Centre for Environmental Studies (CES) is an autonomous organization under the Department of Forest and Environment, Government of Odisha. And the Director, Environment of the state Government is the ex-officio Director of this Centre. The Governing Body of the CES has the Principal Secretary, Forest & Environment Department as Chairman and a few experts as members. CES undertakes activities to promote environmental awareness in the State. CES also take up projects, conduct training programme, building database etc. CES is the Regional Resource Agency(RRA) for the National Environment Awareness Campaign (NEAC) and Nodal Agency for the National Green Corps (NGC). So far 7500 eco-clubs have been formed in the state. It is also an Environmental Information System (ENVIS) Centre on the subject - Status of Environment & Related Issues in Odisha under the ENVIS Programme of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Government of India. CES is the Nodal Agency for organizing World Environment Day on behalf of Forest & Environment Department.

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