ENVIS – The Environmental
Information System is a decentralized system with a network of
distributed subject oriented centers ensuring integration of national
efforts in environmental information collection, collation, storage,
retrieval and dissemination to all concerned. Presently the ENVIS
network consists of Focal Point at the Ministry of Environment and
Forest along with the ENVIS centers setup for selected areas of
environment at different organizations / establishments of our country.
These centers have been set up in the areas of pollution control, toxic
chemicals, central and offshore ecology, environmentally sound and
appropriate technology, bio-degradation of wastes, environmental
management, etc.
Realizing the importance of Environmental Information, the Government of
India, in December, 1982, established an Environmental Information
System (ENVIS) as a plan programme. The focus of ENVIS since inception
has been on providing environmental information to decision makers,
policy planners, scientists, engineers, research workers, etc all over
the country.
Environment is a broad-ranging, multi-disciplinary subject, which
necessarily needs a comprehensive information system involving the
effective participation of concerned institutions / organizations of the
country that are actively engaged in works related to the different
subject areas of environment. ENVIS has, therefore, developed itself
with a network of such participating institutions / organizations for
the programme to be meaningful. A large number ENVIS centers have been
established to cover the broad subject areas of environment with a Focal
Point in the Ministry of Environment and Forests.
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