Environics Trust

Environics Trust works to create innovative community development programmes which are based on collective research on various ecological factors and Read morehuman behavior. It provides research and evaluation services to international, national, state and local institutions and directly works with marginalised communities such as those in the mountain regions, tribal communities and communities adversely affected by mining processes and industrialisation. It is a Participative Research Community Based Action enterprise. Further, it works to create evidence-based solutions keeping in mind the variety of ecosystems and socio-political-cultural environments. Also, the model for sustainable development created by the organisation comprises of equity and justice, environmental soundness, self-reliance and economic efficiency. Additionally, the strategy followed by the trust is structured around the understanding that each community responds differently to the complexity of specific eco-systems and social environments which in turn becomes the basis of the research ultimately leading to a specific community development programme. It is a recepient of the National Groundwater Augmentation Award 2010 from Ministry of Water Resources