PART – A 1. Broad Subject 2. Area of Specialization 3. Duration 4. Principal Investigator i. Name: ii. Sex: M/F iii. Date of Birth: iv. Qualification: v. Designation: vi. Address: Office: Residence: 5. Co – Investigator(s): (i) Name: (ii) Sex: M/F (iii) Date of Birth: vii. Qualification: viii. Designation: ix. Address: Office: Residence: 5. Name of the Institution where the project will be undertaken: (a) Department : (b) College/University : (Please mention the name of affiliating University ) 6. Whether the College/University is approved under Section 2 (f) and 12 B of the UGC Act? Yes/No 7. Teaching and Research Experience of Principal Investigator : (a) Teaching experience: UG ______Years PG ______Years (b) Research experience: (c) Whether the project has been approved by the University for the doctoral degree ? If so, please indicate : i. Date of Registration : ii. Name and designation of the supervisor approved by the University: iii. Name of the University where registered : (d) In case the teacher holds a doctoral degree : i. Title of the thesis : ii Year of the award of degree: iii. Name of the University : (e) Publication: Papers Published : Accepted : Communicated : Books Published : Accepted : Communicated : ( Please enclose the list of papers and books published and/or accepted during last five years ) PART – B Proposed Research Work 8. (i) Project Title ii. Introduction • Origin of the research problem • Interdisciplinary relevance • Review of Research and Development in the Subject: .. International status .. National Status .. Significance of the study (iii) Objectives (iv) Methodology (v) Year-wise Plan of work and targets to be achieve. (vi) Details of collaboration, if any intended 9. Financial Assistance required Item Estimated Expenditure (i) Books and Journals ii. Equipment, if needed ( please specify name &approx. cost) iii. Field Work and Travel iv. Chemicals and glassware v. Contingency ( including special needs) Total: 10. Whether the teacher has received support for the research project from the UGC under Major, Minor, scheme of support for research or from any agency? If so, please indicate: (i) Name of the agency from which the assistance was approved ii. Sanction letter No. and date under which the assistance was approved iii. Amount approved and utilized iv. Title of the project for which assistance was approved v. In case the project was completed, whether the work on the project has been published vi. If the candidate was working for the doctoral degree, whether the thesis was submitted and accepted by the University for the award of degree. (A summary of the report/thesis in about 1,000 words may please be attached with the application) vii. If the project has not been completed, please state the reasons 11. (a) Details of the project/scheme completed or ongoing with the P.I Name of the agency Year Total Equipment/Infrastructural facilities obtained Started Completed (b) Institutional and Departmental facilities available for the proposed work: Equipment: Other Infrastructural facilities : 9. Any other information which the investigator may like to give in support of this proposal which may be helpful in evaluating. To certify that: a. The University/ College is approved under Section 2(f) and 12(B) of the UGC Act and is fit to receive grants from the UGC. General physical facilities, such as furniture/space etc., are available in the Department/College. c. I/we shall abide by the rules governing the scheme in case assistance is provided to me/us from the UGC for the above project. d. I/we shall complete the project within the stipulated period. If I/We fail to do so and if the UGC is not satisfied with the progress of the research project, the Commission may terminate the project immediately and ask for the refund of the amount received by me/us. e. The above research Project is not funded by any other agency. Name & Signature (a) Principal Investigator (b) Co- Investigator (i) (ii)
(c) Registrar/Principal
( Signature with Seal)
Sunday, January 13, 2008
PRO-POOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT FOR POVERTY REDUCTION IN SIKKIM HIMALAYA
Abstract:
The UNCED’s Agenda 21, chapter 13 identified tourism as one of key activities to provide alternative livelihood opportunities to mountain people in the process of attaining sustainable mountain development. Sustainable tourism development is now being recognized as an essential approach in achieving development goals without depleting natural and cultural resources or degrading the environment. Sustainable tourism encourages an understanding of the impacts on the natural, cultural, and human environments. Over the last 20 to 40 years, mountaineering and trekking have inflicted significant impact upon alpine and sub-alpine landscapes in many parts of the Himalayas. Up to some extent the same scenario is also prevalent in the Sikkim Himalayas recently.
