The Union Cabinet of India approved the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy ( NDSAP ) on 9 February 2012. The objective of the policy is to facilitate access to Government of India owned shareable data and information in both human readable and machine readable forms.
25-555: A large quantum of data generated using public funds by various organizations and institutions in the country remains inaccessible to the public, although most of such data may be non-sensitive in nature and could be used by public for scientific, economic and developmental purposes. There has been an increasing demand by the community, that such data collected with the deployment of public funds should be made more readily available to all, for enabling rational debate, better decision making and use in meeting civil society needs. The NDSAP policy
50-510: A Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Services (Saas), Virtual servers, Kubernetes containers, DevOps, etc. In April 2023, Jio Platforms secured a ₹ 350 crore contract to manage and improve the cloud services of National Informatics Centre (NIC) for five years for onsite maintenance at various Data Centers in Delhi, Pune and Bhubaneswar. The following CoE(Centre of Excellence) has been established: NIC established
75-472: A constant endeavour of every public authority to take steps in accordance with the requirements of clause (b) of sub-section (1) to provide as much information suo motu to the public at regular intervals through various means of communications, including internet, so that the public have minimum resort to the use of this Act to obtain information. ". Some state governments such as Sikkim, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Assam, etc. have created their own policy on
100-510: Is applicable to "all shareable non-sensitive data available either in digital or analog forms but generated using public funds by various agencies of the Government of India". The license permits anyone to "use, adapt, publish (either in original, or in adapted and/or derivative forms ), translate, display, add value, and create derivative works (including products and services), for all lawful commercial and non-commercial purposes". In return,
125-538: Is derived from Survey of India , Registrar General of India and Indian Space Research Organization . The maps are used by various government departments for official purposes and is also available for the use of consumers. NIC maintains the National Portal of India . The portal contains the Constitution of India , and has a design objective to a single point to access the information and services of
150-449: Is designed to promote data sharing and enable access to Government of India owned data for national planning, development and awareness. The National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP) is applicable to all shareable non-sensitive data available either in digital or analog forms but generated using public funds by various ministries, departments, subordinate offices, organizations, and agencies of Government of India as well as of
175-472: Is intended to be used by Government of India ministries, departments and their organizations to publish datasets, documents, services, tools and applications collected by them for public use. The base "Open Government Data Platform India" is a joint initiative of Government of India and Federal government of the United States . The current version launched on 11 December 2014 is the stable release of
200-491: Is mainly concerned with the formulation of policies regarding the post-retirement benefits of Central Government employees covered under the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972. It also administers various welfare schemes for central government pensioners, i.e., redressal for Pensioners' grievances through CPENGRAM, an online pension sanction module for civil pensioners "Bhavishya", Sankalp, etc., under the umbrella of Pensioners' Portal. However,
225-652: Is to facilitate the pursuit of excellence in governance through the promotion of: The department acts as a facilitator, in consultation with central ministries/departments, states/UT administrations, organisations and individuals, to improve government functioning through administrative reforms in the spheres of restructuring the government, process improvement, organisation and methods and grievance handling, and by promoting modernization, Citizen's Charters, award schemes, e-governance, and best practices. It provides online grievance redress services through Centralized Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System . The department
250-669: The Department of Science and Technology continues to be the nodal department on policy matters. In pursuance of the Policy, the Open Government Data Platform India was launched in 2012. "OGD Platform India" is a platform for supporting open data initiative of Government of India . The platform has been set up to provide collated access to resources (datasets/apps) under catalogs, published by different government entities in open format . The portal
275-651: The National Informatics Centre , the open license for data sets published under NDSAP and through the OGD Platform remained unspecified. The license Government Open Data License – India is published as an "Extraordinary Gazette" in February 2017. The license ensures that the data released are not misused or misinterpreted, and that all users have the same and permanent right to use the data. Government Open Data License – India (GODL-India)
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#1732772189253300-519: The states . The objective of this policy is to facilitate access to Government of India owned shareable data through a wide area network, thereby permitting a wider accessibility and usage by public. The principles on which data sharing and accessibility need to be based include: openness, flexibility, transparency, quality, security and efficiency,. The motivation behind this policy is United Nations Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Principle 10: " Environmental issues are best handled with
