The Department aims to inculcate scientific temper, empiricism along with normative understandings.
An understanding and concern towards the environment with more sensitivity is tried to make innate.
An understanding of the relationship between Man & Environment, and also its fragility.
To understand and analyze the rapid changes in Economy, Politics, Environment, Agriculture, Landscape of Ladakh.

The department is dedicated to impart a teaching and learning method which would produce graduate students competent to do research with a critical approach and dwell on the questions in contemporary society and make them sensitive human beings.
Our vision is to develop among educators, governmental decision makers, and the general population an understanding of the full scope and value of geography.