Resettlement policy framework and specific resettlement action plan

8Valuation of and compensation for losses

National legislation of RUz envisages compensation for involuntary acquisition of lands for non-agricultural purposes, in the following instances:

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  Exemption, purchase or temporary occupation of land;
  
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  Restriction of rights resulting from installation of protection and sanitary zones around national reserves, sanctuaries, parks, sites, cultural and historical monuments, ponds, sources of water supply, health resorts, along rivers, canals, discharges, roads, pipe lines, communication and power lines; and
  
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  Deterioration of land quality as a result of effects of construction and operation of water resources, canals, collector drains, and other objects emitting harmful, for agricultural crops and plants, substances, as well as effects of other actions by physical and legal persons leading to harvest decrease and deterioration of agricultural produce quality.
  

Specialists recommend refraining from sowing crops in SHD construction area in order to prevent its early clogging during implementation of Project activities, temporary or permanent acquisition of land for construction of IDs and SHDs. Thus, there will be restrictions of land users’ rights to use land during the year after the completion of SHD construction. The probability of deterioration of land quality as well as the decrease of harvests and quality of agricultural produce will be determined by environmental assessment. The farmers will incur income loses when their ability to cultivate is restricted. As a result, they will have to be compensated. As to valuation of losses of agricultural producers incurred as a result of land acquisition, and of those incurred as a result of restriction of land users’ rights, in both cases, the same valuation methodology shall apply.