1. This is a continuous project supported by Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India and the Environment Division of ASTE Council has been implementins project since 2002.
2. The Environmental Information System (ENVIS) Centre- Assam started as an ENVIS-Node in 29th August, 2002 which was later upgraded to a Centre in July, 2004
3. The official website www.envisassam.org was launched on 21st June 2004 and later it was restructured to www.envisassam.nic.in (2007-2012) and again restructured to www.asmenvis.nic.in to till date.
4. The main function of the Centre are, creation of database on the State of Environment of Assam, publishing the Quarterly ENVIS Newsletter, maintaining the Website of the Centre, dissemination of Environmental Information of the State through Newsletters, website, workshops, seminars, etc. and through web-enabled environmental information collection, collation, storage, retrieval and dissemination to all concerned, including policy planners, decision-makers, researchers, scientists and the general public.
5. The centre published the first issue of quarterly ENVIS Assam Newsletter in October 2002 which is still continuing.
6. It is a decentralized system of Centres mandated to develop a distributed database with the cover a wide range of subjects, status of environment and related issues which provides scientific, technical and semi-technical information.
7. A web-enabled environmental database, namely, India State-Level Basic Environmental Information Database (ISBEID), at url: http://isbeid.gov.in was incorporated to collect, compile and disseminate information on a centralised server and to fill their gaps in environmental data dissemination on 17 modules and sub-modules. From the MIS component user can easily access the ISBEID data with advance search option.
8. Since 2000, it has come a long way to establish itself as a resource centre, co-ordinating body and a centre for information dissemination of state related Environmental Information through various print, electronic media.
9. Nearly 9 lakh visitors are recorded as on date.
10. Regular update of ENVIS activities and of the related information in ENVIS facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/ENVIS-Centre-Assam
11. New initiatives taken from the previous Financial Years: (i) Wipro’s Earthian Program, (ii) Exhibit ENVIS activities in various exhibitions, (iii) Documentation of Vertebrates of Assam and (iv) Internship programmes.
12. The ENVIS Centre has organised 14 Seminar/workshop/orientation programme/other extension programmes involving