1. Social impact assessment (SIA) based on socioeconomic surveys plays a pivotal role in business sustainability by understanding local communities and stakeholders who are more sensitive and empowered today. 2. SIA and socioeconomic surveys provide baseline data to identify how businesses impact local communities through demographic research, ensuring no groups are left out of planning and decision making. 3. The methodology for SIA and surveys includes participatory research methods, identifying and coordinating with direct and indirect stakeholders, documenting and analyzing planned interventions, and suggesting mitigation measures to develop communities in a socially sustainable way.

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SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
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2. Social impact assessment (SIA) based on
Socio economic survey (SES) plays
a pivotal role of business sustainability.
SES & SIA is essential in the changed dynamics of Indian social & democratic
system where stakeholder’s are more sensitive & empowered by various
constitutional rights, easy access of information & active role of NGO and media.
The days are gone when business acceptability was easier and simple. Today
business fraternity needs to understand the society, their strength, needs, impact
of business on their life & their expectations.
SES & SIA is tool for any business organization to know about their core
stakeholder, the community where they operate or intend to operate & sell their
product or services in sustainable manner. The study helps your business
sustainability by making feasible decisions about the transformation of the
society living around your business or your specific cause.
Previously SIA was the part of EIA report in brief, aiming only to get the license
& clearances but now this becomes imperative part of the Right to Fair
Compensation and Transparency in Land
Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement
Act (LARR Act) 2013, The Companies Act
2013 and many other acts & policies.
Considering the growing opposition by the
community, NGO, environmentalist and gap
of faith between corporate & community makes it important to understand the
community and necessitate taking of proactive steps, which will possible only
through SES & SIA.

3. Methodology of SES: - We work on all three tier available source of
information through –
SES Objectives:-
1. To ascertain the total population affected by the project;
2. To classify different categories of Project Affected Persons (PAPs) and
Project Affected Families (PAFs) on the basis of demographic data such
as Sex, Age, Gender, Occupation, Education, Income, Religion, Caste,
Language, Marital Status;
3. To provide baseline data for Planning & Decision making.
4. To ensure that no PAP, PAF or vulnerable group is left out.
5. To ascertain opinion of affected families in respect of project proponent
& project.
6. Details of members of the family who are permanently residing prior to
publication of notice under.
7. Families who are likely to lose, or have lost, fully or partially their house,
agricultural land, employment or are alienated wholly or substantially
from the main source of their trade, business, occupation or vocation in-
cluding income derived from formal sector and nonfarm activities.
8. Agricultural laborers and non-agricultural laborers.

4. 9. Families belonging to the Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe categories.
10. Vulnerable persons such as the disabled, destitute, orphans, widows, un-
married girls, abandoned women, or persons above fifty years of age;
who are not provided with alternative livelihood, and who are not other-
wise covered as part of a family
11. Families that are not having homestead and are below poverty line but
continuously residing more than three years and are affected by proposed
project.
12. Scheduled Tribes families who were in possession of forest lands in the
affected area.
Social Impact Assessment (SIA)
Social Impact Assessment is the processes of collecting information of
impact on society due to development of industrial and infrastructure
projects, whether positive and negative or any social changes & helps in
decision making, mitigation plan formulation.
1. The goal is to bring about a more ecologically, socio-culturally and
economically sustainable and equitable environment.
2. It therefore, promotes community development and empowerment, builds
capacity, and develops social capital (social networks and trust).
3. The focus of SIA is a proactive stance to development and better
development outcomes.
4. Assisting communities and other stakeholders to identify development
goals and ensuring that positive outcomes are maximized, can be more
important than minimizing harm from negative impacts.
5. It is essential to work within a regulatory
framework.
6. SIA contributes to the process of adaptive
management of policies, programs, plans
and projects, and therefore needs to
inform the design and operation of the
planned intervention.
7. SIA builds on local knowledge and utilizes participatory processes to
analyze the concerns of interested and affected parties.

5. 8. It involves stakeholders in the assessment of social impacts, the analysis of
alternatives, and monitoring of the planned intervention.
9. The SIA reveals social, economic and biophysical impacts. Change in any
of these domains will lead to changes in the other domains.
10.SIA therefore, develop an understanding for strategic mitigation planning
and decision making.
Our methodology of SIA:-
 Participation through planned intervention;
 Identification of interested and affected
peoples;
 Coordinates with direct & indirect
stakeholders;
 Documentation and analyses of the planned intervention.
 Collection of baseline data (social profiling).
 Understanding of local community.
 Identifies the activities which are likely to cause impacts (scoping);
 Predicts ( analyses) impacts and how stakeholders are likely to respond;
 Select & suggest alternatives (including a no development option);
 Recommends mitigation measures;
 Valuation process and suggestions about compensation (non-financial as
well as financial);
 Identify potential conflicts between stakeholders and advise on resolution
processes;
 Strategies for dealing with residual or non-mitigateable impacts;
 Identify mode & method for scaling socio economic development of com-
munity;
 Propose appropriate institutional and coordination arrangements for all
stakeholders.
 Develops implementation, monitoring and management systems.

6. Bottom line of SIA
1. Fairness should be a fundamental element of impact assessment and of de-
velopment planning.
2. Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA).
3. Analysis based prediction of negative impact.
4. Rational approach to suggest.
5. Focus on socially sustainable development.
6. Full consideration to the potential mitigation measures of social and envi-
ronmental impacts.
7. Acknowledgment of different local cultural values.
SIA is an umbrella or overarching framework that embodies the evaluation
of all impacts on humans and on all the ways in which people and
communities interact with their socio-cultural, economic and biophysical
surroundings. SIA thus has strong links with a wide range of impacts such
as archaeological and cultural heritage impacts, community impacts;
cultural impacts; demographic impacts; development impacts; economic
and fiscal impacts; gender impacts; health and mental health impacts;
impacts on indigenous rights; infrastructural impacts, institutional
impacts; tourism impacts; political impacts (human rights, governance,
democratization etc); poverty; psychological impacts; resource issues
(access and ownership of resources); impacts on social and human
capital; and other impacts on societies.

7. Society a key stakeholder
their prosperity counts big part of profit … . .
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