Site suitability analysis under Coordinated Horticulture Assessment and Management using geoinformatics (CHAMAN) Project- Sikkim funded by Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre (MNCFC), Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers’ Welfare (DAC&FW), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare (MoA&FW), Govt. of India, New Delhi through NESAC Shillong, in collaboration with Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad, NESAC and Sikkim State Remote Sensing Application Centre (SSRSAC).The objective of the project is to identification of potential areas for cardamom plantation in West Sikkim district. The potential areas for cardamom has been prepared for west district of Sikkim. It is prepared according to the methodology chart given above. All the required data/criteria have been adopted for modeling. Here three categories of suitability classes were considered viz Highly Suitable, Moderately Suitable and Marginally Suitable. Highly suitable class are those areas which are favourable to the conditions required for cardamom growth and plantation. After preparing the final raster datasets. The LULC (wasteland) layer was used to crop the dataset. Already cultivated plantation areas were not considered for analysis, but the information were taken into considerations for suitability analysis
Concern Officer : Dr. NP Sharma, Scientific Officer

Sikkim State Climate Change Cell was established in October 2014 under Sikkim State Council of Science and Technology (SSCS&T). SSCS&T is engaged in fulfilling the needs and objectives of National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem in Sikkim NMSHE. Sikkim State Climate Change Cell is working in this field since its establishment as according to the mandate given by NMSHE. Sikkim being located in the Himalayas is one of the vulnerable state in terms of climate change and its impact, there is an immense need to deal the climate change globally, at national level, state level and local level. There is a need to be aware about climate change and global warming to every individual so that there will be participation of maximum individual in fighting against the odds of climate change and its impacts
Concern Officer : Dr. NP Sharma, Scientific Officer
Concern Officer-I: Dr. RK SHarma, ASO
Concern Officer-II: Shri. Parnay Pardhan, ASO

South Lhonak glacial lake, located in the extreme North-western parts of Sikkim, one of the fastest growing lakes in Sikkim is being monitored by Climate Change cell . The lake formed right at the snout of the glacier is located in the geographical coordinates of 270 54' 56.7'' N and 880 12' 33.7'' E at an altitude of 5201m. The analysis of satellite imagery revealed that the lake is growing very fast. The lake is dammed by loose moraines debris brought down by the glacier. The lake was a small glacial lake in 1960s, which grows to more than 2.10 km in length and 0.6 km in width at present. This enormous growth of lake on the loose moraines debris of the glacier, within a short period of time makes it one of the vulnerable lakes in Sikkim in terms of glacial hazard, in the form of glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF). Keeping the threat in mind, Department of Science and Technology, Sikkim has already taken an initiative to study this particular lake. A working group committee has been formed in order to carry out the effective studies of the lake.
Concern Officer : Dr. NP Sharma, Scientific Officer
Concern Officer-I: Dr. RK SHarma, ASO
Concern Officer-II: Shri. Parnay Pardhan, ASO

East Rathong Glacier is one of the most important glaciers in Eastern Himalaya as being a source of River Rangit, which is the largest tributary of Teesta River. The long term monitoring of "Study on Glacier Dynamics of East Rathong Glacier" was sanctioned by SERB, DST-GoI in the year 2017, with the approved objectives are glacier secular Movement studies-snout monitoring and glacial movement, glacier Hydrometry including discharge and suspended sediments of East Rathong melt water stream, glacier vertical thinning and ablation, glacier Meteorology: temperature, humidity, snow precipitation pattern, rainfall, evaporation rate etc are important meteorological parameters, Glacier inventory of Sikkim in every five years using satellite imageries. Snow covers monitoring of East Rathong Catchment yearly using AWiFs data. The approved research objectives will achieved through the adopted of the set methodology.
Concern Officer-I: Dr. RK SHarma, ASO
Concern Officer-II: Shri. Parnay Pardhan, ASO

Ice Stupa is an innovative technique for making artificial glacier which resemble the Stupa, a Buddhist monument in cone shape. In this technique the water from height bring down to a specific location through pipes and it makes sprinkles from the top of the cones, resembling the water fountain in temperature of -10 to -30 degree centigrade which usually reaches in winter season in high altitude areas. The water sprinkle when it come in contact with the freezing air it freezes and in the course of time it piles up to form giant Ice Stupa. The amount of stored water depends on the height and volume of the Stupa. Later in the lean season, the water starts melting and the melt water can be used for irrigation and drinking purposes. Usually in the months between March-May there will be crises of water in most of the Himalayan states including Sikkim due to the less or no rainfall during winter. Spring usually dries up or can fetch less water due to the less winter rainfall. So, Ice Stupa is a natural water conservation technique in high Himalayas in the air in the form of Ice for the use in water crises months.
Concern Officer: Shri D.G Shrestha, Principal Director
Concern Officer-I: Dr. RK SHarma, ASO
Concern Officer-II: Shri. Parnay Pardhan, ASO

