NGO Registration, Environmental Studies, Nature related Question/Answer

The 2nd National Workshop of all the ENVIS Centres was held in Shimal during 12-14th October, 2006 in association with the HP State Council of Science, Technology & Environment, Government of Himachal Pradesh.

I was deputed to attend this workshop along with Jr. Programmer, ENVIS Centre as a representative of ENVIS Centre- 07.

The main purpose to organize this kind of a workshop was to review the progress of the activities of the ENVIS Centre with a view to guide them in achieving the objective of the respective projects undertaken and to provide training to enhance the technical capacities of each Centre. The three day workshop was basically designed with a view to provide training on specific subjects selected by eminent experts.

The centres were allowed to make a presentation for at least 15 minutes covering the following aspects:

The System of evaluation was carried out in two sessions, this included a subject specific group and the second was State specific. ENVIS Centre -07 faced the queries of various experts in both the sessions and obtained positive criticisms as well as admiration. The Centre’s progress was quite appreciated by the experts who also provided us with some good suggestions to augment the work carried out by the centre.

Following are the recommendations obtained during the workshop by the ENVIS Centre–07

Pertaining to NGO directory, the experts recommended that he centre should try and revamp its content every year and not every three years. This would allow the users to get authentic and latest information with regard to environmental NGOs functioning in India.
The experts were quite impressed with the task pertaining to parliamentary report and congratulated the centre on being able to release its published documents.
During the workshop it was also revealed that the ENVIS centre-07 may have to discontinue its activities related to creation of Media Analysis reports as the ENVIS Centre of Centre for Media studies is already working in this particular field.

G. Aeendran
Head-ENVIS Centre

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Brief Report on Refresher Training Course on Web Designing & Database Management: 13-15th March, 2003, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun

As part of the ENVIS programme of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, a Training course "Web Designing & Database Management was organised by the Forest Research Institute, Dehradun.

I was deputed to attend the three-day training programme on "Web Designing and Dataase Management". A total of 25 participants from ENVIS Centres/Node attended this training programme. The course was designed to include several subject areas based on the work being done by various ENVIS Centres/Node in the form of lectures by faculty members of the FRI as well as from outside. The subject areas which were covered during the three days included the following.

Introduction to World Wide Web and Web Page Designing
Over view of Web and Introduction to Different Components of HTML, DHTML, Front Page
Training on Basic Design (HTML, DHTML, Front Page)
Training on Adobe Photoshop, Multimedia Design, Style Sheet, Image, Flash
Training on Basics of Java Script, Web maintenance
Training on Digital Libraries on Internet
Introduction to Database Management
Training on Architecture of Database
Project work

The above topics were very interesting. I have tried my best to learn all the topics and hope I may work with this website successfully. Some of the programmes like Front Page, Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Java Script are very useful for our website designing and maintaining our website.
Since the course was organised at short notice, hard copies of course material/lecture presentations were provided to participants.

Report on the Second Training Cum Performance Evaluation Workshop organized at Bhubneshwar, Orissa, from 6th-8th November, 2003

As part of the ENVIS programme of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, the Training cum Performance Evaluation Workshop from 6th – 8th November 2003 at Bhubaneshwar was organised in association with CPR Environmental Education Centre and Co-ordinated by Dr.Nanditha Krishna, Director CPREEC, on Conservation of Ecological Heritage and Sacred Sites in India,

I was deputed to attend this Training cum Performance Evaluation Workshop as a representative of ENVIS Centre-07. During three-day training cum performance evaluation workshop, there were 2 lectures by the technical expert from NIC, New Delhi and 36 presentations made by ENVIS Centres and Nodes categorized under 6 subnetwork areas varying from chemicals, wastes and toxicology to flora, fauna & conservation.

The objectives of the workshop was to review the progress of the activities of the ENVIS Centers and Nodes with a view to guide them in achieving the objectives of the project and to provide training to enhance the technical capacities of the ENVIS Centers and Nodes. The three day workshop was basically designed with a view to provide training on select subjects by eminent experts and enable the Nodes to make a presentation for 15 minutes covering the following aspects:

Establishment
Functioning
Organizational setup of the Node
Status in the parent organization
Achievements till date
Publications Website status and management
Suggestions, if any

A total of 50 participants from 36 ENVIS Centres and Nodes registered for the training cum performance evaluation workshop.

Brief Report on Refresher Training Course on Modern Information Technology-Website design and Development, Information Handling techniques 26-28 February 2001, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

As part of the ENVIS programme of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, a Refresher Training course was organised by the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in collaboration with NISSAT, Ministry of Science and Technology.

I was deputed to attend this training course as a representative of ENVIS Centre - 07. The three day training course was organised basically to provide the participants with an insight on Information Systems in India along with concepts of Internet etc. A total of 22 participants from 22 ENVIS Centres attended this training programme out of the total of 25 designated ENVIS Centre. The course was designed to include several subject areas based on the work being done by various ENVIS Centres in the form of lectures by faculty members of the Indian Institute of Science as well as from outside. The subject areas which were covered during the three days included the following.

Overview of Information Systems of India, Knowledge Management, Internet Concepts and Tools, content Creation, Web design, Internet Communications, Security, Confidentiality and Privacy, E-commerce, Internet resources in Environmental Sciences, Copyright issues in electronic Environment, Electronic Journals, and Full Text Delivery.

The course was mainly lecture based with a couple of sessions devoted to Laboratory work on Internet Tools and Web Design concepts where preliminary teaching aids were demonstrated on home page development, internet tools with reference to environmental sciences.

Although the training course was lecture oriented, it was useful in understanding concepts related to Information Technology, and their role in Environmental Sciences in areas like internet resources, databases etc.

Since the course was organised at short notice, hard copies of course material/lecture presentations were not provided to participants. However the organisers have informed us that the documents will be mailed to all participants. MeanWhile I have obtained electronic copies of the presentations on some of the subjects mentioned above.