Environmental Information System (ENVIS) is established in the year 1984 as a network of Information Centre. It is planed by the Ministry of Environment and Forest. Aim of this centre is to provide descriptive data and environmental subject related numerical data. Now 25 centres & 71 Nodes are working under this network on various subjects area in the country. The focal point of this network is at the Ministry of Environmental and Forest, Government of India, New Delhi.

ENVIS Centre is established for studies on Environmental Biotechnology as Pollutant Degradation at the University of Kalyani, Department of Environmental Science, Nadia-741235, West Bengal.

The objective of this centre is to collect data, related to the above mentioned subject, from different major libraries in Kolkata with different journals, Annual reviews, Internet and to generate a database and to create a website with this database. View point of this journal abstract is to help the interested research workers, scientist, administrator and the public.

This is the first publication of this ENVIS Centre. This contains the abstract of research papers collected in the area of Environmental Biotechnology from various journal published during January 2000 onwards. Here various topics like Bio-engineering, Bio-degradation, Bio-remediation, Bio-transformation etc. are covered. We are grateful to the various libraries and their staff for their extended cooperation in the collection of the articles.