Brochure on items of work handled in various Divisions
and Sections of Ministry of Environment and Forests
June 2003
XIX INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION &
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DIVISION (IC&SD)
36 IC & SD-I Section:
a)
All matters
relating to United Nations Environment Programme.
b)
Matters relating
to Commission on Sustainable Development, Agenda 21, World Summit on
Sustainable Development and sustainable development issues
c)
All matters
relating to Global Environment Facility(GEF)
d)
Global Environmental
Issues including linkages between various International environment
conventions, Parliamentarian Conferences, participation in international
conferences/ seminars, etc.
e)
All matters
relating to United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) and Government of
India-UNDP-Country Co-operation
Frame-Work(CCF) programme
f)
National
Environment Council
g)
SO(IC.I) will
report directly to Director in respect
of item 4 and in respect of others
through US(IC) to Dir.
37 IC& SD-II Section:
a)
Bilateral
cooperation and follow-up of agreements with various countries
b)
Matters relating
to India-Canada Environment Facility
c)
Project proposals
for bilateral and multilateral funding (except Global Environment Facility (GEF)
& UNDP) and Coordination Committee on Externally Aided project.
d)
UNDP/GEF Small
Grants Programme
e)
Matters relating
to International organisations such as World Bank,
United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO),
World Health Organisation (WHO), Food &
Agriculture Organisaion (FAO), United Nations
Education, Scientific & Cultural Organisation
(UNESCO), Asian Development Bank( ADB) etc. excluding GEF.
f)
Matters relating
to South Asian Association & Regional Co-operation (SAARC), Economic &
Social Commission for Asia and the
Pacific (ESCAP), South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme
(SACEP) and other regional bodies
g)
Matters relating
to Training abroad in the field of environment
h)
General
Coordination in IC Division, matters relating foreign visits of officials of
State Govt. and other misc. references from various Ministries/divisions.
i)
Matters
pertaining to freshwater issues.
VIII 22 EXTERNALLY
AIDED PROJECTS DIVISION (EAP)
a)
Externally Aided
Projects (EAP) Division assists the State Government in preparation of
externally aided forestry projects negotiations with donor and funding agencies
and monitoring and evaluation of the sanctioned projects. These forestry projects are aided by external
agencies such as the World Bank, Swedish International Development Agency
(SIDA) (
b)
Assistance to
States in identifying and formulating projects for external assistance.
c)
Handling of Food
& Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Projects/ Misc.
Projects.
d)
Scrutiny of the
projects for external assistance/ internal clearances of Projects.
e)
Co-ordination
with Deptt. of Economic
Affairs( DEA ), Planning Commission. Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Ministry
of External Affairs (MEA) and other Ministries.
f)
Liaison with
External donor agencies.
g)
Processing of
cases for clearances of foreign visiting missions, consultants of donor
agencies.
h)
Joint project
appraisal and follow up action.
i)
Finalisation
of projects for external aid by negotiation till signing of agreement/
Monitoring of on-going externally aided projects.
j)
Annual and
mid-term review of projects.
k)
Joint
consultation with donor agencies.
l)
Co-ordination
with State Govts., other Central Ministries and donor
agencies for resolving various issues arising from time to time.
m)
Monitoring of
aid/ credit utilization.
n)
Identification of
relevant training courses/ study tours abroad.
o)
Inviting
nomination for relevant training courses/ study tours abroad.
p)
Processing the
cases for training abroad.
q)
North Eastern
Cell (N.E. Cell) to deal with various issues pertaining to North Eastern
States.
r)
Participation in
various News Letters from different States.