| Sanction Date: | 22-12-2017 | ||||
| Project Category | MG | ||||
| Year | 2017-2018 | ||||
| Project Duration | 3 Years + 9 Months Extension | ||||
| BTA : | Livelihood Options and Employments Generation | ||||
| Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered: | Two representative Habitats (one each from Jammu & Kashmir and Uttarakhand) | ||||
| Organization/ Implementation Agency: | CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute (CSIR-4PI), Bangalore | ||||
| Project Partners: | S.No. | Name | Roles & Responsibilities | ||
1. |
G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment & Sustainable Development (GBPNIHESD), Almora | Collecting ground truth and conducting survey related research and development component of Uttarakhand urban-rural ecosystem in co-ordination with CSIR-4PI. | |||
2. |
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Kashmir, Srinagar | Collecting ground truth and conducting survey related research and development component of Jammu & Kashmir urban-rural ecosystem in co-ordination with CSIR-4PI. | |||
| Lead Proponent: |
Dr. K.V. Ramesh Principal Scientist (AcSIR) CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute (CSIR 4PI) NAL Belur Campus, Bangalore - 560 037 |
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| Project Brief Description: | Himalayan communities are by and large self-reliant, and nature-dependent. They draw their livelihoods mostly from agriculture, horticulture, tourism, and animal husbandry. Varying aspects like altitudes slope and micro-climatic conditions result in considerable variation in temperature and rainfall which eventually lead to very high spatial variability in soil texture, vegetation, and cropping patterns in Himalayan states. Changes in temperature and rainfall in these areas also result in multi-faceted, negative and positive impacts on living organisms. The natural endogenetic and exogenetic forces coupled with human-induced climate change result in increased frequency and magnitude of multiple hazards like avalanches, landslides, earthquakes, flash floods, etc. This research proposal is aimed at developing a computer model of specific Himalayan systems wherein the topography, climate variables, natural resources and societal requirements including health are coupled along with their feedback impacts to form a data and knowledge guided tool to optimize the desired variables under current and anticipated conditions of future change. The models would be constructed using actual data describing the land use pattern in the region, its natural resources especially exotic resources whose planned development may be enhanced together with that of human resources, as well as epidemiological factors that impact human health and progressively enriched through new directed surveys to capture the critical factors (tested by relative sensitivities) that determine the coupled human natural ecosystem of the region. | ||||
| Beneficiaries/ Stakeholders: | Local People; Policy makers; planners administrators involved in socio-economic, agriculture, urban-rural develoment, natural resource management of Himalayan region an scientists involved in socio-economic studies | ||||
| Activity Chart (For 3years) | Click Here | ||||
| Total Grants (in Rs.) | Rs.2,42,42,040.00 (Rupees two crore forty two lakh forty two thousand forty only) | |||
| Project Objectives | Quantifiable Deliverables | Monitoring Indicators |
| Development of strategies for resilient and sustainable urban-rural-ecosystems to enhance sustained quality of livelihood of people in two representative Habitats over the Indian Himalayas (one each from Jammu & Kashmir and Uttarakhand). | Database of socio-economic (health, income, etc.), environmental, crop-vegetation and soil database for 3 years | No. of New Database/ Datasets generated on the identified dynamics (No.); |
| Test and validate the intervention strategies through development of a system dynamical model to enhance Livelihood of the selected Himalayan Habitats. | Development of integrated System Dynamical model to test the behavioural response of Himalayan communities and specific ecosystem elements to different Socio-economic and environmental stresses; | No. of New Models tested/ validated; |
| Enhancement of human-natural resources management to achieve environmental and economic benefits whilst minimizing their carbon footprint | Developing a decision support system by integrating SDM on GIS platform driven by the observed field and survey data related to various processes and phenomena for 3 main commercial crops in 3 states. | No. of Baseline surveys performed |
| To provide policy options to achieve better quality of life for the selected Habitats and their prototypes in a sustained manner. | No. of Decision-support System developed for No. of Commercial Crops in IHR States; | |
| Capacity and awareness building through stake holder interactions and design of viable intervention strategies for decision making and implementation that is also informed by the specificities of their traditional lifestyle. | No. of Policy Guidelines and Legislative Mechanisms: Prepared and/ or Communicated; | |
| Publications and knowledge products (Nos.). |
| S.No. | Name | Qualification | Designation (Sanctioned Staff) | Salary |
| 1. | Ms. Nahida Ali | M.Sc. Geoinformatics | JPF | 17,800/- |
| 2. | Ms. Insha Shafi | M.Sc. Geoinformatics | JPF | 17,800/- |
| 3. | C Dhananjay Kumar | MTech (Water and Land Management) | JRF | 31,000/- |
| 4. | Kiran Kumar V | MSc (Agricultural Statistics) | JRF | 31,000/- |
| 5. | Gurulingappa Balaganur | MSc (Agricultural Statistics) | JRF | 31,000/- |
| 6. | Himanshu Kandpal | MSc (Social work) | JPF | 17,800/- |
| 7. | Prakash Rao | 12th | Technical Assistant | 12,400/ |
| 8. | Vinod Kanwal | Not Given | Technical Assistant | 11,800/- |
| 9. | Ajay Prakash | BA | Technical Assistant | 11,800/- |
| 10. | Mr. Amir Gani Khosa | M.Com | Technical Assistant | 11,800/- |
| S.No. | Name of Equipment (Sanctioned) | Details/Use | Cost (in INR) |
| 1. | Field instrument: Plant canopy analyzer | LAI-2200C Plant Canopy Analyzer | 7,21,740/- |
| 2. | Network attached storage | Netgear | 11,55,000/- |
| 3. | Handheld GPS | Gramin | 24,990/- |
| 4. | Workstations | HP | 9,23,580/- |
| 5. | Automatic rain gauges (6) | Supplied By: M/S: Hach DHR India Pvt. Ltd | 8,80,598.82/- |
| 6. | Handheld Air temperature &relative humidity sensor with display logger (1) | Supplied By: M/S: Hach DHR India Pvt. Ltd | 66,737.34/- |
| 7. | GSPS connection (1) | BSNL | 1,13,601/- |
| 8. | DC Jack/ trackpad/ touchpad | Amazon | 6,726/- |
