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More than 130 stakeholders from 37 different institutes of 12 Indian Himalayan states, representatives of seven State Governments, 27 experts from various national and State-level institutions, representatives of NGOs/Civil Society organizations, and senior officers of Central Ministries took part in a two-day stakeholders’ workshop at the CSIR Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology in Palampur in October. The workshop concluded with the decision to establish a live portal for the National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem (NMSHE) with nodal points in states in Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) and set up about 100-120 doctoral fellowships and studentships for working on programmes of direct interest to state action plans and NMSHE. It also decided to convene a meeting of 10–12 knowledge institutions in the region and develop 10–year programme with defined and time-bound actions and deliverables.