Focal Point
Realising the importance of Environmental Information, the Government of India, in December, 1982, established an Environmental Information Awareness Capacity Building and Livelihood Programme (EIACP) as a plan programme. The focus of EIACP since inception has been on providing environmental information to decision makers, policy planners, scientists and engineers, research workers, etc. all over the country.
Since environment is a broad-ranging, multi-disciplinary subject, a comprehensive information system on environment would necessarily involve effective participation of concerned institutions/ organizations in the country that are actively engaged in work relating to different subject areas of environment. EIACP has, therefore, developed itself with a network of such participating institutions/organizations for the programme to be meaningful. A large number of nodes, known as EIACP Centres, have been established in the network to cover the broad subject areas of environment with a Focal Point in the Ministry of Environment & Forests.
Both the Focal Point as well as the EIACP Centres have been assigned various responsibilities to achieve the Long-term & Short-term objectives. For this purpose, various services has been introduced by the Focal Point.
EIACP due to its comprehensive network has been designed as the National Focal Point (NFP) for INFOTERRA, a global environmental information network of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In order to strengthen the information activities of the NFP, ENVIS was designated as the Regional Service Centre (RSC) of INFOTERRA of UNEP in 1985 for the South Asia Sub-Region countries.
Contact
Sh. Arun Kumar
Senior Economic Advisor
Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change
Government of India.
Agni Wing, 6th Floor
Indira Paryavaran Bhawan
Jor Bagh Road, Aliganj
New Delhi 110 003(India)
Email envisect@nic.in
Kumar Rajnish
National Programme Coordinator,
ENVIS Cell,Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change
Government of India.
ENVIS Secretariat,
Vayu Wing, 6th Floor
Indira Paryavaran Bhawan
Jor Bagh Road, Aliganj
New Delhi 110 003(India)
Visit ENVIS Focal Point