The Himalayan arc stretching across the virtual roof of the world, and often referred to as part of the Third Pole, is facing a future that is changing faster than most of us can imagine. Cloudbursts, landslides, flash floods, and glacial-lake outbursts are no longer rare events. They are arriving more often, sometimes in clusters, with one disaster triggering another.Climate change, along with the speed and scale of development needed to connect, protect, and power our remote border areas, is pushing this. The question is no longer whether to develop, but how to do it in a way that stands strong when nature tests us. The Government cannot leave the people from the region to develop and secure themselves in isolation; instead, it must adopt a doctrine of sustainable development grounded in resilience.
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