On this occasion at the Institute’s HQs, 31st Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant Memorial Lecture was delivered by Dr. G.S. Rawat, Former Director WII (Dehradun, Uttarakhand) on "Rangelands of Indian Trans-Himalaya: Sustaining Ecosystem Services and Pastoral Livelihoods".
On the occasion of Annual Day, 12th Himalayan Popular Lecture on “Natural Disasters vs. Landscape Integrity” was delivered by Dr. Gurinderjit Singh Goraya (IFS: 1983), Former Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) and Head of Forest Force (HoFF), Himachal Pradesh.