Central Asia and South Asia - 1000 Electricity Transmission and Trade Project : resettlement plan : Land acquisition and resettlement framework (LARF) (English)

The development objective of the 1000 Electricity Transmission and Trade Project for Central Asia and South Asia is to create the conditions for sustainable electricity trade between the Central Asia countries of Tajikistan and Kyrgyz Republic and the...  See More + The development objective of the 1000 Electricity Transmission and Trade Project for Central Asia and South Asia is to create the conditions for sustainable electricity trade between the Central Asia countries of Tajikistan and Kyrgyz Republic and the South Asian countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, in order to alleviate power supply shortages in the South Asian countries and enhance sector and budget revenues in the Central Asian countries. Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: i) displaced persons should be assisted in their efforts to improve their livelihoods and standards of living or at least to restore them, in real terms, to pre-displacement levels or to levels prevailing prior to the beginning of project implementation, whichever is higher; ii) renters or leaseholders of a house or structure are entitled to cash compensation equivalent to three months' rent or a value proportionate to the duration of the remaining lease period, whichever is greater; iii) crops will be compensated for to owners, tenants and sharecroppers based on their agreed shares. The compensation will be the full market rate for one year of harvest including both rabi and kharif seasons; and iv) fruit and other productive trees will be compensated for based on rates sufficient to cover income replacement for the time needed to re-grow a tree to the productivity of the one lost. Trees used as sources of timber will be compensated for based on the market value of the wood production, having taken due consideration of the future potential value.  See Less -

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