Environmental Information System (ENVIS) Portal launched
Q. Which of the following is/are true?
1) Environment Information System (ENVIS) scheme has been launched this year.
2) The purpose of the scheme is to integrate country-wide efforts in environmental information collection.- Published on 17 Feb 16a. Only 1
b. Only 2
c. Both 1 and 2
d. Neither 1 nor 2
ANSWER: Only 2
- ENVIS portal has been launched recently. The challenge before Environment Information System (ENVIS) is to find out new ways to reach out to people and how to popularise science and sustainable practices.
- A new initiative ENVIS portal runs parallel with the Digital India Objective, which works on improving the digital literacy in the environment sector and deliver services digitally all over the country.
- The digitization of valuable data covering the broad spectrum of subjects on environment will serve as an asset in generating feature rich repository of information. Bringing all ENVIS Centres under one roof will also facilitate convergence in data dissemination.
- Environmental Information System (ENVIS), a Central Sector Scheme of the Ministry has been implemented since 1982. The purpose of the scheme is to integrate country-wide efforts in environmental information collection, collation, storage, retrieval and dissemination through ENVIS websites, which are dedicated to different interesting themes.
