Friday 16 December 2016

National Council for Education and Research in Environmental Sciences (NCERES)





In a world of accelerating changes, increasing complexity and compounding uncertainty, our success in physical and social security depends on prescience of our environment. It necessitates development of an operational system for continuous monitoring of bio-physical environments and ability to generate real-time alternatives or solution to the risks. At a national scale, it translates into a National Ecosystem Monitoring Program (NEMP).

Unlike Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), etc. which caters to homogenize and ensure coordinated efforts, whilst preserving necessary geographic thrusts in their respective disciplines; environmental studies and research remain incoherent.  

A National Council for Education and Research in Environmental Sciences (NCERES) will act as a catalyst to metamorphose the spectrum of environmental studies and research within India and realize NEMP.

Caveat:      If we genuinely learn from history, the single biggest challenge                 would be how to ensure that NCERES does not get                                  monopolized.

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