Resettlement plan for Ben Tre city

The development objective of Scaling-Up Urban Upgrading Project for Vietnam is to improve access to infrastructure in priority city areas and improve urban planning in the participating cities. Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (i) the project affected land-users will be compensated for the actually affected area in cash at 100 percent of the replacement cost; (ii) households or individuals with all or part of their residential land acquired, where the remaining parts of land are less than the limits of local land allocation will be entitled to resettlement arrangement; (iii) where the compensation for affected land is lower than the investment cost of a land plot in the resettlement site the households will be supported by the project which will cover any difference; (iv) the households whose land is affected will be assisted in cash with an amount at least 60 percent of the land at the replacement cost; (v) relocated persons who have no shelters in the city, which is confirmed by local authorities (i) will be allocated minimum land plots in the project resettlement site for building houses and (ii) pay land-use fee; (vi) in addition to the compensation for their affected property on land at replacement cost, relocated persons will be entitled to rent or buy apartments in the project resettlement site to reside in; (vii) If affected Non-agricultural lands are eligible to be compensated, Project Affected Persons (PAPs) will be compensated in cash at 100 percent of the replacement cost; (viii) PAPs whose affected land used before 01 July 2004 will be compensated in cash with 100 percent of the land at the replacement cost; (ix) regardless their titles to the affected land or a construction permit for the affected structure, compensation or assistance in cash will be made to the affected houses or structures at 100 percent of the replacement costs; (x) cash compensation at full replacement cost will be made to PAPs at time of compensation for the affected trees or domestic animals planted or raised on the land; (xi) all affected businesses and production households having a register business whose income is affected will be compensated and or supported for losses in business equivalent to 50 percent of their actual annual income dependent on three years of continued tax obligation; and (xii) If some public infrastructures or buildings are damaged by the project, the Project Management Unit (PMU) shall consult with affected communities and specify that these structures are restored or repaired soon to mitigate negative impacts on communities, while the affected communities do not pay for such repair costs.