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The memorandum summarizes the Request submitted by community members, allegations about rerouting of a transmission line and adverse impacts on homes, schools, cultural sites, livelihoods, and health and safety, including land and rights-of-way concerns. It then outlines the Panel process, referral to dispute resolution, the confidential outcome agreement, signatory participation details, and formal closure of the case.","Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized  \nRAMANIE KUNANAYAGAM Chairperson The Inspection Panel  \nIPN REQUEST RQ 21/04  \nApril 27, 2023  \nClosing Memorandum  \nRequest for Inspection  \nNepal: Nepal-India Electricity Transmission and Trade Project (P115767) and its  \nAdditional Financing (P132631)  \nThe Request  \nOn October 18, 2021, the Inspection Panel received a Request for Inspection (the“Request”) of the Nepal-India Electricity Transmission and Trade Project (P115767) and its Additional Financing (P132631) (the “Project”) . It was submitted by 49 community members (the “Requesters”) living in the Project area in Nepal. On November 17, 2021, the Panel received a letter signed by 51 community members designating an advocate from the Lawyers’ Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples to represent them. The Requesters have asked the Panel to keep their identities confidential.  \nThe Request raises concern about the construction of a 74-kilometer-long transmission line between Bharatpur and Bardaghat, in particular its section in the Binayi Triveni Rural Municipality Ward No. 2, approximately 200 kilometers west of Kathmandu. The Requesters allege that the transmission line was rerouted and consequently passes through their densely populated community, which includes indigenous and nonindigenous residents. They claim that they were neither meaningfully consulted nor provided any information about the Project and allege that the current alignment of the transmission line causes adverse impact on community members’ homes, schools, cultural and religious sites, agricultural lands, environment and economic activities, and threatens their health and safety. The Requesters are concerned about both land acquired for the tower pads, and land affected by a 30-meter wide right of way easement along the corridor of the transmission line. The Requesters allege that during a peaceful protest in April 2021 against the excavation of a tower pad in their area, the authorities responded by deploying armed forces using tear gas and physically assaulting community members, and women, senior citizens and a toddler were wounded.  \nThe Panel Process and the Referral to Dispute Resolution  \nThe Panel registered the Request on November 30, 2021 and received Management’s response to the issues raised in the Request on January 14, 2022. Following a visit to Nepal in January 2022, on February 16, 2022, the Panel recommended an investigation “into the alleged issues of harm and related non-compliance, focusing on issues of compliance with World Bank operational policies and procedures under the Project that relate to the Project’s analysis of alignment alternatives for the transmission  \nline, resettlement and alleged impact on livelihoods of vulnerable groups, including indigenous peoples, and the Project’s engagement with the affected community, including consultation, participation, information disclosure and grievance redress.”1  \nOn March 3, 2022, the Board of Executive Directors (the “Board”) approved the Panel’s recommendation to investigate. Following Board approval, and in accordance with the Inspection Panel and Accountability Mechanism Resolutions,2 the Accountability Mechanism Secretary (AMS) offered the opportunity for dispute resolution to the Borrower and the Requesters (the Parties) .  \nThe Dispute Resolution Process  \nOn April 12, 2022, the AMS informed the Executive Directors, the Inspection Panel, and Bank Management that the Parties voluntarily agreed to pursue dispute resolution. The Panel thus held its compliance process in abeyance until conclusion of the dispute resolution process in accordance with the Inspection Panel and Accountability Mechanism Resolutions. On April 20, 2023, the AMS issued a Notice of Dispute Resolution Agreement (the “Notice”) stating that the dispute resolution process concluded on April 11, 2023, with a signed dispute resolution agreement. 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