The state of Sikkim, country’s first organic state, is very rich in biodiversity and associated knowledge. Though traditional knowledge has been documented from the state, focus on grassroots innovations has not been much in the state. The Department and NIF have had a long association and have worked together on many occasions. Understanding the potential of grassroots innovations, the Department believes if systematic scouting and documentation of grassroots innovations from the state of Sikkim is undertaken, not only it will help unearth and promote local ingenuity but also may result in establishment of grassroots enterprises. NIF has had a long experience in promotion of grassroots innovations and valorisation of outstanding traditional knowledge and a partnership between the two institutions is expected to benefit the people of Sikkim. Since NIF already has a pool of a number of grassroots innovations, it is requested NIF to provide to the Department, innovations that could be included in a proposed Innovation Demonstration cum Training Centre so that people can visit, see and even get trained on the available innovations.
Area: The state of Sikkim with focus on district(s) enlisted in Inspirational district list of NITI Aayog. The Innovation Demonstration cum Training Centre (proposed) will be setup in Gangtok
Concern Officer: Shri D.T Bhutia, Principal Director
Concern Officer-I: Shri. Suman Thapa, Director

Poultry farming is quite popular among rural youth and one of their sources of employment and income. They often buy young chicks and feed them till they grow to a certain age for resale. However, if they install an egg incubator, they can produce the chicks in their farm itself. This will work out very economical for them. The incubators available in the market are very expensive and run on electricity. But in rural areas, there are frequent power cuts. The egg incubator developed by Milan Jyoti Das solves these problems. It is cheaper in comparison with the ones available in the market and its power source is both electricity and kerosene lamp.
Concern Officer: Shri D.T Bhutia, Principal Director
Concern Officer-I: Shri. Suman Thapa, Director

Sanitary napkin, a universally needed product, has very low penetration in India and other developing countries, partly due to its high price and partly due to the tradition of using cheaper but unhygienic old cloth piece. As a result they become the host of many infectious diseases. This is due to lack of awareness and economic inability for adopting better precautions like use of good sanitary napkins during menstruation period. Usually different varieties of sanitary napkins are found available in the market but they are very expensive and are not affordable for rural & underprivileged women and girls.
Concern Officer: Shri D.T Bhutia, Principal Director
Concern Officer-I: Shri. Suman Thapa, Director

Biotechnology division was created under DST& CC with the objective to undertake research and development work on biotechnology, its promotion in the state and sustainable utilization of biological resources with its application. Biotechnology in the state made its beginning with the establishment of tissue culture laboratory in 1994 as then under the state forest department which was later transferred to Science and Technology along with existing manpower in 1998. With the humble beginning with a tissue culture laboratory, the division has made significant progress and established state of art biotechnology laboratory in the state. With its establishment a solid foundation of biotechnology in the state is laid. The exploration and sustainable utilization of state’s rich bio-resources and their sustainable utilization through the application of biotechnological tools has now become possible. This is considered as a biggest achievement. State Biotech Hub under Biotechnology division of DST&CC was established with the support of Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and State Government. State-ofArt biotechnology laboratory has been established for Research and Training in the field of biotechnology and allied field. With the establishment of laboratory, number of trainings on various laboratory techniques has been imparted to Research Scholars, Assistant Professors, Post-graduate science teachers, graduate and post graduate students. More than 40 batches of such trainings has been conducted till date. Besides hands-on training, exposure visits of students has also been arranged to give exposure to the students on the latest technique in biotechnology and inculcate interest in this field.
Objectives:

• To promote Biotechnology and allied science in the state of Sikkim through R & D, training and awareness activities.
• Development of trained human resources; promote entrepreneurship in the field of biotechnology and allied field.
• To identify and work in the area that will helps to improve the socio-economic condition of the people through the application of biotechnology and allied technology.
• To undertake research and explore the prospect to solve the current the environmental, food, healthcare problems of state through the application of biotechnology and allied technology.
• To work in tandems with the State Government policy and intervene on the areas which can assist in successful implementation of its policy.

Concern Officer: Dr. KB Subba, S.O
Concern Officer-I: Dr. S Pradhan, ASO

The main objective of the project is to document the ethno-traditional knowledge specially the folk healing practices by various practitioners in digital form as well as in written document form. Molecular documentation shall also be carried out of those plants used by the practitioners. Interview with the folk healers and documentation ethno-traditional practices of more than 100 folk healers has been done. Videographich documentation and DNA finger printing of plants is completed.
Concern Officer:Dr. KB Subba, S.O

The project is being funded by Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. The main objective of the project is the development of agro-technique of ginseng printing of plants is completed. using local material in the local environment of commercial importance, breeding, invitro plant regeneration and hardening. The project work has been initiated. Collected Ginseng seeds from different locations including Arunachal Pradesh for germplasm collection and development of agro-technique. Identified Ginseng growing area within Sikkim. Initiated the work of agro-technique development. Further collection of seeds has been started and shall be planted in a suitable location in collaboration with the Forests Department, Government of Sikkim. Germplasm collection and plantation of all the collected seeds from different locations shall be done shortly.
Concern Officer:Dr.S. Pradhan, ASO