The Ministry of Environmental Forests and Climate Change, Government of India (MoEF&CC, GoI) launched a central Scheme, of the Environment Information System (ENVIS) in 1982. In Tamil Nadu the Envis Centre, sponsored by the MoEF&CC, GoI, has been functioning under the Department of Environment and Climate Change, Government of Tamil Nadu since October 2002. ENVIS Centre provides information on various aspects of the State of the Environment and related issues of Tamil Nadu. The ENVIS centre also collects, collates, stores, retrieves and disseminates environmental information through a website, www.tnenvis.nic.in. Preparation of the State of Environment Report (SoER), creation of a web-based database publicatuion of newsletters, preparation of awareness brochures, and conducting Environmental awareness programmes are the ongoing projects under ENVIS HuB.
The ENVIS scheme which was previously under the umbrella scheme 'Decision Support System for Envirnment Awareness, Policy, Planning and Outcome Evaluation', has been submitted within the revamped scheme of Environment Education, Awareness, Research and Skill in June 2022. One of the components fof this revamped scheme is the Enviornmental Information, Awareness, Capacity Building (EIACP)"
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