New Delhi: A web portal – ‘Wetlands of India Portal’ (http://indianwetlands.in/), giving details on wetlands of the country has been launched today by Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav.
Portal is a single point access to all information relating to wetlands, official release said.
The portal is a dynamic system for processing information and making it available to the stakeholders in an efficient and accessible manner.
The portal also hosts capacity building material, data repository, videos nd information for students.
Importantly, a dashboard for each State and UT has been developed to access the portal and populate it with information of wetlands in their administration.
The portal would be populated by the different States and UTs and additional features may be added in the coming months.