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Overall coordination of ENVIS network |
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Identification of ENVIS centers in specialized areas, their location in selected institutes / organizations and |
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their linkage with the Focal Point |
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Framing guidelines and designing uniform procedures for ENVIS centers |
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Collection, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information on areas in which ENVIS centers have not |
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been established and in some general areas of environment like environmental research, environmental policy and management, environmental legislation, environmental impact assessment, etc. |
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Responding to user queries directly or through the ENVIS centers |
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Establishment of Data Bank containing data on some selected parameters, and computerization in important |
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application areas of environment |
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Identification of data gaps and knowledge gaps in specified subject areas and action to fill these gaps |
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Liasion with relevant international information systems and other national information systems |
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Publication of a quarterly abstracting journal Paryavaran Abstracts |
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Bringing out various other publications on current awareness services |
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Organizing training and seminars |
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Monitoring and reviewing of ENVIS |
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Assisting the Scientific Advisory Committee of ENVIS with inputs and rendering other secretarial help |
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Building up a good collection of books, reports and journals in the particular subject area of environment |
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Establishment of linkages with all information sources in the particular subject area of environment |
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Responding to user queries |
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Establishment of a data bank on some selected parameters relating to the subject area |
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Coordination with the Focal Point for supplying relevant, adequate and timely information to the users |
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Helping the Focal Point gradually with an inventory of information material available at the centre |
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Identification of information gaps in the specified subject areas and action to fill these gaps |
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Bringing out newsletters/publications in their subject area for wide dissemination |
