On September 11, 2016, the Panel received a Request for Inspection sent by 22 community members from Muramalla Village, Polavaram Mandal, in East Godavari District of the State of Andhra Pradesh, India. On September 12, 2016, four additional community members from the same location sent additional Requests for Inspection. The Requesters are, claiming harms caused by the involuntary resettlement, environmental degradation and lack of consultations in the context of the widening of National Highway (NH) 216 (previously known as NH 214).
As in a previous case, relating to NH 216, the Panel conducted its due diligence and determined that the alleged harms are not linked to any project supported by IBRD or IDA.
The Panel notes that, if in the future, the road mentioned in the Request comes to be supported by Bank financing, the Panel would be in a position to reassess the existence of a plausible link between a Bank-supported Project and the alleged harms.
