The National Knowledge Commission today announced formation of a national environmental portal in collaboration with Centre for Science and Environment.
NKC chairman Sam Pitroda said the portal would be a one stop shop for all that you want to know about environment and development issues. “Our politics is overt: to build open, networked and informed societies, who can use knowledge to make change."
CSE director Sunita Narain said. “This is a unique effort as it will provide a collaboration between government and civil society."
"It is our effort to put government information in the public domain and to build dynamic and networked knowledge-based societies” said Pitroda, as he launched the portal today at a function in the India Habitat Centre. The portal http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in will source government documents and make them available for public scrutiny. It also provides links to government institutions; and is planning to add names of researchers and institutions, working in environment and most importantly collate information that we can use in our daily lives.
