Environment, Development and Social Change in Himalayan Region

Sakarama Somayaji is currently senior fellow at the Council for Social Development, New Delhi, earlier, he also served in the national dairy development Board. His main areas of interest are family studies, micro-level participatory rural planning, monitoring and evaluation, women empowerment, cooperative leadership, capacity and institutional building and developmental issues concerning adivasis, dalits, religious minorities and other weaker sections of the society.

Vimal Khawas is currently Associate Fellow in a newly established Sikkim University, a Central University established by an Act of Parliament of India in 2007. He was previously associated with the Council for Social Development, New Delhi for more than two years. He has been trained in geography at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and in Urban and Regional Development Planning at Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabed. He has worked extensively in the areas of agriculture development, human developmental security and regional development issues. He is an active member of Mountain Forum.