc.



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PHOTOLOG



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Pictorial Presentation

Pictorial View of Consultation Meeting and Disclosure of LARP and Consultation Meetings with Men in Section II of M-4 Project By NHA Land Team.

A view of Consultation meeting at Kalowala, Sec-II

A view of GRC/ Consultation meeting at 487/JB

A view of Consultation meeting at Chak 378 JB, Sec-II

A view of Consultation meeting at 304 JB, Sec-II


A view of Consultation meeting at village

494 JB, Sec-II



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Pictorial Presentation

Pictorial View of Consultation Meeting and Disclosure of LARP and Consultation Meetings with Men in Section II of M-4 Project By NHA Land Team.


A view of Consultation meeting at 488/JB Sec-II

A view of Consultation meeting at Chak 360 JB, Sec-II



A view of Consultation meeting at village

307 JB, Sec-II



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ANNEXES



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Annex 5.1: List of Consultations with Unpaid DPs During the period of June 2019 - August 2019 Consultations matrix by Gender (Men and Women) DPCs/ DPs is as below:

Sr. No.

Date Location/ Village

Category of Participant No. of Participants

Name of Main Participant

June-August 2019

1 26.08.2019 Chak 307/JB DPCs/ DPs/ Local Communities

05 - Mr. Muhammad Akram

- Mr. Muhammad Aslam

- Mr. Safdar Ali

- Haji Asghar Ali

- Mr. Ghulam Mustafa 2 26.08.2019 Chak 383/JB DPCs/ DPs/ Local

Communities 06 - Mr. Ghulam Meeran

- Mr. Waheed Akhtar

- Mr. Musawar Hussain

- Mr. Saeed Ahmad

- Mr. Ghulam Nabi

- Mr. M. Raffique 3 26.08.2019 Chak 310/JB DPCs/ DPs/ Local

Communities 09 - Mr. Zulqarnain

- Mr. M. Iqbal

- Mr.M. Arshad

- Mr. M. Boota

- Mr. M Ilyas

- Mr. Kashif Ali

- Mr. Ijaz

- Mr. M. Arshad

- Mr. M. Fyaz 4 27.082019 Chak 489 JB DPCs/ DPs/ Local

Communities 04 - Mr. Muhammad Tahir

- Mr. Nazir Hussain

- Mr.Aslam

- MR. Muhammad Yousaf 5 27.08.2019 Chak 481/JB DPCs/ DPs/ Local

Communities 01 - Mr. Jamshed Iqbal

6 27.08.2019 Chak 487/Jb DPCs/ DPs/ Local Communities/ GRC Meeting

05 - Mr.Muhammad Jameel

- Mr. Muhammad Ashraf

- Mr. Asghar Ali (Grievant)

- Mr. Abdul Ghafoor

- Mr. Muhammad Saddiq 7 27.08.2019 Chak 490/JB DPCs/ DPs/ Local

Communities 08 - Mr. Muhammad Hussain

- Mr. Sanaullah Ranjha

- Mr. Ch. Muhammad Hussain

- Mr. Ijaz Ahmad

- Mr. Muhammad Nawaz

- Mr. Sultan Ahmad

- Mr. Shehbaz Ahmad

- Mr. Mubarik Ali 8 27.08.2019 Chak 500/JB DPCs/ DPs/ Local

Communities 08 - Mr. Muhammad Zaffar

- Mr. Muhabbat Ali

- Mr. Munir Ahmad Chaddar

- Mr. Riaz Hussain

- Mr. Liaqat Ali

- Mr. Liaqat Ali

- Mr. Irshad Hussain

- Mr. Muhammad Ishaq 9 27.08.2019 Chak Kallo

Walla DPCs/ DPs/ Local Communities

05 - Mr.Ahar Parvez

- Mr. Umar Daraz

- Mr. Asghar Ali

- Mr. Muhammad Nasir



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- Mr. Saeed Ahmad


07 - Mr. Umar Hayat

- Mr. Abdul Rasheed

- Mr. Muhammad Saddiq

- Mr. Zahoor Ahmad

- Mr. Muhammad Siddique

- Mr. Bashir Ahmad

- Mr. Muhammad Raffique 11 28.08.2019 Chak 304/JB DPCs/ DPs/ Local

Communities 04 - Mr. Zahid Hussain


- Mr. Muhammad Mustafa

- Mr. Kashif 12 28.08.2019 Chak 305/JB DPCs/ DPs/ Local

Communities 07 - Mr. Ijaz Ahmad

- Mr. Arshad Mehmood


- Mr. Khurram

- Mr. Ijaz Ahmad

- Mr. Altaf Hussain

- Mr. Nisaar Ahmad

- Mr. Muhammad Ashraf 13 28.08.2019 Chak 360/JB DPCs/ DPs/ Local

Communities 07 - Mr. Munir Ahmad

- Mr. Muhammad Anwar

- Mr. Muhammad Safdar

- Mr. Muhammad Sabir

- Mr. Muhammad Nadeem

- Mr. Muhammad Imran

- Mr. Zubair ul hasssan 14 28.08.2019 Chak 311/JB DPCs/ DPs/ Local

Communities 02 - Mr. Attaullah

- Mr. Ehsaan Ullah


06 - Mr. Mian Iqbal

- Mr. Mazhar Abass

- Mr. Muhammad Afzal

- Mr. Dildaar Hussain

- Mr. Muhamad Javed

- Mr. Naveed Anjum 16 28.08.2019 Chak 385/JB DPCs/ DPs/ Local

Communities 04 - Mr. Muhammad Abdullah

- Mr. Muhammad Younas

- Mr. Baseerullah

- Mr. Muhammad Tanvir 17 28.08.2019 Chak 469/JB DPCs/ DPs/ Local

Communities 00 - NO DPC member was available for

meeting NHA Land Team contacted members telephinicaly.

18 28.08.2019 Chak 390/ JB DPCs/ DPs/ Local Communities

00 - NO DPC member was available for meeting NHA Land Team contacted members telephinicaly.


00 - NO DPC member was available for meeting NHA Land Team contacted members telephinicaly.