EMPRI

ENVIS is a decentralized system with a network of distributed subject oriented Centres ensuring integration of national efforts in environmental information collection, collation, storage, retrieval and dissemination to all concerned.

Realizing the importance of Environmental Information, the Government of India, in December, 1982, established an Environmental Information System (ENVIS) as a plan programme. The focus of ENVIS since inception has been on providing environmental information to decision makers, policy planners, scientists and engineers, research workers, etc. all over the country. Presently the ENVIS network consists of Focal Point at the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change and ENVIS Centres are setup in different organizations/establishments in the country in selected areas of environment.

Karnataka State ENVIS Centre- Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has notified EMPRI as the nodal agency for ENVIS centre in Karnataka and EMPRI resumed the responsibility of running the centre with effect from 01-01-2009.