National Mission on Himalayan Studies

1. Project Details

Sanction Date:	14.03.2023
W.E.F	30.03.2023
Project Category	MG
Year	2022-2023
Project Duration	3 Year
BTA :	WRM
Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered:	Multi-States (Uttarakhand, Ladakh, & Sikkim)
Organization/ Implementation Agency:	G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment, Almora, Uttarakhand
Project Partners:	S.No.	Name
	1.	G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment, Kosi-Katarmal, Almora - 263 643
	2.	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, Maharashtra, India
	3.	Space Application Centre, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Jodhpur Tekra, Ambawadi Vistar P.O. Ahmedabad - 380015
	4.	Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, General Mahadev Singh Rd, Vijay Park, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248001 (HIMCOSTE)
	5.	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, Khandwa Rd, Simrol, Madhya Pradesh 453552
	6	National Institute of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand 247667
	7.	Ladakh regional Centre, GBPNIHE, Wildlife Warden Office Building, Near Council Secretariat - Leh 194101, Ladakh(UT), India
	8.	Sikkim Regional Centre, GBPNIHE, Post Box: 24, Gangtok, East Sikkim - 737 101, Sikkim, India
	9.	University of Jammu, Jammu, India 180006.
Lead Proponent:	Er. Ashutosh Tiwari Scientist - D GBPNIHE, Kosi - Katarmal, Almora, Uttarakhand
Project Brief Description:	The project is proposed for long-term monitoring of glacier mass balance, hydrometeorology with black carbon, meltwater and sediments properties of three ungauged glaciers of J&K, Uttarakhand, and Sikkim, so that the multi-component glacier observations could be used for developing glacier-climate response function, preferably through network approaches and spatially distributed glacier mass balance and ice-flow models. The novelty of the proposal is based on the application of Network Information Theory for developing functional relationships of glacier and climate feedback. Furthermore, the observations are expected to be disseminated through GIS and web-based resources of CDMA, GBPNIHE.
Beneficiaries/ Stakeholders:	• The project outputs are expected to benefit the State Government Departments for climate change mitigation and disaster mitigation. •The glacier monitoring data to be archived at NMHS, MoEFCC, GoI, data repository for further research and development. The glacier-climate model could be used for future glacier melt assessment under various climate and anthropogenic change scenarios.
Activity Chart (For 3 years)	Click Here

2. Financial Details

Total Grants (in Rs.)	Rs. 4,93,94,360 (Rupees: Four crore ninety three lakh ninety four thousand three hundred sixty only)
1^st Installment (in Rs.) :	Rs. 1,95,54,240 (Rupees: One crore ninety five lakh fifty four thosuand two hundred forty only)

3. Project Objectives, Deliverables and Monitoring Indicators

Project Objectives	Quantifiable Deliverables	Monitoring Indicators
• Assessment of glacial dynamics, changes in the glacial morphometry and mass balance using the space based resources and field measurement. • Identifying changes in the glacier hydrodynamics and glacier meltwater chemistry using in-situ observations. • Investigating glacial mass balance as response to changing climatic parameters using functional relationships through real-time and memory based networks for understanding the glacial-climate functional relationships.	• New databases generation covering the status and trends of glacier hydrometeorological parameters. • Functional model of glacier- climate feedback/response mechanism using the network information theory for 6 glaciers in IHR. • Water sustainability mapping in 3 selected basins • Capacity Building of Researchers • Research publications including policy briefs.	• New database generated (Nos.) • Models developed (Nos.) • Maps prepared (Nos.) • Capacity building programs (Nos.) • No. of Research articles/Reports/Policy briefs prepared and published (Nos.)

S.No.	Name (Sanctioned)	Salary (Sanctioned)
1.	01 Project Coordinator/RA-I	@47,000/- + HRA
2.	Project Associate-II/ SRF	@35,000/- + HRA
3.	06 JRF	@31,000/-+ HRA
4.	03 JPF	@20,000/-+ HRA
5.	06 Field Assistant	@12,000/-

S.No.	Name of Equipment (Sanctioned)	Cost (in INR)
1.	(Portable AWS- 3 nos (air temp., precipitation (pluvio), wind speed & direction, snow depth, surface temp., incoming shortwave radiation, outgoing shortwave, incoming long wave, outgoing longwave)+ VSAT communication @ 15 lakh, Drone based 3D Terrain mapper- 1 nos @ 40 lakh, Field based Water chemistry and discharge measurement kit- 3 @ 18 lakh, Digital Camera- 3 nos @ 3 lakh, Handheld GPS- 3 Nos @ 2 Lakh.	78,00,000/-