325-813: The Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence in 2019 to explore more opportunities for AI applications in governance. In 2020, the Union Government and NIC has launched the Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Blockchain Technology in Bengaluru. Bharat Maps is a web mapping service maintained by the National Informatics Center. The project was implemented in the 2004-09 five-year cycle and the data
350-692: The Electronics Commission of India and later moved under the Planning Commission of India before coming under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY - Hindi : इलेक्ट्रॉनिकी और सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी मंत्रालय ). Additional Secretary Narasimaiah Seshagiri was the first to introduce a network system in India called NICNET. The organisation designs and develops IT systems for various government bodies, helping in
375-544: The National Data Centres, NIC offices include Head Quarters situated in New Delhi and has State Centres in all 36 states and Union territories. This is supplemented by 741 district offices. National Informatics Centre developed GI Cloud named as MeghRaj. This project was launched by Government of India for cloud computing in February 2014. MeghRaj Cloud offers a variety of service model like Platform as
400-742: The Union Government of India. Armed Forces Tribunals Commissions/Committees/Missions Councils Organisational structure: The department is divided into eight bureaus , and most of the work of the department is handled through over 100 autonomous organisations under these bureaus. Others: • National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD) • National Commission for Women (NCW) • National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) • Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) •Central Social Welfare Board (CSWB) Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (RMK) Autonomous R&D Institution under MNRE PSUs / Joint Ventures The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances
425-482: The data provider(s); d. data subject to other intellectual property rights , including patents , trade-marks and official marks; e. military insignia ; f. identity documents ; and g. any data that should not have been publicly disclosed for the grounds provided under section 8 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 . List of federal government agencies of India This is a list of agencies and departments of
450-481: The digitization initiatives of Digital India . The organisation also carries out research in the IT domain and recruits various scientists and Scientific/Technical Assistants. The organisation's primary function is to cater to ICT needs at all levels of governance and facilitate digital access to government services for citizens. The National Informatics Centre (NIC) was established in 1976 by Narasimaiah Seshagiri under
475-690: The institutional linkages with the Ministries/Departments of the Central Government, state Governments and District administrations of India. NIC is the primary constructor of e-Government applications. It also manages the National Knowledge Network . In 2018, NIC opened its fourth data center in Bhubaneshwar to complement its existing data centers in New Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune. In addition to
500-584: The lines of NDSAP. The open government data initiative started in India with the notification of the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP), submitted to the Union Cabinet by the Department of Science and Technology , on 17 March 2012. The NDSAP identified the Department of Electronics & Information Technology as the nodal department for the implementation of the policy through National Informatics Centre , while
525-485: The modernization of management and administration processes of these government bodies as the country underwent Globalisation. The organisation provides digital access to various government services to the citizens. . It had an annual budget of ₹ 11.5 billion (US$ 140 million) for the year 2018–19. Most of this is spent in providing free services to various Government Departments. National Informatics Centre Services include: NIC's Network, "NICNET", facilitates
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#1732772189253550-463: The participation of all concerned citizens, at the relevant level. At the national level, each individual shall have appropriate access to information concerning the environment that is held by public authorities,...and the opportunity to participate in decision-making processes. States shall facilitate and encourage public awareness and participation by making information widely available. " and Right to Information Act, 2005 , Section 4 (2): " It shall be
575-675: The pensioners of Ministries of Railways and Defence are governed by their respective pension rules. The Department of Space manages the following agencies and institutes: Appellate Tribunal 13. https://www.sctimst.ac.in/ National Informatics Centre The National Informatics Centre Services Inc. ( NIC ) is an Indian government department under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The NIC provides infrastructure, IT Consultancy, IT Services including but not limited to architecture, design, development and implementation of IT Systems to Central Government Departments and State Governments, helping in implementing
600-469: The platform. After the launch of the Digital India program in 2015, "Open Government Data Platform India" has been included as one of the important initiatives under Pillar 6 – "Information for All" . While appropriate open formats and related aspects for implementation of the policy has been defined in the "NDSAP implementation guidelines" prepared by an inter-ministerial task force constituted by
625-614: The user must acknowledge the provider, source, and license of data by explicitly publishing the attribution statement , including the DOI ( Digital object identifier ), or the URL ( Uniform Resource Locator ), or the URI ( Uniform Resource Identifier ) of the data concerned. The license does not cover the following kinds of data: a. personal information ; b. data that is non-shareable and/or sensitive; c. names, crests, logos and other official symbols of
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