In order to strengthen the information activities of the National Focal Point, ENVIS was designated as the Regional Service Centre (RSC) of INFOTERRA of UNEP in 1985 for the South Asia Sub-Region countries. The basic resposibilities both as NFP as well as RSC bestowed on ENVIS was to provide substantive environmental information to the users of the South Asia Sub-Region countries.
ENVIS as RSC as well as NFP of INFOTERRA of UNEP is also engaged in the following activities:
Distribution of information leaflets, brochures, etc. about INFOTERRA activities of National Focal Point in the South Asia Sub-Region countries namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Appraisal of NFPs of the South Asia Sub-Region countries about the service being provided to National and international user by the RSC.
Publicising RSC as well as NFP activities by inserting INFOTERRA advertisement in their regular quarterly journal namely Paryavaran Abstracts, publised by ENVIS and having circulation of over 2,700 national/ international users. This journal is also sent free of cost to all the National Focal Points and users in the South Asia Sub-Regional countries.
Maintenance of close liasion with all the NFPs in the Sub-region.
Providing database searches from the existing database of their entire ENVIS network.
Providing INFOTERRA directory service through INFOTERRA database available in the micro-CDS/ISIS format to the users in the region.