U’khand & Meghalaya CMs to inaugurate sustainable mountain development summit today
The ninth Sustainable Mountain Development Summit will be inaugurated today by chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat along with his Meghalaya counterpart Conrad K Sangma. Informing about this, the president of Integrated Mountain Initiative (IMI), PD Rai said that the summit will be held in the virtual mode this year from December 11 to 14 on the theme of emerging pathways for building a resilient post Covid-19 mountain economy- adaptation, innovation and acceleration.
He informed that the ninth summit is being hosted by the IMI State chapter- Sustainable Development Forum- Uttaranchal (SDFU). The summit will bring together a host of speakers with the ICIMOD deputy director general Eklabya Sharma delivering the keynote address. A range of subjects including agriculture, disaster risk reduction, health and the Covid vaccine will be discussed during the summit. The factors on which mountain economies depend have been severely impacted by Covid-19. The Covid induced reverse migration is set to exert a major impact on the local economy. The mountain states will require a series of initiatives to ensure that job opportunities in the local economies are created and sustained. In this backdrop, the sustainable mountain development summit seeks to be a meaningful platform to discuss some of the emerging pathways for building a resilient economy in the Indian Himalayan region through the combined approaches of adaptation, innovation and acceleration, said Rai.
SDFU chairman Rajendra Dobhal informed that the RS Tolia award this year will be presented to historian and former Kumaon University professor Ajay Rawat while SDFU treasurer GS Rawat will deliver the RS Tolia lecture on biodiversity.
Friday, 11 December 2020 | PNS | Dehradun
