GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES DATA PORTAL INDIA

Data Portal India

Government of India has launched Data Portal India, a single point access to over 4000 datasets from 51 different government offices in India. Free to access and use, the portal has about 1745 datasets from Ministry of Agriculture. The portal also has datasets on commerce and industry, defence, finance, health, information and broadcasting, energy, transport and water resources, among others. The portal also contains 7 apps, including a map service, an app on rural sanitation coverage and one on physical, biological and geological information on oceans and coasts. The aim of the portal is to increase transparency in the functioning of Government and also open avenues for many more innovative uses of Government Data to give different perspective.