LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

Serial

Complete Words

Abbreviation

1.

Affected Households

Ahs

2.

Asian Development Bank

ADB

3.

Assistant Land Acquisition Officer

ALO

4.

American National Standards for Wet Process

Porcelain and Toughened Glass Insulator

ANSI

5.

As soon as possible

ASAP

6.

Affected Person

AP

7.

Abbreviated Resettlement Plan

ARP

8.

American Society of Civil Engineers

ASCE

9.

Bank Procedure

BP

10.

Corridor of Impact / Influence

COI

11.

Culturable Commanded Area

CCA

12.

Canadian International Development Agency

CIDA

13.

Community Based Organization

CBO

14.

Combined Cycle Power Plant

CCPP

15.

Divisional Forest Officer

DFO

16.

District Officer Revenues

DOR

17.

Employment of Child Act

ECA

18.

Executing Agency, Environmental Assessment

EA

19.

Environmental Impact Assessment

EIA

20.

Extra High Voltage

EHV

21.

Electro-Magnetic Field

EMF

22.

Environmental Management and Monitoring Plan

EMMP

23.

Environmental management Plan

EMP

24.

Environment

Env

25.

Environmental and Social Assessment

ESA

26.

Environmental & Social Cell

ESC

27.

Environmental Protection Agency

EPA

28.

Grid Station

G/S

29.

Government of Pakistan

GOP

30.

General Manager South

GM (S)

31.

Grand Trunk Road

GT Road

32.

Grievance Redress Committee

GRC

33.

Govt. of Sind

GOS

34.

Grid System Construction (department of NTDC)

GSC

35.

Hectare

Ha

36.

High Voltage

HV

37.

Hyderabad Electric Supply Co.

ESCO

38.

Hydraulic Colony (Organized/Numbered by Serving

Canal/Branch)/village

Chak / Goth

39.

Hyderabad Electric Supply Company

HESCO

40.

Initial Environmental Examination

IEE

41.

Inventory of Losses

IOL

42.

Independent Power Producer (Private Sector Power

Producer)

IPP

43.

Japan International Cooperation Agency

JICA

44.

Kilo Volt

kV

45.

Land Acquisition Act

LAA

46.

Land Acquisition Collector

LAC

47.

Land Acquisition Officer

LAO

48.

Lower Bari Doab Canal

LBDC

49.

Lahore Electric Supply Company

LESCO

50.

Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (amended)

LAA

51.

Land Acquisition and Resettlement Framework

LARF

52.

Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan

LARP

53.

Land Acquisition and Resettlement Unit (NTDC)

LARU

54.

Land Measuring Unit (Smallest): 272.25 sq. ft or 25.31

sq. meters

Marla

55.

Land Revenue Officer at Tehsil Level

Tehsildar

56.

Management Measures

MMs

57.

Ministry of Power and Water

MOWP

58.

Management Review Meeting

MRM

59.

National Environmental Quality Standards

NEQS

60.

Non Governmental Organization

NGO

61.

National Transmission and Dispatch Company

NTDC

62.

No Objection Certificate

NOC

63.

Overseas Development Administration

ODA

64.

Operational Policy

OP

65.

Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency

Pak EPA

66.

Project Affected Persons

PAPs

67.

Planning Commission Performa No.1

PC-1

68.

Polychlorinated Biphenyls

PCBs

69.

Pakistan Environmental Protection Act, 1997

PEPA, 1997

70.

Pakistan Environmental Protection Council

PEPC

71.

Project Grievance Resolution Committee

PGRC

72.

Project Implementing Unit

PIU

73.

Project Director

PD

74.

Public Information Booklet

PIB

75.

Project Management Unit

PMU

76.

Project Preparatory Technical Assistance

PPTA

77.

Resettlement Plan

RP

78.

Resettlement Policy Framework

RPF

79.

Right-of-Way

RoW

80.

Resettlement Plan

RP

81.

SCARPs Monitoring Organization

SMO

82.

Smallest unit of land measurement: 1 marla = 272.25

ft2 (= 25.31 m2)

Marla

83.

Transmission Line

T/L

84.

Terms of Reference

TOR

85.

Ultimate Tensile Strength

UTS

86.

Village Grievance Resolution Committee

VGRC

87.

Water and Power Development Authority

WAPDA

88.

Unit of land measurement: 1 kanal = 20 marlas (8

kanal = 1 acre)

Kanal

89.

Short Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan

SLARP

90.

Site Selection Board

SSB

91.

Village

Goth / Mouza