University / Organisation Name: Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, Roorkee.
1. Fellowship Details
Sanction Date: 19.12.2018
Year 2018-2019
Fellowship Duration 3 Years + 9 Months fellowship extension
Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered:

Himalayan Region, Central Himalayas and Upper Himalayan Region

No of HRAs: 2 Nos
No of HJRFs: 3 Nos


2. Financial Details
Total Institutional Fellowships: Rs. 84,00,000/-


3. Fellowship Objectives and Deliverables(HRAs)
Position Study Area Proposed Objectives Deliverables
HRA001 Himalayan Region • Disaster risk assessment and transformation documentation.
• Community strengthening and developing ecosystem based risk resilience program
• Implementation planning through community participation.
• Evaluation and feedback continuation.

• Detailed maps of existing houses including infrastructure
• representing their location, extent, conditions and usage in integrated GIS platform
• Development of streamlined framework for GPDP
• Real-world implementation of developed strategies
• Knowledge dissemination through outreach activities
• Resilient demo habitat unit if supports are available including financial
• Low-impact ecosystem with the strategic development process to promote employment, health and education to mitigate migration from the hilly region.

HRA002 Himalayan Region (Uttarakhand) • Developing an energy dissipation system for both low and high rise buildings.
• System verification under earthquake loading conditions.
• Prepare seismic construction design manual.

• Earthquake resilient housing in hilly terrain.
• Need based research in earthquake disaster mitigation.

4. Fellowship Objectives and Deliverables(HJRFs)
Position Study Area Proposed Objectives Deliverables
H-JRF001 Central Himalayas (Pauri-Garhwal and Almora districts)

• Baseline database preparation for hydromet variables
• Understanding hydrological processes and biophysical linkages.
• Hydrological modelling and BMPs towards policy frameworks

 

• Quantifying rainfall runoff characteristics and identification of key hydrological processes.
• Develop physically based hydrological models.
• Scientific articles and presentation in international conference.
• Registration for Ph.D

H-JRF002 Central Himalayas

• Identification of Himalayan species for fiber potential
• Design process for extraction and characterization
• Fabrication of polymer matrix composites
• Process optimization and analyze application.

 

• Development of sustainable products based on forest and agricultural waste, technology transfer to rural artisans for livelihood based on eco-friendly materials and technologies
• Registration for Ph.D

H-JRF003 Upper Himalayan Region

• Comparative analysis of pre-existing hydrological models and its improvement.
• Understanding future climatic variability and impacts on snow and glacier runoff.
• Assessing current and future national adaptation strategies for Himalayan communities

 

• Improvement of snow and glacier runoff model and selection of best approach for modelling Himalayan systems
• Process understanding towards future climatic variability.
• Scientific articles and presentation in international conference.
• Registration for Ph.D

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