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.