China - Fourth National Highway Project (Vol. 1 of 2) : Hubei province

RP-1 1 The World Bank Financed VOL. 1 National Highway project IV in Hubei Province RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN Hubei Province Jingzhu Expressway Resettlement Office March 1999 Wuhan, China  The Definition of Resettlement Terminology of RAP Acquisition of land and other assets for the project will adversely affect the livelihood of persons who live, work or earn their living on' the land that will be acquired for the project. PAPs are defined as those persons whose income or livelihood will be adversely affected by land acquisition for the project. PAPs include the following categories: 1) persons who have title, right, interest in structure(houses, enterprises, shelters, or public building), land(including residential, agricultural and grazing land) or any other asset acquired or possessed, in full or in part, permanently or temporarily; 2) persons who use the structures, land or assets described abovc or persons whose business, occupation, work, place of residence or habitat adversely affected; or 3) persons whose standard of living is adversely affected as a consequence of land acquisition. A definition of PAPs is given below: Definition of PAPs: Affected person means persons who on account of the execution of the project had or would have their: a) standard of living adversely affected; or b) right, title or interest in any house, land(including premises, agricultural and grazing land) or any other fixed or movable asset acquired or possessed, temporarily or permanently; or c) business, occupation, work or place of residence or habitat adversely affected, and affected person mean individually all tho,se who qualify as affected person. PAPs may be individuals or legal persons such ad a company, a public institution. Definition of PAPs is not limited to their legal registration or permission to live or conduct business in the affected location, or their title to property. Thus, it includes: a) all those affected by the project regardless of their legal rights or absence thereof the assets being taken; and b) persons without residential permiit to live in a certain area. Therefore all such persons who are affected will need to considered and recorded as PAPs, regardless of their legal connection to assets land or location. If there are more than one person, family or household using or holding a title to the same land or property that is acquired, they will be compensated  and rehabilitated according to the loss they suffer, their rights and the impact on their living standards. The definition of PAPS is link directly to the * adverse affect of the project, regardless of legal rights title or interest All PAPs are entitled to the improvement or at least restoration of theiir * standards of living, and compensation for the material losses they suffer. Compensation for assets will cover replacement cost No deductions or discounts will be applied to the compensation amount for depreciation or other reasons. All PAPs deriving an economic benefit inn addition to the compensation for their assets lost. Those PAPs without title, authorization or legal permission to reside, conduct business, cultivate land or construct structures are eligible for rehabilitation of their livelihoods and compensation for their assets on a equal footing with those with formal legal title, authorization or permissions to the assets. The term RESETTLEMENT includes: a) the relocation of living quarte:rs; b) finding acceptable new employment for those whose jibs are affected; c) restoration(or compensation) of affected productive resources such as land, workplace, trees and infrastructure; d) restoration of other adverse effect on PAPs living standards(quality of life) through land acquisition (such as the adverse effects of pollution); e) restoration of or compensation for affected private and ;public enterprises, and f) restoration of adversely affected on cultural or common property. Rehabilitation mean: the restoration of PAPs resource capacity to continue with productive activities or lifestyles at a level higher or at least equal to that before the project. The objective of this RAP is to provide a plan for the resettlement and rehabilitation of the PAPs so that their losses will be improve or at least restored to the pre-project levels. To achieve these objectives the plan provides for rehabilitation measures so that the income eaming potential of individuals are restored to sustain their livelihoods. Affected productive resources of business (enterprises including shops ) and public property. 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