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Dehradun / New Delhi, 11^th December 2015

encourage sustainable development of mountains

--- Dr. P R Trived

Dehradun/New Delhi, December 11, 2015 : Delivering the first Sherpa Tenzing Memorial Lecture on Integrated Mountain Development, Dr. Priya Ranjan Trivedi announced the opening of "The Himalayan Region Empowerment Agency for Development (THREAD)" for ensuring a foolproof Himalayan Development Policy with a view to assisting the residents of all the Mountain States and countries around the Himalaya Mountain Range. He recalled that "Mountain Day" referred to the International Mountain Day, held each year on 11^th December, which was announced and notified  by the UN General Assembly in 2003 to encourage sustainable development in mountains. He further added that the International Mountain Day is observed every year with a different theme relevant to sustainable mountain development. FAO is the U.N. organization mandated to lead observance of International Mountain Day.

The observance of the 2015 World Mountain Day on 11^th December 2015 during the presentation of
Sherpa Tenzing Memorial Lecture under the aegis of The Himalayan Region Empowerment Agency
 for Development (THREAD) and under the leadership of Dr. Priya Ranjan Trivedi

Mountaineer Sherpa Tenzing receiving an award from President Rajendra Prasad
after his successful expedition to Mount Everest in the year 1953.

Announcing the publication of the multi-volume Enyclopaedia of Mountain States of India, Dr. Trivedi said that the States covered under this Encyclopaedia will be Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Assam, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh besides two countries namely Nepal and Bhutan.

He also briefed the media that the Satellite Centre of The Himalayan Region Empowerment Agency for Development (THREAD) will be researching on different aspects of integrated mountain development by collaborating with the universities in the above mentioned States for collecting benchmark information regarding poverty, unemployment, peacelessness, lack of training facilities, need for strengthening entrepreneurship, mitigating the disastrous aspects of insurgency and a masterplan paradigm for producing more number of job givers rather than job seekers in these mountainous States so that the young boys and girls may get involved in medicinal plantation, recycling of wastes, ecological, religious, medical and adventure tourism.