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Workshop on
ISBEID held on 18th October, 2008 at
IIPS, Mumbai
A workshop of Indian State Basic
Environmental Information Database (ISBEID) was held on
18th October 2008 at IIPS, Mumbai funded by
National Informatics Centre and Ministry of Environment
and Forests. Ms Valsa Nair- Singh, Principal Secretary,
and Government of Maharashtra inaugurated the workshop.
The following organizations participated in the
workshop.
1.
Department of Environment, Govt. of Maharashtra,
2.
BNHS-ENVIS Centre, Bombay Natural History Society
3.
Indian Centre for Plastics in the Environment,
Mumbai
4.
Solid Waste Management Association, Mumbai
5.
ENVIS Centre, Environmental Protection Training
and Research Institute
( EPTRI), Hyderabad
6.
Disaster Management Institute, Housing and
Environment Department, Government of M.P.
7.
ENVIS Centre, Kerala State Council for Science,
Technology and Environment (KSCSTE)
8.
ENVIS centre, International Institute for
Population Sciences, Mumbai.
ENVIS
Secretariat has developed web enabled ISBEID software
for State Government ENVIS centres to fill the collected
data using web based online interface (with login and
password authentication). The software is being
developed for preparation of the State of Environment
Report, keeping in mind the objective and advantage of
storing this data on a database to finally generate the
national level report on India’s State of Environment.
The GIS interface of the software is being developed by
National Informatics Centre (NIC).
Dr S.P. Sharma, Statistical Advisor, Ministry of
Environment and Forests explained the rationale of
ISBEID, and Shri S.S. Gahlout, Senior Technical
Director, NIC made a presentation of the ISBEID software
and its interface with GIS. |