IITM EIACP

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) - Environmental Information, Awareness, Capacity Building and Livelihood Programme (EIACP) PC-RP Environmental information plays a vital role not only in formulating environmental management policies but also in the decision making process aiming at environmental protection and improvement of environment for sustaining good quality of life for the living beings. Hence, management of environment is key component and thus plays an important role in effecting a balance between the demands and resources available for keeping the environmental quality at a satisfactory level. Realizing the importance of Environmental Information the Government of India, in December, 1982, established an Environmental Information System (ENVIS) as a plan programme, focus of which is to collect, collate, store, retrieve and disseminate all information to varying users, including decision-makers, researchers, academicians, policy planners and research scientists, etc Objective: Long-Term Objectives to build up a repository and dissemination centre in Environmental Science and Engineering; to gear up state-of-the-art technologies of information acquisition, processing, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information of environmental nature; to support and promote research, development and innovation in environmental information technology. Short-Term Objectives to provide national environmental information service relevant to present needs and capable of development to meet the future needs of the users, originators, processors and disseminators of information; to build up storage, retrieval and dissemination capabilities with the ultimate objectives of disseminating information speedily to the users; to promote national and international cooperation and liaison for exchange of environment related information;