Film | Mucking Up Mountain Lives पहाड़ी जीवन दबाया मलबे में

Yet another hydropower project disaster devastated property, lands and livelihoods in Himachal Pradesh. This time in a 25 MW hydropower project executed by the Megha engineering Infrastructure Limited (MEIL), whose penstock/tunnel failure caused seepages which turned to a flash flood and landslide devastating farmlands and property in Multhan village and market in the Chhota Bhangal […]

Bano Haqq Kathare highlights diminishing role of community in forest management in HP.

A documentary film by Himdhara Collective based in Himachal Pradesh narrates the story of forest rights and traces the unrecognized efforts of the community in forest conservation policies in Lahaul Valley in HP. Bano Haqq Kathare, a story of forest rights, is a 44-minute recent documentary film in Hindi by Himdhara (an environment research and […]

हिमाचल प्रदेश के सिरमौर जिला में वन अधिकार कानून 2006, का तीन दिवसीय प्रशिक्षण

वनों पर लोगों के अधिकारों को सुरक्षित करता है वन अधिकार कानून, 2006 *उप मंडल संगडाह प्रशासन द्वारा आयोजित वन अधिकार कानून, 2006 पर तीन दिवसीय प्रशिक्षण कार्यशाला के अंतिम दिन संगड़ाह की 19 पंचायतें हुई शामिल!*   *प्रेस नोट: 10 जनवरी 2023* | विकास खण्ड सँगड़ाह में वन अधिकार कानून 2006 से सम्बंधित तीन दिवसीय […]

Tunnels as Temples of ‘New Green India’: Dominant Narratives of Himalayan Dam Building

Abstract The dramatic unfolding of the Joshimath crisis in Uttarakhand, India, has brought the world’s attention once again to the Himalaya. The contribution of a 520-megawatt hydropower dam to land subsidence is squarely in the spotlight. River valleys with bumper-to-bumper hydropower dam building, especially in the North Western Himalaya, in the past decade and a […]

Film || बणःतु हको कथाःरे Bana-Tu Haqo Kathare | Forest Rights Chronicles

For English scroll down. बणों हक़ कथारे, ट्रांस-हिमालयी लाहौल घाटी में महिला मंडलों के तीन दशकों से अधिक समय से चल रहे सामूहिक वन भूमि के प्रबंधन के साझा प्रयासों की कहानी है। फिल्म के माध्यम से हम लाहौला समुदायों की जुबानी सुनते हैं कि कैसे महिलाओं के श्रम पर टिकी इन सामाजिक प्रबंधन की […]

Press Note: 10th October 2023 | Development Policy Induced Cycle of Disasters in the Himalaya; Science of Himalaya, Climate research and people’s warnings not heeded; State is accountable

हिन्दी प्रेस नोट के लिए नीचे स्क्रोल करें। Reframe Himalayan Disaster and Climate Discourse: Put people, indigenous local knowledge and governance at the centre: Himdhara study ‘Disaster-making in the Himalaya’ The Himalayan region has been stuck in an incessant cycle of disasters over past decade and the year 2023 has been particularly devastating with Joshimath […]

Shrinking pastoralism, fear of eviction — Forest Rights Act is the only hope for Van Gujjars of Sirmaur

Many families who are still landless cannot even buy land because of the state’s policy Article written by Himshi Singh & Prakash Bhandari published on 26/09/23 in Down To Earth Developed with World Bank funding, NH 907A from Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh, to Paonta Sahib is wide and smooth, unlike any typical mountain […]

Disasters in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand point to flawed development model

Indigenous communities in the two ecologically fragile Himalayan States are routinely excluded from this narrative that fuels reckless growth. Article written by Manshi Asher published on 21/09/23 in Frontline The monsoon of 1999 is etched vividly in my memory. At 23, shortly after finishing my master’s, I was to join a project that worked on […]

आपदा त्रस्त हिमाचल में पुनर्वास का सवाल | Question of rehabilitation in disaster affected Himachal

आपदा से त्रस्त हिमाचल प्रदेश में प्रभावित परिवारों के पुनर्वास में मुख्य बाधा है केंद्र सरकार का वन संरक्षण कानून या FCA 1980, क्योंकि हिमाचल में 68% ज़मीन वन भूमि घोषित है। इस वन भूमि पर यह कानून लागू होता है। केंद्र सरकार को पर्यावरण, वन और जलवायु परिवर्तन मंत्रालय के माध्यम से इस कानून […]