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...a platform to share the valuable information of High Altitude Research Centre.

GASTRODIA

Gastrodia is the platform to share the valuable information of HARC.

Inception of High Altitude Research in Sikkim under the Forest, Environment and Wildlife Management Department, Government of Sikkim is in according to vide notification of Home Department, Government of Sikkim 120/ HOME/2009 dated 19.09.2009 that is governed by High Altitude Research Rules, 2010 vide Sikkim Government Gazette Notification 349 dated 14th July, 2010 having objects of research and developmental activities.

The Research Centre is working in the different capacities to strengthen the Research activities in the complex issues like climate change, agriculture, forestry, phytochemistry, and socio-economic and geographic aspects. Research commitment to the people of Sikkim is for the overall development of State are food safety, resources analysis, water and soil analysis, DNA bar coding and so on . The matter of fact is that we face greater uncertainty and complexity in the analysis of resources and were outsourcing since many decades across all spheres of State. To address this issue, an important part of the Research's strategy is to continue to strengthen the researchers, institutional setup through enhancing capabilities. The Centre will also ensure the availability and accessibility of research information and will continue to provide the valuable information of resources to protect and promote the interests of people.

Further, it caters the shared interests of farming communities, entrepreneurs, researchers and such other associated with.

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HARC'S Approach to Research

HARC'S Approach to Research

This Research White Paper explains how the HARC is strengthening Research capabilities to meet the challenges of the more complex issues likely to face in the years ahead. The Government's plan is for a more capable, agile and potent future that has greater capacity to respond to strategic risk wherever research interests are engaged.

The Initiatives and proactive decisions determine our capacity to manage the challenges of the future, it is important that policy decision-making and planning take a clear long-term view.

The decisions in this White Paper are the culmination of a rigorous process of review and assessment of State Government.

The White Paper explains how the Research will ensure that Sikkim has the critical industrial, scientific, technological and innovation capabilities that will be necessary to underpin.

A sustainable national support base that enables and sustains research, and adds to nation resilience will be fundamental to our future security and prosperity.

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Why now?

Principles establish a single end-to-end capability development function within Research are : - to conduct the research activities for the sustainable development of state; to develop and maintain state centre for forestry, agri-biodiversity and allied sciences; to establish the bioactivities of natural chemical compounds; identification of natural products available in natural resource of Sikkim; scaling up the production of active constituent of plant using biotechnological application; to find out the means of viability of medicinal plant for the commercial use; database on Himalayan plant based Drugs; formulate the collaborative work with scientists of other department, University and other institutions for the development of state; to advice on policies and measures relating to the researches and resources utilization.

  • Enabling and integrating systems - such as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems, information and communications technology, facilities and workforce - ensure we get maximum performance from the research platforms.
  • In line with the policy planning, this research White Paper has the inclusive approach providing a single, coherent vision of research's future strategies across the major objectives that make up research capability. This paper will give much needed clarity and certainty to Research in implementing this White Paper.
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Important Events

  • Visit of Official of MOFPI, Government of India
  • Dendrochronology Presentation to the Honourable Prime Minister
AYUSH
  • National Seminar on Medicinal Plants , Funded by AYUSH, GOI
AYUSH
  • Participants of National Seminar, 2018

Policy

Gastrodia encourages the article pertaining researches of the Himalayan region, through peer review process. To enable the quality article, the following publication policies are adopted.

Copyright Policy

Copyrights for articles shall be retained by the authors having the first publication rights to the journal/publisher. Authors have rights to reuse, archive, and distribute their own articles in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis after publication. The journal/publisher is not responsible for subsequent uses of the work.

Open Access Policy

We provide open access to all articles on the official website of the HARC. The readers, therefore, are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute and print. All articles published are open access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license.

Submission Policy

Submission of an article must be original and not published elsewhere. Further, it should not be under review in any other journal for the publication. Thus, the author must submit the declaration stating its originality and publication status. Otherwise, the board may not consider the article or research work for the review and publication.

Publication Charges

Gastrodia publishes researches through the peer review process without any publication charge.

Publication Ethics

To meet the standard in scientific quality and research publication, the Gastrodia (journal) shall derive the malpractice statement with the help of Editorial Advisory Board and research experts.

Standards for Editors

The Editor-in-Chief of Gastrodia shall determine which research papers or articles to be published. The publishing decision is based in accordance to the suggestion of the journal's reviewers and the policies of the journal's editorial board. Privacy statement : No data shall be disclosed by the editor and /or any editorial personnel from the concerned article except corresponding author or reviewers.

Standards for Reviewers

The review on the research papers is in confidential manner. In addition to this, the reviewers must send the feedback or suggestions or comments within the stipulated time for the expedite action. For the improvement of the scientific researches, the reviewer may comment in such manner so that the quality of the research paper or article gets improved. The reviewers too suggest the authors to improve the scientific quality of research paper' by their reviewing comments. Privacy statement : No data shall be disclosed by the reviewer from the concerned article and must follow the prescribed format to comment and suggestions.

Standards for Authors

The corresponding author must abide by the policies of the journal who must take responsibility of the submitted and published work. While the publication of the research paper or article, the author citations must be placed correctly. Further, the author must response to the reviewers' or editor's comments on stipulated time.
The corresponding author is sole responsible for any misleading information violating the copyright laws, conventions, rules of the State and Central Government of India and such other international laws. The Patron-in-Chief, Patron, Editor and Editorial Advisory Board and the office of Gastrodia shall not be responsible for it. Plagiarism Certificate must be provided during the submission of the article or research paper.
The plagiarism, unethical publishing behavior, is unacceptable Privacy statement : Authors should ensure that their submitted research work is original and has not been published elsewhere in any language.

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Durga K. Pradhan, PhD

Scientific Incharge
Principal Scientist, QCL-HARC

The tools of Scientific analysis devise to drive the technical inputs into the action research or qualitative research. This knowledge of action research imparts quality knowledge for the qualitative life of mankind and its network.
Glastrodia- the platform is designed in such a way that it could bring together all aspects of research of the High Altitude Research Centre as well as in the other scientific and non-scientific facilities.
The objectives of this platform are to share the findings, achievements and happenings of scientific institutions.
Wish the forum strives the excellence with the milestones of integral scientific development at large.
Today, I remember to all personnel and congratulate to them including rank and file, who contributed to establish High Altitude Research Centre (HARC) in Sikkim.

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