Introduction: Development Affairs Council (Himalayan BRI)

Development Affairs Council (Himalayan–BRI and Development Affairs Council, in its full name) is a forum of academicians, entrepreneurs, development researchers, and all like-minded people. We all agree in contributing to the progress and prosperity of the country- encouraging and consolidating the voice for an exponential intervention over existing trends of profuse decay and underdevelopment of the nation – through extensive empowerment of positive mass mindset.  This can be achieved only by unleashing full-swing solidarity to and complying with the production-based active economic status along with rebuilding the graph of socio-cultural glory and dignity at a new height. It earnestly works to ensure a long-way expected Development Modality of this nation through building competence and enhancing connectivity as well.

This forum preaches for new and innovative notions in development affairs. The balance between infrastructure development and ecology is vital for human survival. The economic development with emphasis merely on economic growth may ultimately result in disaster. We therefore believe that “development should follow the philosophy of being green” too.

Himalayas are lifelines for millions of people in Asia. As the dwelling of some major civilizations of Asia, the region is pre-eminent for not only geography reliance but for unique cultural ethics, faith system, knowledge and ecological diversity. The region in fact is ‘prototype’ of the mother earth. However, the region is the most neglected and over-shadowed in all paradigms of development. The region has been facing countless of Challenges, namely;

• The region is poor economically and the people of the region are deprived of a better life, thus posing a threat of ‘they being unable to preserve their region against known and unknown strategic goals of others.

• Absence of connectivity is a factor to distance the countries in the region for their ‘entrenched connectedness’, thus keeping them under a threat of ‘divide than integration’.

• The accumulated carbon produced by hazardous industrial growth in and around the region is causing severe harm to the Himalayas, thus posing a threat to melting of snow leading to eventual desertification.

In this perspective, Development Affairs Council (Himalayan–BRI and Development Affairs Council, in its full name) has been dedicated to promote the following in future:

• To bring academicians of the region for discourse to flourish ‘common strategies needed for development of the nation along with protection and preservation of the Himalayas.
• To establish a forum for cooperation of the academics and researchers for ‘engaged research and idea dissemination, so that an intellectual base for development of the nation along with protection and preservation of the Himalayas would be materialized.
• To explore areas of cooperation among intellectuals in the region and enhance the prospect of ‘integration between South Asia and China’.
• To promote the ambience for implementation of the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ in the region through medium of ‘Trans-Himalayan Corridor’ for economic development which has been a dream of the people of the region.
• To evolve a ‘regional convention’ in order to legally guide the relations, rights and duties of the states in the region for ‘ecological utilization, preservation, protection and development of the region including equitable sharing of the resources in the region.