About ENVIS......         

The Environmental Information System (ENVIS), was set up by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in 1982 with a view to ensure integration of national efforts in collection , storage, retrieval, dissemination of environmental information by avoiding duplication of efforts. In essence, ENVIS is a decentralised system of databases which aims at catering to the environmental information needs of policy planners, decision makers, research workers and public. A large number of nodes, known as ENVIS centres have been established in the network to cover the broad subject areas of environment.
The Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India has established an Environmental Information System (ENVIS) Centre at CME, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad in 1991 to disseminate environmental information in the area of mining. The ENVIS Centre has information available on the following topics related to mining and mineral industry:
 

Mine Fires Water Pollution
Land Subsidence Noise & Vibration
Ergonomics Mine Soil Amendments
Land Use Policy & Planning
Bioprocessing of Fuel Hydrogeology
Acid Mine Drainage Waste Water Treatment
Air Pollution Land Reclamation
Environmental Management Socio Economic Environment
Solid Waste Management Impact Assessment
Mine Spoil Amendment Health and Toxicology
Mine Closure

Objectives:

The Primary Objective of this Centre is to collect, collate, store and disseminate information related to mining environment. Other important Objectives include:
  1. Maintaining Computerised Database on published literature on various subject areas related to mining environment which users can query from time to time.
  2. Development of a Documentary resource base which will have environmental journals, environmental reports/technical papers, books related to mining environment, seminar proceedings or any other relevant document related to mining environment which user can consult by personal visit or through post requesting for specific information.
  3. Organizing short-term training programmes/workshops to increase environmental awareness in the mining industry.
Our website "http://www.oocities.org/envis_ism" was inaugurated by Shri P.V. Jaykrishnan(IAS), Secretary to Govt. of India, Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) at ENVIS centre, ISM on September 14, 2001.

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