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National Mission on Himalayan Studies
Implemented by the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEF&CC)
Nodal and Serving hub with G.B. Pant "National Institute of Himalayan Environment"(NIHE)

2017-18 2019-20

Him-Nature Learning Centre (NLC)

The Indian Himalayan region (IHR) represents a very significant part of the Indian sub-continent as it supports unique landscape elements, species, populations, communities, and ecosystems along with the rich ethnic diversity. The unique uniqueness and representativeness of biodiversity in the Himalaya has attracted the attention of people from all over the globe. The IHR also forms the large part of globally recognized Himalayan biodiversity hotspot. However, the regions is identified amongst the most climate change sensitive ecosystem, and the naturalness of this unique ecosystem is severely threatened due to ever increasing human onslaught. Realizing the challenges and emerging responsibilities of conservation of Himalayan natural resources, a number of initiatives are taking place globally and nationally. In this regard, among others, National Mission on Himalayan Studies (NMHS) has been launched by Govt. of India. This mission envisages establishing the state-of-art Him-Nature Learning Centre (NLC) in all Himalayan states. This centre would promote the outreach and enable to produce reliable and authentic information and knowledge products, which could subsequently feed into the provincial, national and international policies.

OBJECTIVES OF NLC-

The main aim of Him-Nature Learning Center is to educate, engage, and empower community to positively impact their local environments. Specific objectives of the Centre are:

  • Educate different stakeholders to understand our environment, our heritage, and our connection to natural systems. For promoting the conservation and management of biodiversity (representative flora and fauna of sub-tropical, temperate and alpine region of IHR)

  • Engage people to actively use natural spaces by harnessing the available knowledge database and become stewards of the natural world

  • Empower people to embrace nature, new perspectives, and sustainable practices by developing the training, demonstration and dissemination material

  • Maintaining the knowledge sharing relations with other similar Learning Centres in IHR, country or elsewhere in the world.


Sanctioned Him-NLC for Financial Year 2017-18 (Total Projects: 5)

S. No.
Him-NLC Title
Lead Proponent
Total Grants
(in Rs.)
1st Installment
(in Rs.)
2nd Installment
(in Rs.)
3rd Installment
(in Rs.)
Latest Quarterly Report
Annual Report
Details
S. No.
Him-NLC Title
Lead Proponent
Total Grants
(in Rs.)
1st Installment
(in Rs.)
2nd Installment
(in Rs.)
3rd Installment
(in Rs.)
Latest Quarterly Report
Annual Report
Details
1
Him-Nature Learning Centre (NLC)-Manipur Dr Lokho Puni ,Addl. PCCF
Government of Manipur, Forest Headquarters, Sanjenthong, Imphal – 795001. Manipur. India.
2,75,70,000
1,84,70,000
45,50,000 40,35,599 2019

2020
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2
Him-Nature Learning Centre (NLC)- Nagaland Dr. S.P.Tripathi,
Chief wildlife Warden/Director, Nagaland Zoological Park
2,79,88,862
2,20,28,862
29,40,000
24,48,000
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2020

2021

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S. No.
Him-NLC Title
Lead Proponent
Total Grants
(in Rs.)
1st Installment
(in Rs.)
2nd Installment
(in Rs.)
3rd Installment
(in Rs.)
Details
FTR
1
Him-Nature Learning Centre (NLC)-Assam Shri. K.S.P.V Pavan Kumar, IFS
(Project In-charge) NLC, Assam
i/c Spl. PCCF (B & CC)
Member Secretary-ASBB
3,76,34,312
1,31,20,000
1,22,26,000
25,00,481
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3
Him-Nature Learning Centre (NLC)-Tripura Shri Animesh Das , IFS DFO,
Sepahijala, Tripura
4,10,03,152
2,03,22,880
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2
Him-Nature Learning Centre (NLC)- Himachal Pradesh Dr. Suneet Bharadwaja,
Divisional Forest Officer, Great Himalayan National Park, Shamshi, Distt. Kullu Himachal Pradesh
3,70,62,000
1,13,47,000
1,24,27,000
73,64,317
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All annexures are available on the request