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July 2013 - present
Govt PG college, Paonta Sahib, HP, India
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- Professor (Assistant)
December 2009 - July 2013
Govt PG college, Chamba, HP, India
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- Professor (Assistant)
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In the Indian Himalayas on the western edge of the Tibetan plateau, Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', is one of the highest and driest inhabited places on earth. The enormous mass of the Himalayas creates a rain shadow, denying entry to the moisture-laden clouds of the Indian monsoon. Ladakh is thus, a high altitude desert. The main source of water is the...
Forests are important source of subsistence, employment, revenue earnings, and raw materials to a number of industries and also play vital role in ecological balance, environmental stability, biodiversity conservation, food security and sustainable development of a region. Forests are the world's air conditioners and the earth's blanket; without th...
Land use and land cover change have been among the most important perceptible changes taking place around us. Although perceptible, the magnitude, variety and the spatial variability of the changes taking place has made the quantification and assessment of land use and land cover changes a challenge to geographers. Furthermore, since most of the la...
Open source may be viewed by many as a revolutionary phenomenon that is capable of providing the software industry with an alternative and competitive way of doing business. Research done so far has tackled the history and business aspects of the open source phenomena, and only few have researched its technical aspects. The results of the research...
Administrative geography of Himachal Pradesh has been a saga of several territorial surgeries and shuffling. This hill state has a colonial past and since its formation on April 15 th , 1948 it has undergone a number of administrative readjustments and alterations. This process has been of merger of new areas and realignment of internal boundaries....
India had a highly developed urban culture approximately 2500 years ago. This country witnessed many phases of urban development and decline. Due to its geographical and socio-cultural diversity, remarkable spatial variations in the level of urbanization can be noticed in India. Hill states are generally characterized by low level of urbanization....
