Introduction

The Himalayan Region Study and Research Institute, Delhi was established at Delhi on October 28, 1988 and registered under Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 vide registration No. S-19394. From its inception the Institute is actively involved in meaningful activities to achieve its avowed objectives through very integrated research, extension and training programmes. Basically the Institute is taking-up evaluative studies of the Government’s development and welfare programmes with a view to assessing their impacts.

From its inception, the institute has evaluated many programmes of different Ministries of the Government of India such as Women and Child Development, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Ministry of Tribal Affairs and HRD Ministry (National Literacy Mission).

In addition, the institute has evaluated many programmes of different Ministries of Uttarakhand Government.

The institute has been included in the Vendor data based list of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

The institute has also completed many research studies funded by Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi and NCERT etc.

Activities