IIT & IISc collaborate on Climate Change initiative

Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)-Guwahati and Mandi and Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru have collaborated to develop a ‘Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for the Indian Himalayan Region Using a Common Framework.’

The assessment exercise is being undertaken to cover all the 12 Indian Himalayan region (IHR) states using a common framework.

Comparable vulnerability assessments are useful for the government officials, implementers, decision makers, funding agencies and development experts, according to a release shared by IIT Mandi.


The 12 states include Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, the hilly districts of West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir.

“The various research projects undertaken by IIT Mandi address this vulnerability, hazard and extreme events in the Indian Himalayan Region,” Timothy A. Gonsalves, Director, IIT Mandi, said.