FROM DIRECTOR'S DESK

Director's Message

Welcome to the website of IIHS, HPU Shimla. An endeavor has been made to create this website user-friendly and adequately informative, to ensure that all the information one wishes to access about our Institute, its activities, faculty, etc., are available in the website. We will keep on updating the website from time to time, and will be highly benefited by your comments on our website and eagerly look forward for your feedback and valued suggestions for its improvement.

From the day of its inception, the Institute has nurtured a dream to achieve ‘Excellence Plus’. The mission of the Institute is “to create an integrated knowledge base and evolve strategies for the development of Himalayan region, its people through research, academic courses and service with a global perspective.” Research is undertaken in biological, physical, socio-cultural and economic & political aspects of the Himalayan region and is strengthening the knowledge base, relevant to Himalayan region. The Institute is focusing all its activities on two main thematic areas, viz. Natural environment and sustainable development in the Himachal Himalaya and social, cultural and economic dimensions in the development of Himachal Himalaya. Himalayan Studies Journal, a multi-disciplinary journal, published biannually, is our official organ which publishes breakthrough research findings related to Himalayan region. The Institute is presently running two diploma courses and is planning to initiate a few more multi-disciplinary short-term and long-term courses which will be providing high quality education to the students, scholars and researchers. Consultancy services are provided to various organizations, spread across the state, for undertaking research and evaluative studies. A good library, computing and other research facilities in the Institute enriches the process of research.

Presently, the Institute is playing a vital role in documenting, fostering, nurturing and improving various research and development programmes based on its mandate. The Institute is putting in genuine labor to attain sustainability and is establishing linkages with government departments, academic & research institutions in India and abroad. I aspire that the Institute should display its prowess in research & academics as a ‘Centre of Excellence’, thereby playing a pivotal role in the near future.

The Institute is looking forward to emerge as a rising star under the energetic and vibrant guidance of Prof. Sunil Kumar Gupta, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor and president of the Institute. I congratulate the research and administrative staff for their valuable inputs and dedication towards the Institute.
Once again I welcome browsers to IIHS website. Wish you a happy and fruitful browsing.

Prof. S. P. Bansal
Director