National Mission on Himalayan Studies

Vision

To support the sustenance and enhancement of the ecological, natural, cultural, and socio- economic capital assets and values of the IHR.

Mission

To launch and support innovative studies and related knowledge interventions (that do not tread on the beaten path) towards the sustenance and enhancement of the ecological, natural, cultural, and socio-economic capital assets and values of the IHR.

Goals

The NMHS envisages to work towards a set of linked and complementary goals including:

Fostering conservation and sustainable management of natural resources
Enhancing supplementary and/or alternative livelihoods for IHR peoples and overall economic and ecological well-being of the region
Controlling and preventing pollution in the region
Fostering increased/augmented human and institutional capacities and the knowledge and policy environments in the region
Strengthening, greening, and fostering development of climate-resilient core infrastructure and basic services assets

Objectives

The objectives of the Mission include the following:

To build a body of scientific and traditional knowledge through demand driven action research and technological innovations along with institutional strengthening & capacity building.
To strengthen technological innovations leading to sustainable management of natural resources of Himalaya for ensuring the ecological, water, livelihood security at the local, regional and national levels.
To create science-policy-practice connect through a network of policy makers and practitioners (individual and institutions) engaged in working solutions to problems in the thematic areas
To demonstrate workable/implementable/replicable solutions to the problems in the priority thematic areas