The number of tourist visiting Sikkim is growing at a very fast rate during recent years. The main reason of this high growth in tourist’s influx was mainly due to relaxation in regulation that opened a numbers of areas for both domestic and foreign visitors, and development of tourist facilities in Sikkim as a whole in recent years. The real growth of tourist’s number in Sikkim has started from 1980 onwards. Until 1980, the state hosted only 10,000 visitors, which eventually increased to 2, 51,744 domestic tourist and 16,523 foreign tourist in 2005-2006. The Government of Sikkim has identified tourism as an important instrument for reduction of poverty and it has been actively planning its tourism industry. Poverty reduction through sustainable tourism development has an enormous potential in Sikkim. Keeping this in mind Sikkim Tourism and SNV, Netherlands/ICIMOD, Nepal along with local consultants (the author was one of the consultant) explored how socio-economic development through tourism can take place in rural parts of Sikkim, and developed a feasibility document on possibilities to start a poverty reduction project in Sikkim through sustainable tourism development in different destinations of Sikkim.
There is a greater chance in Sikkim to address poverty reduction through tourism development, which might bring economic benefits with simultaneous conservation links if they are properly managed and marketed. This can be materialized only by participation and involvement of rural communities in different tourism related activities directly or indirectly. Till date lot has been done in tourism sector mainly for economic benefits and diversification and for biodiversity conservation. This study shows how tourism can be improved in different remote destinations of Sikkim with new tourism development plan, so as to maximize its contribution for local sustainable development and poverty elimination, simultaneously with conservation strategies.
Sustainable tourism in the mountains has the potential of addressing all the concerned issues of providing alternative and environment friendly income and employment opportunities to the local communities and help in poverty elimination all across the Hindu Kush Himalayan region.
Dr. (Mrs.) Iyatta Maharana Upreti
Department of Geography
Sikkim Govt. College, Tadong, Gangtok, Sikkim
The UNCED’s Agenda 21, chapter 13 identified tourism as one of key activities to provide alternative livelihood opportunities to mountain people in the process of attaining sustainable mountain development. Sustainable tourism development is now being recognized as an essential approach in achieving development goals without depleting natural and cultural resources or degrading the environment. Sustainable tourism encourages an understanding of the impacts on the natural, cultural, and human environments. Over the last 20 to 40 years, mountaineering and trekking have inflicted significant impact upon alpine and sub-alpine landscapes in many parts of the Himalayas. Up to some extent the same scenario is also prevalent in the Sikkim Himalayas recently.
The number of tourist visiting Sikkim is growing at a very fast rate during recent years. The main reason of this high growth in tourist’s influx was mainly due to relaxation in regulation that opened a numbers of areas for both domestic and foreign visitors, and development of tourist facilities in Sikkim as a whole in recent years. The real growth of tourist’s number in Sikkim has started from 1980 onwards. Until 1980, the state hosted only 10,000 visitors, which eventually increased to 2, 51,744 domestic tourist and 16,523 foreign tourist in 2005-2006. The Government of Sikkim has identified tourism as an important instrument for reduction of poverty and it has been actively planning its tourism industry. Poverty reduction through sustainable tourism development has an enormous potential in Sikkim. Keeping this in mind Sikkim Tourism and SNV, Netherlands/ICIMOD, Nepal along with local consultants (the author was one of the consultant) explored how socio-economic development through tourism can take place in rural parts of Sikkim, and developed a feasibility document on possibilities to start a poverty reduction project in Sikkim through sustainable tourism development in different destinations of Sikkim.
There is a greater chance in Sikkim to address poverty reduction through tourism development, which might bring economic benefits with simultaneous conservation links if they are properly managed and marketed. This can be materialized only by participation and involvement of rural communities in different tourism related activities directly or indirectly. Till date lot has been done in tourism sector mainly for economic benefits and diversification and for biodiversity conservation. This study shows how tourism can be improved in different remote destinations of Sikkim with new tourism development plan, so as to maximize its contribution for local sustainable development and poverty elimination, simultaneously with conservation strategies.
Sustainable tourism in the mountains has the potential of addressing all the concerned issues of providing alternative and environment friendly income and employment opportunities to the local communities and help in poverty elimination all across the Hindu Kush Himalayan region.
Dr. (Mrs.) Iyatta Maharana Upreti
Department of Geography
Sikkim Govt. College, Tadong, Gangtok, Sikkim
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)