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Environmental and Social Management Framework• Mitigative Measures:- The Contractor must prevent illegal cutting of forest wood by labour forceshould. He is also liable for penalties to violators.- Equally, collection of non-timber forest products (e.g. bamboo, medicinalplants, mushrooms) by work staff must be prohibited and enforced.- The project management should instruct the project officials, labour force,contractors, consultants and other stakeholder not to indulge in suchactivities and abide by the forest act and its regulation.- The project should closely coordinate with Forest Office and its outlets tocontrol illegal poaching and trapping by the project stakeholders or otheroutside wildlife poachers, wildlife traders and timber smugglers.(3) Impact Mitigation relating to the Socio-Economic and Cultural Environmenta. Loss of Properties and Productive Land• Preventive Measures:- Make adequate provisions and compensation arrangements in theResettlement Action Plan ad the Land Acquisition Plan to satisfy andcompensate all PAPs in a fair and timely manner.- Align the road such that acquisition of productive and irrigated agriculturalland (khet) is minimized.• Mitigative and Compensatory Measures:- Implement the Resettlement Action Plan, as described in Chapter 7.- Encourage the involvement of agricultural extension services to increaselocal crop production and adopt better hill farming techniques;- Encourage community development programs to increase productdiversification and development of alternative livelihood activities.- Use spoil to reclaim lowland and waste places and cover them by at leastone meter of top soil to use it as agriculture field;- Adopt compensatory plantation for lost trees, fruit orchards etc;- Arrange/assist in food supply programs for food deficiency areas.b. Avoid Impacts on Indigenous PeopleIndigenous people are commonly among the poorest segments of a population.They engage in economic activities that range from shifting agriculture in or nearforests to wage labour or even small-scale market-oriented activities. Thecultural, social, political and economic integrity that characterizes indigenouspeoples renders their lives extremely vulnerable to disruptions from outside.Whether a road is being planned to cross an area inhabited by indigenouspeoples or to open up that same area, it will have a marked effect on their lives.• Preventive Measures:- Align the road such that need for acquisition of communal land, houseand properties of indigenous people are avoided or minimized as far aspossible.- Make adequate provisions and compensation arrangements in theResettlement Action Plan and the Land Acquisition Plan to satisfy andcompensate all indigenous and vulnerable groups in a fair and timelymanner.• Mitigative Measures:- Engage locally operating and experienced NGOs to assist indigenouspeople in coping better with the new situation, to ensure social cohesionand maintenance of identity and livelihood. The NGOs shall developprograms that will specifically address the losses of traditional sense ofidentity, the change in the traditionally adopted land rights and use ofnatural resources. The programs need to take into consideration thatApril 2007 Chapter 6-17