Brochure
on items of work handled in various Divisions and Sections of Ministry of
Environment and Forests
VII 19 Environmental Information (EI)
Division
a)
Development and Management of ENVIS Network.
b)
Coordination and Liaison with various National
Information Systems
c)
World Bank assisted Environment Management Capacity
Building Technical Assistance Project (EMCBTAP) for Environment Information
System (ENVIS ) sub-component.
d)
INFOTERRA programme of United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as National
Focal Point (NFP) and Regional Service Centre (RSC)
for South Asia Sub Region countries.
e)
Indira Gandhi Paryavaran
Puruskar.
f)
National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS).
g)
Development of website of the Ministry and its periodic updation.
h)
Case related t approval of projects for Income-Tax
Exemption under Section 35 CCB of Income Tax( IT) Act,
1961.
i)
Media including films & advertisements pertaining to
programmes of EI division.
j)
Matters related to World Environment Day.
k)
All financial matters relating to the programmes dealt with by EI division.
l)
Parliament matters, Parliament questions etc. relating
to the schemes handled by EI div.
m)
Messages, Speeches relating to the programmes
and schemes dealt with by EI division.
n)
All work relating to NGO cell such as dissemination of
information to the NGOs for the programmes of
Ministry, development of databases of the NGOs working in the field of
environment and its associated areas, Parliament matters seeking information
about NGOs relating to the programmes/ schemes dealt
by EI division.
o)
Development and Management of Information and
Facilitation Counter (IFC) of the Ministry.
p)
Coordination of publication of the Annual Report of the
Ministry in every year.
q)
Publication of the quarterly newsletter ENVIRONEWS and
quarterly journal PARYAVARAN ABSTRACT.
r)
Work relating to
streamlining upgradation and modernisation of
statistical system for the Ministry.
s)
Maintenance of statistics
for the entire Ministry.
t)
Paryavaran Vahini
Scheme.