About ENVIS
Realizing the importance of Environmental Information , the government of India, in december, 1982, established an ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SYSTEM ( ENVIS) as a planned programme.
ENVIS is a decentralized system with a network of distribution oriented centers ensuring integration of national efforts in environmental information collection, collation,storage,retrieval and dissemination to all
concerned, presently the ENVIS network consist of focal point at the ministry of environment and forest, ENVIS centers setup in different orga nisations in the country in selected areas of environment.