Central Himalayan Environment Association, (CHEA)

CHEA
The Central Himalayan Environment Association, CHEA in short, was founded on October 2, 1981, on a day which has special significance for India, being the birth-day of the Father of the Nation, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The society was registered soon afterwards in May, 1982. Arguably CHEA is one of the earliest societies founded in Northern India which had ' the environment and the livelihood of the people in the Himalayas ' as its core concern. more...

- News & Activities
- - Workshop of Community Forestry Leaders (Sarpanch of Van Panachayat) was held on 23-24 Sep, 2011 at Lamgara, Almora
  - UNEP EPLC sponsored project entitled "Capacity building of Women Members of Village Forest Councils for Sustainable Management of Community Forests in the Indian Himalayas" is to be launched in November, 2011.
  - 27^th August, 2011, Students and teachers of Sharda Public School, Almora participated in the Environment Education Tourism Programme at Ashota VP in Lamgara Development Block, Almora. The tour was organised under the Rufford Small Grant (RSG) project entitled "Developing compass of environment education tourism in community forest learning to sustainability".
  - NABARD funded Integrated tribal development programme for Pithoragarh district is to be launched in October, 2011

Thematic Action Groups (TAGs)
CHEA is focused broadly on the following four themes often called Thematic Action Group
Climate change, with reference to Mountain and Adaptation Activities for Mountain Regions.
Rural Livelihood Initiatives in Mountain Regions for Mitigating Rural Poverty.
Art, Culture and Handicrafts Promotion in Mountains.
Library cum documentation centre on the mountain and mountain regional best practices.

Strengthening of Community Forestry (Van Panchayats) for enhancing livelihood options in Uttarakhand.
The community forests represent an appropriate example of an institution involved in "prevention of deforestation and managing their common forestry resources. more...
Van Panchayat for technical assistance and advice please call
05442 233099 or +91 9410749714

	Indian Mountain Initiative INAUGURAL SUSTAINABLE MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT Proceeding of First Sustainable Mountain Development Summit of IMI organized in Nainital on the 21^st and the 22^nd of May, 2011....... more

	Himalayan Forest Ecosystem Services incorporating in national accounting Highlighting the important part played by Himalayan forest in providing life sustaining eco system services to the country......more

Up coming Event
eNGO workshop at Nainital
On 19^th March, 2012 CHEA is organising eNGO workshop at Nainital to empower grassroots NGO/CBOs/SHGs with Internet technology & web technology. for regisitration please contact: cheaindia@gmail.com
IMI- Sustainable Mountain Development Summit, 2012 Gangtok (Sikkim))
CHEA and ECOSS organising IMI-SMD Summit from May 25-26, 2012 in Gangtok, Sikkim.

- CHEA is now also recognised under Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO).

Meet of Indian Mountain States
Release of Proceedings of the First Sustainable Mountain Development Summit
3^rd November, 2011. The proceedings of First Indian Mountain Initiative - Sustainable Mountain Development Summit - 2011 was released by the Chief Guest Mr. B.K. Chaturvedi, IAS (retd.), Hon. Member of Planning Commission, Govt. of India during the Meet of Indian Mountain States in New Delhi at India International Centre. Mr. Suneel Kumar Muttoo, IAS, Chief Resident Commissioner, Uttarakhand Government had presided the event.

During the meet Prof. Maharaj K. Pandit, Ms. Bharti Chaturvedi, Dr. Rajnish Karki, Mr. Siddharth Barthakur and Mr. Sushil Ramola presented the issues and concerns of Mountain Development. Prof. T.S. Papola chaired the session.

Contact Us
Central Himalayan Environment Association
06, Waldorf Compound Mallital, Nainital
Uttarakhand
India - 263001
Telefax: +91 5942 233099
E-mail: cheaindia@gmail.com, office@cheaindia.org