National Mission on Himalayan Studies

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)

All projects in this category are completed

S. No.	HIM-NLC Title	Lead Proponent	Total Grants (in Rs.)	1^st Installment (in Rs.)	2^nd Installment (in Rs.)	3^rd Installment (in Rs.)	Latest Quarterly Report	Annual Progress 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	Click
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	Click	2019 2020 2021	Click

S. No.	Project Title	Project Proponent	Total Grants (in Rs.)	1^st Installment (in Rs.)	2^nd Installment (in Rs.)	3^rd 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	Click	FTR
3	Him-Nature Learning Centre (NLC)-Tripura	Shri Animesh Das , IFS DFO, Sepahijala, Tripura	4,10,03,152	2,03,22,880			Click
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	Click	FTR

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