e-Environment

Biodiesel-a green alternative

The project 'Bio Diesel - A green alternative' is a timely intervention with its interactive multimedia content that is excellently presented and described with the help of text information, demonstration video clips, animations, relevant photographs, sketches, and narration in Marathi. The Contents of this guide includes introduction to Biodiesel, use of Biodiesel, crops suitable for Biodiesel, India and biodiesel, Govenment Schemes and other useful Information.

Aaranyak

The Aaranyak website was launched offer information services on various aspects of conservation of biodiversity. Among the basic objectives, the site aims to curtail and eliminate wildlife trade in the region, to explore and access the legal and judiciary provisions for protection of biodiversity, to compliment and support the Government agencies working for protection of the rich biodiversity of the North East India.

IndFauna, Electronic Catalogue of Known Indian Fauna

IndFauna is a baseline data platform available online, of all Indian fauna resources at a single click of a mouse. Using multi-lingual engine, this data can be accessed in six Indian languages viz. Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telgu, and Punjabi thus ensuring dissemination of knowledge in languages that people understand the best and covering nearly the entire country. The Database developed using Oracle 9i has 10 inter-related tables, which collate data on scientific names, synonyms, common names, and occurrence details, and so on.