GIS based portals for environment scrutiny

Subject: Environment

Concept:

PARIVESH portal (Pro-Active and Responsive facilitation by Interactive Virtuous and Environmental Single-window Hub):

It is a single-window integrated environmental management system for online submission and monitoring of the proposals submitted by the proponents for seeking Environment, Forest, Wildlife and Coastal Regulation Zone clearances from Central Government.
It is a GIS based system and analytics platform that provides information to various stakeholders using Decision Support System functionality
It automates the entire process starting from submission of application, preparation of agenda, preparation of Minutes as well as grant of clearances.

e-Green Watch portal:

Environment Ministry is an advanced technology based platform designed to facilitate automation, streamlining and effective management of processes related to plantations and other forestry works taken up under CAMPA fund.
Forest Survey of India(FSI) carries out analysis of geo-spatial data (polygons) of various plantations uploaded by the State Forest Departments on e-Green Watch portal for accuracy of location, area and year of plantation.

Van Agni Geo-portal:

Forest Survey of India has also developed Van Agni Geo-portal to provide user-friendly interactive viewing of the forest fire related data for continuous monitoring and tracking of large forest fires in near real-time basis.
Van Agni Geo-portal serves as a single point source for the information related to forest fires in India.