About
This is the Open Government Data Portal designed, developed and hosted by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), a premier ICT organization of the Government of India under the aegis of the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.
The Objective of Open Government Data Platform India is to facilitate the access to Government owned shareable data and information in both human readable and machine readable forms in a proactive and periodically updatable manner, within the framework of various related policies, Acts and Rules of Government of India, thereby promoting wider accessibility and application of government owned data and unlocking the potential of data for national development.
Data.gov.in provides access to data across a wide range of sectors and topics, including economy, energy, environment, health, education, and more. The datasets are provided in both structured and unstructured formats, and include both real-time and historical data. Furthermore, the initiative allows users to access data through an interactive portal, as well as through APIs, which makes it easy to integrate the data into applications and services.