SulabhENVIS Centre

An ENVIS Centre set up by Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Govt. of India.

Man progressively changes his environment to meet his biological, physical and social needs. It is in the provision and utilization, upgradation and maintenance of self and material necessities that harmful and worthless byproducts originate. The excess of population explosion, urbanisation and industrialization and its aftermath up to the present day have resulted in serious problems that confront mankind.

Water quality and quantity are intrinsically linked to hygiene and sanitation, which in turn depend to a great extent the sewage treatment and technology used. Unfortunately in India, due to paucity of funds, and lack of skilled manpower, as also due to the negligence and unwillingness of the powers that be, the status of HS & ST is abysmally low. The need of the hour is to pay greater emphasis on sanitation, water and sewage treatment and thereby enable the reduction and eradication of deaths and diseases that are attributed to this factor.

ENVIS HSES Centre AT SULABH INTERNATIONAL

This centre setup at Sulabh International Social Service Organization, under the ENVIS-CEP (Capacity Enhancement Programme), through the Ministry of Environment and Forest will act as store house for compilation, processing, analysis and dissemination of data/information pertaining to latest research in the field of HSES. The Centre will develop a Website and will feed the relevant data on the assigned subject area for wider dissemination to all concerned.

Objectives:

Creation of Website on Hygiene, Sanitation and Environment, Sewage Treatment Systems and Technology.
Monthly compilation of News items on Hygiene, Sanitation and Environment, Sewage Treatment Systems and Technology.
Identification of information/data gaps in the specified subject areas and action taken to fill these gaps.
Database creation on on Hygiene, Sanitation and Environment, Sewage Treatment Systems and Technology to be put on website.
Contribution of news items for ENVIS newsletter on monthly basis.
To establish and operate a distributed clearing house to answer and channel queries related to the allocated subject.
To establish linkages with information users, carriers and providers from among Govt., academia, Business and Non Governmental Organisations including ENVIS.

Components of activities will include:

1) Developing information: includes both descriptive and numerical data, to distribute data.

2) A. Descriptive: Publication of reports, reprint of covered subjects.

B. Numerical: Numerical data to be collected, compiled, processed and analyzed.

3) To develop a website that will fill the relevant data related to science area for wider dissemination

Centre will cover:

Hygiene
Sanitation and Environment
Sewage Treatment Systems and Technology.