CHEA Annual Report 2024

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The Central Himalayan Environment Association, CHEA in short, was founded on October 2,

1981, on a day which has a special significance for India, being the birthday of the Father of

the Nation, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The society was registered soon after in May,

1982. Arguably CHEA is one of the earliest Societies founded in the Northern India which had

‘Environment and Livelihood of the people of Himalayas’ as its core concern.

Much water has flown in the great Himalayan rivers and the Indian Himalayas have since

been a witness to much distress, conflict, degradation, demographic dynamics, political

restructuring and impacts of various global revolutions and their regional and local impacts.

CHEA has since espoused many mountain causes, engaged itself actively in scores of action-

research on human and environmental aspects and livelihood-related projects and continues

to be so involved to this day.

Since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 with the inclusion of Chapter 13- ‘Managing Fragile

Ecosystems : Sustainable Mountain Development’ in the UN Conference on Environment and

Development (UNCED), the importance of mountain social-ecological systems have been

acknowledged for the first time on a global scale. Establishment of CHEA, let it be recalled, pre-

dated the Rio Summit by more than a full decade. To ensure solution for increasing pressure

on natural resource for rural livelihoods CHEA has developed strategies for strengthening

grassroots environmental governance and undertaking need based action research.

PROMINENCE

Environment

Human Resources Development

Livelihood and sustainable development

Infrastructure development

Social development

Research and Development

ORGANIZATION

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