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Modeling for Sustainable Development: A Watershed Approach, Ranveer Singh, AERC, HPU; Sanjeev Kumar, Rattan Singh Chauhan and Kuldeep Singh, IIHS, HPU, Shimla – 5

The study deals with the Chikhar Nala Watershed located in district Shimla.  The objective of the study was to develop an integrated model for sustainable development for watershed.  The study has brought out the loopholes in the present use of natural resources and identified steps to put it back on rails. The issues of optimum utilization of natural resources and conservation of these resources to preserve the environmental degradation e.g. land degradation; depleting water resources as well as its conservation; degrading forest resources;

livestock pressure on land; soil erosion; land slides; pressure of agricultural  as well as horticultural practices; pressure of developmental activities ( e. g. road construction, buildings, industries and hydro electric dams etc.) have been taken up in the study. But the major focus of the study shall include people’s involvement and their participation and well as stakeholder’s participation in the development of watershed and mitigating the environmental degradation in the Himalayan region particularly in Himachal Pradesh.  The study has come out with suggestions and recommendations which will have significant implications for judicious and optimal use of natural resources by various users. 

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